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Compuware's Innovative Topaz(TM) Runtime Visualizer Revolutionizes Mainframe DevOps With Fast Graphical Mapping of Program-to-Program Calls
- Essential business logic running on the mainframe is often characterized by complex, inadequately documented interactions between programs.
- Compuware's Topaz™ Runtime Visualizer (Topaz RV) is the first solution to automatically deliver complete, intuitive visibility into these complex interactions—making it dramatically easier for veteran and novice developers alike to understand and work on mainframe code.
- By removing a primary source of "friction" from mainframe DevOps, Topaz RV empowers IT to rapidly adapt even the oldest and most poorly documented systems to meet relentlessly changing business needs.
- This fourth major quarterly Topaz release of 2015—conceived by a Compuware lead engineer just 84 days ago—once again demonstrates market-driven agility never before seen in a mainframe ISV.
DETROIT, Oct. 1, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation, the world's leading mainframe-dedicated software company, today delivered the year's fourth major release of Topaz—an innovative solution suite that uniquely empowers enterprise customers to tap the full potential business value of their IBM z Systems environments.
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This latest release features Topaz Runtime Visualizer (Topaz RV), which provides unprecedented visibility into the often-complex interactions between mainframe programs. This visibility makes it dramatically easier for veteran and novice developers alike to quickly understand, modify and troubleshoot even the oldest, most complex and/or poorly documented mainframe code.
Topaz RV's capabilities are extraordinarily valuable to companies as they face the challenge of more frequently updating their business-critical mainframe applications in response to ever-changing business requirements. Without Topaz RV, discovering and understanding the calls mainframe programs make to other applications and databases during runtime can be an extremely slow, difficult and error-prone process—especially for inexperienced mainframe developers faced with applications that may have little or no documentation.
With Topaz RV, in stark contrast, developers can generate an intuitive map of the external calls a program executes during any specified runtime within minutes—without the need to refer to source code—saving them hours or days of painstaking work, while ensuring the accuracy and completeness of their results.
Topaz RV also enables developers to drill down into a program's external calls to see how often programs call each other during a runtime and/or the specific datasets a program accesses at each point in its execution. This insight helps them better pinpoint potential performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies and inter-program impacts.
Topaz RV is an ideal complement to traditional source-code parsing, which itemizes all out-of-program calls written into an application's code. By discovering and mapping only the program-to-program calls that actually occur during a live runtime of any developer-specified task—such as placing an order or running a monthly report—Topaz RV gives developers a clear and accurate "snapshot" of a program's real behavior in the production environment under present conditions.
The new Topaz release also enables developers of all skill levels to more quickly and accurately perform impact analyses by creating Java-like "projects"—logical collections of data sources—that allow them to discover and investigate dependencies across programs and copybooks, without having to move code off the mainframe.
Combined with the capabilities already provided by this year's three previous Topaz releases—including cross-platform data visualization and editing, static COBOL and PL/I code visualization, and Java-on-mainframe performance management—this ground-breaking release removes impediments that have historically prevented enterprises from reaping the full potential value of their mainframe applications, data and hardware.
These impediments include:
- Declining in-house mainframe programming expertise and experience
- Inadequate documentation of mainframe applications
- Uncertain reliability of available source code
- Slow change management processes that depend excessively on manual program analysis and/or idiosyncratic knowledge of key SMEs
- The high business risk associated with making changes in an environment of complex and inadequately understood dependencies/impacts
- Poor collaboration between mainframe and non-mainframe developers
These impediments are becoming particularly problematic as mainframe applications are increasingly called upon to support the mobile customer experience and other essential aspects of digital business.
"In a business environment that demands we constantly update our application code to address relentlessly changing market realities, it is imperative for our mainframe environment to be as agile as our other platforms," said Mr. Roberto Schmid, Service Manager Corporate IT Operations at Helvetia Insurance. "Compuware is enabling us achieve that agility by delivering solutions that help bring contemporary DevOps best practices to the mainframe, so we can fully leverage the value of our mainframe application portfolio—as well as the platform's compelling performance, reliability, scalability, security and workload economics."
"Mainframes have long been the platform of choice for enterprise systems of record, and today they are the backbone for many modern digital applications," said Jason Bloomberg, president of digital transformation analyst firm Intellyx. "Compuware's commitment to supporting current as well as the next generation of mainframe professionals with easy to use, innovative tools is of great service to enterprise customers who recognize the mainframe as the modern, digital platform it will continue to be for years to come."
