
Inmar Hosts 20 Companies for Cloud Camp: The Conversation Is Changing
Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) December 20, 2013
Technology professionals from 20 companies gathered at Inmar on Friday, December 6 for Cloud Camp, a conference at which technology innovators share experiences, challenges and solutions associated with cloud computing. This is the third year that Inmar has served as the area host for this international conference.
The number of companies represented grew significantly this year, indicative of the rising utilization of cloud technology. Businesses across industries are recognizing the scale, flexibility and redundancy cloud-based solutions offer. At the same time, the technology requires all parties to think differently – from developers and architects to strategists. Cloud Camp provides a forum for such discussions.
The keynote speaker for the event was Michael Sylvia, Director, Advanced Technologies, Office of the CIO, IBM. Sylvia, who is responsible for IBM’s internal technical cloud strategy and the application of cloud computing, presented "Cloud Computing: Enabling Transformation @ IBM." In this talk, Sylvia described the IBM CIO experience with cloud computing, presented lessons learned (including the importance of choosing the right workloads for cloud). Other topics included “Managing vApp Construction,” presented by David Black of NetApp, and “Infrastructure Agility: Building SaaS at the Speed of Business,” which was presented by John Wheeler, a technical architect for Inmar.
“The conversations about Cloud computing are changing,” says Inmar CIO Mark Wright. “Business and technology professionals no longer discuss ‘What is cloud computing and why should I use it?’ rather we are discussing how it can be used to bring fast, flexible solutions to the marketplace.”
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ABOUT INMAR
Inmar is a technology company that operates intelligent commerce networks. Our platforms connect offline and online transactions in real time for leading retailers, manufacturers and trading partners across multiple industries who rely on Inmar to securely manage billions of dollars in transactions. Our Promotions, Supply Chain and Healthcare platforms enable commerce, generate meaningful data and offer growth-minded leaders actionable analytics and execution with real-time visibility. Founded in 1980, Inmar is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with locations throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada.
For more information about Inmar’s products and services, please contact 866.440.6917 or visit http://www.inmar.com.
Wavecrest Computing Today Announced That CyBlock Web Security Solution Is Now Available in the Cloud
Melbourne, FL (PRWEB) December 09, 2013
Wavecrest Computing, the makers of CyBlock, have just announced the availability of a Cloud version of CyBlock. Now companies have access to the most popular and solid Web Security solution in the Cloud.
CyBlock Cloud Web Security is an easy-to-implement solution that benefits organizations of all sizes and quickly safeguards your network. Whether you have branch offices, remote users, or just one location, CyBlock Cloud protects your company and its employees allowing you to take advantage of time and money savings. Enforce your company’s AUP by defining one or more Web-use policies to successfully address Internet abuse, legal liability, workforce productivity, and Web security threats.
“We are very excited to be extending our product line into the Cloud market. Now, new and existing customers who are considering a cloud solution have one less worry. Starting today they can access an industry tested and proven solution with a successful 13 year track record. CyBlock Cloud is a perfect addition to Wavecrest’s line of industry leading Web Security Solutions.” – CEO Dennis McCabe
Wavecrest Computing has been the recognized leader in Web-access security and Web-usage forensics solutions for the last 16 years. Our scalable filtering and forensic reporting analysis products are designed to enable organizations to successfully address Internet abuse, legal liability, workforce productivity, and Web security threats. Wavecrest Computing’s client list includes well-known corporations such as Edward Jones, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Blue Cross Blue Shield, MillerCoors, Rolex, Siemens, and others.
Semiconductor Cloud ERP Specialist Tensoft Signs Deal with Solantro Semiconductor — The Newest Renewable Power Management Company to Adopt Tensoft FSM
San Jose, CA (PRWEB) November 26, 2013
Tensoft, the leading semiconductor Cloud ERP provider, today announced the execution of a formal agreement with Solantro Semiconductor Corp. of Ottawa, Canada. Solantro, a provider of highly integrated semiconductor chipset-based solutions for distributed power conversion, energy storage and grid management applications will use Tensoft’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, featuring Tensoft Fabless Semiconductor Management (FSM), to manage end-to-end semiconductor ERP processes. Benefits include maintenance of disciplined inventory levels, dynamic lead times, bolstered production automation and heightened financial awareness and controls.
