Next-Generation Actian Analytics Platform™ Delivers Business Value for Leading Companies WorldwideActian Annual Revenue[1] Grows to $140 MillionActian Ranks among Top Global Big Data Software Companies by RevenueRedwood City, Calif. – January 27, 2014 – Actian Corporation (“Actian”), the big data software platform company, announced the launch of the next-generation, integrated Actian Analytics Platform™ and ends 2013 with revenues double those of the prior year. By relentlessly focusing on business outcomes for customers transforming data to value, Actian overcomes the known limitations of legacy and point solutions for big data that are costly, cumbersome and siloed. As a result, the company…
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MUNICH, Germany and DUBLIN, Ireland, January 27, 2014 – Coriant, a global supplier of industry-leading optical transport solutions, announced today that it has successfully installed and commissioned a new national all-optical transmission network on behalf of HEAnet, Ireland’s National Education and Research Network. This new optical network provides increased network capacity and enhanced network resiliency to satisfy the ever increasing data requirements of HEAnet’s client base which includes some 200,000 third-level students and associated staff as well as approximately 800,000 first and second-level students and associated staff.”Enhancing our network resilience enables us to meet the current and future critical needs…
London – January 27, 2014 – Attenda Limited, the Business Critical IT company, today announced that it has become a member of the 5% Club, reinforcing its commitment to building a workforce for the future, through increased investment in apprentices and graduates.The 5% Club is focused on creating momentum behind the recruitment of apprentices and graduates into the workforce. Its members extend from FTSE 350 companies to businesses of all sizes that want to make a positive difference and support the UK’s ability to compete in increasingly tough global markets.Mark Fowle, CEO, Attenda comments, “We are excited to be working…
FARNBOROUGH – 27 January 2014 – Datum Datacentres today announced that it is Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) compliant, meeting a comprehensive set of security requirements designed to protect cardholder information.PCI DSS certification at Level 1 Service Provider status builds on Datum’s ISO27001 and ISO 9001 accreditation and continues to demonstrate Datum’s ability to deliver a secure environment for its clients’ critical IT infrastructures.Datum provides secure co-location to enterprise and service providers within its highly resilient data centre. The Datum PCI is underpinned by its secure facilities, specific and documented processes, advanced technology and by its people.…
Latest addition to global line-up of iconic city monuments lit by Philips Philips, the global leader in lighting has today unveiled a stunning lighting makeover of the historic, world-recognized Gateway of India in Mumbai. The lighting is based around a new, one-of-a-kind LED system, providing a palette of 16 million colors that can be computer-programmed to create inspiring lighting shows.The new lighting at Mumbai’s most striking monument will provide eye-catching displays to the 5.1 million foreign tourists who visit each year, in addition to further boosting its image as a symbol of the city for the city’s 12 million residents.The…
– Imago Techmedia attracts speakers from BT Global Services, Gartner Research and Microsoft to speak at business and technology collaboration event – London, Friday 24 January: Connected Business Expo, Imago Techmedia’s business and collaboration technology event, has announced its initial keynote speaker line-up. Experts from across the industry will be presenting at this year’s event taking place on 4-5 March at London Olympia, and include Steve Blood from Gartner Research, Dave Coplin from Microsoft and Dr Nicola Millard from BT Global Services. Connected Business Expo is targeted at assisting its 5,000 visitors in understanding the changing technology landscape and associated…
To Support Integration with TETRA networks provided by Airbus DSHoesbach/Germany, January 24, 2014 – ASC, a leading global provider of innovative solutions to record, analyze and evaluate multimedia-based communications, today announced it has joined the TWISP application developer community at Airbus Defence and Space at the Gold level. Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) is a division of Airbus Group formed by combining the business activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military in January 2014. It is Europe’s number one defence and space enterprise, the second largest space business worldwide and among the top ten global defence enterprises. TWISP facilitates…
As European market embraces Pure for its all-flash storage technology, company achieves new distribution, channel, and support infrastructure milestones to support customer and partner demand.London, UK – 23 January, 2014 — Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, today announced it is experiencing unprecedented momentum in the UK market, as the company nears the one year mark since opening its UK headquarters. Pure Storage has expanded the Pure Storage Partner Program (P3) to include more than 40 companies across Europe, supporting its aggressive partner-focused go-to-market plans. Speaking at a private event in London today, CEO Scott Dietzen said: “Flash…
IT services provider Ocean Intelligent Communications and central London data centre City Lifeline are partnering to provide clients of the two companies with a complete managed IT service. The partnership covers support for both within and beyond the walls of the data centre – giving customers of both companies complete confidence in the resilience of their entire IT infrastructure.This new venture means that customers operating IT infrastructure from the City Lifeline data centre facility in Clifton Street now have access to a dedicated team of IT engineers from Ocean, whose Network Operations Centre (NOC) is also based in Clifton Street.…
New Adapters Increase Server Virtualisation Density, Connect Hybrid Clouds with Virtual Networks Fabrics, Enable SDN with Open APIs and Optimise Application DeliveryCOSTA MESA, Calif, January 23, 2014 – Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced the next generation of high performance Ethernet connectivity solutions for virtualised, enterprise and cloud data centres. The OneConnect® OCe14000 family of 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet (10/40GbE) Network Adapters and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), based on the next generation Emulex Engine™ (XE) 100 series of I/O controllers, enables higher virtual machine (VM) densities, supports secure hybrid clouds with Virtual Network…
