Marty Petraitis Joins BlueShift Technologies As Vice President of Sales and Marketing in Response to Growing Global Demand for Its "QuickLink(TM)" Wafer Processing Platform
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BlueShift(TM) Technologies, manufacturer of the QuickLink(TM) wafer processing platform with innovative linkable linear geometry, today announced that industry veteran Marty Petraitis is coming aboard as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In his new role Mr.
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Company is looking to attract more business process experts to use its software through the establishment of specific community site tailored to their needs.
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OCTOBER 25, 2004  - PeopleSoft Inc. today will announce that it&#39;s porting the sales force automation module from the latest version of its CRM software to Research In Motion Ltd.
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(InfoWorld) - Three years after being bought by EMC, VMware is going public.Â EMC announced plans Wednesday to offer 10 percent of its virtualization software subsidiary in an initial public offering (IPO). The offering will "unlock more of VMware's value for EMC shareholders," and help the company "retain and attract the software industry's top talent," EMC Chairman, President, and CEO Joe Tucci said in a statement. "We think now is the point where the planets are aligned and this makes sense," Tucci said on a conference call with financial analysts. WhenÂ EMC acquired VMwareÂ in 2004, it had 300 employees; today it has 3,000, he said. "The growth rate of this company has been phenomenal." EMC plans to file a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in late March or early April for the planned IPO, and the shares could be available for sale some time in the second quarter, said David Goulden, executive vice president and chief financial officer of EMC. The shares to be put on the market will be new shares, not ones already owned by EMC, Goulden said. The proceeds will "provide VMware with the financial resources it needs to achieve its full growth potential and provide EMC with the potential to return a portion of the original investment in VMware to EMC shareholders, while enabling them to continue to enjoy the vast majority ownership in this strategic and fast-growing business," Goulden said. Virtualization, which allows a server to better run multiple applications simultaneously, has helped businesses reduce the number of servers they need, reduce their energy consumption and assist in data center disaster recovery efforts, said Diane Greene, who founded VMware in 1998. She is president of VMware and executive vice president of EMC. "The IPO is a powerful way for us to accelerate our vision of a pervasive, industry standard virtual infrastructure. We see an incredible opportunity ahead of us," Greene said. More than 10 percent of new x86 server workloads are running on VMware virtualization software, and VMware is used by more than 20,000 customers, Greene said. Analysts have recently speculated on whether EMC would spin off VMware, said Gordon Haff, principal IT advisor with research firm Illuminata Inc. "EMC wants to get some of the money while VMware is clearly a hot property," he said. "On the other hand, they clearly want to retain a very large chunk of VMware." EMC's stock (EMC) has been stuck in the $10 to $15 range for the last three years. The IPO was announced after the New York Stock Exchange closed for the day. In after-hours trading, EMC shares rose $0.91 to $14.55. Tucci's comments about unlocking VMware's value "might be less politely phrased as 'hopefully getting the shareholders off my butt,'" Haff said. VMware is an early leader in one of the IT industry's hottest market segments. The company's revenue was up 83 percent in 2006, totalling $709 million, EMC said. The IPO should generate capital for VMware to invest in innovation, said Allan Krans, an analyst with Technology Business Research. Although VMware is the industry leader in server virtualization software, MicrosoftÂ is expected to introduce an update of its Microsoft Virtual Server in the fourth quarter of 2007, which could increase competitive pressure on VMware.
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FastScale(TM) Technology, Inc., a provider of next generation software virtualization and provisioning solutions for data centers and web farms, today announced that it will exhibit at the Network World IT Roadmap Conference and Expo taking place in Santa Clara, California on June 26, 2007.
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MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J., Feb. 16  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Computer Horizons Corp. , a strategic solutions and professional services company, today announced that the sales of Chimes, Inc.
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The HDTV technology company is moving a key part of its future in house.
