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 AUGUST 2010 NEWS         Older news atIDMi News Archives



12 Aug 2010 08:39
Talari Networks, Inc. — the company bringing WAN virtualization and cloud economics to Enterprise networking — today announced that it has raised $10 million in a second round of institutional funding led by Silver Creek Ventures with existing backers Menlo Ventures and private investors also participating. Mark Masur, Silver Creek Ventures General Partner, will join Talari’s board of directors.
“With their straightforward and proven value proposition, Talari is well positioned to take advantage of the growing trend to centralize and simplify IT services,” said Mark Masur of Silver Creek. “By allowing IT managers to add significant amounts of WAN bandwidth at low cost with business-class reliability, the company has already attracted an impressive list of customers.”
More: www.talari.com

11 Aug 2010 16:10

Panasonic System Networks Company of America and DocuLex, Inc. announce compatibility of the Panasonic KV-S5055C document imaging scanner with DocuLex Archive Studio content management software. The product combination creates an affordable large-volume capacity system for entities to manage all forms of paper and electronic document’s contents via automated and distributive means, providing secure, permission-based accessibility. The products are available from participating Panasonic authorized resellers.
More: http://www.panasonic.psna
More: http://www.doculex.com

11 Aug 2010 15:54
A payroll hijacking incident in New York State - in which a Westchester County-based pharmaceuticals company, Regeneron, computer was hacked and cybercriminals attempted to divert salary deposits to their own mule bank accounts - has been called a classic stolen credentials case by Imperva, the data security specialist.
In this incident, hackers stole the online credentials to a payroll processing application belonging to an employee working for the pharmaceutical company.
Amichai Shulman comments “By using the stolen credentials from Regeneron, the attackers were able to gain access to Ceridian’s online management system. The credentials were likely to belong to an accounting manager, or any other administrator responsible for Regeneron’s finances, since the hackers then attempted to transfer the direct deposit salary of nine other employees, to their accounts.”
More: http://bit.ly/cMV7zD

11 Aug 2010 14:28
Isilon®
today announced that Sony Imageworks, the Academy Award®-winning visual effects (VFX) company behind Alice in Wonderland and the Spider-Man trilogy, has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to help power its leading-edge post-production pipeline. Using Isilon’s X-Series, Imageworks has consolidated a wide-range of file-based applications onto a single file system, simplifying data management and accelerating productivity. With Isilon scale-out storage, featuring its OneFS® operating system, Imageworks can easily align storage performance and capacity with workflow demand, increasing IT efficiency.
More: http://www.isilon.com

10 Aug 2010 17:32
AnyDoc Software, Inc
., a leading provider of automated document, data capture, and classification solutions, announces the addition of email processing to its Infiniworx® capture workflow platform.
In addition to advanced document classification and capture workflow, Infiniworx can monitor selected e-mail inboxes and automatically process incoming emailed documents and attachments. Infiniworx can recognize and open email attachments in most standard business formats, including PDF, TIFF, Word and Excel documents, and even unzip multiple compressed files for processing. The email body and attachments can be classified and passed to OCR for AnyDoc® for data capture and further processing downstream. And, any document can be converted to TIFF, PDF, or text allowing for output standardization while still maintaining all native formats.
More: www.Infiniworx.com
More: www.AnyDocSoftware.com

10 Aug 2010 16:53
Perforce Software
announced the availability of its newest service, Perforce Remote Administration, providing customers additional administrative support for their Perforce Software Configuration Management (SCM) system. Tailored to meet each company’s needs, Perforce remote administrators partner with a company’s IT team to manage and improve their Perforce installations.
Gazillion Entertainment trialled the program before its general availability, and is now relying on Perforce for ongoing administration.
“We were at a stage where we could not afford a full-time person to administer Perforce,” explained Jimil Borillo, Manager of Information Technology for Gazillion Entertainment. “With Perforce’s help we were able to boost our server performance which otherwise would have taken us much longer due to our limited in-house expertise and bandwidth.”
More:http://www.perforce.com/

10 Aug 2010 15:24
Genisys Technology Ltd
, the Newcastle upon Tyne based supplier of Total Document Management solutions and Datafinity the Surrey based document and data capture experts have today announced the agreement of a reseller partnership relating to DRS DocXP and QuickInvoices data capture products.
The new alliance combines Genisys Technology’s vast expertise in the field of document management and information work-flow, with the data capture skills and experience of Datafinity.
Genisys Technology Ltd has seen a lot of recent success with the deployment of departmental solutions into over thirty NHS Trusts and Hospitals. As well as leading to additional opportunity within this and other sectors, the newly formed partnership with Datafinity will ensure that clients will benefit from true end-to-end, cost-effective solutions.
More: www.genisystechnology.co.uk
More: www.datafinity.co.uk

10 Aug 2010 13:37
Colortrac
, an important innovator in the field of wide format scanning technology, has achieved record unit sales, revenue and profit in their financial year ending April 30th 2010. Not including new business from OEM agreements, world-wide unit sales of Colortrac brand SmartLF large format scanners increased by 24% over the previous year. Colortrac’s consolidated result (unaudited) shows that group revenues increased by 42% to GBP £7.3 million, with a corresponding increase in pre-tax profits of 66%. In comparison, during 2009, revenue from sales of large format scanners at a major competitor is known to have reduced by 33%, resulting in their pre-tax profits being reduced to a break-even level.
More: www.colortrac.com

10 Aug 2010 12:28
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust is to standardise on Kainos Evolve™, in a further substantial healthcare project win for the electronic document and records management (EDM) solutions specialist.
The Trust, using the Kainos Evolve solution will scan all existing patient notes (approx 250,000 case files with 160+ pages each), within the existing medical records library so that these can be made available electronically to all staff, aiding patient care. All specialties will be included in the roll-out, using a scan-on-demand strategy for clinics. This will promote a structured and controlled project roll-out which will incorporate both in-patient and outpatient services.
More: www.kainos.com/evolve

10 Aug 2010 12:19
kCura today announced the launch of Method, a workflow and notification system designed to manage legal hold and risk assessment processes performed by law firms, corporations, and service providers.
The enterprise solution, which runs on the e-discovery review platform Relativity, was built in conjunction with several leading law firms. It allows those individuals who oversee legal holds to streamline workflows and mitigate risks.
“Method provides us with a tool to efficiently manage the legal hold process,” said Browning Marean, senior counsel at DLA Piper. “kCura’s offering addresses the challenges of litigation holds in an organized, defensible, and cost-effective manner.”
More: www.methodlegalhold.com
More: www.kcura.com

10 Aug 2010 11:16
At the 2010 InterACT! Conference, Kodak will help attendees learn more about how multi-channel marketing campaigns can help businesses strengthen customer engagement and drive improved overall value and performance. Kodak is a platinum sponsor of the inaugural event, being produced by InfoTrends and North American Publishing Company (NAPCO).
Kodak’s participation at InterACT! 2010 will help print service providers, marketing service providers and others to examine their current businesses models and find creative, unique ways to unify and streamline these processes through multi-channel campaigns. The event takes place Aug. 10-11 at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O’Hare in Rosemont, IL.
More: http://www.kodak.com

10 Aug 2010 06:11
Healthcare data storage expert Tony Cotterill, Chief Executive of BridgeHead Software,  the Healthcare Storage Virtualization company, has called secure data management the "missing link" to improving patient care in the 21st century. Cotterill's comments follow in the wake of research carried out by GS1 UK and Hospital Dr which discovered that half of doctors expect Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) to improve patient care by providing verifiable, consistent and complete data to support verbal handovers between medical staff.
"Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) will improve patient care, but only if the data feeding those records is well-managed," said Cotterill,  "Healthcare data volumes are rising day after day. Secure data management is a challenge that cannot be avoided if hospitals are to prevent compounding their current infrastructure challenges as data volumes grow.
"To get the most value out of any digital patient records system - and in my view, the term 'digital patient records' encompasses all electronic data connected with a patient, whether the EPR, medical images or associated administration files - it is necessary for hospitals to consider a number of important factors concerning their data and storage management infrastructures."
More: www.bridgeheadsoftware.com

 

03 Aug 2010 10:11
Companies beware: IT professionals are using personal email accounts to mask file transfer activity from management, according to a study released today by Ipswitch, Inc., the secure, managed file transfer company. Forty percent of those surveyed at this year’s Infosecurity Europe[i] conference admitted to sending sensitive or confidential information through personal email accounts to eliminate the trail of what was being sent to whom – a major security and compliance breach and violation for companies.
While not all personal email used to send business information is malicious, it’s all incredibly risky. More than two-thirds of respondents (69 percent) said that they send classified information, such as payroll, customer data and financial information, over email (with no security) at least once a month, and 34 percent said they do it daily. The biggest drivers: speed, convenience and the ability to send large files, without the hassle.
“Employees will almost always take the path of least resistance, even if that unintentionally means violating company policies and breaking security protocols,” said L. Frank Kenney, VP of Global Strategy at Ipswitch. “Businesses need complete visibility into the files that are moving internally and externally company-wide, with a file transfer approach that makes it fast and easy for employees to securely exchange information with customers, partners and colleagues.”
Click here to watch Ipswitch’s Bill Cohn share more findings from the company’s latest survey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKvfjKn5vM8
More: http://www.ipswitchft.com

3 Aug 2010 10:10
Crawford Technologies today announced the release of v3.9 of its PRO software suite including transforms and conversions, document re-engineering, archive and workflow solutions.
Organizations today expect continuous, ongoing enhancements from their software vendors’ products - CrawfordTech’s latest feature enhancements and support for new operating systems demonstrates a full and ongoing commitment to meeting those expectations.
More: www.crawfordtech.com

3 Aug 2010 14:42
Isilon®
today announced that the UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging (LONI), home of the world’s largest collection of research neuroimages, has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its research into Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia and other brain disorders.
Using Isilon’s SmartPools™ software, LONI has unified three performance tiers of Isilon scale-out storage into a single file system, simplifying data management to drive increased efficiency, cost-savings and application performance. With SmartPools, LONI has consolidated all of its file-based operations onto a central, shared storage pool, aligning application needs with system resources to improve utilization and reduce costs.
More: http://www.isilon.com

3 Aug 2010 14:20
Trusteer
, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today announced that it has uncovered a large Zeus version 2 botnet being used to conduct financial fraud in the UK which is operated and controlled from Eastern Europe. The botnet appears to be controlling more than 100,000 infected computers, 98% of which are UK Internet users. The criminals have been harvesting all manner of potentially lucrative and revenue-producing credentials - including online account IDs plus login information to banks, credit and debit card numbers, account types plus balances, bank statements, browser cookies, client side certificates, login information for email accounts and social networks and even FTP passwords. Trusteer discovered the extent of the botnet after they gained access to the botnet's drop servers and command and control center which contained the stolen information including hundreds of thousands of stolen credentials. Trusteer are sharing the information with UK law enforcement agencies.
More: www.trusteer.com

3 Aug 2010 13:28
ISACA
today released a white paper detailing how the increasing popularity of mobile devices poses a significant threat of leaking confidential enterprise information and intellectual property.
In a complimentary new white paper titled “Securing Mobile Devices,” ISACA, a leading global association for enterprise governance of information technology (IT), noted that the use of wireless networks, typically less secure than wired networks, leaves information at greater risk for interception. From smartphones to USB sticks, many devices also store data that are unencrypted, which can result in sensitive information being compromised through interception and device theft or loss. Mobile devices can also be the targets of malware attacks as employees carry them beyond the protection of their company’s network.
The white paper notes that a lack of enterprise control of physical devices, along with the growing practice of employees using personal devices for business, has increased mobile device risk levels.
More: www.isaca.org/mobiledevices.

3 Aug 2010 12:07
A demonstration of how cellular transmissions from mobile phones can be subverted and users' mobiles fooled into logging into a rogue GSM station - so allowing calls to be eavesdropped and falsified - highlights the fact that the designers of the GSM standard never envisaged the need for ultra-high levels of security on mobile calls.
"When the GSM standard was formulated more than 20 years ago, the developers were required to design a digital successor to the analogue cellular standards of the day. As a result, security was only added after the basic standard was developed," said Barmak Meftah, Fortify Software's chief products officer.
More: http://bit.ly/b5P9qI

3 Aug 2010 10:52
Cloud hosting companies are not passing on the benefits of VMWare's Resource Pool capabilities to customers.
Customers can now get what is thought to be the UK's first truly fixed-price pre-pay cloud hosting service that fully utilises VMware's Resource Pool capabilities and guarantees no overspend and improved hosting performance.
The StratoGen Hosting Advanced Resource Pool (SHARP™) saves companies up to 40 per cent on their monthly bills. Users pay upfront for a specified amount of processing power, memory and storage space to deploy on as many virtual machines (VMs) as are necessary.
More: http://bit.ly/d6m2HO

3 Aug 2010 10:26
Mimecast®, a unified email management company offering cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, today announced that it has been selected by Morgan Cole, a full-service, regional UK law firm, to provide cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving to all six of its offices.
Just before a merger, Morgan Cole engaged Mimecast to help scale its central email system, serving 558 employees across offices in Cardiff, Swansea, Bristol, Reading and Oxford. Mimecast’s cloud service will help the law firm to manage the growing volume of email stored on its mail server, addressing problems of slow mailbox searching and increasing storage costs. Integrating with the company’s existing Microsoft Exchange and Outlook environments, Morgan Cole is using Mimecast for remote access, business continuity, security and improved archive management.
More: www.mimecast.com

03 Aug 2010 09:02
Canon U.S.A., Inc
., a leader in advanced digital imaging, today announced that the Company has been placed in the Leader Quadrant by industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc., in the 2010 Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers report[1].
“Canon is pleased to be recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the 2010 Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers report,” said Junichi Yoshitake, senior vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. “With a broad portfolio of innovative products — including the imageRUNNER ADVANCE series — changing how businesses manage workflow, Canon’s continued investment in ground-breaking technologies delivers the performance, reliability and customer service experience required by today’s demanding office environments.”
The Gartner Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their performance across two major categories: the Ability to Execute, in which Gartner evaluates MFP and printer providers “on the quality and efficacy of the processes, systems, methods and procedures that enable their products' performance to be competitive, efficient and effective, and to positively impact revenue, retention and reputation;” and the Completeness of Vision, where each provider is rated on their “understanding of how market forces can be exploited to create opportunity for the provider and for its clients.”
More: www.usa.canon.com

2 Aug 2010 16:09
docSTAR
, a leading provider of document management software solutions, has formed a strategic alliance with HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., an established Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that integrates technology, business partners, and clients for success in both the Federal and Commercial environments.
“We are excited about the addition of docSTAR products to our GSA Schedule 70,” said Bill Kirkpatrick, Senior Vice President of HMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. “The streamlined abilities of this product will certainly play a vital role in the success and efficiency of software management.”
The alliance provides a conduit for Federal and State agencies to purchase docSTAR’s document management software directly from the GSA Schedule 70 contract (GS-35F-0834R) at a discounted rate, eliminating time-consuming responses to complex RFP’s and lengthy negotiations.
More: www.docstar.com

2 Aug 2010 13:42
ECM Connection magazine has selected Leggett & Platt as a 2010 finalist of the esteemed ACE Award for their implementation of AnyDoc®INVOICE™ and AnyDoc®REMIT™ to eliminate manual document processes in their AP and AR departments, respectively. The ACE Award recognizes organizations who have achieved content excellence with their project/integration to overcome significant business challenges and generated measurable results.
Leggett & Platt is a diversified manufacturer that conceives, designs, and produces a broad variety of engineered components and products for customers worldwide. The AnyDoc solution provides Leggett & Platt the ability to capture data from invoices and remittances without manual keying or the use of templates. It also allows them to increase the speed of processing and overall throughput and simultaneously, reduce costs. The solution seamlessly integrates with their existing PeopleSoft and GEAC mainframe applications.
More: www.leggett.com
More: www.AnyDocSoftware.com

2 Aug 2010 13:17
TeleWare,
the leading provider of communications solutions for mobile and distributed workers, today announced it’s in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications. TeleWare is positioned as a niche player, which it believes is a clear reflection of its focus on mobile and distributed workforce solutions designed to provide productivity and agility to mobile, flexible and home workers.
TeleWare Group Plc specialises in the development and delivery of communication solutions that maximise the effectiveness of call management and enable user mobility, while reducing call answering times and delivering quality voicemail solutions. TeleWare’s proven business communications solutions integrate with a broad range of email and PBX solutions, including Cisco Call Manager, Lotus Notes, Novell GroupWise and Microsoft Exchange. Unparalleled interoperability enables seamless integration with both TDM based PBXs, based on DPNSS or Q-Sig, as well as IP Telephony switch solutions.
More: www.worldofteleware.com
More: www.teleware.com

 

 JULY 2010 NEWS         Older news atIDMi News Archives



30 Jul 2010 11:41
AnyDoc Software
, a leading provider of automated document, data capture, and classification solutions, announced today that its flagship product OCR for AnyDoc® has been named a Best Channel Product for 2010 by Business Solutions magazine.
OCR for AnyDoc automatically captures and processes data from any form or document, alleviating the burden of manual document processing for clients across a wide array of industries. Accurate, validated data and indexed images are then seamlessly delivered to any ECM, ERP, accounting, document management, or other back-end system. By eliminating tedious manual sorting and manual data entry, accurate data is available much faster and at a lower cost than manual processing. This allows organizations to respond more quickly to information and make better business decisions.
More: www.ocrforanydoc.com

29 Jul 2010 15:02
Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech solutions, today unveiled Dragon® NaturallySpeaking® 11, a new release of the world’s best-selling speech recognition software that fundamentally improves the way people interact with their computers. From improved accuracy and faster performance, to an intuitive new interface, Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 has been redesigned to let people spend more of their energy working and creating, rather than clicking and typing. Dragon 11 gives people a voice to perform almost any task on the computer to create documents, send emails, surf the Web, search Facebook and Twitter and interact with their favorite applications – at speeds up to three times faster than typing.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11 will launch in the UK to a wide selection of potential users via TV advertising, integrated online campaigns and sales channel campaigns. It will focus on the market-changing speed and accuracy of the new software, and how it takes us a leap closer to the time when mouse and keyboard work with your voice to control everyday computing tasks.
For years, people from all walks of life have used Dragon on the PC to be more productive, save time and capture their ideas at the speed of thought – at home, in the office, the courtroom, the classroom, the exam room, or even on the road. And more recently, with Nuance’s Dragon Mobile Apps on the Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, millions of people now communicate quickly and easily on their mobile devices, simply by speaking.
More: http://www.nuance.co.uk

29 Jul 2010 13:20
Colortrac Limited, the NEW leader and innovator in large format scanners, has further extended its commitment to profitable business expansion with the appointment of Rob van Brakel to its senior management team. He joins the British wide format scanner manufacturer as their new Marketing Manager with worldwide responsibility for developing and implementing all elements of Colortrac's marketing activities.
More: www.colortrac.com 

29 Jul 2010 12:01
Canon UK, world leader in imaging solutions, has been acknowledged by testing and research organisation, Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI), with six ‘Outstanding Achievement’ awards. Canon has been recognised across its full range of scanners and printers including the imageFORMULA, iR, imageRUNNER ADVANCE and i-SENSYS models at BLI’s Summer 2010 ‘Pick’ Awards.
More: www.buyerslab.com

29 Jul 2010 11:12
Mimecast®
, a cloud-based unified email management company, today announced support for Microsoft Exchange 2010, easing migration headaches and controlling costs while unlocking the immediate benefits of Microsoft’s newest 64-bit architecture. Avoiding expensive on-premise management overheads and removing the need for .PST files, Mimecast’s Unified Email Management (UEM) suite of services now fully supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 and provides a single-platform approach to archiving, security, continuity and policy control; integrating seamlessly into customers’ existing – or newly planned – IT infrastructures.
More: http://www.mimecast.com/

29 Jul 2010 09:40
avast! has monitored a rise in holiday and travel related websites within the UK with malware and virus infection in the month of July. However, a new trend is the exploitation of weak security around “search and price comparison sites” such as www.summersearch.co.uk, a website that as of the 28/07 is infected with the JS:Kroxxu family of Malware.
“Many of these sites are typically just holding pages for a catchy URL with very little substance behind them,” explains Ondrej Vlcek AVAST Software CTO, “In the summersearch example, the site is just a front end to a Kelkoo search engine but anybody clicking on any links on the page without proper antivirus protection could be infected by malware.”
The JS:Kroxxu is slightly different from usual web malware in that the hacked domains are cross-referenced during an attack. It means that one infected domain just redirects visitors to another infected domain which then finally serves up malware using the latest exploits.
More: www.avast.com

28 Jul 2010 14:45
During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) reported using cloud computing services and another 10 percent reported plans to deploy cloud-based services, according to a new study conducted by Spiceworks™, Inc.
These findings were uncovered in a global survey of 1,500 IT professionals at small and medium businesses (SMBs) with fewer than 1,000 employees. The survey was designed to uncover cloud computing adoption trends and sentiments among SMBs. Results of the survey are available in a free report titled: “SMB Cloud Computing Adoption: What’s Hot and What’s Not.”
More: http://www.spiceworks.com/voice-of-it

28 Jul 2010 14:22
Manufacturing companies are increasingly recognising the need to optimise the flow of information around the organisation to increase production process efficiency, according to United Planet, one of the leading developers of Enterprise Portal software in Europe. Manufacturers rely on information being distributed and processed quickly to meet tight deadlines, but this is only possible if the right information reaches the right person in the right department at the right time. Sophisticated information management has the potential to improve all aspects of the manufacturing process and there is growing acceptance by forward looking manufacturers that Enterprise Portals can enhance internal information flows and deliver all important competitive edge.
Enterprise Portals enable manufacturers to store all information centrally and to distribute information in a targeted manner. They enable employees to access the most up-to-date data about a contract or order at any time. Modern Enterprise Portals also allow read and write integration of information from external systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, which means that production planning and control, or inventory management can be integrated in the portal in exactly the same way as information from a SAP system or Lotus Notes.
More: www.unitedplanet.com

28 Jul 2010 11:05
Trusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today announced that it has added financial malware disinfection to its Rapport service. In addition to preventing Trojans like Zeus, Silon, Bugat, DBJP and zero day malware from tampering with website communications and transactions, Rapport now removes malicious code that attempts to attack browser sessions. This new capability is being provided at no additional cost to all Rapport customers and end users. Trusteer will also submit any new (zero day) malware it discovers to all anti malware vendors in an effort improve notoriously low detection rates for crime ware.
Recent studies from Trusteer and other fraud detection vendors show that antivirus solutions detect only 10 percent of active financial malware. By sharing financial malware samples with all anti malware vendors Trusteer is helping to improve banking security for all customers including those that are not yet using the Rapport service. Trusteer’s unique technology discovers, captures, and validates zero-day financial malware weeks and even months before new attacks are addressed by anti-malware vendors.
More: www.trusteer.com

27 Jul 2010 13:59
Isilon®
 today announced that Entity FX is using Isilon scale-out storage to enhance and speed content management for its 2D and 3D post-production pipeline, producing visual effects (VFX) for television programs such as Breaking Bad, Entourage, The Vampire Diaries and Smallville, as well as motion pictures including This Is It, Law Abiding Citizen and The Final Destination: 3D, and upcoming films including Yogi Bear and Conviction. Using Isilon, Entity FX has unified its data-intensive VFX applications onto a single file system, increasing data access and productivity for its range of projects. With Isilon scale-out storage, Entity FX can easily scale and manage storage resources and requirements in-line with application demands, while expanding bandwidth to accommodate new business.
“The ability to consistently meet, or beat, deadlines is critical in this business, so delays, downtime or interruptions are simply unacceptable,” said Mat Beck, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor and President, Entity FX. “Using Isilon, delays are a thing of the past, as are unnecessary costs on management or backups. The Isilon system has, on more than one occasion, shown its ability to survive a hard power-down crash without losing a byte of data. It handles increased load gracefully, and elegantly allows for increased capacity when necessary. ”
More: http://www.isilon.com

27 Jul 2010 11:19
CREDANT Technologies
- the world’s largest specialist in endpoint data protection solutions, today announced exceptional growth in the first six months of 2010 driven by new partnerships with Dell, LANDesk, and Cisco Systems. Based upon the productivity of its new partner relationships and robust product suite, the management team looks forward to a strong 2010
Financial highlights for the first half of 2010 include:

· 49% increased revenue against the first half of 2009

· 89% of its Q2 software license revenue is derived from new customers

· Solid pipeline of new opportunities for second half of 2010

· 60% month over month growth in new partner-driven sales pipeline

· >95% Customer renewals

More: http://www.credant.com

 

26 July 2010 11:02

Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today its hacker intelligence initiative (HII), a research effort focused on providing deeper insight on how cybercriminals conduct large scale cyber attacks as well as shedding light on the evolution of the underground business of cybercrime. Part of Imperva’s Application Defense Center (ADC), the hacker intelligence initiative will investigate the anatomy of attacks as well as key hacking trends by exploring the cybercrime industry utilizing techniques including hack-back, forum monitoring and internet traffic surveillance.

“Today, security research focuses heavily on vulnerabilities and problems. But to truly protect an organization, security professionals must have a deep understanding of their enemy,” said Amichai Shulman, Imperva’s CTO, referencing Sun Tzu’s observation, ‘If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril.’

More: www.imperva.com

 

23 July 2010 13:11

Reports that a leading legal expert has called for the mandatory reporting of all data breaches to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) - in order to bring more clarity to the amount of data being lost and improve efforts to prevent breaches – should be tempered by the reputational risk to the companies concerned, says ISACA, the not-for-profit IT security association.

And it’s because of the reputational risk, that the mandatory reporting should be included in the company’s regular accounting releases, such as quarterly and annual reports, says the not-for-profit IT security association.

“That way the issue can be given the precedence it requires, but also allowing the company to report the security breaches to all interested parties, namely the shareholders and employees, rather than simply catering to sensationalists and the media generally,” said Rolf von Roessing, ISACA’s international vice president.

More: www.isaca.org

 

23 July 2010 10:27

Imperva uncovered a new, automated, cloud-based phishing kit. Our Application Defense Center found this kit on a hacker forum.

This attack highlights an interesting twist—there’s no honor among thieves. Two master hackers wrote and then posted a phishing kit into hacker forums. The irony is that anyone using this kit becomes an unknowing member of the master hacker’s army. When hackers use this kit and deploy a successful phishing campaign, all the stolen credentials and information goes straight back to the master hacker without the proxy hacker’s knowledge. It’s very clever. The master hacker never needs to conduct a campaign to see financial gain.

This next gen phishing kit works like this:

  • Two master hackers created a phishing kit that generates phishing sites as a service to other hackers.
  • The master hacker publishes the kit on hacker forums and news groups
  • Low level hackers use the kit to create the phishing sites and create numerous campaigns. The master hacker claims 200K+ downloads.
  • The low level hackers may see some success and may steal a few hundred credentials before their fake sites are shut down.
  • The master hacker that created the kit now leverages their back door harvesting all the credentials the proxy hackers managed to get--which translates into thousands of accounts. The master hacker doesn't do a thing and, depending on the country, hasn't technically broken any laws because all they did was write the software.
  • Since new people create new phishing sites every day, with new campaigns the master hacker’s numbers just grow and grow and grow.
  • Unlike previous phishing kits that have been available for years, this new approach lives in the cloud and relies on hackers exploiting other hackers. And with the new cloud-based approach, the infrastructure for this phishing kit never goes away. Why? In traditional Phishing schemes when you take down a server you also take down the collection point, aka, the command and control center. Also, you may be able to take down many domains set up by the same individual and severely affect the Phishing campaign. In this campaign, taking down the “frontend” server does not impair the campaign because you don’t take down the command and control center since its in the cloud. What’s more, each of the “subsidiaries” has their own campaign so taking down a bunch of domains does not affect other campaigns that send data to the command and control center. (It's a little like whackamole).

     

    Here’s how you sign up for it:

     

     

    And here’s how you select pages to spoof:

     

     

    And here’s a "dashboard" screenshot showing victims:

     

     

    More: www.imperva.com

     

     

    22 July 2010 13:01

    Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, today announces that Western Maryland Regional Medical Center's recent upgrade to the newest version of IMPAX HeartStation ECG Management System has helped enable the rapid diagnosis and treatment of patients with posterior wall heart attacks. The Cumberland-based hospital is using the recently released features of IMPAX HeartStation to digitally review and archive 15-lead ECG studies.

    Compared to more commonly found 12-lead ECG equipment, 15-lead ECG provides more complete data for detecting heart attacks in the right and posterior ventricle walls. IMPAX HeartStation's industry leading, innovative features analyze and prioritize 12- and 15-lead ECG exams as they come into the system and alert healthcare providers if a patient is experiencing a life-threatening or other critical condition.

    More: www.agfahealthcare.com

     

    22 July 2010 12:57

    ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Cashbook Limited of Limerick, Ireland, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Cashbook has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Cashbook joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the ABBYY Europe Solution Partner programme.

    ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: Forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).

    More: http://www.abbyy.com/

     

    22 July 2010 12:00

    Azzurri Communications Ltd, the leading independent managed communications services provider, is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Quartermaine as their new Chief Executive Officer. He joins Azzurri from BT where he was UK President of BT Global Services.

    Jim McKenna, Chairman, Azzurri Communications, said: “We are very pleased that Mark is joining us to lead the next phase of Azzurri’s strategic plan for growth. He brings a wealth of experience in our sector including BT, Cable & Wireless, NSB Group and IBM. Mark has a successful track record of delivering growth and we look forward to working together to bring continued success to Azzurri Communications.”

    Mark Quartermaine said: “I am looking forward to joining Azzurri, which has an exciting customer proposition and is well positioned to exploit the next wave of technology.”

    Mark Quartermaine will join Azzurri on September 6th 2010

    More: www.azzurricommunications.com

     

    22 July 2010 06:31

    ARX (Algorithmic Research), a leading provider of digital signature solutions, has implemented the CoSign digital-signature solution at Star Building Systems (hereon: Star), a leading manufacturer of custom designed metal building systems for commercial, industrial, institutional and agricultural use. By enhancing the collaboration between engineers in different locations and expediting engineering approval processes, CoSign enables Star to raise the bar on exceptional customer service and innovation in engineering.

    “It used to be ‘we can get you the signed drawings next day’. With CoSign, it’s ‘we can get you the signed drawings in the next hour’. We want to provide world-class service and this helps set us apart from our competitors,” explains Dustin Cole, Director of Engineering, Star Building Systems.

    The adoption of the digital signature solution was initiated by Cole, who recognized an opportunity for improvement upon witnessing the time it takes for engineers to manually sign and seal upwards of 200 pages of engineering drawings daily. With CoSign digital signatures, Star’s engineers can review, seal, and digitally sign PDF drawings for distribution to customers and partners.

    More: http://www.arx.com/about/PR/PR-Digital-Signature-for-Star-Buildings

     

    21 July 2010 15:03

    Isilon® today announced that Archive Systems has deployed Isilon scale-out storage to power its services-based, on-demand document management solutions. Using Isilon, Archive Systems has consolidated all of its file-based data and applications onto a single file system, simplifying data management for its software as a service (SaaS) business to increase IT efficiency and reduce capital and operating costs. With Isilon, Archive Systems can easily scale performance, capacity and applications in lockstep with client demand, providing maximum flexibility in responding to the evolving needs of its business.

    “Our customers depend on us to keep their documents and electronic records safe, secure and available, anytime, anywhere,” said Christopher Williams, Director of IT, Archive Systems. “So we’ve got to be prepared to respond to demand at a moment’s notice. With Isilon, we can do exactly that, as it’s enabled us to simplify data management and easily consolidate applications, so we’re more agile and better equipped to meet our clients’ needs.”

    More: http://www.isilon.com

     

    21 July 2010 11:04

    Imperva, the leader in data security, announced today it will partner with NEON Enterprise Software to provide best in class database auditing capabilities for DB2 on z/OS. Imperva and NEON will integrate and embed NEON’s proven DB2 auditing technology into Imperva’s Securesphere Data Security Suite.

    The addition of NEON technology to the Imperva SecureSphere Suite expands Imperva’s existing support for auditing DB2 for z/OS via integration with IBM Audit Management Expert (AME), enabling Imperva customers to choose from the broadest range of options to support their mainframe environments.

    “The mainframe market historically has lacked cost-effective options for database protection, forensics and auditing,” explained Amichai Shulman, Imperva’s CTO. “With this integration, Imperva will provide the broadest range of z/OS deployment options for Database Activity Monitoring with a seamless integration into Imperva’s Data Security suite. This will allow Imperva customers to deploy practical solutions to secure their critical data without breaking the bank.”

    More: www.neon.com

    More: www.imperva.com

     

    21 July 2010 09:49

    Origin Storage, the storage systems integration specialist, says that the results of a recent survey - carried out by Freeform Dynamics and published this week on The Register newswire - highlights the rising levels of sophistication amongst an increasingly tech-savvy computer user base.

    The results of the survey, says Andy Cordial, Origin's managing director, "confirm what we're hearing our clients, both in the SME, as well as in corporate-land."

    "The fact that around 55 per cent of the survey's respondents said the main driver pushing them to encrypt their data was regulatory, with around 35 per cent saying an increasingly mobile workforce is the reason, indicates the changing IT landscape we are all experiencing," he said.

    More on the encryption survey: http://bit.ly/dnshjI

    More: www.originstorage.com

     

    20 July 2010 17:36

    Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced two strategic partnerships that will support its bank and credit union customers with proven, functionally distinct online financial management (OFM) solutions. Jack Henry & Associates is now remarketing the FinanceWorks™ solution provided by Intuit Financial Services and the OurCashFlow solution provided by Lodo Software, Inc. Jack Henry & Associates also signed a remarketing agreement with CashEdge who provides the standard aggregation service for the OurCashFlow solution.

    Pete Hopkins, general manager of Internet Solutions for Jack Henry & Associates said, "OFM is an internal acronym that we used for online financial management during our research and discussions. As we began conceiving the right solution in our minds, personal financial management or PFM was too limited in scope, and did not convey the comprehensive functionality necessary for consumer and small business money management solutions."

    More: www.lodosoftware.com.

    More: www.cashedge.com.

    More: www.jackhenry.com

     

    20 July 2010 13:00

    Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it will be installing its IMPAX Data Center 2.0 at Hospital Diagnostic Imaging Repository Services (HDIRS) in Toronto, Canada. IMPAX Data Center is a scalable and fault tolerant enterprise medical imaging repository solution designed to store clinical DICOM data objects, including DICOM encapsulated non-imaging objects such as waveforms, structured reports and PDF's. It consolidates imaging data of departmental clinical information systems, including disparate PACS systems, catering to the imaging management needs of an enterprise and serving as a unified repository for large, multi-site and multi-facility healthcare domains.

    With IMPAX Data Center 2.0 will facilitate automatic study synchronization between HDIRS's IMPAX spoke facilities and its IMPAX Data Center hub. This feature will automatically propagate structural study changes such as study split, merge, image deletion and metadata changes made at the originating spoke to the data center. This is in addition to its HL7 (Inbound) support for Patient and Study update messages: to handle patient and study updates from third party PACS/RIS.

    More: www.agfahealthcare.com

     

    15 July 2010 15:03

    Racktivity, an innovator in next generation energy management technology for data centers, has been selected by Red Herring, an influential technology publication, as one of the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The Red Herring Top 100 Europe category is evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as unique innovation in technology, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective market sectors.

    “We are pleased to have been recognised and included in such a prestigious list of emerging innovators,” comments Marco DeMiroz, President & CEO of Racktivity, “The datacenter market is growing rapidly across the world and we believe that the industry is ready for innovation to solve one of the main challenges stemming from high energy consumption that impacts fundamental economics of building, operating and expanding data centers.

    More: www.racktivity.com

     

    15 July 2010 15:00

    Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that both its DX-D 500n and DX-D 300 Direct Radiography (DR) systems now are available for sale in the United States. Both Direct Radiography systems deliver high productivity, combined with high image quality and workflow efficiency to the radiography department. The DX-D 300 universal arm DR solution and the ceiling mounted DX-D 500n DR system, provide Agfa HealthCare customers with powerful new DR solutions in addition to the company's complete portfolio of Computed Radiography (CR) systems.

    The DX-D 500n and DX-D 300 systems have been specifically developed to support a wide range of exams, while at the same time meeting the facility's need for high image quality. In keeping with Agfa HealthCare's commitment to interoperability and open standards, the DX-D 500n and DX-D 300 are DICOM compliant allowing for RIS, PACS and HIS system compatibility.

    More: www.agfahealthcare.com

     

    15 July 2010 09:30

    Kodak today announced that it has appointed Midwich Limited to broaden distribution of its networked, workgroup and departmental scanners to over 6,000 IT resellers based in the UK and Ireland [through its wholly owned Square One subsidiary].

    Effective immediately, Midwich will provide an additional route to market for Kodak’s comprehensive range of SoHo and enterprise scanners. These include the Scan Station 500 networked scanner, Kodak’s ScanMate, i30/40 and i1200 plus series workgroup scanners, along with its higher performance departmental Truper, Sidekick, i1300 plus, i1400 and i4000 series scanners.

    With a 30-year heritage, Midwich is an award winning trade only distributor, well known with systems integrators and resellers selling print and imaging, audio visual (AV), consumer electronics and office equipment solutions. ISO 9001:2000 accredited, Midwich employs over 200 staff with sales in the year ending 2009 totalling £173 million.

    More: www.kodak.com

     

    14 July 2010 11:46

    Epiq Systems Limited, a leading provider of technology solutions for the legal profession, has launched dynamic new document review services to assist law firms and corporate clients with the efficient and timely management of their e-Disclosure and e-Discovery processes. Whether producing to a European regulatory body or a UK court, Epiq’s review service can be customised to serve the multi-national client’s needs.

    Document review is the most expensive part of an electronic disclosure project and can account for 60% - 85% of the overall cost of the litigation. Epiq’s new service offers a unique onshore legal document review solution aimed at mitigating the rising cost of litigation without compromising on quality of output. Corporate legal departments facing shrinking litigation budgets and law firms managing clients’ rising costs sensitivities will be able to effectively manage costs with this new onshore review service.

    More: www.epiqsystems.com

     

    14 July 2010 11:18

    Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that it has partnered with ControlCircle, a global provider of design, implementation and outsourced managed services of complex IT infrastructures. The agreement will permit ControlCircle to deliver enhanced colocation data centre packages to customers where security, infrastructure and availability are critical to their business.

    ControlCircle’s customers include large online businesses and blue-chip companies in the banking, legal, accounting and commercial sectors. With the rapid increase in digital media and online services creating immeasurable amounts of data, ControlCircle recognised the need for secure, low-latency access to data centres that facilitated high transaction volumes. ControlCircle embarked on a rigorous assessment of the UK’s top 20 colocation data centre providers, benchmarking each contender on security, infrastructure, availability of site and cost.

    More: http://www.interxion.com/

     

    14 July 2010 10:23

    Trusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today announced that the Zeus (Zbot) financial malware is targeting online banking customers of 15 leading US financial institutions by exploiting two trusted credit card security programs. After users have initiated a secure online banking session, the Zeus Trojan injects into the browser a facsimile of the familiar Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode enrollment screen. It then prompts users to enter their social security number, credit or debit card number, expiration date, and PIN or CSV code.

    The information gathered by Zeus is used by fraudsters to commit ‘card not present’ transactions with retailers that employ Verified by Visa and SecureCode protection. This stolen data allows criminals to impersonate their victims and register with these programs to ensure fraudulent transactions elude fraud detection systems.

    For a sample of the fake enrolment screen, see: http://www.trusteer.com/sites/default/files/ZeusVisaMastercardFraud.jpg

    More: www.trusteer.com

     

    13 July 2010 18:50

    Crawford Technologies Inc., a leader in print-stream transformation and document re-engineering software solutions, is delighted to announce a new partnership with Docuplus, who becomes an official reseller of CrawfordTech's award-winning software in the United Kingdom. Docuplus and their team of industry experts will strengthen CrawfordTech's market and customer coverage as the company looks to continue its strong growth in Europe.
    Crawford Technologies, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, produces award-winning software used by numerous international government agencies and the world's leading banking, insurance, telecommunications, utilities and service provider companies.
    The CrawfordTech suite of products, which includes the PRO Document Enhancer software family that enhances legacy computer output with Transpromo messaging, barcodes, QR codes and mailing controls, will be marketed by Docuplus across the United Kingdom.

    More: www.crawfordtech.com

     

    13 July 2010 16:06

    DocuLex announces the compatibility of the company’s Archive Studio content management software with Canon’s imageFORMULA ScanFront 220/220P network scanners. The integration of the products creates a secure, affordable network system allowing various entities to manage all forms of paper and electronic document contents via automated and distributive means, providing secure, permission-based accessibility. The products are suited for use in stand-alone and MFP environments.

    The imageFORMULA ScanFront 220/220P are easy-to-use network scanners that provide broad range of functionality in a compact touch-screen device. In addition, the ScanFront 220/220P’s large, 8.5-inch touch-screen display allows users to preview document images before sending to ensure proper content was captured. Delivering letter-sized document scanning at speeds up to 26 pages-per-minute (ppm) or 35 images-per-minute (ipm), the imageFORMULA ScanFront 220/220P also allows remote device setup and management. Network administrators can centrally manage entire fleets of ScanFront network scanners from a single console.

    More: http://www.doculex.com

     

    13 July 2010 14:04

    Kodak and 5280 Solutions LLC, a member of Kodak’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program, announce a new co-branding agreement that enhances document management integration with MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT Server. 5280’s channel will market and sell a special version of KODAK Capture Pro Software with 5280’s DYNAMIC FILER Software for batch scanning into SHAREPOINT Server.

    The co-branded product enables both government organizations and private businesses to automate the digitization of paper-based records for use across larger applications. Recent installations include the Government of Bermuda’s Ministry of Finance Accountant General’s Office and CountryMark, an Indiana oil exploration, production, refining and marketing company.

    More: http://graphics.kodak.com/docimaging/US/en/landing_page/sharepoint/index.htm

     

    13 July 2010 13:38

    PFU Imaging Solutions Europe Limited, responsible for the sales and marketing activities of Fujitsu document scanners, today announced the appointment of Doug Rudolph as General Manager of Marketing and Katarzyna Chentko, as Country Manager for Eastern Europe to build on its existing success in EMEA markets.
     

    Doug Rudolph – General Manager Marketing

    Based in the UK, Rudolph will assume responsibility for driving business growth and profitability in PFU’s EMEA document imaging sector. Rudolph will oversee marketing strategies across Europe in order to achieve productivity and improve PFU brand recognition and reputation in the EMEA markets. He will also be responsible for aligning the marketing strategies to sales within Europe.

    Rudolph brings over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, with the last 17 years focused in the document imaging market to Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. in his role as Vice President, Product Management and Business Development.

    At his previous company, Kofax Image Products, Rudolph was a Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Image Processing Technology, as well as Vice President of Business Development and OEM Sales. Rudolph graduated from the University of Irvine, where he received a BS in Information and Computer Science plus a BA in Economics.

     

    Katarzyna Chentko – Country Manager Eastern Europe

    Chentko will lead the document management sales in Eastern Europe as the country manager. Her main remit will be to drive and expand PFU’s scanner business together with the partner community in Eastern Europe. Chentko has 12 years of experience in the IT business, with the first 9 years focused on Fujitsu scanners in her role as Marketing Specialist and Marketing Product Manager. For the past 3 years, she had been working successfully as a Systems Division Manager at an authorised Fujitsu distributor focused on Scanner Business Development and storage solutions for the Polish market.

    Katarzyna graduated from the Polish International School of Marketing and Management; Private University of Commerce and Law where she received master degree in civil law plus from the University of Warsaw where she received degree in Sales Management.

    More: www.pfu.fujitsu.com/en/

     

     

     

    13 July 2010 11:54

    Imperva, the leader in data security, announced a File Security product line, the latest addition to the company’s SecureSphere Data Security Suite. SecureSphere File Firewall prevents unauthorized access to unstructured data residing on file servers, network attached storage (NAS). SecureSphere File Activity Monitoring (FAM) allows enterprises to monitor access to sensitive file data, establish an audit trail for compliance and reduce data access rights to a business need-to-know level. With this product expansion, Imperva’s data security suite helps enterprises protect not only web applications and databases but file systems as well.

    “Critical business data exists everywhere: databases, applications and, most commonly, file servers,” said Imperva CTO Amichai Shulman. “Valuable business documents, intellectual property such as software source code, finance spreadsheets, and many other types of data are stored in these files. Yet, businesses today still lack the appropriate tools needed to monitor and secure sensitive file data within their organization. And securing file systems is essential if companies wish to successfully comply with PCI, SOX or other data security mandates.”

    More: www.imperva.com

     

    13 July 2010 10:41

    TeleWare, the leading provider of communications solutions for mobile and distributed workers, today announced the deployment of a multi lingual incoming call management solution for the ticket centre for a major sporting event. Supporting multiple languages, the system ensures that during periods of high call volume, eager fans can leave a message and an email is generated and sent to the local country team to contact the caller directly to arrange tickets and accommodation requirements.

    “The volume of calls our client is experiencing is huge and may well grow as the event progresses,” comments Stephen Pritchard, Managing Director of Matrix247, “what we needed was a method of dealing with surges of call volumes in an effective manner and then route the information to the right agents in different countries.”

    More: www.teleware.com

     

    12 July 2010 18:43

    me2me AG, supplier of web and voice services today announces the successful completion of a total merger with Swiss compatriot and leading provider of digital dictation products and voice technology iSpeech. The freshly merged company, which will continue to operate under the me2me brand, will deliver iSpeech’s popular dictation, workflow management and speech recognition product Frisbee as a downloadable mobile smartphone app.

    Frisbee facilitates, organizes and speeds up cooperation between experts and administrative staff in environments where spoken text has to be transformed into structured documents. Core segments are the areas of legal, healthcare, public authorities and administration. The integration of all relevant professional dictation machines and mobile telephones enables a free choice of brands. Thousands of doctors, lawyers and other specialists worldwide are already playing their file notes, findings, memos and other correspondence to their back-office as a Frisbee service.

    “We are extremely excited by the merger. iSpeech has a strong heritage in digital dictation services with systems operating in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, France, South Africa and Switzerland. Using the natural synergies between me2me’s portfolio and iSpeech and the ubiquity of mobile devices services, we aim to expand Frisbee worldwide. By the third quarter this year we will have launched the Frisbee Smart solution”, said Peter Hauser, CEO and COB me2me AG, adding: “We will be the first company in the world to come to market with full dictation services and features service for workstation and server based dictation with fast-forward, rewind, insert and more features integrated into smartphones.”

    More: http://www.me2me.com/

     

    12 July 2010 15:00

    A new solution from Kodak and MedCo Data will help physician groups and other ambulatory practices automate conversion of paper-based patient charts to digital files for secure storage and seamless export into electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) systems. Unveiled in late June at the TechData Technology Solutions Tour, the Patient Chart Scanning Solution uses KODAK Capture Pro Software and KODAK Scanners to capture data from patient charts and transfer it automatically into the Health Insurance Portablity and Accountability Act (or HIPAA)-compliant MedCo Data Vault, where it can be stored and retrieved as needed.

    Because scanned files are automatically formatted using industry-accepted health data standards, including HL7, NCPDP and CCD, the Patient Chart Scanning Solution facilitates easy and accurate export from the MedCo Data Vault into the practice’s existing or future EMR/EHR system.

    “The amount of critical information contained within paper-based patient charts makes this conversion process an essential benchmark of success as more physicians move to adopt EMR and EHR systems,” said Jody Miller, Business Development Director, Worldwide Healthcare Solutions, KODAK Solutions for Business. “Our patient chart scanning solution with MedCo Data provides an easy-to-use, efficient platform that can deliver time and cost savings across an entire medical practice.”

    More: www.medcodata.com

    More: http://www.kodak.com

     

    12 July 2010 14:48

    In one of the first initiatives of its kind in England, the Ministry of Defence has worked with six constabularies to bring together all police records into one reliable, accurate and easy to use database. Using data quality specialist, Infoshare, Essex, Cambridge, Bedfordshire, Norfolk, Suffolk and Hertfordshire police can create a ‘single best person’ view of all records to help improve public safety, detect crime and bring more people to justice.

    Up until now, each constabulary had multiple disparate data systems housing information on known criminals, crime recordings, intelligence, domestic violence and child protection. These data silos could not ‘talk’ to each other or be cross-referenced and often contained an unknown quantity of duplicate or inaccurate information.

    Using Infoshare’s ClearCore Enterprise Data Quality Suite, the police forces can bring together all existing data, regardless of systems, format, language or source. The data is then automatically cleansed, analysed, compared and enriched to create evidence-driven matches rather than using probability comparison. This improves the levels of accuracy and enables the police to see all related information and to use this data to reduce crime including terrorism.

    More: www.infoshare-is.com

     

    08 July 2010 14:00

    Isilon® today announced that NAVTEQ, the leading global provider of maps, traffic and location data, has deployed multiple tiers of Isilon scale-out storage to help support its comprehensive database of digital location content. Working with leading data center solutions provider and Isilon partner Datalink, NAVTEQ has deployed the Isilon IQ X-Series and NL-Series across multiple international data centers to aggregate content, software development and other file-based applications onto a single, shared storage resource, increasing data availability and workflow productivity. Using Isilon scale-out storage, featuring its OneFS® operating system, NAVTEQ can support a wide range of applications simultaneously from a single file system, simplifying management and improving data access, while reducing storage costs and complexity.

    NAVTEQ supplies comprehensive digital location content to power automotive navigation systems, portable and wireless devices, Internet-based mapping applications and government and business solutions. Working with Datalink, NAVTEQ has deployed multiple tiers of Isilon scale-out storage across its production workflows. Using the Isilon X-Series, NAVTEQ created a single, easily expandable, shared storage resource for its software development applications, enabling its engineers to access data concurrently and collaborate more effectively. By combining Isilon’s Backup Accelerator with the X-Series cluster, NAVTEQ can backup its data to tape without impacting the front-end performance of its production applications, simultaneously reducing the risk of data loss, while improving workflow productivity.

    More: http://www.isilon.com

     

    08 July 2010 13:34

    Sharp has announced a new highly-specified single function colour printer, the MX-C380P which, for the first time, features the architecture and print engine of the company’s award-winning A4 Colour MFP range.

    As well as being a very capable single function printer, the design initiative means that the supplies, paper drawers and finishing options can be shared with other Sharp machines, leading to less inventory and reduced total cost of ownership.

    Because the MX-C380P uses the same engine as Sharp’s A4 MFPs, customers who don't need scanning and copying capabilities, will still be able to benefit from the same powerful controller, output quality, paper handling, connectivity and security features, for a fraction of the cost.

    This, plus a range of value-added features, makes the MX-C380P very attractive to all workgroups, especially if they already have one or more Sharp MFPs in the building.

    “This printer can be installed in almost any work environment seamlessly and will provide connectivity, remote management and security options that are comparable to full-featured MFPs,” said Marc Brion, Product Marketing Manager for Sharp Electronics UK. “The result is decreased downtime and lower running costs, with the added benefit of an efficient way to monitor usage.”

    More: www.sharp.co.uk

     

    08 July 2010 13:15

    ZyLAB, leading provider of e-discovery and information management solutions, today issues a stark warning that failure to effectively manage information could result in a large fines, weakened cases and loss of business, under the Civil Procedure Rules.

    With the number of disputes gradually increasing year-on-year, from 31% in 2008 to 40% this year[1], and new fines and data management regulations constantly being brought into the business world, both IT managers and legal teams face an increasingly complex compliance challenge.

    Ronald Van Vuure, Director, ZyLAB comments: “Not only is the UK becoming increasingly litigious, but we also know that legal disputes generally increase when economic times are tough. The cost of preparing data can be relatively high for legal teams and many companies may be frightened by the possibility of under-retaining data – but simultaneously, the cost of over-retaining or losing data can also be prohibitive. However, the cost of preparing now and putting effective e-discovery methodologies in place is far lower than the cost of bringing an external body in to ‘clean-up house’ and carry out audits and due diligence.”

    More: www.zylab.com

     

    08 July 2010 13:00

    Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that Page Valley Bank has selected Jack Henry Banking’s SilverLake core processing system to provide enterprise-wide automation. This Virginia-based bank, which has more than $140 million in assets, will implement SilverLake through Jack Henry Banking’s outsourced offering.

    According to Monte Layman, CEO of Page Valley Bank, “We had casually considered outsourcing during the last few years, but when we experienced some turnover in our operations area we realized it was time to move from in-house to outsourced operations. Our initial plan was to migrate to our current system provider’s outsourced offering which wouldn’t require a conversion. But the more we discussed our plan internally and with other bankers, we realized that we shouldn’t fear a conversion, and we were encouraged to consider JHA based on its reputation for great service and its broad, fully integrated product offering. The people from JHA we worked with during the evaluation process didn’t just deliver a proposal and price. They took a genuine interest in our bank, our technology needs, and our operational goals. We started viewing JHA as a true business partner almost immediately. The functionality that SilverLake and JHA’s complementary solutions provide will support our plans to expand into new markets and become more commercially focused. The ability to see accurate customer relationships and to generate better management reports, and the strong integration of all the ancillary products were also big factors in our decision. But probably the most influential factor was the way current customers spoke about JHA. The bankers we talked to were passionate about their day-to-day experience with JHA, its people, and its products.”

    More: www.pagevalleybank.com.

    More: www.jackhenrybanking.com.

     

    08 July 2010 11:49

    Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that its Technology & Engineering Group, has been recognised for their “Outstanding Contribution to the Data Centre Sector” at the sixth-annual Data Centre Europe Awards ceremony held at Espaces Antipolis in Nice, France.

    The occasion is recognised as Europe’s most prestigious data centre industry awards ceremony and honours the recipient for the group's service quality, management excellence and technical achievement within the European data centre market. The award was presented to Interxion’s Vice President of Technology & Engineering, Lex Coors, and was given to the team based on their outstanding achievements within the data centre industry.

    Interxion has been managing complex engineering, design and building challenges since the early 1980s. It has pioneered several new approaches to data centre design, build and operations, including introducing modular design and sustainable construction programmes. These novel approaches enabled Interxion to become a key influencer and promoter of energy efficiency optimisation in the data centre sector.

    More: www.interxion.com

     

    08 July 2010 11:20

    Reports are coming in that a US airport manager has been sacked for attempting to sell a laptop that was apparently stolen from the lost property department at Newark Liberty International Airport.

    And, says Andy Cordial, managing director with storage systems integration specialist Origin Storage, whilst it is worrying to hear about the moral failures of someone responsible for airport security - including the safety of passengers as they travel in the air - the sage sends a clear message to many laptop users that still do not encrypt their notebook computer data.

    "Although precise numbers are not available on the percentages of UK laptop users that do not encrypt their data, a Ponemon Institute study of early last year revealed that 56 per cent of US business laptop users disable or simply do not use encryption on their notebooks," he said.

    More on the US airport laptop security staff sacking saga: http://bit.ly/atTL8k

    More: www.originstorage.com

     

    07 July 2010 15:44

    kCura today announced that Foley Hoag LLP has selected Relativity for e-discovery review. The progressive dispute resolution firm chose Relativity for its ease-of-use, flexibility, and speed.

    “In selecting e-discovery review software for the firm, we required a platform that would bring increased efficiencies to both our attorneys performing the review, as well as the supporting staff administering the process,” said John Palumbo, Senior Litigation Support Manager at Foley Hoag. “With Relativity, review is faster and easier to manage.”

    Using Relativity’s customizable workflows and granular security model, Foley Hoag is able to scale the platform to efficiently meet their clients’ review needs. Case teams can design best practices workflows and automate them inside of Relativity, in addition to setting custom requirements for batching and distributing documents. The easy-to-use application requires minimal training, reducing time and costs without sacrificing review quality.

    More: www.kcura.com.

     

    07 July 2010 11:22

    Isilon® Systems today announced that STN, a leading teleport service provider delivering broadcasts over satellite for Central and Eastern Europe, has successfully implemented an Isilon scale-out Storage platform for its existing environment and to help migrate clients onto its new playout system and meet strong demand for its innovative services.

    As Tomaz Lovsin, Managing Director of STN explains, “For us, the raw performance and the stability of the storage system is critical so that we don’t suffer from any downtime or let alone data loss - that would be just catastrophic!” With many of the channels operating 24 hours a day and often playing live events, the loss of service for even a few minutes would be extremely damaging to the firms reputation and could ultimately cause financial penalties and loss of valuable contracts.

    The firm has won several major contracts including the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV, MYtv and Total TV, and established itself as the largest independent satellite broadcaster in the region. With growth still strong, STN chose a new Isilon scale-out storage architecture to allow it to independently scale capacity and performance to match its current and future requirements while providing a dependable foundation for the continued growth of the business.

    More: http://www.stn.eu

    More: http://www.isilon.com

     

    07 July 2010 09:49

    The results of Cyber-Ark® Software’s fourth annual “Trust, Security and Passwords” global survey show that 35 percent of respondents believe their company’s highly-sensitive information has been handed over to competitors. Thirty-seven percent of the IT professionals surveyed cited ex-employees as the most likely source of this abuse of trust. While perhaps not surprising that disgruntled workers top the list, it’s noteworthy that 28 percent suspected “human error” as the next most likely cause, followed by falling victim to an external hack or loss of a mobile device/laptop, each at 10 percent. The most popular information shared with competitors was the customer database (26 percent) and R&D plans (13 percent).

