Ayres is responsible for MetraTech’s Research and Development organization
MetraTech Corp. (http://www.metratech.com), the innovative charging, billing, settlement and customer care product provider has announced that Larry Ayres has joined the company as VP of Engineering.
In his new role, Ayres is responsible for MetraTech’s Research and Development organization. His development background comes from Comverse Technology Inc. where [...]

Round to Support Continued Growth of IP Interconnection Services, Driving Adoption of Cross-Network NGN Offerings
LONDON – Sept. 16, 2009 – XConnect, the global leader in neutral and secure next-generation interconnection and ENUM-registry services, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series B funding.
A consortium of investors, including Venrock Associates (U.S.), Accel Partners (U.K.), [...]

Varonis Systems Inc. (http://www.varonis.com), the leader in unstructured data governance, today announced a Webinar designed to teach IT departments how to cost-effectively protect unstructured data with fewer resources.
Doing more with less is the new reality for most IT departments. Varonis will share five things IT managers and data owners can do today to better [...]

GetJar, the world’s largest independent app store, announced today that more than a half billion applications have been downloaded from its store. The milestone is significant because it proves that consumer demand for apps is becoming a truly global phenomenon. The company, which hosts nearly 50,000 mobile applications available in more than 200 different countries, [...]

BURLINGAME, Calif., — May 28, 2009 — Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop™ company, today announced the Cloudera Certified Hadoop Professional (CCHP) credential – the industry’s first certification program for Hadoop and MapReduce. The certification program documents and tests the recipients understanding of big data analysis and how to manage big data using the Hadoop platform.
The CCHP [...]

Investment from GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund Complements EveryZing Master Services Agreement with NBC Universal
EveryZing, Inc. today announced it has closed an $8.25MM round of funding, adding GE/NBCU’s Peacock Equity Fund to its existing investors, which include Fairhaven Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Accel Partners and BBN Technologies.
Adding to its growing roster of broadcast media [...]

First distribution for Hadoop adds easy installation, simple configuration and commercial support to the open source technology powering the world’s largest Web companies

Cloudera, the commercial Hadoop™ company, today announced the general availability of the Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop, an open source product used to store and process big data: petabytes of information, often [...]

Hyperic HQ Version 4.1 improves Web services administration/configuration and MySQL plugin performance
SAN FRANCISCO — March 10, 2009 — Hyperic Inc., the leading provider of web application performance monitoring software for the datacenter and the cloud, today released the latest update of its flagship product, Hyperic HQ.
Hyperic HQ Version 4.1 adds support for Oracle 11G [...]

Leading Independent Mobile App Store Launches GetJar Ads to Monetize Apps
GetJar, the world’s leading independent app store with over 20 million downloads a month, today announced the roll out of its GetJar Ads program to its 200,000 plus mobile application developer community. GetJar Ads is a new pay-per-performance advertising service that allows developers to [...]

Application Spreading Across Asia and Europe; Acceptance Heavily Driven by Youth Market
Portugal Telecom’s TMN has added the Zlango mobile messaging service for its subscribers. Zlango gives consumers enhanced messaging capabilities on the mobile phone with the incorporation of icons into text messages/SMS. TMN is the largest mobile operator in Portugal with more than 6 [...]