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Gartner Positions Sprint as a Challenger in Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers

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Gartner Positions Sprint as a Challenger in Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Sprint (NYS: S) has advanced to a Challenger position within the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Network Service Providers. Since the previously published Magic Quadrant report, Sprint has grown its global MPLS, Ethernet and SIP Trunking coverage for business and wholesale customers.

“Our sharp focus and investment on domestic and global MPLS footprint expansion and growing product portfolio has delighted both business and wholesale customers, and this, we believe, led to Gartner advancing Sprint from a Niche Player in last year’s report to a Challenger position in this year’s,” said Mike Fitz, vice president – wireline and solutions engineering, Sprint. “The Challenger position aligns with our mission to combine our unique insights into customer needs with a robust portfolio of managed network solutions to help companies leverage their network as a strategic differentiator. And with the increasing adoption of cloud services, the network is the most important investment a company can make to accelerate transformation and the speed of business.”

This magic quadrant report1 assesses suppliers that can deliver fixed enterprise networking services worldwide, including:

  • WAN services, predominantly managed, including Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and IPsec VPNs, and Ethernet services
  • Voice services, including switched and dedicated voice and SIP trunks
  • Dedicated Internet services, including managed VPN offers

With its forward-thinking design approach and innovation in IP and wireless technologies, Sprint is uniquely positioned to unleash the full potential of business-critical applications and workforces through a single account team who understands converged, cloud and mobility solutions.

Also according to the report, “The number of organizations requiring global networking services continues to grow, due to globalization and cloud services, which are often hosted in different markets from the point of consumption. Organizations’ appetite for more bandwidth shows no signs of diminishing, with video and big data, coupled with IT centralization, as the primary drivers. Reliability and performance control are growing in importance as business processes become ever more IT-dependent; in addition, IT architectures (such as thin client computing) place ever greater reliance on the network.”

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CA Technologies Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Authentication

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CA Technologies Positioned in Leaders Quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant for User Authentication

ISLANDIA, N.Y.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– CA Technologies (NAS: CA) today announced that it has again been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for User Authentication*. CA AuthMinder™ and CA RiskMinder™, the company’s on-premise strong authentication solutions, and CA CloudMinder™ Advanced Authentication, the authentication-as-a-service component of CA CloudMinder, were evaluated for this report.

In the report Gartner predicts that, “by 2017, more than 50 percent of enterprises will choose cloud-based services as the delivery option for new or refreshed user authentication implementations — up from less than 10 percent today. However, it is likely that on-premises solutions will persist in the longer term, especially in more risk-averse enterprises that want to retain full control of identity administration, credentialing and verification.”

“We are living in a hybrid world when it comes to IT. Very few, if any, organizations today are using ‘all cloud’ or ‘all on-premises’ solutions, especially when it comes to security,” said Mike Denning, senior vice president and general manager, Security business at CA Technologies. “Our ability to provide identity and access management, advanced authentication and data protection solutions delivered on premises or as-a-service is perfectly aligned with this hybrid reality.”

“We are proud to be placed in the Leader’s Quadrant for user authentication, as well as in three other recent Gartner Magic Quadrant reports, including the Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance**; the Magic Quadrant for User Administration and Provisioning***; and the Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention****. We are working to keep these leader positions as we build the security solutions our customers need, delivered the way they want,” said Denning.

To receive a complimentary copy of the report, please visit Magic Quadrant for User Authentication. To learn more about CA Technologies Identity and Access Management solutions, visithttp://www.ca.com/us/it-security-solutions.aspx. To learn more about CA Technologies Advanced Authentication, deployed on premises or from the cloud, visit http://www.ca.com/us/multifactor-authentication.aspx.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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8×8 Issued New Communications Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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8×8 Issued New Communications Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– 8×8, Inc. (NAS: EGHT) , provider of innovative cloud communications solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a new patent related to its communications technologies. On March 19, 2013, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued United States Patent number 8,401,003 entitled “Method and System for Updating Physical Location Information.”

