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Composite Software and Kapow Techologies Launch Solution Delivering Agile Data Virtualization for Web Content

June 30th, 2010
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Composite Software, Inc., the data virtualization performance leader, and Kapow Technologies, the leading provider of Web data services, today announced a new solution to simplify and accelerate the integration of critical web data in large-scale data virtualization environments. The joint solution is called Composite Application Data Services for Web Content™, and is powered by the Kapow Web Data Server.

Improving real-time business intelligence and strategic decision-making capabilities, the new solution instantly and automatically integrates data from any web-based format, including cloud and business-to-business (B2B) applications and public Web data sources into the Composite Data Virtualization Platform without any coding required. Users can then easily federate this data with other structured or semi-structured data sources such as relational tables, MDX-based warehouses, XML documents, web services, file systems and more, to gain an integrated view of their customers, employees, suppliers, products, markets and more required by today’s fast-paced enterprises.

According to Colin White, president and founder of BI Research, “Web content is becoming a valuable data source for analysis. The combination of Kapow for capturing Web content and Composite for merging the captured content with other types of information is a valuable addition to the data integration toolbox.”

“In addition to building the most advanced data virtualization offerings, we selectively partner with other category leaders to fulfill the complex information needs of today’s sophisticated enterprises,” said Avtandil Garakanidze, SVP of Products at Composite Software. “With hundreds of successful enterprise customer deployments, Kapow Technologies, the leader in Web data services, fits our strategy perfectly, providing a proven solution to meet this fast-growing demand.”

“As web data becomes ever more mission critical, companies can gain significant competitive advantage when they federate this data with their traditional structured and semi-structured sources,” said Stefan Andreasen, CTO of Kapow Technologies. “The combination of Kapow’s Web Data Server and Composite Software’s Data Virtualization Platform will allow our customers to manage this process with much greater ease and agility.”

“Composite Software is on the move, last week announcing the Netezza Data Virtualizer powered by the Composite Information Server™, and last month announcing significant extensions to its Data Virtualization Platform,” said Shawn Rogers, vice president Research Business Intelligence at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “Fast-paced innovation is what enterprises expect from category leaders, and Composite is delivering.”

Available today, Composite Application Data Services for Web Content will be jointly integrated, sold, implemented and supported by Composite Software and Kapow Technologies.

The new offering complements Composite’s existing extensive array of integration sources including relational, MDX, mainframes, file systems, web services, XML and Office documents, message buses and more. Additional Composite Application Data Services products are available from Composite Software to simplify and accelerate integration of SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel and Salesforce.com application sources and MDX warehouse sources including SAP BW and Oracle Essbase. Additional Kapow Technologies solutions are available to eliminate the barriers to accessing and integrating all sources of web data.

Source:http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/press/data-virtualization-web-content,1365972.html

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Waterstons Teams With DataCore Virtualization Software And VMware To Provide A Cloud-Based Hosting Service

June 30th, 2010
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DataCore Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization software, recently announced that Waterstons, a Gold Accredited Partner, has selected DataCore storage virtualization software to provide the infrastructure to power their cloud-based computing service.

Waterstons provides cloud hosting services from a purpose-built Tier 3 data center in the North of England, monitored and managed around-the-clock from their regional operations center in Durham. Andrew Kershaw, Technical Director at Waterstons, explained, “Waterstons has provided specialist hosting and co-location services for a number of years. Recently we’ve seen demand for these services take off and we needed to invest in a scalable and resilient platform to meet demand for growth. The DataCore solution meets our goals for resilience, flexibility, performance and scalability and supports our goal of providing a high-quality and cost-effective service to clients.”

Through this service Waterstons are offering a comprehensive range of options: customers can take a single, virtual machine from Waterstons for only a month, or an entire network of servers – interconnected with one or more private, virtual networks – residing on a highly available infrastructure. Waterstons offers flexible and resilient Internet connectivity options for hosted infrastructure and offers hosting and co-location of physical hardware. Flexibility is paramount – many customers use a combination of offerings, and Waterstons specializes in providing a tailored service to meet customer needs.

