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Digital River Provides Global Online Subscription Services for Adobe Systems Creative Cloud Across 19 Geographies

Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), the revenue growth experts in global cloud commerce, announced that it signed an expanded e-commerce agreement with Adobe Systems Incorporated. Based on the agreement, Digital River is supporting subscription purchases of the Adobe® Creative Cloud™ desktop applications in 19 geographies, including LATAM, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. Adobe has been a partner of Digital River since 2004. “Through our ongoing partnership with Digital River, we have been able to make the shift to subscriptions a natural next step in the evolution of our global commerce offering,” said Matt Thompson, Adobe’s executive vice president of Global Field Operations. “Together, we are delivering our Creative Cloud subscriptions to customers in our commercial and education markets t... (more)

Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform by Sonic Foundry Named ‘Best New Rich Media Data Management System’ By AV Technology Magazine

Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the trusted leader for video content management and webcasting solutions, today announced that its new Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform won a 2013 AV Technology Award. This third annual awards program through AV Technology Magazine recognizes innovations that benefit end-users, technology managers and facility directors. Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform is named the ‘Best New Rich Media Data Management System.’ Winners were announced at the NewBay Media Awards Ceremony last week at InfoComm 2013 in Orlando, Fla. “Our community innovates e... (more)

Focal Press Announces “Adobe Photoshop® CC for Photographers” Book

Focal Press, a leading publisher of media technology books, has announced the availability of digital imaging aficionado and author Martin Evening’s new book, “Adobe Photoshop CC for Photographers.” The book is currently available for pre-order and will be on shelves on July 1. Now in its 11th edition, the title guides photographers and digital artists through Adobe’s latest release of its graphics and image editing software, Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC), formerly known as the Creative Suite (CS). The book addresses the latest software enhancements and provides advanced, step-b... (more)

ExtraHop Accelerates Murphy USA’s Application Performance

ExtraHop, the provider of real-time IT operational intelligence from wire data, announced today that it has helped Murphy USA increase application speeds by as much as 500 percent. A wholly owned subsidiary of Murphy Oil operating 1,258 gas stations in 23 U.S. states, Murphy USA also has used ExtraHop to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for network and application troubleshooting by 70 percent. Despite having numerous legacy monitoring tools in place, Murphy USA found that only ExtraHop could provide real-time visibility into application performance. This visibility is requ... (more)

Top 3 Free Ways to Convert PPT to PDF

Almost everyone has seen or used Adobe PDF file in different carriers like official documents, resumes, important letters, online brochures, eBooks and other online literatures, etc. Many people even try every means to convert Word, Excel and PowerPoint to PDF. Do you know why? PDF (Portable Document Format) is the universally-used standard and secure way [...] ... (more)

