Express Scripts Canada to present at Conference Board of Canada event

Express Scripts Canada to present at 


Conference Board of Canada event

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Feb. 21, 2013 /CNW/ - Express Scripts Canada, one of the largest providers of health benefits management services in Canada, today announced that it will present at the Conference Board of Canada 's Compensation Research Centre on Thursday, February 28 at the Delta Bow Valley in Calgary.

Cory Cowan, Senior Manager, Pharmacy Operations, for Express Scripts Canada and a contributor to the annual Express Scripts Canada's Drug Trend Report, will present to delegates on the dynamics underlying current trends and patterns with respect to the use of prescription drugs in CanadaMr. Cowan, who has been with Express ScriptsCanada since 2004, advises as to the goals of the Express Scripts Canada's four Canadian pharmacies in Mississauga, Burnaby, BC, Winnipeg and Dieppe, NB. He assists in overseeing the pharmacy's production levels, service standards, and activities of the pharmacists.

Mr. Cowan holds both a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) and a Doctorate of Pharmacy (Pharm. D.) from the University of Toronto. He is also an active member of the Ontario College of Pharmacists, and the Ontario Pharmacists Association.

For more information about the event and Conference Board of Canada's Compensation Research Centre please visit: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/networks/crc/default.aspx.

Active Pharmacy Benefit Management
Express Scripts Canada's active pharmacy benefit management (PBM) service, which can be added by companies and organizations without changing insurance carriers, applies behavioral sciences to change member behavior, which can result in better health decisions and lower costs. Plan members, with the support of their physician, as appropriate, will interact with a team of qualified pharmacists at Express Scripts Canada to learn about their maintenance medication alternatives so that they can make more informed choices. The result will be decisions that promote improved health outcomes, while often reducing costs for both the member and the member's plan sponsor.

Working in conjunction with the active PBM service, an Express Scripts Canada Pharmacy will facilitate the dispensing and delivery of prescription drugs to treat ongoing medical conditions, such as arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The prescription is subsequently delivered, via free standard shipping, to patients' homes or to the address they designate.

A skilled team of pharmacists and pharmacy assistants verify the clinical quality of those prescriptions filled. Patients also have access to pharmacists to answer questions about their medications.

With Express Scripts Canada's active PBM service, Canadian plan sponsors have access to proven tools to better manage the cost of the prescription drug benefit while providing plan members with an enhanced prescription drug service.

For more information about Express Scripts Canada's pharmacy benefit management service and Express ScriptsCanada Pharmacy, go to www.express-scripts.ca.

About Express Scripts Canada
Express Scripts Canada, a registered business name of both ESI Canada and Express Scripts Canada Services, each an Ontario partnership, is indirectly owned by Express Scripts Holding Company, a U.S. public entity (formerly Express Scripts, Inc.) and is one of Canada's leading providers of health benefits management services. From its corporate headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, just outside Toronto, Express Scripts Canada provides a full range of active pharmacy benefit management (PBM) services to insurers, third-party administrators, plan sponsors and the public sector, including health-claims adjudication and processing services, Home Delivery Pharmacy Services, benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary management, and medical and drug-data analysis services, to facilitate better health decisions and lower costs. For more information about Express Scripts Canada, visit www.express-scripts.ca.

About Express Scripts
Express Scripts (NASDAQ: ESRX) manages more than a billion prescriptions each year for tens of millions of patients. On behalf of our clients - employers, health plans, unions and government health programs - we make the use of prescription drugs safer and more affordable. Express Scripts uniquely combines three capabilities - behavioral sciences, clinical specialization and actionable data - to create Health Decision ScienceSM, our innovative approach to help individuals make the best drug choices, pharmacy choices and health choices. Better decisions mean healthier outcomes.

Headquartered in St. Louis, Express Scripts provides integrated pharmacy benefit management services, including network-pharmacy claims processing, home delivery, specialty benefit management, benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary management, and medical and drug data analysis services. The company also distributes a full range of biopharmaceutical products and provides extensive cost-management and patient-care services.

For more information, visit Lab.Express-Scripts.com  or follow @ExpressScripts on Twitter.

SOURCE: Express Scripts Canada

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Gartner Says Evolution From the PC to the Personal Cloud Will Drive Invisible, Sensor-Enabled Devices Driven by Applications and Services

STAMFORD, Conn., February 20, 2013View All Press Releases

Gartner Says Evolution From the PC to the Personal Cloud Will Drive Invisible, Sensor-Enabled Devices Driven by Applications and Services

Technology Will Be Integrated Into Invisible Items and Wearable Devices

Consumers' digital lives have transitioned from the PC to a personal cloud-driven world that is driving a new type of interaction between consumers and their connected services, according to Gartner, Inc. Consumers will use and interact with a multitude of connected, sensor-enabled devices driven by applications and services to create cognizant ecosystems independent of a platform or operating system.

"Cognizant computing evolves the connected device and personal cloud service into an activity of seamless and frictionless integration connected to sensor-driven 'invisible' devices that are optimized for a particular set of functions," said Michael Gartenberg, research director at Gartner. "This data and information can then be tied to other services across larger ecosystems, platforms and operating systems."

While cognizant computing is not a new concept, it is the natural evolution of a world driven not by devices but rather collections of applications and services that extend across multiple platforms and exist outside the realm of connected screens, such as phones, tablets, PCs or televisions.

