The software giant showcased a Windows 7 powered touchscreen turntable in a blog post on Thursday. The touchscreen utilizes emulator software that is designed to work on 70-270 tablets with Windows 7. The multi-touch controller, mouse and software interface are controlled with a GUI for the DJ.
The interface is part of a number of new technologies that DJs and electronic musicians are using to demonstrate their work. Were currently working on the development and implementation of these apps and look forward to sharing more information on this effort as soon as its available, she added.
Chris Allen, a Canadian DJ, says the latest tech is Microsoft helping musicians bridge the gap between nightclubs and a full-on concert experience. Tiesto was really the first to innovate a full sold out arena show back in 2003. To this point, Microsoft, will lead an effort around the use of mobile technologies for education, with a focus on girls and women, Zecher stated.
He performed for over 25,000 people with massive video screens, live vocalists, instrumentals, fireworks: the lot. These days you have artists such as Deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner building impressive Daft Punk-esk light stages specifically for touring.
Allen has appeared alongside the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Markus Schulz, Sander Van Doorn and Gareth Emery and regularly DJs at a number of super-clubs in Toronto and Montreal. He also produces a DJ podcast named BOOM which showcases the latest dance tunes.
There are really some amazing things being done these days by 70-270 electronic musicians. It makes perfect sense though, we are the nerds and geeks of the music industry. The Global Partnership for Girls and Womens Education program is part of the Better Life. Better Future initiative from UNESCO.
He says it will work on laptops, desktops, and tablets, and that everything that worked with Windows 7 will work with the next-generation OS as well. When using existing desktop applications, the interface goes to a very Windows 7-like desktop.
To log in to Windows 8 requires just a swipe up from the mb5-858 bottom of the screen. Applications will be launched from a series of tiles. Included in the the start-up menu tiles is a direct link to a Microsoft Store, which suggests Microsoft will have its own version of an online application store, similar to the Mac App Store.
As for when it will arrive, Sinofsky told the audience that refreshing Windows "every two or three years is good," but that it would not be ready this fall. That would place its launch sometime next year. These ground-level images enhance the user experience of people using Bing Maps and Google Maps to obtain driving directions, and make these search engines' business-listings data more visually attractive.
Microsoft has improved street-level images in Bing's Maps search engine, rendering the view with more continuity when users move up or down a road. While Internet Explorer mb5-858 10 has been redesigned to take advantage of a touch interface for tablets using Windows 8, the Office suite of productivity applications did not get any makeover for the occasion.
"In the past you explored Streetside imagery by navigating between 'bubbles,' or discrete 360 degree views, and moving down the street was accomplished by jumping from bubble to bubble," wrote Microsoft official Chris Pendleton in a blog post.
In addition to this smoother sideways-panning navigation, the mb5-858 Streetside interface now has a strip at the top that shows a map image indicating the block being viewed and a strip at the bottom with information like street names, business listings, bus stops and storefronts.
Without EMC and VMware, we couldn't have achieved our transformation to the cloud and deliver IT-as-a-service. The tight integration of VMware and EMC technologies EVP-101 combined with the expertise and support we get from EMC and VMware professional services have been critical to our adoption of cloud.
We are now able to deliver new IT services to our students, faculty and staff in less than a week compared to three to four months as a result of our cloud transformation." "Our private cloud allows us to meet the needs of the business and add strategic value to the organization," added Lone Star Vice Chancellor and CIO Shah Ardalan.
EMC and VMware cloud computing infrastructure enabled Lone Star to move to a private cloud computing model. Lone Star's environment is more than 90% virtualized using VMware, resulting in a more reliable, agile and efficient environment for students and faculty.
"Our rapid expansion was overwhelming our traditional physical IT infrastructure," said Alander. "With the new equipment, we saved over $600,000 in capital expenditures by virtualizing and consolidating with EMC and VMware technology, and we reduced our energy usage by 66 percent."
With EMC and VMware as the foundation of our private cloud computing infrastructure, we've achieved 'five nines' availability of our critical applications in the cloud. That has translated to essentially zero downtime compared with weekly outages we used to endure.
Prior to deploying a cloud computing infrastructure, Lone Star EVP-101 College System struggled to meet increasing demand for IT services from its faculty, staff and students. Additionally, the college system faced challenges controlling costs and managing its distributed infrastructure, which experienced frequent outages that would often disrupt lessons in the classroom.
Separately, the Forrester Wave Information Security 000-765 and Risk Consulting Services report noted that IBM continues to offer significant value to its clients by delivering a wide spectrum of capabilities and expertise across its various business units.
IBM offers the greatest number of security consulting services. It has a great presence in this market and continues to provide thought leadership and expertise in technical and operation areas of security. Client references pointed to consultant expertise, customer service, and global presence as areas of strength.
"The Forrester Wave : Managed Security Services, Q3 2010" report stated: "security organizations that require global reach, a broad suite of security services, and good threat intelligence from a single vendor should look to IBM to deliver these services."
Recommendations included in The Forrester Wave: Information Security And Risk Consulting Services, Q3 2010" report noted "If you are looking for a single vendor that offers a breadth of capabilities and security technologies and that has a wealth of experience in working security, look to IBM."
Managed Security Services, Q3 2010" report included 11 managed security service providers in the assessment. Forrester Research, Inc. thoroughly evaluated these vendors across 78 criteria, broken down into three main areas: current offering, strategy, and market presence. "
The Forrester Wave: Information Security And Risk Consulting Services, Q3 2010" included 12 information security and risk consulting service providers in the assessment 000-765 and evaluated these vendors across 75 criteria also in three main areas: current offering, strategy and market presence.
