Eastwick Communications Client News

ShoreTel Ranked Number 25 in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Internet, Media, Entertainment and Communications Companies

Eastwick Client News — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:58:40 +0000

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ShoreTel(R) (Nasdaq: SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions, has been named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley Internet, media, entertainment and communications companies. This prestigious listing highlights the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the region, with rankings based on the percentage of revenue growth over five years. ShoreTel recently announced record revenues for the first fiscal quarter of 2009, and grew by 851 percent over the period covered by the listing, from fiscal year 2003 to 2007.

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JDSU Named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley

Eastwick Client News — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:45:33 +0000

MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — JDSU (Nasdaq: JDSU; and TSX: JDU) has been named to Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Program for Silicon Valley. JDSU has also been named to the Billion Dollar Club, a category of companies that have achieved $1 billion or more in revenue in fiscal year 2007 and more than doubled in revenue growth over a five year period. This year’s Silicon Valley Technology Fast 50 program was co-presented by Deloitte, Silicon Valley Bank, Korn/Ferry International, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, Cornish & Carey Client Solutions, and ABD Insurance and Financial Services — A Wells Fargo Company. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from fiscal year 2003-2007.

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Pentaho Partners With Netezza to Deliver Complete Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions

Eastwick Client News — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:39:45 +0000

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ — The Data Warehousing Institute World Conference — Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced certification of Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition with the Netezza Performance Server(R) data warehouse appliance line. The certification brings together enterprise-class technologies that can help organizations address large-scale data warehousing and BI challenges with proven, lower cost alternatives to traditional data warehouse offerings.

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Infobright Releases New connector for Pentaho Data Integration

Eastwick Client News — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:27:26 +0000

NEW ORLEANS, LA–(Marketwire - November 3, 2008) - TDWI World Conference — Infobright, the open source data warehousing company, today announced the availability of a new optimized connector for loading the Infobright Data Warehouse using Pentaho Data Integration. Pentaho Data Integration is the extract, transform, and load (ETL) component of Pentaho’s flagship commercial open source business intelligence (BI) suite which also provides reporting, analysis, dashboards and data mining.

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ShoreTel Helps Hillsborough County Answer the Call on Election Day

Eastwick Client News — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:06:54 +0000

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ShoreTel(R) (http://www.shoretel.com/) (Nasdaq: SHOR), a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions, today announced that Hillsborough County (http://www.votehillsborough.org/) in Florida, working with ShoreTel’s Tampa, Florida-based partner DataComm Networks Incorporated, has deployed a ShoreTel UC system at the office of the Supervisor of Elections.

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StrongMail Systems Introduces StrongMail On-Demand

Eastwick Client News — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:18:17 +0000

New Deployment Option Expands Offerings With Turnkey Solution That Accelerates Time-To-Market for Marketers

REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwire - October 29, 2008) - StrongMail Systems, Inc., the leading provider of on-premise solutions for marketing and transactional email, today announced that it has expanded its offerings with StrongMail On-Demand, a new full-featured email marketing service that delivers the benefits of StrongMail’s on-premise solutions in a secure, managed hosting environment.

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Google Continues to Dominate Search Advertising, but Yahoo Gained Ground According to Latest Efficient Frontier Report

Eastwick Client News — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:48:44 +0000

Google Gets $1.14 of Every New Dollar Spent on Search, Accounting for 76% of US Search Spending

SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(Business Wire)–Efficient Frontier, the worldwide leader in providing Search Engine Marketing technology and services to leading advertisers and agencies, today released the U.S. Search Engine Performance Report: Q3 2008. The report, the largest independent research in the search marketing industry, was based on an analysis of 60 billion impressions and 428 million clicks across an index of Efficient Frontier advertisers. The results of the research indicate that while overall growth has been slowing throughout 2008, return on investment remains strong in this highly productive direct marketing channel.

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Liquid Computing Launches the Next Gerneration of LiquidIQ, Industry’s Only converged Communication, Computing and Storage System

Eastwick Client News — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:26:10 +0000

Expands Partner Ecosystem to Make Even the Most Complicated Data Centers Easy to Manage

LOS ALTOS, CA–(Marketwire - October 15, 2008) - Liquid Computing, developer of the world’s first fully converged communications and computing platform, today announced it has released LiquidIQ 2.0 system that combines standard physical data center resources, such as servers, switching, operating systems, network interfaces and storage, with FabricBoss sophisticated management and control software to create a true end-to-end data center solution. Liquid Computing has partnered with some of the biggest names in technology including Microsoft, NetApp and VMware to give data center managers capabilities never before possible. With LiquidIQ 2.0, the entire data center can now be defined and managed in software, enabling new service offerings, an order of magnitude reduction in time to deployment of applications, and dramatically reduced data center operating costs through automation.

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Liquid Computing Launches Executive Leadership Report Series on Data Center Excellence

Eastwick Client News — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:11:32 +0000

Provides Ongoing Education and Best Practices on Maximizing Business Potential of Dynamic Data Centers

LOS ALTOS, CA–(Marketwire - October 15, 2008) - Liquid Computing, developer of the world’s first fully converged communications and computing platform, today announced the Data Center Excellence Executive Leadership Report Series, a framework providing executives with an approach to align the investment and support of their data centers into their organization’s overall strategic planning and objectives.

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Pentaho Delivers Greater Simplicity and Scalability in New Business Intelligence Suite

Eastwick Client News — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:30:20 +0000

Powerful Features, Value-Added Services and Lower Cost Make Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 2 the Smart Choice for Businesses of All Sizes

Orlando, FL – Oct. 15, 2008 – Pentaho, the commercial open source alternative for business intelligence (BI), today announced Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 2, the latest release of the company’s flagship BI suite, providing a comprehensive solution for allowing businesses of all sizes to cost-effectively deploy business intelligence. Providing end user simplicity and enterprise scalability, Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition Version 2 delivers on the commercial open source promise of a fully supported, enterprise-class solution at a dramatically lower total cost of ownership.

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