FreeBalance Shares GRP Expertise at Regional Forum of Government Leaders in Argentina

Forum to explore technology-enabled State transformation 

Ottawa, Canada (21 September 2011) – FreeBalance, a For Profit Social Enterprise (FOPSE) software company that helps governments around the world to leverage robust 

Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth, is pleased to announce attendance at the Regional Forum of Leaders of Government. This event will be held at the Buenos Aires Panamericano Hotel & Resort, Argentina, 21 September 2011.

Knowledge sharing is the key objective for the second annual Regional Forum of Government Leaders. Information technology professionals, public finance practitioners, and government leaders will explore how the State is transformed and modernized through technology. Session topics at the forum include: Social Model for the Digital Age in Latin America; Knowledge Society, Citizen Inclusion, Public Policy and Infrastructure; and Case Management: The Digital Inclusion of Citizens of the City of Buenos Aires. The keynote address will be delivered by Alberto Eduardo Thill, Undersecretary of Technology Management for the Secretariat of Cabinet Ministers, Argentina.

"Technology like open data is enabling governments to rapidly improve governance through transparency," said Manuel Pietra, President & CEO at FreeBalance. "FreeBalance is pleased to have the opportunity to participate at the Regional Forum of Government Leaders to share our experience in transforming governments by automating the entire budget cycle and providing methods for digital inclusion."

FreeBalance Accountability Suite Version 7 is a modern pure web-based platform that has been optimized for rapid government deployment, operational effectiveness. The FreeBalance software has been designed for the requirements of Latin American governments. FreeBalance offers flexible deployment options, service oriented architecture facilitating integration with government information systems. The FreeBalance Government Resource Planning solution covers the entire budget cycle including financial and human resources transparency to improve governance and trust.

FreeBalance solutions are active in 19 countries managing more than a quarter trillion ($US) in annual budgets worldwide. More than 70,000 users around the world use FreeBalance software to manage a global civil service workforce of 1,500,000.

About FreeBalance
FreeBalance helps governments around the world leverage robust Government Resource Planning (GRP) technology to accelerate country growth. FreeBalance software solutions for public financial and human resource management support reform and modernization to improve governance, transparency and accountability. Good governance is required to improve development results. For more information, visitwww.freebalance.com.

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FreeBalance Media Contact:
James Elrick
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CA Technologies Named a Component of Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

CA Technologies Named a Component of Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes

ISLANDIA, N.Y., September 12, 2011 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it has been named as a component of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) World Index and North America Index.

“We are very pleased and honored to be recognized as a top sustainability company by the DJSI,” said Cynthia Curtis, vice president and chief sustainability officer, CA Technologies. “As a global company, we recognize the importance of sustainability not only as an integral part of the software solutions we provide our customers, but also as a way to effectively run our own operations. Embracing sustainability in everything we do, we believe is just good business.”

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes track the financial performance of companies across all industries that outperform their peers in numerous sustainability metrics. The DJSI World Index represents the top 10 percent of the largest 2,500 companies in the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market Index, and the DJSI North America index represents the top 20 percent of the largest 600 North American companies.

CA Technologies is one of 41 companies added this year to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), while 23 firms were deleted. In total, there are now 342 components in the index. CA Technologies also is one of 20 companies named to the North American Index while 12 companies were deleted. The index will now have 143 components. All changes will become effective with the open of the stock markets on September 19, 2011.

In announcing the results of the DJSI annual review, Michael A. Petronella, president of President, Dow Jones Indexes said, “The DJSI have become the gold standard in recognizing the world's corporate sustainability leaders. These indexes have become an invaluable market tool for those seeking to support companies that are committed to creating and adopting sustainable business practices.”

To help meet its environmental goals, CA Technologies utilizes its own innovative CA ecoSoftware solution for tracking, managing and reporting on its sustainability program. Additional information on the progress the company has made in reducing its environmental footprint, providing solutions for customers and partners to monitor and manage corporate sustainability, greening operational processes and efficiencies, and supporting community involvement can be found in the company’s 2011 Sustainability Report titled “What Moves Us.”