Separately, the Forrester Wave Information Security 000-765 and Risk Consulting Services report noted that IBM continues to offer significant value to its clients by delivering a wide spectrum of capabilities and expertise across its various business units.
IBM offers the greatest number of security consulting services. It has a great presence in this market and continues to provide thought leadership and expertise in technical and operation areas of security. Client references pointed to consultant expertise, customer service, and global presence as areas of strength.
"The Forrester Wave : Managed Security Services, Q3 2010" report stated: "security organizations that require global reach, a broad suite of security services, and good threat intelligence from a single vendor should look to IBM to deliver these services."
Recommendations included in The Forrester Wave: Information Security And Risk Consulting Services, Q3 2010" report noted "If you are looking for a single vendor that offers a breadth of capabilities and security technologies and that has a wealth of experience in working security, look to IBM."
Managed Security Services, Q3 2010" report included 11 managed security service providers in the assessment. Forrester Research, Inc. thoroughly evaluated these vendors across 78 criteria, broken down into three main areas: current offering, strategy, and market presence. "
The Forrester Wave: Information Security And Risk Consulting Services, Q3 2010" included 12 information security and risk consulting service providers in the assessment 000-765 and evaluated these vendors across 75 criteria also in three main areas: current offering, strategy and market presence.
The recently revised Exploitability Index rating for security bulletins can help to significantly reduce the need to urgently deploy all security updates. Of the 605 Exploitability Index ratings issued from October 2008 to June 2011, only 5 have been revised. Four of those revisions have involved a reduction in the Exploitability Index rating.
Since July 2010, MSVR has identified and disclosed 109 different 70-599 software vulnerabilities affecting a total of 38 software vendors in a safe and coordinated manner. Adobe is proud of its continued participation in the MAPP program and pleased with the positive feedback weve been getting from MAPP partners.
Software vendors have responded and coordinated on 97 percent of all vulnerabilities reported by MSVR. Microsofts creation of a Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process for our employees last year, and publication of supporting documentation in April 2011, has been very well received by customers as evidenced by their testimonials.
Since the July 2010 MSRC Information Sharing report, Adobes participation in MAPP has grown from providing proof of concept documentation for exploits to providing full detection guidance and examples on virtually all Adobe Reader and Flash Player issues.
We are pleased with the results of our participation in MAPP and value MAPP as a great example of companies working together to share information to help protect our mutual customers. Adobe has provided detection guidance to MAPP partners on 14 security updates since we began participating in the program.
Today, I had the opportunity to discuss the need for education and high-skilled immigration reform when I testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security at a hearing on The Economic Imperative for Immigration Reform.
The essence of my testimony is that while we undoubtedly have 70-599 a jobs problem in this country, closer analysis shows it is also a talent and skills problem. In a world where jobs follow talent, we need to increase the skills of the American workforce if we are to succeed economically.
Its an interesting take on where fashion and clothing meets technology Its an interesting take on where fashion and clothing meets technology and delivers wearable text. In many ways its also an homage as to how we used to communicate on paper and with letters typed using a mechanical keyboard. It turns out that looking to the past can inspire our future directions.
Sure, youre not going to go buy this next week (though I know some people who would) but it allows for a series of what if explorations that help us understand what the benefits are, what the downsides are and what it would take to make something like this.
Thats much easier to do with an actual working object that with 70-576 a conceptual discussion. Its worth remembering that this is precisely the business Microsoft Research is in exploring and pushing boundaries.
Where next for this work I asked Asta? "The future is wide open" she said. Its kicked off a discussion inside and outside of Microsoft and inspired further work in Microsoft Research in this arena. Stay tuned!
Each of these programs has experienced significant progress over the past year from the introduction of a revised Exploitability Index rating system to a 29% increase in MAPP program membership. Microsoft will continue to refine these programs based on customer and industry feedback.
MAPP now has 84 security companies participating worldwide, providing protections for hundreds of millions of customers every month. Full details are available in the report itself download a copy and get the full story on the MSRCs progress since Black Hat 2010. and delivers wearable text. In many ways its also an homage as to how we used to communicate on paper and with letters typed using a mechanical keyboard. It turns out that looking to the past can inspire our future directions.
Sure, youre not going to go buy this next week (though I know some people who would) but it allows for a series of what if explorations that help us understand what the benefits are, what the downsides are and what it would take to make something like this.
Thats much easier to do with an actual working object that with a conceptual discussion. Its worth remembering that this is precisely the business Microsoft Research is in exploring and pushing boundaries.
Where next for this work I asked Asta? "The future is wide open" she said. Its kicked off a discussion inside and outside of Microsoft and inspired further work in Microsoft Research in this arena. Stay tuned!
Each of these programs has experienced significant progress over the past year from the introduction of a revised Exploitability Index rating system to a 29% increase in MAPP program membership. Microsoft will continue to refine these programs based on customer and industry feedback.
MAPP now has 84 security companies participating 70-576 worldwide, providing protections for hundreds of millions of customers every month. Full details are available in the report itself download a copy and get the full story on the MSRCs progress since Black Hat 2010.
A little over a year ago, UK-based Vicon made the technology 70-433available to researchers who study Alzheimers disease and other conditions that affect short-term memory loss the device is known as the Vicon Revue. Next month, in August, Vicon will release the next-generation camera, the Revue 3MP. To get the whole story, read this July 29th post on the Next at Microsoft Blog.