    Cyber-Ark’s fourth annual “Trust, Security and Passwords” global survey is the result of interviews conducted in the Spring of 2010 with more than 400 senior IT professionals both in the US and UK, mainly from enterprise-class companies.

    More: http://www.cyber-ark.com/constants/white-papers.asp

     

    07 July 2010 08:08

    Trusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today warns that July 31st is an important date if you have pay income tax under self assessment, have kids or are on a low income, as this is the deadline to file a tax credits renewal with HMRC  or pay the second instalment of income tax. And given the tax changes seen in the Chancellor's just-announced budget, many parents will be filing in the hope of an extra tax credit to offset the rest of what has been something of an austerity budget.

    The danger now, says Trusteer, is that tax credit filers will click on unsolicited emails that look as though they might have been sent by HMRC, and in doing so, may end up infecting their home or office computers.

    More: www.trusteer.com

     

    06 July 2010 13:00

    Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has completed the installation of its leading IMPAX 6 Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and its fifth generation RIS (Radiology Information System) at four of Alliance Medical's sites across Ireland.

    Alliance Medical, an independent provider of diagnostic imaging services, has 11 dedicated sites across Ireland and is committed to providing high quality diagnostic services to patients, referring clinicians and hospitals. Alliance Medical offers a full range of diagnostic services including MRI, CT, DXA, Ultrasound and X-ray.

    More: www.agfahealthcare.com

     

    06 July 2010 12:06

    ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group, and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac has received the award for “Best Professional Software” from Macworld UK magazine. The award was handed out at the Macworld Awards, a computer industry event that recognises the products and vendors that have made a significant contribution throughout the past year. ABBYY FineReader Express Edition for Mac provides easily accessible, high performance optical character recognition (OCR) and saves users precious time previously spent retyping and reformatting text.

    “We are truly honoured that the editors and the readers of Macworld UK voted for our product,” explained David Evans, ABBYY UK Sales Director. “A Macworld Award is considered a benchmark of excellence throughout the industry and we are pleased to have that distinction.”

    More: www.abbyy.com

     

    06 July 2010 10:12

    TeleWare, the leading provider of communications solutions for mobile and distributed workers, has announced a major step forward in providing resilience in the network.

    Services from the TeleWare hosted platform can be provided automatically with a higher level of resilience than ever before by configuration of each extension, SIP Trunk or SIP Trunk channel to automatically divert if the telephone extension is not able to be found by the hosted platform. The hosted Platform recognises the unit and/or network is unavailable and automatically diverts the call to a predefined number, which can be a mobile, PSTN or any other DDI. Using this same platform intelligence, a complete SIP Trunk or individual SIP Trunk channels can be allocated an alternative route. Traffic will be automatically diverted if the trunk goes down.

    More: www.worldofteleware.com & www.teleware.com

     

     

    02 July 2010 13:24

    Visioneer®, a leader in intelligent imaging solutions and Xerox® Licensing Partner, has today announced Visioneer OneTouch 4.6, a significant upgrade that enhances and expands the capabilities of Visioneer and Xerox DocuMate scanners. Available as a free software upgrade, the new release gives users additional functionality within the Visioneer OneTouch interface to customise files, be more productive with scanned images and increase document security.

    More: Visioneer OneTouch 4.6 is easy to install and can be downloaded from

    www.visioneer.com/support or www.xeroxscanners.com/support free of charge.

     

    01 July 2010 16:49

    ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Avanquest ProcessFlows of Winchester, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Avanquest ProcessFlows has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Avanquest ProcessFlows joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme.

    ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).

    More: http://www.abbyy.com/

     

    01 July 2010 13:59

    MOBOTIX AG, a leading manufacturer of complete high-resolution IP video systems have released details of an installation of its MOBOTIX CCTV solution at Bromsgrove School that has helped protect pupils, staff and property across a 100 acre site for over seven years without fail. The project which was designed, implemented and maintained by NS Optimum Ltd includes 35 cameras delivering megapixel quality as part of a combined data, voice and video network.

    With a history spanning over 500 years, Bromsgrove is one of Britain’s finest independent schools attended by over 1500 pupils from 35 countries. With a campus in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, the school is often ranked by independent measure as one of the top five British coeducational boarding/day schools. In 2003, the school decided to improve its security measures in response to concerns over pupil and staff safety. Expansion of Its existing small scale analogue CCTV installation covering a few car park areas was deemed unacceptable due to poor quality and unreliability.

    More: www.mobotix.com

     

    01 July 2010 11:55

    Trusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today warns that bank customers are being targeted by criminals using regional specific malware that flies under the radar of most antivirus technology to steal peoples online banking credentials and commit fraud. Detection rates for regional malware are between zero and 20%, suggesting that the majority of these attacks go undetected.

    Two pieces of regional malware targeted at UK banks have been detected by Trusteer; Silon.var2 .which resides on one in every 500 computers in the UK compared to one in 20,000 in the US, and Agent.DBJP, detected on 1 in 5000 computers in the UK compared to 1 in 60,000 in the US. In addition, Trusteer has discovered two UK-specific Zeus botnets. Although Zeus is the most known piece of financial malware, the uniqueness of these botnets is that they only consist of UK-based computers and only target UK-based banks. Hence these variants are less likely to be detected by antivirus solutions.

    More: www.trusteer.com

     

    01 July 2010 11:24

    Canon UK has today announced it is extending its scanning portfolio with the launch of three new scanning solutions to increase business efficiency:

    · Canon launches new range of ScanFront network scanners to boost workplace efficiencies - the imageFORMULA ScanFront 300 and 300P connect directly to company networks to share information quickly and efficiently across organisations

    · Canon launches plug-in flatbed scanner to support existing imageFORMULA portfolio – the Flatbed Scanner Unit 101 provides flexibility to how organisations scan documents. Compatible with imageFORMULA scanners via USB, users can copy irregular sized documents that cannot be processed through an automatic document feeder

    · Canon launches imageFORMULA CR-190i for quick, accurate cheque and voucher scanning – one of the fastest compact cheque scanners on the market, it has been designed to meet the needs of banks and retailers needing fast, high-quality payment processing

    More: www.canon.co.uk

     


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    30 June 2010 20:42

    Kodak announces Cima Software Corporation, developers of the DOCUCLASS Document Management Solution, as a member of its Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. Cima will work with customers to use KODAK Software and Scanners to digitally extract information from paper records and forms into its document management software. The combined technologies will help businesses improve the efficiency of process-driven tasks, such as claims processing, accounts payable, human resources and medical billing.

    “Cima Software Corporation is committed to bringing world-class document management solutions to the marketplace, and being a member of the KODAK ISV Reseller Program plays a big part in helping us to deliver on this promise,” said Nelson Cano, Solutions Principal, Cima Software. “Kodak’s advanced imaging capabilities will improve the quality, accuracy and integrity of the information used within the DOCUCLASS Document Management Solution.”
    More: www.docuclass.com
    More: http://www.kodak.com

     

    30 June 2010 15:21

    ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is expanding its offering for enterprise search systems with the new ABBYY Recognition Server IFilter solution. Integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) or Windows Search, it unlocks image files such as TIFF, JPEG, DjVu, and PDF for full-text content indexing and therefore enables faster and more complete search of all documents in a corporate network. As a result, corporate users have a reliable tool to easily sort through volumes of image files accumulated in their organisation.

    “Enterprise search systems give corporate users quick access to information contained in a variety of documents necessary to perform everyday tasks. A document that cannot be quickly retrieved is usually considered to be lost even if, nominally, it still exists somewhere in the archives. But some documents are stored in formats that are not convenient for search and retrieval, such as image formats,” commented Andrey Isaev, director of Technology Products Department at ABBYY. “Our product, designed to enhance Microsoft systems with the image content search support, provides an easy solution to simplify access to corporate information and knowledge, and increase work efficiency in an organisation.”

    More: http://www.abbyy.com

     

    30 June 2010 11:48

    PCI DSS Compliance is certainly going to be top of mind for retailers in the coming months. On Thursday July 1st Visa is tightening up its security rules on smaller companies accepting card payments; this is particularly pertinent as it was announced earlier this month that all London Olympics tickets must be purchased on a Visa card! In September, a further security mandate will require large scale card-accepting businesses to be fully PCI DSS compliant from the start of that month onwards.

    What is needed, according to Jeff LoSapio, security practice manager for application security specialists Fortify, is a change of mindset at the SME end of the market: “Smaller companies accepting card payments need to start thinking like larger scale companies. With cyber threats at an all time high they are increasingly a target and need to take PCI seriously.”

    More: http://www.fortify.com/security-resources/library/compliance.jsp

     

    30 June 2010 11:18

    This month Fujitsu is celebrating its 75 year anniversary – a milestone very few other global IT companies have reached. Fujitsu, which is today the largest Japanese employer in the UK and Ireland (11,500 employees), has been a fundamental part of some of the IT industry's most notable breakthroughs and innovations – from the early days of telephone switching in the 1930s; the mainframe and parallel computing generation of the 1970s, to more recent inventions such as palm vein authentication and the world's first 3D PC.

    Today Fujitsu is a £2 billion revenue company in the UK and Ireland; managing over 1 million desktops across government departments and private organisations; was the first company in Europe to have a Tier III certified data centre, and recently won the UK's largest desktop and thin client outsource deal with the Department for Work and Pensions. Globally the company is ranked by Gartner as the worlds third largest IT services provider based on total revenue*; employs 170,000 people worldwide; is present in 70 countries, and reported revenues of 4.6 trillion yen ($50bn) in the financial year ending 31 March 2010.

    More: http://www.fujitsu.com/

     

    30 June 2010 11:16

    Verity Systems, leading manufacturer of degaussers and bulk tape erasers, today announced that their hard drive degausser, the SDD Master has been tested and approved by the National Security Agency (NSA) to sanitize classified information from magnetic storage media, and now features on the NSA’s Evaluated Products List for Degaussers.

    The National Security Agency (NSA) has set out a policy for the disposal of magnetic storage devices such as hard drives. It is this standard that all US government agencies must adhere to and is recognised as the most effective and fool-proof way of disposing of hard drives effectively and securely. Security professionals need a guarantee that their data is completely erased and the SDD Master degausser delivers.

    The SDD Master is simple and safe to operate. Lift the perspex lid, insert the hard drive, close the lid and press START. The entire cycle takes approximately 60 seconds. Data becomes permanently unrecoverable once exposed to the powerful gauss force in the device. The SDD-Master delivers a minimum magnetic field of 17,750 gauss, three times to the media throughout the automatic operation. This ensures that the SDD Master remains unrivalled by any other degausser on the market.

    More: www.veritysystems.co.uk  

     

    30 June 2010 09:39

    At the recent Interop Tokyo event, Napatech successfully demonstrated that a standard server with 8 CPU cores can be used to build a full throughput 10 Gbps Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Napatech has shown with this breakthrough that high-performance IPS products can be built using off-the-shelf components at lower cost, with less risk and faster time-to-market. More significantly, this demonstration shows that throughput performance can be scaled with the number of available CPU cores leading to even higher throughput possibilities.

    “With Napatech network adapters, we can take full advantage of available CPU cores, which allows the solution to scale”, according to Erik Norup, President, Napatech Inc. “We can support up to 32 CPU cores, so throughput performance can be increased even higher, if more CPU cores are available. This provides predictable scalability in performance.”

    More: http://www.napatech.com/resources

     

    30 June 2010 09:33

    Aia Software, a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced that its ITP Document Platform will facilitate anytime and anywhere document creation through integration with Office 2010. Microsoft Office Web Apps, the online equivalent of the Office applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, gives users online access to documents created in ITP.

    Users can view, share and edit documents on a desktop PC, a mobile device or online. This makes interactive correspondence management with ITP wholly independent of the kind of browser that is used, with the integrated approach offering unrivalled ease of use. This new development lays the foundation for the future deployment of ITP in the Cloud through Microsoft BPOS and Azure.

    ITP allows business users to develop and manage the content of their own documents themselves, without the intervention of the IT department. As a result, documents can be edited quicker and more efficiently. Integration with Microsoft Office is one of ITP’s strengths. ITP can generate correspondence based on templates and text boxes from Microsoft Word, or generate documents in Word, so that the user can further edit these documents. Recording templates, text boxes and input fields makes it possible to guarantee the quality and consistency of customer communication. It also yields cost savings as employees will no longer have to repeatedly draft the same letters, emails, proposals or contracts manually.

    More: www.aia-itp.com

     

    29 June 2010 16:22
    Trillium Software®, a business of Harte-Hanks, Inc. , and a leading enabler of Total Data Quality solutions, announced today that independent industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has positioned Trillium Software in the "leaders" quadrant of Gartner’s influential Magic Quadrant for Data Quality Tools(1) research report.

    “Our focus within Trillium Software has always been about helping organizations succeed. Our market leading solution is designed to help businesses in all industries, with all types of data, create and maintain decision-ready information,” said Len Dubois, senior vice president of marketing at Trillium Software. “Data quality is strategic to our customers, and we are the only vendor whose sole focus is to improve the quality of data within large enterprises. As a trusted partner for our customers, we provide deep knowledge and experience in how data impacts business processes and results. We provide a level of data quality expertise that challenges our competitors who treat data management as a commodity.”

    You can download a complimentary copy of the Magic Quadrant by clicking HERE.
    More: http://www.trilliumsoftware.com

    29 June 2010 16:17
    Pitney Bowes Business Insight, a global leader in location intelligence, data management and customer communication management software, data and services, today announced that EngageOne™ Interactive, the company’s solution for interactive document generation, can now be integrated with SAP® applications. Developed by BSG Business Services GmbH (BSG) and SAP-certified as powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, the BSG Interface for EngageOne 1.0 can be used to initiate, conduct and complete interactive document processes at the click of a mouse directly from the SAP® ERP application.

    Many companies use SAP solutions to create documents across numerous business functions, such as insurance claims documents, credit card dispute letters or HR correspondence. EngageOne Interactive may replace costly and maintenance intensive document processing applications. It is based on the certified BSG Interface for EngageOneTM, and is easy to integrate with SAP ERP. The solution offers targeted and direct access to document templates within the SAP application, providing integrated management of documents during processing as well as workflow support, temporary archiving and comprehensive evaluation options.
    More: http://www.pbinsight.co.uk/

     

    29 June 2010 15:16
    ABBYY® Europe
    , a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that it is offering the ABBYY Recognition Server™ for Google Search Appliance™ together with its newly announced Recognition Server 3.0. ABBYY Recognition Server works as a background optical character recognition (OCR) service, enabling Google Search Appliance to index full text content from documents in image formats to make them easily discoverable. ABBYY Recognition Server for Google Search Appliance is a highly efficient solution for organisations looking to decrease administrative costs and prevent the loss of company equity by ensuring that all valuable organisational knowledge is electronically accessible 24 x 7.
    Often the success of a company rests on its ability to build efficient processes that keep information moving. Companies that are able to quickly organise and access information are in a better position to save money and time with shorter training periods for new employees, and increased productivity from knowledge workers in their daily work. Google Search Appliance is an enterprise search system designed to index searchable and editable file formats on an organisation’s file servers, Web servers, content management systems, and other resources. Google Search Appliance makes these documents available for the user to search using an easy to use Google interface.
    More: http://www.abbyy.com

    29 June 2010 13:25
    Isilon® today announced the sixth generation of its OneFS® scale-out storage operating system and two new data management software applications, SmartPools™ and InsightIQ™. With OneFS 6.0, SmartPools and InsightIQ, Isilon delivers a uniquely powerful yet simple approach to solving complex data management challenges, enabling enterprise IT departments to easily manage data, consolidate applications and scale out a single storage resource in lockstep with evolving business needs.
    Leveraging the innovations of Isilon’s industry-leading scale-out storage platform, SmartPools enables users to unify multiple Isilon storage performance tiers into a single file system, providing simplified data management and automated data movement to drive increased efficiency, cost-savings and application performance. Using SmartPools in combination with InsightIQ, Isilon’s new storage analytics application, administrators can optimize workflow performance by closely aligning application demands with storage resources, improving resource utilization and reducing both capital and operating expenses.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

     

    29 June 2010 12:00

    Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. , a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that it has been awarded the Microsoft ISV (Independent Software Vendor)/Software Solutions Partner of the Year Award. The Microsoft Partner Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions during the last year. Jack Henry & Associates was chosen for the award out of an international field of top Microsoft partners for delivering market-leading customer solutions built on Microsoft technology.
    According to Jack Prim, CEO of Jack Henry & Associates, “We are sincerely honored that our company was selected as Microsoft’s 2010 ISV/Software Solutions Partner of the Year. It is our associates who deserve the credit for this achievement considering it is the high-quality products they build and the outstanding customer service they provide day-in, day-out that differentiates us in the markets we serve and generates rewarding levels of customer satisfaction and loyalty. This award also reinforces the strength of our relationship with Microsoft and the value we derive from its technology.”
    Awards were presented in a number of categories, with winners chosen from a pool of almost 3,000
    More: www.jackhenry.com

    29 June 2010 10:46

    WWF-UK has chosen bluesource to provide a range of fully managed technology solutions to improve and consolidate its communication and information collaboration operations. This move will help WWF-UK to cut costs, optimise their information environment and support their green ethics.

    bluesource is helping WWF-UK to update and consolidate its IT messaging and information server infrastructure onto a single, reliable, future-proof, Microsoft Exchange 2007 platform. bluesource devised an archiving migration strategy for the protection and management of WWF-UK’s information stores and used Symantec’s Enterprise Vault to automate email and content archiving.

    bluesource has also advised WWF-UK on the deployment of additional Microsoft technologies, including Active directory and Outlook in the UK, to help connect WWF’s UK workforce across the globe.
    More: http://www.bluesource.co.uk/

     

    29 June 2010 09:27

    AVAST Software, developer of the award-winning avast! antivirus, released a report today proving wrong the general
    "feeling" that it is the 'dodgy' and 'adult‘ sites that are virus infected. "We are not recommending people to start searching for erotic content, not at all" says CTO Ondrej Vlcek "but the statistics are clear - for every infected adult
    domain we identify there are 99 others with perfectly legitimate content that are also infected".
    In the UK for example, we see every day more infected domains containing the word "London" (such as the blog section of http://kensington-london-hotels.co.uk/) than any other domain containing the word "sex". The latest discovery of an infected site is the Vodafone UK website. This infection in the smart phones section shows how advanced the bad guys are at finding ways to deliver the malware to the internet users.
    More: www.avast.com

     

    28 June 2010 18:09

    DocuLex, creator of document and content management software, announces receiving industry analyst Buyers Lab’s top 5-Star rating for the company’s flagship offering, DocuLex Archive Studio.
    The report’s overview states:
    “DocuLex Archive Studio combines a scan capture and routing tool with a document management repository to form a cohesive content management, workflow and document collaboration system. Noteworthy is that it’s one of the few offerings on the market that includes the archive component, WebSearch, and a robust scan component, Goby Capture, in a single package. Furthermore, except for additional logins for the repository, all features and functionality are standard so businesses receive everything up front. While Goby Capture and WebSearch can be implemented separately, DocuLex reports that approximately 95 percent of customers choose to purchase the suite.
    More: www.doculex.com

    To review the Buyers Lab report, visit http://www.doculex.com/releases.htm.

    28 June 2010 16:15
    Canon UK
    , world leader in imaging solutions, today announced a contract to supply Channel 5 Broadcasting, with print and imaging equipment for the UK broadcaster’s newly refurbished central London Office.
    The five-storey building, which houses the majority of the organisations 290-strong workforce, is now fitted with Canon multifunctional printers (MFPs) to help manage print and document management more effectively. Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE devices serve all departments across the business so will be printing anything from production schedules, scripts, financial reports, to creative ideas and marketing materials.
    Environment and energy savings were a key consideration for Channel 5 Broadcasting when making decisions about the office refurbishment. Consolidating the printer fleet to just two per floor, instead of multiple desktop devices, and providing access cards for staff to release printing at the device were therefore suggested as simple ways to control printing and cut waste within the organisation. The latest imageRUNNER ADVANCE devices also offer the industry’s highest levels of energy efficiency with an overall reduction in carbon emissions of up to 50 percent.
    More: www.canon.co.uk

    28 June 2010 13:00

    Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced the rebranding of Pemco Technologies, which it acquired in October 2009. Pemco Technologies will be rebranded as JHA Payment Processing Solutions and will operate as a division of Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. Jack Henry & Associates was contractually committed to rebrand Pemco Technologies within one year of the acquisition.
    JHA Payment Processing Solutions will continue Pemco Technologies’ long history of operating as a leading provider of payment processing solutions and outstanding client care and service.
    The products and services added through this acquisition strategically complement Jack Henry & Associates’ ATM and debit card solutions with proven credit and prepaid card solutions, and positions the company to support financial institutions with a broader array of payment-related solutions that are collectively supporting more than 1,000 banks and credit unions.
    More: www.weknowpayments.com
    More: www.jackhenry.com

     

    28 June 2010 11:30

    Global 360, a leading provider of Process and Document Management solutions, today reported strong results for its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31, 2010, compared to the same quarter a year ago, led by a 106 percent year-over-year quarterly increase in license revenue from its strategic Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) business.
    The company also reported a 22 percent increase in total BPMS business year-over-year with 49 percent from net new BPM license revenue, along with a 78 percent increase in its Professional Services Organization (PSO). In addition, 29 percent of FY10 license revenue was influenced by Global 360 partners.
    Noted Global 360 President and CEO David Mitchell, "Our corporate strategy and positioning is working, as evidenced by our ability to target and win the highest percentage of new customer business we have achieved in the last two years. Our leadership in BPM and case management, supported by our persona-based approach, is fueling our growth - and confirming the need in the market to address the needs of knowledge workers."
    More: http://www.global360.com/

     

    28 June 2010 11:12

    Intel's new Anti-Theft (AT) technology for computers, which allows for companies to give a remote command to a laptop PC to disable access to the computer's operating system or, where appropriate, disabling the encryption key system, has been given a big welcome by Origin Storage.

    "The points raised by Duncan Mee, the director of WinMagic over the weekend, in a podcast with security analyst Ben Chai in which he explains that the Intel AT technology can auto-disable the laptop if it does not `call home' every 30 days, is a very powerful feature," said Andy Cordial, managing director with the storage systems integration specialist.

    "What this means is that laptops will start to cease to be such an attractive target for thieves, who will effectively be left with a high-tech doorstop on their hands when the AT system is triggered, either remotely, or the laptop fails to call home within the required period," he added.
    More: http://www.intel.com/technology/anti-theft
    More: www.originstorage.com

    28 June 2010 09:40
    Australian-listed Senetas Corporation Limited today announced it has agreed to acquire a UK-based encryption solutions business to lead its efforts to aggressively grow the Senetas share of the high speed network encryption market in United Kingdom and Europe.
    Senetas CEO, John DuBois said Senetas Europe Limited would be a 100%-owned subsidiary of the Australian listed company from July 5, 2010. This follows the signing of an agreement to acquire Focus Europe Limited a highly-regarded encryption solutions business based in Basingstoke, the hi-tech corridor south-west of London.
    Mr DuBois said Senetas Europe would benefit from the extensive technical experience and industry knowledge of three key employees who will lead the European sales effort: Gareth Jones (General Manager), Pete Smith (Manager Encryption Solutions) and Graham Wallace (Government Accounts Manager and Product Specialist).

    More: www.senetas-europe.com

     

    25 June 2010 12:50
    Half of organisations have said that what excites them most about the cloud aside from the acknowledged business benefits of cost saving and increased agility is that resources can be reassigned to focus more on creativity and growth rather than fire drills according to a poll by 360°IT - The IT Infrastructure Event, due to take place at London's Earls Court this coming September. A further 30% said that it was the ability to use familiar apps they used outside work in a work environment, and 14% thought that they would gain competitive advantage over non could adopters. Only 9% were too worried about security risks to get excited by the cloud. [Poll of 509 IT managers carried out in June 2010]
    Peter Hinssen A leading lecturer and technology trends expert who blogs for 360°IT says that, far from being wary of cloud computing, businesses should actively embrace its benefits and accelerate the rate of adoption that the Internet-based computing and storage environment brings to firms of all sizes.
    More: http://www.360itevent.com/page.cfm/action=Archive/ArchiveID=2/EntryID=65

    25 June 2010 09:15
    A new white paper from Pitney Bowes Business Insight – the leading global provider of location intelligence, data management and customer communication management solutions – highlights the fact that citizen-centric CRM systems in the public sector are well positioned to exploit the benefits of location aware services and technologies, particularly as part of a Cloud Computing-based solution.

    ‘Location Aware CRM and Cloud Computing: Considerations for Public Sector Organisations’ examines the confluence between the strong element of geographical information at the heart of many local government services and the increasing popularity of delivering online applications via SaaS (Software as a Service) models. It is available for download at: http://goto.pbinsight.com/locationawareCRM/
    More: http://www.pbinsight.co.uk

    24 June 2010 16:32
    ABBYY®,
    a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the availability of ABBYY Recognition Server 3.0, the latest version of its award-winning solution for document capture and optical character recognition (OCR). ABBYY Recognition Server is a server-based solution for automating document processing in enterprise and service-based environments. Version 3.0 builds upon Recognition Server with new batch scanning, efficient indexing, and scripting support to deliver a more complete functionality for document capture and conversion. By leveraging its scalable architecture, customers can easily deploy document processing projects of any scale with significant time and cost savings.
    The product is designed to automatically convert large volumes of paper documents or document images into fully searchable electronic text suitable for business processes such as document archiving, e-discovery, and enterprise search. Recognition Server enables automated, unattended processing which can be centrally managed and accessed from multiple points within the organisation or remotely. Recognition Server can also connect with a variety of back-end systems and third-party applications with integration via Scripts, XML tickets, a Web-service API, or a COM-based API. ABBYY intelligent OCR and PDF conversion technology delivers highly accurate document conversion with recognition of up to 190 languages.
    More: www.ABBYY.com

    24 June 2010 15:00
    Agfa HealthCare
    , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, today announced it has been named category leader for single plate CR in the 2010 Best in KLAS Medical Equipment Report. Agfa HealthCare's CR 30-X single plate Computed Radiography (CR) digitizer is the No. 1 ranked CR product, according to KLAS, a research firm specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors.
    The CR 30-X received an overall score of 88.74, with a functionality of 95 percent, according to the medical equipment report.
    Working together with executives from over 4500 hospitals and over 2500 clinics, KLAS delivers timely reports, trends and statistics which provide a solid overview of vendor performance in the industry. KLAS measures performance of software, professional services and medical equipment vendors.
    More: www.agfa.com/healthcare

    24 June 2010 14:19
    Accellion, Inc.
    today announced that the Central Office of Information (COI), the United Kingdom Government's centre of excellence for marketing and communications, has selected the Accellion Secure File Transfer Solution. After an internal review of the agency’s data sharing procedures, followed by a thorough search of secure file transfer options, the COI selected Accellion for secure sharing of digital information.
    The COI works with government departments and the public sector to produce information campaigns on issues that affect the lives of every citizen - from health and education to benefits, rights and welfare. Given the nature of the information, security is of the utmost importance when collaborating on ideas and sharing information internally and externally with suppliers and clients.
    More: http://www.accellion.com/uk/home

    24 June 2010 13:00
    Jack Henry & Associates, Inc
    ., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that Heartland Community Bank has selected Jack Henry Banking’s SilverLake core processing system to provide enterprise-wide automation. This Arkansas-based bank, which has more than $140 million in assets, will implement SilverLake through Jack Henry Banking’s outsourced offering.
    According to Clyde H. Henderson, chairman and CEO of Heartland Community Bank, “We pride ourselves on providing highly competitive financial products and services, so as our customers become more sophisticated, our markets more competitive, and our business more complex, we made the decision to replace our technology with a platform that provides the end-to-end integration and deep functionality we need to further streamline our operations and efficiently support our near- and long-term business plan. The satisfaction among other banks using the systems we looked at was also a major factor in our decision. We contacted and visited numerous banks running SilverLake to find out about their real-world, day-to-day experiences and we got very, very positive feedback. After evaluating several technology platforms we were convinced that SilverLake is the right fit for our bank, and that Jack Henry provides the commitment to service and the financial stability we want in a technology partner. We are excited about SilverLake and believe the ability to support our business with this sophisticated technology platform will help us take our financial products and services, our customer experience, and our customer acquisition and retention to the next level.”
    More: www.heartlandbankonline.com
    More: www.jackhenrybanking.com

    24 June 2010 12:55

    Advanced Computer Software Plc (Advanced), a leading provider of software and IT services to the health, care and commercial sectors, today announces its new group structure to improve efficiencies and maximise cross-selling, supporting its growth strategy.
    Advanced now comprises three distinct divisions: Health & Care; Business Solutions; and Managed Services.
    Vin Murria, Chief Executive of Advanced says, “The new group structure provides a robust framework that optimises resources, facilitates cross-selling of IT software and services, and opens up new market opportunities. Our customers can benefit from easier access to a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and services, a larger pool of specialist resources and a clearer organisational structure for improved relationship management.”
    More: http://www.advcomputersoftware.com/ 

