NextDocs, the global leader in Microsoft SharePoint-based compliance solutions for the life sciences industry, announced its inaugural ShareFEST Europe conference, building on the success of the U.S. based ShareFEST conferences.

ShareFEST Europe is the premier Microsoft SharePoint conference for European life sciences companies. The conference will feature two keynote speakers: Bart Bogaerts from Microsoft and Matt Walz from NextDocs. It will be held on October 18, 2012 in Amsterdam at the Hilton Amsterdam.

Bart Bogaerts from Microsoft will headline the conference with a keynote address focusing on Microsoft SharePoint and Office 15. Matt Walz of NextDocs will deliver the second keynote, focused on collaboration and compliance solutions in life sciences. He will explain how to maximize enterprise-wide investments in SharePoint to meet compliance requirements while supporting a global, mobile workforce. Speakers from Microsoft, sanofi-aventis, Rentschler, and IDT Biologika GmbH will also take the stage to discuss the use of SharePoint in life sciences.

ShareFEST Europe attracts speakers and attendees from global pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers, biotechs, and service providers. Speakers will present case studies and best practices for SharePoint deployments in leading life sciences companies, as well as share successful use cases for how SharePoint can optimize collaboration and compliance. The conference also will give attendees the opportunity to meet with speakers, discuss SharePoint with colleagues, and connect with experts on using technology within complex regulatory environments.

“The success of our U.S. ShareFEST events and the October release of new Microsoft technologies presented us with a great opportunity to bring this dynamic event overseas. It’s the only conference where life sciences professionals can come together to discuss SharePoint and related technologies that address life sciences’ business needs,” says Zikria Syed, Chief Executive Officer of NextDocs. “The ultimate goal is to help make life sciences companies more efficient and successful through the use of Microsoft SharePoint. In a single day, our attendees can discover best practices, identify typical pitfalls and how to avoid them, and maximize the return on their investment in SharePoint.”

To find out more information about ShareFEST Europe, visit the conference website at http://sharefestconference.com/eu/ .

About NextDocs Corporation

NextDocs is the global leader in providing Microsoft SharePoint-based compliance software solutions including quality management software, regulatory document management, and clinical portals. Our solutions enable businesses in regulated industries to achieve compliance with FDA and other agencies while automating processes, improving efficiency, and dramatically reducing costs. NextDocs customers include pharmaceutical companies, biotechs, medical device companies, and CROs. For more information on NextDocs Corporation and its software solutions visit www.nextdocs.com.

NextDocs Media Contact:

Orang Gholikhani
[email protected]
+33-158042612

Acronis®, a leading provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that it has acquired secure enterprise file access, sharing, and syncing software company GroupLogic® to help organizations keep their dynamic data accessible and available at all times, on any platform, from creation to storage.

The acquisition of GroupLogic is a significant component of Acronis’ vision to address new market demands for data availability, accessibility and protection against the rise in enterprise mobility, the volume and velocity of content creation, user driven collaboration tools and rising storage costs.

Since joining Acronis in January 2012, President & CEO Alex Pinchev has recognized that powerful forces in the market are causing CIOs to re-think their approach to data. “Our customers are facing a new IT environment. The growth of big data, the drive for greater collaboration and the rise in mobile working have introduced new devices and unsecure file sharing practices into the enterprise. Confidential corporate content is regularly leaving the network on iPads®, smartphones or via a public Cloud. With the acquisition of GroupLogic we are positioned to help organizations of all sizes realize the benefits of enterprise mobility and secure collaboration, while keeping corporate content and systems available and accessible at all times,” said Pinchev.

IDC Analyst Laura DuBois said, “Applying Acronis’ strong heritage of providing easy-to-use backup and recovery technologies for any type of IT environment to the enterprise social collaboration market, gives enterprises a way to not only protect data, but also enable secure and centralized corporate file sharing, access and synchronization. When combined with the demands for storage optimization, Acronis is significantly expanding its offering to prepare organizations for the third platform of computing, which is built on cloud services, mobile workers, social business and Big Data.”

“GroupLogic and Acronis share a common vision that software for the modern IT organization has to be easy to use, support a diversity of platforms and most importantly, reduce operating costs while mitigating risk,” said Chris Broderick, the former CEO of GroupLogic who has joined Acronis as SVP, Mobility Solutions. “Together, we can give CIO’s the tools that address secure collaboration and data accessibility from creation at the edge of the network, to making sure that data is easily recoverable from storage. Helping IT organizations manage the diversity of file types, platforms, environments and devices that end users are demanding, is a critical mandate of the enterprises we talk to today.”