Drag and drop is a user interaction model that we all use on a day to day basis, probably without giving it much thought. We drag files from one folder to another, text from one area of a document to another, and PowerPoint slides from one place in the presentation to another.
HTML5 Drag and Drop, available in IE10 Platform Preview 2, brings this natural, familiar behavior to the Web. Read this July 27th post on the IEBlog for the rest of the story. IE9 momentum on Windows 7 continues. Theres been a lot of interesting discussion regarding browsers and business customers over the last month or so.
One trend that is becoming increasingly clear is that despite its recent release, IE9 is on its way to quickly becoming the browser of choice for businesses. Recent data from Net Applications shows IE9 browser share jumping to 3.5 percent in just three months in commercial accounts.
Revue 3MP to give researchers a clearer picture. Several years ago, Next at Microsoft Blog Editor Steve Clayton visited Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England and heard about SenseCam a project he 70-433 describes as an amazing tool for sufferers of Alzheimer's.
Non-GAAP financial information excludes after-tax benefits 70-523 of approximately $0.40 per diluted share related to stock-based compensation expense, intangible assets amortization expense and highlighted items. Details on these Non-GAAP adjustments and the use of Non-GAAP measures are included later in this press release.
As RFID technology has evolved and improved, RFID-based business solutions have expanded to address a wider variety of use cases. The growth of passive UHF RFID adoption has resulted in additional performance requirements needing to read more tags, in more applications, with greater efficiency.
RFID solutions can now be applied to RF-challenged items such as those with high liquid or metal content, or in situations requiring much higher read performance such as reading tags in the middle of densely packed pallets.
During the second quarter of 2011, the company generated $102 million in operating cash flow from continuing operations. The company also retired $540 million in debt and ended the quarter with total cash* of $6.7 billion.
Government segment sales were $1.3 billion, up 4 percent from the year-ago quarter. GAAP operating earnings were $111 million or 8 percent of sales compared to $117 million or 9 percent of sales in the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP operating earnings were $174 million or 13 percent of sales compared to $158 million or 13 percent of sales in the year-ago quarter.
We are delighted to have Ken join our board of directors. His diverse background and leadership working with government customers on information systems and advanced technology 70-523 uniquely complement Motorola Solutions focus on both government and enterprise markets. We look forward to his insights and leveraging his business expertise on our board.
Businesses look to RFID and industrial fixed RFID mb5-629 reader solutions to achieve near 100 percent shipping, receiving and order accuracy. The high-performance FX9500 industrial fixed reader overcomes these challenges, extending the business value of RFID solutions to new industries and applications.
Motorola Solutions is the market share leader in UHF RFID readers, and our new high-performance FX9500 reader will enable organizations to leverage the increased asset visibility and operational efficiencies of RFID across their supply chains.
With the FX9500 industrial fixed reader, Motorola Solutions addresses these high-performance requirements, allowing industrial enterprise RFID users to secure a four- or eight-port passive UHF reader that meets user cost-performance and application needs.
In addition, the company announced today that its board of directors has authorized the initiation of a regular quarterly dividend of $0.22 per outstanding share of the companys common stock. The first dividend will be payable on Oct. 14, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Sept. 15, 2011.
As part of a broader return of capital plan, the companys board mb5-629 has authorized a share repurchase program of up to $2.0 billion through the end of 2012. The company may repurchase shares from time to time in the open market or in other privately negotiated transactions, subject to market conditions.
The five innovations we've selected 000-SS2 exemplify the very best of this belief in action. We hope they inspire other IBM employees to apply their talents and ingenuity to these and other conservation and environmental challenges.
To encourage holders to tender early, IBM is offering an early exchange premium to holders who validly tender their old notes before 5:00 p.m. EST, on Friday, November 20, 2009 (the early exchange date). The exchange offers expire at 12:00 a.m. EST, on Monday, December 7, 2009 (the expiration date).
We are conducting the exchange offers to retire high coupon long-dated debt in a favorable interest rate environment. The terms and conditions of the exchange offers are described in IBMs exchange circular dated November 6, 2009 (the exchange circular).
The new notes will mature on November 30, 2039 and will bear interest from November 30, 2009, the early settlement date, at a rate per annum of 5.600 percent. The new notes will be unsecured senior obligations of IBM and will rank equally with all of IBMs other unsecured senior indebtedness.
Part of IBM's credo is 'innovation that matters, for our company and for the world,' and that's especially relevant to protecting the environment. IBM is making each exchange offer independently of the other exchange offers, and, except as described in this paragraph, no exchange offer is conditioned upon 000-SS2 completion of any other exchange offer.
Subject to applicable law, IBM has the right in its absolute discretion to waive, modify, extend, amend, terminate or withdraw the exchange offers with respect to each series of old notes and to extend the early exchange date, the expiration date or any related dates for any of the exchange offers.
In the healthcare arena, the software is now being used to make it easier for hospitals, doctors, and patients to keep track of the medical devices 000-M87 implanted in individual patients. For example, an automobile manufacturer using the software can track containers filled with parts from suppliers to their manufacturing plants and ultimately back to container storage facilities.
Implanet, which sells medical implants such as hips and knees, affixes RFID tags to the packaging of medical devices so that before a surgical procedure takes place, a hospital can scan the tag and store information on the implant with the patient's records so the information on the implant can be retrieved if needed in the future.
Clients using IBM's Returnable Container Management capability affix sensors such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to each of their reusable containers. Through the use of both standing and mobile devices that read the tags, all relevant data is captured, including place and date of manufacture, serial number, and other necessary details.