Compuware's Agile Culture and "Gary's Awesome Idea"
With this fourth major new release of Topaz in 2015—an unprecedented pace of innovation for a mainframe ISV—Compuware, in addition to enabling mainframe agility, is also exemplifying it.
The story behind the creation of Topaz RV is particularly telling. Compuware software architect Gary Michalek came up with the idea for Topaz RV over the July 4 weekend while thinking about challenges he was facing on a current project. When he returned to work that Tuesday, he ran the idea by some colleagues. On Wednesday, he was in Compuware CEO Chris O'Malley's office presenting his idea. On Thursday, the company's product council met and gave Michalek one week to investigate his idea further with customers and appropriate Compuware SMEs—and show a prototype. That meeting, in turn, resulted in a green light for the project.
Over the following weeks, the Topaz RV team used an Agile approach to write and test code—as well as review output with customer and internal evaluators. As customers responded enthusiastically, Runtime Visualizer was elevated to the primary feature of the new release.
And on October 1—just 84 days after Michalek's original conception—the innovative new high-value solution was ready for customers' production environments.
"Anyone who says the mainframe is inherently slower and less responsive than other platforms has just been proven wrong," says O'Malley. "'Gary's Awesome Idea' demonstrates that you can move as quickly on the mainframe as on any other platform—if you have the right culture, the right processes and the right tools."
For a deeper dive into Topaz RV, watch a demo. For additional resources, visit compuware.com/topaz.
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Compuware empowers the world's largest companies to excel in the digital economy by fully leveraging their high-value mainframe intellectual property. We do this by delivering highly innovative mainframe application development and performance optimization solutions that uniquely enable IT to drive business value. Learn more at compuware.com.
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- Essential business logic running on the mainframe is often characterized by complex, inadequately documented interactions between programs.
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Mercury Systems Receives $2M Order for High-Performance Digital Signal Processing Modules for Radar Application
CHELMSFORD, Mass., Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mercury Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRCY) (www.mrcy.com), announced it received a $2 million follow-on order from a leading defense prime contractor for high-performance digital signal processing modules for a manned airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application. The order was booked in the Company's fiscal 2016 first quarter and is expected to be shipped by its fiscal 2016 second quarter.
"This order exemplifies how Mercury's technology roadmap and close collaboration with our customer enables continuous advancement in the performance and quality of defense applications," said Didier Thibaud, President of Mercury's Commercial Electronics business unit. "We are committed to delivering innovative, affordable, commercial solutions that provide both a strategic and tactical advantage for the warfighter."
For more information on Mercury Systems, visit www.mrcy.com or contact Mercury at (866) 627-6951 or info@mrcy.com.
Mercury Systems – Innovation That Matters™
Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) is the better alternative for affordable, secure and sensor processing subsystems designed and made in the USA. Optimized for program and mission success, Mercury's solutions power a wide variety of critical defense and intelligence applications on more than 300 programs such as Aegis, Patriot, SEWIP, F-35 and Gorgon Stare. Headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury Systems is a high-tech commercial company purpose-built to meet rapidly evolving next-generation defense electronics challenges. To learn more, visit www.mrcy.com.
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CONTACT: Robert McGrail, Director of Corporate and Investor Communications Mercury Systems, Inc. +1 978-967-1366 / rmcgrail@mrcy.com
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Entra Health Introduces Video Consult Application for Remote Patient Monitoring
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entra Health today announced the launch of a new video consult application integrated with the company’s MyHealthPoint platform. The new feature allows a clinician, clinical researcher or care provider to engage in direct video consultation with patients through a computer or mobile device. MyHealthPoint is an FDA 510K Class II approved real-time online data collection network.
“Our new video consult capability brings clinicians and patients face-to-face, no matter where they are,” said Richard C. Strobridge, CEO of Entra Health. “This capability has been critically lacking in the FDA-approved remote patient monitoring space. Using video consults, clinicians and care providers can communicate directly with patients to better understand and evaluate the data they are seeing from the Cloud.”