As a result, applications are now 24/7 aware of action or inaction, need not be turned on or off and ultimately provide a greater amount of relevant information that can eventually drive behavior change. This is something that is not possible in stand-alone applications or devices. Consumers also don't have to adopt or make a commitment to a platform or service in total and can adopt through long-term interaction and purchases that are driven by short-term task-driven functions.

"One of the defining experiences of cognizant computing is that the devices that drive the experience fall into what we refer to as the invisible space. We define this as the combination of devices and services that unite to form an experience that is below the daily threshold of awareness," said Jessica Ekholm, research director at Gartner. "In practice, consumers will forget the devices are being carried, worn or used until they need to interact with them for control or to obtain feedback in terms of data or information."

Invisible and cognizant devices that range from wristwatches, key fobs, thermostats and shoes are the digital equivalent of undeveloped property that can become extraordinarily valuable to the user when linked to the appropriate services to extend their use. Although the ideas behind today's cognizant devices have been around for more than a decade, wearable technology, such as smart watches have, for the most part, failed to gain any traction with the consumer due to high costs, little perceived value, an emphasis on technology over form and the need for them to exist as stand-alone products and services that did not and could not tie into a larger ecosystem or platform.

"Personal cloud services and ecosystems are now the center of the digital consumer experience," said Mr. Gartenberg. "Combined with increasingly ubiquitous connections, cognizant devices offer new opportunities to drive new device adoption, grow personal cloud services and act as a tipping point for consumer platform adoption. As new digital devices decrease in size, tie into existing applications such as home automation and personal fitness, and increase in perceived user functionality as well as overall form, we will see an increase of multiple devices throughout the home and person that will trend into the invisible space."

More detailed analysis is available in the report "Market Insight: Consumer Apps and Services Will Become More Aware and Less Visible." The report is available on Gartner's website athttp://www.gartner.com/resId=2289815.

Additional information on consumer technologies will be presented in the webinar "The Gartner Scenario for Consumer Technology Providers" taking place February 26 at 11a.m. EST. To register for this complimentary webinar, please visit http://my.gartner.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=202&mode=2&PageID=5553&ref=pr-update&resId=2300017&srcId=1-2994690285

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Red Hat Unveils Big Data and Open Hybrid Cloud Direction

Red Hat Unveils Big Data and Open Hybrid Cloud Direction

RALEIGH

NC, Global, February 20, 2013

Red Hat to Contribute Red Hat Storage Hadoop Plug-in to Apache Hadoop Community

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its big data direction and solutions to satisfy enterprise requirements for highly reliable, scalable, and manageable solutions to effectively run their big data analytics workloads. In addition, Red Hat announced that the company will contribute its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plug-in to the ApacheTM Hadoop® open community to transform Red Hat Storage into a fully-supported, Hadoop-compatible file system for big data environments, and that Red Hat is building a robust network of ecosystem and enterprise integration partners to deliver comprehensive big data solutions to enterprise customers. This is another example of Red Hat’s strategic commitment to big data customers and its continuing efforts to provide them with enterprise solutions through community-driven innovation.

Red Hat big data infrastructure and application platforms are ideally suited for enterprises leveraging the open hybrid cloud environment. Red Hat is working with the open cloud community to support big data customers. Many enterprises worldwide use public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon® Web Services (AWS), for the development, proof-of-concept, and pre-production phases of their big data projects. The workloads are then moved to their private clouds to scale up the analytics with the larger data set. An open hybrid cloud environment enables enterprises to transfer workloads from the public cloud into their private cloud without the need to re-tool their applications. Red Hat is actively engaged in the open cloud community through projects like OpenStack and OpenShift Origin to help meet these enterprise big data expectations both today and in the future.

Today, there are several Red Hat solutions available to effectively manage enterprise big data workloads. Focused on three primary areas, Red Hat’s big data direction includes extending its product portfolio to deliver enhanced enterprise-class infrastructure solutions and application platforms, and partnering with leading big data analytics vendors and integrators.

Red Hat’s Big Data Infrastructure Solutions

Red Hat Enterprise Linux – According to the Jan. 2012 The Linux Foundation Enterprise Linux User Report, the majority of big data implementations run on Linux and as the leading provider of commercial Linux1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a leading platform for big data deployments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux excels in distributed architectures and includes features that address critical big data needs. Managing tremendous data volumes and intensive analytic processing requires an infrastructure designed for high performance, reliability, fine-grained resource management, and scale-out storage. Red Hat Enterprise Linux addresses these challenges while adding the ability to develop, integrate, and secure big data applications reliably and scale easily to keep up with the pace that data is generated, analyzed, or transferred. This can be accomplished in the cloud, making it easier to store, aggregate, normalize, and integrate data from sources across multiple platforms, whether they are deployed as physical, virtual, or cloud-based resources.

  • Red Hat Storage – Built on the trusted Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and the proven GlusterFS distributed file system, Red Hat Storage Servers can be used to pool inexpensive commodity servers to provide a cost-effective, scalable, and reliable storage solution for big data.

