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3PAR has announced that CEDAR document technologies, a provider of technologies and services for print and electronic customer communication platforms, chose 3PAR Utility Storage to consolidate and expand its storage infrastructure. With 3PAR, CEDAR has improved the performance of its ...Aug. 11, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 561
Marketers today demand solutions that allow them to move quickly to take advantage of immediate business opportunities, continually test and optimize their landing pages, and stay within budget. Businesses require easy-to-use tools in order to rapidly build landing pages that can maxim...
SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, announced a number of compelling statistics from its recent cloud computing research. Approximately 68% of online users use some form of cloud computing, defined as any web based activities that involves storing data and/or acc...
Customers will have everything they need to publish video online, including video content ingestion, encoding, content management, syndication, analytics, monetization, content delivery, easy to customize video players, APIs, multiple device support, and search. The Delve platform is a...
Akamai Technologies has announced that Malaysia Airlines has selected Akamai to power its main website, www.malaysiaairlines.com, and the airline’s booking engine to provide customers with a faster website experience. Akamai’s Web Application Accelerator solution has enabled Malaysia A...
Akamai Technologies, Inc., and Alvenda have announced that they delivered the industry’s first online interactive ecommerce-enabled advertising campaign for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM. Akamai was chosen to accelerate performance of the Shoplets™ (shop-able advertisements) application, improve r...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Stephen Dukker, Chairman & CEO of NComputing, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Bringing Cloud Computing Down to Earth wi...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com, will be presenting at SYS-CON’s 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, CA, this coming November 2 – 4, 2009. His session is entitled “Developing Advantage: Pl...
NetSuite, a vendor of cloud computing business software suites, announced that three of the four most recent tech Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) were by companies that chose NetSuite to run key business processes: OpenTable, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPEN), SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE: SWI), and LogMe...
CA Federation Manager supports standards such as SAML and WS-Federation to help individuals in different organizations securely and easily access the data and applications of another organization, whether they reside in a private, public, internal or hybrid cloud environment. During th...
“We made encouraging progress during the quarter on the priorities of our turnaround program,” said Unisys Chairman and CEO Ed Coleman. “First and foremost, we were profitable. In the difficult economic environment, we were able to triple our operating profit and deliver net income. Th...
Join RightScale on July 23 for a live panel discussion moderated by Dave Nielsen, founder of CloudCamp and Principal Consultant at Platform D. Hear from leading experts in cloud computing to gain real-world insight into how their customers are using cloud computing and achieving new le...
SOASTA, the leader in cloud testing, today announced a Performance Certification Program designed to enable companies deploying software in the Cloud, at hosted data centers, or behind corporate firewalls to certify that their website has been tested and has met or exceeded industry be...
Rackspace Hosting has announced the availability of the public beta of its Cloud Servers API. Cloud Servers, part of the company’s portfolio of cloud services, is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that provides inexpensive compute capacity that can be instantly sized allow...
Aptana, Inc., a provider of open source tools and services for Web application development and management, today announced the completion of a round of financing led by Rembrandt Venture Partners and includes initial investor Accel Partners. "Aptana recently surpassed 4 million downloa...
Cloud computing leverages a myriad of Virtualization technologies. In his session at Government IT Conference & Expo, Harry Foxwell of Sun Microsystems Federal will review and discuss the benefits and trade-offs of applying the various virtualization techniques within the cloud.
Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) yesterday moved to overcome CIOs’ concerns about security of data in the cloud, cited by organizations and industry analysts as the top impediment to adopting cloud computing for business needs. Unisys unveiled an innovative cloud computing strategy and s...
Red Hat, Inc., has announced the Premier Cloud Provider Certification and Partner Program, designed to simplify and expand the adoption of cloud computing by enterprise customers. The program enables industry leaders in cloud computing to become certified to offer Red Hat technology so...
Zscaler, Inc., a provider of cloud-delivered multi-tenant Security as a Service (SaaS), has announced that API Group -- a manufacturer of specialized packaging materials with businesses located in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific -- has selected it for power...
An IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," or "fully homomorphic encryption," makes possible the deep and unlimited analysis...
Adaptec, a provider of data center hardware and software storage solutions, has announced the availability of the Adaptec Series 5Z Unified Serial(R) (SATA/SAS) RAID controller family. These high-performance controllers integrate an industry first, flash-based Zero-Maintenance Cache Pr...