Video Consult is an expansion of Entra360 platform, providing easy-to-implement, turnkey solutions for cloud-based analytics and remote patient monitoring. Researchers, clinicians and other care providers can easily schedule immediate or future video consultations with patients from within the MyHealthPoint Clinical Portal using a drag and drop appointment scheduler. Both the patient and provider receive a notification on a tablet app, by email or SMS message that a video consult has been scheduled. A reminder is then sent 15 minutes before the session begins.
During any video consult, other care providers or remote family members can be invited to participate in a multipoint, multi-person live videoconference. Additional functions include screen-sharing, screen captures and image uploads. The entire video consultation can be recorded and saved as part of the patient electronic health record (EHR) and used for billing. Together with Entra360 technology, patients can be almost anywhere in the world, without physical connection to clinicians that are monitoring their progress.
About Entra Health
Entra Health is an international digital health and IT solutions provider that is focused on cloud-based remote patient monitoring, telehealth, data exchange and analytics. Entra Health’s secure Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) remote patient monitoring solutions and devices have regulatory approval in 50 countries. The company is an international leader in wireless biometric data collection for clinical trials. For more information visit: www.entrahealth.com or call 877-458-2646.
Note: Richard Strobridge is a pioneer in telemedicine and video conferencing having implemented some of the first classified video conferencing systems for the Pentagon, as well as the first telesurgery systems for the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and others.
MyGlucoHealth™, MyHealthPoint™ and Entra360™ are trademarks of Entra Health Systems.
CONTACT: Media ContactBruce Ahern, Chief Marketing OfficerEntra Health Systems877-458-2646 x709bahern@entrahealth.com
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Cloudera Announces 2015 Data Impact Award Winners
New York, NY, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop™, today announced the winners of the 2015 Data Impact Awards. The awards honor organizations that have seen a material impact within their business operations and society at large using CDH, the world's most dynamic open source Hadoop-based distribution and a core component of Cloudera Enterprise, the foundation of an enterprise data hub. The winners were announced at an awards dinner and ceremony hosted by Cloudera on September 29, 2015 in New York City.
"Every year, the Data Impact nominations exemplify advances in our ecosystem, allowing new, interesting, and increasingly complex problems to be tackled," said Alan Saldich, vice president, Marketing, Cloudera. "The achievements this year's nominees have realized demonstrate that Hadoop has reached a level of maturity and sophistication where business value is not only highly demonstrable, but social change is also occurring in a collaborative way across local and national, commercial and public sector organizations."
The winners of the 2015 Data Impact Awards are:
Business Impact - Coupons.com, Inc.
Coupons.com, Inc. is a leading digital promotion and media platform that connects brands, retailers, and consumers. The company is pioneering behavioral digital coupon targeting based on shoppers' purchase behavior through the deployment of its Hadoop platform. Brands can now quickly access information regarding user demographics, shoppers' behavior patterns, product information, and individual store information across multiple national retailers.
With improved query speeds, brands can respond faster to offer more targeted campaigns. Coupons.com, Inc. noted approximately 230% more shoppers purchasing products compared to a control group using CDH to power digital promotions. The targeted campaigns have also contributed to an overall increase in the average basket value - 61% larger for comparable purchasers.
Data Discovery & Analytics | Path to Production - Markerstudy (nominated by Zoomdata)
Markerstudy Limited is responsible for the marketing and distribution of insurance products in the UK, including private and public hire, fleet, motorcycle, private car, and commercial vehicle. To keep pace with growing demand for services, Markerstudy initiated The Big Data Insight Project, built on a Cloudera enterprise data hub.
The project allows Markerstudy to analyze hundreds of millions of insurance quotes in seconds and look across 100 percent of all quotes rather than a five percent sample size. This allows Markerstudy to build a more accurate picture and spot emerging trends and patterns as they happen. Business users are also able to conduct their own data exploration using analytics tools, visualizations, and transaction level search.
Data Driven Transformation - Lineage Logistics
Lineage Logistics is the second-largest cold storage warehousing network in the world, with over 111 facilities in 21 states. The company stores temperature-sensitive materials, blast freezes fresh products, brokers temperature-controlled transportation, and provides a variety of value-added logistics services. Lineage owns over 20 percent of the third-party cold storage capacity in the United States, with annual throughput in excess of 15 billion pounds per year.
Prior to using Hadoop, Lineage Logistics operated with disparate warehouse management systems. In order to analyze its data, users would contact 15 system administrators and receive data in 15 different formats to get a collective view. The company needed to consolidate its systems and implement a new framework for standardizing company-wide data collection and analysis.
