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RED DEER, ALBERTA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/08/13 -- Parkland Fuel Corporation
("Parkland" or the "Corporation") (TSX:PKI), Canada's largest independent
supplier and reseller of fuels and petroleum products, today announced that
it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding shares
of North Dakota's SPF Energy Inc. ("the Acquisition" or "SPF"), the parent
company of Farstad Oil Inc. and Superpumper Inc.
All financial figures have been converted to Canadian dollars.
Subject to satisfaction of closing conditions, the outstanding shares of SPF
will be purchased for approximately $110 million consisting of approximately
$89 million cash and approximately $21 million in common shares of Parkland.
Parkland intends to leverage its strong balance sheet position to fund the
majority of the transaction.
SPF's Adjusted EBITDA for the four quarters ending Jun... (more)
With the launch of Cisco's software-defined networking startup Insieme
expected tomorrow, our industry is about to hear a lot about
"application-centric" everything. So what does "application-centric
infrastructure" mean?
First, some basics: Networking is about connecting computing devices and
systems so they can share data. Networking infrastructures are built with a
combination of hardware such as gateways, routers, and switches that manage
the movement of the data as well as software applications that enable you to
do things like access the Internet and send email.
As you co... (more)
TechViews: Neurocam scans your brains and records your interests, DevOps myth
busters, Top 5 practices to ensure mobile security and more!
Gartner: How CIOs Can Show Support for Customer Experience Initiatives by
Reprioritizing IT Projects*
Customer experience initiatives are becoming increasingly popular and, as a
result, increasingly demanded by C-level executives and board directors.
Customer experience is viewed as a long-term strategic differentiator for
businesses, and if organizations are going to be serious about it, they need
to reprioritize future IT project investments.... (more)
SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 11/08/13 -- Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ:
PFPT), a leading security-as-a-service provider, today announced it has been
positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2013 Magic
Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving.1 The new report provides a
detailed overview of the Enterprise Information Archiving (EIA) market and
evaluates the vendors based on their completeness of vision and ability to
execute.
"We are excited to be placed in the Leaders quadrant by Gartner for the
second consecutive year," said Gary Steele, CEO of Proofpoin... (more)
Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq:VECO) announced its financial results for the
third quarter ended September 30, 2013. Veeco reports its results on a U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) basis, and also
provides results excluding certain items. Please refer to the attached table
for details of the reconciliation between GAAP operating results and Non-GAAP
operating results. All results presented herein are for Veeco’s
“Continuing Operations.”
GAAP Results ($M except per share data)
Non-GAAP Results ($M except per share data)
Q3 ‘13 Q3 ‘12
... (more)
Cloud Expo Breaking News By Elizabeth White  Cloud computing is transforming the way businesses think about and leverage technology. As a result, the general understanding of cloud computing has come a long way in a short time. However, there are still many misconceptions about what cloud computing is and what it can do for businesses that adopt this game-changing computing model. In this exclusive Q&A; with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan, Rex Wang, Vice President of Product Marketing at Oracle, discusses and dispels some of the ... Nov. 7, 2013 06:45 PM EST Reads: 864 | By Elizabeth White  The move to the cloud brings a number of new security challenges, but the application remains your last line of defense. Developers are extremely well-poised to perform tasks critical for securing the application – provided that certain key obstacles are overcome.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Wayne Ariola, Chief Strategy Officer at Parasoft, will explore three ways to help development bear the burden of security that the cloud places on them:
Use penetration testing r... Nov. 6, 2013 05:30 AM EST Reads: 2,485 | By Pat Romanski  For half a century, the trajectory of computing has followed a "faster, smaller, cheaper" arc. In his Day 3 Lunchtime Keynote at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Tim Park, Director, Platform Strategy at Microsoft and alumnus of Nest Labs, will look at how that trajectory is both accelerating and changing course as computing begins to infuse many of the everyday items in our lives. He will walk through the hard problems you need to think about when deploying devices and services for the Intern... Nov. 5, 2013 03:00 PM EST Reads: 1,821 | By Elizabeth White  A day in the life of the future. In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Lanlogic’s Joe Foos will show how your entire organization can:
Achieve Seamless Communication – voice, video, email and messaging … without playing tag
Enjoy Real Collaboration – meet, work, and share … anytime, anywhere
Enable Unlimited Potential – your cloud will never run out of space, power, or capability
See exactly how the California Strawberry Commission and thousands of other organizations global... Nov. 5, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,562 | By Elizabeth White  Nowadays, a large number of sensors and devices are connected to the Internet. Leading-edge M2M technologies integrate various types of sensor data to create a new value for several business decision scenarios.