Underpinning the service is a pair of DataCore SANsymphony servers on Dell hardware, operating in a synchronously mirrored configuration and thereby avoiding a single point of failure scenario. Waterstons has made a considerable investment in eliminating single points of failure in the infrastructure, which is seen as critical to providing a high-quality service suitable for running hosted line of business applications. Waterstons is currently commissioning a second identical infrastructure in a geographically remote data center in order to provide replicated disaster recovery (DR).

Kershaw went on to explain, “Through our cloud-based service, we are able to offer new and innovative ways of supporting clients and solving their business and technology problems. We can respond to demands extremely quickly and on a very flexible basis, which often is simply not the case with traditional infrastructure.”

One such customer utilizing the service is St Ives, the UK’s leading, independent print and display group. Waterstons will provide a highly available and instantly scalable platform to run St Ives’ critical business-to-business system (known as “DNA”) on a three-year managed services and hosting contract. The challenging infrastructure requirements include high availability (HA), business continuity and the flexibility to scale the environment quickly in response to demand.

Waterstons has met these requirements by implementing a shared hosting platform, using VMware cloud infrastructure hosting solutions coupled with DataCore storage virtualization technology. In an extra phase to follow, the complete platform will be duplicated to a secondary data center 120 miles away, with asynchronous replication used to keep the two systems in sync.

Mudasar Din, St Ives Group IT Director, said, “I have worked closely with Waterstons for over five years and their hands-on, proactive approach has helped cement our valuable strategic partnership. Waterstons was selected for this contract not only because of the open nature of our relationship, but also because of the access we have to their technical staff and consultants. St Ives aims to continually improve the capability of its value-added online solutions. The support of industry-leading partners such as Waterstons is key in St Ives’ overall strategy to provide integrated production and service solutions.”

Keith Joseph, Regional Director at DataCore, commented, “DataCore’s SANsymphony in a dual configuration offers all the HA and resilience that Waterstons’ high-end cloud hosting service requires. Through SANsymphony’s built-in thin-provisioning software, Waterstons’ clients can access storage ‘on-the-fly’ from the VMware server farm. It’s established. It’s secure. It’s flexible. And it brings distinct business benefits. It is cloud computing at its best.”

Source:http://www.datastorageconnection.com/article.mvc/Waterstons-Teams-With-DataCore-Virtualization-0001

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Merchandise, software exporters get 1 year’s time to repatriate proceeds

June 30th, 2010
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The Reserve Bank of India has extended the period for full repatriation of export value of goods or software to India to 12 months from the existing six months from the date of export.

This directive is subject to review after one year, RBI said in a release.

RBI said the decision has been made in consultation with the Government of India and the relaxation period has been extend up to 31 March 2011.

However, the provisions regarding the period of realisation and repatriation to India of the full export value of goods or software exported by a unit situated in a special economic zone (SEZ) as well as exports made to warehouses established outside India remains unchanged, RBI said.

Source:http://www.domain-b.com/economy/trade/20100630_software.html

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Microsoft’s Hotmail might get an update

June 30th, 2010
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Microsoft has seemingly lost faith in its own capabilities by taking a pedestrian attitude to rolling out an updated version of Hotmail.

The popular email service was given a new lick of paint in a bid to keep up with Google’s cloud based Gmail. Mike Schackwitz, a Vole close to the matter said that the firm has shifted less than one per cent of existing Hotmail users over to the new version.
Those looking forward to getting their mitts on new Hotmail features will be disappointed to learn that, according to Schackwitz, “there is no way of predicting exactly when your account will get the new Hotmail.” It certainly seems like Microsoft is on top of the matter, doesn’t it?

Perhaps we’re being a bit too harsh on Microsoft, though. After all Hotmail’s server software does run on hundreds of servers worldwide and has tens of millions of accounts, but it’s hard to see how a software company with enterprise aspirations can seemingly think it is perfectly acceptable to deprecate its software engineering talent by saying that it will make changes after an initial roll-out to improve its “ability to monitor the site or make the rollout itself go more smoothly.” Hey ho, no need to stress with internal testing. If it goes south after all, it’s only paying punters that are affected.

But Schackwitz backed off from his earlier comment about account updates, saying that the roll-out will “take a few weeks to finish”. Suddenly we’ve gone from an inability to predict to just a matter of weeks. He must have tweaked some settings after the roll-out of his first blog post.

