MERETHIS Centreon Software Suite Uses ActuateOne for Interactive Visualisation of IT Infrastructure and Application Monitoring
Actuate Corporation, The
people behind BIRT® and the leading open source Business Intelligence
(BI) vendor, today announced that MERETHIS, the company behind the open
source monitoring platform Centreon, has extended from Open Source
Eclipse BIRT to ActuateOne® to meet its clients’ evolving information
visualisation and analysis needs.
From open source Eclipse BIRT to ActuateOne
Since its release in 2009, Centreon BI has used open source BIRT from
Eclipse. In response to rapidly changing customer requirements for
additional BI functionality, including advanced interactive report
development and customisation tools, MERETHIS decided to upgrade
Centreon BI to ActuateOne. ActuateOne provides value added capabilities
for BIRT and will enable MERETHIS to offer more innovative, user
friendly functionality to its Centreon end users, helping them to become
more efficient.
“Centreon BI, now based on ActuateOne, will provide users with
interactive viewing and customisation functionality, with high
usability and interactivity over the web,” commented Julien Mathis,
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer at MERETHIS. “The update is
designed to make it easier to build customised operational or analytical
dashboards for large data volumes.”
Centreon BI: Optimal Performance for Information Systems
Centreon BI summarises the changes and trends in information system
activity and analyses the information using packaged templates or
customised dashboards, helping businesses to respond appropriately.
“By enhancing Centreon with ActuateOne, organisations can take advantage
of a single, integrated tool to monitor network domains, servers and
critical business applications, and also generate and disseminate
in-depth and modular reports via all channels,” said Mat Sugumaran, Head
of MERETHIS’ BI project. “Centreon BI effectively manages information
systems by measuring performance using indicators and dashboards.”
“We are excited to add MERETHIS to the growing number of ISVs that are
upgrading to ActuateOne after working with open source BIRT,” said David
Armstrong, VP of OEM and SaaS at Actuate Corporation. “Actuate’s OEM
customers have experienced dramatic increases in adoption of their
BIRT-based applications by garnering enthusiastic customer reception to
the interactive, highly intuitive interfaces ActuateOne enables. We have
no doubt that the market reception for Centreon BI will be positive.”
Actuate – The People behind BIRT
Actuate founded and co-leads the Eclipse BIRT open source project.
ActuateOne® is a unified suite of products for rapidly developing and
deploying BIRT-based custom Business Intelligence applications and
information applications. Applications built with ActuateOne provide one
user experience regardless of task or skill level; are supported by one
server for any deployment including cloud and are built with one BIRT
design that can access and integrate any data source - including high
volume print streams. ActuateOne adds rich data visualisations,
including interactivity, dashboards, analytics, and deployment options
to web and mobile BIRT applications, helping organisations drive revenue
through higher customer satisfaction and improved operational
performance.
Actuate has over 5,000 customers globally in a diverse range of business
areas including financial services and the public sector. Founded in
1993, Actuate is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices
worldwide. Actuate is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol BIRT. For more
information, visit the company's web site at www.actuate.com or visit the BIRT community at www.birt-exchange.com.
FACTFILE:
MERETHIS is a French company specialised in IT monitoring.
Born in 2003, under the name of Oreon, Centreon was intended to supply
an interface of configuration to Nagios©. In order to structure all the
realisations and numerous users' requests, MERETHIS becomes in 2005, the
software provider of Centreon. This major step allows the project to
evolve at the international level and it is during that period that it
takes the new name of Centreon. With over 45 000 users and 90
committers, Centreon software suite has been a huge success. Evolving
from its first goal, Centreon is now dedicated to IT infrastructure and
application monitoring for service performance.
In order to offer all the essential necessary features required for a
professional service availability and network performance monitoring,
the Centreon software suite has been evolving to meet the needs of the
most demanding Information Systems Division while bringing the
flexibility of Open Source Software.
• Centreon BAM : Improve quality of service (SLA) by monitoring and analysing the operation of your business processes
• Centreon MAP: studio for mapping applications and infrastructure components
• Centreon BI : Design and create decision-making tools you can use to analyze and share the activity of your information system
• In 2011 MERETHIS released CES (Centreon Enterprise Sever). CES
provides pre-configured out-of-the-box tools to automate the monitoring
of essential system resources deploy alert management and business
service management and set up your monitoring portal and console.
More at: www.centreon.com
Monday, 14 May 2012
iPad Catalog category sees 330% rise in catalog app downloads
YUDU Media,
the award-winning provider of digital publishing solutions, has
released its first performance stats since the launch of Apple’s iPad
Catalog category on March 7th 2012.
The stats show that retailers are seeing significant increases in the rate of daily iPad catalog app downloads, averaging a 330% rise across YUDU Media’s portfolio of retail clients.
With YUDU Media producing many of the US’s top iPad catalogs (including Lands’ End, dELiA*s, Alloy, L.L.Bean & Coldwater Creek) as well as digital catalogs for leading UK retailers such as Littlewoods, Lakeland and Very, the company is confident the figures are indicative of a wider download trend within Apple’s iPad Catalog category.
Richard Stephenson, CEO of YUDU Media, says: “Catalog apps used to be lost within Apple’s Lifestyle category and app downloads were limited by lack of discovery. However, with the launch of Apple’s Catalog category, catalog apps are now far more visible. This is reflected in a huge rise in the number of daily downloads, some retailers seeing rises of over 500%.”