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

Xerox CiPress, World’s Only High-Speed Waterless Inkjet System, Opens up New Revenue Streams with Lucrative, High-Volume Pages

September 09, 2011

Xerox CiPress, World’s Only High-Speed Waterless Inkjet System, Opens up New Revenue Streams with Lucrative, High-Volume Pages

Canadian scientists and engineers develop inks for new waterless inkjet system
TORONTO, ON, -- Xerox CiPress™ 500 Production Inkjet System, the world’s only high-speed waterless inkjet device, is making its North American debut at Graph Expo 2011. The supercharged system has earned high praise from a test customer, who calls it a “revolutionary, industry-changing solution.”
 
Printing 500 feet or 2,180 full-colour pages per minute, the twin-engine device from Xerox Corporation (NYSE:XRX) efficiently creates personalized marketing, transpromo and publishing pieces.
 
The inkjet system was tested by tested by dmh Marketing Partners, a direct-mail company that creates more than 800 million pieces annually.  By using the Xerox CiPress 500, dmh achieved consistent quality from page to page, spending less time on recalibrating the printing press and more time maximizing profitable revenue opportunities.
 
“We are constantly looking for cutting edge technology to drive the manufacturing process and we believe CiPress 500 is the best technology for high-volume production,” said Randy Seberg, chief technology officer, dmh Marketing Partners.
 
Water-free Technology 
Building from its patented solid ink technology, Xerox CiPress users can print jobs on low-cost, plain paper without ink soaking through.  This, together with self-monitoring and auto-correcting production controls, result in a workhorse device reliable enough to print tens of millions of pages every month. Xerox’s FreeFlow® Print Server enhances productivity by handling complex variable jobs without sacrificing print speed.
 
A team of scientists and engineers from the Xerox Research Centre of Canada, in Mississauga, and the Xerox Wilsonville,  Ore., laboratory designed and developed the novel inks and ink components used in the Xerox CiPress.  The materials innovation efforts have resulted in a waterless ink design with vibrant new colorants that enables the Xerox CiPress’s high speed printing and outstanding image quality.
 
“The predictability and consistency is very high – the first sheet looks the same as sheet 500,000, which I could never say of an offset press,” added Seberg.
 
Drive More Jobs, Reduce Costs with Xerox’s IntegratedPlus
Printers can be even more productive and efficient with Xerox’s IntegratedPlus – a new program that takes advantage of the open standards platform of Xerox FreeFlow Print Server and various industry-leading partner software solutions. 
 
The first such offering - Xerox GMC IntegratedPlus - uses custom designed software for the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server and CiPress 500 – delivering an extra boost of productivity.  The results: consistent quality, two-way data communication, reduced labour costs and fewer opportunities for errors in a print run – all of which drive volume and revenue growth.
 
“As the demand for colour pages continues to grow, inkjet devices such as the Xerox CiPress 500 become a strategic installation – positioning printers to capture more profitable jobs and produce them in the most productive, economic  way,” said Eric Armour, president, Graphic Communications Business Group, Xerox Corporation.   
 
Xerox Displays Single Engine Duplex at Graph Expo
At Graph Expo, Xerox will preview the single engine duplex configuration of the CiPress 500. Built in response to customers seeking a lower entry point, the system features all of the same benefits of the twin engine duplex and can be upgraded. 
Pricing and Availability
The list price for Xerox CiPress 500 Production Inkjet System, including the Xerox FreeFlow Print Server, is $3.8 million for the base twin-engine duplex.  Order taking begins immediately with installs slated for later this year. 
 
About Xerox
Xerox Corporation is a $22 billion leading global enterprise for business process and document management. Through its broad portfolio of technology and services, Xerox provides the essential back-office support that clears the way for clients to focus on what they do best: their real business. Headquartered in Norwalk, Conn., Xerox provides leading-edge document technology, services, software and genuine Xerox supplies for graphic communication and office printing environments of any size. Through ACS, A Xerox Company, which Xerox acquired in February 2010, Xerox also offers extensive business process outsourcing and IT outsourcing services, including data processing, HR benefits management, finance support, and customer relationship management services for commercial and government organizations worldwide. The 134,000 people of Xerox serve clients in more than 160 countries.

