Top Microsoft Investors Lobby for Gates to Step Down
Three of the top 20 Microsoft Corp. investors want Bill Gates to step down as chairman lest he hold back the company from the yet-to-be-named new CEO, according to a report by Reuters citing persons familiar with the matter. The investors, who own 5 percent stake combined, are lobbying the board Microsoft,…
Radware Joins HP’s Partnership Program Furthering its SDN Strategy
Release date- 01102013 – MAHWAH, N.J. – Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced that it has partnered with HP, a recognized pioneer in software defined networking, to help accelerate its product development in order to…
gUnify Signs Agreement to Distribute Unified Communications for Gmail …
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — gUnify, a leading provider of Unified Communications (UC) services for the BroadWorks platform, today announced it has signed an agreement to distribute its connector for Google Gmail and Salesforce.com applications through BroadSoft Marketplace. These applications now become part of an ecosystem where service The…
Cisco: We’re Moving from a Web Economy to an Application Economy
Cisco CEO John Chambers delivered a keynote address at the Interop NY conference today, providing a historical look back at networking and a forecast on what is to come. Chambers is no stranger to making big pronouncements at Interop conferences. At the Las Vegas Interop in 2006, Chambers boldly declared "It’s…
What’s the best way to make Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms …
What is the one tip you would you give the owner of a small business just getting started on social media? CAROL OSTROW: Be loud and be proud. Your message on social media appears and then in a flashit disappears. So you can be bold. Select one platform at a…
Research: trends in the data centre
For the last two months Computing has conducted an in-depth research programme into trends in the world of data centres, covering hardware, virtualisation, software licensing, outsourcing and a host of other topics. Unlike other subjects that we have tackled recently mobility and big data among them on the face of…
Collaboration software company Wrike raises $10M
Project management and collaboration software company Wrike has landed $10 million in Series A funding, it was announced on Tuesday. The new money came from Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), the venture arm of Bain Capital. Founded in 2006, the company was bootstrapped until it raised $1 million in private equity financing The reason…
Hansjoerg Wagner to lead Juniper Networks APAC
Networking products vendor, Juniper Networks, has appointed Hansjoerg Wagner to the role of Asia-Pacific (APAC) senior vice-president in which he will lead the company’s business activities for the region. This will include responsibility for revenue growth, customer engagement, strategic planning, and sales development, training and enablement. Wagner joins Juniper with…
Atlassian Unveils JIRA Service Desk
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Atlassian, a leading provider of collaboration software for teams, today announced the availability of JIRA Service Desk – a modern and flexible service desk experience to boost IT team efficiency and streamline end user requests and engagement. JIRA Service Desk integrates directly with JIRA, the…
Unified communications: leading the cloud revolution
The term unified communication (UC) is a popular subject that has been floating around the workplace for some time.but is it really an essential component for businesses today? Do employees, or businesses for that matter, really understand the pros and cons? The problem with the current workforce is that…