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Pharmaceutical Industry Set to Emerge as winners in the Healthcare Reform

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:15:00 EDT

Once a powerful profit-machine, big pharma is stumbling ,the threat of further government intervention, drying product pipelines, fierce competition from generic manufacturers, consumer concerns about safety, and false marketing claims is forcing leaders to revisit operations to secure top line Growth. So leaders such as Judith Marquis, Group VP Genzyme, Jeffrey Nye, Chief Medical Officer J&J Pharmaceuticals and James Kirwin VP Global Clinical Operation Wyeth Pharmaceuticals are uniting with over 50 other figureheads at the renowned NGP US Summit next week in Florida to discuss future technology investments to strengthen the industry and improve efficiency to "weather the Healthcare Reform".

Shapes Salon & Day Spa Celebrates Its 30-Year Anniversary

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:00:00 EDT

Shapes invites its customers to celebrate 30 years of success with a special "Year of the Pearl" offer that features 30% off on selected services in its Charlotte Spa, Herndon Spa and Fairfax Spa. This discount is available with a purchase of three microdermabrasion sessions, ultimate spa manicures, circulation mud pedicures, Brazilian bikini waxes, 80-minute hot stone massages, full-head of highlights or luminous pearl shine conditioning treatments. Spa packages expire four months from the date of purchase and hair packages expire six months from date of purchase.

Adaptivity Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Computing Expo

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Adaptivity, the IT transformation company, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), which will take place on November 2 - 4, 2009, Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 1,500 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.

Parents Mean Well But Could Do More Harm

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:45:00 EDT

Parents trying to teach often leave children feeling alone, intimidated and, finally, humiliated.

Simplifying Back Office Processes for Insurance Agents

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:49:00 EDT

Most insurance agents work with multiple insurance companies, the problem with keeping up with each client’s application status is compounded. Doing so requires the insurance agent to invest considerable time navigating to each insurance company’s website portal, logging in, and navigating to pending case status updates. Unfortunately, getting the status updates can be a time- consuming effort. SuranceBay will change it.

Online Marketing and Storytelling Training in the works for SchipulCon’09, October 15-16

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:22:00 EDT

Helping clients and Community members alike grow their organizations through Web marketing, Schipul – The Web Marketing Company has scheduled their interactive marketing conference SchipulCon’09 for October 15 and 16, 2009. The two-day training event will provide attendees with the knowledge and tools needed to accelerate growth by enabling their communities to connect, collaborate and strengthen relationships online.

Rapid Revenue Breakthrough for Scottish Companies

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:15:00 EDT

Abingdon, United Kingdom, 23rd July 2009 - Conduit Partners Limited, the UK's leading specialist in early stage business-building for technology-based companies, today announces that it has completed a successful one-year programme to secure rapid revenue breakthroughs for early-stage businesses in a programme co-funded by participating businesses and Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's enterprise, innovation and investment agency. As a result of its success, Conduit's "Commercial Breakthrough Service" contract has been extended by Scottish Enterprise, with the aim to put at least ten companies per year through the programme.

CMO ‘Very Concerned’ About Obama’s Healthcare Reform Agenda

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EDT

Robert Spiegel, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP), the global science-based healthcare company, says he is “very concerned” that changes to the healthcare system by the Obama administration could affect public health.

Good Data Named “Gold Sponsor” of Cloud Computing Expo 2009 Europe

Tue, 05 May 2009 07:00:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that Good Data, pioneers of Collaborative Analytics on Demand, was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Expo ( http://www.cloudexpo-europe.com/), which will take place on May 18-19, 2009, in Prague, Czech Republic. With an ever-increasing number of companies now buying computing, storage, and networking power as they need it from the cloud, it is hardly surprising that SYS-CON's industry-leading International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is going from strength to strength.

SemBioSys Genetics Inc. Obtains up to $1.5 Million in Funding

Mon, 04 May 2009 07:01:00 EDT

SemBioSys Genetics has announced that it has reached an agreement with AVAC Ltd. for a $1.5 million loan for the development of its Apo AIMilano candidate. AVAC is a private, not-for-profit company that invests in research initiatives and early stage commercial businesses that expand Alberta's value-added industry.