In addition to secure enterprise file sharing and syncing for mobile workers, GroupLogic solutions enable organizations to provide seamless collaboration without compromising their corporate data protection or storage optimization strategies. Furthermore, GroupLogic solutions provide seamless integration of Apple® devices into enterprise server environments.

GroupLogic was founded in 1988 in Arlington, VA. GroupLogic’s employees will be joining the Acronis team, and GroupLogic CEO Chris Broderick will join the Acronis Executive Management team.

About Acronis

Acronis is a leading provider of next generation data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments. With Acronis’ backup, disaster recovery, deployment and migration software, users can better protect and maintain availability of critical servers and data to achieve recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO) while reducing total cost of ownership. With over a decade of investment in research and development, Acronis software is sold in more than 90 countries and available in up to 14 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com. Follow Acronis on Twitter: http://twitter.com/acronis

Acronis^® is a registered trademark of Acronis International GmbH. in the United States and/or other countries. Apple® and iPad® are registered trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. 

Skytap, the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions, today announced it was selected by TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization as a “Best of VMworld 2012” award finalist in the public and hybrid cloud computing technologies category, marking the third consecutive year the company has been recognized at the VMworld event.

This year, Skytap was selected based on its recent product innovations, including a Virtual Private PaaS offering featuring Cloud Foundry integration, as well as new hybrid cloud capabilitiesfor enterprises looking to extend their existing, on-premise VMware environments to an enterprise class cloud computing environment.

With Skytap, enterprise end-users are empowered to extend their existing on-premise virtualized infrastructure with complete virtualized private data centers connected securely in Skytap Cloud. The Skytap Intelligent Automation Platform™ provides automation and self-service capabilities that make complex cloud environments simple, easy, and intuitive. Skytap customers benefit from on-demand provisioning of complex computing environments, advanced software defined networking, global team collaboration, and secure remote access to VMs via SmartClient™ technology using any modern browser or native RDP client. In addition, IT administrators maintain full security control, access policy management, and visibility similar to their existing on-premises computing resources, including monitoring, usage quotas, automated notifications and real-time reporting.

More than 200 enterprises use Skytap Cloud for development and testing, virtual technical training, and software demonstrations and evaluations. Specifically, these user groups benefit from:

• Development and Testing: Skytap allows development and test teams to import their existing applications, tools and processes unchanged into the Skytap Cloud or select from a public library of more than 100 popular software titles. Software development teams can create complex environments with hundreds of virtual machines and multiple networks, gain desktop access to VMs without exposing them on the public Internet. Additionally, these teams can suspend and resume multi-VM environments in seconds, run multiple environments in parallel, and publish secure shared desktop access to complete environments using a simple publish URL capability.
• Virtual Technical Training: Skytap Cloud empowers training managers to take their existing instructor led classroom environments to the cloud in minutes without requiring any application rewrites. With Skytap, training managers can centrally manage all virtual classroom environments, student and trainer access, usage, and security policies. Trainers can also remotely view and connect to any student virtual machine to utilize an ‘over the shoulder’ view for an enhanced interactive virtual learning experience.
• Software Demos and Evaluations: Skytap Cloud empowers geographically distributed sales teams with self-service cloud-based software demos and evaluation environments that provide frictionless customer collaboration, resulting in shorter sales cycles and more closed business. With Skytap, sales engineers can instantly build, customize and deploy a demonstration environment in seconds, create and share unlimited copies of their software demonstration environments globally, save these environments as re-usable templates, and conduct multiple software demonstrations or proof-of-concepts in parallel without resource scheduling constraints or concerns.

“Being selected as a Best of VMworld award winner for the third consecutive year is great validation of Skytap’s continued product innovation and leadership in enterprise cloud computing,” said Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development at Skytap. “However, the real proof of our success is the increased business agility, reduced time to market, and increased speed of doing business that over 200 forward thinking enterprise customers are achieving with Skytap Cloud today.”

This award marks the fourth major accolade received by Skytap in 2012, including being recognized as SearchServerVirtualization.com’s 2011 Product of the Year and the WTIA Commercial Product of the Year, and being named to the AlwaysOn OnDemand 100 list for the third consecutive year.

