Information Technology

Celebrus Advances Customer Data Platform

  • Latest update consolidates Celebrus as enterprise CDP of choice for banking and insurance sectors
  • Integration with Adobe Experience Cloud augments leading digital marketing platform with streaming customer data
  • New Audience Segmentation feature enables advanced targeting of individuals even when they have left a site or app
  • Latest connector supports creation of Custom Audiences in Google and Facebook
  • Hadoop capabilities extended with enhanced support for Hive open-source data warehouse

Sunbury-on-Thames, 19th April 2018: D4t4 Solutions Plc has announced general availability for the latest release of its leading Cele

Microsoft Research Reveals Digital Culture’s Key Role in Irish Organizations’ Competitiveness

Dublin – 17th April 2018: Irish organizations who embrace digital culture will enjoy a significant competitive advantage, according to new research from Microsoft Ireland. The research reveals Irish organizations with a strong digital culture are poised to leapfrog the less well-equipped competition as 99% of their employees experience average to high productivity and 98% experience average to high innovation.

Microsoft Ireland’s research shows:

LookingGlass Cyber Solutions Launches IRD-100™ a Fully-Programmable Stealth Security Appliance

Reston, VA – April 17, 2018 – LookingGlass™ Cyber Solutions, a leader in threat intelligence-driven security, has announced the general availability of the LookingGlass IRD-100 (Intelligence Response and Deception) security appliance. The IRD-100 is purposefully-built and optimized to change the digital battlefield by actively disrupting adversary activities and forcing them to overcome a deeper level of visibility and control.

KALEAO Introduces New Version of its Flagship KMAX

CHARLOTTE, NC – April 17, 2018 – KALEAO, the technologically innovative server solutions company, today announced the introduction of KMAX-EP, the newest version of KALEAO’s flagship solution for the server infrastructure market. KMAX-EP builds on the market leading scalability and cost benefits of KALEAO’s initial KMAX offering, now known as KMAX-HD, which is optimized for hyperscale deployment. KMAX-EP offers the total cost of ownership advantages of a hyperconverged solution further enabling the digital transformation of enterprise markets.

Openwave Mobility Launches Stratum Cloud Data Manager - 5G NFV Telco Cloud Database

REDWOOD CITY, Calif - April 4, 2018 - Openwave Mobility today announced the launch of Stratum - Cloud Data Manager, a 5G telco cloud database which enables mobile operators to securely store and access data from virtualized applications. As mobile operators race to launch 5G services, they are faced with ‘stateless’ clouds - services that do not store data from one session to the next but instead rely on common external data management.

A Double Win for Thoughtonomy: Recognized as a Leader in Everest Group RPA PEAK Matrix and FStech Award Winners

Thoughtonomy, the Intelligent Automation Company, has been recognized as a Leader in Everest Group’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) – Technology Vendor landscape with Products PEAK Matrix™ Assessment 2018. On the same day, Thoughtonomy also received FStech’s “Cloud Computing Innovation of the Year” Award.

“The combination of being acknowledged as a leader in Everest Group’s RPA PEAK Matrix, and receiving the Cloud Computing Innovation of the Year Award cements Thoughtonomy’s position as a recognized industry innovator and automation market leader, providing award-winning AI-enabled RPA,” said Dean Chapman, Thoughtonomy’s Chief Commercial Officer.

Macro-less Word Document Attacks on the Rise and Zero Day Malware Variants Jump 167 Percent

28 March 2018 - Total malware attacks are up by 33 percent and cyber criminals are increasingly leveraging Microsoft Office documents to trick victims and deliver malicious payloads, according to the latest Internet Security Report from WatchGuard Technologies, based on global threat intelligence data from nearly 40,000 Firebox appliances. WatchGuard has also launched a new Threat Landscape data visualisation tool, giving public access to daily updates about the most prevalent computer and network security threats affecting SMBs and distributed enterprises.

Redgate enhances DevOps offering with major SQL Server monitoring upgrade

Cambridge UK, Tuesday, 27 March, 2018 - Redgate Software, the leading Microsoft SQL Server tools vendor, has taken another step forward in its quest to make database DevOps easier to adopt. Its proactive monitoring tool, SQL Monitor, now fully integrates with the deployment tools in Redgate’s portfolio, to provide an at-a-glance view of exactly what change was deployed and when.

Alongside significant improvements in the way the tool manages large environments, and the performance diagnostics it delivers, it makes the tool an extremely powerful monitoring solution for any SQL Server estate of any size.

Digital Transformation and Cyber Threats Drive Record $31 Billion M&A Deal Valuations in IT Services

London, 26 March 2018 - In its latest analysis of global Mergers & Acquisitions activity in the Enterprise Software and IT Services sectors, Hampleton Partners charts how the digital transformation of every business, from automotive through to healthcare, is driving record deal valuations in these sectors as companies incorporate disruptive technologies into their business models and shift to the cloud, all whilst having to secure themselves against cyber threats.

IT services’ largest deal was in the growing online payments sector, with Worldpay’s acquisition by Vantiv for $10.4 billion, valued at a sales multiple of 1.9x and an EBITDA multiple of 18.6x.