    24 June 2010 12:42
    Software vendor United Planet has incorporated a special “page wizard” with Intrexx 5, the latest version of its popular enterprise portal software. This new wizard allows companies to make their business data and web applications ‘mobile’ in no time at all. It will enable companies to provide their employees with access to important business information via smartphones and tablet PCs even when they are out of the office.
    More: www.unitedplanet.com

    24 June 2010 08:36
    Today at the GigaOm Structure conference, Spiceworks™, Inc. launched its new “Reach” partner program, which is designed to enable providers of cloud-based services to easily reach the 1 million IT pros using the Spiceworks social IT management application. The program includes integration APIs and services that allow vendors to make their cloud services manageable from directly within Spiceworks. Spiceworks users benefit by being able to manage both their cloud-based services and on-site technology through a single IT management application interface.
    More: http://www.spiceworks.com

    23 June 2010 17:26
    Sterling Commerce,
    an AT&T Inc company, (NYSE:T), today announced the results of a global survey looking at how companies manage the complexity of cross-border invoicing. The research highlights the cost savings benefits to be gained by automating country specific mandates for cross-border invoicing around processing, archiving and auditing; notably through the elimination of error-prone manual processing and the reduction of associated penalties and fines.
    The survey, commissioned by Sterling Commerce and conducted by Forrester Consulting, was undertaken across accounts payable, accounts receivable and tax management functions in enterprises with annual turnovers in the range of $250 million to $5 billion, in the United States, Germany, UK, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Italy. It looked at enterprises in the manufacturing, retail/wholesale, communications/media and distributions/logistics industries.
    More: www.sterlingcommerce.co.uk

    23 June 2010 17:22

    England Stands Still - the World Cup cuts commercial road usage in half
    Data released by Cybit, the UK’s leading online Telematics provider, shows vehicle usage fell by 49 percent in the hour leading up to kick-off of the England v Slovenia match. Traffic volumes remained at half of normal levels for the remainder of the afternoon.
    “There was a noticeable increase in activity this morning from 6:30am as employees started their working day earlier to allow for an earlier than normal finish, which shows how flexible most employers are being,” says Steve Towe, Cybit’s Head of Sales.
    More: www.cybit.co.uk

    23 June 2010 09:02
    IT-Freedom
    , the leading provider of specialist software solutions for the general insurance industry, today announced the launch of a complete case management solution for the claims investigation market. The fully web-enabled solution enables investigation companies and departments to examine claims to verify authenticity and prevent fraud. The first customer sale has been completed to Robertson and Co, the award winning fraud investigation, surveillance and claims management company.
    ICE Investigator is a new product within the ICE range of solutions from IT-Freedom that seamlessly integrates with ICE Claims, the established claims management platform. It enables companies to efficiently track and manage claims investigation cases. It supports interfacing to a wide range of data sources including social networking sites and makes full use of SMS technology allowing field agents to send and receive SMS/MMS messages.
    More: www.it-freedom.com

    22 June 2010 16:00
    Solid State Solutions (S3)
    , a leading Value Added Integrator of Data Storage and Storage Management Systems, today announced it has been named as Isilon’s European Partner of the Year following an outstanding annum successfully delivering major Isilon projects for a growing roster of pan European clients. S3 has also become the first UK channel partner to attain Platinum status within the recently launched Isilon Preferred Partner Program.
    “S3 have shown a real commitment and expertise in delivering Isilon scale-out NAS solutions to a number of high profile clients within complex environments,” explains Mark Stevens, Vice President & General Manager in EMEA for Isilon Systems, “This award and achievement of Platinum partner status is recognition from Isilon of the outstanding work S3 has carried out over the last year and we look forward to working with them on a number of upcoming projects and events over 2010.”
    More: http://www.isilon.com


    22 June 2010 14:58
    Ipswitch, Inc
    ., the secure, managed file transfer company, just launched Sendable, a powerful and affordable file sending solution that gives individuals and prosumers a fast, easy and secure way to send large files and sensitive documents to other people.
    Until now, people have been forced to rely on risky and frustrating file transfer methods – including unsecure email attachments, easily lost or stolen thumb drives and DVDs, and costly courier services. A recent survey by Ipswitch found that nearly 90 percent of respondents use external devices to move work-related files, posing major security risks to organisations and individuals.
    Sendable eliminates the risk, cost and complexity of sending sensitive documents and large files with an easy-to-use Web interface that delivers security, visibility, speed, compliance along with anytime, anywhere access. And you no longer have to wonder if your files were sent, received and opened. File delivery notification and download confirmation for every file you send are included with Sendable.
    More: www.Sendable.com
    More: http://www.ipswitchft.com

    22 June 2010 14:22
    ABBYY UK Ltd
    ., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Crimson UK Ltd of Lancashire and Dingwall, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Crimson has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Crimson joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme. ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).
    More: www.ABBYY.com/

    22 June 2010 13:58
    The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering has selected Cordys, the leading provider of software for business process innovation, to study SOA based business process management (BPM) in its business modelling company.
    With over 80 research centres including 56 Fraunhofer Institutes, a staff of 17,000 employees, an annual research budget of over €1.6 billion and affiliated research centres and representative offices in Europe, USA and Asia, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest applied research organisation.
    The Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial engineering has established a business simulation and process modelling company with the goal to study the effect of Service Oriented Architecture and Business Process Management on operational improvements. Companies and organisations considering implementing SOA and BPM can visit the Institute and see the possibilities and benefits in a real-life business environment. All business processes in the simulated company, from the orders in the webshop to the updates in the ERP system, are managed by the Cordys Business Operations Platform.
    More: www.cordys.com

    22 June 2010 11:05
    ISYS Search Software
    , a global supplier of enterprise search solutions for information access, management and reuse, today announced it has won a competitive bid to supply an enterprise-wide search solution to UNAIDS, which is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
    Working in conjunction with its strategic partner Raytion, ISYS will supply UNAIDS with a universal information access solution that encompasses a broad range of knowledge collections and access points. UNAIDS will leverage ISYS’s integrated solution to enable information access across its public websites, intranet repositories, content management systems and individual desktops. UNAIDS new solution will also be accessible by all employees across its worldwide offices, including remote workers, who will tap into ISYS’s mobile enterprise search capabilities.
    More: http://www.isys-search.com

    22 June 2010 10:12
    Imperva,
    the market leader in data security, is pleased to announce Albert A. "Rocky" Pimentel as the newest member of the Imperva Board of Directors. Pimentel, currently the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of McAfee, Inc., will contribute more than thirty years of financial expertise as the Chair of the Audit Committee.
    “Rocky Pimentel is a remarkable addition to our Board of Directors,” says Shlomo Kramer, CEO of Imperva, Inc. “He has played an integral executive role at several notable technology companies. With his experience in the security space combined with his invaluable financial and operational insight, Rocky will lead the Audit Committee and Imperva into a new phase of financial growth.”
    Pimentel has a long history as a financial advisor within the technology industry, serving in the CFO role at LSI Logic, WebTV Neworks (acquired by Microsoft), Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint) and Glu Mobile (NASDQ:GLUU) before joining as the COO and CFO at McAfee, Inc. in May 2008. At McAfee, Pimentel is responsible for leading all worldwide finance, IT, facilities and manufacturing operations.
    More: www.imperva.com

    22 June 2010 10:10

    As threats to corporate data grow, and the cost of breaches increase, a survey of alleged security conscious professionals has remarkably revealed that over half of respondents (52%), who admit to carrying company data on a USB stick, do not encrypt it. Remarkably, 11% of this savvy audience, who really should know better, ‘protect’ their devices with passwords alone – an insufficient defence that is widely understood to be easily breached!
    The study, sponsored by Credant Technologies – the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions, questioned 277 IT security professionals who, theoretically, view security seriously enough to spend time attending InfoSecurity Europe. Astonishingly, the type of unprotected data being carried would have serious repercussions to the organisation should it be misplaced – from intellectual property(67%), customer data (40%) and employee details (26%).
    More: http://www.credant.com

    22 June 2010 09:20
    Q1 Labs
    , the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, today announced QRadar SIOS - the Security Intelligence Operating System - which powers the QRadar family of security intelligence products. QRadar SIOS is the foundation of the industry's first total Security Intelligence Platform, a common framework for collecting, warehousing, filtering, analyzing and reporting on all security intelligence telemetry. This integrated solution will be the platform for risk management, SIEM , log management , and network and application activity monitoring, as well as all new products to be delivered by Q1 Labs and partners.
    More: http://www.q1labs.com


    21 June 2010 15:08

    AnyDoc Software, a leading provider of automated document, data capture, and classification solutions, and Appian, the global innovator in enterprise and on-demand business process management (BPM) technology, today announced that AnyDoc will develop and deliver the next generation of document processing solutions by combining AnyDoc’s industry-leading document processing technologies with the Appian BPM platform. Through the partnership, AnyDoc will leverage Appian’s 100 percent web architecture and powerful process, task, and data orchestration to help customers automate and manage the end-to-end workflow for both structured and unstructured documents and data.
    More: www.AnyDocSoftware.com
    More: www.appian.com


    21 June 2010 13:23

    Mimecast®, a unified email management company offering cloud-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving, has today announced the appointment of Dr. Nathaniel S. Borenstein as the company’s Chief Scientist. Dr. Borenstein is the co-creator of the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) email standard and developer of the Andrew Mail System, metamail software and the Safe-Tcl programming language. At Mimecast, he will be responsible for driving the company’s product development and technological innovation, alongside Mimecast CTO and co-founder, Neil Murray.
    Previously, Dr. Borenstein worked as an IBM Distinguished Engineer, responsible for research and standards strategy for the Lotus brand, and as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and Carnegie-Mellon University. He also founded two successful Internet cloud service start-ups; First Virtual Holdings, founded in 1994, was the first Internet payment system and was ultimately acquired by Doubleclick: and NetPOS (http://www.netpos.com), the first Internet-centric point-of-sale system, was founded in 2000.
    More: http://www.mimecast.com

    18 June 2010 20:28
    Kodak recently announced eDrawer, an LSSP Corporation, as a new member of Kodak’s Independent Software Vendor (ISV) program. The agreement will help users of eDrawer’s Electronic Data Management System (EDMS) to standardize sophisticated image and document capture needs using KODAK Capture Pro Software.
    eDrawer’s EDMS, specifically designed to service small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs), functions as an online filing cabinet for numerous businesses including law firms, medical practices, accounting firms and other professional service organizations. The advanced imaging capabilities of KODAK Capture Pro Software, such as bar code and zonal OCR data extraction, database (ODBC) look-ups and automated indexing functions allows paper-based and electronic information to be easily structured for easy and accessible use in the eDrawer Software.
    More: http://www.kodak.com

     

    18 June 2010 10:31

    Isilon® Systems today announced that Lincoln Center, the world's leading performing arts center, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for its new digital signage and advertising initiative. Using Isilon's NL-Series, Lincoln Center has unified a wide range of digital content and file-based data onto a single, easy-to-use, shared storage resource, streamlining content access and delivery to multiple LED and LCD signage displays throughout New York City. With Isilon scale-out NAS, Lincoln Center's Inmagic Presto asset management system can immediately and reliably access, catalog and distribute content, enabling Lincoln Center to easily manage and update its digital advertising and box office signage displays across its many properties.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    17 June 2010 18:36
    Colortrac
    , the leading developer of affordable, professional wide format scanning and imaging solutions, will showcase a comprehensive range of advanced high definition SmartLF large format map and technical document scanners at the ESRI World-Wide User Conference in San Diego, California, the world's biggest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, (14-16 July 2010, Booth, # 616 / 618).
    Now widely recognized as the most accomplished innovator developing large format scanners today, Colortrac's range of SmartLF wide format scanners and scanning solutions software sport the longest list of credible productivity benefits available worldwide. The ESRI World-Wide User Conference provides Colortrac Inc with the opportunity to show the GIS community how the many advanced features and benefits available in SmartLF large format map and technical document scanning solutions make demanding GIS professionals more productive by bringing better, higher quality scanned images into the GIS dataset more quickly.
    More: www.colortrac.com

    17 June 2010 09:42
    This summer, consumers will continue to scour the web to keep up with their interests and news. While surfing the Internet is statistically safer than, say surfing in Newquay, it is not a risk free activity. Around 85 percent of new computer infections are contracted via the internet; largely through the 396,679 hijacked and malicious webpages which avast! identified in May.
    Landing on an infected site is as simple as just looking for something … NHS, roofing supplies, fireworks. To keep computer users across the UK protected during the hectic summer, AVAST Software, providers of the avast! antivirus program, has released the first of its “UK’s Most Infected” list of the most infected websites, alerting consumers to beware of the month’s infected websites as well as trends and site genres to approach with caution.
    avast! virus labs uncovered an overwhelming small business theme during May for the most infected types of websites. Websites set up by small businesses to promote goods and services were prominent on the list as well as “fake” sites for well known UK organisations such as nhs.uk and blueyonder.co.uk have been infecting users’ computers with malware and other viruses.
    More: www.avast.com

    16 June 2010 20:52
    docSTAR
    , a leader in document management software, and Fountains Spatial, a leading international developer of geospatial software are pleased to announce the availability of docSTAR MapConnect™ version 2.0.
    docSTAR MapConnect combines the power of the ESRI® ArcGIS® architecture with docSTAR’s award-winning document management software. MapConnect is designed to enhance ESRI’s GIS application by associating documents with geospatial features in any layer or a general geographic area. MapConnect enables users to instantly geo-link and access documents in real-time. The result is significant savings of time, resources and tax dollars.
    More: www.docstar.com

    16 June 2010 12:01

    Binary Research (UK) Ltd
    , part of the company that originally developed Symantec’s Ghost, announced today the availability of Big Bang’s Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) version 4.6, which includes full support for 64-bit Windows 7, as well as continuing to support 32-bit Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Intel-based Apple Macintosh's. The vanguard software application enables error-free deployment to every desktop, laptop and tablet PC in the business environment.
    UIU, the leading product in the hardware-independent imaging space, works alongside a user’s existing cloning software (Microsoft Deployment toolkit, Symantec Ghost, Altiris, Acronis, ZENworks, et al) to create a single hardware-independent master Image of a Windows computer. This single Image can then be deployed across disparate hardware platforms, easing system deployment, maintenance, upgrades, rollouts and migrations, as well as disaster recovery efforts.
    More: http://www.BinaryResearch.net

    16 June 2010 10:51
    Vemotion Interactive
    today announced that their new website is now live. The website has been updated to include the broader range of products now available from Vemotion including the remote deployment unit and remote encoders. Vemotion is best known for providing interactive high-quality, live and pre-recorded video streaming for Channel 4 and Big Brother 5.
    The new site reflects the Vemotion specialism in Wireless Video transmission; encoding and streaming live video over low bit rate networks such as wireless GSM/GPRS and radio networks.
    More: www.vemotion.com

    16 June 2010 08:31
    ExaGrid Systems, Inc
    . the leader in cost-effective and scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced that Bird & Bird, the international law firm, has chosen the ExaGrid system over four other competitors including EMC-Data Domain. Exagrid won the competitive bid as Bird & Bird believed it delivered a strong combination of faster backups, a scalable long-term solution and improved security of data. Furthermore, the ExaGrid system also enabled Bird & Bird to deliver on its promises to clients by providing rapid data restores.
    Bird & Bird is an international law firm with 21 offices worldwide. It focuses on multimedia, telecoms, information technology and intellectual property. It works with some of the world's most innovative and technologically advanced companies, each of which depends on cutting-edge legal advice to meet their business objectives. As the business and client base grew, the quantity of data grew with it. Bird & Bird found that its tape-based backup systems were simply not able to cope with demand.
    More: http://www.exagrid.com 
    More: www.twobirds.com

    15 June 2010 16:32
    ARX (Algorithmic Research)
    , a leading provider of digital signature solutions, has deployed CoSign® digital signatures at Novozymes, a leading bio-innovation organization based in Denmark. CoSign is being used within Novozymes’ Microsoft® SharePoint®-based Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) for signing electronic scientific notes, reports, studies and more.
    In order to minimize disruption to their existing processes and procedures, Novozymes chose to develop their own, custom-built ELN solution. By taking their lab processes digital, Novozymes saves the time it takes for teams of scientists to assemble and authorize paper-based documentation. Through the ELN, documents proving scientific discovery and product inventions (which are later used in patent applications) are approved and trusted via standard digital signatures, and made electronically available to an unlimited number of researchers from remote locations, for years into the future. The potential benefits of enhanced collaboration and document control influenced Novozymes’ decision to base their ELN solution on a SharePoint foundation, a document management platform which they were already using for various other business processes. The addition of digital signatures to the ELN makes the entire solution electronic through-out.
    More: http://www.arx.com/about/PR/PR-Digital-Signature-for-Novozymes

    15 June 2010 14:55
    Ipswitch
    is pleased to announce the acquisition of MessageWay Solutions, a leading provider of managed file transfer and business integration solutions.
    This acquisition is exciting because we can now provide even more powerful, more complete managed file transfer solutions. In addition, it helps us expand our portfolio of offerings to include advanced analytics, enterprise-wide monitoring, interoperability, electronic data interchange (EDI), and high-performance data translation and transformation.
    But we are most excited by what this acquisition means to you. We can now deliver the broadest portfolio of managed file transfer solutions possible. With improved visibility, management, and enforcement of managed file transfers, you can make sure your most important, most sensitive information is sent quickly and securely.
    More: http://www.ipswitchft.com/Products/MessageWay/Index.aspx


    15 June 2010 09:44

    Netpresence Ltd, a developer of device-agnostic videoconferencing platforms, today announced the launch and the first commercial implementation of VideoVisit, a web based service that extends professional quality live video contacts from purpose-built videoconferencing rooms to everyday contacts. VideoVisit is the first professional web based videoconferencing solution on the market that enables connections between basic web cameras and high-definition telepresence systems.
    VideoVisit turns live video into a new channel for customer care. Positioned between impersonal phone and email contacts and face-to-face meetings, VideoVisit combines the efficiency of contact centres and the stronger brand and service experiences created through visual contact. Delivered as a web service, VideoVisit seeks to increase the utilization of live video contacts as a new way to interact with customers.
    More: www.videovisit.eu
     

    14 June 2010 17:33
    Lighthouse Computer Services
    announced today its participation in IBM’s managed beta program for the next major release of Lotus Connections. A limited number of IBM Premier Partners worldwide have been invited to participate in the program. The first official beta release of Lotus Connections will become available in the second half of 2010.
    “Lighthouse’s participation in this beta program will enable Lighthouse to bring the powerful new capabilities associated with the next major release of Lotus Connections to customers as soon as it becomes officially available from IBM,” said Jim Murphy, Practice Leader, Lighthouse Computer Services. “We’re proud to be recognized by IBM as a leader in this space, and to continue to deliver IBM’s cutting-edge collaboration and social networking solutions to our customers.”
    More: www.LighthouseCS.com.

    14 June 2010 15:00
    Agfa HealthCare
    , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has won the Supplier Performance Award, presented by the Premier Healthcare Alliance. Premier is a performance improvement alliance of more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 67,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to achieve high quality, cost-effective care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network.
    Premier's Supplier Performance Award applauds the efforts of contracted suppliers that meet and exceed operational expectations. In selecting recipients, satisfaction and performance data are collected and scored over four successive calendar quarters. Feedback is provided during regular supplier business line reviews. Organizations scoring 80 percent or higher earn the Performance Award.
    More: http://www.premierinc.com/about/news/awards/index.jsp

    14 June 2010 11:00
    Research from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has revealed that secure data management is the healthcare industry's most pressing issue as hospitals transition from paper-based health records to electronic systems.
    The Data Management Healthcheck 2010, a global survey into hospitals' ongoing strategies for managing their IT systems, found that the top IT spending priority for 2010 was disaster recovery (44 per cent), closely followed by Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS, 38 per cent) and digitising paper records (35 per cent).
    John McCann, Director of Marketing at BridgeHead Software, said, "The healthcare industry's data environment is notoriously complex, with most hospitals navigating a variety of systems from a range of vendors for managing different types of clinical data in different locations, both on and off hospital premises. When healthcare information systems go down, bringing that information back online is an intricate process. Healthcare IT professionals need to know which applications and data have to be reinstated, and in which order. Given this complexity, it is not surprising that disaster recovery is the top IT investment priority in healthcare today."
    More: http://www.bridgeheadsoftware.com

    14 June 2010 08:01

    Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data services, today announced that SIX Swiss Exchange – the primary Swiss securities exchange – will offer proximity services to market participants from Interxion’s Zurich data centre.
    By locating their trading platforms within Interxion’s Zurich data centre, in close proximity to the SIX Swiss Exchange matching engines, brokers, hedge funds and (high-frequency) trading firms will benefit from low latency trading in Swiss securities. Customers can connect to the SIX Swiss Exchange’s high speed CTI (Capacity Trading Interface) through exchange-managed high capacity fibre links. Additionally, market participants will be able to cross-connect to the ‘Financial Hub’ partner community within the data centre, including a choice of low latency connectivity options to Interxion’s well-established Financial Hubs in other liquidity centres, including London and Frankfurt.
    More: www.interxion.com
    More: www.six-swiss-exchange.com

    11 June 2010 17:23
    Eastman Kodak Company
    and Provision Interactive Technologies, Inc. (“Provision”), a subsidiary of Provision Holding , announced today that KODAK Service and Support will provide installation services for Provision’s 3DEO Rewards Centers, beginning in Los Angeles. According to the new agreement, Kodak’s involvement will include site surveys, set-up, installation, and sign-off, providing total accountability to the retailers and helping to assure customer satisfaction.
    The companies also announced today that Kodak will be the premier sponsor at Provision’s exclusive VIP event for advertisers, manufacturers and press on June 16, 2010. This “Invitation Only” event will kick-off the first 3D digital media network in the country. At the kick-off, to be held in downtown Los Angeles at ESPN Zone at LA Live, Provision will reveal details of the company’s 3D network expansion plans. Provision will launch in 1,300 convenience stores and other retail locations beginning this year and continuing into 2011.
    More: www.provision.tv.
    More: http://www.kodak.com 

    11 June 2010 16:59
    The combination of an ageing workforce and the changing nature of work tasks in the knowledge economy lead the authors of a new book to claim that a new type of workplace is required to accommodate these critical changes.
    Given the growing pensions crisis that is extending working lives and an anticipated knowledge gap in the workforce in many developed countries, the book "New Demographics, New Workspace" proposes that organizations should think afresh about how they plan and design their office environments.
    Order from: http://tinyurl.com/356gnfx

    11 June 2010 11:25
    Aia Software
    , a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced that the Dutch foundation for telecom and Internet users (sTN) has chosen the ITP Document Platform to optimise communication with prospects and customers.
    sTN promotes the interests of members of sector organisations, who benefit from the various telecommunications framework or discount contracts that sTN takes out with operators on the organisations’ behalf. This involves personalised quotations and proposals for the extension of existing contracts, but also written confirmation of interaction with the telephone help desk. In order to optimise its written communication process, sTN was looking for a solution that could be linked to Microsoft Dynamics CRM and that can work with multiple labels and conditional texts. The ITP Document Platform, which is currently being implemented, will enable sTN staff to generate all correspondence directly from the CRM system, while all customer data is stored in one place.
    More: http://www.aia-itp.com/

    10 June 2010 18:05
    DocuLex
    , creator of document and content management software, announces Archive Studio as a convenient replacement solution for the discontinued eCabinet. Additionally, DocuLex is providing conversion services to migrate eCabinet-stored files to Archive Studio, preserving documents and content.
    More: www.doculex.com


    10 June 2010 15:06

    Financial sector organisations can save up to 25% of their IT budgets by retiring legacy systems and applications, while maintaining easy, company-wide access to legacy data, according to specialist software developer NSC Group.
    The company says that financial organisations typically have dozens, or even hundreds, of legacy applications such as pensions and investment management platforms that are rarely, if ever used. Yet these are kept operational at considerable expense, simply to maintain access to the legacy data they hold for legal, taxation or due diligence requirements.
    However, with NSC Group’s data access tool, DataNovata, organisations can develop new, open applications that enable any user to easily access legacy data that has been migrated from these obsolete systems. This allows the legacy systems to be decommissioned, saving on maintenance, support and licensing costs.
    More: www.nscgroup.co.uk

    10 June 2010 11:12
    ABBYY UK Ltd
    , a member of the ABBYY group of companies and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, and Interactive Ideas, a value added distributor of Software and Technology products, announced today a distribution agreement in the UK and Ireland. The relationship with Interactive Ideas is designed to create market awareness and demand for ABBYY products and increase customer reach through the existing distribution channels in these markets.
    Michael Breeze, Interactive Ideas Marketing Director commented “We are delighted to be working with ABBYY, our aim is to constantly bring new revenue opportunities to our customers. With the current requirements from consumers and business to access increasing amounts of digital content, ABBYY have proven quality products that provide a unique opportunity.”
    More: http://www.abbyy.com/

    10 June 2010 10:43
    TechnologyOne
    , a leading enterprise software application provider, has grown its UK operations with the appointment of two senior IT business leaders and the opening of a new office. The appointments follow a strong financial first half for the Australian Securities Exchange listed firm, which announced reported Net Profit After Tax up 47% on the previous comparative period.
    The appointment of the two new regional managers coincides with TechnologyOne’s division of the country into a North & West region and a Southern region to ensure a high level of customer service for the company’s UK customers. It also meets TechnologyOne’s commitment to provide customer-facing senior managers in key regional areas.
    More: www.TechnologyOneCorp.com

    09 June 2010 20:39

    Sitrof Technologies
    and Content Circles (Menlo Park, CA) today announced DocExchange, a secure, peer-to-peer document exchange solution.
    DocExchange is a combination of technology and software from Content Circles and Sitrof. Content Circles presents a simple, secure content management and collaboration solution that works the way you do - anytime, anywhere, on your own computer. Sitrof provides a depth and breadth of experience with unstructured content, regulated industries and enterprise rights management. DocExchange is an amalgam of those benefits and creates a premier solution for sharing sensitive and large amounts of content.
    More: http://www.sitrof.com/

    09 June 2010 16:26
    Ipswitch, Inc
    ., an innovator of secure, managed file transfer solutions, today added a new Elite Partner Level and introduced a deal registration program to its global partner programme. The expanded Ipswitch FT Partner Program brings a more lucrative programme to partners featuring flexible requirements and valuable benefits.
    The Ipswitch FT Partner Program allows partners to choose the level of commitment that best meets their business goals and objectives while enabling them to sell a complete solution set unrivaled by the competition. The Ipswitch Partner Program ensures channel partner success through competitive discounts, dedicated representatives, a robust partner portal, proven sales and marketing tools, and regular partner communications.
    More: http://www.ipswitchft.com

    09 June 2010 15:44
    Isilon® Systems  today announced that IE Effects, a leading 3D visual effects and post-production studio, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for its entire post-production operation, including 3D effects for Michael Jackson’s This Is It and various Disney and Motorola commercial campaigns. Using Isilon’s X-Series, IE Effects has unified all of its visual effects, editorial, and color grading applications onto a single, shared storage resource, increasing workflow efficiency and accelerating project time-to-delivery. With Isilon IQ, IE Effects can cost-effectively scale its storage in-step with application demand, enabling it to process more visual effects projects in less time and expand its bandwidth to accommodate new business opportunities across movies, television, commercials and theme parks.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    09 June 2010 15:29
    Generation IPS, Powered by Tilera Multicore Architecture, Delivers Proven Network Security, Excellent System Performance, Unmatched Reliability and Customer Investment Protection
    Top Layer Security, a leading global provider of Network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), announced today the availability of the newest models of its IPS 5500 E-Series family. The fourth-generation EC-Series leverages Top Layer's proven IPS and attack mitigation software running on leading-edge multicore processor technology from Tilera to provide the broadest protection against network threats, ultra-high performance, unmatched reliability, and future expansion capabilities.
    More: http://www.toplayer.com/ec.jsp 


    09 June 2010 11:19

    Interxion,
    a leading European operator of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced its gold sponsorship of the European Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit, taking place on 15th June 2010 at the Hilton Hotel, Tower Bridge, London. The one-day programme is presented by Tier1 Research and The 451 Group, and provides executives within the hosting, cloud computing, data centre and Internet Infrastructure space with an array of rich content and networking opportunities.
    The summit, attended by industry leaders from both sides of the Atlantic, will give participants an overview of the opportunities and challenges facing the hosting and cloud industries, through a secession of panel discussions on topics including financial strategies, colocation and proximity hosting.
    As well as sponsoring the event, Interxion’s Group MD Anthony Foy will be taking part in the Colocation and Proximity Hosting Panel, which will be exploring the role of Colocation and Proximity Hosting in delivering low latency in the financial markets.
    More: http://www.interxion.com/

