For Second Year Running Business Software Comparison (bsoco) recognises SumTotal as industry leading HR solutions providerREADING, UK, February 28, 2014 – SumTotal® Systems, LLC, the largest independent provider of integrated HR solutions, has earned first place in the bsoco “Learning Management System 2014” category for the second year. Bsoco is a leading industry body, evaluating and recognising best-in-class software. It bestows honours based on an assessment of an independent, international panel of judges and feedback from the users themselves. The SumTotal Learn: Enterprise learning management system (LMS) was named a Gold winner earlier this month during the LEARNTEC International Trade…
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The University will also benefit from its IT department underpinning its adoption of ITIL best practices with a world-leading IT Service Management platformBerkshire, ENGLAND, 28th February 2014: TeamUltra (www.teamultra.net), the UK’s leading ServiceNow partner, today announced that University of Warwick, one of the UK’s leading universities, has implemented IT Service Management best practices and optimised its use of ServiceNow using TeamAssist from TeamUltra.Warwick’s IT Services department implemented ServiceNow in 2010 and uses it to deliver an efficient IT service to staff, students and researchers. The functional scope has grown from Incident and Problem Management to encompass Service Catalogue, Request, CMDB,…
– 400 per cent growth leads to Sean McCarry appointed as Sales Director, to continue expansion strategy- Centrix Software forges global partnerships to develop IT channel ecosystemDuring the last year, Centrix Software has established itself as the leading workspace management expert. It continues to develop following a record breaking FY13 – through 400 per cent revenue growth, and securing major public sector contracts and strategic partnerships within the IT industry.To support its on-going growth, the company is increasing investment and attracting major talent, with the hiring of new department head, Sales Director, Sean McCarry. Sean has a wealth of experience…
Partnership Further Validates CloudSigma’s Commitment to Advancing Open, Flexible Cloud Environments Zurich, Switzerland – February 27, 2014 – CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it is partnering with CompatibleOne, an open source, cloud-aware software platform that enables organizations to operate as a Cloud Services Brokerage. Through the partnership, CloudSigma customers will now be able to securely manage their cloud environments at different locations, and across different cloud providers, via a single user interface, giving them better insight into how they provision their resources globally.CloudSigma has always been dedicated to creating flexible, open…
27 February 2014 – The Managing Director of UK satellite Internet Service Provider Satellite Internet is calling local councils to spend some of the latest tranche of rural broadband funding from central government on delivering satellite broadband solutions to reach the final five percent. It was announced yesterday that the extra £250m allocated by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport be divided between local councils and each will have a month to decide how to spend it to ensure superfast broadband is available to the majority of homes. “Whilst this is excellent news and will almost certainly be a…
Hamburg, 27 February 2014 – gateprotect AG Germany will present a software version enhanced by some state-of-the-art security features for its Next Generation Firewalls developed in Germany. A significantly faster antivirus scan, extended reporting and the possibility of integrating a wireless network into the firewall are turning the gateprotect firewall version 9.4 into a perfect protective shield against current and future cyber-threats. With version 9.4, gateprotect AG will provide its customers with top-modern security mechanisms including an antivirus scan accelerated by up to 15 percent, a Reverse Proxy function in the backend as well as an easy-to-operate Administration Client compatible…
London, February 27, 2014 – Eight key new sales in seven countries for its cloud-based commodity trade and risk and trade management solutions gave CTRM/ETRM vendor Aspect Enterprise Solutions the fastest growing customer base of any company in its sector during 2013.While rivals increased penetration by acquiring competitors, Aspect’s 18% revenue growth for its flagship AspectCTRM solution came through securing new contracts, some replacing the solutions of vendors providing conventional (non-cloud) systems. Sales cycles, due to high awareness of Aspect’s track record and profile, overall remained short, with one, to a Swiss trader in fuel oils and naphtha, notably signed…
Russian mobile network operator, MegaFon (https://www.megafon.ru/ and http://english.corp.megafon.ru/), uses several tools from Palisade’s DecisionTools Suite to integrate risk management within its budgeting and investment planning processes. This decision support software provides Megafon`s management team with transparency and understanding about the risks involved in planning, and therefore facilitates decision-making without guesswork. This enables the company to maximise capital expenditure efficiency.Every year, MegaFon’s eight regional branches in russia are required to undertake a major planning and accounting exercise for the 12 months ahead. Each branch states the risks it faces, such as competition, changes in legislation that will require it to operate…
Interoute named as best in the market for unified communications conferencing servicesLondon, 27 February, 2014 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud platform, has received the Frost & Sullivan Customer Value Leadership Award for its best practice conferencing services. In selecting Interoute for this award Frost & Sullivan said “Interoute has developed its competitive advantage around integration services and unified communications.” This award recognizes Interoute’s excellence in managed Video as a Service, audio conferencing, hosted Lync and cloud services including Interoute Virtual Data centre.Key to Interoute’s success in this area is its enterprise Unified ICT infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) approach to…
Partnership enables the developer community to rapidly create devices using CSR’s wide portfolio of connectivity and location solutions with the flexibility of ARM microcontrollersCambridge, UK and San Jose, California, USA – 26 February 2014 – CSR plc (LSE: CSR; NASDAQ: CSRE) today announces that it has joined the ARM® mbed™ platform, an industry venture designed to nurture the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), as a component partner. The partnership provides the mbed community access to CSR Bluetooth®, Bluetooth Smart, Wi-Fi® and GPS connectivity solutions and makes it easy for them to be integrated into existing microcontroller projects. The…
