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IBM today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Fiberlink Communications, a mobile management and security company. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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SQS Group Ltd (AIM: SQS), the UK arm of the world’s leading specialist in software quality, today announced that it is offering CA Technologies’ CA LISA® Service Virtualisation. SQS is now providing CA LISA to support clients to create and manage virtualised environments and data; and guiding its clients to benefit from accelerated application delivery and reduced costs.
NewsJuniper Systems has announced that it is now shipping Archer 2™ models to customers. Since the new rugged handheld was announced last month, it has generated widespread interest, generating a surge of orders for the product.
NewsNexgate, an innovator in social media brand protection and compliance, today announced support for both Salesforce Chatter and Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud. Available immediately, joint customers can benefit from fully unified social media security and compliance controls across both their internal Chatter-based social collaboration and public-facing, ExactTarget Marketing Cloud powered, social networking on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, and more.
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and eNovance, an emerging European leader in the open source cloud computing market, announced that they are collaborating to deliver OpenStack implementation and integration services to joint customers. The companies made the announcement today at the OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong.
NewsToday, at Information on Demand Forum (#IBMIOD), IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a variety of new offerings that leverage cognitive computing and predictive analytics technologies to help companies more easily predict and respond to opportunities and challenges hidden in data. IBM is also helping clients to harness massive amounts of data with new high speed analytics software by expanding IBM’s BLU Acceleration portfolio.
NewsQlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that QlikView 11 is now compliant under Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act. Working together with Computer Intelligence Associates (http://www.ciacorp.com/), an independent advisor of Section 508 compliance, QlikView is now more readily accessible to people with disabilities.
NewsStormProbe analyses all network traffic, using more than 30,000 constantly refreshed malware signatures to identify any malicious payloads. When a matched rule is detected RandomStorm’s Instances, Events and Alerts (IEA) algorithm creates a matched rule Instance and begins to record all linked alerts as unique, time-based events, associated with the specific target host in the network, under the same Instance.
NewsWandera, the pioneer and leading provider of Mobile Data Optimization (MDO), today released the world’s first report focused exclusively on enterprise mobility cellular data and trends. The report is derived from the analysis of the data usage habits of enterprise smartphone and tablet users in North America, Europe and Asia.
NewsAs cloud computing goes mainstream, businesses of all sizes are looking for a fast, secure and easy on-ramp to leveraging the incredible power of the platform. To meet this demand, BMC Software today launched two new programs aimed at making it easier for customers to adopt cloud computing platforms.
NewsThis comparison guide looks at 14 Application Performance Monitoring products developed for the enterprise and SMB.
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of The Now Factory, a privately held provider of analytics software that helps communications service providers (CSPs) deliver better customer experiences and drive new revenue opportunities. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Financial terms were not disclosed.
NewsSeismic, the only platform that enables LiveDoc creation for brand-approved, real-time enterprise content management, has announced integration with Microsoft SharePoint. Companies can now use Seismic within their existing SharePoint workflow to unlock the value of this content and create LiveDocs — on-demand, customized documents backed by a live data feed.
NewsOctober 29, 2013 – Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, sets a new standard in prefabricated data centers with the introduction of 15 prefabricated data center modules and 14 new prefabricated Data Center Reference Designs. The reference designs detail complete data centers scalable in 250kW to 2MW increments and meet Uptime Tier II and Tier III standards. The new prefabricated modules deliver IT, power, and/or cooling integrated with best-in-class data center infrastructure components and StruxureWare™ Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software for an easy-to-deploy, predictable data center. Prefabricated modules range in capacities from 90kW to 1.2MW and are customizable to meet end user requirements.
NewsAstera Software, a developer of complex data integration solutions for small and large enterprises, announces the Astera for Nonprofits program, which provides nonprofit organizations with the high quality data integration tools they need at an affordable price.
NewsSAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today highlighted how its unified cloud portfolio supports governments at every level. Recognizing that government agencies of all sizes with varying regulatory guidelines and security needs are looking for different ways to embrace cloud technology, SAP is working with government customers to offer the right mix of cloud, hosted and on-premise technology needed to improve efficiency and the quality of life for citizens they serve.
