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IBM X-Force 2012 Annual Trend & Risk Report Has Been Released

April 4, 2013 No Comments

It is always exciting to be able to announce the next version of the IBM X-Force® 2012 Trend & Risk Report and today we are announcing the full year 2012 findings of key highlights that were researched by IBM X-Force. One of the differentiators that we observed across various attacker efforts was that by targeting vulnerabilities in cross-platform frameworks, and building on a solid foundation of tried-and-true attack techniques, attackers are achieving a greater return on exploit development in 2012.

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QlikTech OEM Partner Program Gains Global Momentum

April 3, 2013 No Comments

QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK) a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced strong growth in its worldwide OEM partner program. By expanding the reach of its QlikView Business Discovery platform, QlikTech works with its OEM Partners to build solutions “Powered by QlikView,” tailored to meet the needs of customers in various vertical markets including financial services, healthcare, telecom, and functional areas such as call center and procurement performance management.

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IBM Announces New Innovations to Help Organizations Benefit from the Next Natural Resource: Big Data

April 3, 2013 No Comments

ARMONK, N.Y., 3 April 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new technologies designed to help companies and governments tackle Big Data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. New data acceleration innovation results in as much as 25 times faster reporting and analytics.

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Riverbed Unveils Unified Application Performance Management Suite

April 3, 2013 No Comments

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD), the application performance company, today announced the availability of Riverbed® OPNET AppInternals Xpert® 8.5, a unified application performance management (APM) suite that provides deep visibility into the performance of complex, multi-tier applications.

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OpenText Enhances Digital Media Creation and Multi-Channel Distribution with New Digital Asset Management Solution

April 2, 2013 No Comments

OpenText Media Management 7.2 accelerates secure file delivery, fosters collaboration and enables integration with leading customer experience technology

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: The Future of Social Business with Ethan McCarty, Director of IBM Enterprise Social Strategy

April 1, 2013 No Comments

with Ethan McCarty, IBM Enterprise Social Web StrategyIn this interview, Ethan McCarty, Director of IBM Enterprise Social Web Strategy offers expert advice to business entities interested in utilizing social business to increase productivity and foster innovation within their organization. Read More >>>

MapR Teams with Canonical to Deliver Hadoop on Ubuntu

March 29, 2013 No Comments

MapR Technologies, Inc., the Hadoop technology leader, and Canonical, the organization behind the Ubuntu operating system, announced today a partnership to package and make available for download an integrated offering of the MapR M3 Edition for Apache Hadoop with Ubuntu. Canonical and MapR are also working to develop a Juju Charm that can be used by OpenStack and other customers to easily deploy MapR into their environments.

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CTG Announces Acquisition of etrinity, a Benelux Healthcare IT Services Provider

March 28, 2013 No Comments

February 1, 2013 — CTG (NASDAQ: CTGX), an information technology (IT) solutions and services company, today announced that it has acquired etrinity, a provider of IT services to the healthcare market in Belgium and the Netherlands, from i-Cros Nv of Antwerp, Belgium. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CTG expects the acquisition will be neutral to slightly accretive to its 2013 earnings.

Hawaii Health Connector selects CGI to construct online marketplace for state-based health insurance exchange

March 28, 2013 No Comments

CGI Group Inc., a leading provider of information technology and business process services, today announced that the Hawaii Health Connector has contracted CGI to construct the online marketplace for its state-based health insurance exchange (HIX). The contract is valued at US$53 million over four years.

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Paragon Software Celebrates World Backup Day with a Gift Offering of 100 Free Licenses of Hard Disk Manager 12 Business for Small Business

March 27, 2013 No Comments

Paragon Software Group (PSG), a leader in data backup, disaster recovery, and data migration solutions, congratulates all PC users on the occasion of World Backup Day 2013. Starting March 28th through April 8th, 2013, 100 small businesses will have a chance to win Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Business (HDM 12 Business) – the industry’s most cost-effective unified storage maintenance software, enabling small business with a limited (or no) IT administration staff to handle all backup, disaster recovery and data management tasks, on-site and from a single interface.

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GoodData Named SIIA Software CODiE Award Finalist

March 27, 2013 No Comments

GoodData® announced today that it was named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Software CODiE Awards in the Best Business Intelligence/Analytics Solution and Best Monetization Solution categories. The SIIA CODiE Awards are the premiere awards for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 27 years. The awards have over 75 categories and are organized by industry focus of Content, Education and Software.

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July Systems Launches July MX Self-Authoring Mobile Experience Platform

March 27, 2013 No Comments

July Systems today announced its 4th generation flagship platform, July MX, a cloud-based self-authoring mobile experience platform for creating and publishing mobile sites and applications quickly, without reliance on coding expertise. July MX redefines mobile development speed and ROI, empowering the people closest to customers to directly shape the mobile experiences that drive revenue streams, commerce opportunities, and user engagement best suited to their markets.

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Rent-A-Center Saves Millions through Cloud Procurement Innovation

March 26, 2013 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Coupa Software today announced that Rent-A-Center, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCII), the nation’s largest rent-to-own operator, has achieved millions in savings by optimizing and centralizing its purchasing process in the cloud.

