RAMSEY, NJ–(Marketwired – June 04, 2014) – Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta), today announced that it has acquired Copytronics Information Systems (Copytronics), a business solutions dealership headquartered in Jacksonville, Fla., to further increase Konica Minolta’s reach in Florida.Copytronics will continue to retain its current Florida locations in Jacksonville, Rockledge, Ocala, Daytona Beach and Winter Park, as well as its more than 85 sales, service and administrative staff. As a Konica Minolta company, Copytronics will continue to provide customers with best in class document management solutions, managed print services (MPS), hardware and services. As part of the acquisition…
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CHICAGO, IL–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Nothing says, “Welcome to your new job!” like being stuck in an empty conference room with nothing to do on your first day, right? Or not getting much help about which benefits you should choose? Or failing to receive any feedback about your performance during your first 90 days? But that’s what many employees experience, according to Jellyvision’s new “ALEX® Asks: What Employees Think About Your Onboarding” survey report. The survey, which polled 400 new hires at companies with more than 2,000 employees, details the new-job experiences of employees at organizations with and…
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – In today’s inter-dependent IT environment, there are few things as complex as managing application availability and its correlated infrastructure — physical and virtual servers, storage and databases. SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, was built to enable IT Pros to solve complex IT problems and recognizes that top to bottom visibility into business — critical applications and the related infrastructure helps IT organizations to better predict, prioritize and resolve issues before the end-user is affected. The new mantra for IT is moving from ensuring the basic…
PORTLAND, OR–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Puppet Labs, the leading provider of IT automation software, today released the Puppet Labs 2014 State of DevOps Report. This year’s third annual DevOps report is based on the largest and most comprehensive survey to date, with more than 9,200 IT and software development professionals responding from companies of all types and sizes, from around the world. This year’s findings revealed that companies with high-performing IT organizations are twice as likely to exceed their profitability, market share and productivity goals. The analysis also revealed that for the second consecutive year, DevOps practices are…
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in high-performance linear and power solutions, LAN and timing and communications solutions, today announced it has been named a recipient of the Rainmaker Awards at the 10th annual Global Revenue Management Summit. Micrel took honors in the category of Revenue Management Best Practices. “Micrel is honored to accept this award which reflects one of Micrel’s core values of financial transparency and reporting,” noted David Schwartz, Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Micrel. “We chose to migrate early and work with Model N in order to enhance our…
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – WHO:TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, LLC, a global, tech-enabled talent acquisition company WHAT:Will share social, mobile and digital recruiting expertise as a Diamond sponsor of the Human Capital Institute’s 2014 Strategic Talent Acquisition Conference. WHEN:The conference will be held Wednesday, June 11 through Friday, June 13, 2014. WHERE:2014 Strategic Talent Acquisition ConferenceSeaport Boston Hotel & Seaport World Trade Center 1 Seaport Lane Boston, Mass. TMP Worldwide will exhibit its solutions at booth no. 53. DETAILS:After years of stagnant hiring, the competition for top performers and technical talent is on the rise. Yet…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Mirantis and Canonical, leaders in cloud platforms, today announced a joint collaboration to offer private cloud solutions based on Mirantis OpenStack and Ubuntu. The two companies will invest in continuously testing compatibility between Mirantis OpenStack and Ubuntu to ensure that the Mirantis OpenStack distribution works seamlessly with Ubuntu. The companies will collaborate to offer an OpenStack solution that is fully supported, secure and ready for production workloads. “As the leading provider of scale out and open cloud solutions we are committed to interoperability and freedom from vendor lock-in,” said John Zannos VP…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Atlantis Computing®, a leading provider of In-Memory software-defined storage, today announced it has released a new product, Atlantis ILIO for Virtual SAN. The 100% software solution is proven at scale to deliver enterprise-class data services to VMware Horizon, dramatically increasing the performance of VMs, while supporting up to 10 times more desktops. Atlantis ILIO with VMware Horizon 6 and Virtual SAN can deliver better desktop performance than a MacBook Air, reduce the cost per virtual desktop to less than a PC, and deliver increased deployment flexibility with off-the-shelf servers and local storage.…
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Market data connectivity specialist, MDX Technology (MDXT), today announced that ING Bank has gone live with its enterprise data sharing solution. Fixed Income traders in Amsterdam can now communicate more effectively with ING’s global institutional sales offices. The MDXT Connect platform, a lightweight data sharing solution, subscribes to the house price from ING’s trading platform. The trading desk is then able to flexibly add critical pricing and analytics data required by the global sales teams to enhance the high levels of client services. Data is now communicated instantly between trading and sales…
MONTREAL, QC–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – LULU Software, maker of Soda PDF 6®, the world’s first fully modular application, has released a major new update to their award winning software. Soda PDF 6.3 is integrated with ‘Soda PDF Online Services,’ which allows users to save, access from and work on their documents online. The application also has additional features like Compare Documents, Ruler, Grid, Extract Images, Replace Pages and PDF to PowerPoint conversion. This powerful new edition of our Soda PDF software presents a full range of advanced features that will enable home and professional users alike to accomplish…