Stephenson continues, “this is further good news for retailers as iPad catalog basket sizes are, on average, 50% higher than retailers’ own website shopping carts.”
For further information on iPad catalogs please watch the YUDU Media iPad catalog video by clicking here.
(EDITOR: One of my clients uses YUDU. They can be heartily recommended.)
The stats show that retailers are seeing significant increases in the rate of daily iPad catalog app downloads, averaging a 330% rise across YUDU Media’s portfolio of retail clients.
With YUDU Media producing many of the US’s top iPad catalogs (including Lands’ End, dELiA*s, Alloy, L.L.Bean & Coldwater Creek) as well as digital catalogs for leading UK retailers such as Littlewoods, Lakeland and Very, the company is confident the figures are indicative of a wider download trend within Apple’s iPad Catalog category.
Richard Stephenson, CEO of YUDU Media, says: “Catalog apps used to be lost within Apple’s Lifestyle category and app downloads were limited by lack of discovery. However, with the launch of Apple’s Catalog category, catalog apps are now far more visible. This is reflected in a huge rise in the number of daily downloads, some retailers seeing rises of over 500%.”
Stephenson continues, “this is further good news for retailers as iPad catalog basket sizes are, on average, 50% higher than retailers’ own website shopping carts.”
For further information on iPad catalogs please watch the YUDU Media iPad catalog video by clicking here.
(EDITOR: One of my clients uses YUDU. They can be heartily recommended.)
M2M Managed Services Specialist Wireless Logic in UK and European moves
- Board appoints new CFO and CTO to support UK and continental Europe expansion
- Year on year base growth exceeds 41%
With growth across Europea a major strategic objective for UK-based M2M Managed Services Specialist Wireless Logic (www.wirelesslogic.com), the organisation has made a number of senior appointments. Country managers now head up new subsidiaries in France, Germany and Spain where focus will be made on rolling out Wireless Logic’s aggregated business model - multiple network M2M SIM connectivity backed by a range of award-winning managed services and platforms.
Philip Cole, Co-founder and Sales & Marketing Director, EMEA Wireless Logic says: “With market growth rates of 27% from 2012 -2016 (Source – ABI Research), we are committed to developing our presence across a number of key European countries. We’ve brought in a team of sector professionals who can deliver the value-add that Wireless Logic offers. Our growth remains strong with 41% year on year increase and a forecast of over one million contracted M2M SIMs during 2012".
Back in the UK, Wireless Logic’s board has been bolstered by the arrival of Richard Miller as Chief Financial Officer, and Matt Thomas as Chief Technology Officer. Managing Director and co-founder Oliver Tucker, Wireless Logic comments: “These two board level appointments demonstrate the strength we now have in creating a global managed services provider. Richard Miller joins from PwC where he played a huge role in bringing our recent MBO to fruition with ECI Partners (www.ecipartners.com). Richard will be pursuing a number of acquisition opportunities as part of our growth strategy. Matt Thomas will head up our technology team; his remit includes further evolvement of our dedicated M2M platform ‘SIMpro’ including software licensing opportunities as well as adding an additional layer of customer-focused services.”
The expansion into continental Europe and an enhanced board coincide with Wireless Logic’s UK Headquarters and Technology Centre relocating to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, just 26 miles west of Central London. Oliver Tucker continues: “2012 has already seen considerable investment across our people, our office infrastructure and upgrades to our M2M platforms. Our programme of expansion will see multi-million Euro expenditure in our 3-year plan to ensure aggressive growth targets are met. The global M2M market continues to grow rapidly and Wireless Logic is ideally placed to support our customers to take advantage of the enormous range of opportunities this technology provides.”
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Government-backed Anti-Cybercrime Campaign attracts 80,000 users
A groundbreaking campaign targeting young people about the dangers of internet fraud has attracted over 80,000 users.
It features a web app called The Devil's in Your Details, created by digital agency, roll7. It takes users’ names and profile pictures from Facebook and puts them into a, mock, undercover video report.
The campaign, which is backed by the National Fraud Authority (NFA), aims to raise awareness about online fraud and encourage young people, in particular, to protect their personal information.
The Devil’s in Your Details got further endorsement after tech-lover Stephen Fry tweeted his own video to his 4 million followers.
The campaign website, www.thedevilsinyourdetails.com has been put into the AWS cloud by Databarracks.
“We needed the campaign website to be able to handle bursts of web traffic and have the resources available to deliver personalised videos in the thousands, without compromising speed or performance,” says Jon Parsons, Production Manager at roll7. “The scalability and pricing model offered by AWS, as well as the flexible storage capacity it provides through Amazon S3, won us over”.
roll7 engaged Databarracks, as an AWS Solution Provider, to set up and design the platform, for The Devil’s in Your Details, to best make use of the functionality offered by AWS.
"The campaign has already generated a huge, positive response. Feedback on twitter and other social networks has been fantastic. People are evidently using it and enjoying it," reveals Parsons. “The load balancing and auto-scaling features provided by AWS have enabled us to seamlessly handle a very significant amount of user traffic.”
“All in all, compared with traditional methods, the performance increase is massive and furthermore, AWS is extremely competitive,” adds Parsons.