The consolidation of Lineage's data empowered the company to take data-driven action on matters core to its business. Among other use cases, Hadoop allowed Lineage to redesign the layout of its warehouses, using graph theory and combinatorial optimization (bin-packing) to increase storage capacity in excess of 30 percent. Such density gains result in a proportional reduction in power cost per unit of production and avoid the time, expense, and environmental consequences of constructing new facilities to create additional capacity.
Government, Nonprofit, and NGO - Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA)
Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) was established to use innovation and modernization to further scientific advances that support the Department of Homeland Security. HSARPA's first project leveraging Hadoop was in partnership with the National Fire Incident Report System (NFIRS).
By reviewing trends and patterns, graph analytics, and geospatial views for incident types, equipment failures, and casualties, HSARPA and NFIRS have been able to better inform firefighters both in the field and in proactive efforts to combat fires.
The resulting joint database constitutes the world's largest national, annual collection of incident information, and the solution allows that data to be analyzed and accessed by fire departments at state and local levels for a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. This unique partnership of systems has proven to be one of the most successful, productive, and cost-beneficial programs ever attempted on a national level.
Operational Analytics - Odyssey
Odyssey is a regional leader in the cyber security solutions and services sector, and a major managed security protection and outsourcing services provider. One of the company's core business pillars - the ClearSkies Security-as-a-Service (SECaaS) platform - addresses the challenge of bringing together the openness and flexibility of the cloud with the need for strict control of information dictated by security principles.
Odyssey saw that the task of processing, analyzing, and correlating increasingly vast amounts of security-related log data while supporting all functions of the platform was too demanding to manage with current tools and conventional analysis. Odyssey implemented a Cloudera-powered enterprise data hub to address this challenge and has seen a massive enhancement in the platform's pivotal aspects including processing, statistical and user behavioral analytics capabilities. Prior to setting up Odyssey's EDH, it would have been impossible to aggregate the billions or even trillions of log data generated over the course of a year in just one day. Due to the high performance processing of Cloudera's EDH, this capability is done not just in a day, but in mere hours, minutes, and sometimes seconds.
Operational Efficiency ROI - Costco
Costco Wholesale Corporation operates an international chain of membership warehouses, primarily under the "Costco Wholesale" name, that carry quality, brand name merchandise at substantially lower prices than are typically found at conventional wholesale or retail locations. Costco's warehouses present one of the largest and most exclusive product category selections found under a single roof.
Costco has been using Hadoop to improve operational efficiencies that have resulted in quantifiable bottom-line savings. One recent successful use case involved Costco implementing Cloudera Search to query multi-spelled, misspelled, brand-varied, and text-based data - a job SQL-based tools were not capable of executing. By implementing Cloudera Search to easily "Google" or free-text search Costco's inventory, Costco floor staff can now use a simple iPad app to search inventory and avoid bringing in a floor manager. This has shifted a four to five minute process involving two people to just one person providing answers in a matter of seconds.
Security and Compliance - Visa, Inc.
Visa, Inc. is a premier payments technology company with a global network that connects thousands of financial institutions with millions of merchants and cardholders every day. With the rise in unknown malware, advanced threats, and insider threats growing daily and causing significant damage to organizations, businesses and individuals, Visa created the Visa Security Analytics (VSA) product to combat attacks.
VSA leverages CDH for longer-term security data set retention. The main goal of the project was to develop user behavioral analytics to better detect advanced and insider threats before they strike and reduce time in security investigations. With the VSA CDH powered platform, Visa now has a thorough understanding of the different stages an attacker may go through during a targeted attack and the different techniques an attacker may use to carry out each stage.
With this knowledge, Visa can detect threats produced by a user, a device, or an application by using machine learning, behavior modeling, peer group analysis, real-time statistical analysis, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling. CDH powers the model to detect cyber attacks and insider threats all in real time.
Social Impact - Thorn (in partnership with Digital Reasoning)
Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.wearethorn.org) is a non-profit dedicated to driving technology innovation to fight child sexual exploitation. Thorn partners across the tech industry, government, and non-governmental organizations and works to deter predatory behavior, disrupt platforms that enable abuse, and accelerate victim identification.