In the meantime those frustrated at Microsoft’s progress with its Hotmail service can always try Gmail, which seems to be in a constant state of evolution.

Source:http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1719882/microsofts-hotmail-update

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HP to push firmware onto web-connected printers

June 30th, 2010
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We reported on HP’s new ePrint strategy, which will deliver a unique email address plus ‘print apps’ to each of its new printers.

There’s one more twist to the formula for these Web-connected printers, and that’s ‘push firmware’.

In the words of Louis Kim, HP’s Worldwide Marketing Director for Consumer Printing, “we can update the firmware and maintain the printers software drivers on a consistent basis.”

“When there’s an update available you’ll see an alert on the (printer’s) screen, plus a message which goes to your account on the ePrintcenter Web site. The customer can press a button on the screen to download the new firmware, and get their printer updated.”

Source:http://apcmag.com/hp-to-push-firmware-onto-web-connected-printers.htm

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Safecardid.com expands product line to include id card software for businesses

June 30th, 2010
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Has been a fixture in the business of child identification kits and packages for more than 20 years. As a leader in the industry a recent addition to the product lineup has included an expansion into much-needed business security equipment that includes ID card printers, photo badge printers, ID card software, and a full range of accessories and supplies.

Greg Stephens, the company’s founder and owner, launched the Safe Card business in the late 1980s. It was part of a very successful endeavor to get vital identification information to both parents and law enforcement personnel. The child identification kits that Safe Card offered made it easier for authorities to quickly and accurately ID children and minors in the event of a kidnapping or other emergency.

Since that time, Stephens has acknowledged a growing need for identification systems in the area of human resources and risk management as well. In direct response to this need, Safe Card ID has expanded.

More and more companies across the US have begun incorporating a photo identification card printer as a part of their improved security programs. Many business owners across the United States in a variety of industries consider employee identification badges an investment when it comes to protecting staff and visitors and maintaining the security of sensitive financial information, and business sustaining trade secrets.

The growing number of industries that use in-house card printers to create employee photo IDs is increasing daily.

Making the badges in-house is ensures the safety of all customers, business personnel, vendors, and facility visitors while they are on company property.

Security assessment teams agree that identification badges boost employee awareness because the serve as a visual tool for helping employees and security guards discern whether or not an individual is has the needed security clearance to enter restricted areas or view confidential and sensitive client information.

Safe Card ID offers everyone – from small businesses to large corporations – advanced solutions for protecting their assets and investments. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) projects that as much as 6% of revenue is lost as a result of internal fraud and that 30% of businesses in the US fail because of employee fraud.

When business owners require their employees to display photo identification badges that include job title and department affiliation, they take an important step in the fight against occupational fraud.

IDs make it simpler to recognize unauthorized individuals and when used with door locks and time clocks it is easier to monitor employee activity on company property.

SafeCardID.com’s line of products includes software for use with single dual side card printers, single side card printers and laminated ID card printers. Fingerprint scanners, bar code and magnetic stripe encoders and readers, and Ethernet connectivity are among the options and accessories available to businesses.

Source:http://www.i-newswire.com/safecardid-com-expands-product/45823

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Top 5 companies in the systems software industry with the lowest relative performance (fire, arba, rht, mcrs, vmw)

June 30th, 2010
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Below are the top five companies in the Systems Software industry as measured by lowest relative performance. This analysis was based on yesterday’s trading activity as we search for stocks that could be relative bargains.

Sourcefire (NASDAQ:FIRE) ranks first with a loss of 6.78%; Ariba (NASDAQ:ARBA) ranks second with a loss of 6.29%; and Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) ranks third with a loss of 5.16%.

Micros Systems (NASDAQ:MCRS) follows with a loss of 4.49% and VMware (NYSE:VMW) rounds out the top five with a loss of 4.25%.

SmarTrend is bullish on shares of ARBA and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on May 28, 2010 at $15.07. The stock has risen 6.8% since the alert was issued.

Source:http://www.mysmartrend.com/news-briefs/news-watch/top-5-companies-systems-software-industry-lowest-relative-performance-fire-ar

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