Thursday 11 March 2010
Virtualization Intelligence Briefing. Created on: Feb 18, 2010 9:31 AM by Michelle Radlowski – Last Modified: Feb 18, 2010 9:34 AM by Michelle Radlowski. VIB chats with President and COO of Vizioncore Chris Akerberg, about vOptimizer, …
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Microsoft President Stephen Elop says the cloud has created a.
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Join Rex Wang, Oracle’s Vice President of Infrastructure and Management, and Sushil Kumar, Oracle’s Vice President of Business Development, as they discuss directions in cloud computing and the role it can play in your organization.
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Host Gator LLC is a world leading provider of shared, reseller, and dedicated web hosting . Privately held and based in Houston, Texas, the company was founded in 2002 by current President and CEO Brent Oxley, who started the company …
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Tom Fisher, Vice President of Cloud Computing at SuccessFactors, commented: “Our leadership at SuccessFactors is all about continuous improvement, and we’ve doubled down in the current market environment to serve customers even better. …
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Award-winning Tool King website upgrades to Magento Commerce Enterprise Edition DENVER, Colo. –Tool King, a premier Internet tool retailer whose website www.toolking.com was named in the TOP 50 Best of the Web by the industry trade publication Internet Retailer, has upgraded its e-commerce solution with the integration of the Magento Enterprise Edition eCommerce platform.The new Tool King website was designed with custom integration of the Magento Enterprise Edition platform by Denver-based Unleaded Software (www.unleadedsoftware.com), a Magento Commerce Professional Solutions Partner. The new, enhanced Tool King website launched in “After a lot of research we became convinced that the best way to improve our shopping experience and site administration for today and tomorrow was to integrate the Magento e-commerce solution,” said Don Cohen, president of Tool King. “We selected Unleaded Software to customize it with our own unique set of needs because of their Magento expertise and status as a Professional Partner. The upgrade couldn’t have been smoother and the Magento solution has proven to be everything that was promised.”The Magento eCommerce Platform, developed by Varien, is built on open source technology that provides merchants with high levels of flexibility and control over the user experience, content and functionality of their ecommerce store. Its modular architecture, industry-leading features and powerful marketing and merchandising tools have quickly made the Magento eCommerce Platform the fastest-growing ecommerce platform on the market.The Tool King website is a high-availability/high-volume website retail store requiring a platform to manage sales and growth now and into the future. The website features more than 200 top tool brands, with thousands of power tools, cordless tools, air tools and even basic tools, and caters to everyone from professionals in every tool-driven craft to do-it-yourselfers and the occasional handyman. Plus, Tool King not only carries new tools, it also features a full line of Guaranteed Factory Reconditioned tools for up to 75% off of new tool prices.Launched in 1978 with a small retail store in Denver, Colo., Tool King expanded to a chain of six retail locations in Colorado, and then gained national exposure with the addition of three retail outlets in Wisconsin in 1987. Seizing the new opportunity of the emerging Internet, the company launched its first website in 2001, and it met with so much success that the focus changed: in 2004, the firm consolidated all of its retail outlets into one 10,000-foot super store in Lakewood and concentrated its national ambitions on the strength of www.toolking.com. Today that lone super store remains as the foundation of an efficient fulfillment and distribution system based on a single warehouse and a network of drop shippers that powers the company’s e-commerce expansion.In addition to its TOP 50 Best of the Web designation, ToolKing.com has also been recognized as a Top 500 Retailer by Internet Retailer and the Top 28th fastest growing e-commerce company.
To maintain that success and momentum, the management of Tool King recognized the need to upgrade its e-commerce platform and turned to the Magento Enterprise Edition eCommerce solution. Shoppers now have a greater ability to inspect and investigate the tool products they are interested in purchasing, and the selection and check-out procedures have been streamlined to make tool shopping an easy and pleasant experience. In addition, the integration of the Magento solution enables Tool King to greatly reduce its workload to accomplish such common tasks as adding, deleting and upgrading inventory, accounting functions, shipping, returns, and customer service. About MagentoMagento (www.MagentoCommerce.com) is a feature-rich, professional Open Source eCommerce platform solution that offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel. Magento’s intuitive administration interface features powerful marketing tools, a catalog-management engine and is SEO optimized to give merchants the power to create sites that provide an unrivaled and rich online shopping experience for their customers, tailored to their unique business needs. The groundbreaking Magento platform is the fastest growing eCommerce platform on the market with over 1,000,000+ downloads to date. Designed to be completely scalable and backed by an extensive support network, Magento is the ultimate eCommerce solution.About Unleaded Software Unleaded Software, founded in is a Denver-based website design and development firm specializing in delivering experience-driven custom websites. Unleaded became a Magento Commerce Silver Partner in and upgraded its Magento relationship to Professional Solutions Partner in, all part of the firm’s growing specialization in developing e-commerce shopping cart websites. Unleaded Software also provides such website services as content development, Search Engine Optimization, blog integration and writing, content management, video and audio production, and website hosting.