In doing so, they can expect to improve container turnaround time by as 000-M87 much as 20 percent; reduce container loss by between 5 and 15 percent, reduce container inventory by 10 percent; realize a 30 percent savings in container carrying costs; and reduce the need for one time packaging and expedited shipping costs by 80 percent.
The new IBM Analytics Solution Center in Washington, D.C., will draw on the expertise of more than 400 IBM professionals. IBM also plans to add an additional 100 professionals, through retraining or new hiring, as demand grows.
These will include IBM researchers, experts in advanced software platforms, and 000-M86 consultants with deep industry knowledge in areas such as transportation, social services, public safety, customs and border management, revenue management, defense, logistics, healthcare and education.
IBM, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) and MedVirginia developed a first-of-a-kind electronic records exchange system to shave the amount of time to receive medical records from weeks to minutes. this one dedicated to helping federal agencies and other public sector organizations extract actionable insights from their data.
In addition, IBM worked with SSA to build a predictive model using text analytics to help identify initial disability applications that are likely quick allowances and helped reduce the amount of time for a favorable initial disability determination on these applications from months to weeks.
The Washington-based IBM Analytics Solution Center, which specializes in the work of the public sector, is part of IBM's business strategy to expand its business analytics and optimization capabilities and services globally.
IBM has opened five other analytics solution centers - in New York, Dallas, Berlin, Beijing and Tokyo - and expects to retrain or hire as many as 4,000 new analytics consultants 000-M86 and professionals globally as part of these centers.
IBM is providing a framework to help 000-M82 customers centrally manage projects from the cloud, even if they are using third-party or open-source tooling. This brings significant value to customers in terms of cost savings, flexibility, speed, agility and improved governance.
IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud is designed to augment and enhance software development and delivery capabilities, particularly in large enterprises where IT departments handle hundreds of development projects every year. Unlike traditional development environments, developers can log on to IBM Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud and get access to customizable virtual machines in minutes.
This new environment provides compute and storage as a service, IBM Rational Software Delivery Services, WebSphere and Information Management software to help application developers and testers speed the development and delivery of software applications.
To help customers leverage existing investments, these new services support development across heterogeneous environments, including Java, Open Source, and .NET. IBM is also extending its IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing to a private cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers who prefer governance and control of their own cloud environment.
In addition, pre-configured integrations of some of these 000-M82 Rational services are available based on the Jazz framework, which dynamically integrates and synchronizes people, processes and assets associated with software development projects.
With more and more customers treating software as a strategic business asset, the combined value of the new offerings can help them gain the utmost value from their investments in IT across the application lifecycle.
Design professionals in the architecture, engineering and HP0-A13 construction industries will be able to save time, improve collaboration and reduce review cycles using the industrys first web-ready large-format printing solution available today.
The new HP ePrint & Share and HP Designjet T2300 eMultifunction Printer (eMFP) solution allows design teams to easily access, share and print large-format project files online anytime, anywhere. HP also introduced new HP Graphics Solutions Partner Program offerings that come bundled with the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP to help simplify and improve the technical design process.
In September, HP announced a breakthrough in the way design professionals can collaborate and share information through its ePrint & Share platform and the new HP Designjet T2300 eMFP. Today, HP is making this innovative solution available to allow technical design professionals to reduce review cycles and unleash their creativity.
Design professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction HP0-A13 industries will be able to save time, improve collaboration and reduce review cycles using the industrys first web-ready large-format printing solution available today.
The new HP ePrint & Share and HP Designjet T2300 eMultifunction Printer (eMFP) solution allows design teams to easily access, share and print large-format project files online anytime, anywhere. HP also introduced new HP Graphics Solutions Partner Program offerings that come bundled with the HP Designjet T2300 eMFP to help simplify and improve the technical design process.
The three organizations today HP0-A12 announced the results of the campaign, which encouraged young people to showcase their artistic talents and passion for art by submitting PC wallpaper designs and a short essay on what art education means to them.
Throughout the eight-week campaign, which launched Aug. 1, teens submitted more than 2,700 designs and shared their favorites with their social networks through Facebook and Twitter, as well as with their state legislators. The designs were shared more than 300,000 times.
The most-shared designs were then considered by a panel of celebrity and expert judges, including Emmy-winning So You Think You Can Dance costume designer Soyon An and NBCs Community actress Yvette Nicole Brown. HP strongly opposes Proposition 23, which would impair Californias leadership in reducing greenhouse gases.
Five finalists were selected to receive HP Pavilion dv6z notebook PCs with VISION Technology from AMD. The grand prize winner, Kathy Simonetta, will receive a $5,000 grant for her school art program, a $1,000 college scholarship and five HP Pavilion dv6z notebooks for use in her schools art room.
We believe that teens can lead right now on this issue. Its their education being affected by budget-cut decisions. We need their voice to be heard, which is why we were thrilled to partner HP0-A12 with leading technology companies HP and AMD on this campaign.
HPs new foundational set of integrated solutions based on the companys broad portfolio of hardware, software, services and intellectual property offers businesses and governments the tools they need to modernize, transform, secure, optimize and deliver the Instant-On Enterprise.
HP Application Transformation solutions: HP transforms applications and processes designed for another era. HP helps enterprises gain control over aging applications and inflexible processes that challenge innovation and agility by governing their responsiveness and pace of change.
HP Converged Infrastructure solutions: HP breaks through traditional, rigid IT silos with a converged infrastructure specifically engineered to drive out costs and provide the foundation for agile service delivery. Through the integration of server, storage, networking and management resources, HP delivers the data center of the future.