Dell OEM Solutions Points Tripleplay Services Towards More Flexible Digital Signage Offerings

Dell OEM Solutions Points Tripleplay Services Towards More Flexible Digital Signage Offerings

Date : 9/9/2011
Round Rock, Texas

  • Tripleplay switches from incumbent hardware supplier HP in order to leverage direct relationship with Dell’s OEM Solutions team
  • Change management program from Dell gives Tripleplay platform stability and minimizes disruption caused by component, firmware and feature changes
  • Tripleplay now sees hardware as a key business differentiator rather than a constraining factor on innovation and customer choice
  • Selects OEM-Ready Dell PowerEdge™ R710 and T110 Server Hardware 
Dell OEM Solutions today announced that it has been selected by Tripleplay Services, a leading provider of IPTV, Video Streaming and Digital Signage solutions, to provide a back-end hardware platform, including the OEM-Ready Dell PowerEdge R710 and T110 servers, for its products. Tripleplay has migrated its products away from HP hardware in order to take advantage of Dell OEM Solutions’ willingness to engage directly with OEM customers and to provide greater visibility into product roadmaps, extended-life hardware, change management and in-field support.

Founded in 2001, Tripleplay Services has quickly established itself globally, leading to an impressive customer base spread across 33 countries around the world providing IPTV, video streaming and digital signage products. It boasts the largest IPTV deployment within the UK with over 200,000 client devices supported within closed communities and the largest deployment of HD Streaming and IPTV servers for any single customer in Europe.

Tripleplay’s relationship with Dell OEM Solutions has already proved instrumental in a number of significant customer wins, with particular traction within stadia, education and retail sectors. Tripleplay’s customers in these markets include: Chelsea FC and the Green Point and Port Elizabeth 2010 World Cup stadia in South Africa, Sheffield Hallam, Portsmouth and Southampton Solent Universities and London School of Economics, Dixons/Currys and several hospitality solutions in major 4 and 5 stars hotels around the world.

“Our close relationship with Dell OEM Solutions is a refreshing and transformational change from the days where our hardware came through resellers that were unable or even unwilling to offer the kind of expertise, flexibility and services Tripleplay requires,” said Steve Rickless, Group CEO Tripleplay Services. “Instead of hardware being a limiting factor in our proposition to customers, the flexibility Dell OEM Solutions provides in terms of product availability, customization and support is actually a core part of our differentiation. Some of our most high-profile customers have varying requirements across sites, and selecting Dell OEM Solutions allows us to meet their needs.”

“Tripleplay’s solutions are a great example of a widely-deployed technology, which people might be surprised to find out is powered by Dell OEM Solutions,” said Sam Forsbom, general manager, OEM Solutions EMEA at Dell. “However, the fact that we are powering digital signage technology in a number of very high-profile customer deployments shows how invaluable our combination of technology and services can be to organizations like Tripleplay looking for ways to facilitate business transformation.”

Dell OEM Solutions is one of the only tier-one manufacturers that offers a single source for comprehensive, end-to-end hardware integration, extended life products, solid change management and services and support worldwide, providing OEMs with the flexibility and reliability they need. Dell OEM customers can customize any Dell-standard hardware within its extensive portfolio and leverage Dell’s global supply-chain management expertise from concept to execution, including a robust services portfolio. With these customized services, Dell OEM customers can achieve economies of scale and reduce or eliminate the complexity and overhead costs of bringing a product to market. This way, companies can focus more resources and time on developing their unique IP and growing their business and less on execution, increasing their competitive advantage, agility and speed to profit.

About Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to its customers and uses that insight to make technology simpler and develop innovative solutions that deliver reliable, long-term value. Dell OEM Solutions helps its customers find more balance between execution and innovation with dedicated OEM resources; industry-standard hardware and global services and support capabilities. Dell helps its OEM customers improve their time to profit and run their operations more efficiently for increased competitive edge. Learn more at www.dell.com/oem.

Red Hat Broadens Global Cooperation With Amazon Web Services and SAP on the Cloud

Red Hat Broadens Global Cooperation With Amazon Web Services and SAP on the Cloud


Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Support for SAP® Applications Available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

Raleigh, N.C. - September 13, 2011

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced support for SAP® solutions running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). This complements today’s separate announcement Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with Support for SAP Business Applications Now Available.