Mediware Information Systems, Inc. announced today that it will acquire Healthcare Automation Inc. and Advantage Reimbursement Inc. (ARI) and continue the company’s market expansion strategy to increase its penetration of the home care solutions market. The two organizations, acquired from a single ownership group, provide software and outsourced reimbursement services to home health providers, specifically home infusion and specialty pharmacies. Terms of the deal include a cash payment of $5.5 million, with an additional cash payment of up to $1.5 million if performance targets are met. Mediware expects to complete the acquisition before December 15.
“The additions of these organizations to Mediware are an exciting expansion of a growth strategy that includes strategic acquisitions, developing new products, and expansion of our existing customer base,” said Thomas Mann, Mediware’s president and chief executive officer. “Adding to the acquisition of HOS just over a year ago, our home infusion customer base will increase to more than 450 facilities.”
Home health products and services became a focus for Mediware last year with the acquisition of Hann’s On Software (HOS) and the Ascend pharmacy management system. These products help ensure safe and efficient drug therapies in small acute care and outpatient hospitals, as well as home infusion providers and specialty pharmacies.
The HAI acquisition expands Mediware’s market penetration by adding complementary pharmacy, home medical equipment, home healthcare and billing capabilities. In addition, advanced mobile technologies document care plans and medications at the time the therapy is administered. HAI also brings remote hosting capabilities that lower the operating costs for these solutions.”Research into the specialty pharmacy market indicates the segment is growing at an impressive 20% annual rate,” continued Mr. Mann. “These types of services are becoming increasingly popular as they allow therapies to be continued on an outpatient basis to lower the overall cost of care. While cost management is always a concern, medication safety remains our industry’s highest priority and Mediware’s substantial medication management experience provides a significant advantage over other vendors in the market.”The ARI acquisition adds an outsourcing business that manages reimbursement and collections throughout the United States to Mediware’s product portfolio. This provides the company with an additional recurring revenue stream as well as a wealth of industry knowledge regarding reimbursement practices and changing regulations. ARI will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mediware.”These are well run businesses, with excellent customer relationships and a proven track record of success,” said Mr. Mann. “I’m very happy that we will retain all employees and look forward to investing in growth for this market to become the top vendor for solutions, service and customer satisfaction.”Key leaders for each business are being retained, including the group’s CEO, Ken Pereira, and other operational leaders. Mr. Pereira will become a Mediware vice president and general manager, leading the Company’s new Alternate Care Solutions group.The acquisitions of HAI and ARI represent the fourth and fifth Mediware acquisitions in 24 months. Mediware’s strategy is to acquire sound businesses with products and services in or adjacent to the company’s core markets. Prior acquisitions include:
Integrated Marketing Solutions provided donor recruitment technologies to blood centers. IMS formed the basis for
Mediware’s Blood Center Technologies product group that provides integrated technology for blood and plasma centers.
Hann’s On Software added to existing pharmacy management capabilities with a robust medication management solution
targeting smaller healthcare organizations. HOS expanded Mediware into home health technology solutions.SciHealth added a powerful business intelligence solution used by more than 100 hospitals. The Insight product, which allowshospitals to create performance managing dashboards, launched a new product group for the company as well as enhances the overall usability ofMediware’s other software systems. Mediware delivers interoperable best of breed software systems that integrate with electronic medical records to improve efficiencies and address safety concerns to enable healthcare organizations to improve care processes while decreasing costs. Core Mediware solutions include blood management technologies for hospitals and blood centers; medication management solutions for hospitals, behavioral health facilities, infusion and specialty pharmacy providers; and business intelligence based performance management solutions for clinical, regulatory and financial aspects of the broader healthcare market. For more information about Mediware products and services, visit our web site at www.mediware.com.
