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Engineering students worldwide recognised for innovative designs FRANKFURT - 11th April 2012 - Dimension 3D Printing, a brand of Stratasys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSYS), today announced the winners in its eighth annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. The global contest encourages students to submit an innovative product design, a redesign of an existing product, or an original work of art or architecture. Dimension 3D Printing is awarding each of three student winners $2,500 (approx. £1,630) or $1000 (approx. £650) scholarships in the categories of Middle and High School Engineering, College Engineering, and Art & Architecture. A list of winners follows. For full descriptions and supporting artwork of designs, visit www.DimensionPrinting.com/extremeredesign Designs are awarded based on creativity, usefulness, part integrity and aesthetics. Instructors of the three fir... (more)

Omniture Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Financial Results

OREM, UT -- (Marketwire) -- 04/23/09 -- Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider of online business optimization software, today announced results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2009. In the first quarter, Omniture achieved record revenues of $87.2 million, compared to $63.2 million reported for the first quarter of 2008 and $83.0 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2008. This represents 38 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Non-GAAP revenue for the quarter was $87.8 million. The difference between GAAP and non-GAAP revenue reflects the revenue excluded from the GAAP results due to purchase accounting adjustments, which reduce deferred revenue to its fair value. "In the first quarter, our business continued to deliver solid growth hitting the high end of our revenue guidance and showing continued strong demand for our suite of products," ... (more)

USB 3.0 Promoter Group Announces Feature Complete Ancillary USB Specifications

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group today announced that the USB Power Delivery specification and SuperSpeed USB Inter-Chip (SSIC) specification are both on track for completion by the end of Q2 2012. Both specifications are currently at a 0.9 draft completion level, essentially the equivalent of final specifications that implementers can use to start developing products. Prototyping activities to help validate the major technical elements of each specification are well underway and will be completed prior to the final release of these specifications. The USB power delivery specification will enable increased power delivery via USB cables and connectors, expanding cable bus power capabilities in USB applications. The specification enables higher voltage and current to deliver power up to 100 Watts. It also enables a switchable source of power delivery without changing cable... (more)

Research and Markets: Canon U.S.A., Inc. - Product Pipeline Analysis

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/gv86d9/canon_u_s_a_inc) has announced the addition of GlobalData's new company profile "Canon U.S.A., Inc. - Product Pipeline Analysis" to their offering. Canon U.S.A., Inc., (Canon) is a US based provider of imaging products and solutions. The company offers consumer, business-to-business, and industrial digital imaging solutions. It operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Canon Inc, a global imaging solution giant raking in revenue of 45.6 billion in 2011. The company operates in the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Panama. Canon is headquartered in Lake Success, the US. The consolidation strategy of the company is based on building a strong sales network coupled with market leading products. The company has been able to leverage its expertise in printers and photographic equipment t... (more)

HP Helps Enterprises Enhance Competitive Advantage With Business Analytics Services

PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/15/12 -- HP (NYSE: HPQ) Enterprise Services today announced new Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) analytics services designed to accelerate discovery of growth opportunities, efficiencies and cost savings while supporting improvements in compliance and mitigation of risk. Interpreting and acting on ever-increasing structured and unstructured stores of Big Data is a challenge for enterprises around the globe. Using analytics to make enterprise data relevant, quantifiable and actionable, while delivering it at the right place and right time, enables data-driven decision making that can create a competitive advantage. With the new HP Business Analytics Services, skilled HP BPO professionals analyze structured and unstructured data using proven best practices and methodologies to derive insights, facilitate decisions and define recom... (more)

Nuix Appoints Deborah Baron as Chief Marketing Officer

Nuix, a worldwide provider of information management technologies, today announced it has appointed Deborah Baron to the role of Chief Marketing Officer, based in North America. Baron joins the Nuix management team from her position of Vice President, Legal and Compliance at Autonomy, where she was responsible for advanced information governance and electronic discovery. “We are very pleased to have an executive with Deborah’s passion, skill and experience on the team to help us make the most of our unique technology in the information governance, eDiscovery and investigative markets,” said Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix. Baron’s appointment continues a run of new hires and investments the fast growing, highly profitable Nuix has made over the past 15 months to gear up for its information governance future. “Deborah’s experience at two very successful, fast-growing busi... (more)

Virident Welcomes Former Brocade CEO Michael Klayko to Its Board of Directors

MILPITAS, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/15/13 -- Virident Systems Inc., the performance leader in flash-based storage-class memory (SCM) solutions, today announced that Michael Klayko, former Brocade CEO and current CEO of MKA Capital LLC, has joined the company's board of directors. Klayko brings more than 30 years of strategic management and technology industry experience to Virident's board. "Virident has a tremendous market opportunity as flash storage becomes more pervasive in the datacenter," said Klayko. "The company is capitalizing on this and has assembled an impressive management team and group of strategic investors. I believe their technology approach of implementing flash storage on the server-side is disruptive and will go far in winning new customers. I look forward to being part of the team that will take them to the next level." Prior to joining MKA C... (more)

