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Cougar Capital News

  • 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 [...]
  • August 09, 2010

    Forbes Names Cougar Capital As One of the Most Innovative Business Classes

    Forbes Magazine named Cougar Capital as the runner-up to its list of the top ten most innovative business classes. From the article, "Students learn about private equity and venture capital the har [...]
  • January 17, 2010

    Entering the “Cloud”

    Few topics are as hot in the tech space right now as cloud computing, and associated technologies/opportunities. Cougar Capital was able to invest in the space thanks to syndicate partner, and lead in [...]
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Allegiance

  • February 21, 2012

    Customer Experience Design – It’s Not Just for Call Centers Anymore

    If you don’t proactively design your customer experience, one will be provide for you. How easy is it to buy your product or service? Is your customer’s experience littered with overly complicated phone trees, slow response times, or unknowledgeable staff? Have you mapped out your customer’s experience and do you thoroughly understand all of the points of co […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Matthew Bowman
  • February 14, 2012

    The Survey is Dead…Long Live the Survey

    In our professional lives, surveys are an indispensable tool in our enterprise voice arsenal. When combined with operational data, business performance metrics, social media chatter and other less-structured forms of customer voice (e.g. call center logs, online comment cards, in-bound emails and letters), survey results form the critical foundation of a ric […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Sarah Simon
  • February 6, 2012

    Are You Really in the VOC/CX Business?

    You may have been in the data gathering business in the past, but the future lies with data insights. You cannot gather more data only to deliver tepid insights. Your value and your place at the highest levels of the company is weakened by this result. However, your value is highest when you deliver insights to the right people and help them act upon them. […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Adam Edmunds
  • February 1, 2012

    Healthy Growth Ahead for VOC and Customer Experience Industry

    Both Forrester Research and Gartner have predicted continued annual growth of between 15-20% for the customer experience and voice of customer industries. At Allegiance, we certainly see this growth happening. But what kind of changes will occur as more corporate boards, c-suites and leadership teams add savvy VOC pros? How will business change as a result o […]
    Posted by Allegiance - Chris Cottle
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Fusion-io

  • February 22, 2012 Blog

    Fusion-io Keeps Japanese Social Gaming Company Drecom on Top

    With the mobile gaming industry expecting to reach $54 billion by 2015, some companies are struggling to keep up with customer growth. These numbers are expected to continue to rise as the world becomes more and more connected. When Japanese social and mobile gaming company Drecom began experiencing rapid growth, it searched for a scalable solution that woul […]
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  • February 17, 2012 Blog

    Sundio Group Boosts Business with Microsoft and Fusion-io

    Microsoft recently published a case study on Sundio Group, an online travel firm that sells trips to holiday destinations throughout Europe. With more and more travel companies moving their services online, Sundio Group needed a fast system that could not only give them a competitive advantage, but that could also handle fast company expansion. Sundio Group […]
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  • February 16, 2012 Blog

    Webair Deploys Fusion ioMemory for Speedy Cloud Computing Performance

    With growing adoption of cloud computing, more companies are looking for solutions that deliver performance and speed in the cloud. Traditional disk-based storage technologies have limited  performance and bottlenecks become amplified in the cloud. End users don't want to wait in any environment, so many IT experts are looking for new ways to meet cloud […]
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  • February 15, 2012 Blog

    Red Hat Recommends Fusion-io

    Defined as "The Open Source Company," Red Hat has a broad portfolio of products that its customers can choose from with open source freedom. “Open source to us is like a religion,” says Sanjay Rao, Principle Software Engineer. "We stick to our philosophy." Red Hat’s Performance Engineering Team’s role is to anticipate the future performan […]
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Mojiva

  • February 8, 2012 Mobile Marketing News

    American Family Insurance Deploys Cutting-Edge Mobile Ad Campaign

    Mojiva, the Mobile Ad Network and Mindshare Facilitates Insurance Provider's Strategic Mobile Campaign NEW YORK, NY, Feb 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Mojiva ( www.mojiva.com ), the mobile ad network that specializes in making "big idea," cross-platform mobile strategies come to life at scale, today announced a multi-execution ad campaig […]
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Soasta

