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Infor Acquires GRASP Systems International

Infor on Tuesday announced the completed acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Colorado-based GRASP Systems International, Inc. («GRASP»), a leading provider of automated patient acuity, workload management, patient assignment systems and consulting services to healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada. GRASP’s strong analytics and reporting capabilities will help Infor address the current cost-crisis occurring in healthcare, and deepen the Infor Healthcare suite by providing another leading solution to the market.
«This acquisition will add value to our existing development efforts for Infor Workforce Management for Healthcare by leveraging information from Infor Cloverleaf and real-time analytics from Infor Care Path Optimization,» said Duncan Angove, president, Infor. «Adding this functionality will enable health systems to go deeper than ever in understanding how staff resources are used in patient care and the costs associated at the patient procedure level to predict not only patient staffing needs based upon patient diagnoses, but also cost while benchmarking against their peers.»

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Huawei Selects SOASTA to Provide Cloud Performance Testing

SOASTA® Inc., on Tuesday announced that Huawei has selected SOASTA to provide continuous integration and robust functional test automation for its business and consumer offerings. Huawei will utilize SOASTA TouchTest and CloudTest for internal testing of Huawei’s apps, ensuring peak performance and user experiences for its PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) ecosystem.

“We chose to work with SOASTA because of its unrivaled leadership in cloud and mobile testing,” said Guoqiang Rong, President of Device Cloud, Huawei. “SOASTA continues to outperform the competition by ensuring top application performance and quality user experiences, allowing our developer base to bring their apps to market quickly. Huawei would have needed three companies to accomplish what SOASTA can achieve. We look forward to continuing our work together to enhance our business and consumer cloud offerings in China and beyond.”

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NuoDB Among Vendors to Launch on New IBM Cloud Marketplace Preview

NuoDB, Inc., on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of the Blackbirds Free Edition of the NuoDB product on the newly launched preview of the IBM Cloud Marketplace.
“The new IBM marketplace will be the primary destination for customers deploying cloud applications and services,” stated Barry Morris, NuoDB CEO and Co-Founder. “NuoDB was selected for its webscale distributed database architecture that supports SQL and ACID transactions. The NuoDB product uniquely provides IBM customers with the scale-out performance, continuous availability and geo-distribution features needed to deliver the benefits of cloud deployment.”
IBM announced the marketplace on Monday, April 28 with a limited number of elite preview vendors whose cloud software demonstrated high affinity with IBM cloud technology. The easily accessible marketplace includes both IBM and select third party offerings.

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NuoDB Among Vendors to Launch on New IBM Cloud Marketplace Preview

NuoDB, Inc., on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of the Blackbirds Free Edition of the NuoDB product on the newly launched preview of the IBM Cloud Marketplace.
“The new IBM marketplace will be the primary destination for customers deploying cloud applications and services,” stated Barry Morris, NuoDB CEO and Co-Founder. “NuoDB was selected for its webscale distributed database architecture that supports SQL and ACID transactions. The NuoDB product uniquely provides IBM customers with the scale-out performance, continuous availability and geo-distribution features needed to deliver the benefits of cloud deployment.”
IBM announced the marketplace on Monday, April 28 with a limited number of elite preview vendors whose cloud software demonstrated high affinity with IBM cloud technology. The easily accessible marketplace includes both IBM and select third party offerings.

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Delivering Value Through Applications

“Hybrid clouds offer users the opportunity to deploy application workloads in environments that best meet requirements for compliance, performance, or cost,” noted Bernard Golden, Vice President of Strategy at ActiveState, in this exclusive Q&A with Cloud Expo Conference and Tech Chairs Larry Carvalho and Vanessa Alvarez. “The key challenge to truly achieving the best outcomes from hybrid cloud computing involve mapping dissimilar APIs, operations, services, and pricing.”
Cloud Computing Journal: How are cloud standards playing a role in expanding adoption among users? Are standards helping new business models for service providers?
Bernard Golden: To date, standards promulgated by official bodies have not played much role in cloud computing due to the rapid evolution of the market and offerings. However, de facto standards based on wide adoption or consortia are having a significant effect on the market and allowing users to have more confidence in their choices. Examples of de facto standards include the AWS API for cloud interaction, the OpenStack IaaS open source project for resource orchestration, and the CloudFoundry open source project for application development and deployment.

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Infor Acquires GRASP Systems International

Infor on Tuesday announced the completed acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Colorado-based GRASP Systems International, Inc. («GRASP»), a leading provider of automated patient acuity, workload management, patient assignment systems and consulting services to healthcare organizations in the U.S. and Canada. GRASP’s strong analytics and reporting capabilities will help Infor address the current cost-crisis occurring in healthcare, and deepen the Infor Healthcare suite by providing another leading solution to the market.
«This acquisition will add value to our existing development efforts for Infor Workforce Management for Healthcare by leveraging information from Infor Cloverleaf and real-time analytics from Infor Care Path Optimization,» said Duncan Angove, president, Infor. «Adding this functionality will enable health systems to go deeper than ever in understanding how staff resources are used in patient care and the costs associated at the patient procedure level to predict not only patient staffing needs based upon patient diagnoses, but also cost while benchmarking against their peers.»

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Huawei Selects SOASTA to Provide Cloud Performance Testing

SOASTA® Inc., on Tuesday announced that Huawei has selected SOASTA to provide continuous integration and robust functional test automation for its business and consumer offerings. Huawei will utilize SOASTA TouchTest and CloudTest for internal testing of Huawei’s apps, ensuring peak performance and user experiences for its PaaS (Platform as a Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) ecosystem.

“We chose to work with SOASTA because of its unrivaled leadership in cloud and mobile testing,” said Guoqiang Rong, President of Device Cloud, Huawei. “SOASTA continues to outperform the competition by ensuring top application performance and quality user experiences, allowing our developer base to bring their apps to market quickly. Huawei would have needed three companies to accomplish what SOASTA can achieve. We look forward to continuing our work together to enhance our business and consumer cloud offerings in China and beyond.”

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Disruptive Web Innovation

Forgotten in the outcry over the NSA snooping on people’s online activities is that our favorite websites and online marketers do the same thing every day. However, profiling, tracking and third-party leaks will soon be tools of the past. Re2You is re-imagining how we use the Internet. This new cloud OS creates a dynamic, drag-and-drop interface for an entirely new and secure, privacy respecting Web experience—as well as cookie free new marketing opportunities.
A very simple idea actually, but broadly effecting every side of internet use, privacy, marketing, interface, the whole nine yards: Re2You’s software creates an abstraction layer that not only lets users drag and drop content from Web applications and online services, but also provides a wealth of secure data that is only made available with the user’s permission.

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Silanis to Exhibit at Cloud Expo New York

SYS-CON Events announced today that Silanis, the world’s leading electronic signature provider, will exhibit at SYS-CON’s 14th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 10–12, 2014, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
Silanis is the world’s leading electronic signature provider. Since the company was founded in 1992, our software has automated business transactions that require secure, compliant and enforceable e-signatures. Recognized as the enterprise market leader, we are responsible for processing more than 600 million e-signed transactions annually – more than any other e-signature vendor. These transactions represent billions of dollars’ worth of regulated business processes taking place 24/7 around the globe, from insurance applications and consumer loans to federal procurement contracts. Our customers represent the leading organizations within their respective fields, including four of North America’s top 10 banks, eight of the top 15 insurers and the entire US Army, among others.

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