Traverse Seamlessly from Edge to Core to Cloud Register for this session ▸ Here Every organization is facing their own Digital Transformation as they attempt to stay ahead of the competition, or worse, just keep up. Each new opportunity, whether embracing machine learning, IoT, or a cloud migration, seems to bring new development, deployment, and management models. The results are more diverse and federated computing models than any time in our history.  Unfortunately, there is no single deployment model that solves all of your business goals. You need to maintain the flexibility to deploy in your data center, to multi-clouds, or push to the edge to meet business specific cost, agility or application requirements.  During this session, Brent Schroeder will discuss the evolving open source ecosystem focused on enabling and managing these diverse approaches. With an ... (more)

Panaya Secures $5 Million in Series B Funding

Panaya, a leading provider of SaaS (software as a service) for automating SAP upgrades, announced that is has secured $5 Million in Series B funding, led by Tamares with the participation of Benchmark Capital, which led the first investment round. Panaya provides SaaS that enables SAP users to save up to 50% of their application lifecycle costs by automating maintenance projects such as SAP upgrades, consolidations, support packages, and enhancement packages. Determining the precise impact of such changes on an ERP system is an enormously complex task involving billions of calculations. Panaya is the first company that has harnessed cloud-computing to bring the power of a virtual supercomputer simulation to SAP customers, in a way that they can easily tap through the web. Panaya automatically identifies the errors that will occur as a result of an upgrade, suggest... (more)

INX and AFORE Partner to Enable Elastic Clouds

INX Selects AFORE As Part of Extend2Cloud Solution Architecture OTTAWA, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - INX, a leading provider of data center architecture and unified communications solutions, and AFORE Solutions, a provider of long distance virtualization and networking technology solutions, today announced a technology partnership utilizing AFORE's Advanced Service Edge 3300 (ASE3300) platform as a key component for the implementation of the INX Extend2Cloud strategy. Extend2Cloud (E2C) is a solution architecture that enables geographically dispersed data-center infrastructures to be joined as one logical infrastructure - creating a Unified Data Center (UDC). UDC distributes the data-center resources across diverse locations so that the resources can be shared between data centers increasing the level of support to mission critical applications and by default c... (more)

Cisco, Juniper and sFlow Traffic Analysis Tools Launched by PacketTrap

PacketTrap Networks (www.PacketTrap.com), a leading provider of network management and monitoring solutions for businesses and Managed Service Providers (MSP), today announced the availability of traffic analysis tools for Cisco NetFlow ®, Juniper J-Flow® and other sFlow® enabled devices. The new offering, Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA), is highly convenient for monitoring high speed switched networks. It gives complete visibility into the use of networks, enabling MSPs to manage performance optimization, accounting/billing for usage, and defense against security threats. “Organizations rely heavily on their networks for business critical applications and the smallest change in network usage can impact network performance and reliability,” said Matt Bolton, VP Products at PacketTrap Networks. “Our new addition to PacketTrapMSP gives MSPs unprecedented visibility in... (more)

3Leaf Systems Executes on Ground-Breaking Strategy to Enable the Dynamic Data Center

3Leaf Systems today marked a significant milestone as it announced a disruptive set of technologies that enable the Dynamic Data Center. The company launched the x86-based Dynamic Data Center™ - Server for the AMD Opteron family of processors (see announcement) and outlined plans for supporting the Intel QPI 1.1 interconnect beginning with the Sandy Bridge processors. With an innovative product portfolio, world-class partners, and strong financial backing, 3Leaf Systems is helping original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and enterprises to exploit industry standards in brand new markets and make data center infrastructures more agile and scalable while dramatically reducing both capital and operational costs. “Using high-volume components to build high-value systems, 3Leaf Systems offers a brand new capability for CIOs to do much more with much less,” said B.V. Jaga... (more)

Akorri Adds GreenPages Technology Solutions as a Premier PartnerPoint Authorized Reseller

LITTLETON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/16/09 -- Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced today that national IT consulting and integration company, GreenPages Technology Solutions, has become a premier partner and authorized reseller within Akorri's PartnerPoint program. Under the agreement, GreenPages now offers Akorri's BalancePoint software to its customers to provide data center performance analysis and optimization across both virtual and physical, server and storage infrastructure. GreenPages helps organizations assess, design, implement, and manage adaptive, resilient IT infrastructures that are aligned with their clients' strategic business objectives. GreenPages' customers can now purchase BalancePoint agentless software to help troubleshoot problems, optimize performance and... (more)