    09 June 2010 10:46
    ISACA
    International Vice President Rolf von Roessing, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, has applauded the actions of Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner in publishing a draft code of practice that requires incidents involving the theft or loss of personal data relating to more than 100 people to be notified to its office.
    "The Irish commissioner has reportedly published the draft code in response to the recent recommendations of the data protection review group established by Dermot Ahern, the Irish Minister for Justice," said von Roessing.
    "As well as proposing that organisations be mandated to report data losses and thefts involving more than 100 people, the draft code also proposes mandatory notifications of all types where sensitive personal or personal financial data is involved," he added.
    More: http://www.isaca.org/security

    09 June 2010 10:40
    StormMQ,
    an enterprise class message queuing platform designed for cloud, co-located or hosted deployment has publicly launched following a 6 month closed beta. As a fully managed service, StormMQ requires no capital expenditure on hardware or infrastructure and removes the ongoing cost and complexity of managing on-site message queuing servers and applications.
    Developed by a UK based team that has spent the last decade working on major message queuing projects for some of the world’s largest telecommunication carriers and financial institutions, StormMQ embraces the AMQP standard and has an extensive development library support for a host of environments including Java, .NET, Ruby, Python and PHP on Linux, Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X.
    More: www.stormmq.com

    09 June 2010 10:29
    Mimecast®,
    the unified email management company, has today announced that it has been selected by Eversheds LLP, one of the world’s largest full service corporate law firms, to provide SaaS-based email security, continuity, policy control and archiving across all regions.
    Eversheds LLP selected Mimecast’s Unified Email Management solution to provide enhanced business continuity, email archiving and security services as well as reducing the cost and complexity of handling the firm’s rapidly expanding email storage requirements. Eversheds has signed a three-year contract following a competitive tender process. The implementation of Mimecast’s Unified Email Management has already begun with Mimecast working alongside Eversheds’ on-premise archive solution to deliver a secure and easy-to-search record of all email communications, which will be accessible from within Microsoft Outlook.
    More: www.eversheds.com
    More: www.mimecast.com

    09 June 2010 09:55
    Data security leader specialist has backed the Australian Internet Industry Association (IIA) initiative in encouraging ISPs nationwide to adopt a new voluntary code of conduct on cyber security.
    Along with educating and better protection customers, ISPs are also being asked to temporarily quarantine those users whose computers are infected by zombie malware and is generated spam.
    "This move is to be applauded and while it’s certain to generate an outcry from some quarters, will only temporarily block an infected users' ability to generate spam. It won't affect their ability to surf the Internet or access a Webmail account,” said Amichai Shulman, chief technology officer with Imperva.
    More: http://bit.ly/9P2AIG 
    More: www.imperva.com

    08 June 2010 13:11
    ISACA
    today named the top five social media risks for business and recommended solutions to help businesses address security, customer service and corporate reputation risks raised by their employees’ use of social media—on the job and off.
    In a complimentary new white paper titled “Social Media: Business Benefits With Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives,” ISACA, a leading global association for enterprise governance of information technology (IT), urges organizations to actively address various potential risks.
    Developed by a team of global ISACA experts, the white paper goes beyond the traditional look at social media in the workplace to address employees’ use of social media outside of work. It also provides detailed how-to tips for effective social media governance.
    Free Download: www.isaca.org/research

    08 June 2010 10:40
    While our MPs are promising more transparency and honesty in politics perhaps the IT industry should follow suit. According to a survey, conducted by Tufin Technologies, of 242 IT professionals mainly from organisations employing 1000 to 5000+ employees, 1 in 10 admitted that either they or a colleague have cheated to get an IT audit passed. However it isn’t all bad news; compared to a similar survey conducted in 2009 the number of people admitting to cheating has halved in number.
    Amongst those who have cheated lack of time and resources are cited as the main reasons, underlining the ever increasing pressure on today’s IT departments. With 25% responding that firewall audits take a week to conduct attempting to avoid this painful process is understandable if not excusable.
    What’s more 30% of respondents only audit their firewalls once every 5 years and even more worrying 7% never even conduct an audit. With this in mind it’s less surprising to find out that 36% of IT professionals admit their firewall rule bases are a mess increasing their susceptibility to hackers, network crashes and compliance violations.
    More: http://www.tufin.com/downloads/infosecurity_uk_2010_survey_results.pdf

    08 June 2010 10:30

    Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it is attending the World Expo Shanghai in China, where it is hosting a special customer event on June 9th. This event, organized in cooperation with the City of Antwerp, the University of Antwerp, the Antwerp World Diamond Center, POM Antwerp, Antwerp Port Authority and the Province of Antwerp as part of the 'Antwerp Week', underscores the strong presence of Agfa HealthCare globally, and in the Chinese healthcare market in particular. The company, active in that market since the early 1990's, currently provides solutions for nearly one out of two hospitals in the country. A selection of Agfa HealthCare's broad portfolio of solutions will be on display at the event.
    More: www.agfahealthcare.com

    07 June 2010 17:33
    Voltage Security™, Inc
    ., a global leader in end-to-end data protection, and the American Medical Association (AMA), the nation’s largest physician organization, today announced that Voltage will provide secure email communication on the AMA’s new health information platform for physicians. The AMA platform will enable physicians to assess and meet their clinical and practice needs and will provide physicians access to information, products and services with a single, secure sign-on. The platform, which will launch nationwide later this year, is currently being beta tested in Michigan in collaboration with the Michigan State Medical Society.
    The AMA platform will feature Voltage SecureMail™, powered by the Voltage SecureMail Network™, a SaaS delivery model that makes Voltage accessible to anyone with an Internet browser. Voltage SecureMail will encrypt and protect email communications sent between physicians, patients and the medical community. Voltage secure email helps members of the medical community meet federal and state healthcare privacy regulations such as HIPAA and HITECH.
    More: www.voltage.com

    07 June 2010 16:47
    Jack Henry & Associates, Inc., a leading provider of integrated technology solutions and data processing services for financial institutions, today announced that it has closed the transaction initiated to acquire iPay Technologies, the largest independent electronic bill pay provider in the United States. As a result of the acquisition, which was subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, iPay Technologies became a wholly owned subsidiary of Jack Henry & Associates. Under the terms of the agreement, Jack Henry & Associates purchased all of the equity of iPay for a purchase price of approximately $300 million in cash.
    Through strategic partnerships with more than 50 providers of information processing and online banking solutions, iPay’s turnkey online bill pay services, technology, and expertise are supporting more than 3,600 banks and credit unions. iPay partners with companies like Jack Henry & Associates to provide online bill payment solutions to financial institutions and ultimately supports those institutions’ retail and small business customers with a highly configurable electronic payments platform.
    More: www.jackhenry.com

    07 June 2010 16:36
    Addressing the complex, high-volume needs of municipalities in accounts payable, accounts receivable and payments, as well as document automation, imaging and management, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, will showcase the full lineup of its imageFORMULA digital document scanners and check transports at the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Annual Conference at the Georgia World Congress Center. Canon’s exhibit is located in booth #244.
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

    07 June 2010 14:45
    Kodak and iBridge Group, Inc. recently announced a new System Output Destination (SOD) solution, to seamlessly input digitized information from KODAK Capture Pro Software into the IBM FILENET P8 Platform. iBridge Group, Inc., a member of Kodak’s Independent Software Vendor program, developed the free SOD to help integrate the batch scanning capabilities of Capture Pro Software with FileNet’s advanced data management capabilities.
    SOD solutions provide end users with an easy-to-install component for Capture Pro Software that enhances overall flexibility and scalability to meet information management needs. The expanded connectivity helps organizations use information in larger business process systems, like the IBM FILENET P8 Platform. Businesses can use the solution to improve overall process efficiency of inputting unstructured and structured data across functions like compliance, auditing and records management.
    More: www.iBridgeGroup.com.
    More: http://www.kodak.com 

    07 June 2010 14:26
    Companies now have an easy way to demonstrate commitment to global health with the launch of MASSIVEGOOD’s corporate program, which lets them integrate a simple donation solution into their corporate travel systems.
    MASSIVEGOOD corporate is being unveiled today at the annual conference of the Global Business Coalition for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis (GBC) in Washington, DC. This year, the GBC will award special honors to Condoleezza Rice, Former US Secretary of State, the National Basketball Association, among others, and feature MASSIVEGOOD as an initiative that can add new meaning to business travel.
    More: www.massivegood.org

    07 June 2010 10:59
    Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centre services, today announced an agreement with AlgoSpan and ALGO Technologies, to offer low latency connectivity and market data services from Interxion’s City of London data centre with immediate effect.
    As part of the agreement, AlgoSpan and ALGO Technologies will be seeking to expand services across Interxion’s pan-European footprint of data centres, including Frankfurt, Stockholm, Zurich and Madrid.
    The agreement will allow market participants located at Interxion’s data centres to benefit from AlgoSpan’s high-speed, high bandwidth shortest path connectivity to liquidity venues across London, Continental Europe and the US. AlgoSpan is the first provider to create an ultra-fast connection between Interxion’s City of London data centre and Slough, with an estimated one-way latency of below 270 microseconds. Interxion customers will also benefit from ALGO Technologies’ extremely low latency market data services offering raw, normalised and/or consolidated international market data. Customers can trial ALGO Technologies’ European market data feed at Interxion free of charge with immediate effect.
    More: http://www.interxion.com/

    03 June 2010 16:07

    City law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP, has hosted the inaugural Nuance eCopy UK user group conference. The user group conference was formed to create an open channel of communication between Nuance’s eCopy solutions customers, to facilitate the sharing of best practice, knowledge and advice, as well as experience of Nuance eCopy solutions across different business sectors. Nuance’s desktop imaging solutions combined with eCopy’s desktop and server offerings create a set of premier scanning solutions for an enterprise, department or line of business to easily deploy more efficient, paper-to-digital workflows and support business process automation efforts.
    The conference was attended by Nuance eCopy customers ranging from industries including legal, public sector, and local authorities. The customers shared information about their Nuance eCopy deployments and applications, outlining the business drivers for their decision to implement a Nuance eCopy solution. The community shared the benefits that the solutions have returned to their business, and end users within their organisation. For example, Steve Atkins, head of finance and systems development at the UK Forestry Commission shared with the group details about its Nuance eCopy solution deployment, which incorporates an invoice processing system which has been fully integrated with The Forestry Commission’s ERP system. The deployment has enabled it to reduce paper distribution costs, aid regulatory compliance and supports the Commission’s environmental policies.
    More: www.nuance.co.uk

    03 June 2010 15:00
    Agfa HealthCare
    , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has been awarded a new three year, multi-source, contract by HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG) to provide Computed Radiography products at competitive terms and conditions to their more than 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care hospitals, 120 alternate care sites, and 3,600 physician practices in the United States. The contract names Agfa HealthCare as a provider of a comprehensive assortment of Computed Radiography (CR) systems.
    More: www.agfahealthcare.com

    03 June 2010 09:39
    Racktivity™
    , the leader in data center energy management systems, today announced that Marco DeMiroz, an experienced technology and energy industry executive, and cleantech investor, will join the company as president and Chief Executive Officer, based in Silicon Valley, California. DeMiroz will also join the Company’s board of directors. DeMiroz leaves Soliant Energy, where he had served as Chief Operating Officer and was also previously interim Chief Executive Officer.
    Racktivity, founded in 2008 and headquartered near Gent, Belgium, provides innovative energy management systems for data centers around the world. The Racktivity Rack Controller™, Datacenter Management Platform™ and its extensions are designed to enable data centers to efficiently and effectively save energy and improve uptime.
    More: www.racktivity.com

    03 June 2010 09:24
    24 months since the publication of the Poynter Report which was commissioned after the HMRC breach, and almost three years since the original misplaced discs came to light, and a similar breach could occur again. In a survey released today by Cyber-Ark, the leading global software provider for protecting critical information, applications and identities, has discovered that 19% of companies are still using couriers to send large or sensitive files, the insecure transfer method utilised originally by HMRC which left a disc containing child benefit information missing in London! The survey was carried out amongst 238 IT security professionals at Infosecurity Europe (London) in April.
    The survey showed that some of the lessons had been heeded, with 82% of companies now having systems in place to allow them to transfer data. A further positive conversion is the decline in the use of email, from 35% in 2008 to just 16%, and a considerable increase in the adoption of secure email, up at 42%. However, it’s not all good news as a worrying 67% have now adopted File Transfer Protocol (FTP) as their preferred method to transfer sensitive data with a risky 28% trusting web based services.
    More: www.cyber-ark.com

    02 June 2010 17:04
    Canon U.S.A. today introduced the imageFORMULA CR-190i High-Volume Check Transport scanning solution for financial institutions, utilities and other organizations handling large volumes of check processing. The device offers users a flexible production-level platform in an efficient, countertop design.
    Key features include speeds of 190 checks-per-minute, precision image technology and reliable paper handling. The CR-190i is an ideal solution for organizations seeking to improve access to funds, reduce costs and increase flexibility in applications such as remittance processing, lockbox and branch capture.
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

    02 June 2010 16:26
    Reports that Google are planning to drop the Microsoft operating system for security reasons following targeted attacks they've been suffering may lead other enterprises to follow this practice. Adopting this practice by enterprises will not improve their defences against targeted attacks, according to Trusteer the leading provider of secure browsing services.
    “Enterprises that are considering shifting to an operating system like Mac or Linux should realize that although there are less malware programs available against these platforms, the shift will not solve the targeted attacks problem and may even make it worse," said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO.
    More: www.trusteer.com

    02 June 2010 16:21
    Crawford Technologies
    , an award-winning global leader in the transactional customer communications software development industry, is proud to announce that it has been named to the 22nd annual PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine.
    "This is a great honor to be recognized for our growth and success," says Ernie Crawford President of Crawford Technologies Inc. "Our innovative technology, outstanding employees and dedication to our customers have made CrawfordTech the most successful software company focused on the high volume billing and statement market."
    Ranking Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 100 profiles the country's most successful growth companies. Published in the June issue of PROFIT and online at PROFIT100.com, the PROFIT 100 is Canada's largest annual celebration of entrepreneurial achievement.
    More: www.crawfordtech.com

    02 June 2010 15:48
    Isilon® Systems today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has deployed more than two petabytes (PB) of Isilon scale-out NAS to power a wide range of genomic research initiatives into clean energy generation and environmental characterization and cleanup. Leveraging Isilon’s X-Series, featuring its OneFS® operating system, JGI has unified 25 genome sequencers onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, reducing storage management. The JGI is also using the Isilon IQ 5000S-SSD, which combines SAS and Solid State Disk (SSD) drives as an additional storage resource for its team. With Isilon scale-out NAS, JGI has eliminated more than six disparate storage systems, unifying its mission-critical genomic data stores.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    02 June 2010 14:34
    Spiceworks™, Inc. today announced that its user base has grown to more than 1 million IT professionals in 196 countries. This milestone makes Spiceworks the fastest growing and most widely used application for managing IT networks in history. In addition, its free ad-supported IT management software and community have evolved into a new type of channel that gives vendors powerful access to research, social media, ads and apps to increase sales of technology products & services.
    “More than 20% of the world’s IT pros at small and medium businesses – including law firms, schools, manufacturers, MSPs and more – depend on our free network management software and online community for everything IT,” said Scott Abel, CEO of Spiceworks. “Thanks to the support and dedication of our user community, we’re not only changing how they manage their technology, but also how technology vendors find, connect and market to the hard-to-reach SMB buyer.”
    More: http://www.spiceworks.com/

    02 June 2010 14:09
    Accellion, Inc. today announced the industry’s first secure file transfer solution for the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure (BPI) and Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) allowing Microsoft SharePoint, OCS and Outlook users to easily and securely share digital information. Today’s announcement extends the Accellion solution to include new plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 (OCS) for both on-premise and cloud environments.
    Accellion plug-ins for Microsoft Outlook, SharePoint and OCS enable business users to securely send files to coworkers, remote users, customers or partners from within the Microsoft business applications. “Quick and easy access to information is essential for business collaboration, but protection of intellectual property and meeting compliance requirements is crucial,” said Yorgen Edholm, president and CEO of Accellion. “By integrating the Accellion Secure File Transfer solution across Microsoft’s BPI, enterprise organizations can now protect their intellectual property and achieve compliance by providing users with an easily accessible way to move confidential digital information.”
    More: www.accellion.com 

    02 June 2010 12:53
    Canon UK, world leader in imaging solutions, has today announced the launch of the imageFORMULA P-150M to meet a significant demand from Apple Macintosh users for a stylish, high-speed portable scanner.
    Following the launch of the award-winning* Canon imageFORMULA P-150 in November 2009 offering customers a highly portable ‘scan-anywhere’ solution, Canon’s new version comes with a powerful bundled software package specifically for Mac systems.
    The imageFORMULA P-150M offers versatile cross platform compatibility for users working across various system environments, such as Windows and Linux**. The unique built-in CaptureOnTouch Lite software also provides ‘plug-and-scan’ functionality, without needing to install any application or driver software.
    Whilst sharing many of the features of the popular imageFORMULA P-150 - including a black piano finish, compact design and fast USB-powered scanning - the P-150M will present a versatile approach to scanning in Mac environments. These will span traditional creative industries, marketers, and education establishments, through to more mainstream audiences, general office use and home workers.
    More: www.canon.co.uk

    02 June 2010 10:31
    A survey of IT security professionals has discovered that 83% consider commercial applications, the ones you buy off the shelf, to be riddled with code flaws and vulnerabilities. That’s the discovery of a survey conducted by Fortify Software, a leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, who found that 56% believe these flaws could allow hackers to exploit these software vulnerabilities. As a result, security professionals are making heavy investments in penetration and code testing, combined with application scanning, to try and build security into the software. Half of the IT security professionals also admitted to hacking, with 73% of these respondents doing so to test the strength of their own network’s defences, 13% for fun or out of curiosity, and 3% targeting their efforts at the competition.
    More: www.fortify.com

     

    01 June 2010 14:35
    Artesian Solutions
    , the provider of web-based market intelligence and surveillance software, announced today that it was named in Gartner's prestigious "Cool Vendors of 2010" report in the CRM Sales category. Gartner's research identified Artesian Solutions as a "Cool Vendor" due to its use of semantic matching technology which helps commercial organisations accelerate their sales performance.
    Artesian Solutions has been recognised as a cool vendor because it benefits its customers by offering improved sales productivity by reducing the cost, time and pain of filtering the web and social networks for critical sales intelligence saving time for salespeople in researching target accounts and contacts. The software-as-a-service application delivered through the cloud presents its results either fully integrated into the clients CRM system or through tailored gazettes, tag clouds, email alerts, dynamic searches, company watch lists, buzz monitoring indicators or by identifying key contacts in social networks such as LinkedIn.
    More: http://www.artesiansolutions.com

    01 June 2010 14:30

    Danish inspection firm and engineering certification provider, CPI, implemented the CoSign digital signature add-on for SharePoint, which enables digital signing from within SharePoint and allows CPI to maximize their paperless investment. With the new digital signature capability, CPI’s engineers can electronically authorize inspections and reports created at customer sites, generating expedited processes and greatly improving customer service. By adding CoSign digital signature capability to SharePoint, CPI saves $130,000 in printing, scanning, archiving, routing, and lost document replacement costs.
    Via the CoSign for SharePoint digital signature solution, CPI's engineers can digitally sign and archive the reports they create for customers on-site, via a laptop and a wireless Internet connection. The engineers prepare the report in Microsoft Word format, convert it to PDF, digitally sign the report with CoSign, and upload the file to SharePoint. The report is simultaneously published on CPI’s Customer Portal, allowing their customers to easily download and review their documentation.
    More: www.arx.com

    01 June 2010 13:47
    ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Crimson UK Ltd of Lancashire and Dingwall, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Crimson has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Crimson joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme. ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).
    More: http://www.abbyy.com

    01 June 2010 11:16
    Maventa
    , one of the fastest growing electronic invoicing service providers in the world, today announced that the leading analyst firm Gartner has named Maventa as a Cool Vendor in their newly released report on Multi-enterprise B2B.
    Vendors selected for the Cool Vendor report are “innovative, impactful and intriguing”.
    Maventa’s award winning Software-as-a-Service solution makes electronic invoicing simple, cost-efficient and immediately available without upfront investments or process changes. Maventa offers all the benefits of high-end e-invoicing platforms purely on transaction based pricing without any fixed costs or minimum term periods. Besides the superior technology, Maventa’s intra-network transactions are completely free of charge – which has further pushed forward Maventa’s viral growth.
    More: www.maventa.com

    01 June 2010 10:57
    As the IT industry digests the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plans to shave £6.25 billion from the expenditure spreadsheets of various government departments, a leading IT expert from the 360°IT Blog has warned that if IT is to maximise its potential to stave off the potentially devastating effects of the cuts, the sector needs the most resilient, persuasive, creative and revolutionary IT leaders the profession has ever seen.
    According to Jim Mortleman, a leading IT industry commentator, there will be massive repercussions for IT in the sector as budget reductions are ramped up. While George Osborne's cut-backs include £95 million of IT savings, the pain doesn't stop there, as the Government has also mandated £1.15 billion in 'discretionary areas' such as consultancy and a further £1.7 billion through the scrapping or renegotiation of existing contracts. "Since IT is a big user of consultancy services and a big contributor to overall spending on third-party suppliers, it is likely to have to swallow a fair chunk of these cuts too," he said in his blog on the 360°IT Event website.
    More: http://bit.ly/aggHaC

     

     


     MAY 2010 NEWS        



    27 May 2010 09:03
    Isilon® Systems today announced that Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Genomics Institute and Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary repository for its next-generation DNA sequencing and analysis workflow. Using the Isilon IQ X-Series, Mount Sinai has unified its Illumina genome sequencers and analysis applications onto a single, shared storage repository, streamlining data access to accelerate time-to-discovery, while reducing capital and operating expenses. With Isilon IQ, Mount Sinai can provide researchers from many different locations access to its valuable stores of genomic data, enabling new levels of collaboration in identifying the genetic precursors to human disease.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    26 May 2010 11:31
    The AIIM Roadshow 2010
    , the UK's leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) event, today announced that delegates will learn how to cost-effectively take control of enterprise ‘content chaos’ - the growing volumes and disintegration of business information across the organisation. This stems from leading non-profit association AIIM’s findings in its latest report ‘Industry Watch – ECM State of the Industry 2010’ stating that the need to centralise and improve access to paper and electronic documents is the main driver for investing in ECM.
    Whether it is more stringent compliance regulations or simply the ‘print-out’ culture of offices today, spiralling volumes of business-critical information is overwhelming the workforce and hindering otherwise simple processes and decision-making. Tackling this ‘content chaos’ will be a focus across the AIIM Roadshow’s programme of keynotes, workshops and seminars. ECM users looking to upgrade or new adopters will get the opportunity to hear from peers, suppliers and independent experts to optimise their ECM procurement and implementation, as well as how to benefit from resultant cost savings and compliance.
    More: www.aiimroadshow.org.uk

    26 May 2010 10:53
    Tufin Technologies
    today announced that it has been named a 2010 Hot 100 EMEA finalist for the Red Herring 100 Europe 2010 Awards, a prestigious list honoring the year’s 100 most innovative and promising private technology ventures in the EMEA region. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across Europe. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries. This honor is the latest in a steady stream of awards and accolades Tufin has received over the past 18 months, including numerous SC Magazine and Network Products Guide honors, Information Week’s Start-up 50, and CRN’s Emerging Vendors.
    More: www.tufin.com

    25 May 2010 18:17
    In a battle to differentiate from broader business software products, pure-play Digital Asset Management (DAM) vendors are rolling out advanced features to compete with Web Content Management and Document Management vendors that have been securing more business by offering "lightweight" DAM features, according to new research released today by independent analyst firm Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch).
    Today's newly released research includes updates to twenty-two DAM vendor evaluations, including recent major releases from Autonomy and Open Text, as well as two new evaluations of open source offerings: Nuxeo and Fedora.
    More: www.realstorygroup.com

    25 May 2010 16:50
    Virtual Imaging Products
    , Canada’s, third largest manufacturer and distributor of imaging supplies, opens New York distribution center for 1-3 day delivery in the eastern United States.
    “With demand for our product increasing in the United States this 50,000 square foot east coast facility gives us the strategic advantage we need to continue growing our market share,” explains Dan Benezra, President of VIP. “The New York distribution center is fully stocked and operational and now we have the ability to get the product into the hands of our customer faster and more efficiently.
    More: www.virtualimagingproducts

    25 May 2010 11:37
    Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, today announced Version 5.5 of DatAdvantage® and DataPrivilege®, a further evolution of the Varonis Meta-data Framework™, which enables customers to identify sensitive unstructured and semi-structured data on their file systems, SharePoint Sites and NAS devices. Varonis’ software helps customers find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn’t have access, and who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection products.
    More: www.varonis.com/products


    27 May 2010 13:30

    Employer demand for new UK workers rose by one point (1%) in May compared to April, to
    give a Reed Job Index reading of 103.

    However salaries on offer for new jobs dropped down four points (3%) over the same period to give a Salary Index reading of 95, according to the Reed Job Index published today (EMBARGO 00:01 Tuesday 1 June 2010).

    Each month the Reed Job Index tracks the number of new job opportunities on offer compared to the previous month and against a baseline of 100 set in December last year. The Reed Job Index is based on data from the UK’s largest job board, reed.co.uk, which every day lists over 90,000 job opportunities from 8,000 recruiters across 37 career sectors throughout the UK.