In the United States, children sex trafficking is an issue that often presents itself as children being bought and sold online, using online classified sites or escort pages. Thorn set out to leverage the online information about these crimes in order to more rapidly find these children and connect them with victim services. Thorn and Digital Reasoning created Spotlight, a cloud-based collection and analysis tool used to provide intelligence and leads on suspected human trafficking networks and individuals in order to identify and assist victims. The underlying architecture leveraged by Spotlight is CDH, which provides both distributed processing to run state of the art natural language processing and analytic algorithms on data that is harvested and organized in HDFS.
Spotlight has become the leading investigative tool for child sex trafficking investigations in the United States. Currently, Spotlight has over 1,300 law enforcement users across 46 states. Since its launch in October 2014, Spotlight has been used in over 860 trafficking cases and has helped identify over 300 victims, including 50 children.
The Data Impact Award winners were decided upon by thought leaders from across the enterprise data management industry. The 2015 judges include:
● Matt Aslett, 451 Research
● Tom Bain, CounterTack
● Martha Bennett, Forrester
● Andreas Bitterer, BARC
● Drew Conway, Project Florida
● Raj Dalal, BigInsights
● Wayne Eckerson, Eckerson Group
● Mike Ferguson, Intelligent Business Strategies Limited
● Bob Gourley, CTOvision.com and Crucial Point LLC
● Philip Howard, Bloor Research
● Jeffrey T. Hunter, Capgemini
● Claudia Imhoff, Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
● Ping Li, Accel Partners
● Ben Lorica, O'Reilly
● Curt Monash, Monash Research
● Narendra Mulani, Accenture
● Carl Olofson, IDC
● Jake Porway, DataKind
● Tom Pringle, Ovum
● Neil Raden, Hired Brains Research
● Nik Rouda, ESG
● Svetlana Sicular, Gartner
● Kim Stevenson, Intel
● Rick van der Lans, R20/Consultancy
● Ashish Verma, Deloitte Consulting
● Dan Vesset, IDC
● William McKnight, McKnight Consulting Group
About Cloudera
Cloudera is revolutionizing enterprise data management by offering the first unified Platform for big data, an enterprise data hub built on Apache Hadoop. Cloudera offers enterprises one place to store, access, process, secure, and analyze all their data, empowering them to extend the value of existing investments while enabling fundamental new ways to derive value from their data. Cloudera's open source big data platform is the most widely adopted in the world, and Cloudera is the most prolific contributor to the open source Hadoop ecosystem. As the leading educator of Hadoop professionals, Cloudera has trained over 40,000 individuals worldwide. Over 1,800 partners and a seasoned professional services team help deliver greater time to value. Leading organizations in every industry plus top public sector organizations globally run Cloudera in production.
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Ontotext launches NOW to showcase to publishers how to maximise their content
NEW YORK and SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ontotext, the semantic technology provider, has introduced a free-to-use news aggregating web app – called NOW (News on the Web) – for publishers to test out a showcase of semantic technologies specifically designed to improve the circulation of content online.
The app, which is based on a dynamic semantic publishing platform, is designed to help news outlets fully optimise the distribution of its content. The result is an improved user experience for digital native consumers.
NOW works by aggregating media content from numerous news sources, associating articles by automatically extracting tags, which in turn, links to a knowledge base with facts about the real world – an operation which enables media companies to interact better with its audience.
According to a study by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, 35% of news is digitally consumed in the UK. And in order to remain competitive in the digital age, media companies must ensure that they produce content that is free-flowing, topic-driven and personalised. Essentially, the technology calculates the interests of the individual user by predicting the content they are most likely navigate to next.
With offices in London, New York and Bulgaria, Ontotext has already provided its semantic technologies to well-known publishers, including the BBC, Press Association, and The Financial Times. The BBC, which remains the dominant force in terms of generating online news in the UK on all devices with 51% of smartphone news users using the BBC News app, was one of the first outlets to use Ontotext's semantic technology to re-structure parts of its website.
Jarred McGinnis, UK managing consultant for Ontotext, has said: "For the last two years, semantic technology has been the biggest technological revolution for content publishing. It has changed the way people use the media. There is growing evidence and acceptance that the greatest currency amongst millennials [people between 18 and 35] is social media presence. So to be able to address this, media publishers have to be ready to offer a really suitable content."