Ulitzer’s Amazing First 30 Days in Public Beta

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:30:00 EDT

Even with these impressive first stats, Ulitzer users for the next 12 to 24 months will only be a fraction of the early adopters of tomorrow's social media tools. Ulitzer offers quality content under a managed environment. Google News keyword alerts are already contaminated with meaningless garbage largely due to its automated nature. Instant access to quality content will get more difficult as this erosion escalates. Sites such as Ulitzer will be the only answer to one-stop access to quality content on any subject.

Ulitzer to Pay 200% AdSense Revenue to Its Authors

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:30:00 EDT

SYS-CON Media announced today that Ulitzer, the long anticipated media website is now available in beta at www.ulitzer.com with more than 1 million original stories, contributed by more than 6,000 authors. Ulitzer.com aims to revolutionize original content delivery on any subject and is designed to become the preferred source of information for readers who used to visit their favorite magazine websites in the past.

SimSTAFF Plays Key Role in Supporting Fidelity Technology Growth

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:44:00 EDT

Patrick Callahan, director of recruiting at SimSTAFF Technical Services, said the firm had already secured a staffing contract with Fidelity Technologies, a Reading, Pennsylvania firm that ranks as one of the nation's largest developers of simulation technology. Additionally, SimSTAFF was able to assist Fidelity Technologies in other ways by identifying sublease space for the company to rent for its satellite office in the Orlando area and by introducing Fidelity executives to the local technology community.

Behavior Management Based on ABA

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:15:00 EDT

Reinforcement is the behavioral consequence which increases the future likelihood of the behavior that it follows. If a stimulus is added to the environment in the reinforcement process, this type of reinforcement is called ‘positive reinforcement'. This stimulus is called ‘reinforcer' (i.e., ‘reward'). In order to get the expected result the reinforcer should immediately follow the target behavior, and should be provided only for the target behavior.

Green LEED Specialists Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary!

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:46:00 EDT

"Restoration Environmental Contractors REC Demolition are announcing our 20th Anniversary tyear of being Green, now LEED qualified specialty contractors, states; Don Bremner President CEO, " We have had great success, REC achieved 94.7% per cent LEED certification, at the Regent Park, the Toronto Revitalization environmental remediation and demolition project, by enforcing the three R's: reduce, re-use, recycle, and we had great results of over 75% success rate at the Queen's University Jock Harty Demolition project with PCL Constructors in Kingston. We are LEED GREEN"

Intergralis to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference 2009

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:15:00 EDT

Eric Greenberg, VP of Security & Risk Solutions at Integralis, will deliver the presentation, Top Five Threats Virtualization Brings to an IT Environment, at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. In the rush to gain cost benefits from virtualization, companies are inadvertently increasing their security risks. Virtual networks are "invisible" - they are in a constant state of flux, and often cannot be secured with a "traditional" approach to IT security. This session will detail the top 5 threats virtualization brings to an IT environment and provide best practice recommendations on how to mitigate those risks.

OpenSpan to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference 2009

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:30:00 EDT

Francis Carden, founder of OpenSpan, will deliver the presentation, Application Integration in a Virtualized World, at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. As virtualization graduates from hype to adoption, a growing number of enterprises are now realizing a difficult challenge: integrating virtualized applications with other applications businesses use on a daily basis. Applications that were difficult to integrate before, including older legacy and desktop-based applications, are now nearly impossible to integrate with virtualized applications. Even copy-and-paste becomes troublesome in a virtualized world.

Desktone to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference 2009

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:15:00 EDT

Jeff Fisher, Sr. Director of Strategic Development at Desktone, will deliver the presentation, Cloud-Hosted Desktops: The Smart, Low-Risk Way to Enter the Cloud, at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. When people talk about cloud computing in the enterprise, they are primarily referring to IT virtualizing server workloads and moving them to the cloud, since in most cases, those applications can be accessed over a network from a service provider’s data center as easily as they can from an enterprise’s own data center.

Aria Systems Named “Bronze Sponsor” of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:15:00 EDT

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading provider of On-Demand Billing and Customer Lifecycle Management Solutions Aria Systems was named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/), which will take place on March 30-April 1, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,200 developers, engineers, architects, IT managers, and hardware and software professionals of every stripe.