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IBM is moving forward with its Jazz application lifecycle management platform Monday, expanding access to the Jazz.net community and touting Project Bluegrass, which seeks a virtual world for developer collaboration.The company also is readying a second beta release of the first Jazz product, called IBM Rational Concert Express."The first thing we're doing is we're opening up the Jazz.net community to everyone," and allowing them to participate in the evolution of Jazz, said Scott Hebner, vice president of marketing and strategy for IBM. Previously, the year-old Jazz.net community was open only to IBM Rational customers, academics and partners.Allowing greater access to Jazz.net boosts exposure, noted Liz Barnett, principal analyst at EZinsight. "They're going to expose the technology to a much wider audience, certainly [to] many people who are not IBM tool customers," she said.Jazz represents IBM's approach to enabling better collaboration in software development projects that can be distributed across the globe."The Jazz technology is designed to help people work together more [effectively] and collaborate in the development and delivery of software," said Hebner. What is different about Jazz is it provides real-time collaborative technology to manage under the covers all information pertaining to the health of a software development project.Unlike previous ALM products, Jazz offerings will adapt to the way that users want to use them instead of users having to adapt to the products, Hebner said. Featured in Jazz products is a central repository to store information about different software development projects.With Bluegrass, IBM is attempting to bring the visual, collaborative nature of virtual worlds to software development. Hebner cited the Second Life 3D online environment as offering the kind of functionality IBM wants to bring to ALM with Bluegrass.Developers could work together while viewing interactive representations of ideas and data. Avatars, or graphical representations of participants, would be used as well. Geared toward new, younger workers used to Web 2.0-style communications, Bluegrass is a research effort that may result in products from IBM or other companies.Bluegrass will be demonstrated at the Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Fla. next week. Bluegrass also is available on the IBM Codestation kiosk in Second Life.IBM Rational Team Concert Express is intended for smaller development teams looking to use agile development techniques and collaborate across the globe, Hebner said.The product should appeal to the agile community, Barnett said. "It's a lightweight toolset, and it's really easy just to pick up and use and extend on your own," said Barnett.With the second beta, IBM has added capabilities for team collaboration and gauging project health; Web dashboards are featured. Also, users also can leverage a broader set of underlying infrastructure, including Oracle databases, Lotus Sametime communications software, and Apache servers.?The first beta arrived last summer; general release of Team Concert Express is planned for later this year.At the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Team Concert Express has been used to develop a tool called Emergent Expertise Locator, which recommends members for development teams based on an examination of how files have changed hands and who has participated."Essentially, the tool's looking at the story of how changes have been committed to the code base," said Gail Murphy, computer science professor at the university.?Over time, key IBM Rational products, including the ClearCase software configuration management system, ClearQuest for software change management, and Build Forge for build and release management, will incorporate Jazz technology. This will enable participation in a more collaborative real-time ALM platform, Hebner said. These upgrades will begin to arrive later in 2008.
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(InfoWorld) - Software giant Microsoft is focusing on selling to global technology manufacturers with a software suite it promoted at a Silicon Valley forum on Thursday. Microsoft showed off 2007 versions of its Office software suite for business functions, SQL Server database management system, Office SharePoint Server program for project collaboration and other products at its first-ever Global High Tech Summit in Santa Clara, California. Microsoft hopes to grab a piece of a growing market for IT spending by technology manufacturers next year. Fifty-nine percent of high-tech manufacturers surveyed by AMR ResearchÂ said they planned to increase their IT spending in 2007, averaging a 4.1 percent increase. An earlier survey about 2006 plans had shown only 42 percent planned to increase their spending, and they said they would boost it by an average of just 3.2 percent. Companies have already invested in technology to automate manufacturing processes, but now they are investing to be able to adjust production to changes in demand, said Eric Austvold, research director at AMR, in Boston. "They want to know how you create an agile supply network that ramps up a product to volume [production] quickly," Austvold said. The quicker a company gets a product to market, the more units it can sell. Microsoft is targeting product development, supply chain management, customer relationship management and operational performance, said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, to about 400 participants at the daylong forum. Microprocessor maker Advanced Micro DevicesÂ uses a variety of Windows-based software in its chip fabrication plants and will upgrade to the new Vista operating system when it becomes available next year, said Tom Sonderman, director of automated precision manufacturing technology for AMD, in Sunnyvale, California. "Once we get Vista and get into 64-bit computing, you begin to raise the bar on the things we can do," said Sonderman. "There is an ongoing desire for us to have more computing power in the fab." Also at the event, Microsoft and IntelÂ jointly proposed anÂ open, interoperable industry standardÂ for document sharing based on the Office Open XML formats. The two companies presented the proposal to RosettaNet, a technology standards group. The Microsoft-Intel standard conflicts with one promoted by Adobe Systems. "They pushed Adobe aside with this announcement," said AMR's Austvold. "Adobe has been doing this already with a proprietary standard. This announcement trumps that and says, 'We [Microsoft] have got a standard we think is more open,' [although] I think thatâs debatable."