    Job demand rose most in the Charity & Voluntary sector, with demand also up in sectors such as Marketing & PR, Legal, Secretarial, and for both fully-qualified and non-qualified Accountants. Interestingly, demand rose in the Public Sector compared to the previous month, perhaps as the sector sought new people in advance of anticipated recruitment freezes. The Public Sector Index rose 23 points compared to the previous month to reach 97, back up close to last year’s level.
    More: www.reed.co.uk  

    25 May 2010 10:30

    Research from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, has revealed that medical images, scanned documents, email and advances towards the Electronic Patient Record (EPR - also known as the Electronic Health Record (EHR)) are the likely causes for the upsurge in healthcare data that is already challenging hospitals and set to grow further in the foreseeable future.
    Results from the Data Management Healthcheck 2010 - a global survey into the healthcare industry's ongoing strategies for managing their IT systems - found that over two-thirds (69 percent) of healthcare organisations expected their data volumes to increase this year. Less than six percent expected data volumes to stay constant and one percent expected data volumes to decrease.
    More: www.BridgeHeadSoftware.com

    24 May 2010 12:09
    Visioneer
    , a leader in intelligent document imaging solutions, has today announced the Strobe 400, a new duplex colour scanner designed for busy people who need a fast and reliable scanning solution that can be used anywhere. The Strobe 400 is slim and lightweight, measuring only 295 x 65 x 50 mm and weighs a mere 0.7 Kg. When used in duplex mode, the Strobe 400 scans both sides of the page in only 6 seconds. Priced at £219.99, the Strobe 400 is one of the most affordable scanning solutions available for PC or Mac®.
    More: www.visioneer.com

    24 May 2010 10:18
    Accellion, Inc. announces that London-based international law firm, Clyde & Co. LLP has selected Accellion Secure File Transfer to quickly and securely share confidential documents with clients. Accellion enabled the firm to avoid business disruptions when the courier company they relied on to share urgent legal documents was grounded as a result of ash clouds from the EyjafjallajÖkull volcano in Iceland.
    Initially leveraging Accellion’s Hosted Cloud Service, the firm was able, within minutes, to access Accellion secure file transfer in the cloud. As a result, Clyde & Co. was able to quickly return to business and avoid disruptions caused by air transportation problems that affected much of the world.
    Since air travel resumed in Europe, Clyde & Co. has now received shipment and installed an Accellion Secure File Transfer appliance on-premise and Clyde & Co. is no longer reliant on shipping and courier services as a way to transfer information too large for e-mail. In addition to creating a more efficient process for sharing information, the firm is already experiencing increased e-mail network performance.
    More: www.accellion.com

    24 May 2010 09:48

    A report just released says that solid state drives (SSDs) are taking off in the enterprise server sector, largely as a result of the fact that high-performance SSDs can better meet the needs of enterprise and storage area network (SAN) users than magnetic hard drive units.
    According to Andy Cordial, managing director with Origin Storage, the report from Objective Analysis - entitled `Enterprise SSDs: Technologies & Markets' - predicts that the market for enterprise SSDs will grow from 150,000 units in the current year to more than 4.1 million units by the time 2015 rolls around.
    More on Objective Analysis report: http://bit.ly/c1mD5Y
    More: www.originstorage.com

     

    20 May 2010 17:11
    Accusoft Pegasus
    , a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner and a leading provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs), announces updates to ImageGear for Silverlight v17.
    ImageGear for Silverlight v17.3 supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, helping developers accelerate the coding process and personalize their environments, while targeting a growing number of platforms, including Windows Azure. Customers using the current version of ImageGear will receive this update as a complimentary service pack.
    More: http://www.accusoft.com/news_silverlight17_3.htm

    20 May 2010 17:11
    Accusoft Pegasus
    , the leading provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs), today announces updates to the ImageGear for .NET v17 SDK. This release includes a comprehensive OCR (optical character recognition of machine-printed text) solution for .NET software development, and annotation support for ASP.NET development efforts. Support for Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2010) is also included.
    Accusoft Pegasus now licenses OCR support within ImageGear. A license for OCR includes character recognition in over 100 languages. It provides an auto-zoning feature that analyzes the structure of a page and automatically segments the image into zones.
    More: http://www.accusoft.com/news_imagegearnet17_3.htm

    20 May 2010 17:03
    Panasonic System Networks Company of America (PSNA)
    and DocuLex, Inc. announce compatibility of the Panasonic KV-S1045C document imaging scanner with DocuLex Archive Studio content management software. The product combination creates an affordable workgroup system for entities to manage all forms of paper and electronic document’s contents via automated and distributive means, providing secure, permission-based accessibility. The products are available from participating Panasonic authorized resellers.
    More: www.panasonic.com
    More: www.doculex.com

    20 May 2010 15:16
    Kodak
    today announced that Capita Total Document Solutions (TDS), Capita Group’s bureau services organisation, has more than doubled its scanner capacity to support exponential business growth and enable the expansion and delivery of new services such as digital mailroom solutions and application forms processing for customers with exacting service level agreements.
    Capita TDS has upgraded its scanner fleet to increase capacity purchasing eight Kodak i700 series high performance production scanners, three Kodak i1440 departmental scanners, with Kodak Capture Pro 2.0 software installed to ensure the efficient management of documents.
    More: http://www.kodak.com/

    20 May 2010 13:37
    Over half of organisations believe that cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences according to a poll from 360°IT, a fifth thought there would be no improvement and a quarter of organisations said that it will be detrimental. [Poll of 271 IT managers carried out in May 2010].
    Richard Hall, CEO of CloudOrigin , a seasoned expert in the world of cloud computing - claims that the current trend of businesses migrating their IT systems into the cloud does not mean a reduction in security defences.
    More: www.cloudorigin.com

    20 May 2010 12:07
    The Co-operative Group, the UK’s fifth largest retail organisation, has selected Xerox to manage the print fleet across its head office complex in Manchester, including nearly fifty Xerox ColorQube 9200 series multifunction systems, in order to limit the environmental impact of its print and reduce costs. The deal is valued at circa £2m.
    Xerox will work with the Co-operative to introduce an enhanced print strategy supported by specially tailored software designed to reduce unnecessary office print. The move is expected to save the Co-operative an estimated £600,000 per year.
    The retail giant has been widely recognised for its commitment to the environment, winning a number of high profile accolades for its environmental and sustainability policies. This latest move will see Xerox manage 100 print devices that serve in excess of 2,500 head office staff across seven head office buildings in Manchester.
    More: http://www.xerox.com/
    More: http://www.co-operative.coop/

    20 May 2010 11:50
    HCC International
    , a leading specialist international insurer, has appointed Neocol to provide a range of new Information on Demand solutions to deliver real-time data integration and analytics across their UK and European business. The solution will allow them to analyse and utilise data much faster which will help improve decision making, business efficiency and reduce costs.
    The new Information on Demand solution from Neocol will enable HCC to deliver a consolidated European data warehouse to provide KPIs, analytics and management reporting and will provide the transparency of data needed to meet regulatory requirements such as Solvency II. Furthermore, the product provides functionality that will enable them to better identify and remedy data quality issues across their diverse portfolio of business applications.
    More: www.neocol.com
    More: www.hccint.com

    20 May 2010 11:00

    A new wave of clients and business partners in industries such as healthcare, energy and financial markets have made the switch from competitive platforms to IBM DB2 database software to meet data intensive demands of their businesses. To further accelerate this momentum, IBM announced today a new feature that allows clients to more easily move their applications written for Sybase ASE to DB2 - adding to the support for Oracle Database applications introduced last year.
    Clients such as BJC Healthcare and Pep Boys are already testing the feature to move their industry applications from Sybase ASE to DB2 to help reduce IT costs and achieve overall better performance.
    More: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/management/
    More: http://www.ants.com/


    20 May 2010 10:35

    Aia Software , a leading author and developer of intelligent document composition software today announced that Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm, has recognised ABN Amroä Bank‘s implementation of the Aia ITP Document Platform as an innovative use of technology and successful best practice in the competitive financial marketplace. The Aia ITP Document Platform is a pillar of the bank’s award-winning initiative to improve credit proposals and security documentation.
    Dutch-based ABN Amro Bank maintains a diverse, worldwide presence. International consultancy, Celent helps financial institutions create and sustain competitive advantage. ABN AMRO received the Model Bank Award at the Celent Innovation & Insight Day held on May 13, 2010 in New York.
    More: www.aia-itp.com

    19 May 2010 14:37
    Iron Mountain, the information management company, has appointed Russell Sanderson as the company’s new Commercial Director for Professional Services in the UK. Sanderson now leads an experienced team managing Iron Mountain’s relationships with customers in the legal, insurance, accounting and property sectors.
    Sanderson’s primary responsibility is to engage ever-more closely with Iron Mountain’s customers to ensure that they enjoy industry-leading levels of care, support and service. With the paper-intensive nature of the professional services sector, a major part of his new role involves helping customers manage the transition from a physical to a digital environment, applying the most effective solutions from Iron Mountain’s broad services portfolio. Sanderson will also help customers make sense of the information they hold and drive efficiencies through improved business processes and programmes to reduce long term storage costs.
    More: http://www.ironmountain.co.uk/

    19 May 2010 14:00
    Canon U.S.A., Inc
    ., a leader in digital document management and image capture solutions, today addressed the growing need for on-the-go image capture solutions among Mac users with the introduction of the imageFORMULA P-150M “Scan-tini” personal scanner. Utilizing the same precision technology and compact footprint in the original P-150 scanner, the new imageFORMULA P-150M personal scanner brings the latest in mobile image capture solutions to Mac-based environments.
    “Since introducing the original imageFORMULA P-150, we have received tremendous feedback regarding the versatility of this on-the-go scanning solution, resulting in increased demand from several market segments, including Mac users,” said Jim Rosetta, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Groups, Canon U.S.A. “For mobile workers, on-the-go company representatives or the traditional ‘road-warriors’, it is essential to have a reliable and precise imaging solution to help streamline and conduct business – and the imageFORMULA P-150M is an ideal device to meet that need among Mac users.”
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

    19 May 2010 10:00
    Agfa HealthCare
    , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with the Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen (FIDI) for the delivery and installation of its digital imaging and healthcare IT solutions across the facility's 25 sites. The agreement was signed in the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Filip of Belgium, who is on an economic mission in the region.
    In total the agreement foresees the installation of Computed Radiography (CR) systems for converting analog diagnostic images to digital formats, the company's Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) IMPAX for managing and distributing diagnostic images and information, a Radiology Information System (RIS) enabling radiologists to electronically manage end-to-end operations, and a central imaging repository solution to centralize all image-related information across 25 sites.
    More: www.agfa.com

    19 May 2010 09:32
    Core Consultancy
    , a leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist, has won “Specialist Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Company of the Year” at the Business Continuity Awards 2010. Core Consultancy’s DataSafe High-Availability service, which protects hundreds of terabytes of data for SME’s across the UK, was selected by the panel of expert judges based on a number of criteria.
    DataSafe is a hybrid service that uses a local backup appliance and a remote datacenter network to store and recover critical data. The High Availability version supports Instant Virtualisation technology to allow clients to quickly gain remote access to recovered applications and data via the internet. Core DataSafe also offers a continuous data protection scheme which means clients can specify how often a backup should occur, from as little as every 15 minutes, to ensure that no critical data is lost in the event of a major incident such as an evacuation, fire or flood.
    More: www.core-consultancy.com


    19 May 2010 05:05

    For the second consecutive year, Rochester Software Associates, Inc. a provider of production print workflow software solutions has been named 2009 Overall Software Partner of the Year by Xerox Corporation. The award was recently presented at Xerox's annual business partner conference. Xerox's Global Business Group, responsible for managing the Xerox business partner portfolio of document solutions, software and systems, recognized 22 partner firms for superior digital workflow software and finishing solutions.
    Since its affiliation as a Xerox partner in 1995, RSA has been recognized as Software Partner of the Year a record 11 times. "This honor speaks to the value of the partnership we have with Xerox and we remain committed to delivering innovative solutions and outstanding customer support to our many joint customers," said RSA Founder and President, Robert Baden.
    More: www.rocsoft.com

    18 May 2010 16:22
    ABBYY Europe, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and language software, today announced the availability of its Mobile OCR Engine 4.0, a new version of the award-winning software development kit (SDK) for creating small footprint optical character recognition (OCR) applications. The key enhancement of the SDK is its new robust technology to support Chinese, Japanese, and Korean OCR developed by ABBYY specialists. Now covering 62 recognition languages, including both European and Asian languages, and a wide variety of operating systems such as Symbian™, iPhone®, Mac OS®, Android™, Linux®, Mobile Linux (Moblin™), Windows®, and Windows Mobile® this SDK is the ideal technology platform for developers building applications for the global marketplace.
    More: http://www.abbyy.com/

    18 May 2010 12:26
    Fortify® Software, the market leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, today announced the availability of two new white papers, one business-oriented and one technical, intended to help cloud infrastructure providers and their customers understand how to unlock the full benefits of the cloud through software security. The company also announced new capabilities in its Fortify 360 and Fortify on Demand products that include cloud-specific vulnerability analysis, the industry’s first software security Cloud Readiness Scorecard™, and remediation capabilities that enable teams not just to evaluate the readiness of their software for cloud environments, but to find and fix security vulnerabilities that could be caused specifically by a move to a cloud environment. The solutions are ideal for both enterprises and agencies that are considering a move to the cloud, and cloud providers that offer shared infrastructure services to clients.
    More: www.fortify.com

    18 May 2010 11:51
    Colortrac
    will be demonstrating some new products on their booth #112 at the IRgA 2010 Convention & Trade Show being held at the Palm Springs Convention Center, California, USA, (May 19th - 21st, 2010).
    Visitors to the booth will see an advanced high performance A1 / D-size flatbed color scanner. Using CCD optical imaging technology to capture high quality images at high speed, a scan of an 24" x 33" document is saved in less than 20 seconds at 400dpi optical resolution via a high speed Gigabit Ethernet interface. Capable of great accuracy, it is perfect for fragile or uneven materials, like very thick or heavy media, wood grain, fabrics and framed art.
    Also debuting at the show is a new and fully-adjustable Universal Repro Stand (URS) that creates an operator-friendly, high productivity, multi-function system.
    More: www.colortrac.com

    17 May 2010 17:34
    DocuLex,
    creators of content management software, announces the addition of customized business process and collaborative workflow capability to DocuLex Archive Studio’s just released WebSearch version 4.2, equipping organizations with decision making power via automation of any business process through the benefit of systematic workflow. The program’s new intelligent “decision engine” organizes project information, orchestrates flow to each staffer involved, notifies them of action needed and documents their information revisions and additions. WebSearch will store metadata in the SQL database and update the database when metadata is edited, providing backup of workflow content throughout each project. The end result is project simplification with time and cost conservation.
    More: www.doculex.com.

    17 May 2010 15:31

    Working to expand its support for businesses and provide greater levels of service in the North and South Carolina regions, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in advanced digital imaging and software solutions, today announced the acquisition of the assets of Tereck Office Solutions, Inc., based in Durham, North Carolina. It will now be a new, wholly-owned subsidiary of Canon U.S.A.
    “Tereck has built a tremendous reputation for providing industry-leading imaging and document management solutions and support to companies in the North and South Carolina regions and we are excited to bring Tereck into the Canon family,” said Joe Adachi, president and chief executive officer, Canon U.S.A. “We take pride in offering the most comprehensive array of office imaging solutions and this acquisition will enable us to provide even greater levels of service to businesses and end-users in the Carolina regions.”
    More: www.usa.canon.com/

    17 May 2010 15:22
    Kodak’s Scanners
    and DoxTek, Inc. will improve the scanning and processing effectiveness of 100 billing services kiosks at Flying J Truck Stops across North America. The Scan & Go Express kiosks quickly digitize bills, proofs of delivery and other related forms for immediate use in the billing process.
    At present, Flying J customers are scanning upwards of 25,000 images per week. To enhance the kiosks’ document handling capabilities, DoxTek, an Authorized Imaging Reseller of KODAK Products, will begin using high-performance KODAK i1210 Scanners, upgrading from basic flatbed scanners.
    More: www.doxtek.com.
    More: http://www.kodak.com 

    15 May 2010 00:01
    Access Innovations, Inc
    ., a leader in the data management industry, has announced the release of Data Harmony 3.7, the latest version of the company’s popular data management software suite. The suite contains taxonomy management, automatic categorization, and metadata management tools and incorporates user-suggested upgrades that enhance the software’s functionality and features. The user documentation is also fully revised and updated.
    All modules of the new version of Data Harmony – Thesaurus Master, M.A.I. (Machine Aided Indexer*) and XIS (XML Intranet System) – are 100 percent Unicode UTF-8. Therefore, they support all languages, all character sets, and integrated multi-lingual applications. They also support scientific nomenclature without a need for special coding or character entification.
    More: www.accessinn.com

     

    14 May 2010 13:23
    Infosecurity Europe
    2010 defied the ash cloud and the economy to become the most successful event in its 15 year history with 12,566* visitors converged on London’s Earls Court venue where 324 exhibitors greeted them with the latest technology and services to protect their organisation.
    Claire Sellick, Infosecurity Europe’s Event Director attributes the growing success of the event to the fact that it is not just the need for organisations to protect their data that is driving investment. “Information security technology is now seen as an essential enabler for business to provide profitable and exciting new services. We have been inundated by demand for exhibition space for next years event and 82% of the space has already been booked for Infosecurity Europe 2011 which runs from the 19th to 21st April at Earls Court, London"
    More: www.infosec.co.uk

    14 May 2010 09:12
    Isilon® Systems
      today announced that the University of Lübeck has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as its primary storage repository, unifying the German university's file-based applications onto a single, shared file system. Using the Isilon IQ X-Series, the University of Lübeck has created a central storage solution for all its medical and scientific departments, accelerating data access for researchers, faculty and students, while reducing storage management to less than one full-time equivalent (FTE). With Isilon scale-out NAS, the University of Lübeck can provide highly concurrent data access to hundreds of users without compromising data performance or reliability, increasing efficiency and productivity for its research and educational efforts.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    13 May 2010 19:34
    docSTAR,
    a leader in document management solutions and Sage North America, a leading developer of business management solutions, have joined forces to bring best-of-breed document management to the Sage MAS 90 and 200 product line. The solution will fully integrate docSTAR with Sage MAS 90 and 200 to enhance the paperless capabilities in accounts payable and receivable to full document processing.“The objective is to liberate accounting departments from the burden of any paper files,” said Tom Franceski, docSTAR’s president and CEO. “Using their existing familiar interface, Sage MAS 90 and 200 users can now add incoming document management functionality to automate associated tasks and further streamline office operations.”
    More: http://www.docstar.com

    13 May 2010 15:06
    Allied Images
    , scanning and document management solution specialists, is pleased to announce that we have been appointed UK distributor for ATIZ range of BookDrive book scanners. BookDrive solve all problems found in book scanners including page curvature, damage to the book spine and low productivity. BookDrive uses a different approach; a V-shaped glass and book cradle that hold the book open at a non-stressful angle for scanning by hi-speed, hi-resolution digital SLR (DSLR) cameras. This unique design guarantees sharp, curvature-free images in every scan. BookDrive cameras capture both left- and right-hand pages simultaneously with each shot taking less than a second allowing you to capture up to 800 pages an hour.
    More: www.allied-images.com

    13 May 2010 14:51
    Pirean
    , a leading delivery partner for IT Service and Security Management, will be launching its application software division at the upcoming IBM Pulse Comes to You event in London in May. Pirean, the premier sponsor for the event, will have two stands to represent their services and growing software business.
    On the Pirean Software stand the company will be launching their SMBUS product, built on their Award Winning Service Management Integration Tool (recognised by IBM in 2008 as the most innovative service management product of the year) with connectors bundled for industry leading Service Desk, Identity Management and Service Management solutions.
    More: http://www.pirean.com/

    13 May 2010 10:44
    Thales
    , leader in information systems and communications security and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, announces the industry’s first hardware solution to enable time stamps for electronic document security in Microsoft Office Professional 2010. Thales Time Stamp Server appliance, part of the nCipher product line, is a network-attached, turn-key appliance that combines the ability to act as a tamper-resistant source of trusted time with a high speed and equally secure digital signing engine. This enables organizations to sign documents or other electronic files such as application software in a standards-based way, enabling verification long after the original signing certificate and credentials have expired or been revoked.
    Utilizing the new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC 3161 interface in Office Professional 2010, Thales Time Stamp Server provides government agencies and private sector enterprises with a secure, cost-effective solution for moving workflows and archiving from paper to electronic documents without first having to convert Office documents from their native formats.
    More: http://www.thalesgroup.com/

     

    12 May 2010 09:40Dr Neil Paul using Docman on the iPad
    PCTI, the supplier of Docman, an intelligent document workflow and collaboration solution demonstrates the power of the new Apple iPad for Doctors.

    This new technology enables real time access to patient’s documents and important clinical workflows without being tied to a fixed computer on a consulting desk.

    The practice common room could soon see a welcome return to GP’s reviewing and discussing patient letters through the use of new technology like the Apple iPad. Docman allows GP’s to easily comment on and highlight letters before re-routing to practice staff.

     

    Tools like the Apple iPad will enable PCTI to build on an already extensive list of benefits a practice receives from using Docman for their document management and workflow.

    More: www.pcti.co.uk
     


    11 May 2010 17:12
    ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Document Genetics of Northampton, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Document Genetics has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Document Genetics joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme.
    ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).
    More: http://www.abbyy.com/

    11 May 2010 15:49
    Zenith Infotech Ltd is to launch a new subsidiary, Zenith Infotech Europe (Stand 565), at Channel Expo this May. The announcement will also coincide with the launch of Smart Style Office, an innovative on-premise private cloud appliance aimed at SMB’s eager to reduce IT complexity and costs.
    Zenith Infotech Europe has emerged from the channel business of A-Server who has provided technical development, sales and support for Zenith Infotech in Europe for the last 2 years. A-Server is also the developer of the Smart Style Office Appliance which provides simple provisioning and management of virtual servers and desktops complete with pre-configured networking, distributed storage, backup, hardware-based, power management with a high availability setup.
    More:
    www.zenithinfotech.eu

    11 May 2010 15:13
    Regulatory compliance experts GxPi announce the availability of its leading Electronic Document Management System (eDMS) x-docs as a hosted software service. x-docs hosted enables small and medium sized organisations in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries to easily create, manage and store, controlled and regulatory documents without the set up, project time and cost typically associated with a full client/server software installation. Companies can implement x-docs hosted in two to eight weeks and can add users and enrich functionality as the business grows.
    More:
    www.gxpi.com/gxp-solutions



    11 May 2010 11:45

    Fortify® Software, the market leader in Software Security Assurance (SSA) solutions, today announced at the Private/Public Cloud Summit that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) as a corporate sponsor member. Fortify is joining the CSA to support its cloud security initiatives and to help establish and promote best practices for software security in cloud computing. Fortify will also provide its input on software security in the next release of the group’s Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing.
    More: http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org

    10 May 2010 15:00
    Demonstrating its ability to improve workplace efficiency across a broad range of industries, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technologies and advanced office solutions, will showcase the precision, speed and ease-of-use of its imageFORMULA digital document scanners and check transports at FUSION 2010 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center. FUSION 2010 combines The Association for Work Process Improvement (TAWPI) Annual Forum & Expo with the International Accounts Payable Professionals (IAPP) Annual Forum & Expo, addressing the needs of professionals in accounts payable, accounts receivable and payments, as well as document automation, imaging, and management. Canon’s exhibit will be located in Booth #301.
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei
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    10 May 2010 13:56

    Specialist software developer NSC Group has announced a new version of DataNovata, its web-enabled tool for accessing data in any relational database. DataNovata 3.0 introduces new features to further accelerate installation and set-up, and enhance ease of use with richer database search and data retrieval options for end-users.
    DataNovata 3.0 now includes a new, interactive wizard to help users get started with their projects even faster. The wizard guides users through a series of simple steps to quickly configure a project, prompting them for the basic information required by the development kit.
    A second new wizard guides users when they are moving projects from development to a live environment, to ensure a speedy, simple and reliable implementation.
    More: www.nscgroup.co.uk

    10 May 2010 10:29
    Canon UK
    today announced that its award winning imageFORMULA P-150 portable scanner is now compatible with Apple Mac operating systems with the release of new Mac TWAIN driver and a Mac version of its user-friendly CaptureOnTouch software.
    Following its launch in November 2009, the PC-enabled imageFORMULA P-150 has already received strong sales success across Europe and the latest download enables the multi-platform scanner to be used across all main popular operating system environments including PC, Linux and now Mac.
    More: www.canon.co.uk

    10 May 2010 10:08
    Core Consultancy
    , The leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist has launched a new version of DataSafe, its popular data backup and recovery service, built on a new hardware and software platform, to help small and medium businesses maintain a comprehensive disaster recovery position.
    The Core DataSafe service, which protects hundreds of terabytes of data for SMEs across the UK, has been updated by developers at Core Consultancy to support a host of new features and will for the first time be delivered exclusively through a 100% channel model.
    More: www.core-consultancy.com

    10 May 2010 09:59
    DRS
    e-Counting solutions have once again delivered results efficiently and effectively in Scotland, this time in the Drumchapel/Anniesland Ward by-election. Returning officer, George Black hailed the election a huge success. Running alongside the enormous manual count operation for the Parliamentary Election, the Drumchapel/Anniesland ward ballot papers were scanned in approximately 50 minutes.
    With an electorate of just under twenty thousand, the postal and normal ballot papers were electronically counted using three DRS PhotoScribe® scanners. With a 52 percent turnout, the papers were registered, scanned, verified and adjudicated where necessary by the Returning Officer and his staff. Using an extremely small team of experienced staff, the results were delivered just 55 minutes after scanning was completed. The winning candidate was elected at the first stage. If counted manually, it could have taken in excess of 30 staff between five and six hours to complete the count.
    More: http://www.drs.co.uk/

    07 May 2010 12:10
    Isilon® Systems
    today announced that Prologue, a leading visual effects and graphic design studio, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS as the primary storage repository for all of its file-based data, including post-production on Hollywood blockbusters including The Incredible Hulk, Sherlock Homes and the Spider-Man trilogy. Using Isilon’s X-Series, Prologue has unified all of its file-based data onto a single storage resource delivering greater than 90 percent utilization, increasing workflow efficiency and accelerating project time-to-delivery. With Isilon IQ, Prologue can process more visual effects projects in less time, expanding its bandwidth to accommodate new business opportunities across movies, television and graphic design.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

     

    07 May 2010 11:26
    Varonis Systems Inc
    ., a leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, announced it has joined forces with RSA, the Security Division of EMC, to address the growing challenges organizations face as they manage and protect their growing volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. The interoperability between the Varonis IDU Data Classification Framework (DCF) and RSA's Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite allows customers to identify sensitive data on their file systems, SharePoint Sites and NAS devices, find areas with excessive permissions and abnormal access activity, understand who can access, who is accessing, who shouldn't have access, and who owns the data, and remediate risk faster than traditional data protection and classification products.
    More: www.varonis.com

     

    07 May 2010 10:48
    The steady stream of advances in brute force decryption techniques - which started when Russia's Elcomsoft released the first versions of its Password Recovery suite of `utilities' around 18 months ago - means that laptop users must now raise their game when it comes to encryption, says Origin Storage.
    And, says Andy Cordial, the storage systems integration firm's managing director, as Russian password decryption specialist Elcomsoft's advances clearly show, it can only be a matter of time before further advances are possible.
    More: www.originstorage.com

    06 May 2010 16:53
    Genus is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with the German scanner manufacturer, Inotec GmbH, to represent its brand new 400 series document scanners in the UK and Ireland.

    Genus will be the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for the Inotec range of production document scanners. They are ideal for large volume end user clients such as Insurance, NHS, Census, Election and Mailroom applications as well as busy Document Conversion Bureaus.

    The Inotec 402, 412 and 422 scanners offer bitonal/colour throughput of between 90 to 150ppm and are characterisedby a number of key advantages.
    More: http://www.genusit.com/

    06 May 2010 09:59
    Reports are coming in that a member of staff at one of NHS Forth Valley's secure mental health units has been suspended over the apparent loss of a USB stick containing patient's medical records.
    Credant Technologies says that, since the case involves a data loss involving medical records, it may well be referred to the regional office of the ICO (Information Commissioners Office) in Edinburgh for investigation and likely further action.
    "According to local newspaper reports, a 12-year-old boy found the USB stick - which contained sensitive information on some of the staff and patients at Bellsdyke hospital's Tryst Park facility - at a supermarket in nearby Stenhousemuir," said Sean Glynn, product manager with the data security specialist.
    More on NHS patient data fiasco: http://bit.ly/amjMwc
    More: http://www.credant.com

    05 May 2010 17:08
    As the world economy starts to recover, the AIIM Roadshow 2010, the UK's leading Enterprise Content Management (ECM) event, will demonstrate how organisations can retain the cost savings made during the downturn, using the five best practice milestones for information, document and records management. With keynotes and practical advice from the UK Managing Director of AIIM, Doug Miles, Microsoft’s Office Server Group Director, Peter King and the Principal of The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch), Alan Pelz-Sharpe, visitors will learn how to build more efficient processes, waste less time and facilitate better teamwork.
    More:
    www.aiimroadshow.org.uk

     

    05 May 2010 12:17
    Backup Direct, provider of stress-free online backup and data security services to UK businesses and organisations, today announced their partnership with Geo Mission Ltd and the Catlin Arctic Survey. The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010 is a study on what effects greenhouse gases are having on the environment. An explorer team – directed by Polar Explorer, Pen Hadow and led by one of the top women in Polar Exploration, Ann Daniels - has been travelling across the Arctic for the past two months collecting data that will hopefully provide key scientific insight into the effects of ocean change.
    Backup Direct were chosen by Geo Mission, the company behind the Catlin Arctic Survey, to backup the mission-critical data gathered by the Explorer Team during the survey.
    More: www.backupdirect.net

    05 May 2010 11:06

    ABBYY UK Ltd., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Digiscan of Dublin and Kells, Ireland, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Digiscan has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Digiscan joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme.
    More: www.abbyy.com

    05 May 2010 01:51
    ARX (Algorithmic Research), a leading provider of digital signature solutions, is proud to have co-sponsored a first-of-its-kind research conducted by AIIM on the use and benefits of digital signatures, entitled ‘Digital Signatures for Document Workflow and SharePoint’. The study is based on a survey of both organizations that haven’t implemented a digital signature solution and those that have, and compares the expectations of the former with the reported results of the latter.
    Among the various metrics explored in AIIM’s digital signature research were the impact of the need for paper-based signatures, the ROI experienced by organizations that have implemented digital signatures, and the benefits those organizations have experienced.
    More: http://www.arx.com/about/PR/PR-Digital-Signature-Survey-by-AIIM 

    04 May 2010 17:09
    Datacap, the pioneer in advanced data and document capture software solutions, announced today the implementation of a custom data capture solution, enabling the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) to track all aspects of H1N1 vaccinations from distribution to inoculation.
    Even before the first warning signs of a potential H1N1 pandemic were seen, DHS Oregon Department of Human Services had the foresight to create a plan to quickly and properly distribute vaccinations to the citizens of Oregon and neighboring states.
    The solution was designed and implemented by Datacap partner Cutting Edge Solution (CES) of Kansas City, Missouri. "We were ready to install a solution for DHS to capture healthcare enrollment and vaccination forms when H1N1 started to make news," said Jameson Nunn, CES co-founder. "It wasn't hard to switch gears and prioritize the H1N1 plan. We had DHS up and running just as the first batches of vaccination were starting to arrive."
    More: www.datacap.com
    More: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/imm/docs/H1N1ReprtGdlines.pdf

    04 May 2010 14:35
    ALWIL Software, developer of the award-winning avast! antivirus program, has announced that its built-in GMER technology has earned recognition from Anti-Malware Labs, a respected independent security testing organization, as the highest ranked solution for the detection and removal of rootkits. A rootkit is a type of malware that hides itself within a computer’s operating system.
    The Anti-Malware Labs test graded the ability of 12 programs to identify and eliminate a selection of rootkits from a computer running on a fully updated XP Professional operating system. The Lab tested GMER 1.0.15, a stand-alone version of the GMER technology which is a standard part of avast! antivirus software.
    More: http://www.anti-malware-test.com/

    04 May 2010 14:00
    Agfa HealthCare, a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that its DX-D 500 n Direct Radiography system is now available in Canada. The system delivers instant previews, fast cycle times, a unified look and feel for CR and DR exams and streamlined workflow procedures through its NX workstation and MUSICA2 image processing. In combination with Agfa HealthCare's CR systems, the DX-D 500 n addresses the needs of the full spectrum of general radiology exams.
    "Agfa HealthCare's DX-D solutions deliver fast cycle times, which can result in accelerated productivity, improved patient comfort, and efficiency in radiography departments. Providers and patients benefit from consistent image quality, the potential for dose reduction, and streamlined workflow," says Dirk Debusscher, Vice President Imaging. "Because Agfa HealthCare is the only company to offer needle quality in both its DR and CR detectors, choosing Agfa HealthCare's DX-D and CR systems can assure providers of high imaging quality, as well as enhanced productivity."
    More: www.agfahealthcare.com


     


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    29 Apr 2010 14:52
    AnyDoc Software, a leading provider of automated document, data capture, and classification solutions, announced today the launch of their new enterprise capture and workflow solution, AnyDoc®INSURANCE™ Suite, to solve the document and business processing challenges in the insurance industry.
    Insurance carriers, wholesalers, and third party administrators can increase visibility into all of their processes with the AnyDocINSURANCE Suite. By delivering real-time process and business analytics designed to maximize business process improvement and provide proven near-term ROI, AnyDocINSURANCE Suite automatically captures, processes, and routes insurance documents—slashing costs, increasing process efficiency and visibility, boosting customer retention, and ensuring data accuracy.
    More: www.AnyDocSoftware.com.


