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Rackspace®, the open cloud company, today announced it has given almost
quarter of a million pounds worth of cloud hosting services and support for
free to 300 members of the Rackspace Startups Programme since it started in
the UK six months ago. This is in addition to many other benefits members
have received, such as mentoring, expert technical advice and access to
networking events. All of these benefits are helping power new UK businesses
to succeed, and are provided by Rackspace through over 50 partners, including
premier incubators, accelerators, associations and investors.
Jeff Cotten, MD Rackspace International, said: “It’s been incredibly
satisfying to watch the UK Startup Programme ramp up as more and more
entrepreneurs take advantage of the cloud computing resources and other
benefits on offer. We were a startup once, and know how important support
like ... (more)
ForgeRock, the fastest growing identity platform vendor, achieved exponential
sales growth in Europe and North America last year, capitalizing on the shift
toward customer-focused, revenue-generating security solutions and the
explosion of mobile platforms and Internet-accessible devices and things. As
the leading open platform provider of identity relationship management (IRM)
solutions, ForgeRock Inc. is enabling enterprises, cloud service providers,
and governments to quickly deploy new customer-facing services via a secure
and lightweight identity management system designed to work anywhere,
anytime, on any device.
“As consumers rapidly adopt cloud services and mobile devices, demand is
growing for an identity solution that manages users at Internet scale, makes
context-aware decisions in real-time, supports any device and application
environment, and monetizes... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/06/14 -- adjust, the world's most
sophisticated mobile app tracking and analytics platform, today announced the
release of a wide range of new features in its flagship product that includes
key new features such as deeplinks with app store fallback, cohort analysis,
and re-attribution measurement for re-engagement campaigns. All of these
features also feed into adjust's rich business intelligence and analytics
engine to empower mobile app publishers to more efficiently convert marketing
dollars into real revenues and profits.
Powered by adjust's industry-leading open source "no surprises" SDK, adjust
finally provides mobile marketers all the information they require to perform
true closed-loop marketing and revenue generation analysis. adjust's new
retargeting features include:
granular tracking of reattribution of users to r... (more)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/11/14 -- GoGrid, the leader in Open
Data Services (ODS), today announced its first wave of partnerships with key
Big Data technology providers -- Basho, DataStax, and MongoDB. Through these
partnerships, GoGrid advances the ODS ecosystem by providing customers with
the fastest and easiest way to evaluate and run their applications in the
only cloud purpose-built for Big Data. With GoGrid and its partners,
customers now have a frictionless path featuring a 1-Button Deploy
orchestration process powered by Ansible that simplifies evaluation and
deployment of the best Big Data technologies to meet their specific needs.
Initial ODS 1-Button Deploy offerings include versions for MongoDB, Basho's
Riak, and Cassandra Big Data solutions, with 1-Button Deploy of
Hortonworks' Hadoop scheduled to go live in March.
Unlike a platform-a... (more)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/12/14 -- Zettaset, the leader in
secure Big Data management, announced today that the United States Patent and
Trademark Office has granted the company a new patent for "split brain
resistant fail-over in high availability Hadoop clusters"; patent number
8,595,546; issued on November 26, 2013.
Zettaset's newly patented technology provides a future-proof approach to
high-availability and ensures that automatic failover is applied to all
services running in a Hadoop cluster, as well as any new Hadoop services that
may be introduced in the future. Zettaset's high-availability technology has
been included as a core component of the Orchestrator enterprise software
suite for Hadoop management and security since its initial release over two
years ago.
Open source distributions limit high-availability to a small sub-set of
Hadoop ... (more)
LAKE ELSINORE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/12/14 -- IDS Industries, Inc.
(OTCQB: IDST) announced today that the national organization, Americans for
Safe Access® (ASA), has endorsed the Marijuana Control, Legalization and
Revenue Act 2014 (MCLR 2014) proclaiming the campaign as its major project
for this year. ASA is dedicated to building their local chapters and
supporting those chapters' efforts to defeat unfair community restrictions
and ordinances.
"We believe that MCLR 2014 is the finest initiative we have seen to be either
proposed or approved throughout the 50 states. MCLR 2014 is a grass roots,
"open source" developed measure legalizing marijuana and featuring several
key components. This is why MCLR 2014 is the single best measure ever been
written and our organization supports MCLR 2014 wholeheartedly," said Jason
Browne, National Director and Treasurer for... (more)
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/xbn755/global_human) has
announced the addition of the "Global Human Machine Interface (HMI) Market
2014-2018" report to their offering.
The Global Human Machine Interface (HMI) market is expected to grow at a CAGR
of 9.98 percent over the period 2013-2018. Commenting on the report, an
analyst from the researchers' team said: HMI vendors are continually
developing their technology to survive in the competitive business
environment in which they operate. They have started developing proactive HMI
systems that act as diagnostic tools and help implement preventive measures
in manufacturing plants. With the help of these proactive HMI systems,
end-users can locate and control production-related problems. In addition,
these HMI systems have video capabilities.
According to the report, the growth in indust... (more)
Jericho Systems Corporation, a pioneer in externalized attribute based access
control software for enterprise environments, announced release of a new
white paper: “Key Decision Points for Using Open Source Software in Access
Control Solutions.”
Prepared by Jericho Systems cybersecurity expert Tim Schmoyer, CISSP, the
white paper examines open source concepts as they relate to enterprise-scale
access control solutions. The 14-page white paper considers open source in
the context of supply chain risk management (SCRM), information assurance
(IA) products, software development lifecycle management (SDLC), attribute
based access control (ABAC), industry standards, and other relevant topics.