For a free, 14-day full-access trial of Skytap Cloud, visit www.skytap.com.

About Skytap, Inc.

Skytap is the leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions for dynamic workloads. Skytap Cloud gives businesses a fast, easy, and secure way to create complex computing environments in the cloud. Customers can run enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud, collaborate securely with global teams, and gain unparalleled business productivity. Additionally, IT organizations maintain full visibility and control over cloud projects, align capacity with demand, and reduce costs. Enterprises can securely connect Skytap Cloud to their data centers and create hybrid clouds. Skytap is ideal for any dynamic workload including development and testing, software demos and evaluations, and virtual training. To try Skytap Cloud and learn more, visit www.skytap.com.

Exinda, a global provider of next-generation WAN optimization and performance assurance solutions, has been nominated for two prestigious awards: the CRN Awards in the ‘Specialist Vendor of the Year’ category and the Techworld Awards in the category ‘Networking Application Product of the Year’.

Passing through a two-tier judging system, Exinda’s short-listing with CRN was achieved for the channel strategy it has put in place and for the work it has completed with core partners. The nomination for the Techworld Awards is thanks to the work completed with Barnsley College, Savills plc and Ainscough Crane Hire, and its innovative Exinda Edge Solution.

The CRN Awards, impressively in its 19th year, celebrate the best of the channel, recognising those companies that have delivered the best service, networking and security. The Techworld Award brings light to those companies that provide outstanding products, services and applications across the board throughout the IT industry.

Adam Davison, VP of EMEA for Exinda, says, “Being nominated in both of these awards is a great achievement. We have put our full efforts into providing the best service that we can with cooperation from our partners and distributors at all times. Hopefully our accomplishments will push through and we will be able to place those awards on our shelf here at Exinda”.

The winners of the CRN Awards will be announced on Thursday 15th November 2012 at the Battersea Park Events Arena in London and the Techworld Awards’ winners are to be announced on Thursday 13th September 2012 at Dartmouth House, Mayfair in London.

About Exinda®

Exinda is global provider of WAN optimization and application performance assurance solutions. The company has helped more than 2,500 organisations in over 80 countries worldwide improve the end-user experience, manage application performance, manage congestion over the WAN and reduce network operating costs for the IT executive. For more information, please visit http://www.exinda.com.

Monetate, the leading provider of cloud-based testing, targeting and personalization technology for online marketers, announced at the 2012 Shop.org Annual Summit the launch of Merchandiser, an Agility Suite product that enables marketers to create a more relevant and intuitive shopping experience for customers.

Additionally, Monetate is launching Monetate University, a robust online knowledge base to help Monetate customers with their testing and optimization strategies.

Merchandiser delivers rich shopping experiences across the entire ecommerce website, making items easy to find and easy to purchase. It allows online marketers to deploy a single merchandising strategy across the website through product recommendations, endcaps that can be targeted to customer segments in real time, visual search, and dynamic product badging. When used in tandem with Monetate’s testing and targeting tools, marketers can test and iterate merchandising strategies and target campaigns to specific groups within a customer base, creating a more personalized, relevant experience.

Key Merchandiser features include:

• Product Recommendations: Specialized recommendations drawn from content and customer affinities and updated in real time;
• Visual Site Search: Customer-centric visual site search that integrates with the website’s product catalog and current site search;
• Dynamic Product and Video Badging: Emphasize key content attributes across the entire site to make the right products jump off the page;
• Endcaps: generate significant incremental sales and encourage impulse purchases by bringing awareness to a product or group of products with endcaps;
• Checkout Merchandising: Reduce shopping cart abandonment and maximize conversion rates and average order values with enhanced merchandising at the checkout process.

“The consumer cannot purchase what they cannot find,” said Kurt Heinemann, Chief Marketing Officer at Monetate. “Merchandiser helps online shoppers quickly find products relevant to them and their shopping experience. This better customer experience leads to increased purchase events and increased average order value for online businesses.”

Revolve Clothing, a designer apparel and accessories retailer, is a Monetate client and an early user of the Merchandiser product.

“Revolve saw a strong lift in conversions when we implemented Merchandiser,” said Kobie Fuller, Chief Marketing Officer at Revolve.com. “The targeted endcap feature allowed us to highlight the right products to the right visitors in real time, and really took the user experience to a new level. And similar to Monetate testing and targeting products, implementation was simple and gave our marketing team control over merchandising campaigns sitewide.”