Announced today, Red Hat intends to make its Hadoop plug-in for Red Hat Storage available to the Hadoop community later this year. Currently in technology preview, the Red Hat Storage Apache Hadoop plug-in provides a new storage option for enterprise Hadoop deployments that delivers enterprise storage features while maintaining the API compatibility and local data access the Hadoop community expects. Red Hat Storage brings enterprise-class features to big data environments, such as Geo replication, High Availability, POSIX compliance, disaster recovery, and management, without compromising API compatibility and data locality. Customers now have a unified data and scale out storage software platform to accommodate files and objects deployed across physical, virtual, public and hybrid cloud resources.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization – Announced in Dec. 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is integrated with Red Hat Storage, enabling it to access the secure, shared storage pool managed by Red Hat Storage. This integration also offers enterprises reduced operational costs, expanded portability, choice of infrastructure, scalability, availability and the power of community-driven innovation with the contributions of the open source oVirt and Gluster projects. The combination of these platforms furthers Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud vision of an integrated and converged Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization node that serves both compute and storage resources.

Red Hat’s Big Data Application and Integration Platforms

  • Red Hat JBoss Middleware – Red Hat JBoss Middleware provides enterprises with powerful technologies for creating and integrating big data-driven applications that are able to interact with new and emerging technologies like Hadoop or MongoDB. Big data is only valuable when businesses can extract information and respond intelligently. Red Hat JBoss Middleware solutions can populate large volumes and varieties of data quickly and reliably into Hadoop with high speed messaging technologies; simplify working with MongoDB through Hibernate OGM; process large volumes of data quickly and easily with Red Hat JBoss Data Grid; access Hadoop along with your traditional data sources with JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform; and identify opportunities and threats through pattern recognition with JBoss Enterprise BRMS. Red Hat’s middleware portfolio is well-suited to help enterprises seize the opportunities of big data.

Big Data Partnerships

  • Big Data Ecosystem Partners – To provide a comprehensive big data solution set to enterprises, Red Hat plans to partner with leading big data software and hardware providers to offer interoperability. Development of certified and documented reference architectures are expected to allow users to integrate and install comprehension enterprise big data solutions.
  • Enterprise Partners – Red Hat anticipates enabling the delivery of a comprehensive big data solution to its customers through leading enterprise integration partners utilizing the reference architectures developed by Red Hat and its big data ecosystem partners.

Supporting Quotes
Ranga Rangachari, vice president and general manager, Storage, Red Hat
“With today’s announcement, Red Hat demonstrates its strong commitment to continue to provide enterprise infrastructure and platforms to effectively run big data applications today and in the growing open hybrid cloud environment. With true enterprise-class offerings, Red Hat leverages the power of the open source community to give our big data customers a choice in technology, deployment environments, and partners.”

During today’s press webcast at 11:30 a.m. ET, Red Hat will provide more information on its big data direction and technologies. A live question and answer session will follow the presentation by Rangachari. Questions can be submitted directly via the webcast platform, sent to press@redhat.com or submitted through Twitter via the hashtag #redhat. To register for this press webcast or view the replay, please visithere.

Additional Resources
For more information about Red Hat Storage visit here
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux visit here
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization visit here
For more information about Red Hat JBoss Middleware visit here
For more information about Red Hat and open hybrid cloud visit here

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AMD Aims to Meet Higher Expectations for Tablet and Hybrid PC Performance at Mobile World Congress 2013

AMD Aims to Meet Higher Expectations for Tablet and Hybrid PC Performance at Mobile World Congress 2013  

AMD Turbo Dock adjusts performance and power consumption to meet user needs when switching between tablet and hybrid modes


SUNNYVALE, Calif.  —2/20/2013 

AMD (NYSE: AMD), creator of the performance tablet category, today announced a new innovation for hybrid PCs that delivers uncompromised mobile PC experiences when in tablet mode or when connected to its base keyboard. Hybrid PCs are a new market segment between full notebooks and pure tablets that AMD plans to demonstrate, along with stand-alone performance tablets, at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain next week.

AMD Turbo Dock technology1 automatically adjusts performance of the AMD accelerated processing unit (APU) higher while a hybrid PC is docked and being used for more complex tasks like content creation.  Likewise, AMD Turbo Dock is designed to lower power consumption when in tablet mode, helping to save battery life and extend movie or video watching, as well as web browsing time.

“With our latest APUs, AMD aims to deliver a more complete, full-featured experience on tablet and hybrid PCs than has been available to date,” said Steve Belt, vice president of AMD Ultra-low Power Products. “AMD Turbo Dock technology delivers on that promise by dynamically adjusting to what the user is doing to provide the optimal experience and battery life whether they are watching a video, playing a DirectX® 11-supported game or building a PowerPoint presentation for work.”

AMD Turbo Dock technology is expected to appear this year on equipped hybrid systems built around the system-on-chip (SoC) codenamed “Temash” with AMD Radeon™ HD graphics. “Temash” is AMD’s latest ultra-low power, mobility processor for Windows 8 tablets and hybrids that delivers five times the graphics performance of the competition’s x86 tablet solution2Demonstrations at Mobile World Congress will include leading-edge applications and games on both quad-core and dual-core versions of the processor built with 28nm manufacturing technology.

"IDC research shows that two of the top demands tablet owners have are speed and a high resolution display," said Tom Mainelli, research director for tablets at IDC. "Balancing performance on high pixel density screens with user demands around battery life is essential to a great tablet experience. Technologies like AMD’s newest generation APU ‘Temash’ aim to meet those needs.” 

