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Network Topology Mapper added to SolarWinds’ Leading Network Management Portfolio

March 7, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced the release of SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper (NTM), a network mapping, discovery and inventory solution that joins SolarWinds’ comprehensive suite of network management solutions.

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Predixion Software Wins Microsoft Health Users Group Innovation Award

March 7, 2013 No Comments

Predixion Software has been recognized as a winner of the Microsoft Health Users Group (HUG) 2013 Innovation Award in the Innovation in Electronic Medical Record Optimization category. The announcement was made at the HIMSS13 Annual Conference & Exhibition where Predixion is demonstrating Predixion Readmission Insight™ in Microsoft’s booth #1127.

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OpenText Acquires Resonate KnowledgeTechnologies

March 7, 2013 No Comments

OpenText Acquires Resonate KnowledgeTechnologies

Symantec Corporation Named One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for 2013

March 6, 2013 1 Comment

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute,

ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES SAVES MILLIONS BY DIGITIZING BIG DATA WITH IBM SOFTWARE

March 6, 2013 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Illinois Department of Human Services (DHS) is using IBM software to managebig data and digitize thousands of documents, saving the agency more than $600,000 per month.

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Siemens Enterprise Communications Introduces Next-Generation UC Solution for SMBs

March 6, 2013 No Comments

Responding to the growing demand among small and medium businesses (SMBs) for powerful yet simple business solutions that drive higher team performance, Siemens Enterprise Communications today introduced OpenScape Business, a vibrant, all-in-one solution that brings the benefits of UC to SMBs, regardless of their telephony infrastructure.

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Study Finds Big Data & Mobile Are Key Priorities at Fortune 500 Companies

March 6, 2013 No Comments

Venture investors pouring money into big data and the mobile enterprise opportunities should find encouragement in a new study from Sierra Ventures.

ITBriefcase Newsletter: The Power of Mobile

March 6, 2013 No Comments

View our March Newsletter focused on Mobile Technology. Click here to View

IBM To Make Its Cloud Services and Software Open Sourced-based

March 4, 2013 No Comments

IBM today announced that all of its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture

Oracle Posts Certification of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on IBM System z Platform

March 4, 2013 No Comments

Oracle has posted the certification of the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 on the IBM System z platform

Informatica Proactive Healthcare Decision Management Drives Improved Care Coordination and Quality

March 1, 2013 No Comments

Informatica Enables Operational Intelligence with Real-Time Alerting

VMware Top Execs Lash Out At Amazon Public Cloud

March 1, 2013 No Comments

Rallying partners to make sure VMware’s virtualization stronghold extends into the public cloud, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told partners that if “a workload goes to Amazon, you lose, and we have lost forever.”

Yahoo Responds to Controversy Over Work-at-Home Ban

March 1, 2013 No Comments

“We don’t discuss internal matters. This isn’t a broad industry view on working from home — this is about what is right for Yahoo!, right now.”

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New Diversinet Mobile Health Enhancements Advance Integration and Analysis of Personal Health Data

February 28, 2013 No Comments

Diversinet Corp. (TSX Venture: DIV, OTCQB: DVNTF), a leader in secure mobile health that “Powers Care Coordination through Mobility,” has enhanced its mobiPublisher™application platform with its Version 4.7 release. The platform provides a unified framework for developing and managing secure, enterprise-wide mobile healthcare apps.

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SolarWinds Adds Remediation Capabilities to Server & Application Monitor Solution

February 27, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, announced today the upcoming release of SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM), the cornerstone of SolarWinds’ suite of comprehensive and affordable systems and application management products.

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1010data Positioned in the Challengers Quadrant of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems

February 27, 2013 No Comments

Recognized in Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms

Pentaho Instaview Templates Broaden Big Data Access and Analysis

February 26, 2013 No Comments

Delivering the future of business analytics, Pentaho Corporation today announced new templates for its Instaview big data discovery application to make it easier for IT to access and analyze big data sources. The templates solve one of the biggest challenges in gaining value from big data—data integration. Beginning today with the release of a Twitter template, Pentaho will roll out templates for MongoDB, Amazon Redshift, Google Analytics and Cloudera Impala on a weekly basis for download from the Pentaho site.

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Independent Research Firm Cites Ariba as a Leader in Sourcing and Vendor Management Tool Set Market

February 26, 2013 No Comments

Ariba, an SAP Company and the world’s business commerce network, today announced that it has been cited as a Leader in the market for Sourcing and Vendor Management (SVM) tool sets in “The Forrester Wave™: SVM Tool Set, Q1 2013” report by Forrester Research, Inc. The citation is based on the evaluation of its Ariba® Sourcing™, Ariba Contract Management™, Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management™ and Ariba Spend Visibility™ solutions.