Attila Narin, Senior Manager, Amazon EU said of the project, “Databarracks has shown how AWS can be used to quickly build a secure, scalable and resilient platform for online campaigns. This is a good example of how organisations no longer need to purchase technology infrastructure up front to handle traffic at its highest peak. They can purchase capacity on demand, when they need it, and when the campaign comes to an end it can be scaled down just as quickly with no wasted expenditure.”
“AWS is perfect for these types of projects,” adds Peter Groucutt, Managing Director at Databarracks. “Costs are kept low for development and testing purposes by using small server instances, but when the campaign goes viral and traffic skyrockets, you have the power available to keep up.”
Databarracks initially created a test and development environment for roll7 and advised how to architect and configure the campaign’s website for the AWS Cloud.
“This has been a great project to be involved with. Data security is a matter close to our hearts here and The Devil’s in Your Details campaign is a powerful and innovative way to raise awareness.” says Groucutt.
It is estimated over £38 billion is lost within the UK to fraud, with £0.54 billion lost to online ticketing scams and bogus career opportunity offers – types of fraud young people aged 18-25 suffer from the most. (1)(2)
To view The Devil’s In Your Details video click here: http://www.youtube.com/actionfraud
It features a web app called The Devil's in Your Details, created by digital agency, roll7. It takes users’ names and profile pictures from Facebook and puts them into a, mock, undercover video report.
The campaign, which is backed by the National Fraud Authority (NFA), aims to raise awareness about online fraud and encourage young people, in particular, to protect their personal information.
The Devil’s in Your Details got further endorsement after tech-lover Stephen Fry tweeted his own video to his 4 million followers.
The campaign website, www.thedevilsinyourdetails.com has been put into the AWS cloud by Databarracks.
“We needed the campaign website to be able to handle bursts of web traffic and have the resources available to deliver personalised videos in the thousands, without compromising speed or performance,” says Jon Parsons, Production Manager at roll7. “The scalability and pricing model offered by AWS, as well as the flexible storage capacity it provides through Amazon S3, won us over”.
roll7 engaged Databarracks, as an AWS Solution Provider, to set up and design the platform, for The Devil’s in Your Details, to best make use of the functionality offered by AWS.
"The campaign has already generated a huge, positive response. Feedback on twitter and other social networks has been fantastic. People are evidently using it and enjoying it," reveals Parsons. “The load balancing and auto-scaling features provided by AWS have enabled us to seamlessly handle a very significant amount of user traffic.”
“All in all, compared with traditional methods, the performance increase is massive and furthermore, AWS is extremely competitive,” adds Parsons.
Attila Narin, Senior Manager, Amazon EU said of the project, “Databarracks has shown how AWS can be used to quickly build a secure, scalable and resilient platform for online campaigns. This is a good example of how organisations no longer need to purchase technology infrastructure up front to handle traffic at its highest peak. They can purchase capacity on demand, when they need it, and when the campaign comes to an end it can be scaled down just as quickly with no wasted expenditure.”
“AWS is perfect for these types of projects,” adds Peter Groucutt, Managing Director at Databarracks. “Costs are kept low for development and testing purposes by using small server instances, but when the campaign goes viral and traffic skyrockets, you have the power available to keep up.”
Databarracks initially created a test and development environment for roll7 and advised how to architect and configure the campaign’s website for the AWS Cloud.
“This has been a great project to be involved with. Data security is a matter close to our hearts here and The Devil’s in Your Details campaign is a powerful and innovative way to raise awareness.” says Groucutt.
It is estimated over £38 billion is lost within the UK to fraud, with £0.54 billion lost to online ticketing scams and bogus career opportunity offers – types of fraud young people aged 18-25 suffer from the most. (1)(2)
To view The Devil’s In Your Details video click here: http://www.youtube.com/actionfraud
Kurmi Software Launches UC Provisioning Platform In The UK
Kurmi Software Launches UC Provisioning Platform In The UK
• French software vendor releases multi-vendor platform designed to optimise Unified Communications environments
London, UK, 11th May 2012 – Unified Communications Management software vendor, Kurmi Software, announced today that it will be introducing its two flagship products – Kurmi Unified Provisioning and Kurmi Unified Selfcare - into the UK market. Having created a strong presence in France, Germany, Italy and the Middle East, Kurmi Software is now keen to expand into the UK and is looking for local channel partners to take its products to market.
Kurmi Software offers a unique and comprehensive solution to help with end user deployment and the daily management of Unified Communications (UC) platforms from any location at any time, helping to dramatically reduce administration and improve end-user experience. Hosted through the cloud or on premise, Kurmi Software solutions are interoperable with all other Unified Communications vendor technologies, such as Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Microsoft. The platform can host multiple sites allowing centralised management of UC as a Service (UCaaS) customers or large enterprises with multiple locations. The Kurmi Software suite comprises of two major applications:
• Kurmi Unified Provisioning for administrators dramatically reduces administration by enabling the provisioning of staff into UC environments at the click of a button. The solution leverages advanced user profiling techniques, bringing together multi-vendor environments into one user-intuitive platform and sets access to applications based on job requirements such as voice and telephony, conferencing, messaging, presence, instant messaging and collaboration.
