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A white paper and webinar on High Availability Digital Government As described in this news article the impact on Calgary of a recent data centre outage was quite severe, knocking out a variety of important government systems and preventing a number of critical healthcare treatments. S...
On Tuesday, IBM unveiled their latest intrusion-protection system, that offers resilience to network-based but also application controls and URL filtering. This combined capability offers cost savings and enhanced capabilities. SSL is no longer the catch all, it needs duct tape! In t...
The Mobile Marketing News Weekly is an online newsletter that is made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile marketing that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and market trend information. Also read Enterprise Mobilit...
PITTSBURGH, August 1, 2012 - Avere Systems today announced that its CTO and co-founder Mike Kazar was named the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award for his outstanding contributions to information storage systems.For more than a century, the ...
Do you need to run multiple versions of WebSphere MQ, 7.1 and 7.5? You can.  We have a TechTalk by our VP of Engineering, Richard Nikula scheduled that will help you out with this topic. Here are 3 Reasons to attend: … Continue reading →
New York, NY, July 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Audiobrain will provide music supervision services, music system design and management to NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games, July 27 – August 12, 2012. The announcement ...
Here are our top tech stories for today! Please let us know if we missed anything. Samsung shipped 50.5M units in its Q2, the largest quarter ever for a smartphone manufacturer. In contrast, Apple shipped around 26M units. That said, Apple is still making 2 or 3 times (at least) more p...
Revolution Analytics is proud to once again be a gold sponsor and Wi-Fi sponsor of the JSM 2012 conference in San Diego, the largest gathering of statisticians, biostatisticians, analysts, data miners and data scientists in the world. The conference begins on Sunday, and you'll find th...
Develop unique expertise, advertise this expertise, win new clients, do great work, encourage referrals, hire top talent, expand into new areas. For decades, this was the formula for growing a professional services firm. While the general formula hasn’t changed much, the ingredients an...
New tech company targets online mass market research opportunity while Google is reportedly held back by European cookie lawsToday sees the launch of new UK technology startup, Usurv, which uses the power of the web to conduct quick, accurate, low cost market research for businesses wh...
Varna, Bulgaria, July 25, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SmartSoft, the leading provider of innovative optical character recognition (OCR), document capture and conversion software solutions, has revealed a new, improved version of its desktop software application Smart Video Converter. The latest...
NAD recommends Oracle discontinue certain performance claims for Exadata By Greg Schulz I Received the following press release in my inbox today from the National Advertising Division (NAD) recommending that Oracle stop making certain performance claims about Exadata af...
The Mobile Commerce News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news, articles and links related to mobile payments, mobile money, e-wallets, mobile banking and mobile security that I run across each week.  I am specifically targeting market size and mark...
Fixed price upgrades also availableIT software and services company, Polymorph Ltd, has launched an aggressive marketing campaign targeted at the Lotus Notes/Domino install base.Polymorph has a well-established team of Lotus Notes/Domino professionals and has provided services around L...
My latest piece of work for GigaOM Pro just went live. Scaling Hadoop clusters: the role of cluster management is available to GigaOM Pro subscribers, and was underwritten by StackIQ. Thanks to everyone who took the time to speak with me during the preparation of this report. As the bl...
Since the early versions of WebSphere MQ, IBM has traditionally delivered a new release about every 2-3 years.  With 2 releases of WebSphere MQ in the last 6 months, it does make you take notice.  Nastel recently did a TechTalk … Continue reading →
- Brocade, Citrix, Fusion-io and VMware are among those showcasing IP Networks, Wireless, Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Security at 2012's major enterprise IT event - London, 23 July 2012: IP EXPO, the UK's number one end-to-end IT infrastructure event, will be the one p...
If you want a current look into the state of enterprise software deliver at a global level, then this is the book for you.The book kicks off with a nice overview of the complexities involved with software delivery at an enterprise level. He then details what a typical software delivery...
New York, NY, July 17, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Themed “CONNECT – COMMUNICATE –COLLABORATE,” the IEEE International Conference on Communications (www.ieee-icc.org/2012) recently concluded its first “paperless+” event in Canada’s capitol city of Ottaw...
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Recently the State of Alaska DHSS was fined a hefty sum of $1.7 million for non-compliance. This issue came to forefront when a USB drive containing PII (Personally Identifiable Information) data was lost (or stolen). This is not the first high profile incident … Continue reading...