“Today’s announcement fortifies Red Hat’s continued effort to provide customers flexibility in software deployment options and innovations in cloud computing,” said Gus Robertson, vice president of business development at Red Hat.

“Now customers have even more choice in procuring and provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux, now SAP-certified and recommended to run SAP applications.”

Amazon EC2 provides highly available, secure, on-demand, pay-as-you-go, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make Web-scale computing easier for developers, commercial ISVs and enterprise IT organizations worldwide. SAP customers can utilize both Red Hat Cloud Access and Red Hat Hourly-On-Demand supported images in all Amazon EC2 regions.

“SAP – together with our global technology partners – is leading the migration to cloud computing,” said Allen Bannon, vice president, Virtualization and Cloud Management, SAP. “Through our cooperation with Red Hat and Amazon Web Services, customers can now benefit from innovations including increased convenience and choice."

“We are pleased to extend our offering of supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux on demand for SAP applications,” said Terry Wise, director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services. “With AWS, SAP customers now have a broader choice of enterprise-class Linux platforms to choose from when they deploy SAP applications on AWS. This represents the ongoing commitment from AWS to provide customers with the enterprise software and support they demand.”

SAP sees a steady stream of customers moving to the cloud with many currently creating their landscape of SAP solutions to become “cloud ready.” Customers are looking for fast-scaling and pay-only-for-what-you-use flexibility associated with cloud computing. Red Hat already delivers an open source, enterprise-ready platform in support of SAP applications on premise. Through this expanded cooperation, customers can leverage Amazon’s EC2 for running SAP applications on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This will enable customers to utilize the world-class support options available from Amazon, Red Hat and SAP in a collaborative way.

Red Hat and AWS began working together in cloud computing in 2007 with the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux through Amazon EC2. As Red Hat’s first Premier Certified Cloud Provider, AWS enables customers to use their own Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions or easily purchase Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-demand, pay-as-you-go options through Amazon EC2.

Red Hat provides a comprehensive set of cloud products, services, and technologies to prepare customers’ infrastructures for the cloud. Offering solutions, step-by-step instructions, consulting services, training, and exceptional customer support, Red Hat enables enterprise customers to build, manage, and utilize private and public clouds.

For more information about the following, please click these links: SAP solutions available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux offerings built specifically to support SAP applications and Red Hat’s Cloud Partner Program.

For more information about Red Hat, visit www.redhat.com. For more news, more often, visit www.press.redhat.com.

About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for seven consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

Authors and Authors' Groups From Australia, Quebec, the U.K., and U.S. Sue HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, and Four Other U.S. Universities for Copyright Infringement

Authors and Authors' Groups From Australia, Quebec, the U.K., and U.S. Sue HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, and Four Other U.S. Universities for Copyright Infringement

Digital Files Provided by Google at Issue, As Plaintiffs Seek to Impound Unauthorized Scans of 7 Million Copyright-Protected Books, Pending Congressional Action

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2011 /CNW/ -- The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecrivains Quebecois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University. Plaintiff authors include children's book author and illustrator Pat Cummings, novelists Angelo Loukakis, Roxana Robinson, Daniele Simpson, and Fay Weldon, poet Andre Roy, Columbia University professor and Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, and Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning biographer T.J. Stiles.

The universities obtained from Google unauthorized scans of an estimated 7 million copyright-protected books, the rights to which are held by authors in dozens of countries. The universities have pooled the unauthorized files in a repository organized by the University of Michigan called HathiTrust. In June, Michigan announced plans to permit unlimited downloads by its students and faculty members of copyright-protected works it deems "orphans" according to rules the school has established. Other universities joined in Michigan's project in August.

The first set of so-called orphans, 27 works by French, Russian, and American authors, are scheduled to be released to an estimated 250,000 students and faculty members on October 13th. An additional 140 books, including works in Spanish, Yiddish, French, and Russian, are to be released starting in November.

"This is an upsetting and outrageous attempt to dismiss authors' rights," said Angelo Loukakis, executive director of the Australian Society of Authors. "Maybe it doesn't seem like it to some, but writing books is an author's real-life work and livelihood. This group of American universities has no authority to decide whether, when or how authors forfeit their copyright protection. These aren't orphaned books, they're abducted books."