The transparent cloud is a model of a new M2M emergence integration service platform in which many service providers store and access various types of sensor data in order to create and find out new business values by integrating such data.
In their session at the 13th International C... Nov. 5, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,703 | By Liz McMillan  Many organizations are realizing the benefits that come with moving data to the cloud, including faster implementation, elasticity and reduced costs. But the path to the cloud isn’t always smooth. Finding the right cloud service provider takes research, and data security is always a primary concern, especially for organizations that are regulated by privacy laws.
In his session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Steve Pate, CTO & Co-Founder of HighCloud Security, will speak to the safest w... Nov. 5, 2013 11:00 AM EST Reads: 1,604 | By Elizabeth White  New developments in cloud technologies have revolutionized the way organizations interact with their customers. Today it is all about consumer experience, consumer insights, consumer behavior, consumer journey. With rich media, the very focus of digital marketing and commerce has shifted from product-centric to consumer centric.
Cloud computing has enabled the global access for consumers across the world – for the right person, at the right time, and the right content. The side effect of this ... Nov. 5, 2013 10:45 AM EST Reads: 1,526 | By Liz McMillan  ProfitBricks, the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) company that completely reengineered the delivery of Cloud Computing, is speaking, sponsoring and exhibiting at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, the 13th International Cloud Expo conference. Pete Johnson, senior director of cloud platform evangelism at ProfitBricks, will discuss the evolution of cloud and the needed flexibility that Cloud Computing 2.0 offers.
ProfitBricks – the IaaS price/performance leader who introduced Cloud Computing 2.0 – of... Nov. 4, 2013 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,896 | By Liz McMillan  Best effort networks aren’t good enough for today’s mission-critical cloud-based applications. To ensure optimal performance, developers and IT managers must have a holistic view and understanding of all the factors impacting performance.
In her session at the 13th International Cloud Expo®, Pascale Vicat-Blanc, founder and CEO of Lyatiss, will explain how Application Defined Networking (ADN) provides this visibility and insight, delivering combined application and network awareness, and perfo... Nov. 4, 2013 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,543 | By Elizabeth White  Lunarline, one of the U.S. government's leading cyber security and privacy providers, announced on Thursday that Spence Witten, Lunarline director of federal sales, will speak about successfully navigating FedRAMP during the Cloud Expo 2013 Silicon Valley (@CloudExpo) in Santa Clara, CA.
With more than 10 years of private and government sales experience, Witten can sell ice to polar bears. But more importantly, he knows a thing or two about FedRAMP – the Federal Risk and Authorization Managemen... Nov. 4, 2013 11:30 AM EST Reads: 1,416 |
Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics  By Jeremy Geelan The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524.
It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing. Reads: 13,105  By Jeremy Geelan "The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud. Reads: 20,939  By Wolfram Jost Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every
industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that
the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating
costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing
will change how we do business.
Reads: 27,728  By Elizabeth White Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT?
Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering?
Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit.
Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2013 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy.
The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 12th Cloud Expo, June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center, New York, NY. Reads: 13,651  By Larry Bettino Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM.
As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value.
Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace. Reads: 13,101  By Elizabeth White Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and health care. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016.
