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I've been struggling for sometime now on coming up with a good company and product name. I've got a database development tool that is currently named CrazySQuirreL. It can be downloaded at iCrazySQL.com. I'm currently adding support for Oracle database connections. After I do this I would like to market and sell the product. My question to you is, would you buy a product called CrazySQuirreL from a company called iCrazySQL? One thing's for sure, coming up with a good name for anything is very difficult. It seems that everything is taken. If the company or product name is not taken, the URL is. Normally it's a squater that has the URL. I've visited a lot of name generating websites over the last few weeks. You normally get something unique from them but often what you get is something that doesn't make any sense. If I can't easily spell it, I don't think I want it. I... (more)

In 2014 Big Data Investments Will Account for Nearly $30 Billion - Eventually Accounting for $76 Billion by 2020 End

DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. Wi-Fi Deal in Japan Valued at $160 Million Featured in On-Demand Webcast

DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 02/18/10 -- China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: CCTR) has released an exclusive on-demand Webcast titled 'China Crescent $160 Million Strategic Project and 2010 Forecast Update Webcast.' The Webcast reviews record-setting first quarter performance to-date and provides an update on the Company's progress toward its $100 million 2010 revenue target. The presentation also includes details on a recently announced $1.6 million purchase order received from a Japanese client as part of an overall $160 million letter of intent commitment over the next three years. A link to the Webcast is now available under Recent Webcasts on the China Crescent corporate website at www.chinacrescent.com/. Sign Up to Receive Regular China Crescent Investor Updates China Crescent sends regular email updates to its opt-in, permission-based email database. I... (more)

Zanett Healthcare to Sponsor CIO Healthcare Summit; New Software Package Successes to be Demonstrated

NEW YORK, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Zanett Healthcare is pleased to announce that it will sponsor the CIO Healthcare Summit, a leading gathering for CIOs, analysts and industry-thought leaders within healthcare information technology. The CIO Healthcare Summit will be held at the InterContinental Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona on May 9-12, 2010. In addition to sponsoring the event, Zanett Healthcare will also present a CIO thought-leadership session on Monday, May 10 at 9:00-9:30 a.m. Entitled "Building a Physician Bridge to CPOE and 'Meaningful Use' utilizing Microsoft Technologies and Frameworks" and presented by Dr. Alan Snell, CMIO, St. Vincent Health, this session will share the story of how Zanett utilized technologies to build the Clinical Online Delivery System (CODS) software solution for St. Vincent Health. CODS was developed for hospitals who... (more)

China Crescent (CCTR) Anticipated Year-to-Year Revenue and Net Income Growth Featured in Webcast Preview of Upcoming 2009 Financial Report

DALLAS, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 03/25/10 -- China Crescent Enterprises, Inc. (OTCBB: CCTR) today announced an exclusive Webcast featuring a preview of the Company's upcoming 2009 annual financial report has been released and is now available for review. China Crescent reported record net income of $1.8 million through the first three quarters of 2009 and subsequently announced two major contracts in the fourth quarter. The Greenfield Partnership Program on-demand Webcast released today discusses the anticipated fourth quarter sales results and its contribution to an overall revenue and net income increase for 2009 compared to 2008. The Webcast is available at http://www.newmarkettechnology.com/wcgf_20100335.htm. Sign Up to Receive Regular China Crescent Investor Updates China Crescent sends regular email updates to its opt-in, permission-based email database. Interest... (more)

Director of Public Sector Initiatives for Cast Iron Systems to Present on Cloud Security at SIIA/INPUT SaaS/Gov Conference

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/29/10 -- Cast Iron Systems, the #1 Cloud Integration Company, today announced that Craig Perrin, the company's director of public sector initiatives and a member of the SIIA Government Technology Committee, was selected to participate on the Cloud Security panel at SIIA/INPUT SaaS/Gov 2010, in Washington, DC. Perrin's session will be held on Monday, April 5th from 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm. The panel will focus on how governments can benefit from cloud computing services without putting their organizations at risk. "Safely connecting with the labyrinth of legacy applications is the main hurdle government cloud users need to overcome," said Perrin. "While the issues are at times complex, Cast Iron Systems has an extensive track record of solving these issues in a rapid, and most importantly, low risk way. I'm pleased to be able to sh... (more)

Virident and NEC Set Record Oracle Database Performance of 1.2 Million IOPS

MILPITAS, CA and IRVING, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 02/08/12 -- Virident, Inc., a performance leader in flash-based Storage Class Memory (SCM) solutions, and NEC Corporation of America (NEC) today announced they have achieved unrivaled performance for Oracle applications. The integrated solution from Virident and NEC delivers 1.2 Million random input/output operations per second (IOPS) and a bandwidth of 9.4 GB/s in real-world Oracle 8k block-size workloads with just eight 1.4TB FlashMAX™ SCM devices deployed on a single Intel® Xeon® family based 80-core NEC Express5800/A1080a "GX" server. The solution packs 11TB of flash storage and delivers per server performance that is at least twice the level of the competing solutions. Evaluation by ESG Labs has revealed the Virident/NEC solution delivers unmatched performance in terms of transactions per second and improved infras... (more)

James A. Barber Recognized by Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Publication

SYOSSET, N.Y., March 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  Mr. James A. Barber of Woodstock, Georgia, has been included in the Strathmore's Who's Who Worldwide Edition for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of information technology consulting. ABOUT JAMES A. BARBER Mr. James A. Barber is a partner at ERP-Professionals.  This international IT Consulting Firm provides solutions for high-level ERP, CRM, and BI recruiting and networking, as well as provides access to thousands of highly qualified and manually screened Oracle®, JD Edwards® and PeopleSoft® professionals.  As owner of the company, Mr. Barber oversees all operations and specializes in project direction.  He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia.  In his spare time, Mr. Barber enjoys playing golf.     ABOUT STRATHMORE'S WHO'S WHO WORLDWIDE Strathmore's... (more)