Munich, Germany July 10th 2012 - Brainloop, the leading provider of document compliance management solutions for high-security collaboration on confidential documents, today announced that it has appointed David Topping as VP Global Marketing in order to drive the company's internation...
The biggest prize in UK soccer, the Premier League Championship, is decided by a points system. Unlike most sports competitions, there's no final round or playoff series: once the regular round of games is complete, the team that has accumulated the most points (three for a win, and on...
Helping businesses mobilise data from SharePoint, Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM or WebSphereLondon, 4 July 2012 - United Planet (www.unitedplanet.com), one of the leading developers of enterprise portal software in Europe, will be releasing its new Intrexx Business Adapter for OData later t...
Dell is buying Quest software, not the phone company Qwest By Greg Schulz For those not familiar with Quest, they are a software company not to be confused with the telephone communications company formerly known as Qwest (aka now known as centurylin...
After an initial sluggish start, where Microsoft Windows Azure was the only player, we started to see increased support for Platform as a Service from major vendors starting with VMware vFabric and Red Hat OpenShift. However, there was still a void in the PaaS space as the major playe...
Varna, Bulgaria, July 03, 2012 --(PR.com)-- SmartSoft, the leading provider of innovative optical character recognition (OCR), document capture and conversion software solutions, has revealed a new version of Smart PDF Editor, an innovative software application that delivers the compa...
  The fitness, health club and "wellness" industry is going through massive change as the result of 3 drivers: advancing technologies, changing consumers and globalism. I've been paying close attention to consumer trends as of late, in case you haven't noticed. (see my recent post...
Watch CloudViews Unplugged Watch the May edition of CloudViews Unplugged – a monthly video blog analyzing the top cloud news stories. Cloud News A rece...
Are you tossing and turning at night trying to wrap your head around the new features WebSphere MQ 7.1 and 7.5? If this describes you, well you’re in luck. Our Tech Talk series continues with our 2nd event, “What’s New … Continue reading →
ChannelBiz interviews Bill Roth (VP of Marketing, Nexenta) on how the channel can help drive adoption of newer technologies to manage Big Data. Big data offers exciting possibilities for the channel, but a shortage of skilled staff able to extracting meaning from the huge swathes of da...
Government departments, locked into premium brands, spend, on average, £236,000 every year London, U.K. — June 12, 2012 — A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from Nexenta® Systems has revealed that just about every local and central government department ...
The eighth annual R user conference, UseR! 2012, has come and gone — and what an event it was! I've been to five useR! conferences so far, and each one improves upon the last. This year's conference at Vanderbilt was the best so far: an outstanding location (my first visit to Nashville...
Are you surprised? I start off most of my presentations/conferences with the following question: How many of you know that Intel ‘does’ Software? Very few hands usually go up, and that is exactly the challenge I have today in getting the … Continue reading →
I’m at an event put on by Sogeti, in Bussum, about 30 km outside of Amsterdam. Sogeti is a technology consulting company of about 20,000 people. Last night on the way to a dinner event, Michiel Boreel the CTO, explained that the company markets itself in part by holding events designed...
Launch of New York office and appointment of Oracle's Tony DeMaria as VP North American Sales announced at SIFMA Financial Services Technology Expo19th June 2012 - Push Technology, an innovative technology and solutions specialist that focuses on pushing data beyond the edge, today rev...
It is with profound sadness that I learnt of the untimely demise of my friend Chris Loosely few weeks back. He was 67 years old. Chris and I worked at IBM during the decade of the 1980s and early 1990s … Continue reading →
Upgrade ensures continued service for Debriefing Software's enterprise customersJune 15 2012 - Viby J, Denmark - Debriefing Software, experts in cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Storwize and SVC solutions, today launched an upgrade to its W...
Northdoor, the business IT consultancy and solutions provider, today announced that it has won a 2012 European IT Excellence Award in the 'SMB - Transformation Solution of the Year' category for its work with Deutsche Postbank AG. Northdoor implemented the IBM Smart Analytics System fo...
Debriefing Software's WSP Lite provides easy-to-use graphic monitoring analysis of TSM installations and is the only existing free TSM monitoring and analysis application. Register now at www.debriefingsoftware.com/wspliteJune 14 2012 - Viby J, Denmark - Debriefing Software, experts in...