Daegu Health College uses IBM MobileFirst to Support Students

Daegu Health College, a health training college in Daegu, South Korea, is using IBM MobileFirst tools to design and deploy mobile apps to meet the mobile lifestyles of its students. It is using the MobileFirst platform to provide students with quick, reliable, and secure access to academic resources to improve the campus community experience. More

IBM Announces New Security for iOS Enterprise Apps

As part of its MobileFirst initiative, IBM has announced specific security software to help organizations reduce the security risk to iOS enterprise apps. Users will be able to build security testing into the initial design of mobile apps so vulnerabilities can be detected early in the development process, before deployment. More

IBM, AT&T Expand App Development Support as Part of MobileFirst

IBM and AT&T Inc. have announced an expanded relationship to support mobile software app developers with powerful new tools to create and deploy next generation mobile apps as part of the MobileFirst initiative. These secure, high-quality apps will include advanced features such as speech recognition and mobile payment capabilities that will benefit users. AT&T has been expanding its network capabilities and increasing access to research from AT&T Labs across multiple mobile development platforms, including IBM Worklight. More

VCE Vblock Demand Hits Billion Dollar Run Rate Three Years After Launch

EMC and Cisco have announced that demand for their VCE joint venture’s products and services has surpassed the $1 billion annual run rate, making VCE one of the fastest-growing companies in the IT industry, and that VCE has shopped its 1,000^th Vblock slightly more than three years since the joint venture’s inception. More

HP Announces Programs for Partners to Accelerate Cloud Services Delivery

HP has announced two new HP Cloud Builder programs that enable partners to leverage HP Cloud Services, the company’s public cloud, to expand their cloud practices and generate new revenue opportunities. HP also introduced three new “as-a-service” offerings from HP Cloud Services providing customers with faster time-to-value and simplified cloud deployment. More

HP Upgrades Converged Infrastructure Portfolio

HP has announced a major upgrade to the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. It unveiled new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged Storage, and HP Networking solutions, as well as HP Services to accelerate ROI and enable customers to refocus resources from operations to innovation at its annual Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas. More

HP Announces Programs, Business Models, to Simplify Partner Programs

HP announced programs an business models designed to simplify partner programs, create more predictable performance rewards, and provide innovative tools to deliver consistency in partner engagements at its Global Partners Conference 2013. In 2013 HP will invest approximately $1.5 billion worldwide in channel programs and IT initiatives to reward performance, drive demand, and simplify partnership engagement. It will continue to improve the HP PartnerOne program and deliver innovations in enterprise technology to partners, including a new cloud test environment. More

NetApp to Speak at Morgan Stanley Conference

NetApp President and CEO Tom Georgens will participate in a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on February 25 at 8:45 a.m. PT. A live audio Webcast of the presentation will be available on the NetApp site and will be archived until March 4. More

Chrysler Group Visionary, Pioneering Genomics Researcher, to Speak at GPU Conference

NVIDIA has announced the lineup of world-class keynote speakers for the fourth-annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, March 18-21. Erez Lieberman Aiden will discuss his work sequencing the human genome in 3D and how that capability provides insights into gene behavior and fundamental biological processes. Ralph V. Gilles, Senior VP of Product Design, President, and CEO of SRT (Street and Racing Technology) Brand and Motorsports at Chrysler Group LLC will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the companies most innovative products. And NVIDIA CEO and Co-Founder Jen-Hsun Huang will discuss the profound, growing impact of GPU technology on science, industry, media, and entertainment. More

SAP Announces Sybase IQ Big Data Analytics Software Update 

SAP AG has announced availability of SAP Sybase IQ 16 software, a critical component of the SAP Real-Time Data Platform. A next-generation, disk-base column store analytics server, SAP Sybase IQ delivers speed and power for extreme-scale enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics with affordability and efficiency. The latest version extends the logical data warehouse to allow users to exploit Big Data to achieve greater insights. More