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Global Event to Examine CIO's Transformational Role: Architecting the Enterprise of the Future BOSTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- iSoftStone Holdings Limited ("iSoftStone" in below, NYSE: ISS), a leading China-based Global IT services provider, today joined CIOs and senior IT executives from around the world as a featured sponsor at the tenth annual 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium (www.mitcio.com) at Kresge Auditorium in MIT. Nearly 700 CIOs and senior IT executives attended the...

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NTT Innovation Institute, Inc. (NTT I3), a US-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (TOKYO: 9432; NYSE: NTT), the world's largest global IT and telecommunications services holding company, today announced the appointment of Srini Koushik as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. NTT I3 (pronounced NTT I Cube) was established on April 1 this year to accelerate the development...

Panel Will Provide Insight on Implementing a Social Business Strategy SALEM, N.H., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, today announced that Vala Afshar, CMO & chief customer officer at Enterasys, will join CIOs and senior IT executives as a featured panelist at the tenth annual 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium (www.mitcio.com). This premier international event will provide CIOs with high level insight from leading academic...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The 10(th) Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has announced VoltDB as one of ten finalists for the 2013 Innovation Showcase. VoltDB's development of the world's fastest high-velocity database represents a disruptive B2B solution that delivers measurable business value and innovation to enterprise IT. As part of this recognition, company executives have been invited to lend insight on key issues along with many of the world's most creative and...

Zerto Virtual Replication disaster recovery solution represents a cutting-edge B2B solution that combines strong value and innovation to enterprise IT. Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) May 06, 2013 The 10th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium has announced Zerto as one of ten finalists for the 2013 Innovation Showcase, as its Zerto Virtual Replication disaster recovery solution represents a cutting-edge B2B solution that combines strong value and innovation to enterprise IT. Zerto will receive key...

CLEVELAND, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT and University of Maryland will convene a national conversation on May 8 about how an innovative business model can help anchor institutions in urban cities to drive economic development and build sustainable community wealth. A panel of presenters will release a new MIT-University of Maryland Case Study which highlights Cleveland's University Hospitals Vision 2010 Program, a $1.2 billion strategic growth plan. The panel discussion...

PHOENIX, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IO, the leading provider of Data Center 2.0 technology for the world's largest enterprises, governments and service providers, today announced the company will host a team of graduate students from the MIT Sloan School of Management's Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab). Through their S-Lab projects, students apply knowledge from the classroom to solve real-world problems and see firsthand how businesses are tackling the massive challenges of...

What can sports teams learn from the manufacturing industry? Plenty, according to Timothy Chan of the University of Toronto (U of T) and Douglas Fearing of the Harvard Business School. Using statistics from the 2012 Major League Baseball season, Chan and Fearing found that positional flexibility – the ability of a player to play multiple positions – is valuable, responsible for up to 15 per cent of the team's runs, as was the case with the Chicago Cubs. Other teams like the Washington...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Safe Communications, Inc. (OTCPINK: SGTB) announced today the signing of final licensing agreement with FullChance of China. The license calls for a launch of Safe's virtual world, Kuboo.com in China. The license calls for Safe to supply the technology while the China partners will provide the funding and technical expertise to develop, register and market Kuboo for the Chinese market. The original agreement, signed in October 2012,...

CLEVELAND, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MIT and University of Maryland will convene a national conversation on Feb. 8 about how an innovative business model can help anchor institutions in urban cities to drive economic development and build sustainable community wealth. The panel discussion will be held on Feb. 8 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (EST). Access to live-streaming video: http://bit.ly/Wt6nuB Twitter: #anchorpower A panel of presenters will release a new MIT-University of...