Tensoft FSM was built from the ground up to accommodate the semiconductor industry’s unique manufacturing flow using an "inverted bill-of-materials" (iBOM). The iBOM manages the nuances of starting with one wafer and ending with multiple die, chips or modules versus a traditional BOM available in mass market ERP and MRP systems designed to convert multiple raw materials into a single end product. FSM also supports many of the other functions that are critical for fabless semiconductor and integrated circuit manufacturers, such as the ability to consolidate and analyze work-in-progress (WIP), yield and attributes across vendors and over time, and the ability to track lot genealogy, both forwards and backwards.
“We look forward to implementing Tensoft FSM to manage our ERP and supply chain operations,” said Solantro’s COO Lucas Smith. “Tensoft’s track record in the semiconductor industry as well as their success with other renewable energy and power management companies made them an ideal partner for us. In fact, I have worked with Tensoft before and found that their products and services significantly enhanced the productivity of our team and the reliability of our delivery commitments. We look forward to a successful outcome at Solantro as well.”
“Solantro’s unique products, complex manufacturing processes and rapid growth make it a perfect fit for Tensoft FSM,” said Robert Scarborough, Tensoft President and CEO. “The ability to unite disparate departments, manufacturing facilities and systems through a single semiconductor ERP platform will enable them to scale for even greater growth in the future.”
Solantro joins other Tensoft semiconductor-based customers in the renewable energy and power management industries that create solar, storage, power conversion, high performance computing and LED products, including CHiL Semiconductor, Solar Junction, SemiSouth Laboratories and iWatt.
”Smart Silicon” manufacturers rely on Tensoft FSM for:
Industry-specific planning engine, production control, operations execution and distributor management capabilities, such as an “inverted BOM”, outsourced supplier and fulfillment portals and ship-and-debit capabilities, enable Tensoft customers to compete with larger competitors on a more even playing field.
Automated communication between subcontractor and supply chain vendors, providing real-time visibility and control into all production activity through standard reports and dashboards.
Streamlined capabilities at every step of the process from foundry to fulfillment to provide efficiency, visibility, and cost reductions, ensuring that Tensoft FSM customers can build the right materials and deliver them on time.
About Tensoft FSM
Tensoft Fabless Semiconductor Management (FSM) is a web-based application that supports semiconductor and related industry manufacturing processes. Delivered on premise or in the cloud, Tensoft FSM supports the unique production, supply chain and financial needs of semiconductor and high tech businesses, and is designed to smoothly scale with growth and changing business requirements.
About Solantro Semiconductor Corp.
Solantro enables the development of intelligent, distributed renewable power generation and smart grid management by introducing a fundamentally new approach to Grid-Tied Solar PV, Off-Grid/Micro-Grid, Grid-Tied Storage and Smart-Grid architectures. Providing highly-integrated semiconductor chipsets coupled with intelligent and customizable hardware and software reference platforms allows customers to bring to market highly-differentiated products with extremely attractive performance, reliability and economics. For more information about Solantro, go to http://www.solantro.com.
About Tensoft
Tensoft, the leading semiconductor industry Cloud ERP provider supporting emerging growth, mid-tier public companies and divisions of multinational conglomerates, provides business management applications to automate industry-specific lifecycle processes for the semiconductor, technology and software industries. Tensoft's business-ready solutions extend broad, horizontal ERP functionality to complete the most vertically demanding, high-tech needs through critically relevant content, domain expertise, embedded best practices and performance analytics. For over 17 years, technology companies worldwide have relied on Tensoft software and cloud-based services to power and improve operations. Tensoft is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. For more information, go to http://www.tensoft.com or call (888) 450-4030 x406.
Forbes Calls On CabForward to Explain a “Cloud of Opportunity”
Austin, TX (PRWEB) August 01, 2013
Not so long ago, the only businesses with access to world-class software were also the wealthiest ones. Innovation required lots of cash, a luxury not afforded to most startups.
But thanks to open-source software like Ruby on Rails, cloud computing, and knowledgeable guides to help you navigate both, the barrier of entry is almost non-existent.
Lance Vaughn, Founder/CEO of CabForward an Austin-based web and mobile app development company was recently tapped by Forbes.com to explain this evolution. As he describes it, the shift to transparent, collaborative software development and affordable access to powerful computing resources isn't just about getting your ideas on the web. It's about a new environment for innovation, which helps small businesses looking to outmaneuver their competition, as well as the developers providing the custom software that makes it possible.
Maybe its more than code, maybe I want to stand up a company and provide a business service, said Vaughn in George Dearing's feature article ("Competing On The Cloud: Small Businesses Can Thrive with SaaS," Forbes.com, July 22, 2013).