Other premium features available from AMD-based tablets and hybrids include:

  • Access to the AMD AppZone, a one-stop resource for accessing popular applications that can take advantage of the full compute capability of the processor;
  • AMD Start Now technology that allows fast boot and resume from sleep times3;
  • AMD Radeon HD graphics on the APU, with support for full HD 1080p resolution, HDMI output for external displays, and impressive gaming performance with Microsoft DirectX 11 capability;
  • Windows 8 and Windows 7 support with backward compatibility for all Windows applications.

Supporting Resources

About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a semiconductor design innovator leading the next era of vivid digital experiences with its groundbreaking AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) that power a wide range of computing devices. AMD’s server computing products are focused on driving industry-leading cloud computing and virtualization environments. AMD’s superior graphics technologies are found in a variety of solutions ranging from game consoles, PCs to supercomputers. For more information, visit http://www.amd.com.

Oracle Introduces Oracle Health Sciences Mobile Clinical Research Associate

Oracle Introduces Oracle Health Sciences Mobile Clinical Research Associate

New Mobile Application Helps Clinical Research Associates Improve Efficiency, Optimize Clinical Development Process

Redwood Shores, Calif. – Feb. 20, 2013

News Facts

Oracle Health Sciences today introduced Oracle Health Sciences Mobile Clinical Research Associate, which uses the power of mobile applications to help life sciences organizations compress clinical study cycle times and reduce costs by improving site monitoring efficiency and clinical research associate (CRA) productivity.
The mobile app, designed specifically for field use, is integrated with Oracle’s Siebel Clinical Trial Management System and Oracle Health Sciences Clinical Development Analytics to provide CRAs with real-time access to essential clinical trial information, decision support data, and comprehensive trip reports in either offline or connected modes.
Site-at-a-glance capabilities provide study site performance indicators in a single view so CRAs have up-to-date site progress information at their fingertips, enabling more efficient, proactive planning and more productive site visits.
Study and site alerts notify CRAs of key milestones, activities and potential problems for the study sites they are monitoring, enabling them to respond quickly to emerging issues.
The solution’s study site check-in feature automatically captures traveling CRAs’ site check-in details via geo-location capabilities and incorporates the information into the trip report, streamlining documentation for regulatory compliance.
Oracle Health Sciences Mobile Clinical Research Associate runs natively on iOS and is now available for Apple iPhone or Apple iPad via the Apple iTunes Store.

Supporting Quote

“With the increased pressure to reduce the time and cost of clinical trials, organizations need to optimize efficiency at every level. Unfortunately, despite the labor-intensive and critical role CRAs perform, most are still using traditional and antiquated tools to do their job. Oracle Health Sciences Mobile Clinical Research Associate is designed specifically to help CRAs improve productivity and lighten their load by enabling them to manage their responsibilities using a single mobile device,” said Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences.

Supporting Resources

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

About Oracle in Industries

Oracle industry solutions leverage the company’s best-in-class portfolio of products to address complex business processes relevant to health sciences, helping speed time to market, reduce costs, and gain a competitive edge.

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Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Greg Lunsford
Oracle
+1.650.506.6523
greg.lunsford@oracle.com

Mary Tobin
O’Keeffe & Company
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mtobin@okco.com

VMware Unveils VMware Horizon Suite, Industry’s Most Comprehensive Platform for Workforce Mobility

 
VMware Unveils VMware Horizon Suite, Industry’s Most Comprehensive Platform for Workforce Mobility
 
VMware® Horizon Workspace™, VMware Horizon View™ and VMware Horizon Mirage™ Deliver the Virtual Workspace to Simplify End-User Computing in the Multi-Device Era
 

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20, 2013 —

 VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled the VMware® Horizon Suite™, a comprehensive platform for workforce mobility that will connect end users to their data, applications and desktops on any device without sacrificing IT security and control. With updates to VMware Horizon View™ and VMware Horizon Mirage™, as well as a new product, VMware Horizon Workspace™, the VMware Horizon Suite will enable IT organizations to empower users with a secure, easy-to-manage virtual workspace that delivers a consistent, compelling experience across devices. 

 

“Our customers are looking for a comprehensive, enterprise-class solution to empower workers in a world where the proliferation of devices and consumer cloud services have changed user expectations, while putting IT security and governance at risk,” said Boaz Chalamish, senior vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. “VMware virtualization has helped hundreds of thousands of customers change what is possible in the datacentre, and we believe it can have the same transformative impact in end-user computing. The VMware® Horizon™ Suite will help our customers accelerate their journeys from the PC Era to the Multi-Device Era.”  

 

A recent survey by VMware found that 83 per cent of IT administrators wanted to prevent the use of consumer online storage and collaboration applications[i]. The VMware Horizon Suite is designed to solve the security and governance challenges these consumer-ready applications and devices bring to enterprises, enabling IT to meet the demands of their users with a virtual workspace that is secure, compliant and easy to manage.

 

“Instead of treating remote work styles as an exception, success at Jaguar Land Rover will mean designing systems and policies assuming that everyone is mobile, using multiple personal devices connecting over both local and global networks,” said Gordon McMullan, acting chief technology officer, Chief Information Technology Office, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive. “VMware's Horizon Suite is at the heart of this capability. This will dramatically improve collaboration and productivity of our global workforce.”

