ALPHARETTA, Ga.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–ResiliEnt Business Solutions, LLC, has announced that it has
received national certification as a “Women’s Business Enterprise” by
the Greater Women’s Business Council, a regional certifying partner of
the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

ResiliEnt Business Solutions, LLC(TM) (ResiliEnt) is a customer centric,
quality-focused consulting and professional services firm specializing
in the delivery of enterprise-wide business strategies and solutions
through operational process and technology. ResiliEnt’s experienced team
provides these services and solutions to a wide range of industries,
including: Financial Services, Retail, Higher Education, Healthcare,
Insurance, Technology, Manufacturing, Restaurant Management, Government,
and others.

WBENC’s national standard of certification, implemented by the Greater
Woman’s Business Council (GWBC), is a meticulous process including an
in-depth review of the business and site inspection. The certification
process is designed to confirm the business is at least 51% owned,
operated and controlled by a woman or women.

By including women-owned businesses among their vendors, corporations,
and government agencies demonstrate their commitment to fostering
diversity and the continued development of their supplier/vendor
diversity programs.

About ResiliEnt Business Solutions

ResiliEnt Business Solutions, LLC(TM) (ResiliEnt) is a customer centric,
quality-focused consulting firm specializing in the delivery of
enterprise-wide business strategies and solutions through operational
process and technology. The company provides unique client specific
solutions that solve critical issues and gain essential business
advantage. Our innovative process driven methodology, expert context
specific knowledge and product agnostic approach ensure strategic
success and adaptable solutions. ResiliEnt Solutions create sustainable,
strategy and solution based organizations, with C-suite agility,
improved business performance and tangible return on investment (ROI).
ResiliEnt has centers of excellence in Enterprise Strategy, Operational
Efficiency, Asset Evaluation and Reallocation, Change Management,
Technology Solutions, BI, DW, Data Strategy, Integration. Our services
include Management Consulting, Enterprise Wide Solutions and Resource
Management. To learn more about ResiliEnt Business Solutions, please
visit www.resilientbiz.com.

About WBENC

The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council is the nation’s largest
third party certifier of businesses owned and operated by women in the
United States. WBENC is a resource for the more than 700 US companies
and government agencies that rely on WBENC’s certification as an
integral part of their supplier diversity programs.

NEW YORK, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
MessageBank, LLC, a leading provider of customized integrated multimedia event solutions to the investor relations and corporate/financial communications marketplace, announced today that Sarah Smith has joined the company as Vice President, Business Development.

Coming to the firm from Verizon’s Business/Enterprise Solutions Group, Ms. Smith has supported the Fortune 1000 business community with the implementation and deployment of multimedia solutions on a global basis. During her 15 year career, she has provided clients across many industry sectors with a range of unified communications and collaboration services.

“Sarah brings a unique combination of sales, marketing and account management to our management team,” says Steven Fink, Managing Partner of MessageBank, LLC. “We’re excited to enhance our reach by adding Sarah to the firm. She has significant experience managing the sales process and service implementations of audio, web and video communications throughout the largest of corporate enterprises.”

Prior to her tenure with Verizon, Sarah spent 10 years in Corporate Communications and Information Technology with Cendant Corporation where she managed the technical services group responsible for overseeing the company’s use of audio and web-conferencing applications for internal and external communications requirements.

About MessageBank, LLC.

MessageBank is a leading provider of customized integrated multimedia event solutions to the Investor Relations and Corporate/Financial Communications marketplace. The company coordinates hundreds of earnings, guidance and other analyst conference calls and webcasts for large, mid and small cap publicly held companies. The company’s roster of clientele includes such companies as Morgan Stanley, Altria Group, Inc., Kraft Foods, ITT Corporation, Philip Morris International, Motorola, Liz Claiborne, Inc., Loews Corporation, PepsiCo, Inc., E*TRADE. More information available at
www.messagebank.com

Contact:
MessageBank, LLC. KCSA Strategic Communications
Steven Fink/ Sarah Smith Jeff Corbin
(212) 333-9302 / (973) 830-7763 (212) 682-6300
sfink@messagebank.com/ ssmith@messagebank.com jcorbin@kcsa.com

SOURCE MessageBank, LLC.

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NEW YORK, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Penserra Securities LLC, a U.S. based financial services firm that specializes in global institutional trading and related brokerage services, today announced that it is bolstering its fixed income capital markets presence and capabilities with the hire of a corporate bond team led by Donald Chisholm and Robert Wade.

“Penserra has continued to see opportunities for growth in the fixed income capital markets. Over the past year our primary business focus has been to assemble a highly experienced team covering all the major fixed income sectors,” said George Madrigal, Managing Partner of Penserra Securities. “The firm is pleased to welcome this extremely reputable corporate bond team to help our clients with their wide range of tactical and strategic fixed income investment objectives. They truly are leaders in the industry and a valuable intellectual asset to our customers.”

Donald Chisholm joins Penserra as Co-Head of Debt Capital Markets, where he will spearhead the continued expansion of the fixed income business including strategic planning, product development, trading, and investment banking. Robert Wade, also named Co-Head, will lead the trading team responsible for distressed, high yield, and investment grade debt. Joshua Deitch, Managing Director, will lead the fixed income credit sales team. Arnold Palatnek will be a senior bond trader focused on investment grade debt. S. Francisco Ghiglino is a highly seasoned desk analyst providing fundamental and relative value analysis in credit. Fred Schrodt was named Senior Vice President in fixed income sales. The entire team has a long history of working together in senior positions at VCG Securities, Cantor Fitzgerald and Raymond James.