(click here to download “The Merchandiser’s Cookbook,” a white paper on the keys to the best product recommendations strategies)

Additionally, Monetate has also unveiled Monetate University, an online knowledge base and educational hub for customers. Monetate University contains relevant user information, from release notes and FAQs to case studies and video tutorials about the Monetate platform. Click here to explore Monetate University.

Monetate will be exhibiting at the Shop.org Annual Summit, booth 828 from September 10-12, 2012. Press and attendees are invited to stop by the Monetate booth on Tuesday, September 11 at 11:00 am MT to see a live Q&A about Merchandiser, featuring Kobie Fuller, Chief Marketing Officer, Revolve Clothing.

About Monetate

Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Best Buy, Comcast, Urban Outfitters, Aeropostale, The Sports Authority, and PETCO. The company’s comprehensive product suite and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.

Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. The Monetate Agility Suite includes advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting, and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its expert strategic services and content publishing teams. For more information visit http://monetate.com/ or follow us on Twitter @Monetate.

Balihoo (www.balihoo.com), the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs, today announced a webinar designed to help product manufacturers run more successful co-op programs that their resellers will quickly and easily adopt.

“Integrate Digital into Your Co-op Program: Secrets from the Pros” provides practical, insider advice on how manufacturers who rely on reseller networks can more effectively reach local customers through closely coordinated digital marketing activities.

The webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To learn more and/or register, visit http://bit.ly/PB0oSU.

With an enormous 25% of available annual co-op advertising dollars being left on the table today, there is tremendous opportunity to improve co-op marketing programs. This webinar will help corporations utilize digital marketing strategies that will make co-op marketing efforts more effective at the local level, while dramatically simplifying the process for both manufacturer and reseller. It will address the following topics:

• The role local digital marketing can and should play for resellers
• The state of the industry – how is digital being integrated into co-op programs today?
• How to avoid the three biggest pitfalls when integrating digital into a co-op program
• The single most important digital tactic manufacturers should be funding for their channel

Following the webinar, attendees will have exclusive access to the Co-op Marketing Tool Kit, which includes the “Integrated Co-op Marketing” white paper, presentation slides, and additional resources.

Who: Balihoo

What: Webinar: “Integrate Digital into Your Co-op Program: Secrets from the Pros”

When: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Where: Click here to register for the webinar.

About Balihoo

Balihoo is the premier provider of Local Marketing Automation (LMA) technology and services to national brands with local marketing needs. By automating local marketing, Balihoo gives national brands unprecedented control over local marketing execution and the ability to control the customer experience closer to the point of purchase. Additional information about Balihoo is available at www.balihoo.com.

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Xtium, Inc., a leading enterprise software and solutions company providing managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services, today announced the appointment of software industry veteran, Tim Buckley, as chief executive officer and board member.

Buckley spent five years at Red Hat, Inc., where he served as chief operating officer, helping grow the company from a $10 million run rate into a leading global services business. Earlier in his career, Buckley ran worldwide sales for Visio Corporation, growing the company from a start-up to a public entity, which was acquired by Microsoft Corp. for $1.5 billion. Buckley helped launch other successful start-ups, including Aldus Corporation, acquired by Adobe Systems Incorporated; Approach Software, which was sold to Lotus Corporation; and Decision Resources, sold to Ashton Tate. He was an advisor to MySQL, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems, and served on the board of SmartPath, acquired by DoubleClick. Buckley currently serves on the boards of SciQuest, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQI), ChannelAdvisor and rPath, an app engine provider for the private cloud.

“Cloud computing has created a paradigm shift in the technology marketplace and Xtium is well positioned to capitalize on the resulting market opportunity,” said Buckley. “The paradigm shift from in-house IT computing to outsourcing to the cloud is similar to the shift I experienced at Red Hat, bringing enterprise open source software to a market that only had proprietary software options. After evaluating the Xtium market opportunity, its recurring services business model and the customer-focused culture, my decision to join was easy.”

In September 2011, Xtium secured an $11.5 million first-round investment from http://www.xtium.com.

Media Contact:

Anna Sharkansky
Xtium, Inc.
215-297-4128
anna(dot)sharkansky(at)xtium(dot)com