• Kurmi Unified Selfcare for end users improves the end-user experience and reduces pressure on the IT department by helping employees self-manage their UC environment. End-users can handle simple tasks such as managing voicemail, configuring call forward, adding a photo or request PIN code and password resets without the active involvement of the help desk. It also provides an advanced browser based ‘Click to Call’ facility.
Abdel Kander, CEO for Kurmi Software, comments: “According to Gartner , the future of Unified Comms is not in homogenised environments, but in best of breed multi-vendor environments where companies may have telephony from Mitel or Cisco sitting next to messaging and presence from Microsoft and voicemail from another specialised outfit. This is why we have designed our technology to be able to drive all the different systems enabling companies to manage their environments effectively and efficiently.”
The availability of on-demand Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) also eliminates the need to make large upfront investment allowing smaller companies to take advantage of the technology. Kurmi Software’s multi-tenancy capabilities enable service providers to manage numerous customers through a single platform, which is helping service providers to give customers a better user experience while also bringing down the cost for running the service. Kander sees this as a great opportunity, particularly in the UK:
“The UK already has an established and forward thinking UC and SaaS (Software as a Service) model, so we expect this technology to have great traction as the Unified Communications as a Service market starts to take off. Given the fact our technology provides on-premise or cloud-hosted multi-tenancy, branding opportunities and scope for additional services, we see this as an attractive proposition for many Systems Integrators and service providers to resell our product as part of a wider Unified Comms as a Service offering.”
If you are interested in finding out more about Kurmi Software’s partner programme or seeing a product demonstration, please visit the Kurmi Software website at www.kurmi-software.com/en.
• French software vendor releases multi-vendor platform designed to optimise Unified Communications environments
London, UK, 11th May 2012 – Unified Communications Management software vendor, Kurmi Software, announced today that it will be introducing its two flagship products – Kurmi Unified Provisioning and Kurmi Unified Selfcare - into the UK market. Having created a strong presence in France, Germany, Italy and the Middle East, Kurmi Software is now keen to expand into the UK and is looking for local channel partners to take its products to market.
Kurmi Software offers a unique and comprehensive solution to help with end user deployment and the daily management of Unified Communications (UC) platforms from any location at any time, helping to dramatically reduce administration and improve end-user experience. Hosted through the cloud or on premise, Kurmi Software solutions are interoperable with all other Unified Communications vendor technologies, such as Avaya, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Microsoft. The platform can host multiple sites allowing centralised management of UC as a Service (UCaaS) customers or large enterprises with multiple locations. The Kurmi Software suite comprises of two major applications:
• Kurmi Unified Provisioning for administrators dramatically reduces administration by enabling the provisioning of staff into UC environments at the click of a button. The solution leverages advanced user profiling techniques, bringing together multi-vendor environments into one user-intuitive platform and sets access to applications based on job requirements such as voice and telephony, conferencing, messaging, presence, instant messaging and collaboration.
• Kurmi Unified Selfcare for end users improves the end-user experience and reduces pressure on the IT department by helping employees self-manage their UC environment. End-users can handle simple tasks such as managing voicemail, configuring call forward, adding a photo or request PIN code and password resets without the active involvement of the help desk. It also provides an advanced browser based ‘Click to Call’ facility.
Abdel Kander, CEO for Kurmi Software, comments: “According to Gartner , the future of Unified Comms is not in homogenised environments, but in best of breed multi-vendor environments where companies may have telephony from Mitel or Cisco sitting next to messaging and presence from Microsoft and voicemail from another specialised outfit. This is why we have designed our technology to be able to drive all the different systems enabling companies to manage their environments effectively and efficiently.”
The availability of on-demand Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) also eliminates the need to make large upfront investment allowing smaller companies to take advantage of the technology. Kurmi Software’s multi-tenancy capabilities enable service providers to manage numerous customers through a single platform, which is helping service providers to give customers a better user experience while also bringing down the cost for running the service. Kander sees this as a great opportunity, particularly in the UK:
“The UK already has an established and forward thinking UC and SaaS (Software as a Service) model, so we expect this technology to have great traction as the Unified Communications as a Service market starts to take off. Given the fact our technology provides on-premise or cloud-hosted multi-tenancy, branding opportunities and scope for additional services, we see this as an attractive proposition for many Systems Integrators and service providers to resell our product as part of a wider Unified Comms as a Service offering.”
If you are interested in finding out more about Kurmi Software’s partner programme or seeing a product demonstration, please visit the Kurmi Software website at www.kurmi-software.com/en.
Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Cybher: The event for women who blog
Cybher is the first
all-inclusive female blogger event of its kind in the UK. It’s taking
place on the 12th May 2012 at 8 Northumberland Avenue in the heart of
London. This one-day event will bring together the most influential
bloggers and speakers from all corners of the blogosphere to network,
inspire, share and learn.
Cybher is the brainchild of Siân To who after 15 years PR experience went social when she started blogging in 2009. In January 2010 she founded CyberMummy and in August that year she embarked on a life changing journey as an ambassador for Save the Children, that took her from the slums of Bangladesh to the UN summit in New York and tea at Downing Street.
This vast experience of how to use social media, and how to use it for social good is the foundation of Cybher.