Research and Markets: Data Center Market in Latin America 2012-2016

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/hzxfkr/data_center) has announced the addition of the "Data Center Market in Latin America 2012-2016" report to their offering. The analysts forecast the Data Center market in Latin America to grow at a CAGR of 10.53 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing centralization of data centers. The Data Center market in Latin America has also been witnessing the increasing adoption of cloud computing. However, the increasing investment cost due to high real estate prices could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. The report has been prepared based on an in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. The report focuses on Latin America; it also covers the Data Center market landscape and its growth prospects in the ... (more)

Research and Markets: 2013 Report on the International Application Delivery Network (ADN) Market - Global Forecasts & Analysis to 2018

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/mkfb6q/application) has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the International Application Delivery Network (ADN) Market - Global Forecasts & Analysis to 2018" report to their offering. ADN classifies and prioritizes the business applications, content, and users in real-time, accelerates the applications across distributed enterprises, and provides security against malicious applications and content. While controlling rising network management costs, ADN can deliver fast, secure, and available applications across the distributed enterprise. In data centers, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) are used to distribute the web traffic to various servers located at distant places. Being placed in between cluster of web servers, it also facilitates load balancing when there is a demand for mix... (more)

Global Big Data Market Report 2013 - Scenario, Trends, Industry Analysis, Size, Share And Forecast to 2018

DUBLIN, Jan. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/g4psvj/big_data_market) has announced the addition of the "Global Big Data Market Report 2013 - Scenario, Trends, Industry Analysis, Size, Share And Forecast to 2018" report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769) The humungous amount of data generated across various sectors is termed as big data. The exponential growth in the quantum of big data is leading to the development of advanced technology and tools that can manage and analyze this data. Hadoop technology is used by Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn and eBay among others to manage and analyze the big data. This study will provide complete insights of the Big Data market and explain about the current trends and factors responsible for driving market growth. The analysis will prove... (more)

PeopleFluent Redefines Talent Management and Transforms Employee Engagement With New Mirror Suite Built Around People Not HR Processes

PeopleFluent®, a leading social human capital management technology company, today announced the launch of the PeopleFluent Mirror Suite, a Talent Engagement Cloud that is built around people and not HR processes. By deeply integrating pervasive video, strategic analytics and collaborative social technologies into its complete suite of Talent Management applications, PeopleFluent redefines employee engagement to address productivity loss and diminished financial results due to an increasingly disengaged workforce. The Mirror Suite, with single sign on, promises to fundamentally reshape Talent Management. “Better business results hinge on employee retention, engagement, collaboration, skills development, knowledge transfer and optimizing the capacity and potential of your people. But, today, people work and thrive differently than they did five years ago. They are i... (more)

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When applications are hosted on servers, they produce immense quantities of logging data. Quality engineers should verify that apps are producing log data that is existent, correct, consumable, and complete. Otherwise, apps in production are not easily monitored, have issues that are difficult to detect, and cannot be corrected quickly. Tom Chavez presents the four steps that quality engineers should include in every test plan for apps that produce log output or other machine data. Learn the steps so your team's apps not only function but also can be monitored and understood from their machine data when running in production.
Jo Peterson is VP of Cloud Services for Clarify360, a boutique sourcing and benchmarking consultancy focused on transforming technology into business advantage. Clarify360 provides custom, end-to-end solutions from a portfolio of more than 170 suppliers globally. As an engineer, Jo sources net new technology footprints, and is an expert at optimizing and benchmarking existing environments focusing on Cloud Enablement and Optimization. She and her team work with clients on Cloud Discovery, Cloud Planning, Cloud Migration, Hybrid IT Architectures ,Cloud Optimization and Cloud Security. Jo is a 25-year veteran in the technology field with tenure at MCI, Intermedia/Digex, Qwest/CenturyLink in pre-sales technical, selling and management roles.
Everyone wants the rainbow - reduced IT costs, scalability, continuity, flexibility, manageability, and innovation. But in order to get to that collaboration rainbow, you need the cloud! In this presentation, we'll cover three areas: First - the rainbow of benefits from cloud collaboration. There are many different reasons why more and more companies and institutions are moving to the cloud. Benefits include: cost savings (reducing on-prem infrastructure, reducing data center foot print, reducing IT support costs), enabling growth (ensuring a highly available, highly scalable infrastructure), increasing employee access & engagement (by having collaboration tools that are usable and available globally regardless of location there will be an increased connectedness amongst teams and individuals that will help increase both efficiency and productivity.)
Digital Transformation is well underway with many applications already on the cloud utilizing agile and devops methodologies. Unfortunately, application security has been an afterthought and data breaches have become a daily occurrence. Security is not one individual or one's team responsibility. Raphael Reich will introduce you to DevSecOps concepts and outline how to seamlessly interweave security principles across your software development lifecycle and application lifecycle management. With these new automated application security methodologies, organizations will be able to minimize their risk with digital transformation & migration to the cloud, comply to new regulations, and prevent data breaches from ever happening.
Excitement and interest in APIs has skyrocketed in recent years. However, if you ask a room full of IT professionals "What is an API", you will get a wide array of answers. There exists a wide knowledge gap between API experts and those that have a general idea of what they are, but are unsure of what they have been for in the past, what they look like now, and how they can be used to expand your business in the future. In this session John will cover what the history of APIs, what an API looks like now, how APIs are used today, and why they are important to your entire organization and digital transformation. John will also cover how you can use APIs to lead your digital transformation and uncover new business opportunities within your organization.