Best Recent Articles on Cloud Computing & Big Data Topics
By Jeremy Geelan
The Arlington, Virginia-based National Science Foundation has just released its "Report on Support for Cloud Computing" - in response to the America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010, Section 524. It is an absolute must-read for all concerned with current and future research projects in Cloud Computing.
Reads: 9,001
By Jeremy Geelan
"The volume of data we're generating now from machines pales in comparison to the volume of data we'll soon generate from our own bodies," says data security expert Dave Asprey. Writing in a Trend Micro blog, Asprey - who is one of the leaders in the emerging Quantified Self movement - explains his vision of a world in which personal biometrical data is shared via the cloud.
Reads: 15,268
By Wolfram Jost
Cloud computing has caught the attention of business leaders around the world in every industry because of its enormous transformative potential. Visionary companies know that the value of the cloud is far greater than the current focus solely on technology and operating costs: when combined with a collaborative approach to designing processes, cloud computing will change how we do business.
Reads: 21,807
By Elizabeth White
Want to make sense of the hottest new concept in Enterprise IT? Want to understand in just hours what experts have spent many hundreds of days deciphering? Cloud computing is a technology that has rapidly evolving peppered with a lot of hype along the way. Customers find it hard to navigate through this and make sense of what aspects of this technology will give them real business benefit. Cloud Computing Bootcamp, led by our 2013 Bootcamp Instructor Larry Carvalho, is a great way to get a practical understanding of this technology. We offer multiple days of actionable insight into what vendor offerings are currently available and help you comprehend their strategy. The ever-popular Bootcamp, which is now held regularly around the world, is being held in conjunction with the 12th Cloud Expo, June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center, New York, NY.
Reads: 11,050
By Larry Bettino
Did you know that ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the last two years? Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data, according to IBM. As corporations across all industries globally are struggling with how to retain, aggregate and analyze this mounting volume of what the industry refers to as Big Data, it also provides a unique opportunity for innovative startups that recognize the business prospects Big Data presents. Big Data is not just unlocking new information but new sources of economic and business value. Interactivity is driving Big Data, with people and machines both consuming and creating it. Digital companies focused on becoming good at aggregating and analyzing the data created by the end users of their product, who then provide their customers with solid insights taken from that data are at a distinct competitive advantage over others in the marketplace.
Reads: 8,915
By Elizabeth White
Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and PaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and health care. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016. The value of industry-specific clouds is that businesses within a vertical can connect to applications, processes, and databases that are pre-defined for that vertical within a public or private cloud. They can extend processes and databases into the business domain, versus defining the data and processes within a generic cloud-based platform. So, are industry specific clouds right for your business? What options are out there? How do you figure out the ROI?
Reads: 7,056
By Pat Romanski
SYS-CON Events announced today that Rackspace Hosting, the open cloud company, has been named "Platinum Plus Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX) is the open cloud company, delivering open technologies and powering more than 205,000 customers worldwide. Rackspace provides its renowned Fanatical Support® across a broad portfolio of IT products, including Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting and Dedicated Hosting. Rackspace has been recognized by Bloomberg BusinessWeek as a Top 100 Performing Technology Company, is featured on Fortune's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For and is included on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Rackspace was positioned in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner Inc. in the "2011 Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting." Rackspace is headquartered in San Antonio with offices and data centers around the world.
By Liz McMillan
10th International Cloud Expo, held on June 11-14, 2012 at the Javits Center in New York City, featured four content-packed days with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of cloud computing led by exceptional speakers from every sector of the cloud computing ecosystem. The Cloud Expo series is the fastest-growing Enterprise IT event in the past 10 years, devoted to every aspect of delivering massively scalable enterprise IT as a service. We invite you to enjoy our photo album of the show - we'll be adding new images all week.
Reads: 9,564
By Carmen Gonzalez
Ulitzer.com announced "the World's 30 most influential Cloud bloggers," who collectively generated more than 24 million Ulitzer page views. Ulitzer's annual "most influential Cloud bloggers" list was announced at Cloud Expo, which drew more delegates than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide. "The world's 50 most influential Cloud bloggers 2010" list will be announced at the Cloud Expo 2010 East, which will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center, in New York City, with more than 5,000 expected to attend.
Reads: 47,455
By Kevin Hartig
Cloud computing is becoming one of the next industry buzz words. It joins the ranks of terms including: grid computing, utility computing, virtualization, clustering, etc. Cloud computing overlaps some of the concepts of distributed, grid and utility computing, however it does have its own meaning if contextually used correctly. The conceptual overlap is partly due to technology changes, usages and implementations over the years. Trends in usage of the terms from Google searches shows Cloud Computing is a relatively new term introduced in the past year. There has also been a decline in general interest of Grid, Utility and Distributed computing. Likely they will be around in usage for quit a while to come. But Cloud computing has become the new buzz word driven largely by marketing and service offerings from big corporate players like Google, IBM and Amazon.
Reads: 200,672
By Elizabeth White
SYS-CON Events announced today that Dell Inc. has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10-13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York. For more than 28 years, Dell has empowered countries, communities, customers and people everywhere to use technology to realize their dreams. Customers trust Dell to deliver technology solutions that help them do and achieve more, whether they're at home, work, school or anywhere in their world. Learn more about Dell's story, purpose and people behind its customer-centric approach.
Reads: 3,202
By Liz McMillan
One of the most compelling promises of the cloud is that you can pull out a credit card and be working in minutes. No purchase orders to fill out, no equipment to wait for on the loading dock. Just instant access to the resources you need, when you need them. But accessibility comes at a price, and an unintentional consequence may be that you create yet another orphaned identity silo. Enterprise IT has spent years consolidating its mishmash of directories, only to discover that cloud now threatens to turn back their hard-won victories. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Scott Morrison, CTO and Chief Architect at Layer 7 Technologies, will look at strategies to incorporate identity into cloud applications. Enterprise identity or social login can both be a part of your go-to-cloud strategy, but you must plan for this upfront, rather than try to retrofit identity and access control at a later date.
Reads: 3,657
By Roger Strukhoff
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