Information Technology

Enterprise IT Seeking VPN Alternatives for Applications Networking, IIoT and Multi-cloud; According to Futuriom Survey

CHARLOTTE, NC - October 10th 2018 -- NetFoundry today announced the findings of a new survey of 200 enterprise IT managers discussing applications networking, security and the cloud. The shift of applications from on premises applications to hybrid-cloud environments has posed myriad challenges to IT departments who need to efficiently and securely connect applications. To gain insight into these challenges, the research firm Futuriom surveyed 200 IT managers in application development, networking, security and DevOps and reached some major conclusions in a new report.

UK customers now contact brands nearly half a billion times every month, costing organisations £1.227 billion

Research finds consumers happy to adopt automated channels such as Alexa-style voice assistants, self-service and chatbots

Reading, UK, 10 October 2018 – New research highlights the growing volume of consumer queries that UK brands now need to handle, and the increasing cost this imposes on companies. The average UK consumer now contacts organisations nine times per month, according to research undertaken as part of the 2018 Eptica Customer Experience Automation Study.

Panaya Named User Experience Testing Solution Vendor of the Year

Hackensack, NJ – October 9, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery platforms, has been named the User Experience Testing Solution Vendor of the Year by QA Financial at the QA Vector Awards 2018. They are the only awards dedicated to software quality assurance, testing, delivery and IT risk management at banks and other financial services firms.

The User Experience Testing Solution Vendor of the Year highlights an organization that helps its customers build a strong user experience online as this has an increasingly significant impact in overall market share, especially in retail financial services. The winners of the awards have demonstrated:

North American credential theft industry records substantial quarterly increase, against declines in Europe and Asia

09 October 2018 – Barcelona, Spain – Blueliv, a leading European enterprise-class cyberthreat intelligence company, today releases its latest quarterly credential theft analysis following the initial release of its report on The Credential Theft Ecosystem in June 2018. According to Blueliv’s credential detection data, compromised credentials retrieved from botnets geolocated to North America has risen by 141% quarter-over-quarter (March to May 2018 over June to August 2018). Meanwhile, Blueliv has observed that Europe and Russia saw a decrease of 22%, while compromised credentials geolocated to Asian countries dropped by 36%.

Zylpha’s new Hubshare integration allows Visualfiles users to collaborate for the first time

An innovative new integration enables files stored in Visualfiles to be accessed collaboratively between departments or practices for the first time.

The new product integration is the result of a strategic partnership between leading legal technology innovator Zylpha (www.zylpha.com) and Nikec Solutions, the developers of Hubshare, the extranet platform that streamlines sharing and collaboration of documents and information with other legal teams and/or clients.

Endace Launches World’s First Petabyte Network Recording Appliance

Auckland, New Zealand, September 26, 2018 – Endace, a specialist in high-speed network recording, traffic playback and analytics hosting, today announced the launch of its new, ultra-high-capacity, 9200 Series EndaceProbe™ Analytics Platform. With built-in compression, and patented Smart Truncation™, the 9200 Series can record more than a petabyte of network traffic at a sustained 40Gbps.

In order to conclusively investigate and respond to security threats and performance issues, many organizations rely on recorded network packet history. The new EndaceProbe 9200 Series delivers a 5x boost in packet storage density, dramatically extending the depth of Network History that can be recorded for analysis.

Flexera First to take Software Monetisation Technology to the Edge

FlexNet Edge Enables Software Updates and Insights for Edge Devices, Adding More Control and Security to the Software Supply Chain

Maidenhead, UK Sept. 25, 2018 – Flexera, the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured, announced today the launch of FlexNet Edge, a new component of Flexera’s Software and IoT Monetization Platform. The smart edge server enables updates and gathers device data from partially connected or disconnected environments. It advances Flexera’s new Updates and Insights technology and provides full automation and control for the delivery and deployment of software and firmware updates.

OKI Europe launches narrow format colour label printers offering creativity and flexibility in label printing

The OKI Pro Series Label Printer will enable cost effective in-house short to medium-run label production

Egham, 24th September 2018 - OKI Europe is expanding into the label printer market with the launch of two new label printers, the Pro Series 1040 and 1050, to the ever expanding OKI Europe portfolio.

Focusing on the growth of evolving markets, the Pro1040 and Pro1050 represent OKI’s new innovation in label printing technology and will help businesses bring greater attention to their products through the quick, easy and cost-effective creation of eye-catching labels.

Flexera InstallShield’s Latest Release Supports Microsoft’s MSIX

New Version Provides Easy MSIX Creation & Conversion and Improved Designer Interface

Maidenhead, UK – September 20, 2018 – Flexera, the company that’s reimagining how software is bought, sold, managed and secured, today announced the release of InstallShield 2018 R2, providing easy installation creation and conversion support for MSIX, the latest deployment type from Microsoft. The release also offers a new, easier-to-use InstallShield designer interface to help development teams move faster and improve time-to-value.

Out-of-the-Box Support to Build MSIX Packages