This acquisition extends IBM’s leadership in driving business agility and software quality by changing the way enterprises can manage software development cost, test cycle time and risk. Together, we offer the most complete solution available today for agile software development and testing, with flexible options such as the cloud.

Furthering this commitment, Microsoft will be working with the Hadoop ecosystem, including core contributors from Hortonworks, to deliver Hadoop-based Read more

Kinect has had an amazing first year, says Kevin Schofield, general manager of Microsoft Research, which played a key role in developing Kinect. “It’s amazing and fun and fascinating to watch the snowball effect of Kinect,” he says. “Kinect has taken something that was really hard to get and really expensive, and made it easy to get and inexpensive.”

IBM’s partnership with Sonic Biochem Extractions – an important manufacturer and exporter of soya products – includes Read more

HP and Relational have entered into a letter agreement under which Relational will support the HP board, and the board will nominate and support Whitworth, for the next two years, as long as Relational continues to be a significant stockholder of HP. A copy of the agreement is included as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K filed by HP today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

It also can provide scientific arrangements of outage tasks, including the time frame and load Read more

IFAW’s infrastructure also includes HP Enterprise Virtual Arrays (EVA), which are designed to handle its growing storage requirements as a result of their donor database application. The storage arrays allow IFAW to increase storage utilization, keep the database running 24/7 and adapt quickly to changing business conditions. The EVA’s HP Command View Software eases management, ensuring less time spent on maintenance and administrative tasks.

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As part of the reporting process, Microsoft will also encourage all its suppliers to consider use of the reporting guidelines provided by the Global Reporting Initiative, the leading framework for corporate sustainability reporting based on input from a wide range of civil society organizations, labor, businesses, academics and other experts.

The announcement was made at an IBM forum on U.S. economic competitiveness in the 21st century, exploring how private sector innovations and Read more

One of consumers’ key challenges with mobile devices is their inability to adequately protect personal information when a device is lost, stolen or compromised by a threat. To help consumers, Symantec recently unveiled Norton Everywhere, aimed to take Norton beyond the PC and extend trust to new devices and consumer applications. Symantec is the first and only vendor to offer all three groups mobile security and management solutions that can scale from just one to millions of Read more

“We’ve added service-level dashboards that give executives insight into what’s happening with their network performance. Certainly people like storage admins, network architects and IT directors rely on that information today … but what we’ve added is the ability to communicate upward and give different heads of business the ability to see how they’re meeting [service level agreements],” Rouda said.

HP will provide Applications Management while moving much of Read more

With the Samsung SUR40 available for pre-order in 23 countries worldwide, Surface computing will now be more readily available for education, financial and professional services, healthcare, hospitality, retail, manufacturing and resources, and other commercial business environments to help deliver interactive digital content, drive sales, showcase brands, and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.

“HMC is a game changer, finally giving architects a flexible memory solution Read more

The Cyberjaya center will provide competency based services, as well as multilingual capabilities, and be a Center of Excellence (CoE) for software distribution and packaging. To help develop the necessary local skills, IBM is basing an international leadership team in Cyberjaya to ensure ongoing sharing and development of knowledge and expertise.

We wanted to reinvigorate the magic of technology in a dynamic and new way by redefining what a mouse can create, and we welcome everyone to Read more

With 20+ years of IT management experience, Bussmann grew up in the era of command-and-control IT. Yet, his personal style is more akin to a 20-something hipster. He uses his iPad constantly, especially the Twitterific app to personally update his @sapcio account whenever he has a spare minute between meetings.

In addition, they can save and repurpose their creations for customized items such as desktop wallpaper, postcards or design covers for electronic devices, and they can even Read more