Siân To, said: “We are so proud that Cybher can offer such a variety of workshops and activities for our bloggers to enjoy. Cybher has attracted woman from all blogging genres from beauty and fashion to parenting, travel, politics and more. Not only do these social savvy woman want to learn and develop the core content of their blogs, they also want to connect with brands that reflect their own key values as women.”
Cybher is poised to become the shared platform for bloggers from all walks of life. If you’re a woman and you blog then Cybher is the SOLD OUT event to be seen at.
Speakers include;
Zoe Margolis (Girl with a one track mind), Mario Cacciottolo (Someone Once Told Me), Poppy Disney What I wore today), Liz Scarff (Blogladesh, World Vision), Daryl Willcox (DWPub Media), Mark Solomon (Tales from a black cab), Cate Sevilla (BitchBuzz) and our youngest speaker, the 10 year old Biba (bibasphotos.com).
The Facts. The Stats. The Attendees.
- 70% of all bloggers use their blog to share their expertise and experience with others.
- 36% of all bloggers have been quoted in the traditional media for something they posted on a blog.
- 82% of bloggers surveyed are using Twitter.
- Those who use Twitter say they do so to promote their blog (77%) and bring interesting links/content to light (59%).
- 96% of bloggers have an independent blog. This means they choose who they work with. It could be you.
- The blogosphere is influencing itself - the number one influencer for bloggers is the blogs that they read.
- Almost one third of bloggers have worked for the traditional media. They know how to write and how to engage their audience.
- Compared with other media, blogs continue to lead in terms of trust and generation of consumer recommendations and purchases.
Source: Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2011
Cybher is the brainchild of Siân To who after 15 years PR experience went social when she started blogging in 2009. In January 2010 she founded CyberMummy and in August that year she embarked on a life changing journey as an ambassador for Save the Children, that took her from the slums of Bangladesh to the UN summit in New York and tea at Downing Street.
This vast experience of how to use social media, and how to use it for social good is the foundation of Cybher.
Siân To, said: “We are so proud that Cybher can offer such a variety of workshops and activities for our bloggers to enjoy. Cybher has attracted woman from all blogging genres from beauty and fashion to parenting, travel, politics and more. Not only do these social savvy woman want to learn and develop the core content of their blogs, they also want to connect with brands that reflect their own key values as women.”
Cybher is poised to become the shared platform for bloggers from all walks of life. If you’re a woman and you blog then Cybher is the SOLD OUT event to be seen at.
Speakers include;
Zoe Margolis (Girl with a one track mind), Mario Cacciottolo (Someone Once Told Me), Poppy Disney What I wore today), Liz Scarff (Blogladesh, World Vision), Daryl Willcox (DWPub Media), Mark Solomon (Tales from a black cab), Cate Sevilla (BitchBuzz) and our youngest speaker, the 10 year old Biba (bibasphotos.com).
The Facts. The Stats. The Attendees.
- 70% of all bloggers use their blog to share their expertise and experience with others.
- 36% of all bloggers have been quoted in the traditional media for something they posted on a blog.
- 82% of bloggers surveyed are using Twitter.
- Those who use Twitter say they do so to promote their blog (77%) and bring interesting links/content to light (59%).
- 96% of bloggers have an independent blog. This means they choose who they work with. It could be you.
- The blogosphere is influencing itself - the number one influencer for bloggers is the blogs that they read.
- Almost one third of bloggers have worked for the traditional media. They know how to write and how to engage their audience.
- Compared with other media, blogs continue to lead in terms of trust and generation of consumer recommendations and purchases.
Source: Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2011
Centrix helps enterprises apply right flavour of virtualisation with new analytics in WorkSpace iQ
With Centrix WorkSpace iQ IT decision-makers gain fast access to unparalleled intelligence on users, applications, devices and IT consumption patterns to ensure technology investments are fully optimized to user environments. The latest version of WorkSpace iQ introduces:
WorkSpace Designer for Citrix– project teams can quickly and easily analyse the existing end-user computing infrastructure in preparation for employing the right combination of Citrix desktop virtualisation technologies. The WorkSpace Designer covers initial analysis through detailed capacity planning for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp infrastructure deployments, including:
Initial analysis of users to determine the best virtualization choices for desktop delivery based on their work-style.
In depth analysis of application usage, including the ability to sort applications by total use and filter by business groups, locations and sessions.
Analysis of which applications need to be deployed on both Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp platforms and the associated compatibility status, including integration with Citrix AppDNA Apptitude.
Capacity planning for the final deployment based on application allocation by platform, user requirements and core infrastructure components such as SAN capacity.
User Virtualisation Overview Report – provides unique insight into user workstyles, enabling project teams to design and deploy user virtualisation in the most effective method. Capabilities include:
User consumption patterns of both applications and data, including total data storage by user and data transfer metrics.
Unparalleled login statistics.
Easy identification of top application usage, enabled by WorkSpace iQ’s patent-pending application matching technology.
Identification of where applications require administrative rights enabling the most efficient user-policy design.
A ‘One Click’ Data Summary Report that makes it easy for customers and partners to integrate the application and asset usage intelligence captured by WorkSpace iQ with other desktop and IT management systems in use, such as software licensing tools, to support wider user-centric technology decision-making.
“User environments are highly dynamic. In large organisations, the scale of the user base and the diversity of technology use can make it difficult for IT teams to plan architecture or application change without impacting on productivity or the user experience,” said Paul Burke, director of products, Centrix Software.