 

Single, Unified Platform for End-User Computing

 

The VMware Horizon Suite will bring together VMware’s industry-leading desktop virtualization solution and technologies VMware has built from the ground up to support a mobile, collaborative workforce, including Project Octopus, Project AppBlast, Project AppShift, VMware ThinApp®, VMware Horizon Application Manager™ and VMware Horizon Mobile™ into a single, unified solution. An integrated platform to support the mobile workforce, the VMware Horizon Suite is designed to transform technology silos of data, applications and desktops into centralized IT services that can be easily provisioned, managed and delivered to end-users.  It includes:

 

-VMware Horizon Workspace – The New Virtual Workspace


Today, VMware introduced Horizon Workspace, a new product that will simplify the end-user experience and reduce IT costs by combining data, applications and desktops into a single aggregated workspace, that can be securely delivered on any device.

 

With VMware Horizon Workspace, IT administrators will be able to allocate data, applications or desktops to end users or groups instead of their devices, and end users will be able to self-provision corporate applications and services to reduce the burden on IT. This enables a quick and responsive IT department that can deliver the right data, application or desktop to any device, on the fly. Horizon Workspace will also enable organizations to easily add new devices, users or applications without having to reconfigure the devices or endpoints. In addition, centralized management simplifies the enforcement and management of user policies so the entire solution will enhance safety and security.

 

Read more about VMware Horizon Workspace

 

-VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Easy-to-Use and Simple-to-Manage VDI

 

Transforming traditional physical PCs into centralized managed IT services, VMware Horizon View 5.2 will deliver elastic desktop services as a virtual workspace for ultimate control and flexibility for user experience, administration and service. New simplified access to remote Horizon View desktops using any HTML 5 capable browser will enable end users to conveniently access their virtual desktop and applications on any device without having to install burdensome client software ahead of time. Support for hardware-accelerated 3-D graphics will enable the most graphically intensive applications to run inside virtual desktops, opening new industries such as CAD (computer assisted design) and CAM (computer assisted manufacturing) to VDI. Lastly, Horizon View 5.2 with Unity will offer a new intuitive, gesture-oriented interface to transform your Windows mobile environment into a tablet-friendly user experience.

 

Read more about what’s new in VMware Horizon View 5.2

 

-VMware Horizon Mirage 4 – A Better Physical Deskto

 

VMware Horizon Mirage 4 will provide an optimal end-user experience for both online and offline productivity while lowering IT costs with zero-touch management of desktop services. Horizon Mirage is a layered image management solution that separates the PC into logical layers owned and managed by either IT or the end user. Horizon Mirage 4 will give IT the ability to update individual layers without disruption to other layers, thus enabling end-user data and applications to be up to date. In addition, integration with VMware ThinApp application virtualization streamlines application packaging, which can enable smoother OS migrations and provide “roll-back” capabilities in case of failure or disaster. VMware Horizon Mirage 4 also extends support for virtual Windows environments on Macs with a free bundle of VMware Fusion® Professional, improving end user productivity.

 

Read more about what’s new in VMware Horizon Mirage

 

-Moving From the PC Era to the Multi-Device Era with VMware Professional Services

 

VMware Professional Services can help customers accelerate their move to the multi-device era with consulting services for VMware Horizon Suite. VMware Professional Services Consultants bring the expertise and know-how to customers to efficiently design and implement the solution to deliver business results. Visit VMware Professional Services for more information.

 

Pricing and Availability

 

VMware Horizon Suite is expected to be available in Q1 2013 and customers will have the option to leverage the entire platform of integrated products or purchase and deploy specific capabilities of the platform depending on their organizational needs.

 

VMware Horizon Suite will be licensed per named user with prices starting at US$300. All of the Horizon Suite products will also be sold individually. Go to VMware Horizon Suite Pricing/Buy page.

 

Additional Resources

-Visit the VMware Horizon Suite online press kit to get product details and images

-Read “Broadening VMware EUC’s Horizon” blog post by Scott Davis, CTO, End-User Computing, VMware

-Read “Transforming Windows Desktops Into a Centralized Service” blog post by Robert Baesman, director of desktop product management, End-User Computing, VMware

-Read “The Rise of the Multi-Device Workspace” blog post by Ben Goodman, lead evangelist for Horizon, End-User Computing, VMware

-Follow the VMware End-User Computing team on Twitter and Facebook

 

About VMware

 

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2012 revenues of US$4.61 billion, VMware has more than 480,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is based in Burlington, Ont., and can be found online at www.vmware.ca

 



[i] VMware, Inc., Survey of VMware Horizon Workspace Beta Customers, January 2013.

 

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Dell Reports Fourth Quarter, Full Fiscal Year Financial Results

Dell Reports Fourth Quarter, Full Fiscal Year Financial Results


Fiscal Year 2013 Full Year and Fourth Quarter Financial Statements in PDF format

  • Revenue of $14.3 billion in fourth quarter, $56.9 billion for the year
  • GAAP earnings of $0.30 per share in quarter, $1.35 per share for full year; non-GAAP earnings of $0.40 per share in quarter and $1.72 per share for full year
  • Cash flow from operations of $1.4 billion; $3.3 billion for fiscal year

Dell announced fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and full-year results today, with revenue of $14.3 billion for the quarter and $56.9 billion for the year. Revenue from enterprise solutions and services grew 6 percent in the quarter to $5.2 billion and was $19.4 billion, or 34 percent of Dell revenue for the fiscal year, a 4 percent gain over fiscal year 2012.