"I was stunned when I learned of this," said Daniele Simpson, president of UNEQ. "How are authors from Quebec, Italy or Japan to know that their works have been determined to be 'orphans' by a group in Ann Arbor, Michigan? If these colleges can make up their own rules, then won't every college and university, in every country, want to do the same?"

The complaint also questions the security of the 7 million unauthorized digital files. The numbers are staggering. The universities have, without permission, digitized and loaded onto HathiTrust's online servers thousands of editions, in various translations, of works by Simone de Beauvoir, Italo Calvino, Bernard Clavel, Umberto Eco, Carlos Fuentes, Gunter Grass, Peter Handke, Michel Houellebecq, Clarice Lispector, Mario Vargas Llosa, Herta Muller, Haruki Murakami, Kenzaburo Oe, Octavio Paz, and Jose Saramago, among countless other authors. Works from nearly every nation have been digitized. HathiTrust's databases house more than 65,000 works published in the year 2001, for example, including thousands of works published that year in China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Russia, Spain, and the U.K., and hundreds from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Mexico, The Netherlands, The Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam.

"These books, because of the universities' and Google's unlawful actions, are now at needless, intolerable digital risk," said Authors Guild president Scott Turow. "Even if it weren't for this preposterous, ad-hoc initiative, we'd have a major problem with the digital repository. Authors shouldn't have to trust their works to a group that's making up the rules as it goes along."

Google's library scanning project is already the subject of a federal class-action lawsuit in New York. A status conference in that case is scheduled before Judge Denny Chin this Thursday, September 15.

Attorneys Edward Rosenthal and Jeremy Goldman of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz are representing plaintiffs.

Mahindra Satyam Announces Development of Smart Grid Research and Innovation Center at the University of Waterloo

Mahindra Satyam Announces Development of Smart Grid Research and Innovation Center at the University of Waterloo

Company Signs MOU with the University for the Global Expansion of Ontario’s Clean and Green Investment Program

Waterloo, Canada – September 19, 2011 – Mahindra Satyam, a leading global consulting and IT services provider, today announced the development of Ontario’s first Smart Grid Research and Innovation Center (RIC) on the University of Waterloo Campus in Ontario, Canada. The RIC will provide students, teachers and IT professionals the tools to foster and evaluate innovative developments of next generation smart grid technology. The Center development is part of an ongoing strategic memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Mahindra Satyam and the University of Waterloo.


“We are eager to work with the University of Waterloo as it takes a leadership role in the academic and technology communities by investing in smart grid initiatives and technologies,” said Arvind Malhotra, Senior Vice President at Mahindra Satyam. “The Center will showcase the benefits of the ongoing smart grid technological revolution and will allow students, faculty and industry professionals to conduct cutting edge research with real world implications.”


The RIC, developed in collaboration with the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE), will draw upon the collective expertise of University faculty members from areas including mathematics, chemistry, mechanical, computer, electrical and systems engineering. Mahindra Satyam’s institutional expertise in smart grid data analytics, renewable systems integration, electric vehicles and integration with the distribution grid and  micro-grids for rural and remote applications, will help to safely and responsibly develop innovative solutions for the Canadian and global community. The objective of the RIC will be to develop a curriculum and related training programs at the University for highly qualified professionals in the smart grid sector, validate and test innovative products and technologies before large scale implementation and provide facilities to University faculty and industry leaders for collaborative work in the sector. “Ontario is now a leading global jurisdiction in the Smart Grid sector. This has been achieved through a judicious combination of far reaching Government policy initiatives and legislation. The next steps are to convert this advantage to provide Ontario companies a leg up to capture the opportunities in the global market place for solutions that are Ontario innovations.” said Dr. Jatin Nathwani, Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy Management.


Mahindra Satyam is uniquely positioned to deliver comprehensive services for the RIC by collaborating internally with the Mahindra Group: Bridge Strategy Group for Advisory and Strategy Consulting, Tech Mahindra for Communication and Security services, Mahindra Reva for EV technologies and Mahindra Solar for Renewable Energy technologies. The company recently announced the completion of its Smart Grid Customer Demonstration Center (CDC) in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India in June 2011. The announcement also reflects Mahindra Satyam’s ongoing momentum and investment in the Canadian market. Recently, Tech Mahindra also established an Innovation Center for Mobility Solutions in Toronto.