About OntotextLaunched in 2000 as part of Sirma Group, Ontotext is a leading software provider of semantic technology. Ontotext is jointly owned by Sirma, NEVEQ Capital and company employees. Headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, Ontotext also operates offices in London, and New York with partners around the world.
See more at: http://ontotext.com/company/#sthash.KR7WmjVV.dpufCONTACT: Brad Bogle Ontotext USA 703-431-7567 brad.bogle@ontotext.com
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Racemi Software Automates Migrations to Virtually Any Cloud Platform
ATLANTA, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Racemi, a provider of automated server migration software, announces availability of updated DynaCenter software that is now capable of moving workloads to virtually any cloud computing platform, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM SoftLayer, OpenStack, vCloud Air, or Windstream.
The automation software is especially suited for system integrators who can take advantage of DynaCenter's server migration capabilities to speed project timelines, along with cloud providers as a means to streamline migrations to their cloud or hosting services. DynaCenter helps drive adoption of services by reducing the time to onboard customers.
DynaCenter's new "live deploy" function migrates workloads from a physical or virtual server to almost any target cloud platform that supports Hyper-V, KVM, VMware or Xen hypervisors, running supported Linux or Windows guest operating systems.
"The flexibility of our automated migration software presents a great option for system integrators, MSPs (managed service providers) and cloud providers looking to help customers move workloads to cloud computing," said James Strayer, vice president of product management, Racemi. "This DynaCenter update provides customers and partners with an unprecedented level of options in choosing their computing platform."
Also, this latest release of DynaCenter software comes with a new user interface for migrating large numbers of workloads, features such as server grouping, ability to assign standardized configurations using templates, as well as automatic server sizing. This new interface streamlines the migration process, making large-scale migration projects much faster and easier.
In addition, DynaCenter adds a new level of AWS integration with support for Elastic Block Store (EBS) encrypted volumes. Now, the process of securely moving workloads to EBS encrypted disks is automated and simpler than ever.
Licensing of DynaCenter starts at $299 per successful workload migration, with volume discounts available.
Racemi's DynaCenter migration software captures the entire server stack - including operating system, applications, configuration and data - and automatically converts it to run on the selected cloud platform by applying the necessary tools and drivers during the migration process. This ensures existing workloads are migrated in their time-tested configuration, resulting in improved reliability and reduced support requirements. There is no infrastructure to deploy or maintain on the customer's site and key features such as Live Capture ensure there is no server downtime. All customer data is secured and compressed using AES/RSA SSL encryption over firewall-friendly, fault-tolerant outbound HTTPS connections to provide maximum protection and reliability.
About Racemi
Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, has been named a "Cool Vendor" and an AWS Leadership Award winner, and has over 1,800 customers and partners around the globe. The company develops server provisioning and cloud migration software that allows businesses to quickly migrate their existing physical and virtual servers between dissimilar physical, virtual, and cloud platforms and across geographies. Racemi software can be used for cloud migration projects, data center relocations, disaster recovery, and other server workload migration needs. For more information, visit www.racemi.com.CONTACT: Glenn Rossman, Baker Communications Group, 914-623-8354, racemi@bakercg.com
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RegEd Announces Automated Monitoring and Reconciliation of Changes to Producer Credentials
Raleigh, NC, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RegEd, the leading provider of Licensing and Registration technology solutions to the financial services industry, has announced Alerts 2.0, a new module of its Xchange Enterprise Licensing and Registration solution. Alerts 2.0 will significantly expand the range of data for which firms can receive automated change notifications and systematized, timely reconciliation of changes against the firm's individual / agency database.
For many insurers, maintaining accurate, up-to-date individual / agency information has become increasingly complex and challenging. At the same time, the consequences of failing to keep pristine licensing and appointment records continue to grow as regulatory scrutiny of this process intensifies. Employing a manual process for monitoring changes to individual / agency information is inefficient, costly, and can expose firms to non-compliance risk.
Using Alerts 2.0 insurers and distributors can automatically identify changes, and then reconcile and synchronize those changes with the firm's individual / agency database.
Kristy Locklear, SVP and Xchange Product Manager, stated, "Alerts 2.0 enables accurate, up-to-date and highly efficient maintenance of critical information on individuals, agencies or distributors, while helping to close compliance gaps and reduce operational costs." Locklear continued, "This results in a significant reduction of time and resources required to manually check the PDB for relevant changes, and instills confidence that the firm's producer records match the official filing office record."