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Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced its plans for enabling enterprises seeking to leverage the on-demand capabilities of Microsoft?s Windows Azure Platform® by allowing them to design, deploy, and manage systems spanning both their data center and the public cloud provided by Microsoft.?Our approach has been one of facilitating seamless integration of internal resources with the publically available infrastructure,? said Kirill Sheynkman, President & CEO of Elastra Corporation. ?Our customers will be able to integrate in-house systems built on either .NET or Java platforms running on HyperV, VMware, and XEN with public clouds from Amazon and Microsoft. Where and how a system is deployed becomes a matter of policy and corporate governance.?Elastra, a Microsoft partner, and a participant in early reviews of Azure technology, followed a declarative model for describing infrastructure Elastra Corporation, the leading provider of application infrastructure automation software, today announced its plans for enabling enterprises seeking to leverage the on-demand capabilities of Microsoft?s Windows Azure Platform® by allowing them to design, deploy, and manage systems spanning both their data center and the public cloud provided by Microsoft. ?Our approach has been one of facilitating seamless integration of internal resources with the publically available infrastructure,? said Kirill Sheynkman, President & CEO of Elastra Corporation. ?Our customers will be able to integrate in-house systems built on either .NET or Java platforms running on HyperV, VMware, and XEN with public clouds from Amazon and Microsoft. Where and how a system is deployed becomes a matter of policy and corporate governance.?Elastra, a Microsoft partner, and a participant in early reviews of Azure technology, followed a declarative model for describing infrastructure capabilities and system requirements, as has Microsoft. Azure?s capabilities will become part of Elastra’s Elastic Modeling Languages, and enable the Elastra Cloud Server to match Microsoft?s software components to the resources provided by the Microsoft platform in the customer?s own data center as well as in the public, Microsoft-based cloud.”The fusion of the Windows Azure Platform with the Elastic Cloud Server enables architects to describe and automate the constraints and configuration dependencies between different data centers and application technologies, such as .NET, Java EE, or scripting languages like PHP,” says Stuart Charlton, CTO of Elastra. “The Elastic Modeling technology shifts the tennis match between development and IT operations into a new collaborative conversation.”Elastra for the Windows Azure Platform is planned as a free release in Q1 2010. Integration with Elastra Cloud Server, now generally available for VMware and Amazon Web Services, is slated for the same timeframe.?Our Enterprise customers have extensive investments in Microsoft infrastructure. So it?s a natural fit for us to expand our support for Microsoft technologies and enable IT to save valuable time and money automating their Microsoft infrastructure and applications using the Elastra Cloud Server,? said Peter Chiu, Director of Product Management at Elastra.
?We are thrilled that the cloud computing capabilities readily being adopted by the non-Microsoft IT groups will be delivered to the Microsoft-based ?silent majority?,? added Sheynkman.About ElastraElastra develops software that enables enterprises to automate modeling, deployment and policy enforcement of their application infrastructure. Our products work in conjunction with provisioning and virtualization solutions to orchestrate the intelligent delivery of IT infrastructure required to run complex applications. Elastra solutions enable enterprise IT organizations to accelerate the delivery of new applications, effectively utilizing internal and virtualized IT resources to help enterprise IT groups deploy applications faster, increase resource utilization, and improve IT governance effectiveness.
For more about Elastra, visit us on the Web at www.elastra.com.
BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) will honor the nation’s truck drivers by hosting events at BNSF intermodal facilities in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; Memphis, Tenn.; Seattle, Wash.; and San Bernardino, Calif. to celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week,More than 3,000 truck drivers who enter these facilities will be greeted by signage, enjoy refreshments and giveaways passed out by BNSF’s truckload sales team.In addition to the events, BNSF has sent celebration kits to 59 of its truckload customers, including J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Inc.; Schneider National, Inc.; Swift Transportation Co., Inc.; U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc.; and Werner Enterprises, Inc.”These events are our way of saying thank you to our trucking company partners and their drivers who, along with railroad employees, are the backbone of ensuring the products American consumers use daily are delivered safely and efficiently,” says George Duggan, BNSF vice president, Domestic Intermodal. “By working together, trucks and trains are providing transportation solutions for companies across the nation.”A subsidiary of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (NYSE: BNI), BNSF Railway Company operates one of the largest North American rail networks, with about 32,000 route miles in 28 states and two Canadian provinces. BNSF is among the world’s top transporters of intermodal traffic, moves more grain than any other American railroad, carries the components of many of the products we depend on daily, and hauls enough low-sulfur coal to generate about ten percent of the electricity produced in the United States. BNSF is an industry leader in Web-enabling a variety of customer transactions