Leading US insurance company implements new system to provide secure telephone payments without compromising on its award-winning service Surrey, 23 January 2014 – Semafone today announced that Amica Mutual Insurance Company has selected Semafone’s secure payments solution to handle its payments taken over the telephone. The new system will be implemented across Amica’s 40 branches and customer call centre locations in the U.S. The move is part of Amica’s continued commitment to providing exemplary customer service for its policyholders. Once the technology has been fully implemented, it will be used by approximately 1,500 customer service representatives who will have the…
Only 53 per cent of global top level domains ‘secure’Loudwater, UK, 23rd January 2014: Over three years after the world’s first top level domains (TLDs) (such as .org, .com and .net) were signed with domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC), nearly half (47 per cent)[1] remain open to malicious tampering. This is potentially leaving millions of the world’s internet users open to malicious redirect to fake websites, warns FTSE 250 cyber security company Ultra Electronics AEP. Some of the world’s most advanced Internet economies such as Italy (.it), Spain (.es) and South Africa (.za) remain unsigned, leaving every Internet visitor…
Locations include Brussels, Ulm and MunichContinuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and the cloud are used by rapid response application teams to accelerate web and mobile application delivery. While many development teams have adopted CI, IT organisations are now being challenged to take CI to an enterprise level and extend it to CD and DevOps.Delegates at these events will learn how CI, CD and the cloud can be used to transform a team into a rapid response application team, and how to apply these technologies to accelerate application delivery and leverage existing IT assets more fully.Attend these events and hear…
Aberdeen, 23 January – Petrotechnics, the global leader for transforming frontline Operational Performance and Lowering Operational Risk in Hazardous Industries, announced today support for Apple iOS Mobility for its Proscient Operational Performance and Predictive Risk software platform. Proscient’s support for iPad and iPhone mobility provides the first modern mobile solution for frontline operations staff in hazardous industries.Proscient simplifies the complexities of frontline operations. Organizations use Proscient to improve their production efficiency and lower operational risk by better managing workload against risk according to policy. Moving beyond the simple management of permits, Proscient provides organizations the capabilities to ensure policy is…
As the Dutch market embraces Pure for its all-flash storage technology, company achieves new distribution, channel, and support infrastructure milestones to support customer and partner demandAmsterdam, Netherlands – Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, today announced it is bolstering its presence in the Dutch market to accelerate the extreme growth and continued momentum the company has experienced since expanding into EMEA nearly one year ago. Pure Storage has expanded the Pure Storage Partner Program (P3) to include more than 40 companies across Europe, supporting its aggressive partner-focused go-to-market plans. Further, the company has experienced more than 100 percent…
Conviva’s Intelligent Control Platform Processes More than 45 Billion Streams in 2013SAN MATEO, CA – January 22, 2014 – Conviva, the leader in video intelligence and big data processing, announced today it processed over 45 billion streams in 2013, increasing the size of its global intelligence base by more than four times over the last two years. “2013 was a landmark year for Conviva on many fronts, highlighted by surpassing 45 billion streams processed. The growth of our business across customers, geographies and products serves to expand our global intelligence base and the power of our data and platform,” said…
ATLANTA – 22 January 2014 – Movius Interactive Corporation has been selected to be part of a panel at this week’s Telecom Council of Silicon Valley Deep Dive: Mobile Commerce meeting. Taking place on 23 January in California, the meeting provides the perfect platform for the future evolution of the mobile wallet to be explored. The panel, made up of powerful stakeholders in the mobile wallet space including; Chirayu Wadke, Business Development at Google Wallet and Steve Statler, Senior Director, Solutions Management at Qualcomm Retail Solutions, will examine payment technologies such as NFC, Proximity and Beacons and their future in…
Reducing Consumerisation of IT risks, new enterprise app store provides employee tools for reducing shelfware and ensuring software licence complianceMaidenhead, UK – January 22, 2014 – Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and enterprises, announced a new release of App Portal, the industry’s leading self-service enterprise app store. Among other enhancements, this new version offers ‘My Apps,’ a first-of-its-kind dashboard giving employees visibility into the software licences on their devices and tools to identify and eliminate shelfware and non-compliant software use.”Enterprises are committed to strict cost control and waste reduction, as well as…
Merger brings together best of breed companies to create unparalleled insight opportunitiesLondon, UK and Oslo, Norway and New York, NY: January 22nd, 2014: Confirmit has today announced the acquisition of Integrasco, a leader in social intelligence and text analytics. The acquisition brings advanced technologies for capturing social insights and analysing unstructured text into the Confirmit portfolio of software offerings for Customer Experience, Employee Engagement and Market Research.Integrasco is a leader in analytical technology solutions and has helped many blue-chip companies track the performance of their brands, products and services, across social media, traditional media and customer channels to extract significant…
New Users Embrace Avere’s Innovative Data Storage Solutions for Cloud and Performance of Critical ApplicationsPITTSBURGH – January 22, 2014 – Avere Systems, a leading provider of enterprise storage for cloud enabled data centers, today announced the company experienced substantial growth and momentum in 2013 in the key areas of bookings, customer acquisition and product innovation. The explosion in the scale, complexity and cost of data in the enterprise combined with the adoption of cloud solutions has left organizations grappling with how to build and grow their storage infrastructure. Avere’s significant advancements in storage solutions last year removed the barriers for…