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Active Endpoints Bought by Informatica in Cloud Workflow Deal

February 26, 2013 No Comments

Active Endpoints Acquired by Informatica

EMC Introduces World’s Most Powerful Hadoop Distribution: Pivotal HD

February 25, 2013 No Comments

EMC announced a new distribution of Apache Hadoop: Pivotal HD. Pivotal HD features native integration of EMC’s industry leading Greenplum® massively parallel processing (MPP) database with Apache Hadoop

SOA Software OAuth Server Simplifies Secure Sharing of Private Data with Cloud Applications

February 25, 2013 No Comments

New product extends enterprise identity and access management systems to enterprise and partner mobile, web and desktop applications

ManageEngine Tackles Latest Mobile Trends at Mobile World Congress

February 25, 2013 No Comments

ManageEngine, the real-time IT management company, today announced that it launched critical, new mobile device management (MDM) capabilities at Mobile World Congress.

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Leading Cloud Security Group Endorses AICPA’s Reporting Framework for Evaluating Controls Over Cloud Providers

February 25, 2013 No Comments

The American Institute of CPA’s framework for evaluating technology-related controls and other safeguards used by cloud service providers has been endorsed by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a not-for-profit organization that promotes the use of best practices on security assurance within cloud computing.

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Concurrent Enables SQL Users to Build Big Data Applications on Hadoop in Less Than 30 Seconds

February 25, 2013 No Comments

Concurrent, Inc., the enterprise Big Data application platform company, today announced Lingual, an open source project enabling fast and simple Big Data application development on Apache Hadoop™.

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WhereScape Announces General Availability of its Data-Driven Data Warehouse Planning Solution

February 24, 2013 No Comments

WhereScape, a provider of agile development software for modeling, building, extending and automating data warehouse development, today announced that WhereScape 3D, the company’s data driven design solution for planning and reality-testing data warehousing and business intelligence (BI) projects, has completed an extended beta period and is now commercially available.

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IBM Unveils the Most Comprehensive Mobile Portfolio for Global Businesses: IBM MobileFirst

February 22, 2013 No Comments

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled IBM MobileFirst, the most comprehensive mobile portfolio that combines security, analytics and app development software, with cloud-based services and deep mobile expertise. Using IBM MobileFirst solutions, businesses can now streamline everything from the management of employee mobile devices, to the creation of a new mobile commerce app that will transform their entire business model.

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SolarWinds Survey Finds Complex Security Tools are a Major Obstacle to Securing IT

February 13, 2013 No Comments

SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today released the results of a survey on IT security and compliance that emphasize the growing need for powerful and easy-to-use security products focused on the key security concerns plaguing the majority of IT professionals.

DATA SECURITY, News

Dell Boomi Exceeds 1 Million Cloud Integrations Per Day

February 12, 2013 No Comments

Dell Software today announced that application integrations using the Dell Boomi AtomSphereÒ platform now exceed 1 million cloud-managed integration processes per day, enabling enterprises of any size, flexibility and scalability for their integration deployments. This milestone sets a new industry pinnacle for Dell Boomi in on-premise to in-the-cloud integrations and is up to three times that of its nearest competitor. In related news, Dell Boomi also announced today a strategic relationship with Wipro to drive “Cloud-First” IT strategies for enterprises.

CLOUD DATA, News

HotSchedules Receives Hard Rock International’s ‘Technology Vendor of the Year’ Award

February 12, 2013 No Comments

HotSchedules, an award-winning provider of mobile and web-based employee scheduling, forecasting and paperless hiring solutions for the restaurant and hospitality industry, today announced it has been named “Technology Vendor of the Year” by Hard Rock International during the company’s annual Global Conference Awards dinner. HotSchedules was chosen for its technology that helps streamline employee scheduling processes for management teams, while improving flexibility for team members.

MOBILE DATA, News

PUMA uses the Zing™ JVM for Core System Performance and Scalability

February 11, 2013 No Comments

PUMA uses a variety of Java-based applications for their web presence, stores and manufacturing operations. The PUMA custom product and supply chain application has about 1 million lines of code and 150 Enterprise Java Beans. During peak times the system reads/writes about 55 million records a day. The company’s rapid growth and innovation as one of the few true multi-category global brands caused them to reach the limits of what their current JVM and Java infrastructure could deliver.

APPLICATION INTEGRATION, News
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