Caringo Inc., a provider of content storage software enabling clustered storage for active and archive content, today announced volume shipments of its new CAStor(TM) 3.0 "Cluster in a Box" software, which creates easily scalable, self-managing clustered content storage that suits clou...
Five9 has announced that TMone, a provider of business process outsourcing for the front office, has deployed Five9 Virtual Call Center Suite integrated with on-demand CRM from Salesforce.com across all call center agents to deliver high-quality customer experience on behalf of their l...
Platform Computing has announced a new software product for managing private cloud environments. Platform ISF is an end-to-end cloud management product for enterprises to build and run their private clouds. It is the centerpiece of Platform's cloud strategy and will be made available f...
Silverpop has announced the integration of its Engage B2B (formerly Vtrenz) platform with NetSuite. This new integration leverages Silverpop Engage B2B’s fully integrated lead-to-sale reporting to put true financial metrics at marketers’ fingertips, assist in planning more effective ma...
ParaScale and Alfresco Software have announced a cloud-based integrated ECM solution co-locating Alfresco Content Management and ParaScale Cloud Storage software on the same hardware. Unlike traditional ECM architectures, the combined solution enables organizations to store and access ...
SugarCRM has announced that Roxtec, EASi and Tacamor are among the many companies worldwide who are running their customer-facing operations on the Sugar Open Cloud, SugarCRM’s global on-demand computing platform.
Salesforce.com has announced the availability of Force.com Sites, a revolutionary new capability that expands the cloud platform to deliver real-time Web sites and Web applications. With the addition of Force.com Sites, companies can now use Force.com to build and run applications for ...
Layer 7 Technologies has announced the availability of the Layer 7 SecureSpan Virtual Appliance for cloud governance. The Virtual Appliance offers all the features of the SecureSpan family of hardware appliances, including sophisticated runtime governance, agent-less SOA management and...
Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop company, has announced that the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop now supports running Hadoop on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) clusters with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) backed storage. Typically, Hadoop clusters on Amazon EC2 use local disks or ...
Vyatta has announced it has joined the Citrix Ready product verification program to create solutions for customers deploying cloud computing infrastructure. The two companies have verified product compatibility between Vyatta's open networking solutions and the Citrix Cloud Center(TM) ...
Hosted Solutions has introduced the Stratus Trusted Cloud, a robust, enterprise-class cloud solution that improves the efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications for small- and mid-sized enterprises. Stratus offers a massively scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure tha...
SYS-CON announces the Call for Papers for the 1st Annual Government IT Conference & Expo (GovITExpo), to be held October 6, 2009 in Washington, DC. Submissions are welcomed from exceptional speakers who are also Infrastructure, architecture, and software engineering experts who have fi...
Intrepidus Group has announced that Rohyt Belani, CEO of Intrepidus Group and PhishMe.com, has been appointed to the new Government Technology Research Alliance (GTRA) Industry Advisory Board Council. "Rohyt and the Intrepidus Group team have revolutionized pragmatic awareness training...
Sixty-seven per cent of Chief Information Officers and Chief Financial
Officers in UK enterprises say they are either not planning to adopt cloud
computing (35 per cent) or are unsure (32 per cent) of whether their company
will adopt cloud computing during the next two years, accord...
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) is releasing the first in a four-part series of white papers offering perspective on cloud computing. Available for download at www.akamai.com/cloud, A Perspective from the Edge of the Cloud provides a framework for evaluating the cloud computin...
Boomi has announced it has added on-demand supply chain integration capabilities to its Boomi AtomSphere cloud integration platform. This is the first and only completely cloud-based, self-service supply chain integration solution in the industry. Businesses can now exchange supply cha...
Sun Microsystems has announced its Sun Cloud Strategic Planning Service, a new portfolio of professional services designed to help drive new efficiencies for businesses of all sizes with quickly emerging cloud computing models. With more than 25 years of datacenter innovation and leade...
FastScale Technology has announced the introduction of FastScale Stack Manager Workgroup Edition, a new product that enables enterprise IT and engineering teams to easily create, optimize and manage logical servers for deployment in physical, virtual or cloud environments. Logical serv...
Savvis has announced it has joined the Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center Program to help guide independent software vendors (ISVs) and ensure their business model and applications are ready for service-based delivery.
