Enterprise IT: Moving CapEx to OpEx

SAN CARLOS, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/17/12 -- MarkLogic Corporation, the company powering mission-critical Big Data Applications around the world, today announced that Gary Bloom, a proven technology executive who was most recently the CEO and president at eMeter, has been named president and chief executive officer. Gary brings an exceptional background that includes more than two decades of successful leadership in enterprise software. He was the CEO and president at eMeter, which provides smart grid management software for electric, gas, and water utilities. eMeter was recently acquired by Siemens Corporation. Prior to that, Gary was a consultant of TPG, a leading global private investment firm. "MarkLogic customers are solving some of the largest, most complex data challenges in the world," said Bloom. "Leveraging Big Data has become one of the technology indu... (more)

InfoVista’s Market-Leading Service Performance Assurance Platform Raises Industry Standard for Scalability and Cost-Effectiveness

InfoVista, a global leader of proactive service assurance solutions, today announced the availability of VistaFoundation® Kit 4.3, a significant upgrade to the company’s service performance assurance technology platform, the most scalable, flexible and cost-effective performance platform on the market. The new release supports communications service providers’ (CSPs) and large enterprise IT organizations’ need to cost-effectively deliver a greater number of differentiated services transported by all-IP networks, maintain optimal quality of service (QoS) and end customer quality o... (more)

Polycom to Showcase Avaya-Interoperable Polycom® RealPresence® Video and Voice Solutions at International Avaya Users Group Global Education Conference 2012

Polycom, Inc.: When/Where:   International Avaya Users Group (IAUG) Global Education Conference 2012 May 20-24, 2012 John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center 900 Boylston, Street, Boston, MA 02115 Booths #931   What: At the International Avaya Users Group Global Education Conference 2012, Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM), the global leader in open standards-based unified communications, will demonstrate Polycom® RealPresence® video and voice solutions in Avaya environments. With 37 Avaya DevConnect certifications and many more open standards-based solutions that have been ... (more)

Blackbaud CRM Release Features Powerful New Data Tools for Nonprofits

Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) today announced enhancements to Blackbaud CRM™, including new membership features, a simplified user interface accessible on mobile devices and intuitive duplicate management options. “This latest release of Blackbaud CRM has incorporated significant user feedback in the design of new features to deliver enhancements that help nonprofits save time and more efficiently manage their constituent relationships, so they can spend more time on their missions,” said Eric de Jager, Blackbaud’s vice president of product management. Blackbaud CRM brings toget... (more)

WSO2 to Present Workshop on Delivering Your Business as an API and Creating an AppFactory to Drive a Vertical PaaS

Increasingly, managed APIs are at the heart of enterprise IT strategies for extending business processes and services to customers, partners, and other groups within the organization. In a one-day workshop for IT architects and developers, WSO2 will examine: Best practices for delivering RESTful APIs, dynamic API service levels, and API governance. New monetization models that can be achieved by deploying a vertical platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and exposing business APIs to partners and customers. How to create an “AppFactory” to host partner applications while maintaining compl... (more)