Bull confirme sa résilience et conforte sa nouvelle dimension avec l’acquisition d’Amesys

Regulatory News: Bull (Paris: BULL), expert des systèmes d'information ouverts, flexibles et sécurisés, l'un des premiers acteurs informatiques européens, annonce ses résultats pour l’exercice 2009 suite au conseil d’administration d'arrêté des comptes consolidés de l’exercice clos au 31 décembre 2009. Chiffres clé 20092 Chiffre d’affaires activités cœur : 1 033 millions d’euros (+0,3% et +1,3% à taux de change constants) Chiffre d’affaires consolidé : 1 110 millions d’euros (-2% et -0,9% à taux de change constants) EBIT (voir glossaire) : 27,6 millions d’euros (soit 2,5% du chiffre d’affaires) Résultat net (part du groupe) : 1,4 million d’euros Points clé de l’année 20092 Les prises de commandes sont en croissance de 2,7 % ; toutes les offres cœur affichent des prises de commandes en hausse Le chiffre d’affaires consolidé s’élève à 1 110 millions d’euros. Corrigé d... (more)

Forrester: 2010 Software Spending Devoted To Existing Systems More Than Emerging Technologies

More than half of IT software budgets in 2010 will go toward ongoing operations and maintenance of existing applications as opposed to implementing new software solutions, according to a recent survey by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). The survey of nearly 2,200 IT executives and technology decision-makers at enterprise and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) in North America and Europe is part of Forrester’s Business Data Services (BDS) series, which helps Vendor Strategy professionals profile their target market’s budget allocation and technology adoption. According to Forrester’s Enterprise And SMB Software Survey, North America And Europe, Q4 2009, the poor economic environment created a backlog of business application software upgrade activities for firms, and many plan to address the issue this year. Forty-one percent of enterprises and 21 percen... (more)

Smart Online, Inc. Names Bob Dieterle as New Senior Vice President and General Manager

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Smart Online, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOLN) (www.smartonline.com), a specialist in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications for small business through its OneBiz® brand (www.onebiz.com) and for nonprofits through its Loyalty Clicks brand(TM) (www.loyaltyclicks.com), is pleased to announce the addition of Bob Dieterle to its senior management team as Senior Vice President and General Manager. "I am thrilled to have Bob join Smart Online's highly skilled team of software professionals in a senior leadership capacity. Bob's in-depth knowledge, understanding and expertise of our industry will no doubt make a significant contribution to the rapid evolution and expansion of our product line for the benefit of all our existing and future customers," said Dror Zoreff, CEO of Smart Online. "In addition, ... (more)

Unrabble Launches Free Version of Innovative Profile-Based Recruiting Solution

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL -- (Marketwire) -- 02/02/12 -- Unrabble™ (www.unrabble.com), a cloud-computing startup that simplifies and redefines the process of hiring new employees, today announced that it has released a new free version. With the software's most recent update, companies, startups and individuals will be allowed to create a job opening and use Unrabble's robust candidate evaluation tools without paying a subscription fee. "Unrabble is the first solution of its kind to put hiring in the hands of the decision maker and unchain hiring from the traditional paper resume," said Kevin Watson, CEO and co-founder of Unrabble. "By offering a version of our software for free, we're giving busy managers the ability to complete an entire hiring cycle using our solution. We believe that once you use Unrabble's profile-based approach, you won't go back to accepting paper ... (more)

ADTRAN’s NetVanta UC Wins 2011 Unified Communications Product of the Year

ADTRAN®, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking solutions, today announced that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named the NetVanta® Unified Communications (UC) Solutions Suite as a recipient of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine’s 2011 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award. The solution suite was recognized for the unique features and benefits that ADTRAN brings to the unified communications market such as granular personalization, interoperability with legacy equipment and the ability to be deployed in virtual environments. This extended capability allows users to deliver UC functionality in a public or private cloud, and therefore enable a broader variety of business and deployment scenarios for creating new business opportunities and increasing recurring revenue streams. The NetVanta UC suite offers purpose-built solu... (more)