HP Enterprise Security HP0-786 solutions: HP secures the entire IT infrastructure by addressing all aspects of security people, processes, technology and content. HPs portfolio of products and services aligns security to meet ever-changing business and government demands without losing flexibility.
HP Information Optimization solutions: HP helps organizations rethink how information is gathered, stored and used harnessing the power of information and ensuring its integrity and protection while delivering it in the context of the enterprise.
In an Instant-On Enterprise, value is designed, built and delivered in the form of technology-enabled services. Leading enterprises HP0-786 recognize there is no one singular model of delivery that can be optimized to meet all core service needs.
HP today unveiled a new digital signage offering designed to make it simple for businesses to better inform customers while boosting sales and lowering costs. It is recognized by the Academy HP0-782 of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a qualifying festival for the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards.
The low-cost, easy-to-use HP SignagePlayer mp8000s and HP SignagePlayer mp8000r are designed for independent retailers, and other small to midsize businesses that want to deploy full-featured digital signage at a single location or across a small network.
The new HP SignagePlayer mp8000s and HP SignagePlayer mp8000r, featuring Scala? QuickStart software, enable businesses to quickly and affordably deploy full-featured digital signage solutions, said Bob Rosenberry, manager, Visual Solutions, Retail Solutions Global Business Unit, HP. Professional digital signage is now within reach for businesses large and small.
HP SignagePlayer is a new line of affordable digital signage players that are easy to use and simple to deploy. Beyond simple slideshows and video looping, HP SignagePlayer enables sophisticated layouts with images, text, Adobe? Flash animations, RSS feeds and interactive content.
The HP SignagePlayer mp8000s and mp8000r models HP0-782 come pre-installed with Scala QuickStart software, which allows a user to be up and running in minutes. Scala QuickStart also features a simple visual interface for creating, managing and scheduling information on the HP SignagePlayer.(1)
HP Enterprise Services today announced the expansion HP0-781 of Best Shore its global services delivery model by designating six countries as global delivery hubs that will grow to support increasing client demand for cost-efficient, scalable services that effectively meet business needs.
Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia and the Philippines are the designated delivery hubs. These mature HP Best Shore locations operate in time zone-relevant countries and will offer a significant employee base that can deliver various highly scalable services to clients across the globe.
These centers also will offer multiple capabilities in each location, including applications, infrastructure technology and business process outsourcing services. HP Enterprise Services has licensed the Pegasus Solutions RezView NG distribution platform to accelerate its investment in next-generation consumer travel solutions.
Global delivery hubs are designed to improve the client HP0-781 experience by offering access to deep industry and technical expertise that can tailor sophisticated solutions to meet unique client requirements. They also provide more options for cost-efficient services.
The CMMI standard was HP0-765 developed by a coalition of industry, government agencies and the Software Engineering Institute to objectively assess the full range of an organizations software and systems engineering, program management as well as organizational management capabilities. There are five levels of CMMI maturity, with five being the highest.
HP Enterprise Services today named key leaders to its U.S. Public Sector Cybersecurity Practice, bolstering its strategic direction and helping to deliver solutions that meet the complex needs of U.S. government clients. HP U.S. Public Sectors CECE organization uses engineering best practices to maximize productivity, innovation and service delivery to U.S. government clients.
Dr. Tim Gibson will serve as director of Cybersecurity Capability Development. Gibson was formerly program manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where he focused on improving network performance and security, multilevel security solutions for coalition operations and efficiently delivering content to deployed units.
Al Kinney, U.S. Navy Commander (Ret.), will serve as director of Defense Cybersecurity Capabilities. Prior to joining HP, Kinney helped grow a line of cyberwarfare business for the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and managed relationships between the National Security Agency and Navy commands.
In support of our commitment to protect our government clients information HP0-765 and infrastructure, we are strengthening our Cybersecurity Practice and continuing to develop enhanced command and control capabilities.
For enterprise customers, HP offers Managed Print Services (MPS). HP helped United Stationers, a leading North American wholesale distributor of business products, reduce its fleet of printers and copiers from 160 different makes and models to just a few HP models for reduced energy and supplies costs.
Saving money with HP MPS was part of a corporate-wide initiative that United Stationers calls its war on waste, through which it has achieved 30 percent cost reductions. In one year, this enables a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by an amount comparable to up to 386 gallons of gasoline consumption or approximately 38,000 hours of LCD TV viewing.
And, it has up to an estimated 33 percent smaller carbon footprint than virgin plastic in Original HP ink cartridges even when accounting for the impact associated with collecting, transporting and processing used cartridges and plastic bottles.(2)
HPs dedication to manufacturing products with responsible materials has led to the development of: the planets first PVC-free printer,(3) the HP ENVY 100 e-All-in-One; products made with up to 35 percent recycled plastic, like the HP Deskjet 3050 All-in-One; and the ability to recycle additional types of cartridges made with various plastic polymers through HPs industry-leading closed loop cartridge recycling process.
HP is improving the efficiency of its recycling processes. The recycled plastic used in HP ink cartridges produced in 2010 and beyond is estimated to reduce total water used in plastics production by up to 89 percent. If every silver-halide printer system worldwide were replaced with an HP Minilab, the result would be the equivalent of saving the carbon emissions of up to 65,000 cars per year.
We needed to increase performance and efficiency thirtyfold, despite limits HP0-761 on available power and data center space. HPs expertise and technology coupled with our teams experience in large-scale deployments, cloud computing and graphics accelerator technology enabled us to push the frontier of energy and space-efficient supercomputing.