NewsIBM (NYSE: IBM) inventors have developed a technique for protecting sensitive data prior to transmitting it to the cloud. The patented invention will overcome barriers to client adoption of cloud computing solutions by ensuring that private or proprietary information is secured before transferring it for processing by cloud computing services.
NewsTail-f Systems, a leading provider of network service programmability solutions for traditional and Software-Defined Networks (SDN), today announced its NCS plugin for OpenStack that allows organizations to automatically provision a multi-vendor network in response to OpenStack Cloud Network configuration changes. Current OpenStack plugins are constrained to single-vendors and restrain the cloud provider from using multi-vendor environments. Tail-f’s NCS plugin allows OpenStack networking to simultaneously utilize the variety of layer 2 networking technologies found in complex real-world data centers.
NewsA new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study of security leaders reveals that they are increasingly being called upon to address board-level security concerns and as a result are becoming a more strategic voice within their organizations.
NewsQlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK), a leader in user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced that BICS (Belgacom International Carrier Services) is using QlikView with the Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance from Teradata (NYSE: TDC) to analyze more than a terabyte of data each day providing customers with full visibility into their user roaming traffic across 2G/3G/4G networks.
NewsInternational Drug Development Institute (IDDI), an international functional Contract Research Organisation (CRO) headquartered in Belgium, replaced its mix of a paper-based trial master file (TMF) and e-rooms with Veeva Systems’ cloud-based Vault eTMF solution, part of Veeva’s Development Suite.
NewsOctober 22, 2013 – SGI (Nasdaq: SGI), the trusted leader in high performance computing and Big Data, unveiled additional Big Data solutions to address the challenges enterprises and government agencies increasingly face today.
NewsPerfecto Mobile, provider of The MobileCloud™ Platform and integrated mobile application quality suite, today announced the availability of a new local deployment option for teams beginning mobile application testing initiatives or requiring local control within the corporate network – MobileCloud Express™. This new offering of the company’s signature solution provides enterprises with a fast and easy way to get started or improve mobile application testing via the enterprise grade cloud-in-a-box solution.
NewsTechnology Business Research Inc.’s latest cloud portfolio report, the Managed Private and Professional Services Cloud Benchmark, provides a detailed analysis of both growth and revenue leaders and scenario analysis of cloud vendors providing managed private cloud services (dynamic applications, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure as a Service and Business Platform as a Service) and cloud professional services (cloud consulting, cloud systems integration and cloud ADM).
NewsDelta Community Credit Union, Georgia’s largest credit union, with assets exceeding $4 billion and more than 280,000 members, is using WhereScape’s integrated development environment and agile processes to quickly develop and deploy enterprise data warehouse capabilities on top of a Teradata appliance that has delivered timely business benefits to its stakeholders. The announcement was made at Teradata PARTNERS, where WhereScape is demonstrating its Teradata-specific data warehouse modeling and development solutions in booth #208.
NewsAcunu, the pioneer in real-time big data analytics, today announced the immediate availability of Acunu Analytics 5.0 for Cassandra NoSQL databases. The new version gives control over their data back to business users by offering “self service” business intelligence for real-time Cassandra NoSQL data. As a result, business users can bypass IT departments and long waits for application development time and begin using Cassandra data instantly for improved business agility.
NewsTIBCO Software Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with Huddle, a leader in enterprise cloud content collaboration. Together, tibbr® and Huddle are changing the way users access, share and collaborate on their content by offering a tightly integrated experience that brings the exchange of critical work information and ideas to the business documents we use daily, creating a stage for real work to get done faster.
NewsRDO, a community-supported distribution of OpenStack that runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and their derivatives, congratulates the OpenStack Foundation on the release of OpenStack 2013.2, code named Havana – the latest version of the OpenStack cloud platform.
Text analytics is no longer just a science but rather a vital part of any company’s data strategy. A recent survey of over 300 analytics professionals from world class companies such as Microsoft, Xerox, and Starbucks found that 68% of them use a mix of unstructured and structured data to get customer insights.
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