This patent relates to a method and system for updating physical location data associated with a Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) endpoint. The invention utilizes address and state information available to the VoIP endpoint device to facilitate an update of the physical location data associated with a VoIP host server via the VoIP endpoint device.

Since its establishment in 1987, 8×8 has been awarded eighty-six (86) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications, signaling, processing and storage technologies. 8×8’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Martin, is a named inventor on the newly issued patent.


About 8×8, Inc.

8×8, Inc. (NAS: EGHT) empowers business conversations for more than 30,000 small and medium-sized businesses with cloud communications services that include hosted PBX telephony, unified communications, contact center and video conferencing solutions. The company has been delivering business communications services since 2004 and has garnered a reputation for technical excellence and outstanding reliability. In 2012, 8×8 was named a market “leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in North America and recognized as the No. 1 Provider of Hosted IP Telephony by Frost & Sullivan. For additional information, visit www.8×8.com, or connect with 8×8 on Facebook and Twitter.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Positioned as Leader in 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suite

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Cornerstone OnDemand Positioned as Leader in 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites Report

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Cornerstone OnDemand (NAS: CSOD) , a global leader in cloud-based talent management software solutions, today announced it has been placed by Gartner Inc. in the “Leaders Quadrant” of the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites report.1 According to the report, talent management suites include capabilities for learning management, performance management, succession planning, compensation management and recruiting management. The Magic Quadrant positions vendors according to their “Ability to Execute” and “Completeness of Vision.”

“We believe our recognition as a Leader in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant for Talent Management Suites further confirms Cornerstone’s product leadership, focus on innovation and dedication to client success,” said Adam Miller, founder and CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. “Talent management has emerged as one of the most important business initiatives within global organizations today. We feel our placement as the only independent, best-of-breed vendor in the Leaders Quadrant is a testament to the depth of our solution and our commitment to our more than 10 million users worldwide.”

According to the report, Leaders demonstrate a market-defining vision of how talent management technology can help HR leaders achieve business objectives. Leaders have the ability to execute against that vision through products, services and demonstrated, solid business results in the form of revenue and earnings. In talent management suites, Leaders show a consistent ability to win broad suite deals. They have significant successful customer deployments in North America, EMEA and the Asia/Pacific region in a wide variety of vertical industries, with multiple proof points. Leaders are often what other providers in the market measure themselves against.

In addition to the Gartner report, Cornerstone also was ranked as a “Leader” in the March 2013 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Talent Management, Q1 2013″ by Forrester Research Inc.

For more information about Cornerstone OnDemand, visit www.csod.com. To follow Cornerstone OnDemand on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/cornerstoneinc. To read Cornerstone OnDemand’s talent management blog, visit http://www.csod.com/blog.

About Cornerstone OnDemand

Cornerstone OnDemand is a leading global provider of comprehensive talent management solutions delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Our solutions are designed to enable organizations to meet the challenges they face in empowering and maximizing the productivity of their human capital. Our core solution is an integrated, cloud-based suite that consists of the Cornerstone Recruiting Cloud, …read more
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Startup creates Yelp-like site that rates business apps

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Business software purchasing, particularly at the enterprise level, can be a lengthy and difficult process, something startup G2 Crowd is hoping to alleviate with a new review site aimed at enterprise applications.

G2 Crowd has been in the works for some time, but on Thursday the company announced what amounts to a public beta, as well as the unveiling of some new features. “We think we’re ready to go to the broader world,” said co-founder Godard Abel, in an interview.

The site includes a rating system called the G2 Grid. ‘We really think it’s a better version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant,” Abel said. That’s because all of the data involved is sourced from end-user reviews and social media sites.

User reviews carry 70 percent to 80 percent of the weight in rankings, but social media traffic can provide some significant insights into which companies and trends are getting hot, according to Abel.

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