    29 April 2010 14:10
    Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced significant expansions to the document automation capabilities of eCopy® ShareScan®, the world’s best-selling MFP (multifunction peripheral) scanning system that enables organizations to replace manual paper processes with digital document workflows. Nuance also revealed significant additions to the eCopy Software Development Kit (SDK) and developer program that will accelerate the development of valuable document processing solutions using the eCopy ShareScan system.
    More: www.nuance.com

    29 April 2010 12:49

    With immediate effect there is a new winner in the ranks of SEAL laminating machines: the SEAL 62 Base. The readers of Wide-Format Imaging (WFI) magazine in the US have given it the title of "Top Product Award 2010" in the Laminating Equipment category. The readers are confident in their choice: this laminator helps their businesses to be successful.
    Specialising in protective and mounting films and also roller and liquid laminators, SEAL is benefiting from the strong growth in the digital printing market whose printed products can be inexpensively protected using the SEAL 62 Base. "Our laminator is ideally suited to the key requirements of the graphics industry," declares Frank Seemann, Head of Marketing and Communication for the SEAL brand. "The flexibility, extremely high product reliability and quality of our entry-level model help to ensure this. In addition, the affordable purchase price makes the SEAL 62 Base extremely attractive."
    More: www.sealgraphics.com

    28 April 2010 15:12
    Q1 Labs
    , the global provider of total security intelligence solutions, today announced business operational continuity for large enterprises via a new version of its flagship QRadar product – QRadar High Availability (HA). The new product is an automated appliance providing high availability capabilities for companies’ SIEM solutions, and is uniquely designed with an embedded database, making it easier for companies to scale their SIEM solution, and providing them with the safety net of having an always-on security intelligence solution.
    Q1 Labs’ QRadar incorporates security information and event management (SIEM), risk management, log management and network behavior anomaly detection (NBAD) into one scalable platform that provides users with a full view of their network, or “One Console Security”™. QRadar’s integrated HA capabilities address the demand for scalable solutions for mission critical use cases, and enables IT users to process, correlate and store more logs, events and network activities without interruption and ensures continuous network security monitoring, without having to raise capex via first-gen complex hardware/software purchases.
    More: www.q1labs.com


    28 April 2010 12:00
    TeleWare, the leading provider of communications solutions for mobile and distributed workers, is pleased to announce that Private Mobile Networks has been selected for inclusion in the Gartner report on Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications Applications, issued on 31 March 2010 with input from Gartner analysts Jay Lassman, Steve Blood, Megan Marek Fernandez, Bob Hafner, Bern Elliot and Drew Kraus.
    This Gartner report identifies “innovative solutions that reduce deployment costs, and improve operating efficiencies and the accessibility of unified communications.” Moreover, “the vendors in this report have been selected by the Gartner analysts for their ability to address important areas that pose challenges to communication planners. These include leveraging an organization's communications infrastructure, simplifying solution implementation and optimizing ongoing application costs.”
    More: www.teleware.com
     

    27 April 2010 17:14
    All My Papers (AMP), a developer and distributor of software for Image Cash Letters, and TROY Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in secure on-demand printing solutions, announced today the release of a cost effective solution for printing Image Replacement Documents (IRDs) from Return Image Cash Letter files offered by the Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) FedReceipt and FedReceiptPlus services. This new solution provides non-image enabled financial institutions the capability to receive and process secure return items via electronic Image Cash Letter files provided by the FRB on a more timely and reliable basis.
    The AMP and TROY solution includes the AMP X9 VIEWER software and a TROY MICR (magnetic ink character recognition) enabled IRD printer. The AMP X9 VIEWER software provides the ability to view return check items in the ICL file and print valid IRDs with a TROY IRD printer. When printing each IRD with TROY developed MICR fonts and high quality TROY MICR toner included with the HP-based TROY IRD Printer, financial institutions can be assured that all legal requirements are met for each IRD. As a result, institutions can be confident when re-presenting IRDs, including IRDs in advise letters to their customers, or posting them using their current item processing systems.
    http://www.troygroup.com


    27 April 2010 16:04

    Isilon® Systems today announced the appointment of a new sales leader in Asia Pacific as the company continues its aggressive pursuit of international markets. Isilon appointed former Data Domain and NetApp executive Chee Keong (C.K.) Chan as vice president of sales in APAC, reporting directly to George Bennett, senior vice president of worldwide field operations. Prior to joining Isilon, Mr. Chan most recently served as Data Domain’s Senior Director for its Asia Pacific operations. Prior to Data Domain, Chan served as NetApp’s Managing Director and General Manager for South Asia, where he grew revenue from less than $6 million in 2002, to more than $60 million in 2006.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    27 April 2010 14:41
    Nuance Communications, Inc., a leading supplier of speech solutions, today announced the start of four projects for its trust-wide, computer aided medical transcription solution (CAMT), eScription. Delivered as a “pay as you go”, on-demand Software as a Service (SaaS), eScription from Nuance offers NHS Trusts, and other hospital organisations, an N3-secure opportunity to improve patient safety and patient care by streamlining and automating the clinical documentation workflow. The eScription platform will help NHS Trusts to significantly increase medical secretaries’ productivity and improve document turnaround time whilst lowering transcription costs – all achieved, crucially, with no impact on a clinician’s working practice.
    Based on the simple premise that ‘it’s faster to edit than type’, eScription’s proprietary and intelligent background speech recognition software converts clinicians’ digital dictations into formatted draft documents that medical secretaries can quickly review and edit; often doubling productivity over conventional digital dictation systems. Nuance eScription technology is hosted in the UK at the LDL Data Centre (part of the BT Group), enabling a closed loop NHS N3-secure processing environment. Designed with the enterprise in mind, eScription supports dictation into multiple digital devices while also leveraging a Trust’s existing telephony network.
    More: http://www.nuance.com/

    27 April 2010 14:35
    Bernadette Lodico, General Manager, KODAK Service and Support, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group, will offer best practices on service strategies during the Field Service 2010 conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., April 26-28. Her expertise will help attendees create new ways to use service as a key driver for achieving central business goals.
    Lodico will participate during a panel discussion, “Best Practices in Obtaining Customer Feedback to Effectively Target Your Service Offerings,” on Tuesday, April 27 at 9:20 a.m., and lead a session, “Obtaining Corporate Buy-In to Drive a Culture of Service Within Your Organization,” on Tuesday, April 27 at 12:20 p.m.
    During her presentations, Lodico will discuss how businesses can integrate customer functions with service practices. This process includes steps to identify opportunities, align service with organizational goals and create channels to effectively communicate with customers. Lodico will explain how this approach can improve the customer experience, eliminate waste and improve employees’ focus on growing the business.
    More: http://www.kodak.com


    27 April 2010 13:26

    Isilon® Systems
      today announced that the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) at Shenzhen has deployed more than one petabyte (PB) of Isilon scale-out NAS to power one of the world’s largest DNA sequencing environments. Working with one of China’s leading IT integrators, United Electronics Co., Ltd., BGI is using Isilon’s X-Series, featuring its OneFS® operating system, to unify more than 100 Illumina Genome Analyzers onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage. With Isilon IQ, BGI has achieved previously unattainable levels of data performance for its research team, increasing productivity across a vast array of initiatives to accelerate time-to-discovery, while reducing capital and operating expenses.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    27 April 2010 13:01
    ABBYY UK Ltd
    ., a member of the ABBYY Group and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced that Click2Scan of Mere, Wiltshire, UK, is now an ABBYY FlexiCapture 9.0 Certified Partner. Click2Scan has demonstrated expertise with ABBYY technology and an ability to work with customers to meet their data capture needs. Click2Scan joins a network of highly skilled resellers and integrators who can provide data capture solutions based on ABBYY technology as part of the Certified Partner programme. ABBYY FlexiCapture is an intelligent solution for capturing data from forms and other types of documents for input into databases and other back end systems. With its powerful algorithm for intelligent document classification and selective processing approach, ABBYY FlexiCapture is capable of finding and extracting key fields of information, even if the location of the field varies from page to page. As a result, FlexiCapture can be used as a single entry point for all kinds of paper documents including: forms (questionnaires, tests, insurance forms, tax returns, etc.), semi-structured documents (invoices, purchase orders, waybills, etc.) and unstructured documents (letters, contracts, articles, etc.).
    More: http://www.abbyy.com/
     

    27 April 2010 09:00
    Research results from a global survey by BridgeHead Software, the Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) company, suggest the healthcare industry's movement towards "green IT" may be more of an aspiration than a reality.
    Results from the Data Management Healthcheck 2010 - a global survey into the healthcare industry's ongoing strategies for managing their IT systems - found that only 25 per cent of healthcare organisations had a specific CO2 target to reduce their carbon emissions. 29 per cent of respondents were unaware of a CO2 target, if it did exist.
    The survey also asked respondents (healthcare IT professionals from all over the world, but primarily from the United States and United Kingdom) what they were doing to reduce their organisations' IT carbon footprints specifically. Only 16 per cent of respondents said they monitored energy consumption across their IT infrastructures on an ongoing basis against pre-set targets. Less than three per cent claimed to use a carbon-offset scheme.
    More: www.BridgeHeadSoftware.com

    27 April 2010 06:42
    Cyber-Ark® Software, the leading global software provider for protecting critical applications, identities and information, today announced availability of its Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Suite version 6. With the addition of the new On-Demand Privileges Manager™ product as part of the integrated Cyber-Ark Suite, global organizations benefit from the most advanced, proven solution for uniformly managing security policies, compliance, reporting and administration for all privileged users and accounts from a common user interface. Cyber-Ark will demonstrate key features and benefits of its sixth generation solution at Infosecurity Europe (Stand E100), taking place April 27-29, 2010 in London.
    More: http://www.cyber-ark.com/

     

    26 April 2010 11:52
    Origin Storage
    , a leading manufacturer and distributor of IT storage solutions, has today announced the launch of Enigma SED. The self-encrypted drive (SED) is the first solution to provide companies of all sizes with a quick and cost effective way to secure laptops using the highest levels of hardware AES 256-bit encryption. The Enigma SED will be demonstrated on stand D85 at Infosecurity Europe from 27th – 29th April 2010 at Earls Court, London.
    With remote working becoming an important part of any modern day corporate environment many organisations are issuing laptops in preference to standard desktop PCs. At the same time, companies are putting at risk the security of sensitive and confidential information in areas outside of their physical control.
    More: www.originstorage.com

    26 April 2010 10:18
    Rackspace® Hosting
    , the world’s leader in hosting and cloud computing, has joined forces with Spiceworks™ to allow small and medium businesses (SMBs) to manage their Rackspace email hosting services through the free Spiceworks social IT management application. The integrated systems simplify the jobs of SMB IT professionals by allowing them to monitor and administrate Rackspace cloud email services within the Spiceworks IT management interface, rather than launching a separate portal.
    The relationship with Spiceworks allows Rackspace to extend the functionality and reach of its hosted email services, including Rackspace Email, Microsoft Exchange or a hybrid of both, through the use of Rackspace’s APIs that are available to customers and partners interested in integrating with the Rackspace cloud email platform. For Spiceworks, the integration is part of an ongoing effort to provide SMB IT professionals free management capabilities for their on-premise, cloud-based and hybrid IT infrastructures.
    More: http://www.spiceworks.com.
    http://www.rackspace.co.uk/rackspace-home/

    26 April 2010 09:47
    A survey of 1000 commuters in London has found that a tidal wave of credit card fraud and Identity theft is sweeping the UK as 44 % of people said they have suffered from bank/credit card fraud and 42% have had their identity stolen. According to researchers from Infosecurity Europe, the number one dedicated Information security event which takes place at Earls Court, London this week, the average amount stolen was £1448 per person, and 37% overall did not get their money back from the bank. People that lost a small amount of money were far less likely to get their money back from their bank than people who lost a large amount of money with 91%of people who lost more than £5000 getting their money back compared to only 41% of people who lost less than £100. The type of organisation that most people blame for making them vulnerable to fraud were retailers at 60%, whilst only 12% blamed the banks, and 28% said it was their own fault that they had lost money or had their identity stolen. The researchers also asked if a partner or family member had suffered from bank/credit card fraud and 45% said that they had, whilst 41% said that their family had their Identity stolen.
    More: www.infosec.co.uk

    26 April 2010 09:38
    Q1 Labs
    , a global provider of total security intelligence solutions, has announced a major push into the European market with the establishment of a new European distribution, R&D, sales and support centre and new senior management staff in the UK, France and Germany.
    Q1 Labs, which has doubled its customer base in one year and now has more than 1,000 customers worldwide including over 250 in Europe, is one of the fastest growing vendors in the SIEM space. It currently has two major OEM relationships with Juniper and Enterasys, as well as numerous partners worldwide. In March, Invest Northern Ireland announced that Q1 Labs will establish its new EMEA Headquarters in Belfast, where it will recruit around 50 staff to adequately meet demand from the region. The new facility will support the strong growth in EMEA, which accounts for over a quarter of its global customers, since it launched its products in the region in 2008.
    More: http://www.q1labs.com/


    23 April 2010 16:13

    Continuing to build upon the exceptional, full-service imageRUNNER ADVANCE document platform unveiled last year, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in advanced digital document imaging, today introduced the monochrome imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8000 Series and 6000 Series of powerful multifunction systems. Offering a seamless blend of hardware, software and services initially deployed in the award-winning imageRUNNER ADVANCE Color models, the new black-and-white models deliver improved image quality, exceptional output speeds, enhanced workplace efficiency and the bottom-line results critical for success in today’s competitive business environment.
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

    23 April 2010 11:22
    Cyber-Ark today disclosed details of On-Demand Privileges Manager™, part of its PIM Suite V6.0 due for ‘official’ release at next week’s InfoSecurity, effectively slamming the doors and closing the blinds to anyone with designs on snooping around the network – regardless of their political persuasions or role within the organisation. The first to unify superuser access control, policy management and audit and reporting for both privileged users and the superuser accounts – Cyber-Ark provides a truly holistic Privileged Life Cycle Management Suite of Solutions.
    More: www.cyber-ark.com

    23 April 2010 08:38
    Isilon® Systems  today announced that the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its full range of next-generation genome sequencing research services. By combining Isilon’s X-Series, Backup Accelerator and CommVault’s Simpana backup software, NCGR has unified eight Illumina Genome Analyzers onto a highly reliable, central storage resource, accelerating time-to-results and ensuring its research information is secure and accessible 24x7x365. With Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS® operating system, NCGR has been able to scale a single, high performance, shared pool of storage in-step with its rapidly growing DNA sequencing capacity without the need for full-time storage administration.
    More: http://www.isilon.com
     

    23 April 2010 04:14
    Access Innovations
    , a leader in semantic enrichment and taxonomy development, today announced a new series of enhancements to their Data Harmony suite of content enrichment and thesaurus management tools specifically targeted to publishers and enterprises using MarkLogic Server. By creating and integrating subject metadata based on a taxonomy or controlled vocabulary, the Data Harmony tools add value to content in a number of ways.
    More: www.accessinn.com

    22 April 2010 13:30
    Agfa HealthCare
    , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed an agreement with the Academisch Medisch Centrum (Academic Medical Center Amsterdam - AMC) in The Netherlands to upgrade its existing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and install a Radiology Information System (RIS) and Nuclear Information System (NIS). To support the University Hospital's regional care requirements, the company has also signed an agreement for the installation of its IMPAX Data Center. Agfa HealthCare's solutions were selected after an extensive review process involving five vendors and an independent ICT advisory consultancy.
    More: www.agfa.com/healthcare

    22 April 2010 12:37
    A theft incident involving the data of 3.3 million people in the US has ended well, with 650 CDs and floppy disks containing data on current plus former student loan customers of a US credit insurer ending up being recovered, says Credant Technologies.
    According to Sean Glynn, product manager with the data security specialist, police recovered the media within 48 hours, after a safe containing the disks was stolen from the Minnesota headquarters of the Education Credit Management Corp. (ECMC).
    "The company concerned has ended up offering a year of free credit monitoring to 3.3 million people, which is an expensive exercise in itself, but the situation could have been a lot worse," he said.
    More: http://bit.ly/9w8QZW
    More: www.credant.com

    22 April 2010 11:32
    A survey of 1,151 UK office workers (working in organisations with 50+ employees) paints the picture of an office environment rife with administrative inefficiencies. The survey, conducted by YouGov and commissioned by Adobe, highlights how outdated processes, unnecessary duplication of effort, internal politics, and information gathered ‘for the sake of it’, are all contributing to workplace inefficiencies. Significantly, opinion on the burden of unnecessary administration and inefficient processes was similar from the most junior workers to the most senior. This suggests a general acceptance that time wasted on administration is an accepted ‘norm’.
    The report found that 30 percent of respondents claim to spend more than five hours a month on ‘unnecessary administration work’. The total amount of wasted time equated to 7.1 days* a year for every employee. With 10 million office workers in total in the UK and based on the average office worker salary**, this equates to £8.8 billion of wasted time.
    More: http://www.adobe.com/

    22 April 2010 09:25
    A-Server
    , a leading supplier of data backup and recovery solutions has enhanced its commitment to its channel in the UK with its first office, new country manager and UK operated datacenter environment to help its 200 partners across the country deliver its innovative Backup & Data Recovery service.
    A-Server has appointed Ian Smith as its new Business Development Manager for the UK who will be based at new offices in Brighton. A-Server has also launched an office site data backup service hosted at an ISO 270001 accredited Datacenter in the south of England to ensure that critical data remains within the UK at a secure and professionally managed facility.
    More: www.a-server.com/msp
     

    21 April 2010 16:16

    Lincoln-based office efficiency company TBSL has picked up two national
    awards for Best Newcomer and Best Marketing Initiatives at the Philips
    Partner Awards Ceremony 2010.
    TBSL joined forces with Philips last year and is now a reseller partner of
    Philips Speech Processing which manufacturers pioneering dictation
    technology.
    The annual awards ceremony is aimed at honouring Philips' professional
    partners and celebrating their achievement in sales, marketing and technical
    service in 2009.
    The prestigious black tie event was held at Theobalds Park in Cheshunt and
    the awards were presented by Richard Noble OBE who was the holder of the
    world land speed record between 1983 and 1997.
    More: www.tbsl.net.

    21 April 2010 15:36
    Canon U.S.A., Inc
    ., a leader in digital imaging and advanced office solutions, has been recognized at this year’s ON DEMAND Conference and Exposition with a Best of Show Honorable Mention award in the Monochrome Digital Printing Equipment category for its new imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8105.
    Unveiled at the start of the show, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8105 is a reliable document management solutions that offers a seamless blend of hardware, software and services which delivers improved image quality, outstanding output speeds and enhanced workplace efficiency with Canon’s renowned reliability.
    Ideal for light-production and high-volume office environments, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8105 utilizes the Advanced imageCHIP system architecture found in the imageRUNNER ADVANCE Color models, can deliver monochrome letter-sized output speeds of up to 105 pages-per-minute, and features a standard, single-pass duplex scanning unit capable of capturing both black-and-white and color.
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

    21 April 2010 14:43

    AIIM honored Kodak Executive Todd LeVeque for his dedication over the past year to the information management association (AIIM) at the Annual Awards Dinner of the 2010 AIIM Expo + Conference. LeVeque, Director, Sales, Eastern Region, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group, received the AIIM Distinguished Service Award.
    LeVeque, a longtime member of AIIM, served as an active Kodak representative on the Board of Directors, Finance Committee, Education Committee and ATM Group. Established in 1973, the award recognizes individuals whose outstanding service and volunteer time have helped to advance ECM technology in their region or in their industry overall. Nominations for the awards are made by AIIM Professional Members and/or employees of AIIM Trade or Advisory Trade Members. Approximately ten individuals are recognized each year.
    More: http://www.kodak.com

    21 April 2010 14:42
    BridgeHead Software
    will next week unveil the principles behind Healthcare Storage Virtualization (HSV) at Health Informatics Congress 2010 at The ICC, Birmingham (April 27 – 29). The introduction of HSV – a scalable, future-proof solution providing hospitals with choice, flexibility and control over the way data is accessed, protected and managed – comes at a time when an unprecedented number of healthcare organisations are seeking technologies to improve efficiency and drive down rising costs.
    IT organisations within healthcare are constantly battling with challenges around data management and storage. With an ever-changing technological landscape and the upsurge in patient data (as hospitals move closer to fully electronic medical records), it is becoming increasingly difficult, time-consuming and expensive for IT professionals to manage and maintain their storage hardware estates. Furthermore, there is in an increasing demand for data to be accessible and available across applications, departments, networks and geographical locations. This combined with the essential requirement for data security and disaster recovery capabilities makes data management and storage a higher priority than ever before.
    More: www.bridgeheadsoftware.com 

    21 April 2010 12:44
    Business use of technology is evolving faster now than at any point in the last decade. Internet use has moved way beyond email and websites and into the realms of social networks and externally-hosted software services accessed across the Internet (often referred to as cloud computing).
    These changes have increased the vulnerability of UK companies and public sector organisations to new cyber attacks. Hacking and denial of service attacks have doubled in the last two years. As a result, security remains high on management’s list of priorities.
    These are among the preliminary findings of the 2010 Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) commissioned by Infosecurity Europe and written by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. The full results of the survey including details of the number and cost of security breaches in the UK, will be revealed at Infosecurity Europe in London on 28 April.
    More: www.infosec.co.uk
     

    21 April 2010 10:48
    ABBYY,
    a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, and language software, today announced the availability of ABBYY FineReader Engine 9.0 for Linux, a robust software development kit (SDK) to integrate ABBYY award-winning optical character recognition (OCR), barcode recognition, and PDF conversion technologies into Linux-based applications.
    More: www.ABBYY.com/ocr_sdk_linux

    21 April 2010 10:47
    Trusteer
    , the leading provider of secure browsing services, today announced that a completely new version of the Zeus (Zbot) password stealing Trojan that targets online banking users has already been detected by the Trusteer Rapport service on one in every 3,000 computers it monitors. This is an unprecedented rate of distribution for new financial malware code. Version 1.4 of Zeus, also known as version 2, now targets Firefox as well as Internet Explorer browsers and uses advanced polymorphic techniques to avoid antivirus detection.
    Trusteer used its Flashlight remote fraud investigation and mitigation service to link Zeus 1.4 with fraud committed against both commercial and consumer banking customers in North America and the United Kingdom. Flashlight was able to collect new Zeus configurations and code samples from infected computers. This new version of Zeus is completely different than versions 1.2 and 1.3.
    More: www.trusteer.com

    21 April 2010 10:23
    Binary Research International Inc. (BRI) and its UK subsidiary (Binary Resource (UK) Ltd.) announced today the availability of FastTrack Scripting Host 2010, a rapid scripting tool that simplifies the work of system and network Administrators who write scripts to automate day-to-day tasks.
    More: www.binaryresearch.net/fasttrackdownload.

    20 April 2010 16:51
    Accusoft Pegasus
    just released new versions of its forms processing SDKs today. Customers will take advantage of increased speed and processing power delivered through the new 32/64-bit .NET versions. They will increase OCR and ICR accuracy by applying regular expressions to field recognition, and the new versions also open up a larger international market for ICR (recognition of hand printed characters) applications.
    FormFix v4, which performs form ID, registration and dropout, and SmartZone v3, which decodes characters in form fields, are now available as 32/64-bit AnyCPU .NET versions. Demand for 64-bit continues to increase, especially when forms processing technology is used on production servers.
    More: www.accusoft.com

    20 April 2010 15:13
    Today at the AIIM Expo + Conference, Eastman Kodak Company and ibml announced intentions to expand their global reseller and worldwide service relationships. KODAK Service and Support will also continue to provide coverage for the entire portfolio of ibml document imaging scanners and software packages in the United States (U.S.) and Canada.
    Since 2005, Kodak’s Document Imaging business and ibml successfully established a joint reseller program complemented with KODAK Service and Support to serve customers in Kodak’s EAMER region, which includes countries in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Plans are underway to expand the reseller and service and support network to serve customers in Kodak’s Asia Pacific Region (APR), which includes China, Australia, and countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Kodak and ibml expect to finalize the global relationships by end of the second quarter 2010.
    More: www.ibml.com.
    http://www.kodak.com

    20 April 2010 14:36
    Canon U.S.A.
    today announced it will be presenting its latest document management and imaging solutions for all business environments during the 2010 AIIM On Demand Exhibition (Booth #1100) in Philadelphia, PA. Products on display will include new monochrome offerings for the imageRUNNER ADVANCE line, as well as recently introduced imagePROGRAF and imageFORMULA models.
    The new imageRUNNER ADVANCE Series boasts a reliable and productive document management solution that delivers powerful printing, copying and scanning functions to a variety of environments. Designed for light production environments, such as central reproduction departments, in-plant facilities and print service providers, the new imageRUNNER ADVANCE 8000 delivers exceptional quality, speed and finishing solutions. Specs include monochrome letter-sized output speeds of up to 105 pages per minute (ppm)/ 95 ppm/ 85ppm (Letter) for the 8105/8095/8085 configurations, respectively. For high-volume corporate environments looking to cut imaging costs, the imageRUNNER ADVANCE 6000 series boosts efficiency and streamlined workflow. Specs include speeds of up to 75ppm, 65ppm, and 55ppm (Letter) as well as maximum paper capacity of up to 7,700 sheets.
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyose

    20 April 2010 11:58
    Kodak
    today announced that Barnet Council has installed 30 networked Kodak Scan Station 100 scanners, three Kodak i620 scanners and three Kodak i1220 Plus scanners, along with Morse plc’s Wisdom electronic document and records management system (EDRM). This will deliver online multi-user access to documentation in case files in five key service areas: Children Services, Adult Services, Housing, Environmental Health and Human Resources.
    The new Wisdom EDRM solution enables 700 Barnet Council staff to quickly search across various enterprise systems for information related to a particular council resident. Access to information and collaboration will be improved, security and auditing enhanced, with overall organisational efficiency increased. Ultimately, Barnet Council will be able to save money on storage and improve response times to the public, with the system over time made accessible to all 3,500 staff.
    More: http://www.kodak.com


    20 April 2010 11:31

    CREDANT Technologies
    , the market leader in endpoint data protection solutions, today announced it has added CREDANT FDE DriveManager to its portfolio. With this new addition, CREDANT gains the enviable position of offering its customers complete flexibility to protect data wherever it is, however they want in what ever manner they choose to meet their specific endpoint needs, varied as they may be - all managed from a central management console that gives enterprise level auditing and reporting capabilities essential to businesses today.
    CREDANT FDE DriveManager fortifies the trusted Seagate Momentus® self-encrypting 2.5 inch hard drives with built-in full disk encryption. This fully automated self-encrypting disk protects organisations from data loss due to a stolen or lost computer through remote management, pre-boot strong authentication and remote destruction. With self-encrypting drives, user passwords are not stored in the drive memory so password signatures are totally inaccessible after computer shut down, further safeguarding the data from unauthorised users. Repurposing and retirement of computers and hard drives is easy and eliminates the risk of exposing sensitive information as administrators can send a device wipe message to erase all of the keys from the drive and prevent any access to the data – forever.
    More: www.credant.com

