BroadForward deploys its Next Generation Diameter routing and interworking solution at ASPIDER-NGIThe Netherlands and Boston USA, August 19, 2015. ASPIDER-NGI, a leading IaaS provider of provisioning, billing and revenue management solutions for operators, today announced it has integrated the BFX Interface Gateway, BroadForward’s software-based signaling solution for Diameter routing and interworking. ASPIDER-NGI delivers branded services for mobile network operators, helping them to improve customer engagements, provide better service delivery, and boost profitability. The company provides services to traditional mobile operators, MVNOs, MVNEs and Enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives to help them manage connectivity to manage loyalty and revenue. BroadForward’s…
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By Ian Kilpatrick, chairman Wick Hill Group All companies today are at risk from a successful attack on their IT systems. It’s widely acknowledged that it’s no longer a question of if you will be breached, but when. Unfortunately though, some companies are more at risk than others and are actually being selectively targeted. Larger companies and enterprises normally having bigger security budgets and bigger security teams, resulting in stronger core defences, so hackers are looking for soft target entry points into these systems. Professional services organisations such as law firms, accountancy and audit firms, management consultants, M&A advisers and…
More Notable Speakers Added to Immersive Technology ConferenceMurcia, Spain (August 13, 2015) – Immersed Europe is about giving content makers, technology innovators, and professionals the tools and resources they need to build their businesses and excel in their career with technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and human-computer interaction technologies. Hosted by The Immersive Technology Alliance (ITA) and the University of Murcia, Immersed Europe takes place September 3rd to 4th (Thursday, Friday) at the Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Campus de Espinardo in Murcia, Spain. The conference features two full days of disruptive immersive technology sessions given by…
More Notable Speakers Added to Immersive Technology ConferenceMurcia, Spain (August 13, 2015) – Immersed Europe is about giving content makers, technology innovators, and professionals the tools and resources they need to build their businesses and excel in their career with technologies like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and human-computer interaction technologies. Hosted by The Immersive Technology Alliance (ITA) and the University of Murcia, Immersed Europe takes place September 3rd to 4th (Thursday, Friday) at the Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Campus de Espinardo in Murcia, Spain. The conference features two full days of disruptive immersive technology sessions given by…
Vortex L-Band Matrix system chosen to update and improve existing RF systems for world leader in telecommunications ETL Systems, a global designer and manufacturer of RF distribution equipment for satellite communications, will showcase its successful RF technologies at this year’s SET Expo in São Paulo, Brazil.The UK-based company has been expanding its presence in the LATAM market, with its debut at SET Expo following an order from the Chilean arm of one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies – Telefonica.Telefonica chose ETL’s Vortex L-band switch matrix / router system to upgrade its teleport RF equipment. The Vortex matrix will be…
Leading vendors and Managed Service Providers to meet at summit in London next monthInitial sponsors announced[London, 12 August 2015] Which way forward for managed services in Europe? New research by IT Europa shows that Europe presents a patchy picture of managed services provision. Decisions on which cloud suppliers to work with, which services to use, the pace of expansion and the management of systems and users, particularly those on mobile links, are being debated; there is little history and experience on which to build, however. The Managed Services & Hosting Summit 2015, the UK’s leading managed services event for the…
Worldwide Customer Growth, Product Innovation Among Early Fiscal Year 2016 Company HighlightsLondon, UK – 11th August, 2015 – xMatters, inc., a leader in communication-enabled business processes, today announced continued company growth and accelerated worldwide adoption of its intelligent cloud communications solutions for the first quarter of xMatters’ fiscal year, which ended on 30th June, 2015. xMatters offers an award-winning intelligent cloud platform that automates pinpointing and alerting the individuals, teams and external service providers required to work together to quickly rectify critical business disruptions. xMatters’ applications extend beyond traditional IT use cases enabling any business process with timely, interactive and…
Bracknell, UK, 10 AUGUST 2015Engineers at BAE Systems have begun to use Panasonic Toughpad tablets to offer a quicker, smarter and more intuitive way of servicing Typhoon jets, the world’s leading combat aircraft. The engineers at its Lancashire base are using the Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1 tablet to complement the aircrafts’ onboard health management systems. Before and after every sortie, the aircraft performs its own ‘health check’ and presents a series of findings onto the Maintenance Data Panel, located on the side of the aircraft. Engineers analyse this information and conduct a series of checks, in parallel with the pilot’s pre-flight…
Focus on increased support for the Channel to target SMB and Public Sector Reading, UK. August 10th, 2015 – IGEL Technology today announced the appointment of Steve Weston to accelerate its thin client business in Southern England. Steve, who joined IGEL as a Business Management graduate in 2013, will focus on working with new and existing channel partners to meet the growing demand from small and medium sized businesses and the Public Sector for centrally managed and versatile desktops solutions.IGEL Technology, the fastest growing of the top 5 thin and zero client manufacturers in the UK in 2014 with hardware…
Mixed fortunes for national markets[London – 7 August 2015] The managed services sector in Europe continues to exhibit strong growth, but performance by country presents a patchy picture with significant markets such as Spain and Italy actually showing a decline, according to a new report, Managed Service Providers in Europe – the top 500, published by IT Europa today.Overall, managed services revenues in Europe rose by 3.5% between 2013 and 2014, says the IT Europa report, though this masks rapid growth in the Germany, France and Germany and shrinkage in Spain and Portugal. Total revenues for all companies in the…