Vaughn is referencing tech startup Code Climate, whose founder Bryan Helmkamp developed algorithms to grade the quality of his carefully crafted code. But once Bryan decided to make these tools available for cloud access, Code Climate was born, and he was able to leverage the cloud to turn his passion into a day job.
But the current development landscape isn't just good news for software creators and small businesses. Increasingly open communication between coders and companies like CabForward gestures toward a new movement of tech education and knowledge sharing. In other words, "Long-gone are the days when software development took place in a black box," says Dearing.
As a result, companies like Amazon are beginning to offer training packages for individuals and businesses alike. Amazon Web Services now hosts self-paced labs in conjunction with cloud platforms, which underscores the mission of companies like CabForward: to make software development a true collaboration between businesses, customers, and developers alike.
"You want to leverage as much code and software thats out there, says Vaughn on Forbes.com. Thanks to an increasingly democratic tech environment, that leverage is now possible for a lot more people.
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To schedule an interview or to receive more information, contact Michael Kennedy at 512-693-4142 ext 1 or michael@cabforward.com. Visit cabforward.com for more information. Follow @CabForward on Twitter.
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Cloud Expo Europe moves to ExCeL London to meet 45% growth in demand
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 16 August 2013
Huge surge in demand from some of the worlds biggest technology companies has led to the UKs Best Trade Show*, Cloud Expo Europe, moving to ExCeL for its 2014 event in February.
Following the success of the 2013 show at Olympia, which attracted more than 6,850 attendees, AWS, Dell, NTT and Outsourcery have already joined the growing list of exhibitors for the 2014 event, which will take place later than usual on the 26th and 27th February.
The expansion to ExCeL provides room for new additions to the Expo, including a Software Defined Networking programme, dedicated Big Data content and a new dedicated programme for developers all designed to attract more decision-makers from enterprises, service providers and the cloud ecosystem.
An impressive range of speakers, headed up by Netflix CTO Adrian Cockroft, will also have the crowds flocking to the event. Confirmed panel speakers include Chris Kemp, CEO of Nebula and former CTO at NASA, Daniel Leabeau, Group CIO at GlaxoSmithKline, as well as cloud computing experts from eBay, PayPal, Vodafone, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Philips and Citibank.
Thomas Standley, Cloud Expo Europe Show Director, said: The move to ExCeL is a really strong and positive move to build on the rapidly growing success of Cloud Expo Europe. Vitally, it means we now have as much room to grow as we need, all on one level and with our Keynote and other content hubs located right at the heart of the show, driving traffic to exhibitors' stands.
To accommodate the move we have also moved the event to the end of February. This will be welcomed by many, as show preparations have previously been disrupted by Christmas and it also allows us to run an even more effective campaign in the two months prior to the event.
The move has also been welcomed by exhibitors, including Omer Wilson, Marketing Director EMEA at Digital Realty, who said: We have seen Cloud Expo Europe grow exponentially over the last couple of years and are excited to follow the show to ExCeL as it prepares to grow its visitor and exhibitor numbers even further as Europes leading technology event.
CloserStill has also announced that the event will take place alongside Data Centre World, the largest data centre event in Western Europe. Data Centre World, which was recently acquired by CloserStill, made the move to ExCeL earlier this year and attracted a record-breaking attendance, up 19 per cent on the previous year, and its biggest ever exhibitor line-up.
Phil Nelson, Director of CloserStill, said: The combination of Cloud Expo Europe and Data Centre World is a compelling prospect. Both events will retain their separate identities, entrances, content and audiences but the two events together, with over 300 exhibitors and more than 10,000 visitors, will instantly be the biggest IT and technology gathering in the UK.
Jonathan Brown, Marketing Director of leading Cloud Expo Europe exhibitor Interoute, also endorsed the co-location with DCW: Relocating Cloud Expo Europe to the ExCeL Centre is a smart move, positioning the event in a world class venue. Running the show alongside Data Centre World should attract many more delegates to the event, boosting the conversations and interactions that have made this such a successful show for us in the past.
*On 21st June Cloud Expo Europe won the exhibition industry's Blue Riband award, the Association of Exhibition Organisers' Best Trade Show accolade for an unprecedented second successive year
Cloud Mobile Communications & VAS Market: Research Reports on Commerce Opportunities Applications & Content Now Available at ReportsnReports.com
Dallas, Texas (PRWEB) July 25, 2013
Cloud computing is one of the hottest segments in information technology today along with mobile and wireless. Today, the number of smartphones in the US exceeds the number of laptops, tablets are enjoying significant growth, and just about every employee has one, two or even three mobile devices. Enterprise IT now has to deal with the additional responsibility of serving customers who use their mobile products to interact with the organization.