International collaboration helps Return Path to reduce email abuse and extend detection to 2.4 billion mailboxes worldwideLONDON, February 26, 2014 – IT Security vendor Kaspersky Lab and email intelligence company Return Path announced today a new, collaborative initiative to combat international fraud including phishing attacks and other abuse targeting consumers and service providers. The companies have agreed on a framework to share threat data and security analytics to detect and thwart email abuse, protect the end-users from malware and spam, and enable mailbox providers to quickly identify and address fraud within their networks.Under their global agreement, Kaspersky Lab will incorporate…
Report celebrates the fifty people setting the data-driven marketing agenda in the UK todayLondon, 26 February 2014 – With the significant uptake in companies recognising the value in big data and the potential for it to generate up to $3 trillion in economic value globally[1], DataIQ has launched the IQData50, in association with IBM, an inaugural list to champion the most influential business professionals driving business success from the intelligent use of data in the UK.Vivian Reding, vice president of the European Commission, who tops the power list, has put her political equity behind a sweeping reform of current European…
Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), a leading provider of flash-optimised hybrid storage solutions, today announced that Brightsource, a marketing services and technology company, has deployed Nimble Storage flash-optimised hybrid storage arrays to enable its disaster recovery strategy. By leveraging the Nimble CS-series arrays and Nimble InfoSight Brightsource implemented efficient array-based replication across multiple sites, and simplified the management and reporting of its IT environment. Brightsource’s IT team is responsible for the infrastructure supporting the company’s data processing solutions and automation services that enable clients to create compelling marketing collateral and drive successful campaigns.Brightsource had been relying on a virtualised IT environment…
New, 2.5-inch 600GB Ultrastar® C15K600 HDDs, and the Newly FIPS 140-2 Certified 12Gb/s SAS Ultrastar SSD, Complement HGST’s Growing Line of Reliable, Enterprise-Class Storage Solutions for Improving Storage Density and Lowering Power in High-Performance Computing EnvironmentsLONDON, February 26th, 2014 – HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is shipping a new family of high-performance, high-capacity, 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF), 15K RPM enterprise-class hard disk drives (HDD) – the Ultrastar C15K600 family. Delivering best-in-class performance and capacity in one streamlined solution, the new Ultrastar C15K600 family enables higher density and higher performing servers, blades and network…
26 February 2014, LONDON: Speaking at Cloud Expo Europe in London, Nathan Bell, Director of Marketing, Products and Pricing at Telstra Global, told the packed conference that having cloud-enabled managed hosting will eliminate many of the overheads associated with traditional ICT, making it a crucial investment for any enterprise which hopes to succeed in the near future.According to Bell, an evolved cloud platform model is the answer for ensuring sustainable growth and providing enterprises with a competitive edge.”Traditionally many enterprises have used in-house infrastructure or collocated with an external data centre provider, yet an evolution is on the horizon with…
Targeted SMS messages helps travel operator cope with 200% surge in demandLondon, 26th February, 2014 – PageOne, a leading critical messaging solutions company across the public and private sectors, today announced that the British transport company FirstGroup has responded to a 200% surge in demand for emergency buses during the mass floodings by deploying its Connect business SMS text messaging solution.FirstGroup, which operates a quarter of Britain’s rail network, was able to use SMS to rapidly locate and deploy 1,500 rail replacement buses across the UK. The transport group used PageOne’s secure messaging service to dramatically reduce response times and…
New partnership helps businesses innovate and release new products fasterWokingham, UK, February 26, 2014 — Perforce Software today announced a partnership with UK-based SDC Systems Ltd to provide Perforce’s complete enterprise version management portfolio to businesses across the UK and Ireland.”We were receiving more and more requests from customers looking for code and collaboration tools to help software development and enable faster release times,” said Stuart Parker, managing director of Berkshire-based SDC Systems. “Following a thorough investigation of the tools on the market today, we concluded that Perforce is not only the ‘best in class’, but also a good fit…
WatchGuard Firebox T10 extends ability to protect the ‘new’ enterprise network perimeter26 February 2014 – WatchGuard® Technologies, today announced the WatchGuard Firebox® T10 Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution that allows enterprises to extend powerful network security to small office home office (SOHO) environments. With 70 percent of high-value employees working at home at least once a week[i], the new appliance allows network administrators to ensure robust protection of employees who are often managing the companies’ most critical intellectual property. The Firebox T10 features WatchGuard’s cloud-based RapidDeploy capability, which instantly self-configures and begins reporting back to the administrator’s central console as…
Newtec launches a scalable and flexible multiservice platform which allows operators to build and adapt their infrastructure easily as their business changesSINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 26 February 2014 Satellite communications specialist Newtec marks March 2014 as the launch of Newtec Dialog®, a scalable and flexible multiservice platform which allows operators to build and adapt their infrastructure easily as their business and the satellite market grows and changes. The Newtec Dialog platform can be used to address the consumer and enterprise VSAT, broadcast, cellular backhaul and trunking, as well as government and defense markets.Newtec Dialog gives operators the power to offer a variety…
Europe’s largest cloud services platform adds new IaaS location to meet customer demandLondon, 26 February, 2014 – Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform, has opened a new Virtual Data Centre (VDC) zone in Milan. Built into the core of its pan-European network, Interoute VDC enables organizations to deploy virtual computing and storage infrastructure for enterprise applications in minutes. Users can select any of six Interoute VDC zones in Amsterdam, Berlin, Geneva, London, Paris and now Milan to host their data. Internet data transfer data between VDC zones is free thanks to the integration of Interoute’s advanced network.Estimated…