Last year, says Marwan Muasher, the foreign minister, American Express wanted to open a software center in Amman.
Microsoft's efforts today come a decade after Bill Gates pioneered in India with a software development center.
Last month, the Shenzhen-based company announced plans to open a smartphone-software development center in Helsinki and double the size of its research operations in Europe.
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To feed the tiger, Dell opened a factory in Xiamen last August (there are already plants in the U.S., Malaysia, and Ireland) and plans to open a software solutions center in Shanghai.
When Bill Gates was looking for a location for Microsoft's second software development center outside the U.S. (the first was in Israel), he chose Hyderabad, capital of the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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Gutenberg's 15th-century printing press revolution succeeded in putting software at the center of the world.
The meltdown of the financial industry--the tech industry's biggest customers--is set to hit sales of everything from software to data center switches like a hammer.
Usually, chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie shows off a range of stuff from his 800 scientists, from data center software to social networking toys.
Andy Park, Vijay Manwani, and Ravi Reddy previously founded data center software and cloud automation company BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC Software in 2008.
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Media center software, a streaming set top box and a TV-tuning USB dongle -- Boxee already has a pretty decent amount on its plate.
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Avaya, which is best known for its branded line of office phones and contact center software, is branching into video and trying to hone a reputation for innovation.
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While a software defined data center might allow you to move workloads across different IT components, how will you manage the power and cooling in the data center that is at risk?
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Second, the deal is further evidence of pending change in the contact center software market, which is transitioning to cloud-hosted solutions (Angel.com has a cloud-based and mid-market solution) at an accelerating clip and forcing the legacy incumbents (Genesys, Cisco, Avaya) to innovate or acquire.
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In the OpenStack space companies like Mirantis, Piston Cloud, CloudScaling, Nebula and even IBM, Canonical and Red Hat are begining to benefit from this new consultant centric view of IT rather then the more traditional one size fits all approach of data center software popularized by VMware.
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When a 9-1-1 call is received reporting someone unconscious, unresponsive and likely needing CPR, the local communications center will dispatch public safety resources as they do today, but software running in the center will also send this alert to nearby citizen rescuers.
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The San Jose, Calif. company sells call center management software and services.
Recognizing that these trends are here to stay, IT equipment manufacturers are innovating a new generation of data center, software tools, and networking products that are more energy-efficient than predecessors.
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Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service offerings can also provide quick, low-cost access to data center resources for software development and prototyping.
Much of the revenue opportunities available for Big Data vendors is in helping traditional enterprises evolve to the next generation software defined data management data center.
From a software perspective, a Media Center extender does only one thing: deliver the Windows Media Center experience to a TV without a PC attached to it.
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Cisco Cius thereby supports data center consolidation and reduced software licensing costs.
Zune software doesn't read Media Center's proprietary DVR-MS files, perform .wmv conversions for Zune playback, nor does it list hand-encoded episodes as TV shows in the library.
Ableton will have automatically loaded a pitched instrument in the software, and making this the center of Push's attention is just a button click (or two) away.
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The software is a version of its embedded device software, overlaid with the Windows Media Center interface, with media streaming and remote-control capabilities.
The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and management suite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.
If Bangalore is India s software services capital, Gurgaon is the call center hub.
In total, we're told that 13 APIs and seven languages of software work in conjunction to makeup the Control Center.
The first to create Blu-ray software that tried to focus on the Media Center crowd was ArcSoft with its TotalMedia Theater, but although it was better than anything else out there, it is far from seamless.
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Though the new PCs have more processing power than older HP thin clients and are equipped with wireless connectivity, they have no hard drive and carry just enough flash memory to host the software necessary to wirelessly connect to a data center or to the Internet.
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