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Cougar Capital News

  • March 28, 2012

    Press Release: Cougar Capital Turns 15x Profit on Fusion-IO Investment

    Press Release: Brigham Young University MBA students have accomplished what some investors only dream of: selling their investment with a return of nearly 15 times the original cost. The Marriott S [...]
  • March 15, 2012

    Cougar Capital Approves Investment in Goal Zero

    Cougar Capital invested in a financing investment round in GOAL ZERO, an innovator of portable solar power systems. Cougar Capital made the investment along-side Sorenson Capital, a private equity inv [...]
  • October 31, 2011

    Cougar Capital Approves Investment in Bitcasa

    Cougar Capital invested in a bridge financing investment round in Bitcasa, a cloud storage solution that eliminates the need for external storage. Cougar Capital made the investment along-side Pelion [...]
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Allegiance

  • May 10, 2012

    Map the Service Model to Capture Critical Touch Points

    The service model is the way your organization enables customers to do business with you. It consists of touch points that set the tone for overall customer satisfaction, trust and loyalty -- including interactions with local branch operations, transactions with the phone/help center and advertising and social media outlets. Satisfaction at each of these tou […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Jennifer Beyer
  • April 24, 2012

    The Future of the CX Discipline Isn’t Paved with Gold

    The fundamental goal of the fledgling CX discipline is not to gold-plate company offerings. It’s to treat target customers in a way that increases long-term company profitability. Most managers don’t get that. […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Andrew McInnes
  • April 9, 2012

    Ensuring Your VOE Program Has Staying Power

    You made the business case for an employee voice program, executed the survey, and responded to initial results. Now what? As the presenter of the case on the front end, you have an obligation to ensure this investment meets the promised rate of return. Here are some powerful ways to ensure the program delivers. […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Kym Cadle
  • April 2, 2012

    Data Mining Will Change The Way We Get Insight (By Killing An Old Friend)

    Today, most VOC practitioners generate insights from their data by following the basic flow of the scientific method. They pinpoint some kind of problem that they want to investigate, such as customer churn or dissatisfaction. Then they think up a hypothetical explanation (a hypothesis) that they can test. Data mining changes all that. […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Andrew McInnes
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Fusion-io

  • May 17, 2012 Blog

    How Much Cache Do I Need?

    I am frequently asked the question, "How much cache do I need?" Most people expect the answer to be a formula based on data set size. My answer is far simpler than a formula. But let me walk you through the technical reasons behind the answer as it provides a more interesting perspective. Traditionally, a cache is a fast and small holding area that […]
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  • May 11, 2012 Blog

    Fuel Your GPU with Flash: Fusion-io at GPU Technology Conference

    Next week at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, Fusion-io will be sharing how ioMemory technology can be used to greatly improve GPU computing performance. Each year, thousands of people from all over the world in search of faster solutions flock to the conference to learn how they can better harness the power of their GPUs. Enter ioMemor […]
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  • May 9, 2012 Blog

    Pandora Expands Cache Capacity Without Scaling Cost and Complexity

    A few weeks ago, Fusion announced that personalized internet radio station Pandora is using Fusion-io in caching servers to ensure users a consistently high-quality listening experience while reducing its infrastructure fooprint. Today, we released a case study that includes more information. This case study details how Pandora used ioMemory to realize the f […]
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  • May 9, 2012 Blog

    SCSI Express Technology Preview - Live Demonstration at the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase

    Tonight, we’re at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California as a sponsor of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase, “Taming the Data Beast!” where we are previewing technology innovation with a live SCSI Express demonstration developed in partnership with Hewlett-Packard.  This live demonstration highlights the active collaboration of Fusion […]
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Mojiva

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Soasta

  • May 16, 2012

    Games and TouchTest Mobile

    Automated testing of games has long been a challenge. With TouchTest, SOASTA’s unique ability to record and replay complex motions, gestures and context, with high precision, gives testers the tools they need to meet this challenge. Below are two popular games that we’ve tested. Skeleton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV4J61wxvGg Today’s computing world has […]
    Posted by Soasta - Jason Slater
  • May 15, 2012

    How a Baseball Hall of Famer Hits a Home Run in the Cloud [Q&A Series]

    The following is a guest blog from Kristen Nicole, a Senior Editor at SiliconANGLE.com. Ms. Nicole was named by Forbes as a top influencer in Big Data and her work has been syndicated across a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, and MSNBC. Being inducted into an athletic hall of fame is no easy feat, but SOASTA Read more… […]
    Posted by Soasta - leslie
  • May 11, 2012

    Tom Lounibos, SOASTA CEO, speaks with Gary Radnich KRON4

    Gary Radnich interviews Tom Lounibos, CEO of SOASTA, the leader in cloud-based testing for web and mobile applications, on his induction into the USF Hall of Fame on Saturday May 2012. […]
    Posted by Soasta - jennette
  • May 9, 2012

    Choosing a Cloud Provider: Building and Launching Servers (Part 2 of 2)

    Note: The purpose of this post is to explain how we go about choosing a cloud provider and to share some of the lessons we’ve learned along the way. For context, while cloud vendors provide a wide and growing range of services, SOASTA’s primary requirement is acquiring scalable, pay-per-use compute power. Part 1 discusses what Read more… […]
    Posted by Soasta - Dave Murphy
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OpenLogic

  • May 18, 2012

    HtmlUnit for Testing and More!