SOA Impact Now: IBM Opens Registrations for Its Smart SOA Conference

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:30:00 EDT

IBM has secured the exciting Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino for Impact 2009. You can arrange your accommodations on line as part of the registration process. Please be advised that conference hotel accommodation is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. All conference sessions will be held at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino.

Yacht Charter Croatia Magnum Nautica News

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:00:00 EDT

Luxury Yacht Charter Croatia Company Magnum Nautica has announced the latest addition to the fleet, an Azimut Jumbo 100, which currently is the largest luxury charter yacht sailing Croatia !

IBM’s Kraenzel to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo 2009

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:15:00 EDT

Carl Kraenzel, CTO of IBM’s End User Services and Distinguished Engineer, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. The world of classic desktops is giving way to radical new model, where the end user's OS and applications are virtualized and hosted in the cloud. This can drive powerful cost reductions where deft execution can bring swift ROI. Moreover, this model is part of becoming a mobile enterprise, enabling user free seating and mobile access to desktop applications.

Winsert Installed Altor VF to Monitor Virtual Machines

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:15:00 EDT

Altor Networks has announced that Winsert has selected the Altor VF virtual firewall to secure its virtual environment and mitigate an attack before it could hit their network. After installing Altor VF, Winsert was able to quickly secure its virtual machines (VMs); and for the first time had real time visibility and rule-based control of packet flow in and out of each VM. Winsert, the leading developer and tester of alloy solutions, was using physical servers to support all of their IT applications including Exchange, DNS, file backup, SQL database and an ERP system The company moved to a virtualized environment to achieve high availability and protect against catastrophic failure. “After moving our production applications to a virtualized environment we realized that we lacked security; I had no visibility into what was going on between VMs and a virtual attack could take down our network,” said Vincenzo Speziale, Director of Information Technology at Winsert. “We sought the same level of security for our virtual environment that we had with our physical network.”

Fort Worth Chooses Arrivos Software for Employees' Retirement Fund

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:45:00 EDT

Tegrit Technologies is pleased to announce that it has been chosen to implement its Arrivos pension administration system for the City of Fort Worth (TX) Employees' Retirement Fund (FWERF). Based in Livonia, MI, Tegrit Technologies will help FWERF manage and maintain its retirement program for over 9,000 members. Tegrit Technologies is a division of Tegrit Financial Group, a New York firm that develops management and financial solutions for the public sector.

ROBOBAK Completes MSPAlliance Vendor Accreditation Program

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EDT

ROBOBAK has announced that it has received accreditation under the MSPAlliance's (MSPA) Vendor Accreditation Program (VAP). VAP is specifically designed by managed service providers (MSPs) as a benchmark for vendors who sell to the MSP community. Vendors who bear the VAP seal have shown they abide by the highest principles of quality in areas such as financial stability, positive channel practices, product research and development, and MSP customer satisfaction.

National Center for Genome Resources Chooses Kognitio WX2

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:30:00 EDT

Kognitio has announced that the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) has deployed Kognitio’s WX2 purpose-built database to handle the analytical processing of multiple terabytes of research data in order to improve human health and crop improvement through genome sequencing and analysis.

Comodo Shows Off Protection Landscape at RSA Conference 2009

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:15:00 EDT

Comodo is distributing free conference expo passes for the RSA Conference 2009. Comodo has chosen to exhibit its Protection Landscape during the industry's IT security event.

Sybase Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit 2009

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:00:00 EST

SYS-CON Events announced today that the largest enterprise software and services company Sybase was named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit (co-located with AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo) which will take place on June 22, 2009 in New York City. Register Now - Early Bird iPhone Plus Bootcamp iPhone Developer Summit - June New York City.

ProjectLocker Announces Free Hosting

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:15:00 EST

ProjectLocker now offers a free alternative to it's traditional paid service for hosted private Subversion, Git, and Trac repositories. Instead of buying more space or users, customers now have the option to earn additional resources through referrals as ProjectLocker Free customers.

IBM’s Fritz to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo 2009

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:15:00 EST

Phil Fritz, Manager of Tivoli Strategy and Product Management for IBM, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. So you've virtualized your environment, where are the savings? How do you deploy new services to a virtualized infrastructure? How do you achieve the efficiencies of a cloud model? As the industry leader in Service Management, IBM Tivoli offers newly announced solutions and product enhancements that address these critical challenges.