“We continued to execute our long-term strategy in Q4, and realized a 6 percent increase in our enterprise solutions and services business,” said Brian Gladden, Dell CFO. “We also continued to generate strong cash flow from operations of $1.4 billion in the quarter. Our strong balance sheet and cash position enabled the company to invest almost $5 billion in new capabilities and intellectual property this fiscal year, including great assets like Quest, SonicWall, Wyse and AppAssure.”

Results

  • Revenue in the quarter was $14.3 billion, an 11 percent decrease from the previous year, and a 4 percent increase sequentially. Revenue for the 2013 fiscal year was $56.9 billion, an 8 percent decrease. Dell’s fiscal year 2012 had an extra week, which was incorporated into the company’s Q4 results.
  • GAAP operating income for the quarter was $698 million, or 4.9 percent of revenue. Non-GAAP operating income was $954 million, or 6.7 percent of revenue. Gross margins for the quarter benefitted by approximately $250 million, primarily resulting from vendor settlements. For the fiscal year, GAAP operating income was $3 billion and non-GAAP operating income was $4 billion.
  • GAAP earnings per share in the quarter was 30 cents, down 30 percent from the previous year; non-GAAP EPS was 40 cents, down 22 percent. For the fiscal year, GAAP EPS was $1.35, down 28 percent year over year and non-GAAP EPS was $1.72, down 19 percent.
  • Cash flow from operations in the quarter was $1.4 billion, and Dell ended Q4 with $15.3 billion in cash and investments. Full-year cash flow from operations was $3.3 billion.

Fiscal-Year 2013 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Highlights
                                                                                         Fourth Quarter                              Fiscal Year

(in millions) FY13 FY12 Change FY13 FY12 Change
Revenue$14,314 $16,031(11%) $56,940$62,071 (8%)
Operating Income (GAAP) $698$931(25%) $3,012$4,431 (32%)
Net Income (GAAP) $530$764 (31%)$2,372 $3,492(32%)
EPS (GAAP)$0.30 $0.43(30%) $1.35$1.88 (28%)
Operating Income (non-GAAP) $954$1,143(17%) $3,973$5,135 (23%)
Net Income (non-GAAP) $702$913 (23%)$3,017 $3,952(24%)
EPS (non-GAAP)$0.40 $0.51(22%) $1.72$2.13 (19%)

Information about Dell’s use of non-GAAP financial information is provided under “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below. Non-GAAP financial information excludes costs related primarily to the amortization of purchased intangibles, severance and facility-action costs, certain settlement costs and acquisition-related charges. All comparisons in this press release are year over year unless otherwise noted.

Products and Solutions:

  • Dell server revenue increased 5 percent driven by strong growth in the company’s hyper-scale data center solutions business and migration to the company’s 12th-generation servers. The 12G-server line now represents almost 80 percent of Dell PowerEdge server revenue at average selling prices and margins that are a premium over previous-generation servers.
  • Dell networking continued to deliver strong growth, with a 42 percent revenue increase, including more than 100 percent growth in the company’s Force10 business.
  • Dell Quest software delivered revenue over the company’s stated target of $180-$200 million for the quarter. The company’s security software business also grew sequentially.
  • Dell desktop and mobility revenue declined 20 percent and was up 3 percent sequentially.

Business Units and Regions:

  • Large Enterprise had revenue of $4.7 billion in the quarter, a 7 percent decrease. Operating income for the quarter was $393 million, a 16 percent decrease. Server and networking revenue increased 25 percent and ES&S business grew 10 percent. Revenue for the full year was $17.8 billion, down 5 percent from the previous year.
  • Public revenue was $3.5 billion, a 9 percent decrease. O perating income for the quarter was $236 million, a 25 percent decrease. Servers and networking revenue grew 11 percent. Revenue for the full year was $14.8 billion, down 8 percent from the previous year.
  • Small and Medium Business revenue was $3.4 billion, a 5 percent decrease. O perating income for the quarter was $385 million, a 4 percent decrease. SMB enterprise solutions and services sales increased 9 percent for the quarter, driven by servers and networking growth of 13 percent and services revenue growth of 17 percent. Revenue for the full year was $13.4 billion, down 1 percent from the previous year.
  • Consumer revenue was $2.8 billion, a 24 percent decline for the quarter. Operating income was $8 million, an 87 percent decrease. Revenue for the full year was $10.9 billion, down 20 percent from the previous year.
  • EMEA revenue decreased 14 percent in the quarter, Americas was down 10 percent, and Asia-Pacific and Japan declined 9 percent.

Company Outlook:

Given the company’s announcement Feb. 5 of a definitive merger agreement to take Dell private, the company is not providing an outlook for its fiscal 2014 or Q1.

About Dell

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers worldwide innovative technology, business solutions and services they trust and value. For more information, visit www.dell.com. T he fourth-quarter a nalyst call with Brian Gladden, CFO, and Tom Sweet, Corporate Controller, will be webcast live today at 4 p.m. CST and archived atwww.dell.com/investor. To monitor highlighted facts from the analyst call, follow on the Dell Investor Relations Twitter account at: http://twitter.com/dellshares or hashtag #DellEarnings. To communicate directly with Dell, go towww.dell.com/dellshares.
































































































Yammer Accelerates Momentum Following Microsoft Acquisition

Yammer Accelerates Momentum Following Microsoft Acquisition
Feb. 20, 2013
Quadruples sales in Q4; surpasses 7 million users.

SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 20, 2013 — Yammer, Inc., a best-in-class Enterprise Social Network and part of the Microsoft Office Division, today announced record growth in 2012 and accelerating momentum following the Microsoft acquisition.

2012 Highlights

• Full-year 2012 sales nearly tripled year-over-year (ended Jan. 31, 2013)

• Fourth-quarter sales quadrupled year-over-year (ended Jan. 31, 2013)

• Number of paying customers increased 165 percent in 2012

• Surpassed 7 million registered users

“Yammer experienced banner growth in 2012 and grew particularly fast in the fourth quarter. Our momentum is definitely accelerating following the Microsoft acquisition,” said David Sacks, Yammer co-founder and corporate vice president, Microsoft Office Division. “The power of the freemium model and the validation that Microsoft brings to Enterprise Social Networking is helping drive mainstream adoption among leading organizations. Enterprise Social Networking is becoming the cornerstone of workplace collaboration for its ability to empower people and drive employee engagement, team collaboration and business agility.”

Record Customer Adoption

Yammer added a record 290 new paying customers in the fourth quarter, including DWF LLP, GlaxoSmithKline, Grundfos, McGladrey LLP, Reckitt Benckiser, Rio Tinto, SABMiller, T.G.I. Friday’s, Trek Bicycle Corp. and Woolworths Ltd. New customers spanned industries from financial and professional services to healthcare and pharmaceutical, including one of the largest retailers in the world and one of the largest natural gas and electric utilities companies in the United States.

Yammer Paid Customers Across Industries Include the Following:

  • Nine of the largest retailers in the world

  • Six of the largest food and beverage companies in the world

  • Five of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world

  • Four of the largest telecommunications companies in the world

  • Five of the largest oil and gas companies in the world

  • Four of the largest manufacturing companies in the world

  • Four of the largest financial services companies in the world (Findings based on customer placement within the Forbes Global 2000)

"The Yammer experience is clearly resonating with our global workforce, and it is overtaking some of our prior investments for internal collaboration and information management,” said Scott Singer, head of Global Business Services and chief information officer of Rio Tinto, a leading international mining group headquartered in the U.K.

Rapid Product Innovation

“Our pace of development and innovation is picking up speed as part of the Microsoft Office Division,” said Adam Pisoni, Yammer co-founder and general manager of Engineering, Microsoft Office Division. “The development teams are coming together quickly, and we are leveraging existing technologies such as SkyDrive Pro and Office Web Apps to swiftly deliver greater value for customers.”

As previewed at the recent SharePoint Conference, Yammer is implementing SkyDrive Pro for file storage. In addition, Yammer is enhancing the ability to preview and edit files directly within Yammer feeds using Office Web Apps. The combination of these capabilities will dramatically enhance a user’s ability to create, collaborate, share and discover content within Yammer. These enhancements are planned for availability in summer 2013.

About Yammer

Yammer (www.yammer.com) is a best-in-class Enterprise Social Network used by more than 200,000 organizations worldwide — including 85 percent of the Fortune 500 — to foster team collaboration, empower employees, drive business agility and promote organizational connectedness. Yammer’s freemium business model lets customers see the value of Yammer before upgrading to the premium offering. Founded in 2008, Yammer is now part of the Microsoft Office Division.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.














































































































Tenzing Partners with OMS; Provides End-to-end Solution for Order Management and Managed Hosting Services

 

 

NEWS RELEASE: Tenzing Expands its E-commerce Ecosystem in a Strategic Partnership with OMS (Order Management Systems)

 

New Agreement Provides End-to-End Solution for Order Management and Managed Hosting Services

 

TORONTO – February 20, 2013 Tenzing Managed IT Services, a leading provider of hosting solutions for e-commerce clients, System Integrators (SIs) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers, today announced a new strategic partnership with OMS (Order Management Systems), a provider of customized online order management and logistics solutions for e-commerce clients around the globe. This partnership provides Tenzing’s e-commerce customers a complete and fully-managed Order Management System application that is fully integrated with leading e-commerce platforms.

 

“At Tenzing, we understand how critical it is for our e-commerce clients to manage customer orders effectively through the entire process and that’s why we have partnered with OMS, an industry leader in this arena,” says Brian Shepard, Founder and CEO of Tenzing. “By partnering with OMS, we can offer additional value to our e-commerce clients by delivering a comprehensive order management software platform to help to ensure the order tracking and fulfillment components of e-commerce run flawlessly. This aligns with Tenzing’s strategy of becoming a leading services provider for e-commerce businesses.”

 

“At OMS, we are committed to delivering fully automated order fulfillment and order processing systems while providing insights that help ease online ordering and product fulfillment processing. We are excited to partner with Tenzing, a company that shares our commitment to work side-by-side with customers to solve their business challenges,” says Barry Shepherd, CEO at OMS. “As a highly specialized service provider and expert in e-commerce platforms, Tenzing can deliver the level of customization required to support customers’ complex business needs as well as provide the infrastructure that will keep their businesses running 24/7.”

 

Highly specialized in the e-commerce space, Tenzing supports leading technology platforms such as Oracle ATG Web Commerce, IBM WebSphere Commerce, Intershop, Magento, and others. In addition, the company offers an array of complementary services such as fully managed PCI compliance, comprehensive application monitoring, DoS mitigation, content delivery and load-testing. Tenzing is Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliant and annually maintains major industry certifications including ISO 27001 and SSAE16 Type II, to provide the highest levels of data security to its clients.