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TechWeb - Integration of sales and marketing is key to new release.
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Brocade CEO Mike Klayko and Tom Buiocchi, vice president of Brocade worldwide marketing, recently spoke with Computerworld in order to clarify the their company's integration roadmap with McData Corp.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 7  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Extreme Networks, Inc.  today announced that it is transitioning its worldwide sales leadership with the appointment of Helmut Wilke to senior vice president of worldwide sales.
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BlueLithium announced today that founder, chairman and CEO Gurbaksh Chahal will be featured on the online advertising panel at the Bear Stearns 18th Annual Technology/Communications/Internet Conference.
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Dutch company, a specialist in risk-management software, will become part of Big Blue's Tivoli unit.
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Broadcast International (OTCBB: BCST) ("BI") and Vanguard Software Solutions ("VSS") today announced that they have entered into a licensing agreement authorizing BI to use the VSS H.264 codec in the new encoding solution currently being developed by the IBM/BI joint development team.
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Barco Visual Solutions, LLC announced the appointment of Dirk Quartemont as Director of Sales and Market Business Manager for its Presentation group, which provides intelligent product solutions to the ...
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At a time of dramatic consolidation in the enterprise BI (business intelligence) market, MicroStrategy sees great opportunities as an independent vendor, the company&#39;s chairman, president and CEO Michael Saylor said Wednesday.Unlike competitors that become part of larger IT vendors, MicroStrategy retains the freedom and flexibility to support a broad variety of third-party products without having to weigh the competitive considerations of a parent company, Saylor said.&quot;Our view is to be Switzerland in this business and to make sure we protect your investment when we give you the ability to tap into lots of different vendors and technology architectures to achieve your goal,&quot; Saylor said during a keynote speech at the company&#39;s MicroStrategy World 2008 event in Miami.For example, it&#39;s natural for Business Objects to prioritize making its products work better with the applications of its&#160;new parent company SAP&#160;-- a $6.7 billion deal -- while Cognos will do likewise once its $5 billion&#160;acquisition by IBM&#160;is completed, he said. The same story will play out with Hyperion, recently&#160;acquired by Oracle&#160;for $3.3 billion.Even as Saylor was giving his speech, it appeared that the enterprise software market would be further consolidated, with Wednesday morning news announcements that&#160;BEA has agreed to be acquired by Oracle&#160;for $8.5 billion, and that&#160;Sun Microsystems would buy MySQL&#160;for $1 billion.By contrast, MicroStrategy can continue to chart its own course for supporting a wide variety of complementary, third-party products, such as Web browsers, operating systems, processors, databases and application servers, based on the needs of its customers and on market dynamics, Saylor said.&quot;The market needs a vendor that provides the flexibility we can provide,&quot; Saylor said.Another benefit from the latest round of consolidation is that it lowers the noise in a market that 12 years ago was very crowded with over 60 BI vendors competing for attention. This makes it easier for MicroStrategy, founded in 1989, to get its message out to potential customers.This year, MicroStrategy will focus on a number of technology and business priorities, including strengthening its BI products so that they can effectively analyze even larger data sets -- whether they be in data warehouses, data marts or transactional databases -- resolve queries faster, generate higher volumes of more interactive and sophisticated reports and support increasing numbers of users, he said.MicroStrategy will also continue to improve the performance for global and decentralized deployments of its systems, while striving to continually simplify and enhance its front-end software.The vendor will also improve its software&#39;s support for mobile devices, and make &quot;profound investments&quot; in global services, in order to beef up its partner roster of qualified MicroStrategy consultants and practitioners worldwide, he said. MicroStrategy also plans to increase the amount of end-user training and education it offers globally.While those are some of the priorities for 2008, MicroStrategy has drafted long-term goals, looking out 10 year and 20 years, which it plans to continue pursuing as an independent company, he said. &quot;We just keep plugging away, like the Little Engine that Could,&quot; Saylor said.