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System architects and engineering teams are designing increasingly complex embedded systems in order to satisfy their customers’ stringent functionality and performance requirements. In addition, within tactical systems, it’s not uncommon to require deterministic real-time behavior whi...
During this week's Federal News Radio Federal Executive Forum pre-recording, Dr. Leslie Lenert, Director, National Center for Public Health Informatics (NCPHI) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shared some of his thoughts on the future of health care information ...
Security requirements of enterprises are varied, and contrary to the one-stop-shop movement, enterprises still buy security products from multiple vendors. While some enterprises do it as a part of an IT plan, most companies end-up with disparate products due to niche needs, acquisitio...
One year ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chose the XBRL standard to simplify and unify the exchange of financial information, and as such have joined the European central banks that have been using it since 2007 for regulatory reporting. In France, Infogreffe (wh...
I just read SYS-CON's response to the recent attacks in Fuat Kircaali's Social Media Terrorists blog entry. I realized the email quoted at the end of Kircaali's blog was also copied to Ted Weissman of Lois Paul & Partners, a public relations firm with clients in technology. If this...
In the enterprise IT environment today, modern middleware technologies make it easier to expose existing or new business applications as sets of services. However, with the mashup of cloud-based services and enterprise data center services, the visibility of how a service created today...
The Ottawa Sybase User Group’s last meeting was held on May 6, 2009. This was an all day event that spanned two sessions - one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning session included a technical presentation on features of the newly released PowerBuilder 11.5.1 and ...
Intel is buying Wind River for roughly $884 million in cash, $11.50 a share, a 44% premium. The move into software will give Intel VxWorks, Wind River’s proprietary and multi-core-ready RTOS, and its commercial-grade Linux operating system as well as its middleware and software design ...
According to Moore’s Law, processing speed and storage capacity have been doubling about every two years since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958. Yet it seems that our propensity for building larger more complex software systems that anticipate these improvements inevitab...
Boomi has announced it has added on-demand supply chain integration capabilities to its Boomi AtomSphere cloud integration platform. This is the first and only completely cloud-based, self-service supply chain integration solution in the industry. Businesses can now exchange supply cha...
nuBridges has announced that it has completed a definitive agreement to acquire TradeTrans, Inc., a provider of real-time business intelligence tools that give visibility into the supply chain. The acquisition is part of nuBridges’ strategic plan to build long-term business equity valu...
Comodo is currently offering a free 30 day trial of LivePCSupport remote tech help. Comodo computer experts can use Comodo's System Cleaner to thoroughly empty a PC of junk, and improve its performance.
It’s safe to say, nearly all enterprise network security teams tightly control what physical devices get connected to their networks. Most have clearly defined process and procedures in place with regard to controlling and securing any new devices plugging into their physical networks....
Global Tech Showcase 2009 takes place June 3-5, 2009, at the Atlantia Convention Center in La Baule, France. Business Wire is the official news wire for Global Tech Showcase 2009. Breaking news releases, advisories, photos, and multimedia are available at Tradeshownews.com, Business Wi...
Mark Logic Corporation has announced that it has closed a $12.5 million round of financing, led by Sequoia Capital and including participation from Tenaya Capital. The capital will be used to fund the company's continued growth in sales channels, international expansion, and new vertic...
We're happy to say that it has finally happened: ActiveX version of MailBee components now includes the 64-bit version. Although most new projects for Windows are using .NET, there are lots of legacy projects developed for the classic ASP/ActiveX platform that still exist and need to s...
Progress Software Corporation has announced the release of the Progress® DataXtend® Browser for ACORD. ACORD (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development) is a standards development organization for the insurance industry and related financial services industries. A...
The variety of software programs and document formats in the market can make it difficult for organizations to exchange data among disparate systems. For example, to carry out their public service, communicate with citizens and operate efficiently, most government employees need to acc...