About the University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada's Technology Triangle, is one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities. Waterloo is home to 30,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students who are dedicated to making the future better and brighter. Waterloo, known for the largest post- secondary co-operative education program in the world, supports enterprising partnerships in learning, research and discovery.


For more information about Waterloo, visit www.uwaterloo.ca.

About Mahindra Satyam

Mahindra Satyam is a leading global business and information technology services company that leverages deep industry and functional expertise, leading technology practices, and an advanced, global delivery model to help clients transform their highest-value business processes and improve their business performance.

The company's professionals excel in enterprise solutions, supply chain management, client relationship management, business intelligence, business process quality, engineering and product lifecycle management, and infrastructure services, among other key capabilities. Mahindra Satyam is part of the $12.5 billion Mahindra Group, a global federation of companies and one of the top 10 business houses based in India. The Group’s interests span automotive products, aviation, components, farm equipment, financial services, hospitality, information technology, logistics, real estate and retail.


Mahindra Satyam development and delivery centers in the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia serve numerous clients, including many Fortune 500 organizations.


For more information, see www.mahindrasatyam.com


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MEDIA ADVISORY - Wireless Canada Technology Showcase: Industry Minister Christian Paradis to address exposition of world-class wireless services for Canadians

MEDIA ADVISORY - Wireless Canada Technology Showcase: Industry Minister Christian Paradis to address exposition of world-class wireless services for Canadians

OTTAWA, Sept. 16, 2011 /CNW/ - The Wireless Canada Technology Showcase 2011, presented by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA), is an interactive exposition where attendees will experience first-hand how the wireless industry is revolutionizing the delivery of healthcare and accessibility services, mobile commerce applications and world-leading broadband connectivity to Canadians.

With an opening address by the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry, the Showcase will feature four main exhibition pavilions, organized along four main tracks: M-Health, Accessibility, M-Commerce and Broadband. Each track will also feature a schedule of interactive product and service demonstrations, panel discussions and senior telecom industry guest speakers.

WHAT:
Wireless Canada Technology Showcase 2011

WHEN:
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
8am-6pm

WHERE:
The Westin Ottawa
Confederation and Governor General Ballrooms
11 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa

SPEAKERS:
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry

Bernard Lord, President and CEO, CWTA
Mark Henderson, President and CEO, Ericsson Canada and CWTA Chair

Bob Berner, Executive Vice-President, Networks and Chief Technology Officer, Rogers Communications
Paul Lepage, Senior Vice President, TELUS Health Solutions
Daniel Proulx, Chief Technology Officer, Videotron
David Robinson, Vice-President, Emerging Business, Rogers Communications
Bruce Rodin, Vice President, Wireless Technology, Bell Canada
Ante Rupcic, Vice-President, Core Networks, WIND Mobile
Bryan Segal, Vice President, Sales, comScore
Mark Wright, Senior Director, Marketing, Motricity

EXHIBITORS/DEMONSTRATIONS:

Bell
Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC)
EnStream
Ericsson
Google
Huawei
Komodo
Mobile Giving Foundation Canada
Nokia
Nokia Siemens Networks
Recycle My Cell
Research In Motion (RIM)
Rogers Communications
Samsung
TELUS
textED.ca
Trispec
Wavefront
Wireless AMBER Alerts

INFORMATION: www.WirelessShowcase.ca

Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)
CWTA is the authority on wireless issues, developments and trends in Canada. It represents cellular, PCS, messaging, mobile radio, fixed wireless and mobile satellite carriers as well as companies that develop and produce products and services for the industry. (www.cwta.ca)

For further information: Media information and registration:

D-Link Expands Value in Partnership Program with IP Surveillance Technology Specialization

D-Link Expands Value in Partnership Program with IP Surveillance Technology Specialization

IP Surveillance Specialization allows partners to differentiate themselves with added proficiency in security products and best practices

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Sept. 15, 2011 /CNW/ -- D-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers, businesses, and service providers, today announced it is now offering an IP Surveillance Technology Specialization through its Value in Partnership Channel Program. With the new specialization, D-Link provides channel partners with the technical background to develop and implement IP surveillance solutions, as well as resources designed to enrich the D-Link® business experience, making it seamless and rewarding. The IP Surveillance Technology Specialization is now available through D-Link's Value in Partnership Program online partner portal.