HP enabled Georgia Institute of Technology and its partners, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, to develop the Keeneland Initial Delivery System. Consisting of 120 HP ProLiant SL390s G7 servers and 360 NVIDIA Tesla M2070 accelerators, the Keeneland System delivers performance of more than 64 teraFLOPS on the Linpack benchmarks.
This combination of HP ProLiant servers with NVIDIA processors accelerated computational science and data-intensive applications, while addressing new challenges of energy efficiency. On Linpack, this initial Keeneland System rates at 677 megaFLOPS per watt. The final delivery of a much larger Keeneland System is scheduled for early 2012.
TSUBAME 2.0 is powered by 1,357 HP ProLiant SL390s G7 servers, each with three NVIDIA Tesla M2050 General Purpose Graphics Processing Units, which deliver an eightfold increase in compute HP0-761 power compared to earlier generations.(1) The system achieved a sustained performance of 1.192 petaFLOPS (floating point operations per second) when running the Linpack benchmark on Linux and 1.12 petaFLOPS on Microsoft Windows.
As strategic partner, IBM will provide a range of transformation services that may include the design, management and delivery of front-end customer services, back-office and corporate systems; together with business consulting and technology.
As part of the agreement, IBM and Essex also today 000-SS1 announced the signing of the first two projects, which are the initial stages of the transformation program and will involve the modernization of the Council's back-office function and streamlining of procurement.
Brendon Riley, Chief Executive of IBM UK and Ireland said, "Essex County Council is recognized as one of the most innovative councils in the UK. Drawing on IBM expertise, we will work closely with the Council as it moves towards a more efficient, customer-focused organization that delivers first class front-line services."
IBM has demonstrated its ability to help us deliver our vision of providing the very best quality of service for our residents. Working together we will also be able to keep council tax low and deliver real value for money for Essex residents. This is the most ambitious project that the Council has undertaken, and finding the right partner to help us deliver it is a vitally important step.
Most healthcare systems worldwide are "sick care" models, whose primary objective is to fund treatment when people have health problems, with little emphasis on disease prevention and wellness. Taiwan is known for its technology-driven modernized healthcare system.
However, the aging population in Taiwan and the challenges associated with chronic disease management provide an opportunity for Taiwan to view preventive care as an integral component of the healthcare system.
The IBM collaboratory -- where IBM Researchers co-locate with a university, government, or commercial partner and share skills, assets, and resources to achieve a common research goal -- will bring together expertise in the areas of services, privacy, data management, analytics, and healthcare device management.
Initially, the research will focus on projects that demonstrate and optimize the benefits of connected wellness services in prevention, early diagnosis and management of chronic disease. The project will help not only the citizens of Taiwan, but also create 000-SS1 new technologies and business processes that can be used to help keep people healthier worldwide.
Cloud computing will serve as the foundation for much of the collaboratory's work in areas such as sensor data collection, record sharing, analysis, and diagnostics. The cloud computing model is suited to healthcare applications due to the volume of dynamic and diverse sources of information.
Cloud computing can help Taiwan clinicians and hospitals coordinate and exchange information more efficiently. These flexible networks will be scalable in integrating and sharing services and data, which will help reduce costs.
Analytics will be another main focus of the collaboratory. The shift to wellness-centric healthcare and the increase in available data will provide new opportunities to develop analytical services that can be used to derive actionable insights for healthcare providers, patients and payers.
The researchers will use advanced algorithms to understand the effectiveness of treatment options, improve process efficiencies, and increase the ability to proactively manage human health.
The IBM collaboratory in Taiwan will be fully operational in 2010 and established jointly by the Ministry of Economic Affairs Taiwan and IBM. The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and the Institute for Information Industry (III) will join the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) and IBM in the partnership.
The collaboratory will work also with researchers from several leading institutions in Taiwan including National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University, National Chiao Tung University and Chang Gung University.
Taiwan has made important social transformations 14 years ago with the inception of the national healthcare program for all citizens. Such analytical services will leverage data from various sources, including electronic health records, prescription data, and hospital systems, while maintaining the privacy of individuals.
Now, it is time to infuse new technology perspectives to this transformation to further uncover new opportunities, priorities, and transformation incentives not just as a local service but an ecosystem of services that may become a differentiating industry from Taiwan.
This collaborative research program is aimed at helping Taiwan's services to become more intelligent. Taiwan is excited by the prospect of working with IBM on this transformative research agenda.
Taiwan has a highly-regarded healthcare system with established hospitals and provider networks. By collaborating with IBM Research, Taiwan can leverage this system to create new services and technologies that can be exported worldwide.
While many clients understand the potential benefits EHRs hold for safer, cheaper and more efficient healthcare, several unanswered questions remain.
Most of its clients are 501(c)(3)s not-for-profit, community behavioral health agencies. Over the past nine months LWSI has signed up several new behavioral healthcare providers that are leveraging IBM Global Financing's private technology funding offerings to help them jump-start their EHR implementations.
The Obama Administration through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is offering up billions of dollars in federal spending and incentives to encourage EHR adoption. Lacking is a timeline for reimbursements or a way to precisely demonstrate effective and meaningful use.
We feel that helping our clients connect the dots between, federal grants and loans, charity pricing and IBM Global Financing options stretches their dollars available for LWSI's Essentia solution. Even at the niche level, financing is key.
The result is a financing gap: the time between when a hospital, lab or medical practice must shell out millions of dollars to introduce the system into their process and the time it takes for federal funds to materialize and for practice and hospital administrators to be repaid.
This breach is especially difficult for smaller community hospitals and medical groups, under greater pressure to manage costs. Lavender and Wyatt Systems Inc. is an enterprise software solutions company focused on behavioral health providers.