Coming off his statement last month that the recession-induced market nose-dive had bottomed out, Intel CEO Paul Otellini told an analyst meeting Tuesday that Q2 demand looked better than expected so far although the real test will be June. Intel is half-way through the second quarter ...
Intel says it’s going to put $12 million over five years into a new visual computing research center that just opened at Saarland University in Germany. The amount of the investment, just as Intel is working on Larrabee – its first graphics chip in years – will be its largest collabora...
JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced that Diane Mueller, vice president, XBRL development for JustSystems, has been appointed to the Board of Directors (BOD) of XBRL Internat...
Whenever IT professionals discuss the benefits of SOA – full utilization of IT resources, reduced infrastructure costs, and the agility to deliver new services quickly – they usually issue a caveat. They warn potential adopters of the inherent complexity of SOA, and point out that unle...
DataDirect Shadow version 7 is a single, unified platform built exclusively for integration with IBM System z mainframes. It uses patent-pending technology to expand the utilization of the zIIP specialty engine to additional workloads beyond DB2, including the non-relational mainframe ...
For many people, even entire organizations, the approach to education seems to be along the lines of learning facts, figures, details, tools and standards. This results in a shallow understanding of both the business problem and the new Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategies av...
Altova has announced the availability of MapForce Version 2009 (v2009). Available as a stand alone product or as part of the Altova MissionKit, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools, Altova MapForce 2009 adds a host of new features and functionality, including support for...
Even with these impressive first stats, Ulitzer users for the next 12 to 24 months will only be a fraction of the early adopters of tomorrow's social media tools. Ulitzer offers quality content under a managed environment. Google News keyword alerts are already contaminated with meanin...
Altor Networks announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry’s leading publication on security-related products and technologies has named the Altor VF virtual firewall winner of the 2009 Tomorrow’s Technology Today Award. This prestigious award recognizes security vendors...
A picture is worth a thousand words. We all have heard this saying a countless number of times. But what if you don’t understand what is drawn in the picture? I was approached once with a request to review requirements specifications for some module. The document contained a scheme tha...
Managed Methods develops and sells versatile and cost-effective solutions products for monitoring Web services and managing service-oriented architectures. Our focus is providing practical tools that enable visibility and management of Web services operations in the production environm...
On the information superhighway, aces whiz past the novices. New users without technical expertise know that there are great destinations on the Internet, but they are afraid to visit them, lest new tools and applications send them bewildering error messages. Worse, new software might ...
The increased manageability, reliability, and opportunities for reuse promised by a SOA can only be fulfilled with an effective governance structure in place to coordinate service creation, maintenance, provisioning, and consumption. However, many small and medium-sized organizations s...
AccuRev Inc. was the only software configuration management (SCM) vendor to be selected by TechWeb for its 19th Annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards in the Change and Configuration Management category. This is AccuRev's second Jolt Productivity Award, adding to its tw...
IBM has secured the exciting Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino for Impact 2009. You can arrange your accommodations on line as part of the registration process. Please be advised that conference hotel accommodation is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. All conferen...
Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including a wide ra...
"Two key elements in managing federal documents on Federal Digital System are versioning and authentication."
Hacker releases a software tool that can steal information even from supposedly ''secure'' sites.
Fortinet has announced the debut of a new web security appliance that provides application and XML firewalling to protect, balance and accelerate web applications, databases and the information exchanged between them. The new FortiWeb-1000B is a mid-to-large-enterprise product. FortiWe...
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This invitation-only program is an expansion of the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance(TM) (SIA) and provides SIA partners with a more proactive and mutually rewarding selling model. Under the program, SenSage, which was named 2008 McAfee Most Innovative Technology Partner, and McAfee...
XAware has announced its solution is a component in a public safety information sharing program operated by the State of New Mexico’s Justice Information Sharing Council (JISC) under the New Mexico Sentencing Commission. XAware’s data integration capabilities enable New Mexico to opera...