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"As a technology solutions vendor, our customers rely on us to be knowledgeable experts, providing feedback and suggestions for implementing new technologies into their business," said Neil Medwed, president and CEO of Preferred Technology Solutions. "The IP surveillance market is growing quickly with technology advancing at a rapid pace, and D-Link's new Technology Specialization will help us stay ahead of the curve for our customers."

Revamped in May 2011, D-Link's Value in Partnership Program provides its channel partners with tools to differentiate themselves against competitors and position their market value as a D-Link partner. Three levels of partnership are available, and higher levels - Silver and Gold -offer additional partner benefits but require specific training to ensure end users are confident that their D-Link® partner is thoroughly trained on D-Link's network infrastructure products and solutions. Through its partner program, D-Link also offers a Volume Incentive Rebate (VIR) Program, Deal Registration margin protection with a unique Bounty program if a deal is lost, a Rewards loyalty program, and Technology Specializations for Storage and IP Surveillance.

Technology Specializations

D-Link's Value in Partnership Program Technology Specializations allow partners to differentiate themselves and demonstrate proficiency within a specific product technology. The newest specialization, IP Surveillance, offers partners the ability to be thoroughly trained and aligned with D-Link on complete surveillance solutions. Benefits include an upfront discount on IP surveillance products, priority access to surveillance sales leads, and D-Link branding as an IP Surveillance Preferred Partner for differentiation in the market.

"The new IP Surveillance Specialization is one of many enhancements D-Link will be offering partners through its Value in Partnership Program," said Steve Ryan, director of North America Channel Programs for D-Link. "D-Link is committed to providing resources for our channel partners to ensure they are able to deliver best-of-breed solutions in IP surveillance and other technologies to meet customer needs."

About D-Link

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2011, D-Link is the global leader in connectivity for home, small business, mid- to large-sized enterprise environments, and service providers. An award-winning designer, developer, and manufacturer, D-Link implements and supports unified network solutions that integrate capabilities in switching, wireless, broadband, storage, IP Surveillance, and cloud-based network management. For more information visit www.dlink.com, www.dlink.ca or connect with D-Link on Facebook (www.facebook.com/dlink) and Twitter (www.twitter.com/dlink).

D-Link and the D-Link logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of D-Link Corporation or its subsidiaries. All other third-party marks mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright © 2011.D-Link. All Rights Reserved.

For further information: Denise Keddy, D-Link Systems, Inc., +1-714-885-6318, denise.keddy@dlink.com; or Becki Gervin, Walt & Company, +1-408-369-7200, ext. 1070, bgervin@walt.com Web Site: http://www.dlink.com

Microsoft Platform Powers Mission-Critical Operations in Financial Services

Microsoft Platform Powers Mission-Critical Operations in Financial Services

Financial services institutions improve the dependability, performance and flexibility of their mission-critical workloads with Microsoft platform.

TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2011 /CNW/ -- Today at SIBOS 2011, Microsoft Corp. announced that a growing number of financial services customers are benefiting from the significant gains in agility, operational efficiency and cost savings achieved by moving to the high-performance Windows Server operating system and Microsoft SQL Server database.

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These customers have not only reduced the cost of running their core processes, they have also realized substantial benefits by making these core processes part of a dynamic IT infrastructure that enables them to understand and serve customers better, bring new products to market more quickly, continually improve operations, and collaborate with an evolving set of partners in their global value chains.

"Microsoft is making a long-term commitment to supporting the mission-critical business applications of our financial services customers," said Karen Cone, general manager, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft. "Our customers are testament to this commitment to delivering a solid foundation for mission-critical workloads, with the dependability, performance and flexibility required to achieve sustainable competitive advantage in today's financial services industry."

Legacy System Modernization

Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC), which services the banking businesses of more than 150 financial institutions in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Faroe Islands, is expecting to save $20 million annually by moving its core banking system from its mainframe platform to Windows Server and SQL Server. With client growth and cost reduction at the forefront of SDC's business imperatives, it required a solution to help minimize spending while retaining and gaining new member banks. By migrating from the mainframe to a Windows platform, it is estimated that SDC will reduce operational costs for its core banking system by 30 percent, giving it a competitive edge. The migration of online transactions in the core banking system was completed this fall, reducing operational costs by more than 20 percent annually. As the next and final step, the systems database will be migrated from DB2 to SQL Server.