For carriers, Alerts 2.0 will automatically update license data without the need to rely on individuals or distributors for updates. Distributors will benefit from automatic notifications on appointments. In the event that employees are appointed by carriers that are not approved or do not have sell agreements, Xchange will notify distributors immediately, enabling them to take corrective action.
Locklear concluded, "Alerts 2.0 will yield dramatic increases in efficiency and reduced appointment costs through greatly streamlined management of the producer credentialing lifecycle."
About RegEd
RegEd is a leading provider of compliance technology solutions with relationships with more than 400 enterprise clients, including 80% of the top 25 broker-dealers and top 25 insurance companies. Established in 1994 by former regulators, the company is a recognized industry authority and has created the standard of excellence for rule-based and content-driven compliance automation for insurance companies, investment advisors and broker-dealers. RegEd solutions drive new levels of operational efficiency and enable firms to cost-effectively comply with regulations and mitigate risk. For more information, visit www.reged.com
CONTACT: Eric Clements, RegEd, 412-335-2281
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Insight Public Sector to Outfit Memphis Police Vehicles With Mobile and Video Technology
TEMPE, Ariz., Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Insight Public Sector, a division of Insight Enterprises Inc. (Nasdaq:NSIT), announced the launch of a project to equip 900 Memphis Police Department vehicles with rugged laptops, cameras and the required mounting to capture audio and video in and around the vehicles.
The $15 million award will be completed in phases, with the 900-car fleet to be fully outfitted by 2019. The initial phase calls for 400 new vehicles to be outfitted by early 2016, with 125 additional vehicles completed in each of the subsequent years.
Insight's extensive experience in implementing and servicing public safety based solutions drove the award of this significant contract.
"The Insight team works across multiple technology based platforms to create best in breed customized solutions for Public Safety professionals," said Dave Cristal, VP/GM of Insight Public Sector. "We feel privileged to work in concert with our key partners to develop, configure, and deploy a solution that meets the specific needs of the Memphis Police Department."
"In the last few years, many agencies have deployed body cameras and dash cams to its officers in an effort to create greater transparency. Both body cameras and dash cams have been credited with changing the way officers and the public interact with one another. I also believe that the introduction of these systems to this department has the potential to improve community relations, lower the number of citizen complaints, defend officers against false accusations and provide greater agency accountability," said Tony Armstrong, director, Memphis Police Department.
The solution Insight is deploying with the Memphis Police Department is powered by Getac hardware and Veretos software.
"This in-car video system will help create an efficient and effective computing and video capture solution for the city that will significantly aide in evidence collection, officer reporting and overall productivity," said Scott Shainman, senior director of sales for Getac, Inc in North America. "The system will include a Getac V110 rugged convertible mounted in the car for easy viewing of dispatch and reporting applications, in addition to Getac's Veretos™ Mobile Video System."
For more information on Insight, visit http://www.insight.com/ or call 800-INSIGHT.
About Insight
From business and government organizations to healthcare and educational institutions, Insight empowers clients with intelligent technology solutions to realize their goals. As a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud and service solutions, our 5,400 teammates provide clients the guidance and expertise needed to select, implement and manage complex technology solutions to drive business outcomes. Through our world-class people, partnerships, services and delivery solutions, we help businesses run smarter. Discover more at insight.com. NSIT-M
CONTACT: CHUCK KING Insight Enterprises, Inc. TEL. (480) 409-6390 EMAIL: CHUCK.KING@INSIGHT.COM JOE MCGURK Sloane & Company TEL. (212) 446-1874 EMAIL: JMCGURK@SLOANEPR.COM
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BMC Selected as a Hybrid Cloud and Virtualization Management Leader in Ovum Decision Matrix
HOUSTON, Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BMC, the global leader in software solutions for IT, today announced that Ovum, a well-respected European research firm, named BMC as a leader in its recent Decision Matrix: Selecting a Hybrid Cloud and Virtualization Management Solution. The report provides a side-by-side comparison of leading virtualization and hybrid cloud management solutions, looking at IT modernization from a data center infrastructure perspective.
BMC, one of just two vendors named in the Market Leaders' category, scored over nine out of 10 on average for all the technology dimension categories while recording four category-leading scores in lifecycle, performance, virtualization, and cloud management.
