OTTAWA, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – July 10, 2014) – Calian Technologies Ltd. (TSX:CTY) is pleased to announce that effective June 30, 2014 it has acquired DWP Solutions Inc. of Ottawa, Ontario. DWP Solutions Inc. has been in business for 18 years providing information technology and security consulting services to a variety of government and defence customers. “With revenues of approximately $6 million, we expect this acquisition to be EBITDA accretive from day one” stated Jacqueline Gauthier, Chief Financial Officer. “DWP results will be consolidated and reported as part of the Company’s Business and Technology Services (BTS) division”. “As part of our M&A…
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FRAMINGHAM, MA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – IDG’s CIO — the executive-level IT media brand providing insight into business technology leadership — reveals the CIO Tech Poll: IT Economic Outlook results for May 2014. The research indicates that the majority of organizations (87%) are increasing or maintaining IT budgets in the coming year, with an average budget increase of 4.9%. Technology budgets will be distributed across core and edge technologies, including mobile, social, CRM and marketing automation. Edge Technologies Still Gaining Momentum Core technologies, from infrastructure to network and storage, still receive the largest allocation of technology budgets; however, in the…
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – SolarWinds® (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today announced that it will report its financial results for the second quarter of 2014 on Thursday, July 24, 2014. The company also plans to present at two investor conferences this quarter. SECOND QUARTER EARNINGS CALL SolarWinds will host a conference call to discuss its financial results and its business for the second quarter of 2014 at 4:00 p.m. CT (5:00 p.m. ET/2:00 p.m. PT) on Thursday, July 24, 2014. A live webcast of the call will be available on the…
SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – Micrel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRL), an industry leader in high-performance linear and power solutions, LAN and timing and communications solutions, will announce financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014 after the market closes on Thursday, July 24, 2014. In addition, the Company will host a conference call that day at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time (1:30 p.m. Pacific time). Chief Executive Officer Raymond Zinn and Chief Financial Officer Bob DeBarr will present an overview of the second quarter financial results, discuss current business conditions, and respond to questions. The call is available, live,…
MILPITAS, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), the leader in stopping today’s advanced cyber attacks, today announced it will release financial results for the second quarter of 2014 on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 after the close of the U.S. markets. FireEye will host a conference call the same day at 5:00 p.m. ET (2:00 p.m. PT) to discuss the results. Interested parties may access the conference call by dialing 877-312-5521 (domestic) or 678-894-3048 (international). A live audio webcast of the call may be accessed from the Investor Relations section of the company’s website at http://investors.fireeye.com. Shortly…
SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – EdgeWave Inc. (www.edgewave.com), a San Diego-based cyber security firm, announced today that Network Products Guide, the industry’s foremost technology research and advisory guide, honored EdgeWave with two Gold awards and four awards overall at its 2014 “Hot Companies and Best Products” Awards. EdgeWave ePrism® Email Security™ was named Gold winner for Email, Security and Management and Bronze winner for Cloud Security categories. EdgeWave Advanced Web Gateway™ was named Gold winner for the Web Application, Gateway, Security and Bronze winner for Best Deployment category for providing network security for the 2013 US Open Tennis…
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – July 10, 2014) – Today, Dundas Data Visualization (www.dundas.com) announces that it was ranked second in the Specialized Business Intelligence Vendors sector in Dresner’s Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study, with a score of 4.55 out of 5. Dundas also had a perfect score in the “recommended” category. The Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study was based on a survey that asked BI users to rank vendors’ sales experience, value for price, quality and usefulness of the product, quality of support, quality of consulting, integrity, and whether the vendor is recommended. The study found that dashboards, end-user…
AUSTIN, TX–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – PulseConnect, a leading email marketing software company, today announced it has rebranded as PostUp. In conjunction with the news, PostUp also announced Joshua Baer, a highly celebrated digital marketing technology innovator, angel investor and original founder of the company, has returned as a member of the board of directors. Baer founded the company under the name of Skylist in 1996, when email marketing was still in its nascency. The announcement follows the company’s January 2014 acquisition by Transition Capital Partners and Petra Capital Partners and signifies a strong and singular focus on providing…
NASHUA, NH–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – Akken, the staffing and recruiting efficiency improvement specialist, today announced 263% more bookings in second quarter of 2014 when compared to the same period last year. “Changes in business models and the expansions into newer markets are increasingly driving staffing and recruiting organizations to seek more flexible, modern technology platforms. Thanks to our historic investments in technology and service delivery, we have been extremely well positioned to meet those needs,” said Giridhar Akkineni, founder & CEO of Akken. “We are only as good as the talent we have working here and our great…
MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwired – July 10, 2014) – SENSIO Technologies Inc. (“SENSIO”) (TSX VENTURE:SIO) today announced that the license agreement between Wi-LAN Inc. and some of its subsidiaries (together “WiLAN”) and Sony Corporation (“Sony”), announced by WiLAN earlier today, includes rights granted to Sony under SENSIO’s patents covering its SENSIO®S2D Switch (“S2D Switch”) technology. “The Sony agreement marks the second license granted by WiLAN under our partnership”, said Nicholas Routhier, President and CEO of SENSIO. “It has now been almost two years since we signed our agreement with WiLAN and considering the timescale of a typical patent licence sales cycle, the…