Customers of electronic healthcare records solutions soon realize that while health IT technology is necessary, it's also expensive," said Richard Dicks, general manager for North America, IBM Global Financing. "Costs have today become a non-technological barrier to health IT adoption. It's a chicken and egg scenario facing medical providers.
Many are waiting for government funding working its way through the system, but need the benefits of the technology today. Technology financing helps speed up implementation in a more cost effective manner.
According to IT analyst firm Ovum, with the addition of Siemens Healthcare, Lavender and Wyatt and Healthcare Management Systems, IBM Global Financing has strengthened its already leading position as financier to health IT vendors in the marketplace today.
Ovum expects more health IT companies to add financing to their go-to-market strategies since it helps customers manage costs and accelerate deployment in advance of the deadlines set by the US Government. Today, IBM provides thousands of health care clients and partners with technology hardware, middleware and services that accompany EHR applications.
IBM Global Financing's strategic financing relationships 000-M78 with market-leading EHR providers, combined with IBM's health care services and software, is helping medical professionals use technology to uncover new ways to reduce errors, spot trends, improve patient care, and gather new insights into how to keep people healthier.
IBM provides a complete set of health care solutions to solve the complex problems facing the industry today with consultation and readiness assessment services, integration, analytics, storage, security and now financing.
IBM Global Financing will now provide financing for Siemens clinical and revenue cycle management applications, including INVISION, MedSeries4 and Soarian. IBM infrastructure and healthcare consulting services can also be financed and packaged as part of the solution.
The combination of Siemens leading healthcare information systems with IBM's transformation services, infrastructure and financing will help health systems plan, implement and effectively adopt these complex solutions.
Siemens Healthcare knows first-hand how important financing has become to helping hospitals, physician practices and specialty clinics bridge the financial gap and match costs to benefits while implementing new solutions under the ARRA's HITECH provision.
It goes without saying that IBM Global Financing 000-M78 is a key part of the funding solutions we are proud to offer our customers. Many of our clients have seen reduced funding from public and private sources, but still understand the need to start implementing solutions today.
Established in 1929, the Sardar Bhiladwala 000-M77 Pardi People's Co-operative Bank's main objective is to help improve the lives of farmers, small traders and artisans. The end-to-end managed services provided by IBM will reduce upfront capital expenditure for the bank allowing it to spend in an operational expenditure model over a 10-year period.
"IBM has had a long history working closely with Discover to provide high quality, highly efficient IT operations. The new agreement provides them with the flexibility to meet the challenges present in the card business today while taking our relationship well into the next decade," said Scott Morin, IBM vice president of Financial Services Sector, Strategic Outsourcing.
The eighty-year-old co-operative bank was on its way to implementing a Core Banking solution and signed up with IBM to manage its IT infrastructure requirements remotely from IBM's Global Management Center in Bangalore.
Neeraj Sharma, Director - Integrated Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia said, "This is a strategic win since it is aligned to IBM's geo-expansion initiative and our focus on helping financial services clients.
The agreement with Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People's Co-operative Bank closely follows IBM's success with other co-operative banks across the country including Madhav Nagrik Sahakari Co-operative Bank in Rajasthan and with the Kurmanchal Nagar Sahkari Bank Ltd. in Nainital in Uttarakhand.
We have seen IBM's track record in addressing unique requirements of banks like us in India. We are delighted with this partnership and have full confidence in the team to help us lead our growth in the days to come.
We believe IBM's technology expertise and focus on delivering cost-efficient solutions will help us achieve our growth strategy and higher levels of customer satisfaction. With businesses across the country sharpening their focus on cost-efficiency in these challenging times, IBM has once again proved its partnership value for small and mid-sized customers.
This model will set a good example for other co-operative banks for evaluating the core banking system with predictable and low expenditure as well as obtaining a high level of technology expertise.
We are excited about this opportunity with Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People's Co-operative Bank to offer managed services that will help them reduce their upfront IT expenditure. The fact that the bank decided to enter into a 10-year long agreement further reiterates the trust clients, big and small, have in IBM's capabilities.
As part of the agreement, IBM will continue providing 000-M77 management and support for some of Discover's most critical IT operations. IBM will make investments in software, processing, and storage technologies that will result in improved operations, efficiency, reporting and compliance.
"Technology plays a key role in all aspects of Discover's business. Through the work performed under this agreement, we expect to further enhance our customer experience while realizing increased efficiencies in our operations," said Glenn Schneider, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Discover Financial Services.
As part of this agreement, IBM will support the integration of Digicable's digital media content delivery and value added services applications with its core business technologies and processes. This integrated approach will enable Digicable to provide superior and personalized service to its subscribers.
More specifically, IBM will allow Digicable to manage its business processes better and help enhance revenue per subscriber by facilitating the launch of Value Added Services such as Video-On-Demand (VOD), Push-VOD, Interactive TV, Internet Service on TV, gaming and telephony. Digicable's digitization initiative will also provide its customers with access to more channels with better picture quality and sound.
As part of the agreement, IBM will provide IT infrastructure services, network support, application maintenance services and security services. IBM will leverage its strength in hardware and software solutions - to assess and help optimize operations for Central/Remote Head Ends and physical/digital assets.
IBM will also implement and manage core applications and 000-M76 services, including business-to-business/business-to-consumer and employee Portals, voucher and credit management systems, Electronic Bill Presentation & Payment (EBPP), Intellectual Property Management (IPM) and ERP.