Roy Illsley, principal analyst for infrastructure solutions at Ovum, describes BMC as "one of the clear technology and market leaders, and the only truly independent vendor because of its cross-platform interoperability." Further, the report praised the Cloud Lifecycle Management solution for its:
- Service blueprints that capture configuration and best practice information to reduce administrative overhead and accelerate deployments.
- Widespread support for operating systems and cloud platforms.
- Built-in integration to change approvals and CMDB updates, as well as regulatory and operational compliance policies that automate governance and compliance and optimize IT agility.
"Ovum's recognition of BMC as a leader for our cross-platform hybrid cloud and virtualization management solution is a testament to our commitment to innovation excellence," said Bill Berutti, president of the cloud, data center and performance businesses at BMC. "Digital business requires IT to deliver and provision services faster than ever before. BMC's Cloud Lifecycle management solution not only helps IT accelerate deployments, but also maintains and automates governance and compliance policies."
About BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management
BMC's Cloud Lifecycle Management solution is a cloud management platform that helps IT become a trusted services broker by enabling the agile delivery and ongoing management of digital services across hybrid cloud and legacy infrastructures while managing risk and reducing cost. The solution automates the rapid provisioning of complex, multi-tier cloud services and integrates IT processes like change management, the CMDB, compliance and patching to optimize agility while maintaining essential governance and compliance for mission critical cloud workloads.
About BMC
BMC is a global leader in software solutions that help IT transform traditional businesses into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage. Our Digital Enterprise Management set of IT solutions is designed to make digital business fast, seamless, and optimized. From mainframe to mobile to cloud and beyond, we pair high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization—allowing our customers to provide intuitive user experiences with optimized performance, cost, compliance, and productivity. BMC solutions serve more than 15,000 customers worldwide including 82 percent of the Fortune 500.
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Sigma Labs Announces Launch of PrintRite3D(R) DEFORM(TM)
SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sigma Labs, Inc. (OTCQB:SGLB) ("Sigma Labs" or the "Company"), a developer of advanced, in process, non-destructive quality inspection systems for metal-based additive manufacturing ("AM") and other advanced manufacturing technologies, today announced the launch of its long-awaited DEFORM™ software – part of the Company's PrintRite3D® family of quality assurance and process control products. Sigma Labs has completed all in-house development and testing such that DEFORM™ is now available for beta installations, including for customers within the Company's Early Adopter Program (EAP). As previously announced, the first fielded application of DEFORM™ will be with Honeywell Aerospace at its AM development facility in Phoenix; this contract is part of a larger award announced in May, 2015.
"We are very pleased to announce the launch of our DEFORM™ software, which complements our existing INSPECT™ module and further enhances our support of AM applications worldwide," said Mark Cola, President and CEO of Sigma Labs. "While the product was delayed due to the need for additional development and testing, we are excited to offer a unique tool that uses proprietary, in-process algorithms to generate geometrical property data for each layer of an AM build cycle. Our technology offers real-time, layer-by-layer analysis to ensure compliance to production specifications.
"The launch of DEFORM™ – and its first installation, with Honeywell – represents the achievement of a major milestone for the metal AM industry. Sigma Labs is pleased to help pioneer the advancement of In-Process Quality Assurance™ (IPQA®) in this rapidly-evolving space."
PrintRite3D® INSPECT™ and DEFORM™ software modules can now be used in combination for embedded, stand-alone, or third party platform-independent installations. DEFORM™ is expected to be delivered to Honeywell in October and will be shipped to Sigma Labs' global EAP participants as appropriate. DEFORM™ will also be showcased at upcoming industry-leading events.
Sigma Labs' Early Adopter Program remains open to new entrants through year-end. The program offers many benefits to users looking to obtain objective evidence of compliance to design intent, conduct rapid qualification, and create value through process control and optimization. The EAP continues to draw strong interest from potential customers and is expected to boost revenue in 2016.
About Sigma Labs, Inc.
Sigma Labs, Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary B6 Sigma, Inc., develops and engineers advanced, in-process, non-destructive quality inspection systems for commercial firms worldwide seeking productive solutions for metal-based additive manufacturing or 3D printing, and other advanced manufacturing technologies. For more information please visit www.sigmalabsinc.com.
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