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HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- News Summary: The new EMC® Avamar® Business Edition gives more customers access to the power and simplicity of an industry-leading EMC purpose-built backup appliance. Avamar Business Edition delivers simple and efficient enterprise-class backup for virtual and physical environments in a new preconfigured package of up to 7.8 terabytes that is optimized for mid-sized organizations. Avamar Business Edition allows users to avoid...

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VMworld -- Cisco and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced further collaboration to help accelerate IT transformation by providing customers with unrivaled choice and flexibility via "three paths to the cloud" -- custom-design infrastructure, validated reference architectures, and pre-integrated converged infrastructure. Cisco(®) and EMC(®) introduced new joint reference architectures, aligned channel partner incentives, and...

NEW YORK, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VELOCITY World Media®, the largest global, private experiential television network, has hired Michael Reidbord as managing director of global services to expand the company's business-to-business broadcast services across new industry sectors. Mr. Reidbord is also tasked with expanding the client base for VELOCITY's groundbreaking global entertainment platform, including the development of sponsorship programs. (Logo:...

Brett Smith for Redorbit.com Move over, Sheldon Cooper! Need someone to ‘fix’ your traffic ticket? Don’t bother chasing down a connection at the police station. Instead, try giving your old physics teacher a call. University of California at San Diego scientist Dmitri Krioukov recently calculated his way out of paying a $400 traffic ticket using a four-page paper complete with graphs and equations, according to an article by Physics Central. Krioukov’s argument, based on...

LAS VEGAS and LOS GATOS, Calif., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Screaming Velocity, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based software company providing advanced TV programming recommendation technology, today unveiled its Velocity Recommendation Agent(TM) at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The Velocity Recommendation Agent combines past and present consumer behavior, such as television viewing, Facebook user characteristics, Twitter followers, and other user specific...

NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VELOCITY World Media®, the largest global, private experiential television network, is pleased to announce the company won Gold in the 2011 International Davey Awards, which recognize distinction in creative work based on a standard of excellence developed by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA). VELOCITY won in the category "Websites/Online Marketing" for the company's e-commerce site, VELOCITYBoxOffice.Com, which serves as the...

NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VELOCITY World Media®, the largest global, private experiential television network, is pleased to announce the company won Gold in the 2011 W3 Awards, which honor creative excellence on the web, and recognize the creative professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs. VELOCITY won in the category "Website Features - Visual Appeal" for the company's site, which was produced in-house and features dozens of custom videos...

NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- VELOCITY Broadcasting, the largest global, private experiential television network, is undergoing a name change that more readily defines its strength and capabilities in experiential media and precision marketing. The company will now be known as VELOCITY World Media. VELOCITY will continue to specialize in producing custom experiential television programming live via EchoStar satellite to invitation-only audiences at VELOCITY HD Digital Suites...

VIENNA, Va. and PITTSBURGH, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Duer Advanced Technology and Aerospace, Inc. (D.A.T.A.), a privately held woman-owned Small Business that provides Information Technology services and Intelligence Analysis support to military and civilian agencies, and Vivisimo, Inc., the leader in Information Optimization, announced today that they have entered into a partnership that will enable Vivisimo's Velocity platform to be used by additional agencies and departments within...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivisimo, a leader in information optimization, today announced that the exponentially growing pool of employee-generated data is estimated to be costing U.S. businesses $1.5 trillion in lost worker productivity as a result of people spending additional time looking for the information they need to do their job both within and outside their organizations. According to analyst firm IDC, every week employees spend nearly half their work week (or 20 hours)...