Research and Markets: Global Language Translation Software Report 2013-2018 - Markets to Reach $123.1 Billion by 2019

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/llj748/language) has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research, Inc's new report "Language Translation Software: Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2013-2018" to their offering. Language Translation Software: Markets Reach $123.1 Billion By 2019 The "Language Translation Software" study has 437 pages, 122 tables and figures. Worldwide markets are poised to achieve continuing growth as the language translation software systems are put in place to support mobile end point information collections that are localized. Language translation software market driving forces are related to the Internet usefulness to people in every locality. Smart phones are the latest market driver for software language translation. Every enterprise has to make its web sites user friendly in every localit... (more)

Frost & Sullivan: Scalability and an Omni-Channel Experience Precipitates Interest in Hosted Solutions

-- On-premise offerings cede ground to the cloud, as hosted services grow at more than twice the pace of the contact center market overall MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Dec. 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To keep up with consumer expectations, customer care organizations are engaging with clients on multiple channels of interaction, and improving the customer experience by applying cross channel analytics.  This allows companies to glean data from all touch-points to better understand and improve the customer journey. Indeed, we are moving to an omni-channel experience where a customer's experience across touch-points is seamless. This is where cloud comes in, by ensuring the transition to omni-channel solutions are seamlessly integrated and customized to meet unique organizational needs, while being built into existing applications.  In fact, third-party applications from p... (more)

OneFold: Ex-Oracle and Intuit Execs Raise Seed Funding to Tackle Mobile and Wearable Big Data Analytics Using Cloud-Based DHQL Technology

MENLO PARK, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/04/14 -- Peter Relan, ex-Oracle executive and founder of Studio 9+ accelerator today announced that OneFold has completed its seed round of $400,000 in funding from Studio 9+ and a pool of angel investors. Majority of the angel investment came from the Studio 9+ Syndicate on AngelList. OneFold, a mobile and wearable data focused analytics and visualization platform expects to use the seed funding to build out its product. Cloud-Based DHQL Platform OneFold is focused on analyzing data generated by mobile usage and wearables. OneFold uses a new architecture based on its proprietary cloud-based "DHQL" platform. It leverages recent inflections in the price of storage and massively parallel cloud computing to deliver deep analytical insights to organizations publishing mobile, mWeb, and wearable apps. The DHQL platform is a complete... (more)

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Founded in 2000, Chetu Inc. is a global provider of customized software development solutions and IT staff augmentation services for software technology providers. By providing clients with unparalleled niche technology expertise and industry experience, Chetu has become the premiere long-term, back-end software development partner for start-ups, SMBs, and Fortune 500 companies. Chetu is headquartered in Plantation, Florida, with thirteen offices throughout the U.S. and abroad.
SYS-CON Events announced today that DatacenterDynamics has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. DatacenterDynamics is a brand of DCD Group, a global B2B media and publishing company that develops products to help senior professionals in the world's most ICT dependent organizations make risk-based infrastructure and capacity decisions.
We are seeing a major migration of enterprises applications to the cloud. As cloud and business use of real time applications accelerate, legacy networks are no longer able to architecturally support cloud adoption and deliver the performance and security required by highly distributed enterprises. These outdated solutions have become more costly and complicated to implement, install, manage, and maintain.SD-WAN offers unlimited capabilities for accessing the benefits of the cloud and Internet. ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that Silicon India has been named “Media Sponsor” of SYS-CON's 21st International Cloud Expo, which will take place on Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Published in Silicon Valley, Silicon India magazine is the premiere platform for CIOs to discuss their innovative enterprise solutions and allows IT vendors to learn about new solutions that can help grow their business.
René Bostic is the Technical VP of the IBM Cloud Unit in North America. Enjoying her career with IBM during the modern millennial technological era, she is an expert in cloud computing, DevOps and emerging cloud technologies such as Blockchain. Her strengths and core competencies include a proven record of accomplishments in consensus building at all levels to assess, plan, and implement enterprise and cloud computing solutions. René is a member of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and a m...
Nicolas Fierro is CEO of MIMIR Blockchain Solutions. He is a programmer, technologist, and operations dev who has worked with Ethereum and blockchain since 2014. His knowledge in blockchain dates to when he performed dev ops services to the Ethereum Foundation as one the privileged few developers to work with the original core team in Switzerland.
Business professionals no longer wonder if they'll migrate to the cloud; it's now a matter of when. The cloud environment has proved to be a major force in transitioning to an agile business model that enables quick decisions and fast implementation that solidify customer relationships. And when the cloud is combined with the power of cognitive computing, it drives innovation and transformation that achieves astounding competitive advantage.
DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City and will bring together Cloud Computing, FinTech and Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, AI, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location.
@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo, taking place November 12-13 in New York City, NY, is co-located with 22nd international CloudEXPO | first international DXWorldEXPO and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time t...
When talking IoT we often focus on the devices, the sensors, the hardware itself. The new smart appliances, the new smart or self-driving cars (which are amalgamations of many ‘things'). When we are looking at the world of IoT, we should take a step back, look at the big picture. What value are these devices providing. IoT is not about the devices, its about the data consumed and generated. The devices are tools, mechanisms, conduits. This paper discusses the considerations when dealing with the...