June 10, 2014
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has to know where to focus vital resources. As first responders to any crisis that displaces people, the IOM manages shelters and coordinates operational efforts in places where people gather after natural disasters, such as evacuation centers, camps, schools or private buildings. Using SAS® data visualization and text mining, the agency identified and rallied responders to assist with the most critical health, water and sanitation problems in areas devastated by super Typhoon Haiyan.
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June 6, 2014
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. as a Leader in the Enterprise Mobility Management Suites1 Magic Quadrant for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.
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June 6, 2014
BrandShield, a pioneer in the online brand protection space, today announced it has enhanced the BrandShield Brand Protection System with two new modules to combat brand abuse in mobile applications and pay-per click ads (PPC ads) in search engines.
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June 5, 2014
Continuity Software™, the world’s leading provider of service availability risk management solutions, today announced the results of its 3rd annual Service Availability Benchmark Survey, designed to enable IT infrastructure, business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) professionals to compare their organization’s performance and practices to that of their peers.
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June 3, 2014
This autumn, Valeo will kick off its second annual global innovation contest, the Valeo Innovation Challenge. Engineering students from around the world will compete to win the €100,000 grand prize. With this challenge, Valeo is offering young engineers worldwide the opportunity to create the equipment that will make cars more intelligent and intuitive by 2030. Valeo will announce the terms and conditions of this year’s contest at the 2014 Paris Motorshow.
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June 3, 2014
InfinityQS International, Inc., the global authority on real-time quality and Manufacturing Intelligence, is proud to announce the fulfillment of its $1-million pledge to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, which is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other deadly diseases.
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June 3, 2014
by Mark Miller, dinCloudCloud computing continues to gain a good reputation among IT professionals worldwide. According to analyst research firm Gartner, Inc., “The use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend. Read More >>>
June 2, 2014
IBM today announced that businesses of all sizes – from start-ups to large enterprises – are rapidly adopting IBM Bluemix to develop software in the cloud with greater speed, security and quality.
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May 30, 2014
Atlantis Computing a leading provider of software-defined storage with over 600,000 VM licenses sold globally and hundreds of mission critical deployments, today announced it has become a certified technology partner in Dell’s Technology Partner Program. By certifying Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI™ and Atlantis ILIO Diskless VDI™ on Dell Wyse Datacenter for Citrix® XenDesktop®, Atlantis Computing is enabling customers to simplify deployments and reduce the cost of their virtual desktops, while delivering an enhanced user experience.
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May 28, 2014
In an enterprise-wide drive to harmonize its commercial operations, Teva Pharmaceuticals is standardizing on Veeva Systems’ multichannel CRM system. Teva is replacing its legacy systems across 45 markets worldwide with Veeva’s cloud-based solution to streamline operations and enable global collaboration across both generic and branded drug commercial teams.
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May 28, 2014
Technology Business Research’s new Hyperscale Server Customer Landscape Report estimates that the market for hyperscale servers at U.S. organizations with at least 500 employees represents a $1.7 billion opportunity over the next 12 months. As cloud computing continues to shape the market for IT infrastructure, data center customers increasingly require simplicity, flexibility and high levels of scalability in their on-premises hardware ecosystems.
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May 22, 2014
SysAid Technologies Ltd., a leading provider of IT service management (ITSM) solutions, announced today that SysAid has been named a finalist in the 2014 Service Desk Institute (SDI) IT Service & Support Awards in the Best Vendor category. This honor recognizes the IT service vendor with the most outstanding record of customer service. SysAid CEO Sarah Lahav and fellow team members will participate in a question and answer panel at SDI headquarters on May 28 for the final round of judging. The winner will be announced at the SDI Conference 2014, set to take place June 17-18 at the Hilton Metropole – Birmingham in the United Kingdom.
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May 21, 2014
Avention, Inc., a leader in transformative sales enablement and business information solutions, today announced its latest offering in a string of innovations. An industry first, Avention Spending & Risk is designed to bring sales and research professionals an unmatched, granular level of data focused on an organization’s financial status and movements.
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May 21, 2014
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new security software that helps stop threats at the weakest link, the endpoint, including laptops and desktops which are most susceptible to malware. IBM’s Trusteer Apex software is the newest offering in the company’s Threat Protection System announced earlier this month, which leverages security intelligence and behavioral analytics to go beyond traditional anti-virus approaches and firewalls to disrupt attacks across the entire attack chain — from break-in to exfiltrate.
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May 20, 2014
To an audience of more than 850 industry leaders at the Veeva Commercial Summit, Veeva Systems unveiled Commercial Cloud – a next-generation solution to redefine how life sciences companies go to market. Veeva Commercial Cloud brings together the data, content, and interactions needed to deliver a fully informed, coordinated customer experience while ensuring compliance.
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May 15, 2014
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of OpenShift Enterprise 2.1, the next generation of its award-winning, on-premise Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. Enhancements in OpenShift Enterprise 2.1 are aimed to further enable DevOps practices through the delivery of new capabilities within the PaaS platform that bring development and operations closer together.
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May 15, 2014
Atlantis Computing®, a leading provider of In-Memory software-defined storage, today announced its support for VMware Horizon 6™ and Virtual SAN™. The Atlantis ILIO software platform is proven at scale to deliver enterprise-class optimization services to virtualized environments, dramatically increasing the performance of VMs, while simultaneously allowing existing storage to support up to 10 times more desktops.