In addition, with partner Temenos Group AG, Microsoft is supporting banks across the globe with the TEMENOS T24 (T24) core banking system optimized for SQL Server. Microsoft and Temenos recently completed a high-performance benchmark that measured the high-end scalability of T24 on SQL Server and Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. The model bank environment, created to reflect tier-one retail banking workloads, consisted of 25 million accounts and 15 million customers across 2,000 branches. At peak performance, the system processed more than 3,400 transactions per second in online testing and averaged more than 5,200 interest accrual and capitalizations per second during close of business processing. The testing demonstrated near-linear scalability (95 percent) in building up toward the final hardware configuration. Banks such as Sinopac in Taiwan and Rabobank Australia and New Zealand are among the first to benefit from expertise and capabilities developed at the Microsoft and Temenos competency center. Furthermore, Microsoft and Temenos recently announced that Mexican financial institutions are live on T24 on Microsoft's cloud platform, Windows Azure. Banks that select T24 on a Microsoft platform for on-premises deployment today can therefore be confident of a road map to the cloud.

In the past, only mainframes could run and maintain mission-critical trading solutions that require a lot from the database infrastructure: high-availability, redundancy, transaction and data integrity, consistency, predictability, and the balancing of proactive prevention with effective recovery. One such solution, the SunGard Front Arena, is a global capital markets solution that delivers electronic trading and position control across multiple asset classes and business lines. Integrating sales and distribution, trading and risk management, and settlement and accounting, Front Arena helps capital markets and businesses around the world improve performance, transparency and automation. Front Arena was designed to handle very large data flows and, in high-volume environments such as equities exchange trading, Front Arena customers routinely enter as many as 130,000 trades per day. As a result, in March and April 2011, engineers from SunGard and Microsoft worked together to confirm the performance and scalability of Front Arena on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 at the Microsoft Platform Adoption Center in Redmond, Wash. The team designed a benchmark test to emulate a real-world, enterprise-class financial workload, running the software on industry-standard hardware typically found in datacenters today. Front Arena running on SQL Server 2008 R2 exceeded the goals set by the team, confirming that SQL Server 2008 R2 delivers the performance, scalability and value companies demand from their trading platform.

Mitigating Risk

The Financial Crime Risk Management solution suite from Fiserv Inc., built on the Microsoft platform, provides a comprehensive portfolio of fraud risk mitigation and anti-money laundering capabilities. AML Manager, a key component of the solution suite, will adopt the newest release of Microsoft SQL Server, code-named "Denali," in the future.

Transforming the Reconciliation Process

Saxo Bank, a specialist in trading and investment, has determined that its transaction volumes have increased with the help of SunGard's Ambit Reconciliation solution, deployed on Windows Server and SQL Server. The solution provides a real-time matching and reconciliation platform on which Saxo Bank has consolidated its reconciliation and exception management operations across all trading platforms at the bank. According to Saxo Bank, it is now able to process more transactions per day compared with four years ago, with fewer staff to manage the increase in transaction volumes.

Improving Payments Efficiency and Reliability

In a recent report based on its Uptime Meter, a six-month availability aggregate, Stratus demonstrated that its fault-tolerant servers running Windows Server and S1 Corp.'s payments solutions are achieving "six nines" (99.9999 percent) of availability. Both hardware- and software-related incidents are included in the measurement. The combination of mission-critical technologies from S1, Stratus and Microsoft provides a compelling alternative to more costly mainframe solutions.

The success of Microsoft's mission-critical strategy depends not only on the technology and guidance provided by Microsoft, but also on the products and services provided by its large ecosystem of partners. A new generation of solutions from independent software vendors -- across banking, capital markets and insurance -- combined with Microsoft's development tools and technologies, is now delivering the dynamic environment needed to realize the benefits of next-generation, mission-critical platforms from on-premises to the cloud.

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For further information: Caitlin McCabe, Microsoft, +1-646-220-2261, cmccabe@microsoft.com