    20 April 2010 10:23
    A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 420 organisations has found that a quarter (28%) have been subject to a data integrity attacks. Of those that think that data integrity attacks could be a problem 14% are not sure they would be able to detect an attack and half of organisations think that attacks could be a problem but have not detected any. Worryingly only 3% thought that data integrity attacks are not a problem with 6% acknowledging that data integrity attacks are a problem and that they were adequately protected. Infosecurity Europe, takes place at Earls Court, London, from 27th–29th April 2010 and does not come a moment too soon for 91% of our sample.
    More: www.infosec.co.uk

    20 April 2010 09:46
    A-Server
    , a provider of cloud, data backup and recovery products and services, has appointed S4E as its first distributor in Poland for its ARCA line of backup, recovery and virtualisation appliances aimed at small and medium enterprises.
    From offices in Krakow and Warsaw, data storage solutions specialist S4E serves a network of over 250 partners across the country will exclusively offer ARCA alongside a complete range of storage related software, hardware and services. S4E will initially focus on the entry level hardware elements of the ARCA portfolio with plans to offer off-site storage services later in the year.
    More: www.aserver.com

    20 April 2010 09:01
    Agfa HealthCare
    , a leading provider of diagnostic imaging and healthcare IT solutions, announces today that it has signed 28 new customers' agreements in Germany for its leading healthcare IT solutions ORBIS, IMPAX and HYDMedia in the first quarter of 2010.
    In Germany, new ORBIS HIS/CIS contracts were concluded with, amongst others, the Schön Klinik Harthausen in Bad Aibling, Klinik Feldafing, Rechbergklinik Bretten, Fürst-Stirum-Klinik Bruchsal, the Asklepios Krankenhäusern Burglengenfeld, Nabburg, Oberviechtach, the Diakonie Klinikum Kassel as well as the Kreiskrankenhaus Schmalkalden. Agfa HealthCare's hospital-wide IT solution, ORBIS, manages and monitors all patient-oriented processes: medical, nursing, administrative and business.
    ORBIS enhances the quality of patient care and provides fast and complete availability of patients' histories, including all images and data. Accurate real-time patient data and histories will be available to authorized nursing, technical and medical staff, allowing for quicker and better diagnoses and treatments.
    More: www.agfa.com/healthcare

    19 April 2010 19:03
    DocuLex , announces the offering of the company's Archive Studio document and content management software as cloud/software as a service (SaaS) option for disaster recovery and business continuity preparedness.
    This browser-based content management provides remote document access, permissions, printing and distribution, enabling secure document warehousing and sharing for practical knowledge management and colleague collaboration. Providing offsite document storage accessed by a customized user portal, the program serves an organization's need to access and utilize their documents during operational interruptions.
    More: www.doculex.com

    19 April 2010 16:11
    HERMES SoftLab, a ComTrade company, announces the release of a Citrix XenApp Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. This new Management Pack adds extensive support for Citrix XenApp and complements the Citrix XenServer Management Pack HERMES SoftLab released at Microsoft Management Summit 2009.
    Organizations with operations management standardized around Microsoft System Center Operations Manager are now able to equip their staff with out-of-box monitoring knowledge, tasks, and reports created specifically to enable day-to-day supervision of Citrix XenApp and XenServer estates. Both Management Packs were developed in cooperation with Microsoft and Citrix and provide comprehensive health, performance, and topology information, all natively integrated into the Operations Manager platform.
    More: www.hermes-softlab.com/mp

    19 April 2010 13:07

    App-DNA Inc.
    announced today from the Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) a beta program to test the compatibility of web applications with Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) using the AppTitude application compatibility testing platform. With this new program, App-DNA provides a technology platform that empowers IT organizations to efficiently migrate their entire application portfolio to the optimized desktop - including Windows 7 and IE8. Interested enterprises can immediately register for the App-DNA AppTitude IE8 beta program and speak with App-DNA at the MMS Expo Stand #437.
    Currently enterprises use AppTitude for application compatibility initiatives around Windows 7, Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenApp and Windows Server 2008. Through the AppTitude IE8 beta program, App-DNA now also provides a unique approach to address the blockers surrounding web application compatibility. With the new beta capabilities, AppTitude automates the capture of the web application source, and tests the application DNA against specifically designed heuristic algorithms. Enterprises benefit by learning the behavior of their web applications and choosing their preferred Intelligent Remediation™ path to accelerate the deployment. Because AppTitude captures all of the application “DNA” for analysis and determines the suggested remediation path, AppTitude provides a departure from traditional, time-consuming manual runtime based testing processes, repurposing packaging tools not inherently designed for application compatibility, or the risky deployment of applications without testing.
    More: www.app-dna.com

    19 April 2010 10:38
    Pirean, a leading delivery partner for IT Service and Security Management, today announced the launch at Infosecurity Europe 2010 of Access:One, a secure access management platform for Web applications.
    Pirean (Stand K44), debuting at the event in Earl’s Court in April, will also be offering public demonstrations of Compliance:One, an advanced Identity, Access and Audit Management solution which was designed in partnership with a major UK financial institution to offer Continuous Controls Monitoring.
    Access:One has been built from the ground up to allow organisations to create a unified and policy driven access control framework for web applications that reside within the firewall, are externally hosted or are out in the cloud. With support for major user authentication platforms, web application servers and two-factor authentication devices, Access:One is currently being deployed by a major UK financial institution to aid in system consolidation following one of the largest mergers in the sector’s history.
    More: www.pirean.com

     

    15 April 2010 14:57
    Whatever the state of the economy, businesses must keep on top of their administrative tasks. SMEs, in particular, cry out for software that can make them truly efficient and well-informed, without breaking the bank. To help them handle everything from customer relationship management to finance and stock control, Chalestras 'Business Administrator' software, a popular and proven business management system, is being released in a faster and more powerful new version.
    More: http://www.business-administrator.com 

    15 April 2010 12:42
    ARX (Algorithmic Research), the leading provider of digital signature solutions in the Life Sciences and Healthcare industries, has become a vendor partner of SAFE-BioPharma Association, the non-profit consortium that manages the SAFE-BioPharma® digital identity and signature standard for the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industries. Additionally, ARX CoSign FIPS has been certified compliant with the SAFE-BioPharma digital signatuire standard.
    ARX's CoSign digital signature solution is the most widely used in FDA-, EMA- and HIPAA-regulated industries. Among hundreds of Life Sciences organizations, six of the top 10 CROs and six of the top 10 sponsors are currently using CoSign. Many of these CoSign installations are part of collaborative SaaS applications used by thousands of organizations including over 10,000 clinical sites and IRBs, over 10,000 clinical research associates, and tens of thousands of physicians.
    More: www.arx.com

    15 April 2010 09:15
    Researchers at ALWIL Software, providers of the avast! Antivirus program, have released the first set of data from its CommunityIQ, an opt-in sensor program for the 100 million avast! Antivirus users.
    CommunityIQ is the world’s first large-scale sampling of online threats. Sensors in the avast! Antivirus program identify malware and infected websites by analyzing suspicious behavior, use of malicious code, and past experience with other avast! users.
    More: http://www.avast.com

     

    15 April 2010 17:26Simon Ellis
    BOX-IT, one of the UK’s foremost document storage and records management specialists, is delighted to announce its merger with Stortext, a leader in hosted electronic records management, scanning services and business process outsourcing solutions.

    The move will create a powerful new enterprise that capitalises on the synergies of both firms – to provide total solutions in records management (paper and digital) for government agencies, blue-chip clients and many smaller businesses in a growing marketplace.

    (Software and systems alone predicted worth $4 billion in 2010 – Gartner; and achieved a 9.5% (predicted 7.5%) growth in 2008 despite the recession - IDC Aug 2009)

    The merger follows a successful seven-year working partnership between Winchester-based BOX-IT and Stortext, headquartered in Bedfordshire.

    The new business will have turnover of approaching £10 million and be overseen by an executive management team which includes board members from both firms appointed to the board of the new holding company – BOX-IT Data Management Limited.

    The trusted brand names, operating offices, operations teams and support personnel of bothSimon McCowen companies will continue as they are. But the solutions will be extended and enriched by each other’s services.

    As a result, clients of either company can benefit from secure document storage and recycling, through to scanning and hosted electronic storage and document processing. Data can then be exported into business systems for streamlined, paperless processing to drive efficiency and contribute to significant savings.

    “The merger is excellent news for the clients, partners, employees and stakeholders of both companies,” said Simon McCowen, BOX-IT Founder and Chairman of the group. “Our new business is in a strong position to address the rapidly growing market for total records management and business process outsourcing.”
    More: www.boxit.co.uk

    More: www.stortext.com

     

     

     

    14 April 2010 14:15
    The technology spending freeze of late 2009 is showing signs of thawing among small and medium businesses (SMBs), according to a new survey by Spiceworks™, Inc. The vast majority is seeing overall IT budgets and spending rise in the first half of 2010.
    These findings were uncovered in the second semi-annual “State of SMB IT” technology survey of more than 1,000 IT professionals at small and medium businesses (SMBs). The survey, which is designed to investigate current technology purchasing, usage and staffing trends among SMBs worldwide, was fielded in January and February 2010 by the Spiceworks Voice of ITTM market research program.
    More: http://www.spiceworks.com/voice-of-it

    13 April 2010 18:05
    International solutions provider, Logicalis, announced today that it has been recognised by leading IT Manufacturer, HP, as its Data Centre Specialist of the Year. The annual awards recognise HP partners that have achieved significant advancements in core technology disciplines over the past year.
    Logicalis has demonstrated technical, sales and deployment skills of the highest-value to achieve this accolade. According to Kevin Matthews, UK & Ireland channel manager at HP, Logicalis met stringent award criteria that clearly positioned the company as a high-growth partner:
    “We are delighted to name Logicalis as our Data Centre Specialist of the Year, as they continue to demonstrate the commitment and technical ability to sell, deploy and support advanced HP solutions for customers. Logicalis has shown consistent HP year on year growth and a strong commitment to technical support and certification, which has contributed to their consistent delivery of first-class data centre solutions across the UK.”
    More: www.uk.logicalis.com


    13 April 2010 15:07

    Canon U.S.A., FedEx Office (
    FXO) and HP today announced an alliance that will bring consumers new printing and imaging capabilities through the implementation of more than 12,000 new Canon and HP printing devices across more than 1,800 FedEx Office locations in the U.S. and Canada beginning in May 2010.
    Customers of FedEx Office will find significant advancements in how they print and the quality of the materials from Canon U.S.A. and HP’s hardware and software. Additionally, customers will have options for remote printing using USB drives or smart phones and features that will pave the way for “cloud printing,” which will allow customers to store documents virtually and access them from anywhere that a network connection can be established. By working together to bring more advanced, integrated and environmentally smarter ways of creating, customizing, printing and distributing materials, Canon U.S.A., HP and FedEx Office believe this alliance will transform the retail printing experience.
    More: www.fedex.com
    More: www.usa.canon.com/kyosei

    13 April 2010 14:16
    Isilon® Systems (Nasdaq: ISLN) today announced that Thought Equity Motion, Inc., the world leader in digitizing, delivering and monetizing high-quality video content, has deployed Isilon scale-out NAS to power its rendition generation workflow, accelerating the transcoding of up to 200,000 files per week. With Isilon IQ, featuring its OneFS® operating system, Thought Equity Motion has unified its transition, proxy and preview files onto a single, high performance, highly scalable, shared pool of storage, accelerating the transcoding of these files into a wide variety of media formats for customers including BBC Motion Gallery, HBO, NBC News, the NCAA and The New York Times. Using Isilon scale-out NAS, Thought Equity Motion has expanded its rendition pipeline to process more projects in less time, speeding time to delivery, while requiring less than one full-time equivalent (FTE) to manage the solution.
    More: http://www.isilon.com
    More: http://www.thoughtequity.com/

    13 April 2010 11:55
    Core Consultancy
    , The leading disaster recovery and business continuity specialist has announced its first Channel Programme to support the launch of a new version of DataSafe, its popular data backup and recovery service, which will offer significant margin, sales support and market development activities to resellers and system integrators across the UK.
    The Core DataSafe service, which protects hundreds of terabytes of data for SME’s across the UK, has been updated by developers at Core Consultancy to support a host of new features and will for the first time be delivered exclusively through a 100% channel model. The two-tier program will cover smaller consultants with a low touch “Certified” referral programme and a more advanced “Professional” tier aimed at systems integrators.
    More: www.core-consultancy.com

    12 April 2010 15:19
    FalconStor Software, Inc.
    the provider of TOTALLY Open™ data protection solutions, today announced the FalconStor® HyperFS(tm) file system, a high-performance, massively scalable solution for data-intensive applications that generate very large numbers of files. The HyperFS solution is an innovative file system that simplifies the management of large files, providing high-speed, low-latency file access to heterogeneous clients across a global repository that meets the performance and scalability challenges of the most demanding media and entertainment applications.
    Rorke Data, a FalconStor partner, has integrated the HyperFS file system into its Galaxy Aurora family of storage area network (SAN) appliances to create a turnkey storage solution designed for post production, video-on-demand, content distribution, broadcast and other rich media environments. Featuring FalconStor's HyperFS file system, this new storage server solution will be on display at Rorke Data's booth, SL9629, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas, April 12 to 15.
    More: www.falconstor.com

    12 April 2010 10:20
    A structural flaw in the Adobe PDF format - which is widely used to distribute documents across multiple computing platforms - can be exploited to install almost any malware on a user's computer.
    And says Trusteer, the browser security and fraud prevention specialist, security researcher Didier Stevens' demonstration of a multi-stage misuse of Adobe `/Launch' function - which is part of the PDF feature set - poses a potentially serious threat to organisations and individuals.
    The demonstrated attack allows criminals to embed a malicious executable file inside a simple PDF file. When the user opens the PDF the malicious executable runs.
    "Whilst Acrobat Reader normally display a warning that an executable inside a PDF file is being launched, Stevens appears to have found a way to modify the alert and fool users into approving the action," said Mickey Boodaei, Trusteer's CEO.
    More: http://bit.ly/bDVf7W
    More: www.trusteer.com

    09 April 2010 23:44
    ILG (International Laser Group) introduces the OEM alternative MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) cartridges formulated specifically for use in HP Series Enterprise P3010, P3015, P3016 Printers.

    ILG is first-to-market with the OEM alternative MICR for HP Series Enterprise P3010, P3015, P3016 Printers with the addition of the compatible cartridge, CE255M, with a 6,000 page yield. This new product release brings ILG’s comprehensive MICR SKU count to over 80.

    “Our dealers and wholesalers who service financial institutions choose ILG’s MICR for two reasons: the high quality of our products and guaranteed delivery,” says ILG V.P. of Sales and Operations, Joe Shulman.

    ILG’s MICR cartridges are subject to meticulous testing to meet the highest quality standards. Every MICR cartridge must also meet the American Bankers Association’s requirements as well as the American National Standards Institute’s signal strength minimums.

    More: http://www.ilglaser.com/


    09 April 2010 08:38

    Isilon® Systems today announced that it has joined with Front Porch Digital, the global leader in content storage management, to deliver a unified content management solution for every stage of the digital media workflow including, ingest, transcoding, encoding, editing and archive. By combining Isilon scale-out NAS with Front Porch Digital’s DIVArchive CSM solution, broadcasters can unify their digital media onto a single, highly scalable, high-performance, shared pool of storage, streamlining content access at every point in its lifecycle to accelerate time-to-air. Using Isilon IQ with DIVArchive enables broadcasters to eliminate disparate content silos and complex system management, increasing productivity, while reducing operating costs.
    More: http://www.isilon.com

    08 April 2010 12:16
    ABBYY UK Ltd
    , a member of the ABBYY group of companies and a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, and Sigma, a value added distributor of specialist technical, development and business software, announced today a distribution agreement in the UK and Ireland. The relationship with Sigma is designed to create market awareness and demand for ABBYY products and increase customer reach through the existing distribution channels in these markets.
    More: www.ABBYY.com

    08 April 2010 12:07
    Pirean
    , a leading delivery partner for IT Security and Service management, has become the world’s most certified IBM Tivoli Partner after an aggressive 18 month period of investment in training and certification across their Consulting and Managed Services business.
    According to Marti Lombardi, IBM Tivoli Technical Business Partner Enablement Manager, "As of the end of March 2010, Pirean is the most accredited Tivoli business partner in the world, based on the Tivoli Deployment Accreditation initiative that IBM Tivoli uses to assess the levels of expertise held within the company."
    www.pirean.com


    08 April 2010 11:41
    Core Security Technologies
    , provider of the CORE IMPACT family of comprehensive enterprise security testing solutions, today announced that is has formalised its longstanding relationship with leading U.K.- based penetration testing and IT security training specialists 7Safe, naming the company as its first fully authorised global business partner in Europe.
    In addition to offering customers CORE IMPACT Certified Professional (CICP) training the two companies will also partner to advance their respective vulnerability research efforts and elevate awareness of that work in the public domain.
    With an established track record delivering penetration testing services to many of the largest financial services, retail and Internet hosting providers in the U.K., and a specific focus on applications security initiatives, 7Safe will leverage the breadth and depth of CORE IMPACT Pro to help its customers identify and prioritise their most significant IT vulnerabilities. This will help clients validate the efficacy of their defensive controls, ease regulatory compliance, and inform remediation efforts.
    More: http://www.coresecurity.com

    08 April 2010 07:37
    Reports are coming in that the Mozilla Foundation has warned browser users that its popular Firefox web browser contains a root certificate authority that doesn't seem to have a known owner.
    This issue, says Fortify Software, highlights the fact that open source software must be tested for security vulnerabilities – and fixed -- before it is used in any business.
    According to Richard Kirk, European director with the application vulnerability specialist, whilst this tilts the balance in favour of Microsoft’s Explorer, there are also known security issues with that web browser as well.
    More: http://bit.ly/au4isp
    More: www.fortify.com

    07 April 2010 11:26
    Cave Tab Ltd has been selected by Havering Council to convert an estimated 1.65 million documents into electronic form to support the implementation of an electronic document and workflow management system.
    The project is part of Havering’s HIPSteR (Havering Improved Processes; Storage and Retrieval) programme, designed to support more efficient working practices, enhance customer services, reduce costs and help transform Havering into a more customer-focused organisation.
    The project will also be instrumental in allowing Havering to consolidate its network of offices and reduce the amount of storage space needed for paper files.
    More: www.cavetab.co.uk

    07 April 2010 10:41
    Kodak today announced that the Isle of Man Post Office’s Integrated Mailing Solutions (IMS) division has purchased three high performance i1860 production scanners to add additional document imaging capacity to its operation having won a substantial three-year high value forms processing contract servicing one of the UK’s best selling monthly magazines.
    More: www.kodak.com

    07 April 2010 07:37
    Research just released in the US claims to show that the message about secure coding is starting to get through to software developers in large organisations. And, says Fortify Software, this is excellent news, as it means that customised and in-house developed applications should start to be less liable to security flaws and loopholes.
    "The research from our colleagues at Errata Security is interesting since it shows the uptake of software security assurance platforms from the likes of Microsoft is moving forward," said Richard Kirk, European director with the application vulnerability specialist.
    More: www.fortify.com

    06 April 2010 14:50
    New features for the KODAK i1200 Plus and i1300 Plus Series Scanners provide enhancements to Kodak’s Smart Touch feature and Kodak’s Perfect Page Image Processing Technology. Added capabilities improve ease-of-use and image quality to help businesses achieve more value and flexibility from their document capture platform. Pricing in United States and Canada (US&C) starts at $1,195 (U.S.) for the i1220 Plus and $1,895 (U.S.) for the i1320 Plus.
    “Customers rely on document scanning to improve worker productivity through the elimination of manual based processes,” said Tony Barbeau, General Manager, Document Imaging, Kodak’s Business Solutions and Services Group. “Kodak continues to find new ways to automate tools for connectivity and image quality, making it easier for businesses to effectively make, manage and move information.”
    More: http://www.kodak.com

    06 April 2010 14:08

    Fujitsu document-scanners, today announced the ability to earn cashback on newly bought ScanSnap S1500 scanners. Cashback would be available on every qualifying Fujitsu ScanSnap purchased between 22nd March 2010 and 30th June 2010. This offer is valid for end users purchasing the ScanSnap S1500, ScanSnap S1500M or ScanSnap S1500 Deluxe scanners in UK, Germany, France and Italy.
    More: http://emea.fujitsu.com/scansnap

    06 April 2010 12:49
    Research just released in the US claims to show that three quarters of workers are now saving corporate data on unencrypted USB sticks – a percentage that poses a severe risk to firms on the data leakage front, says Andy Cordial, managing director of Origin Storage, the storage systems integration specialist.
    "If the results of this survey from Applied Research-West are extrapolated to the UK, the potential consequences are horrendous, especially with the massive new penalties for breaches of the Data Protection Act that start on April 6," he
    said.
    More: www.originstorage.com


    06 April 2010 11:27

    In a fortnight that has seen two councils leak data and the Information Commissioner's Office slamming further three councils for failing to protect their data - you could be forgiven for thinking that the public sector is leaking data like a sieve.
    But, says Credant Technologies, this is all a sign that the ICO is ramping up its investigations and rulings, in preparation for this week's introduction of a 100-fold increase in the maximum penalty for a data breach.
    According to Sean Glynn, product manager with the data security specialist, with penalties of up to half a million pounds, it's clear that the ICO's office is girding its loins for what could be a spring and summer of discontent amongst IT managers, as their data insecurities are made public
    More: www.credant.com

     

    06 April 2010 11:14
    Imperva,
    the data security leader and Cyveillance, a world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced a partnership to shield organizations against growing phishing attacks. Under the agreement, Imperva integrated the Cyveillance Anti-Phishing Data Feed as part of its ThreatRadar service to further enhance its SecureSphere Web Application Firewall, enabling enterprises to deploy comprehensive reputation-based security through proactive detection of phishing threats before they become a problem.
    Through its real-time Internet monitoring capabilities, Cyveillance is able to offer the industry’s most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date phishing site detection data feed. Utilizing the Cyveillance Anti-Phishing Feed as an additional layer of security for its ThreatRadar service, Imperva is able to apply detailed policies to detect access to specific site content and deliver visual warnings as well as generate SecureSphere alerts. Alerts are viewed by the SecureSphere administrator who can then take action against the attack either blocking it or notifying a designated security professional.
    More: http://www.cyveillance.com/web/solutions/oem/anti-phishing.asp, and http://www.imperva.com/products/threatradar.html

     

    06 April 2010 09:33
    Payment card servicing firm Visa has issued an alert (http://bit.ly/a6ovul) to its transaction processing members and their clients - retailers of all sizes - that trojan-driven keylogger incidents are on the rise. According to Trusteer, the rising number of keylogger attacks on retailers' till terminals is due to the fact that many units are Windows-driven and therefore susceptible to the same type of malware infections as office and home PCs.
    "Trojan-driven keylogger attacks have been on the rise for home and office PC users for some time, but companies and home users are getting wise to the problem and are installing IT security software on their machines," said Mickey Boodaei, CEO of the browser security and fraud prevention specialist.
    More: www.trusteer.com

    06 April 2010 09:07
    I.R.I.S., a listed company (EURONEXT Brussels: IRI), specialising in Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR), Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Optimized IT Infrastructure (ICT), is proud to unveil a new version of its powerful, high-productivity document recognition server IRISDocument™ Server 9, compatible with Canon® Multi-Functional Peripherals (MFP) of the type imageRUNNER® and imageRUNNER® ADVANCE.
    More: www.iriscorporate.com

    06 April 2010 00:00

    To encourage AIIM Expo visitors to find out more about our products and solutions, Colortrac is participating with other leading vendors - Xerox, Canon, Ikon and Kodak - in EMC's Passport Program which offers the chance to win a number of high tech prizes donated by the program members.
    Colortrac’s prize entry is HP's first Win7-certified multi-touch monitor, the new HP L2105tm. This 21-inch touch screen monitor features the latest in optical touch support for two point multi-touch controls, like pinch / squeeze / zoom in / out and two finger image rotate, etc.
    More: www.colortrac.com

    01 April 2010 14:18
    The loss of CDs containing the personal records of 25m British citizens in November 2007 compelled organisations all over the country to implement their security arrangements for file transfer after it became apparent that sending CDs into the post had serious security implications and showed how data loss prevention (DLP) was becoming a major issue for many organisations, with many additional measures being put in place to ensure unauthorised information didn’t leak.
    But companies and public sector bodies are hampered by many things: limits on file sizes, the lack of compliance and inadequacy of existing file transfer protocols.
    However, one company was already leading the way in secure file transfer and is continuing that lead today. Accellion, founded in 1999, has already established a reputation for secure file transfer and by avoiding the antiquated FTP as its transfer protocol, it ensures speedy as well as secure communication.
    The company has been recognised as a leader in its field, including by Gartner who placed the company as a leader in the Gartner File Transfer Magic Quadrant.
    More: http://www.accellion.com/
     
    01 April 2010 11:29
    Documation
    , a leading provider of document management solutions in the UK and Europe, has upgraded their optical character recognition (OCR) engine to the market-leading EMC® Captiva® InputAccel® 6 enterprise capture solution.
    Documation previously used B-Wize and the Captiva InputAccel 5.3 solution; the decision to move solely to Captiva InputAccel 6 was made because Documation believe it to be the highest quality OCR engine on the market today. InputAccel integrates seamlessly with Documation’s Enable platform, from which all their document management solutions are created.
    John Wallace, CEO of Documation explained the decision: “EMC Captiva InputAccel 6 is widely recognised as the leading OCR engine on the market and we are wholly committed to providing it as part of our document management solutions. Captiva’s powerful ability to handle input from a range of document sources and manage everything from departmental to high volume enterprise capture, answers the needs of our customers. This means that no matter what document type, or what volume of documents our customers have, Captiva is able to efficiently and effectively capture that data. We are delighted that our first tranche of clients have now gone live with Captiva InputAccel 6, and look forward to continuing our partnership with EMC”
    More: http://www.documation.co.uk/
    www.EMC.com

    01 April 2010 11:25
    Pirean, a leading delivery partner for security and service management, will be launching Access:One, a secure access management platform for web applications, at Infosecurity Europe in April.
    Built from the ground up to allow organisation to create a unified and policy driven access control framework for web applications that reside within the firewall, externally hosted and out in the cloud. With support for major user authentication platforms, web application servers and two-factor authentication devices, Access:One is currently being deployed by a major UK financial institution to aid in system consolidation following a multi-billion pound merger.
    Stuart Wilson, MD of Pirean and Mike Cartwright, CTO for Pirean would like to brief the press and analyst community on the launch of Access:One and the challenges facing large enterprises trying to manage increasingly complex web application environments that extend from the datacenter out to the cloud. With over two-decade experience, both men can provide an insider’s view of the state of the market in respect to security and access management software.
    More: http://pirean.com/

    01 April 2010 11:00
    A new category of software is revolutionizing the way enterprises will work in the next decade by moving information workers themselves into the Cloud, according to new research released today by the Real Story Group.
    Having mastered the science of hosting and processing information assets, vendors are now beginning to distribute live information professionals on a massive scale. "This is all a natural evolution," notes Real Story Group principal, Alan Pelz-Sharpe. "Enterprises have gone from outsourcing, to nearshoring, to offshoring employees...so moving them into the Cloud represents an obvious next step."
    Some skeptics have raised technical challenges of hosting human beings in the Cloud. However, an Amazon spokesman played down the technical hurdles. "We digitized Edward Tufte's books, and honestly, we found human beings a lot less complicated," noted Amazon's Justin Tyme Beamme-Up.
    Other observers have noted that transferring sentient beings to and from the Cloud could present substantial bandwidth bottlenecks. Real Story Group's Theresa Regli predicts particularly heavy strains on networks in North America.
    The Human Cloud marketplace remains very immature, but established vendors have recently rolled out competitive offerings.
    Longtime vendor Joylent has a new offering called "Joylent Green," a more eco-friendly Human Cloud service that reduces energy supply to the autonomic nervous system during non-business hours.
    Another vendor, SalesForce.com, is experimenting with hosting actual salespeople. "It's great! Now I can get their loud voices and loud ties out of my office," said an executive at one satisfied beta customer.
    Different types of Human Clouds have emerged, including public and private versions. "We host public clouds for your employees' faces, hands, and mouths, but we put their private parts in, well, a private cloud," said Stratto Cumulus, CMO of Rackspace, who confirmed the vendor had no plans to change its name.
    Meanwhile, from Redmond comes news of the forthcoming release of Microsoft's Human Cloud offering. Microsoft's Vice-President of Information Worker Cloud Services revealed that the company's "ShareJoint 2011" offering will be released to beta during Q2 2014 under the slogan, "Where has your body gone today?"
    Not every major Cloud vendor is sanguine about the human angle. For example, EMC has no near-term plans to release a Human Cloud service. "As a general rule, we don't like people," explained EMC spokesperson, Ms. Anthrope Hardisk.

    More: www.realstorygroup.com
     


     


     

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