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) The Aite Group recently reported that based on a survey it had conducted of Banks in the United States that by the end of 2015 70% of all U.S.A credit cards will have the EMV chip on them. Other figures show there are more than 1.5 billion credit cards issued in the United States. So according to the Aite Report figures said the President & CEO of SmartMetric Chaya Hendrick, this will mean more than 1 Billion credit cards will be EMV chip cards by the end of 2015. Visa…
CHANDIGARH, INDIA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – To enable global enterprises and small businesses to set up their teams online and pool all team presentations in one place, authorSTREAM, online presentation sharing platform, today announced the launch of two new premium plans — Team and Enterprise. While Team plan is for small team collaboration (3 to 10 users), the Enterprise plan is for businesses who wish to set up large teams. The platform also rolled out the much-awaited Lead Capturing feature enabling individuals and organizations to generate qualified business leads from their presentations. The platform introduced team plans after receiving…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – Typesafe, provider of the world’s leading Reactive platform, today announced that July 12 will mark the five year anniversary of Akka, the popular run-time and toolkit for concurrency and scalability on the JVM (“Java Virtual Machine”), supported through the years by developers at high-growth and Blue-Chip companies like Amazon, BBC, Cisco, Credit Suisse, eBay, Groupon, Huffington Post and many more. The Akka Creation Story (click here for a full interactive timeline on the history of Akka): Akka was originally created by Swedish programmer Jonas Bonér — who had built compilers, runtimes and…
GOLDEN, CO–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – Demartek, an independent computer industry analyst firm with its own computer test lab, today announces that Demartek President Dennis Martin will present real-world storage performance at the Flash Memory Summit 2014. “As enterprises increasingly adopt flash technology for storage solutions, they are looking for the important performance metrics in real-world application environments,” said Dennis Martin, Demartek President. “We have run numerous enterprise datacenter performance tests with a variety of types of flash storage including hybrid arrays, all-flash arrays, server-side flash and with new interfaces such as NVMe. We will show performance results from…
KENDALL PARK, NJ–(Marketwired – July 10, 2014) – Binary Tree Senior Account Executive, Lambryne Dekazos, will present “Corporate Email Integration, A Day One Opportunity” at The Art of M&A Integration, a three-day conference held by the M&A Leadership Council in San Francisco, CA from July 15-17, 2014. Binary Tree, a gold sponsor of the M&A Leadership Council, will provide best practices for integrating the email systems of merged or acquired organizations to enable them to start working together as a single entity on Day One of operations.”Seamless and reliable email communications are never as critical as during the M&A phase,”…
PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – HP (NYSE: HPQ) today announced that the United States Air Force (USAF) has issued a Quantum Enterprise Buy (QEB) procurement for select HP business PCs and Workstations. “HP has supported the Air Force’s worldwide enterprise computing needs for several decades,” said John Solomon, senior vice president, Printing and Personal Systems, and managing director, Americas, HP. “This is a true testament to HP’s proven performance as a leading computing infrastructure provider for the U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense, providing high-quality technology innovations in the client, computing and servers space as the…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – SmartRecruiters, the only end-to-end hiring platform that managers and candidates love, today announced that it will drive recruiting and hiring for BlaBlaCar, the world’s largest long-distance ride-sharing network. Paris-based BlaBlaCar recently raised a $100M Series C funding round led by Index Ventures and will use SmartRecruiters’ cloud hiring platform to increase its global workforce. The key reason BlaBlaCar chose SmartRecruiters is the platform’s ability to let hiring managers source candidates across many countries who speak multiple languages. “We need a team of hyper-motivated, talented employees to fuel our rapid growth phase,” said…
NEW YORK, NY and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – Boundary today announced that an increasing number of companies have selected Boundary to monitor modern, highly-distributed applications running on public cloud infrastructures. Boundary will be highlighting its solution today at the AWS Summit at the Javits Center in New York City. Cengage and Infor Global recently joined a growing list of companies that have selected Boundary for its unprecedented visibility into their AWS infrastructures. Other Boundary customers monitoring AWS environments include: Omnifone, Wattpad and Whisper. A major challenge of monitoring in the cloud is the ephemeral nature of cloud…
SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwired – Jul 10, 2014) – 2nd Watch, a provider of cloud deployment, management and monitoring services, announces a major upgrade to 2W INSIGHT, its cost and usage management software for Amazon Web Services (AWS). The latest version of INSIGHT gives companies a business-friendly way to monitor and allocate AWS spending. The process to track and assign AWS spending by business unit, department and/or project can be a complicated process. Companies must either create separate AWS accounts for each cost center or go through the manual process of tagging individual cloud resources such as server, load balancer or database. Since a single deployment…
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS–(Marketwired – July 10, 2014) – CGI (NYSE:GIB)(TSX:GIB.A) and client ProRail, a Dutch railway network operator, received the SAP-Microsoft Unite Partner Connection Innovation Award on June 4, 2014, during the SAPPHIRE NOW Orlando 2014 conference. CGI developed a mobile application in collaboration with ProRail that enables the company to manage maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) work in an easy, quick and affordable way. Users can upload their MRO information, including requests and work completed, providing ProRail with a transparent and real-time overview of MRO-related performance and costs. The SaaS-based application is designed for use on the Windows 8…