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May 14, 2014
Lavastorm Analytics, a leading agile data management and analytics software company, today released the latest version of its Lavastorm Analytics Engine, a data discovery solution that effectively turns business analysts into data masters. Lavastorm Analytics Engine 5.0 harnesses data from anywhere in the organization to give analysts unsurpassed data management capabilities and the fastest, most accurate way to discover and transform insights into business improvements.
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May 13, 2014
Today, RingCredible, the European mobile VoIP provider, announces the acquisition of Hong Kong based Yeloworld. Already a market leader in Europe, North and South America, the consolidation deal, which terms are not disclosed, now expands RingCredible’s reach to the Asian market. Not even 4 months after the magic figure of 1 million users was reached, the company now passes the 2 million users milestone, and reinforces its position as a leading provider of extremely low call rates to any landlines or mobiles worldwide, in combination with superior call quality. Both Yeloworld and RingCredible were mentioned, earlier this year, among the most important Over-The-Top (OTT) applications in a research paper by Forrester.
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May 13, 2014
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX) today announced TIBCO ActiveMatrix® BPM 3.0, the next major version of the company’s acclaimed business process management (BPM) suite that makes an organization more effective in adapting to a constantly changing environment. Organizations across every industry must drive innovation by bringing the power of event-driven processes and Fast Data to their businesses, providing actionable insight into what’s happening right now. ActiveMatrix® BPM 3.0 brings a host of powerful new capabilities that enable businesses to adapt to real-time events, ultimately improving business outcomes while enhancing their customer’s overall experience.
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May 13, 2014
Many organizations around the world that grasp the value of big data are looking to SAS® Visual Statistics to speed model building and transform accurate analytic insight into business success faster and more accurately than ever. The revolutionary new software is from SAS, the leader in advanced analytics.
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May 13, 2014
At its Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Tampa, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced ‘IBM ExperienceOne,’ a new integrated portfolio of cloud-based and on premise offerings that help clients quickly deliver deeper, more valuable customer engagements by bringing together marketing, sales and service practices.
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May 13, 2014
Cloudwords, a leading cloud-based marketing globalization platform, announced today the launch of Cloudwords for Oracle Eloqua on the Oracle Eloqua AppCloud. Cloudwords is a marketing globalization platform that can enable Oracle Eloqua customers to significantly speed and simplify the localization of all marketing assets so world-ready campaigns can be delivered in less time, and marketing teams can be more productive.
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May 12, 2014
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the formation of the ManageIQ community, which aims to provide the industry’s leading open source cloud management platform with advanced governance and automation capabilities. Red Hat will contribute software acquired from ManageIQ, Inc., which currently serves as the basis for its Red Hat CloudForms open hybrid cloud management product. In addition to its software contributions, Red Hat will also provide integration and orchestration content for lab automation.
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May 6, 2014
Yooz, the cloud service designed and built for medium to large businesses to instantly streamline their accounts payable (AP) workflow, today announced its North American launch. Its end-to-end service runs entirely in the cloud so enterprises can easily and seamlessly capture, manage and process financial documents without up-front investments or the need for IT experts.
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May 6, 2014
Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today introduced StruxureWare Data Center Operation v7.4, which provides new capabilities and access to actionable intelligence for an ideal balance of high availability and peak efficiency throughout the data center life cycle. As part of Schneider Electric’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution, StruxureWare for Data Centers, StruxureWare Data Center Operation v7.4 will optimize colocation management, power monitoring and network management helping data center and facility managers free up power capacity, right-size physical infrastructure and integrate with existing DCIM systems, thereby reducing capital and operational expenses.
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May 6, 2014
Yellowfin has certified its market-leading, easy-to-use BI solution on ParStream’s relational database, which is based on its patented High Performance Compressed Index (HPCI) technology. HPCI is a bitmapping structure that allows data to be analyzed in its compressed state, skipping the decompression – and often resource-consuming – stage of analytics. The partnership means ParStream and Yellowfin will be offered as a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for big data analytics.
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May 5, 2014
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced comprehensive new security software and services to help organizations protect their critical data in an environment where advanced persistent threats, zero day attacks, breaches and the financial impact on an organization continue to rise. Through pervasive behavioral analytics and deep research expertise, IBM can help organizations stop attackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities.
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May 1, 2014
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into an agreement to acquire i4C Analytics, an advanced analytics software platform provider based in Italy that specializes in helping clients solve complex business problems through easy to use analytics applications. The acquisition will strengthen Accenture’s capabilities to quickly offer tailored, industry- and function-specific analytics applications that clients can use to drive business decisions and deliver positive outcomes. i4C Analytics will be integrated into Accenture Analytics, part of Accenture Digital. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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April 30, 2014
ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today launched RackBuilder Plus, the easy-to-use, 3D visual modeling software for large enterprises and data centers. With RackBuilder Plus, IT and data center admins save time and improve facilities management with a complete inventory of the data center, including all the relationship details between racks, floors and devices. In an industry-first combination, RackBuilder Plus also offers real-time monitoring of data center devices.
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