Blueprint: Top 10 Best Practices for Planning and Conducting an Endpoint PoC

by Paul Morville, Founder and VP of Products, Confer Few things are more disappointing or costly than deploying a product that fails to live up to the vendor’s claims or doesn’t meet the team’s expectations. More often than not, there is a very large grey area where it’s difficult to discern what the PowerPoint slides promise versus what the product will actually deliver. A well-structured Proof of Concept (PoC) can be extremely useful in turning...

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Rackspace Offers Hosted OpenStack Private Clouds

Rackspace is now its fully-managed OpenStack services in any data center -- including private enterprise data center, a third party data centers of the customer's choosing, a Rackspace-supported third party colocation facility or a Rackspace data center. Rackspace will fully manage the underlying OpenStack software and hardware, including all compute, network and storage. The company promises "Fanatical Support." The company said this new approach...

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Unwired Planet to Sell Patent and Trademark Assets

Unwired Planet, an intellectual property company focused exclusively on the mobile industry, will sell its  patent and trademark assets to Optis UP Holdings for $30 million in cash and up to an additional $10 million in cash on the second anniversary of the closing of the transactions. Unwired Plantet claims approximately 2,500 issued and pending US and foreign patents, includes technologies that allow mobile devices to connect to the Internet...

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Intel Acquires YOGITECH for ADAS

Intel is acquiring YOGITECH S.p.A., which specializes in semiconductor functional safety and related standards. Financial terms were not disclosed. YOGITECH's work focuses on functional safety (including Advanced Driver Assistance Systems or ADAS) of transportation and factory systems. One of the fastest-growing segments in automotive electronics, ADAS makes features like assisted parking possible and paves the way for fully autonomous vehicles...

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Electric Imp Raises $21 Million for IoT Platform

Electric Imp, a start-up based in Los Altos, California with offices in Cambridge, UK, raised $21 million in Series C funding for its IoT platform that securely connects devices to advanced cloud computing resources. Electric Imp's solution includes fully integrated hardware, OS, security, APIs and cloud services. London-based Rampart Capital led the funding round alongside company insiders and returning venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures....

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Puppet Refreshes its Brand

Puppet Labs officially shortened its name to "Puppet" as part a corporate rebranding aimed at the $200 billion software infrastructure market that is emerging as a result of mass migration to the cloud. “Software powers everything around us, from the devices on our wrists and our walls to the work we do, the fun we have, and everything in between. Modern cars are powered by millions of lines of code, our financial world is entirely mediated by...

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Molex Acquires Interconnect Systems

Molex has acquired Interconnect Systems, which specializes in the design and manufacture of high density silicon packaging with advanced interconnect technologies. Interconnect Systems, which is based in Camarillo, California, delivers advanced packaging and interconnect solutions to top-tier OEMs in a wide range of industries and technology markets, including aerospace & defense, industrial, data storage and networking, telecom, and high performance...

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