“WorkSpace iQ addresses this challenge, making it easy for IT decision-makers to understand the user environments and which application delivery options best suit their needs. The latest updates provide new capabilities for IT teams designing Citrix environments and virtualisation projects that drives dramatic cost reductions and performance improvements.”
“Customers are increasingly looking to separate their users from applications and devices in order to deliver the flexibility and mobility demanded by today’s workforce” said Neil O’Donoghue, Director of Professional Services at AppSense. “Understanding the current consumer-centric work environment is a critical starting point for making the right transformation decisions and Centrix Software is providing the richest, deepest understanding of users, their work patterns and how data and applications are accessed. This provides unique invaluable insight for any customer looking to transform and virtualize their users.”
“When you deploy desktop and application virtualization, you need continuous insight and visibility across the user environment and infrastructure, or your deployment is going to fail," said Rachel Chalmers, Research director, Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise at The 451 Group. "Analytics plays a key role here. It helps organizations map the most appropriate virtualization technologies to each user based on how they work. This user-centric approach encourages users to adopt new technologies - and by the way, it saves money and gives central IT better controls."
FACTFILE:
Headquartered in Newbury, UK, with the US corporate office in Framingham, MA, Centrix Software provides award-winning workspace computing solutions that optimize the way IT infrastructures deliver applications and content provisioned from physical, virtual, web or hosted platforms. By enabling a user-centric approach to IT service delivery, Centrix Software helps its customers to be more agile, flexible and efficient in how they deliver client-side technology services. Centrix Software’s solutions have helped leading organizations in banking and securities, insurance, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy and utilities, and the public sector. For more information please visit www.centrixsoftware.com.
For the latest information on Centrix Software
• Centrix Software Twitter
• Centrix Software YouTube channel
• Centrix Software Facebook page
Gadgets, gizmos and tablets on the rise - but what next?
With the on-going development in technology and rise in the use of electronic tablets, Endsleigh Insurance is running a series of polls through its latest Facebook campaign, Fantime Friday. Recent poll results revealed that more and more people are using multiple electronic gadgets to digitally communicate.
With 61% of the nation now owning one, Endsleigh’s most recent survey concluded that the laptop is currently the public’s most favourable device. Survey results also established that a quarter of people across the nation are now using multiple electronic devices to communicate online, including a rise in the use of tablets as an addition to their home and work computer systems.
Proving successful, the poll is part of a wider Facebook campaign, aimed at reminding students of the importance of insurance. The campaign ‘Fantime Friday’ offers people the chance to win a series of gadgets and gizmos through interacting on the Facebook page, where they can also take part in polls and get information on latest news and offer.
Mike Day, of Endsleigh Insurance, said: “With the rise in use of tablets and people owning multiple expensive gadgets, it’s so important to have home insurance or some form of contents insurance on expensive goods, our results clearly show how owning expensive gadgets has become the norm for most people across the UK, and with technology developing at such a fast pace this will continue to increase, it’s important for expensive items such as iPads, laptops and other gadgets to be covered by insurance to reassure customers that they are safe in certain situations.”
Over the past decade tablets have been a huge subject of discussion, two years ago saw the launch of the first generation iPad, and since then technology has developed faster than a bolt of lightning, the market has been rife with competitors developing electronic tablets to rival the ever popular device which has taken the digital world by storm, but Endsleigh’s new data shows that tablets are not being used alone. None of the respondents surveyed owned a tablet without owning another computer device, so where does this put us in the future?
We think tablets are here to stay. The world may not be ready for the takeover by tablets, but as technology continues to develop, iPads and other similar devices are bound to overtake laptops and position themselves as most owned gadget.
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
WOMEN IN GAMING Networking Event starts Judging process for WiG Awards 2012
WOMEN IN GAMING Networking Event starts Judging process for WiG Awards
WOMEN IN GAMING (WiG) 2012 third networking and awards event http://www.gaming-awards.com has announced that the judging process is about to begin. After receiving a high volume of notable nominees from across the global gaming sector, the Women in Gaming (WiG) prestigious judges are set to carefully assess who they think are leading, inspirational women in gaming, visit those in the running here: www.gaming-awards.com/wignominees2012.html
The glitzy gala of women who have dynamically stayed two-steps ahead of their male counterparts will have the chance to shine in their spotlight at the sophisticated Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Knightsbridge, London on the 27 June 2012. It’s set to be an event to remember!
The conference will be at the heart of WiG, as prominent industry experts explore insightful topics such as how social media can be fully utilized within the business world and the evolution of technology, including how mobile optimization is integrating itself into the gaming world…topics that we can all apply within our industry. The leader panel discussion will also take a look at where gaming will be going next. The aim of the conference is to spark debate and discussion within an evolving gaming world. For more details about the conference, visit http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-conference2012.html.