Following the latest changes to Microsoft’s licensing guidelines, unrestricted access to Microsoft Office 365 Business Essentials is now available for all users of VXL Cloud, Thin and Zero clients.With no installation work necessary, users can simply access Microsoft Office 365 in the cloud by accessing Internet Explorer or Firefox browser which are embedded in VXL’s respective Windows and Linux Cloud, Thin and Zero ClientsCommenting on the announcement, Frank Noon, VP Worldwide Sales added, “Not only does this represent a significant benefit to end users, it also provides our distribution network with an excellent added-value customer opportunity”. “SMB customers in particular…
August 6, 2015: Purple WiFi, the cloud-based Social WiFi software company, today announced it is being deployed at the United Wireless Arena and Conference Center.Located in Dodge City, Kansas, the arena is a state of the art multi-purpose facility, successfully hosting hundreds of events since it first opened in 2011. An elite entertainment destination, the United Wireless Arena is the venue of choice for concerts, sporting events, family events, motorsports, trade shows, rodeos and community activities. The wireless deployment at the arena is still underway with United Wireless Communications, but there are already big plans in place for the Purple…
New Australian Threat Analysis Center and Sales Office Extends Reach into the Asia Pacific Japan Region and Completes the Company’s “Follow the Sun” Global Threat Analysis CapabilityDallas, TX – August 5, 2015 – iSIGHT Partners, Inc., the leading provider of cyber threat intelligence for global enterprises, today announced that it has further expanded the business within the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region. The company has opened both a threat analysis center and sales office in Sydney, Australia. The move enables iSIGHT Partners to locally support a rapidly growing list of APJ clients and completes the company’s 24×7 “follow the sun”…
London, 5th August 2015: Nexus Business Media Ltd, organisers of the ECOC Exhibition has exclusively revealed the 2015 Market Focus agenda for Valencia. Now into its ninth year, and with even more sessions scheduled, the Market Focus looks set to be a main focal point of the show and a popular platform to gain industry knowledge and insight into the latest technologies available. Mass-Market Broadband Access, Datacenters: Optics in Cloud Computing, Service Provider Optical Transmission, Optical Network Agility / SDN, Photonic Integration and Digital Silicon Photonics, and Packet Optical Transport are the key topics for this year’s Market Focus. Twenty…
Matrix42 recognised as a visionary for the fifth time.London, 4th August 2015 – Matrix42 (www.matrix42.com) has been positioned the furthest in the Visionaries Quadrant along the completeness of vision axis of the current Gartner Magic Quadrant for Client Management Tools. The leading provider of workspace management solutions has successfully maintained its quadrant position for five years in a row. ‘We’re delighted to be positioned the furthest for completeness of vision in the Visionaries Quadrant of the Client Management Tools Magic Quadrant. We believe this evaluation confirms our strategy and motivates us to continue to constantly improve our products,’ explains Matrix42…
New partnership extends Wandera’s Secure Mobile Gateway to Three’s business customers in IrelandLondon and Ireland, 3rd August 2015 – Wandera, provider of advanced mobile threat prevention and data usage optimization for enterprises, together with enterprise mobility specialist CWSI, has announced a strategic partnership with Three to deliver its secure mobile gateway services to business customers in Ireland. The integration will enable Three’s business customers to secure, control and manage mobile data usage across employee devices.The partnership comes at a time when businesses are focused on driving increases in productivity with mobile workforces conducting business anytime from anywhere. According to Cisco,…
San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; London, U.K.; Amsterdam, Netherlands ForgeRock®, the leading open platform provider of identity management solutions and the CDO Club, the world’s largest C-Suite community of digital and data leaders with over 1,000 registered members, today jointly announced an alliance to deliver Identity Summits and CDO Summits in London and Amsterdam. The ForgeRock Identity Summits highlight the new ‘ROI’ – Return on Identity – and fosters collaboration and networking among the identity community. It offers an opportunity to:Learn how identity is at the center of customer relationships, driving new business initiatives towards revenue growth;Engage in thoughtful…
Sophia Antipolis, France, 31 July 2015. At their 18th Technical Plenary meeting held in Philadelphia, PA, on 20-24 July, oneM2M’s members agreed on plans for the second release of oneM2M specifications and appointed new chairmen and vice-chairmen to advance the agenda of several key working groups. Advancing oneM2M Specifications; New Deployment Capabilities Release 1 of the oneM2M specifications was delivered in January 2015 (see www.onem2m.org/release1). This set of 10 specifications covered requirements, architecture, APIs, mappings to common industry protocols, security and management, abstraction and semantics.Work on Release 2 began immediately on delivery of Release 1. Ten new specifications have been…
Italian cloud infrastructure expert implements Tintri solution in its own Data Centres LONDON, UK – July 30 2015 – Tintri, a leading provider of VM-aware storage (VAS) for virtualisation and cloud environments, today announced it has signed a new partner agreement with Italian cloud infrastructure provider, Clouditalia. As a leading VAR that specialises in cloud and telecommunications services, Clouditalia sells predominantly to medium-sized Italian companies.Clouditalia, founded in 2012, is the first company to offer both cloud and telecommunications services to medium-sized customers and partners across Italy. The company provides a wide range of services from its 100GB fibre backbone and…
An Internet of Things application from ZONR Group® (www.zonrgroup.com) is set to transform social housing efficiency, boost tenant satisfaction and support sustainability targets. The first of its kind, the ZONR application combines the latest intelligent sensor technology, smart data transmission and decision engine analytics to centrally monitor and support heating systems across a social landlord’s housing stock. Now headed up by social housing technology entrepreneur Robert Dent, ZONR has invested in significant Research and Development over the past 18 months and has already conducted a number of successful pilots. ZONR also expects to conclude strategic agreements with a number of…