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Mobile+Web DevCon Announces Cisco Systems and Opera Software Keynote Speakers

May 24th, 2012

Global Strategic Management Institute (GSMI) is proud to present the Mobile+Web Developer Conference. Mobile+Web DevCon will be hosting it’s first installment on July 17-19, 2012, at the Marines Memorial Club & Hotel in San Francisco.

Mobile+Web DevCon is a unique opportunity for developers, designers and engineers to come together and explore the three most pervasive platforms in development: Android, iOS, and the web. The conference will provide attendees with key takeaways and solutions for mobile app and web creation and design essential to their business strategy and development career.

Mobile+Web DevCon is excited to announce two new keynote speakers!

Rick Tywoniak from Cisco Systems, opening up the iOS and Android tracks, will be speaking on Collaboration – Developing the Next Wave of Productivity in the Enterprise. Rick will explore how integration of collaboration can help developers capitalize on their enterprise applications.
Mahi de Silva, EVP of Consumer Mobile at Opera Software, will be opening up the Mobile Web & Web Development Track, speaking on The State of the Mobile Economy. Mahi will provide user, device and publisher insights and delve into such topics as advertiser best practices, rich-media engagement metrics and much more. Mahi’s presentation will also include the release of Opera Software’s latest report, “The State of Mobile Advertising”.

Other presentations and speakers include:

-Smarter Apps for Smarter Phones, presented by Qualcomm Labs
-Extreme Optimization for the Mobile Web, presented by Disney Mobile
-Panel: Developing Tablet-Based Experiences, moderated by WIP and including panelists from NOOK Developer, Appbackr, AOL, and Jetson Creative
-Debugging JavaScript Applications, presented by Adobe

Source:http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/05/23/prweb9533856.DTL

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Australian PC software theft reaches record $739m in 2011: BSA

May 24th, 2012

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The total value of pirated software in Australia reached $739 million in 2011, amounting to 23 per cent of all of software installed in the country, according to software education organisation, Business Software Alliance (BSA).

The findings were reflected in the company’s recent 2011 Global Software Piracy Study, conducted in partnership with IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs. It incorporated 182 discrete data inputs for each of 116 national and regional economies studied.

On a global level, 57 per cent of the PC software installed in 2011 was pirated. The global commercial value of pirated software has surged from $US58.8 billion in 2010 to $US63.4 billion in 2011.

Piracy rates in emerging markets tower over those in mature markets — 68 per cent to 24 per cent, on average — and emerging markets account for an overwhelming majority of the global increase in the commercial value of software theft.

“Software piracy persists as a drain on the global economy, IT innovation and job creation,” BSA president and CEO, Robert Holleyman, said.

According to him, Governments have to take steps to modernise their IP laws and expand enforcement efforts to ensure that those who pirate software face consequences.

However, the research also found Australia is the only country in Asia-Pacific where piracy has consistently dropped by a percentage point per year over the last eight years.

“At a local level, our reports show, year-on-year progress is being made to reduce the level of software piracy in Australia,” BSA Australia Co-Chair, Clayton Noble, said.

He said that though the statistics show progress, there is still a long way to go to minimise piracy, which will see significant and lasting benefits for the Australian economy.

Other findings from the BSA Global Software Piracy Study include:

Globally, the most frequent software pirates are young (aged between 18 to 24), male and more than twice as likely to live in an emerging economy as they are to live in a mature one (38 to 15 per cent). In Asia-Pacific, they amount to 32 per cent.
Business decision makers confessed to pirating software more frequently than other users. They are also more than twice as likely as others to say they buy software for one computer and then install it on additional machines in their offices.
There is strong support for IP rights and protections in principle, but a lack of incentives for pirates to change their behaviour in practice. Only 20 per cent of frequent pirates in mature markets and 15 per cent in emerging markets said the risk of getting caught is a reason not to pirate software.
In Asia-Pacific, 36 per cent of admitted software pirates said they acquire software illegally “all of the time”, “most of the time” or “occasionally”, while 27 per cent “rarely” do so.

Source:http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/425438/australian_pc_software_theft_reaches_record_739m_2011_bsa/#closeme

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New Scale-out Storage and Software

May 24th, 2012

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EMC announced new Isilon X400 and NL400 storage nodes, featuring more throughput than previous platforms and traditional NAS single volume throughput. The X400 and NL400 will scale to over 15 Petabytes in a single cluster, is highly efficient with over 80 percent storage utilization and help enterprises meet large-scale IT storage needs. Data that is frequently accessed or used with business-critical applications are suited for the X400 while older, less-frequently accessed data can be stored on the more economical NL400. When used with EMC Isilon software capabilities such as FlexProtect and SmartPools, storage solutions built with the X400 and NL400 are designed to deliver the highest availability and efficiency.

New DataBridge Enterprise Management Software

EMC announced a brand new enterprise management software – EMC DataBridge – to empower IT operations teams with a “single-pane of glass” management tool to easily build customizable dashboards for delivering ITaaS. DataBridge breaks down the individual silos of compute, storage and network, combining and relating infrastructure management data in a way that provides a more complete multi-dimensional view of their infrastructure. DataBridge will support EMC ProSphere, EMC Data Protection Advisor, EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager, EMC IT Operations Intelligence Suite, EMC Storage Configuration Advisor and EMC AppSync, in addition to non-EMC data sources.

“EMC DataBridge delivers visibility across a business’ IT infrastructure in both the physical and virtual environments–providing customers with integrated dashboards, and analytics with better visibility across the organization, said Jason Buffington, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. ”These new capabilities—combined with EMC’s storage and infrastructure solutions, and the ability to include third party data sources—create valuable new opportunities for companies looking to exploit and leverage real-time data from their cloud environment.”

Documentum D2 4.0

EMC announced the availability of EMC Documentum D2 4.0, a content management application with a modern, configurable and intuitive user experience for the EMC Documentum platform. Documentum D2 4.0 delivers new features such as configurable widget-based workspaces that increase usability and accommodate user preferences. New features include widget-based interfaces for personalized control of workspaces, and workspaces, to act as containers for widgets and gadgets. Documentum D2 focuses on configuration versus coding to significantly decrease the time to create, deploy and maintain a solution, and enable business analysts and systems administrators to make changes to applications without specialized coding. Documentum is available as a client in EMC onDemand, and is the core of the Documentum Life Sciences solutions, also announced at EMC World 2012.

“EMC is pleased to deliver this next release of Documentum D2,” said Rohit Ghai, Vice President, Products, Information Intelligence Group at EMC. ”Companies struggle with balancing the user demand for ease and productivity with IT’s push for agility, security and governance. We are the only vendor to accommodate both of these needs with Documentum D2. In extending Documentum D2 to the cloud via EMC OnDemand, we further enable our customers to focus on delivering business value without the burden of managing complex IT infrastructure.”

Source:http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/05/23/emc-world-new-scale-out-storage-and-software/