ComponentOne to Present at SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit in New York

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:15:00 EST

Todd Schick, Director of Technology and Business Development at ComponentOne, will deliver the presentation " Creating Native-Looking Applications for the iPhone with ASP.NET" at SYS-CON's iPhone Developer Summit 2009 East (co-located with AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo) in New York City this coming June 22, 2009. For ASP.NET developers, creating Web applications which exploit and conform to the advanced interface design of the iPhone requires familiarity with new standards and technologies.

Virtual Computer to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference Europe 2009

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:30:00 EST

Richard Cassidy, Manager of Global Systems Engineering at Virtual Computer, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 6th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Prague this coming May 18-19, 2009. Session Description: While server virtualization appears to have gone mainstream, the case for desktop virtualization is often less clear. However, the potential opportunity is significant with the number of client devices far exceeding the number of servers. Primary reasons why organizations will embrace desktop virtualization include: improved desktop security, simplified management and reduced management costs.

Citihub to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference Europe 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:45:00 EST

Richard Croucher, Associate Partner for Citihub, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 6th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Prague this coming May 18-19, 2009. As we host multiple Operating system guests onto a physical server infrastructure, the allocation of I/O capabilities to each guest becomes a constraint. I/O virtualization is a way of retaining flexibility whilst minimizing over configuring the physical I/O hardware.

Emergence Capital to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:00:00 EST

Matt Holleran, Venture Partner at Emergence Capital, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. The cloud has emerged as a disruptive force, something venture capitalists live for. SaaS pioneers, like Salesforce.com and NetSuite, broke through to customers with their innovative and flexible solutions that offered rapid ROI. Today, the platform-as-a-service trend adds fuel to the fire, as new companies are able to get to market quickly, leveraging one of the many powerful platforms, including Amazon EC2, Google

The 451 Group to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:30:00 EST

William Fellows, Principal Analyst for The 451 Group, will be presenting at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic this coming May 18-19 2009. What is the state of play? Adoption of public and internal clouds - findings from last three survey results from March 2008 to present. Green tape and Red tape - drivers and inhibitors. What are the adoption experiences, what's working and not and how effective are vendors in meeting needs. Recommendations for users and vendors.

David Snead to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:30:00 EST

David Snead will be presenting at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic this coming May 18-19 2009. Deploying cloud resources requires a different legal analysis than using, or selling, traditional Internet infrastructure services. This session will focus on the interconnected nature, but nationless state, of cloud computing. Delegates will come away with: Five legal theories that will minimize risk regardless of the nation in which you live; a legal

Revevol Founder to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:15:00 EST

Louis Naugès, Founder and President for Revevol, will be presenting at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic this coming May 18-19 2009. Medium sized and large organizations are moving, step by step, from an internal infrastructure and classical software environment towards a Cloud infrastructure + SaaS usages. Based on real European experiences, this session will present a practical, successful and innovative approach to this "Tsunami" of change.

Christoph Reich to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo Europe 2009

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:15:00 EST

Christoph Reich, Head of IT at Hochschule Furtwangen University, will be presenting at SYS-CON's International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo Europe in Prague, Czech Republic this coming May 18-19 2009. To harness the potentials of Cloud Computing to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), the university establishes a new Cloud Computing project, called Cloud Infrastructure and Application (CloudIA). The CloudIA project is a market-oriented infrastructure that leverages different VM technologies and supports Service-Level Agreement (SLA) as PaaS and IaaS models. Several unique offerings of CloudIA are overbooking of physical

Ixia Launches VoIP Testing

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:30:00 EST

Ixia has announced the next generation in residential and business VoIP testing. With its ultra-high performance, IxLoad Voice matches the capacity of modern media gateways with an 1 million SIP- and RTP-based endpoints per chassis – five times the capacity of its nearest competing product.

IBM's Clod Barrera to Present at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:45:00 EST

Clod Barrera, the Chief Technical Strategist for IBM System Storage, will be presenting “New Storage Solutions for Cloud Computing” at SYS-CON's 2nd International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Cloud Computing requires resources, including the underlying information infrastructure, to be transparently scalable and always available.