SANTA CLARA, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Centrify Corporation, the leader in unified identity services across data center, cloud and mobile, today announced that it has expanded in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), doubling the company’s headcount in the region and growing its partner channel by 139 percent. This includes the introduction of a dedicated sales team for its Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) unit. Centrify has recruited a number of additional partners across EMEA, including Nebulas, Quru, Somerford Associates, SecurityMatterz, and AT Computers in the UK. The company has further expanded in EMEA East and the DACH region (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland),…
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA–(Marketwired – June 4, 2014) – XBT Holding Limited announced the acquisition of the datacenter.com domain name, for the reported amount of $500,000. Internet has been growing rapidly and the amount of hosted data has been increasing even faster. Every MB of information requires physical storage and this is where datacenters come in. However, the amount of operational datacenters and the required expert staff are insufficient to accommodate the demand for such facilities. Just like the datacenters, domain names are also extremely valued. The increase in internet business and social media expansion are some of the factors that…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2014 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today introduced its new 2014 Performance Mobile APUs designed for ultrathin and high-performance mobile PCs, bringing the features and capabilities of the popular and powerful AMD A-Series APU family (codenamed “Kaveri”) to power-efficient notebooks for both personal and professional use. The new mobile APUs mark the debut of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) features and Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture for mobile devices, establishing them as AMD’s most advanced mobile APUs to-date. Notebook and desktop systems powered by AMD’s entire 2014 APU lineup, including systems from Acer,…
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced several new PCs in industry-leading form factors, including a detachable two-in-one notebook PC for business users, and a new series of HP Elite devices. The HP Pro x2 612 functions as both a full high-powered notebook and a sleek business tablet that offers maximum flexibility while also providing the security needed to keep business data protected. The HP Elite 700 series expands on the HP Elite promise of stylish, reliable, powerful computing at new affordable prices aimed at transactional and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The series…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN–(Marketwired – Jun 4, 2014) – Computex – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced new x86 AMD Embedded G-Series system-on-chip (SoC) and central processing unit (CPU) solutions for embedded applications, including early adoption by HP for thin client deployment in healthcare, finance, education and retail, as well as Advantech for industrial applications in rugged environments. The new product families expand upon the high-performance, low-power capabilities of the award-winning AMD Embedded G-Series platform, bringing high performance and integrated security with enterprise-class error-correction code (ECC) memory support, dual- and quad-core variants, and a discrete-class GPU and I/O controller on the same die.…
SEBASTOPOL, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 3, 2014) – Electronics is much more than resistors, capacitors, transistors, and diodes. There is a world of projects you can create by using comparators, op-amps, and sensors. And don’t overlook the brainpower of humble logic chips! Make: More Electronics (Maker Media; $34.99), Charles Platt’s sequel to his enormously popular 2009 bestseller, Make: Electronics, offers 36 new step-by-step experiments to teach you how to add computational power to your projects with chips like logic gates, counters, decoders, and shift registers. Written in Platt’s genial, humorous voice, this helpful guide is the definitive text on enhancing your…
TAIPEI, TAIWAN–(Marketwired – Jun 3, 2014) – COMPUTEX — PLX Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLXT), the global leader in PCI Express® (PCIe®) silicon and software connectivity solutions, today announced the industry’s first USB-to-PCI Express solution to bridge the external connectivity gap laptop computers face when using PCIe-based solid-state drives (SSDs). The recently completed reference design platform, based on PLX® PCIe 2.0-to-USB 3.0 SuperSpeed controller technology and housed in an external dongle enclosure, empowers laptop and storage vendors to leverage both USB 3.0’s 5 gigabits/second (Gbps) speeds and PCIe 2.0’s 5 Gbps performance. By combining two of the industry’s most powerful and widely used interconnect…
TORONTO, ON and NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Jun 3, 2014) – OnX Enterprise Solutions, a leading enterprise data center IT solutions provider, today announced that Verizon Wireless selected OnX for the Verizon 2013 IT Supplier of the Year Award. OnX was recognized for excellence in providing IT hardware and software services to Verizon. Presented annually, the Verizon award recognizes suppliers across Verizon’s businesses that go above and beyond their performance objectives. This is the second time Verizon has named OnX for this award. Headquartered in New Jersey, Verizon Wireless provides wireless services to over 100 million subscribers. OnX worked closely with…
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – June 03, 2014) – CGOC (Compliance, Governance & Oversight Council), a practitioners’ forum focused on developing information lifecycle governance practices that improve information economics, today announced a live webcast, “Putting Information to Work — Key Insights from CGOC Summit 2014.” Scheduled for June 5, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. EDT, the webcast will feature key insights from the 10th annual CGOC Summit 2014, “Information at Work: Reducing Data Cost & Risk.”Presented by Derek Gascon, CGOC executive director, and Jake Frazier, CGOC faculty member, the webinar will present highlights and discussion of the CGOC Summit 2014 sessions. Designed for…
FREMONT, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 3, 2014) – Procera Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: PKT), the global Internet Intelligence company, today announced that James Brear, president and CEO, will be presenting at the William Blair Growth Stock Conference in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. The presentation, which is scheduled to begin at 2:10 p.m. CDT, will be available through a webcast and can be accessed at Procera Networks’ Investor Relations website at http://proceranetworks.com/investors. A replay will also be available on the website following the event. The 34th Annual William Blair Growth Stock Conference runs from Tuesday, June 10 to Thursday, June…