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Network Hardware Resale Kicks Off 2013 with Global Availability of Servers and Storage Solutions

March 20, 2013 No Comments

Network Hardware Resale, the world’s leading provider of pre-owned and new networking and data center solutions, continues to evolve the company’s portfolio with the immediate global availability of server and storage equipment, as well as component upgrades from all major OEMs.

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ManageEngine Launches Integrated IAM Solution for Windows Shops

March 20, 2013 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today launched AD360, the integrated solution for identity and access management (IAM) in organizations running on Windows-based infrastructure. From everyday user management to keeping user activity compliant with IT regulatory laws, AD360 is engineered to holistically address all aspects of IAM for SMBs and enterprise organizations that use Windows Active Directory.

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DataStax Introduces World’s First NoSQL Big Data Platform With Comprehensive Enterprise-Grade Security Features

March 20, 2013 No Comments

DataStax, the company that powers the big data apps that transform business, today announced the general availability of DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 3. The newest version of DataStax’s Apache Cassandra-based big data platform provides the most comprehensive security feature set of any NoSQL platform, while still delivering its core benefits of scalability, easy manageability and continuous availability.

Equidity™ Launches New 360 IR Platform and PIPOs™ for Better IPOs

March 20, 2013 No Comments

Equidity™, the company dedicated to better IPOs, today formally launched Equidity 360˚, its new IR platform beta, PIPO™ Advisory, and announced 135 Economic GrowthSTARS Award nominees. The GrowthSTARS awards honor the top late-stage, IPO-track companies, the “Heroes of the Economy,” which collectively have the potential to deliver five million new jobs, upon remediation of the IPO process and the completion of their IPOs.

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Azul Systems Expands Global Presence With Launch of South American Channel Strategy

March 20, 2013 No Comments

Azul Systems, the award-winning leader in Java runtime scalability, today announced that it has formed a commercial partnership with Epidata Consulting, a market leading South America-based IT consultancy headquartered in Buenos Aires that focuses on software architecture and application performance, monitoring, and management.

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QlikTech Customers and Partners Show Widespread Support for QlikMarket Business Discovery Solution Exchange

March 20, 2013 No Comments

QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK) a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), today announced widespread customer and partner support for QlikMarket (market.qlikview.com), its Web marketplace that delivers an easy, interactive way for QlikTech customers to evaluate and acquire the useful technologies and applications that leverage the QlikView Business Discovery platform.

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IBM Completes Acquisition of Star Analytics, Inc.

March 19, 2013 No Comments

IBM today announced it has completed the acquisition of the software portfolio of Star Analytics, Inc., a privately held business analytics company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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Oracle Launches Supplier Warranty Management Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite

March 18, 2013 No Comments

o streamline warranty claims and supplier recovery processes, Oracle today unveiled the Oracle Supplier Warranty Management solution, part of the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Oracle Releases Oracle’s PeopleSoft 9.2

March 18, 2013 No Comments

Major PeopleSoft Release Provides a More Intuitive and Productive Customer Experience

Forrester identifies Appian as industry leader

March 18, 2013 No Comments

Forrester Research recently completed its Forrester Wave: BPM Suites, Q1 2013 study and identified Appian as the market leader for business process management software.

Schneider Electric Launches Mission Critical Services & Software Division and Data Center Service Provider

March 13, 2013 No Comments

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, today announced the expansion of its IT Business with the launch of the Schneider Electric Mission Critical Services & Software division, a dynamic set of capabilities offering the most robust software and services in the industry for any size data center, in any segment.

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F5 Networks Opens New York International Technology Center

March 13, 2013 No Comments

F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, is proud to announce the March 12 grand opening of its New York International Technology Center (ITC).

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SAS and MIT Sloan Management Review research: data analytics boosts competitiveness, innovation

March 13, 2013 No Comments

The past two years have seen an 80 percent jump in organizations believing analytics provides a competitive advantage. According to new research from MIT Sloan Management Review and SAS, 67 percent of business leaders surveyed at the end of 2012 said analytics made their companies more competitive; just 37 percent felt that way in a 2010 study.

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EMC Brings the Vatican Apostolic Library into the Digital Age

March 12, 2013 No Comments

EMC will support the Vatican Apostolic Library in digitizing its catalogue of 80,000 historic manuscripts and 8,900 incunabula as part of EMC’s Information Heritage Initiative.

IBM Software Helps Illinois Department of Human Services Manage Big Data and Transform Operations

March 12, 2013 No Comments

IBM announced that Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) is using IBM software to manage big data and digitize thousands of documents.

Dell Boomi Takes Next-Generation Master Data Management to the Cloud

March 12, 2013 No Comments

ROUND ROCK, Texas – Dell Software launched its next-generation Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM) that delivers a comprehensive set of features and capabilities in a single cloud-managed solution.

ManageEngine Fortifies Management of Network Device Passwords with Password Manager Pro, DeviceExpert Integration

March 7, 2013 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced it has fortified the management of network device passwords by integrating its network change and configuration management (NCCM) solution, DeviceExpert, with Password Manager Pro, its privileged password management solution.

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