The prestigious panel includes high-flyers such as Gloria Irwin, Founder of Gaming & Hospitability Industry Professionals Association, Lyndsey Barrett, Director of Operations from The Ritz Club, London, Sue Schneider, who is one of the world’s leading experts on the internet gaming industry and Tracy Cohen, marketing manager for TCSJOHNHUXLEY. These are just some of the high-caliber women joining Women in Gaming 2012. More information about the impressive line-up of judges can be found here: http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-awards2012.html
The Women in Gaming Speakers include industry experts such as Anna Conley-Bingo/Ops Manager William Hill, Britt Boeskov COO of Unibet, Claire Tribert from Sportingbet, Daniela (Attard) Castillo - Betfair, Linda Lewis - Aspers Group, Stella Dalton from Gamcare, Hillevi Stuhrenberg from Betssons, Fiona Regan from Rank, and many more professionals. More details about the speakers can be found here: http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-conference2012.html
The judges will carefully select deserving winners from the following competitive categories.
Hidden Talent of the Year
Star of the Future Award
Leader of the Year Award (iGaming)
Leader of the Year (Landbased)
Team of the Year Award (iGaming)
Team of the Year (Land based)
Industry Achiever of the Year
Inspiration of the Year
Affiliate Manager of the Year Award
Innovator of the Year Award
The Industry Pride of the Year Award
Man Championing Women in Business Award
More information can be viewed here: http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-awards2012.html
Women in Gaming 2012 is supporting ‘Break Through Breast Cancer.’
Last year, attendees told us that “the calibre of the female influencers throughout the industry blew us away” and this year is set to be bigger and better with women being recognised again, for their wealth of knowledge, power and perseverance. Others described it as “one of the best conferences” that they have ever been to.
WOMEN IN GAMING (WiG) 2012 third networking and awards event http://www.gaming-awards.com has announced that the judging process is about to begin. After receiving a high volume of notable nominees from across the global gaming sector, the Women in Gaming (WiG) prestigious judges are set to carefully assess who they think are leading, inspirational women in gaming, visit those in the running here: www.gaming-awards.com/wignominees2012.html
The glitzy gala of women who have dynamically stayed two-steps ahead of their male counterparts will have the chance to shine in their spotlight at the sophisticated Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Knightsbridge, London on the 27 June 2012. It’s set to be an event to remember!
The conference will be at the heart of WiG, as prominent industry experts explore insightful topics such as how social media can be fully utilized within the business world and the evolution of technology, including how mobile optimization is integrating itself into the gaming world…topics that we can all apply within our industry. The leader panel discussion will also take a look at where gaming will be going next. The aim of the conference is to spark debate and discussion within an evolving gaming world. For more details about the conference, visit http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-conference2012.html.
The prestigious panel includes high-flyers such as Gloria Irwin, Founder of Gaming & Hospitability Industry Professionals Association, Lyndsey Barrett, Director of Operations from The Ritz Club, London, Sue Schneider, who is one of the world’s leading experts on the internet gaming industry and Tracy Cohen, marketing manager for TCSJOHNHUXLEY. These are just some of the high-caliber women joining Women in Gaming 2012. More information about the impressive line-up of judges can be found here: http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-awards2012.html
The Women in Gaming Speakers include industry experts such as Anna Conley-Bingo/Ops Manager William Hill, Britt Boeskov COO of Unibet, Claire Tribert from Sportingbet, Daniela (Attard) Castillo - Betfair, Linda Lewis - Aspers Group, Stella Dalton from Gamcare, Hillevi Stuhrenberg from Betssons, Fiona Regan from Rank, and many more professionals. More details about the speakers can be found here: http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-conference2012.html
The judges will carefully select deserving winners from the following competitive categories.
Hidden Talent of the Year
Star of the Future Award
Leader of the Year Award (iGaming)
Leader of the Year (Landbased)
Team of the Year Award (iGaming)
Team of the Year (Land based)
Industry Achiever of the Year
Inspiration of the Year
Affiliate Manager of the Year Award
Innovator of the Year Award
The Industry Pride of the Year Award
Man Championing Women in Business Award
More information can be viewed here: http://www.gaming-awards.com/wig-awards2012.html
Women in Gaming 2012 is supporting ‘Break Through Breast Cancer.’
Last year, attendees told us that “the calibre of the female influencers throughout the industry blew us away” and this year is set to be bigger and better with women being recognised again, for their wealth of knowledge, power and perseverance. Others described it as “one of the best conferences” that they have ever been to.
Thursday, 3 May 2012
GFI Software Combines Antivirus and Anti-Spam Protection in GFI MailEssentials™ 2012 for Email Threat Protection
As organisations continue to
battle spam and phishing attacks, GFI offers a dedicated email security
solution to manage the daily onslaught of malware-laden messages
In order to help small to medium-sized businesses in the fight against email-borne threats, GFI® Software today announced the availability of GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection. The solution features robust anti-spam functionality, now combined with up to five virus detection engines, including the award-winning GFI VIPRE® antivirus, to give SMBs comprehensive protection against phishing, spam and virus-carrying emails.
Email is a critical business function that is also a conduit through which malware can enter an organisation and wreak havoc. A continuing battle for organisations of all sizes, spam emails represent over 70% of all emails sent on a daily basis and a recent GFI survey of SMBs found that nearly half of respondents (44%) had suffered a data breach as a direct result of email-borne malware. 84% of those surveyed said the volume of spam in their organisation had either increased (52%) or remained the same (32%) in the past year.
One of the main reasons SMEs are still struggling with the influx is that 48% simply rely on the anti-spam component of their antivirus solution to block spam, rather than employing a dedicated email security solution. GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection combines GFI’s top email security technologies to deliver a spam capture rate greater than 99% with low false positives and multiple antivirus engines, mitigating the risks associated with malware-laden email.