The business landscape is changing continuously, competition is getting intense and customer demands are increasing exponentially. The partnership with IBM will help us focus on our core business, reduce time-to-market for new services and adapt quickly to meet future market requirements at an optimum cost.
It is hence imperative to differentiate ourselves by constantly evolving new and exciting service offerings to attract and retain customers, ably supported by a partner who understands our business and provides significant value-add.
Mr. Kohli further said, "IBM has a strong track record in the media and entertainment space and we are confident that this agreement will enable us to accelerate growth, while ensuring utmost customer satisfaction."
We believe in leveraging the latent advantages of the cable networks and latest technological innovations to derive new services to meet our customer expectations and facilitate our franchisee partners.
IBM is excited to partner with a progressive and growing company like Digicable. We will help Digicable capitalize on market opportunities efficiently and drive additional revenues by facilitating accelerated launch of new value-added services.
We are confident that our understanding and 000-M76 expertise in M&E industry, coupled with proven capabilities in IT services delivery, will provide Digicable the necessary impetus for future growth.
With a strong focus across all segments of the media and entertainment industry, IBM has the deep business insights and technology know-how to help Digicable solve complex business problems and build a more intelligent enterprise by accelerating the transformation of their business.
The deal with IBM will see alignment of key strategic business and information technology (IT) objectives to ensure greater leverage of technology investments for the exponential growth planned by Digicable.
Under the agreement, IBM and Security First 000-M74 will combine Security Firsts patented cryptographic data-splitting technology with the highly parallelized hardware acceleration capabilities of IBM's wire speed processor technology. Specifically, Security Firsts SPxCore, SPxBitFiler, and SPxConnectTM products will be integrated directly onto IBMs wire speed system on a chip.
The combination of IBMs wire speed processor technology and Security Firsts cryptographic technology can deliver unparalleled cryptographic performance, throughput, and scalability for advanced security and storage applications at full network fabric line rates, said IBM Fellow, Bijan Davari, vice-president, Next Generation Computing Systems and Technology.
This joint development project will unleash the full potential of being able to cost effectively support the explosion of data storage and remove barriers to cloud use. The combined cryptographic security solution from IBM and Security First is expected to be available during the first half of 2012.
Through our combined technologies, Security First and IBM will deliver scalable data security and high availability directly to public and private sector customers that require the highest levels of secure data transmission and storage in the cloud.
IBM's wire speed processor technology is designed to enable advanced throughput and connectivity, along with flexibility and scalability needed to meet the changing demands of workload optimized systems in data centers and across networks.
Security Firsts SPxCore Cryptographic Splitting technology is a new paradigm for securing and making data highly available across networks and distributed storage solutions including public, community, hybrid, and private clouds to address key data assurance needs voiced by both governmental, Department of Defense (DoD), and commercial IT leaders.
SPxCore software has been architected, developed, and documented to meet EAL4+ Common Criteria requirements of the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) program.
It has five Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS 140-2) certifications, has 44 Algorithm Certificates awarded by the National Institute of Science and Technology, and has passed rigorous government and independent testing including numerous types of fuzzer testing.
SPxConnect securely splits each packet of information into multiple secure smaller packets and transmits them across an ultra-secure group of simultaneous connections. Each connection uses a separate uniquely issued certificate, establishing a Distributed Trust Model.
Security First is an emerging industry leader in 000-M74 information assurance including data security, privacy, integrity, and high availability. Because it is woven directly into the fabric of the data, SecureParser protection remains with data for its entire lifetime.
The University of Louisville (UofL) announced today it has worked with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to double its high performance computing power as part of a $1.8 million investment in their supercomputing system. To fund this upgrade UofL received a $1.8 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, a unit of the U.S. Department 000-M73 of Health and Human Services.
The new capacity will enable the University to proceed with advanced research projects such as discovering new approaches for treating pediatric cancer and developing better materials for solar power both of which are at critical development stages.
The updated supercomputer, nicknamed the Cardinal Research Cluster (CRC), was officially 'powered up' this month and will provide researchers at the UofL with much needed computing capacity. As part of today's announcement, IBM also awarded UofL a Shared University Research (SUR) award to help further their efforts.
The initial system, first installed in 2009, was working at 100 percent capacity as researchers tested the limits of the IBM iDataPlex high performance computing cluster. With this smarter computing system that is designed and optimized to meet the University's high capacity needs, researchers can speed up potential medical breakthroughs.
For example, researchers at the UofL James Graham Brown Cancer Center working on cancer treatments for the last 3 years have screened over 200 cancer targets. The enhanced computer will enable an additional focus on pediatric cancers, such as Neuroblastoma and Ewing's Sarcoma.
The supercomputer is also helping UofL researchers at the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research explore new approaches for capturing solar energy. Work is now underway to develop new semiconductor materials that can efficiently capture and store solar energy.
Our researchers and staff have been able to greatly expand innovation in critical areas with the help of the Cardinal Research Cluster. Collaborating with IBM has given the University access to high performing systems that optimally manage our research.
This includes the donation of extra computing systems and gives the university access to IBM engineers who will work closely with the University's information technology staff to get maximum performance from the supercomputer.
The research efforts at the University of Louisville are a prime example of the innovation needed across the United States to advance economic competiveness and improve quality of life for citizens. It's encouraging to see the progress the teams have made on smarter healthcare and energy projects using high performance computing technology from IBM.
The UofL CRC added a new iDataPlex systems to the 000-M73 original cluster and now has a peak speed of more than 40 teraflops (trillion calculations per second), roughly 10,000 to 20,000 times faster than today's average desktop computer.
