Tuesday, September 3, 2013
HP News - Rhode Island Awards HP $89.9 Million Medicaid Contract Extension
HP News - Rhode Island Awards HP $89.9 Million Medicaid Contract Extension: HP Enterprise Services today announced the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) has signed a $89.9 million, five-year contract for HP to continue as fiscal agent for Rhode Island’s Medicaid program and additional state departments.
IBM Closes on Acquisition of Trusteer
IBM Press Release:
IBM Closes on Acquisition of Trusteer
Cybersecurity software lab will focus on mobile and application security
ARMONK, N.Y - 03 Sep 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Trusteer, Ltd., a privately held leading provider of software that helps protect organizations against fraud and advanced security threats. On August 15, IBM announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Trusteer. Financial terms were not disclosed.
"The acquisition of Trusteer builds on more than 40 years of IBM’s rich contribution to the security space,” said Brendan Hannigan, General Manager, IBM Security Systems. “Trusteer will extend our data security capabilities further into the cloud, mobile and endpoint security space. This acquisition helps provide our clients with comprehensive network and endpoint anti-malware solutions.”
Also announced on August 15, IBM is forming a cybersecurity software lab in Israel that will bring together more than 200 Trusteer and IBM researchers and developers to focus on mobile and application security, advanced threat protection, malware, counter-fraud, and financial crimes. This lab is an addition to IBM’s existing research and development facilities in Israel.
“This acquisition is further proof that IBM is serious about providing clients with the security intelligence capabilities to help protect organizations in a constantly evolving threat landscape,” said John Johnson, Global Security Strategist, John Deere. “As part of IBM, Trusteer’s counter-fraud capabilities, along with the creation of a cybersecurity software lab, will help make advances in counter-fraud and malware protection.”
Among the capabilities Trusteer will bring to the IBM security portfolio:
Comprehensive Counter-Fraud and Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Protection
Trusteer's cybersecurity protection scales to help protect tens of millions of endpoints, including smartphones and tablets. Malware and fraudulent activity can be identified and removed using solutions from Trusteer.
Security as a Service Delivered through the Cloud
Cloud-delivered security solutions by Trusteer will complement more than 100 Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions offered by IBM. Because Trusteer software can be delivered through the cloud, organizations can receive accurate, real-time updates on malicious activities and the latest threats, better protecting data from fraud and compromise.
Helping to Secure Mobile Transactions
Trusteer can help provide account takeover prevention with compromised device detection, complex device fingerprinting and a global fraudster database.
About IBM Security
IBM provides the security intelligence to help organizations protect their people, data, applications and infrastructure. IBM operates one of the world's broadest security research and development organizations. IBM manages and monitors 15 billion security events every day for nearly 4,000 clients around the world and holds more than 3,000 security patents. For more information on IBM security, please visit: www.ibm.com/security
To learn more about IBM’s acquisition of Trusteer and to download an FAQ, please visit http://www.ibm.com/security/trusteer
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Enterprises Adopt IBM Cloud for Business Continuity and Enhanced Customer Service
IBM Press Release:
Enterprises Adopt IBM Cloud for Business Continuity and Enhanced Customer Service
IBM provides tailor made SmartCloud solution to help businesses respond to disruptions effectively and minimize data loss.
Bangalore, India - 03 Sep 2013: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that three organizations in India -- spanning manufacturing and services industries -- have selected IBM’s cloud-based disaster recovery service to ensure business continuity and operational resiliency. IBM SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery (VSR) will provide these organizations with a fully managed, robust server recovery solution that will ensure faster restoration, while minimizing data loss and enabling continued customer service in any disaster scenario.
The organizations that have adopted the IBM SmartCloud VSR solution include: Servion Global Solutions, a Customer Interaction Management (CIM) solutions firm; Synthite Industries, a manufacturer of natural products and Luminous, a power back-up solution provider.
Enterprises in India are increasingly using cloud based technologies to drive agility and integration across functions and operations.
In today’s competitive world, organizations are under immense pressure to provide more efficient and timely customer services. They are offering a variety of new-age services and customer touch points like e-commerce, online banking, and customer self-service, among others. Business resiliency and continuity is therefore critical to organizations as any downtime may potentially result in revenue loss, customer dissatisfaction and negative brand image. Organizations, including small and medium enterprises, are heavily focusing on disaster recovery to ensure seamless business operations.
“The need for uninterrupted business operations has become crucial for us to ensure enhanced customer engagement and protect critical business data”, said Chander Khanduja, CIO, Luminous. “IBM’s proven expertise in cloud based virtual recovery, assured us of a highly resilient infrastructure that helped us mitigate downtime risks. The subscription-based pricing model provides costs benefits as well.”
VSR is a disaster recovery service, which enables clients to not only provision recovery resources in minutes but also avoid errors of manual operations. It ensures that the company seamlessly continues its business operations without any disruption to client service. Businesses look to cloud-based VSR service for its reliability, scalability and ability to dramatically reduce recovery time.
The service helps improve server recovery time and reliability by leveraging high quality automation and cloud tools. It minimizes the risk of failure due to disparate hardware at the production data centre and provides remote portal access to help reduce cost and time as well as the inconvenience of travelling to the recovery site.
“It is important for organizations to have a strategic approach to business continuity and resiliency,” said Lingraju Sawkar, Director, Integrated Technology Services, Global Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia. “In the event of a disaster, a physical recovery approach may drastically increase the risk of data loss while significantly increasing recovery time as well. But the IBM SmartCloud VSR solution leverages advanced cloud tools to help enterprises improve business reliability with remote server recovery flexibility.”
About Servion
For more information, please visit: http://www.servion.com/default.aspx
About Luminous
For more information, please visit: www.luminousindia.com
About Synthite
For more information, please visit: www.synthite.com
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