The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to applications, processes, and databases that are pre-defined for that vertical within a public or private cloud. They can extend processes and databases into the business domain, versus defining the data and processes within a generic cloud-based platform.
So, are industry specific clouds right for your business? What options are out there? How do you figure out the ROI? Reads: 11,263  By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company, is featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and is included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world.  By Liz McMillan 10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem.
The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service.
We invite you to enjoy our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week. Reads: 13,983  By Carmen Gonzalez Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend. Reads: 56,710  By Kevin Hartig Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc.
Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years.
Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing.
Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon. Reads: 206,695  By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
For more than 28 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their world. Learn more about Dell's story, purpose and people behind its customer-centric approach. Reads: 6,385  By Liz McMillan One of the most compelling promises of the cloud is that you can pull out a credit card and be working in minutes. No purchase orders to fill out, no equipment to wait for on the loading dock. Just instant access to the resources you need, when you need them. But accessibility comes at a price, and an unintentional consequence may be that you create yet another orphaned identity silo. Enterprise IT has spent years consolidating its mishmash of directories, only to discover that cloud now threatens to turn back their hard-won victories.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Scott Morrison, CTO and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, will look at strategies to incorporate identity into cloud applications. Enterprise identity or social login can both be a part of your go-to-cloud strategy, but you must plan for this upfront, rather than try to retrofit identity and access control at a later date. Reads: 6,727 By Roger Strukhoff Cloud Expo, Cloud Expo East, Cloud Expo West, Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cloud Expo Europe, Cloud Expo Tokyo, Cloud Expo Prague, Cloud Expo Hong Kong, Cloud Expo Sao Paolo are trademarks and /or registered trademarks (USPTO serial number 85009040) of Cloud Expo, Inc. Reads: 21,590 |
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Imagine how much you’d use the internet if you had to remember dozens of number combinations to do anything. DNS is arguably the primary technology enabling the Internet – translating the domain names people type into a browser into an IP address so the requested service can be found on the interne...
You probably know from personal experience how tough it can be to change from one service provider to another. Think about the last time you changed your Internet service or gym membership. It was probably a pain, and there’s a reason. Most vendors don’t want you to have a seamless transition from t...
A cloud security take on an old riddle: analyze risks, identify needs, develop priorities, deploy scalable model, and leave room for dessert.
Security is big. It encompasses a great many definitions, confronts a great many issues and is addressed through a great many solutions using a great many fo...
More customers are looking to utilize cloud computing and tightly integrated hardware will be beneficial for such customers.
When I signed up to attend Enterprise 2013, a conference for IBM’s enterprise systems and storage users, I was wondering how much cloud computing information would be shared....
Disclaimer: This post does not endorse or criticize healthcare reform in any way. It is not meant to be political in nature. Rather, it is solely a high-level analysis of the IT issues that affected the release of the healthcare exchange website.
On October 1, healthcare.gov, the healthcare exchang...
There has been a lot of talk about data leaks and data privacy lately, not naming any names. The articles and blog entries on this topic are filled with outrage and spoken with dropped jaws. I have to admit that the only shock I experience on this subject is at how shocked people are. As divisive as...
[This is not really about the Red Sox or pumpkins this Halloween, but how could I not use those in the title? Go Red Sox]
I left an awful teaser at the end of my article last week. In Brent Salisbury's original article that triggered some of these additional virtualization thoughts, he articulated ...
While certainly not the likes of having SWAT show up at my house like Krebs or even Honan’s fiasco, we’ve had some ID theft attempts occurring for the past few months…actually my wife has.
It all started innocently enough at a child’s birthday party.
We were invited to a now ex-friend’s house for...
“WebRTC and the Codec War” is the topic of just one session at the upcoming 1st WebRTC Summit, and technology giant Cisco has now given even more oomph to this huge emerging IT trend.
I'll be moderating the two-day Summit, which will be held November 6-7 during the 13th International Cloud Expo nex...
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