    If you are a web application developer and have never heard of HtmlUnit , it is time to give it a look. It is a simple API that allows you to write a Java program that can simulate a user traveling through a website. It doesn’t just read the URL into an input stream; it can parse the HTML and allows you to simulate clicking on buttons, clicking on links, fir […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Nicholas DiPiazza
  • May 16, 2012

    One Application Per Cloud Server Makes Life Easier

    Whether or not you choose to spread your application stack across server instances, I highly recommend you put no more than one application per cloud server unless you have special circumstances in play. For example, if you value performance far more than scalability, you might want to collocate applications that communicate frequently to avoid network overh […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Rod Cope
  • May 11, 2012

    Source Code Scanning for OSS Dependencies and Why

    Open source application audits using source code scanning tools are a critical part of a corporate open source software policy management and governance process; there literally is no way around it these days. Without the use of a scanning tool, organizations may rely on homegrown tools, manual inspection and inventory of source code repositories, and develo […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Jesse Hood
  • May 9, 2012

    What Would I Tell Developers About Using Open Source Software?

    In the first two weeks of April, I attended four distinct open source related events in three different cities and two countries. It will take months to ponder, absorb, and follow-up on all of the thought-provoking presentations, conversations, and feedback I participated in or received. In spite of the range of topics and agendas being covered along the way […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Jilayne Lovejoy
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Solera

  • April 11, 2012

    Java: No Longer a Low Profile Exploit Target

    Better late than never, Apple has been releasing updates to its customized OSX build of Java, kind-of-fast on the heels of a new malware nemesis, Flashback.K. Windows users have had access to Java version 6.30 since Oracle released that operating system’s update to the ubiquitous runtime engine in February, but Mac users have been hanging […]
    Posted by Solera - Andrew Brandt
  • April 11, 2012

    Fake Huge Phone Bill Mal-Links to Another Level

    If this doesn’t demonstrate some of the more harmful risks posed by compromise of FTP credentials, I don’t know what will. A spam email that’s been circulating since the beginning of the month leads unwary victims not to one or two traps, but nineteen different URLs, all pointing to legitimate Web sites that have been […]
    Posted by Solera - Andrew Brandt
  • February 21, 2012

    RSA Warmup Tomorrow: Overachiever Threats and You

    With the RSA Conference and Security B-Sides San Francisco just around the corner, I’d like to invite readers of the blog to a webinar I’m cohosting tomorrow morning with Sonicwall’s Daniel Ayoub. The talk, titled Today’s Threats Are Overachievers–Are You Prepared to Respond, will feature a deep dive into examples of really fresh malware attacks […]
    Posted by Solera - Andrew Brandt
  • February 1, 2012

    Overdrive Spam Campaign Targets Business Banks

    A small trickle of badly-malformed spam email turned into a flood last week as hundreds of copycat messages per minute flooded inboxes we use to collect samples. The malware delivered by the spammed links isn’t your garden variety bank phishing Trojan. This one has its eyes on a specific prize: It wants the credentials for […]
    Posted by Solera - Andrew Brandt
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Goal Zero

  • May 14, 2012

    Goal Zero’s New CEO

    We are proud to announce that Joe Atkin was named as our new CEO last week. We are really excited about this change, and know that Joe’s knowledge of Goal Zero will allow us to maintain the growth and innovation … Continue reading → […]
    Posted by Goal Zero - goalzero
  • May 11, 2012

    How to Survive Your Monster-In-Law

    Mother’s Day is on Sunday, which means many of you will take a trip to the mother-in-law’s house. While spending the weekend dodging bad cooking and passive insults may not be ideal, we’ve got you covered. From packing a monster-in-law … Continue reading → […]
    Posted by Goal Zero - goalzero
  • May 1, 2012

    Introducing the New Yeti 1250 Solar Generator Kit

    When it comes to powering your gizmos and gadgets, there are many options out there. The Yeti 1250 is quiet, clean and munches on the sun. Continue reading → […]
    Posted by Goal Zero - goalzero
  • April 19, 2012

    Honor Earth Day 2012

    Joining the ranks of billions, Goal Zero is jumping in on the global celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd and we’re proud of it. Continue reading → […]
    Posted by Goal Zero - goalzero
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