Four key decision points are detailed, including the implications of software
and component provenance, testing and accreditation, life cycle processes,
and factors that affect tot... (more)
SUNNYVALE, California and AHMEDABAD, India, February 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
eInfochips today launched its MagNet initiative designed to attract
developers who are building ecommerce portals based on the industry leading
Magento platform. Under the MagNet initiative, eInfochips will contribute
Extensions to the Magento Community for advanced online store functionality.
For developers who use the extensions, expert eInfochips software engineers
are available to fast-track integration of the extensions, or for other
ecommerce software engineering. eInfochips is kicking off the MagNet
initiative by contributing the 'Deal 4 U' and 'Deal 4 U Categories'
extensions to the Magento community. The extensions are designed to help
retailers increase conversion rates for deal seekers.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131029/648699)
"MagNet is a win-win for ecomme... (more)
SUNNYVALE, California and AHMEDABAD, India, February 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
eInfochips today launched its MagNet initiative designed to attract
developers who are building ecommerce portals based on the industry leading
Magento platform. Under the MagNet initiative, eInfochips will contribute
Extensions to the Magento Community for advanced online store functionality.
For developers who use the extensions, expert eInfochips software engineers
are available to fast-track integration of the extensions, or for other
ecommerce software engineering. eInfochips is kicking off the MagNet
initiative by contributing the 'Deal 4 U' and 'Deal 4 U Categories'
extensions to the Magento community. The extensions are designed to help
retailers increase conversion rates for deal seekers.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20131029/648699)
"MagNet is a win-win for ecomme... (more)
Actuate Corporation (NASDAQ:BIRT), The BIRT Company™ and the leader in
personalized analytics and insights, today announced a series of four
complimentary Customer Analytics seminars focusing on developing
customer-centric strategies with BIRT Analytics™, Actuate’s self-service
advanced analytics software for business analysts. Organizations can create
additional competitive advantage by analyzing information from numerous Big
Data sources to uncover new ways to engage with customers and produce
increased revenue streams. More specifically, attendees will learn how to:
Leverage market segmentation and predictive analytics to drive the right
customer-focused strategies Visually mine, segment and model data from
multiple sources Use predictive analytics to improve customer engagement by
uncovering more value from Big Data Use BIRT Analytics to resolve
customer-centri... (more)
CloudEXPO Stories By Yeshim Deniz  Isomorphic Software is the global leader in high-end, web-based business applications. We develop, market, and support the SmartClient & Smart GWT HTML5/Ajax platform, combining the productivity and performance of traditional desktop software with the simplicity and reach of the open web.
With staff in 10 timezones, Isomorphic provides a global network of services related to our technology, with offerings ranging from turnkey application development to SLA-backed enterprise support.
Leading global enterprises use Isomorphic technology to reduce costs and improve productivity, developing & deploying sophisticated business applications with unprecedented ease and simplicity. Nov. 15, 2018 10:45 AM EST | By Elizabeth White  While a hybrid cloud can ease that transition, designing and deploy that hybrid cloud still offers challenges for organizations concerned about lack of available cloud skillsets within their organization. Managed service providers offer a unique opportunity to fill those gaps and get organizations of all sizes on a hybrid cloud that meets their comfort level, while delivering enhanced benefits for cost, efficiency, agility, mobility, and elasticity. Nov. 14, 2018 12:45 PM EST | By Zakia Bouachraoui  DevOps has long focused on reinventing the SDLC (e.g. with CI/CD, ARA, pipeline automation etc.), while reinvention of IT Ops has lagged. However, new approaches like Site Reliability Engineering, Observability, Containerization, Operations Analytics, and ML/AI are driving a resurgence of IT Ops. In this session our expert panel will focus on how these new ideas are [putting the Ops back in DevOps orbringing modern IT Ops to DevOps]. Nov. 12, 2018 12:00 PM EST | By Yeshim Deniz  Darktrace is the world's leading AI company for cyber security. Created by mathematicians from the University of Cambridge, Darktrace's Enterprise Immune System is the first non-consumer application of machine learning to work at scale, across all network types, from physical, virtualized, and cloud, through to IoT and industrial control systems. Installed as a self-configuring cyber defense platform, Darktrace continuously learns what is ‘normal' for all devices and users, updating its understanding as the environment changes. Nov. 12, 2018 09:00 AM EST | By Pat Romanski  Enterprises are striving to become digital businesses for differentiated innovation and customer-centricity. Traditionally, they focused on digitizing processes and paper workflow. To be a disruptor and compete against new players, they need to gain insight into business data and innovate at scale. Cloud and cognitive technologies can help them leverage hidden data in SAP/ERP systems to fuel their businesses to accelerate digital transformation success. Nov. 12, 2018 01:45 AM EST |
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Concerns about security, downtime and latency, budgets, and general unfamiliarity with cloud technologies continue to create hesitation for many organizations that truly need to be developing a cloud strategy. Hybrid cloud solutions are helping to elevate those concerns by enabling the combination or orchestration of two or more platforms, including on-premise infrastructure, private clouds and/or third-party, public cloud services. This gives organizations more comfort to begin their digital transformation without a complete overhaul of their existing infrastructure - serving as a sort of "mi...
Dion Hinchcliffe is an internationally recognized digital expert, bestselling book author, frequent keynote speaker, analyst, futurist, and transformation expert based in Washington, DC. He is currently Chief Strategy Officer at the industry-leading digital strategy and online community solutions firm, 7Summits.
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