 

About OMS (Order Management Systems)

Order Management Systems is a turn-key, start-to-finish solution, providing customized online order management and logistics solutions for international brands worldwide. With locations across the globe, OMS provides the insight and experience necessary to help ease online ordering and product fulfillment processing for both mid-to-large scale companies. Solutions include: Order Management, Inventory Management, Customer Relationship Management, and Order Fulfillment. All OMS Modules interface with some of the industry’s leading E-Commerce Platforms, Accounting Systems, Call Centers, and Payment Gateways. More information can be found at: http://www.ordermanagementsystems.com/usa/technology/


About Tenzing Managed IT Services

Founded in 1998 and serving more than 450 customers, Tenzing is a leading provider of hosting solutions for e-commerce clients, System Integrators (SIs), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. Tenzing's mature IT Service Management (ITSM) and ITIL best practices provide the foundation for the reliable, secure, and scalable delivery of complex applications around the clock. Backed by comprehensive Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Tenzing is both ISO 27001 and SSAE16 certified with data centres in Toronto, ON, and Vancouver and Kelowna, BC. Tenzing also offers Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) solutions for e-commerce and other clients managing credit card information. For more information, visit: www.tenzing.com

 

 

Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence Software Revenue to Grow 7 Percent in 2013

Gartner Says Worldwide Business Intelligence Software Revenue to Grow 7 Percent in 2013

Analysts to Discuss Business Intelligence Trends at Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit 2013 February 25-26 in Sydney and March 18-20 in Grapevine, Texas

February 19, 2013

Worldwide business intelligence (BI) software revenue will reach $13.8 billion in 2013, a 7 percent increase from 2012, according to Gartner, Inc. The market is forecast to reach $17.1 billion by 2016.

"BI and analytics have grown to become the fourth-largest application software segment as end users continue to prioritize BI and information-centric projects and spending to improve decision making and analysis," said Dan Sommer, principal research analyst at Gartner. "As more and more information is generated, business models need reinvention, and it's increasingly clear that mastering analytics on big data will be a key driver for the next economic cycle."

CIO appetite for BI is complemented by more-tactical buying in business units for departmental and workgroup analysis, as well as for personal BI, enabled by the Nexus of Forces (cloud, mobile, social and information). These are fundamental drivers. However, in the near term, growth will be hampered by sluggish macro indicators, as well as by slowing sales cycles of multimillion-dollar end-to-end BI deals. Compared with 2011 growth of 16 percent, 2013 and the coming years are expected to be slower, with growth in the high single digits.

"Although this is a mature market and has been a top CIO priority for years, there is still a lot of unmet demand. Every company has numerous subject areas — such as HR, marketing, social and so on — that have yet to even start with BI and analytics," said Kurt Schlegel, research vice president at Gartner. "The descriptive analytics have largely been completed for most large companies in traditional subject areas, such as finance and sales, but there is still a lot of growth expected for diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive deployments. Since many midsize enterprises have yet to even start their BI and analytic initiatives, we expect the market for BI and analytics platforms will remain one of the fastest-growing software markets."

The emerging data-as-a-service trend could significantly grow the market for BI and analytics platforms. Today, the business model is largely "build" driven in that organizations license software capabilities to build analytic applications. However, organizations increasingly will subscribe to industry-specific data services that bundle a narrow set of data with BI and analytic capabilities embedded. In time, most companies, regardless of their business model, will need to provide a data-as-a-service offering. Therefore, this trend has the potential to grow the market significantly as a range of vendors look to embed a BI and analytic platform provider's software capabilities into their data-as-a-service offerings.

More detailed analysis is available in the reports "Forecast Analysis: Enterprise Application Software, Worldwide, 2011-2016, 4Q12 Update" and “Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence andAnalytics Platforms”. The reports are available on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/resId=2323315 andhttp://www.gartner.com/resId=2326815, respectively.

Additional information and analysis on the BI software market will be discussed at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summits 2013 taking place February 25-26 in Sydney and March 18-20 in Grapevine, Texas. The Gartner BI Summit is specifically designed to drive organizations toward analytics excellence by exploring the latest trends in BI and analytics and examining how the two disciplines relate to one another. Gartner analysts will discuss how the Nexus of Forces will impact BI and analytics, and share best practices for developing and managing successful mobile BI, analytics and master data management initiatives.

More information on the BI & Information Management Summit 2013 in Sydney can be found athttp://www.gartner.com/technology/summits/apac/business-intelligence/. Members of the press can register for this Summit by contacting Susan Moore at susan.moore@gartner.com.

More information on the BI & Analytics Summit 2013 in Texas can be found at www.gartner.com/us/bi. Members of the press can register for this Summit by Christy Pettey at christy.pettey@gartner.com.

Information from the Gartner BI Summits 2013 will be shared on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Gartner_inc using#GartnerBI.

Additional information on BI and analytics will be presented in the webinar "Strategies for Business Intelligence and Analytics in the Cloud" taking place March 28 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. EST. To register for this complimentary webinar, please visit http://my.gartner.com/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=202&mode=2&PageID=5553&ref=webinar-rss&resId=2313417&srcId=1-2994690285

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