  • February 21, 2012

    How SOASTA Leverages Cloud APIs

    Our position as one of the first enterprise cloud platforms has given us a great view of the evolution of the cloud. On any given day at SOASTA we may be looking for thousands of cloud servers to simulate millions of virtual web site visitors. As a result, we’ve done more cloud testing across more Read more… […]
    Posted by Soasta - Dave Murphy
  • February 9, 2012

    It’s Springtime For Mobile Application Testing

    In the spring of 2008 Cloud Computing was the featured “flower” that dominated the conversation in the technology flowerbed. With Spring 2010 arrived a new flower, Dev/Ops, with its Agile methods, practices, and integration between software development and IT operations.  Now, in the spring of 2012, another flower is blooming: Mobile Testing. Testing, once c […]
    Posted by Soasta - Tom Lounibos
  • January 27, 2012

    Don’t Neglect Your Mobile Customers

    Errors that only your mobile or tablet customers may see Every day, more and more of your customers move off their standard desktop computers in favor of smaller and lighter alternatives. Today, many people do much of their day-to-day Internet activities exclusively on their smartphones and tablets. One can no longer assume that the majority of Read more… […]
    Posted by Soasta - Nick Richardson
  • January 19, 2012

    The Importance of “Bursting” Static Assets

    When load testing at the HTTP level, it’s important to emulate the browser as closely as possible. In a browser, the HTML page is loaded first. Then, in parallel, the links for the static assets on that page are parsed and requested from the target web server. CloudTest, like most contemporary browsers, defaults to six Read more… […]
    Posted by Soasta - Ed Salazar
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OpenLogic

  • February 22, 2012

    Open Source License Compliance in the Cloud

    Cloud computing has forever changed enterprise IT. As enterprises turn to the cloud, they find open source software plays a central role in cloud-based services and in the infrastructure of the cloud itself. The use of open source in the cloud brings with it questions and challenges in the area of open source license compliance – many not raised by tradition […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Greg Bell
  • February 20, 2012

    Is My Platform as a Service Open Enough?

    One thing I look at for when looking at cloud computing services and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings is how I could apply their features to applications I’ve developed in the past.  This gives me a good guide for the types of architectures I’m likely to work with in the future.  Most of the […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Eric Weidner
  • February 17, 2012

    Selecting Your Open Source Support Vendors (And What Their Business Model Means to You)

    The vast majority of enterprises use open source software as a significant and growing part of their IT portfolio. And most enterprises work with one or more open source vendors to get commercial grade open source support for the open source software they use. In order to select the right open source vendors, it’s important to understand their business model […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Kim Weins
  • February 15, 2012

    How to Develop an Open Source Governance Training Program for Your Organization

    Your company is actively using open source software, and you’ve realized that an open source governance program is essential to managing the adoption and use of open source. You’ve developed an open source policy and implemented key components of best-in-class governance programs such as an open source request-and-approvals process, source code scanning befo […]
    Posted by OpenLogic - Greg Bell
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Solera

  • 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
  • January 20, 2012

    LinkedIn Blackhole Spam Fails the Smell Test

    Looks like someone’s spam campaign got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning: A badly malformed message appears to be trying to convince the reader it originates with LinkedIn, the business-centric social network. Hardly any message at all, the spam body consists entirely of ReportIDA161580AD75, which precedes a goo.gl shortlink. The laughable […]
    Posted by Solera - Andrew Brandt
  • January 12, 2012

    Digitally Signed Rogues: As Dumb As The Rest

    Both the installer and payloads of a rogue system utility named System Restore (a type of fraudulent software that, in this case, is named exactly like the Windows system utility) sport an unusual characteristic: a digital signature. Digitally signed Trojans such as these are less rare than they used to be, but still unusual, so […]
    Posted by Solera - Andrew Brandt
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