To help SMEs protect their networks and intellectual property from email-based threats, GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection has bolstered its robust anti-spam and anti-phishing capabilities by adding GFI VIPRE and Bitdefender virus scanning engines to its protection capabilities. For heightened protection, administrators may also license additional engines from Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and Norman. By integrating robust virus detection into GFI MailEssentials, IT administrators can now deploy a complete, easy-to-use email security solution, all managed from a single, redesigned and intuitive, web-based dashboard.
Existing GFI MailEssentials customers* will be able to easily upgrade to GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection and enjoy the same reliable spam detection they have come to value and expect, together with the benefit of award-winning antivirus capabilities. Similarly, GFI MailSecurity* customers will be able to upgrade to GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection and avail themselves of top-notch spam filtering in addition to the robust email security they have grown accustomed to.
GFI MailEssentials Unified Protection also provides:
• Flexible and granular user-based attachment and keyword filtering
• Advanced content filtering
• Added email security through Trojan and email exploit detection and HTML sanitation
• Powerful email reporting capabilities
“It is clear that email-borne threats are as dangerous as ever, and although spam is not a new problem, it is one that SMEs still need to adequately address,” said Phil Bousfield, general manager, Infrastructure business unit, at GFI Software.
“Spammers and malware writers are well aware that even the most savvy end-user can be fooled into clicking a link in an email and infecting their computer or entire company network. GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection gives administrators more peace of mind, knowing that far fewer spam and virus-carrying emails will make it to end user mailboxes.”
“SME administrators want solutions that provide robust features and capabilities without requiring heavy management and time commitments,” continued Bousfield. “With GFI MailEssentials UnifiedProtection, they will be getting a powerful, complete, best-in-class email security solution that allows them to spend more time addressing the needs of their end users and less time worrying about them clicking on malicious links contained within their emails.”
To learn more about GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection, visit
http://www.gfi.com/exchange-server-antispam-antivirus or email sales@gfi.com.
* GFI MailEssentials 2012 is also available in Anti-Spam and EmailSecurity editions.
In order to help small to medium-sized businesses in the fight against email-borne threats, GFI® Software today announced the availability of GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection. The solution features robust anti-spam functionality, now combined with up to five virus detection engines, including the award-winning GFI VIPRE® antivirus, to give SMBs comprehensive protection against phishing, spam and virus-carrying emails.
Email is a critical business function that is also a conduit through which malware can enter an organisation and wreak havoc. A continuing battle for organisations of all sizes, spam emails represent over 70% of all emails sent on a daily basis and a recent GFI survey of SMBs found that nearly half of respondents (44%) had suffered a data breach as a direct result of email-borne malware. 84% of those surveyed said the volume of spam in their organisation had either increased (52%) or remained the same (32%) in the past year.
One of the main reasons SMEs are still struggling with the influx is that 48% simply rely on the anti-spam component of their antivirus solution to block spam, rather than employing a dedicated email security solution. GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection combines GFI’s top email security technologies to deliver a spam capture rate greater than 99% with low false positives and multiple antivirus engines, mitigating the risks associated with malware-laden email.
To help SMEs protect their networks and intellectual property from email-based threats, GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection has bolstered its robust anti-spam and anti-phishing capabilities by adding GFI VIPRE and Bitdefender virus scanning engines to its protection capabilities. For heightened protection, administrators may also license additional engines from Kaspersky Lab, McAfee and Norman. By integrating robust virus detection into GFI MailEssentials, IT administrators can now deploy a complete, easy-to-use email security solution, all managed from a single, redesigned and intuitive, web-based dashboard.
Existing GFI MailEssentials customers* will be able to easily upgrade to GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection and enjoy the same reliable spam detection they have come to value and expect, together with the benefit of award-winning antivirus capabilities. Similarly, GFI MailSecurity* customers will be able to upgrade to GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection and avail themselves of top-notch spam filtering in addition to the robust email security they have grown accustomed to.
GFI MailEssentials Unified Protection also provides:
• Flexible and granular user-based attachment and keyword filtering
• Advanced content filtering
• Added email security through Trojan and email exploit detection and HTML sanitation
• Powerful email reporting capabilities
“It is clear that email-borne threats are as dangerous as ever, and although spam is not a new problem, it is one that SMEs still need to adequately address,” said Phil Bousfield, general manager, Infrastructure business unit, at GFI Software.
“Spammers and malware writers are well aware that even the most savvy end-user can be fooled into clicking a link in an email and infecting their computer or entire company network. GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection gives administrators more peace of mind, knowing that far fewer spam and virus-carrying emails will make it to end user mailboxes.”
“SME administrators want solutions that provide robust features and capabilities without requiring heavy management and time commitments,” continued Bousfield. “With GFI MailEssentials UnifiedProtection, they will be getting a powerful, complete, best-in-class email security solution that allows them to spend more time addressing the needs of their end users and less time worrying about them clicking on malicious links contained within their emails.”
To learn more about GFI MailEssentials 2012 UnifiedProtection, visit
http://www.gfi.com/exchange-server-antispam-antivirus or email sales@gfi.com.
* GFI MailEssentials 2012 is also available in Anti-Spam and EmailSecurity editions.
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