Juniper Networks Introduces New and Enhanced Edge and Branch Routers

New and Enhanced Edge and Branch Routers Complement QFabric'sTM Quantum Leap in Data Center Performance with Pay-As-You-Grow Scalability for the Enterprise

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) today introduced its Universal WAN solution, enabling new levels of business agility with a flexible and scalable enterprise and branch routing portfolio optimized to support rapidly growing mobile, video and cloud computing applications. Juniper Networks® Universal WAN complements the quantum leap in data center performance, operating cost and business agility driven by Juniper's new QFabric architecture with exponential improvements in the WAN, including data center-to-data center connectivity.

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Juniper Networks Introduces New and Enhanced Edge and Branch Routers

Cisco Delivers Containerized Data Center

Cisco today unveiled the Cisco® Containerized Data Center to address the evolving computing and networking needs of both public and private sector organizations. Designed and manufactured in the United States, the Cisco Containerized Data Center is a modular data center solution in a weatherized ISO container that offers an open architecture and transportable platform coupled with a unique management platform for cost-effective data center deployments. Designed to help meet the unique needs of government and commercial organizations for mobile rapid deployment, disaster recovery, support in remote areas, and better cost utilization, the Cisco Containerized Data Center offers efficient continuity of operations, increased energy efficiency, increased power density and reduced risk.

According to a recent report from Pike Research, global investment in energy-efficient data center technologies is set to reach 28 percent of the $150 billion data center infrastructure market by 2015. Designed to efficiently use power in meeting cooling and serviceability requirements, the Cisco Containerized Data Center extends the capabilities of traditional brick-and-mortar data centers, including a more energy-efficient platform that lowers operating expenses and decreases the environmental impact.

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Cisco Delivers Containerized Data Center

Salesforce.com Completes Acquisition of Radian6

Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the enterprise cloud computing (http://www.salesforce.com/cloudcomputing/) company, today announced it has completed its acquisition of Radian6, the industry-leading social media monitoring platform used by more than half of FORTUNE 100 companies.

Radian6's unique technology captures hundreds of millions of conversations every day across Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs and online communities. The intelligence gained from these conversations has become critical in helping companies better market and sell to prospects, serve customers and understand what's being said about their brands, products and competitors. With Radian6, salesforce.com will add the ability to monitor and join in these public conversations across its products, bringing the heart of the public social web to customers' business.

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Salesforce.com Completes Acquisition of Radian6

RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Bold Smartphones

Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today unveiled two new BlackBerry® Bold™ smartphones. The high-performance BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 smartphones feature a stunning and iconic design that integrates an incredibly easy-to-use BlackBerry keyboard with a brilliant, high resolution, capacitive touch screen. These exceptional smartphones are built on a new, performance-driven platform powered by the BlackBerry® 7 operating system and designed to deliver the ultimate in communications, multimedia and productivity for users around the world.

"The new BlackBerry Bold smartphones and BlackBerry 7 OS are inspired by millions of customers around the world who want the ultimate combination of performance, functionality and style," said Mike Lazaridis, President and Co-CEO, Research In Motion. “These fully-loaded and beautifully crafted smartphones offer a highly refined user experience with blazingly fast performance, a brilliant touch screen and an outstanding typing experience.”

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RIM Introduces New BlackBerry Bold Smartphones

Twitter seeks to buy TweetDeck for up to $50 million

Twitter has made an offer to acquire TweetDeck, a popular third-party software application for using Internet social networking services, for up to $50 million, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The cash and stock deal could close in less than ten days, the source said, and would represent one of five-year-old Twitter's largest acquisitions to date.

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Twitter seeks to buy TweetDeck for up to $50 million

SourceLink Turns Customer Cost Centers into Profit Centers

SourceLink, a premier multichannel marketing services provider of results-driven solutions, announced today the formal launch of its Transactional Promotions Suite℠ for customer bills, statements, invoices and notifications. SourceLink’s multichannel transaction clients now fully benefit from the enhanced open, read and click-through rates of customer communications to segment, target and cross-sell next most likely products and services directly on a statement or bill.

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SourceLink Turns Customer Cost Centers into Profit Centers

Amazon Cloud Outage Was Triggered by Configuration Error

Amazon has released a detailed postmortem and mea culpa about the partial outage of its cloud services platform last week and identified the culprit: A configuration error made during a network upgrade.

During this configuration change, a traffic shift "was executed incorrectly," Amazon said, noting that traffic that should have gone to a primary network was routed to a lower capacity one instead. The error occurred at 12:47 p.m. on April 21 and led to a partial outage that lingered through last weekend.

The outage sent a number of prominent Web sites offline, including Quora, Foursquare and Reddit, and renewed an industry-wide debate over the maturity of cloud services .

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Amazon Cloud Outage Was Triggered by Configuration Error

Information Builders Announces Partnership With Teradata to Deliver a Fully Integrated Appliance to Speed Data Warehouse Implementations

Information Builders, an independent leader in operational business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced a new complete end-to-end data warehousing solution as part of the Teradata Accelerate program. The solution is built on a Teradata data warehouse appliance, and leverages Information Builders' software to both load and query the data. The new solution is designed to speed up the time to value and return on investment for companies building a data warehouse.

Today's announcement follows the existing partnership between the two companies, which streamlines data warehousing for joint customers across Teradata's Platform Family, specifically aimed at the company's appliance offerings with Information Builders WebFOCUS software.

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Information Builders Announces Partnership With Teradata to Deliver a Fully Integrated Appliance to Speed Data Warehouse Implementations

Some PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services to be Available This Week

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) and Sony Network Entertainment International (SNEI, the company) announced they will shortly begin a phased restoration by region of PlayStation®Network and Qriocity™ services, beginning with gaming, music and video services to be turned on. The company also announced both a series of immediate steps to enhance security across the network and a new customer appreciation program to thank its customers for their patience and loyalty.

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Some PlayStation Network and Qriocity Services to be Available This Week

'The Democratization of Fashion': William Fung and Vera Wang on the Implications of Going Global

Vera Wang built a brand creating wedding-day fantasy gowns for celebrities and socialites. She became a household name even to the average shopper, although her creations were often too expensive to hang in their closets.

Most of those same shoppers have likely never heard of William Fung. But chances are, they own some of his work -- and may even be wearing it right now. The century-old Hong Kong-based trading company -- founded by Fung's family during the Qing Dynasty -- sources and coordinates the supply chains for about 30% of the brands found in the average American shopping mall.

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'The Democratization of Fashion': William Fung and Vera Wang on the Implications of Going Global