Cloud is moving beyond computing and storage and into an entirely new realm of communications, applications, content and applications. Evidence of this evolution ranges from common examples, such as Google Voice for Cloud-based communications, to less common examples such as Cloud-based payments solutions within the mobile commerce arena.
This Beyond Cloud Computing: Mobile Communications, Applications, Content, and Commerce in the Cloud - http://www.reportsnreports.com/reports/265604-beyond-cloud-computing-mobile-communications-applications-content-and-commerce-in-the-cloud.html research evaluates companies, solutions, opportunities, and the future market for Cloud-based communications, applications, content, and commerce. This report is must reading for anyone looking beyond computing alone, back-up/synchronization, and/or hosting for new revenue opportunities in Cloud-based services.
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Cognia Cloud Achieves QSA-validated PCI DSS Compliance on Amazon Web Services
(PRWEB UK) 25 July 2013
Cognia, the provider of cloud communications services for compliance, risk and productivity, announces today that it has achieved QSA-validated (Level 1) PCI DSS compliance for its global platform, Cognia Cloud.
Built on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, Cognia Cloud is a unified solution for the control, capture and analysis of mobile, fixed-line and non-voice communications. Cognias PCI compliant services enable organizations to take voice-based payments, while removing contact center agents and infrastructure from the scope of their own PCI DSS assessment vastly reducing their compliance burden and exposure to risk.
Curtis Nash, Cognias CEO, explains, Cognia is the first provider in the world to achieve QSA-validated compliance with PCI DSS as a Level 1 service provider for a carrier grade, global cloud telephony and payment services platform.
Nash continues, This fundamentally changes the ease and flexibility and reduces the cost, with which organizations can achieve their own PCI DSS compliance.
Because of the exacting nature of the PCI standard, until now, businesses wanting a PCI compliant telephone payment processing service have had a limited range of options which are inherently costly and complex to deploy and maintain. Other providers who claim to have a cloud-based solution often dont have the scalability and durability offered by Cognias application running on the global AWS platform.
Iain Gavin, Director, Amazon Web Services says, We are excited by the news that Cognia has achieved compliance as a QSA-validated (Level 1) PCI DSS service provider, offering a solution running in the AWS cloud. By building on the PCI DSS compliant infrastructure of AWS, Cognia has been freed to concentrate on developing a highly secure, multi-tenanted global service for taking voice-based payments.
The Cognia Cloud scales across all of AWSs regions and availability zones, leveraging the full advantages of elastic computing to support a range of customers from the smallest business to the largest multinational on a single global platform, with a pay-as-you use cost model.
Andrew Dunn, Cognias CTO, comments, Using AWS enabled us to leverage their leadership in running an elastic and scalable global computing platform. However, achieving a fully compliant, multi-tenanted managed service was no small feat. The process involved mapping all parts of the Cognia Cloud against the PCI DSS controls to ensure that these requirements permeated its entire fabric, resulting in a number of security-based patents.
Cognia were validated by security specialist Security Risk Management (SRM). Tom Fairfax, CEO of SRM adds, From the first meeting with Cognia we have been impressed by their technical competence, flexibility of thinking and willingness to embrace the information security discipline. They have consistently demonstrated an unflinching commitment to the security of the platform while ensuring it harnesses the revolutionary potential of cloud computing. In partnership with our assessors they have succeeded in finding innovative solutions to challenging information security issues and ensured that the Cognia offering really can deliver both compliance and business transformation.
About Cognia
Cognia provides global communications services for compliance, risk and productivity. The companys secure global platform, Cognia Cloud, transforms the cost and ease by which organizations can control, capture and analyze voice and non-voice communications across distributed workforces, using any device, for competitive advantage.
Already in use by over one hundred financial institutions and some of the worlds largest mobile network operators, the Companys services are verifiably secure, operate to ISO27001:2005, and are in compliance with PCI DSS as a Level 1 Service Provider
The company has offices in London, New York and Singapore.
DataCore Storage Virtualization Software Delivers 100% Uptime to Support Cloud Computing and Managed Services for iomart hosting
Reading, United Kingdom and Fort Lauderdale, Florida (PRWEB) March 5, 2010
DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that iomart hosting, one of the UK's fastest growing managed services providers, is using DataCore's SANsymphony solution to provide the high-availability backbone for iomart's hosted customers.