“Strategically, I believe Penserra is a perfect fit. With their global equity presence, strong Pension fund relationships and solid existing MBS platform, we are able to seamlessly integrate Credit Trading to round out all asset classes” said Donald Chisholm.

Penserra will continue to expand its trading and sales platforms for both equity and fixed income. Having established strong global equity trading capabilities over the past few years, Penserra is now aggressively pushing into the many facets of fixed income capital markets. In 2011, the firm hired an experienced mortgaged backed and agency debt team led by Anthony Guaimano, previously with Stone & Youngberg.

“Given the sophistication of our institutional customer base our focus is to help our clients best execute their goals and investment needs as complex as they might be,” Madrigal said. “Penserra will continue to hire experienced professionals who bolster the firm’s intellectual capital needed to serve our growing number of clients.”

About Penserra Securities LLC

Penserra Securities provides institutional investors with global equity and fixed income execution services as well as advice on many other aspects of the investment process. The firm is also a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE). Founded in early 2007, Penserra is dedicated to deploying the most advanced trading technology while offering clients complete flexibility. The firm is committed to helping design custom solutions for its customers execution needs across equity and debt capital markets. Penserra also offers corporate buy-back services, desktop analytics, and transition management. Advisory and fiduciary services are offered through Penserra Capital Management LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor and affiliate of Penserra Securities LLC. For more information about Penserra and its services please visit
www.penserra.com .

Contact:George MadrigalPenserra Securities888.925.8008

SOURCE Penserra Securities LLC

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The name given to an organization of people should reflect the essence of the nature of its business. The many criminal street gangs in Chicago have a single reason for being: They sell drugs. Each of the gangs should have this incorporated by the people of Chicago into their names — eg, the Gangster Disciple Drug Gang or the Latin Kings Drug Gang.

Our tolerance for the existence of these gangs would surely be reduced if we were reminded of their billion-dollar illegal business enterprise every time we heard or read their name.

I recently read the article 17 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On in Business Insider.

As a longtime enterprise investor, I was happy to see more attention being paid to this major area of venture, but a little disappointed in one dimension of the article.

For the last couple of years weve been paying an increasingly large share of attention to the enterprise and companies who sell to them.

While much of our industry has been quite focused on social media or local deals, I noticed what is happening in the enterprise markets. I look at some of the deals we did almost a decade ago and have seen what has happened to their valuation. Concur is trading at over $3 billion. Broadsoft went public last year and has been trading around the billion dollar mark. Proofpoint and Vocera just went public. Taleo was acquired for $1.9 billion by Oracle. These arent the worlds sexiest businesses (although Voceras product is reminiscent of Star Trek) but they make money and have been great investments.

Why are the large bulk of the enterprise startups highlighted in the article based in Silicon Valley? New York has become a startup phenomenon for a variety of reasons, all of which are applicable to enterprise startups.

Closer to Customers
If you are selling an enterprise solution to the Fortune 500, whether it is ERP, CRM or Security, . New York has 45 of the Fortune 500 companies located here, more than twice the number of our closest competitor, Houston. As a point of reference, San Francisco has 8. Being close to your customer means understanding what their needs are and, for the first few implementations, being available to fix and adjust the software.

Experienced CEOs Available
A big stumbling block used to be the number of battle tested startup CEOs available. After more than a decade of Silicon Alley startups, NY has a plethora of excellent startup CEOs, many of whom have made it through two or more startup experiences. In addition, we also have IBM, CA and a number of other employers who have been known to sell a piece of enterprise software.

Tech Talent Available
Not a problem. With hundreds of thousands of programmers from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Ebay plus all of the talent from the startups, Techstars, Betaworks, and the other incubators/accelerators, an enterprise startup is in good shape. In addition Columbia Engineering is doing a great job and Roosevelt Island will soon be filled up with Cornell/Technion students. There will be plenty to go around.

Cloud
Any old issues of not enough servers or hardware has been taken care of by the cloud. Nothing more needs to be said.

VC Available
It used to be that people started up companies in the valley because that is where the VCs were. Not anymore. USV, IA, DFJ, Firstmark; a bunch of the Boston guys (Matrix, Polaris, Flybridge) and some from the valley (Accel and KP) are all here. We at RRE have always been here. And are investing aggressively out of our new fund. We welcome enterprise startups. I am happy to announce right here, if you are a NYC enterprise company, please send me the deal.

I am looking at some of the newest deals we have done in our Fund V. A bunch of them are selling to enterprises and growing rapidly, whether its Whiptail and solid state storage arrays, Sailthrus personalized marketing technology or Yieldbots big data ad platform. So, lets get Facebook public already. Then lets see the IPOs of Workday and Cloudera come out. Time to get back to business, enterprise business.

Caltrans is conducting a study to help them implement their Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) programs.The State of California is inviting public participants to a public hearing in Fresno on May 10 to obtain information regarding incidents in which obstacles were encountered in the transportation contracting industry in California.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) said in a release that they are conducting an availability and disparity study that will assist both Caltrans and local governments in implementing their Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) programs.

The study includes an analysis of the experiences of vendors and contractors with Caltrans and local agencies in connection with implementation of their DBE program and involves an analysis of whether or not there is evidence of discrimination or its effects in the transportation contracting industry in California.

The hearing will be held Thursday, May 10, from 4 to 6 pm at the Caltrans office located at 2015 E. Shields Ave. at the south end of the Manchester Center mall.

Leading Chinese communications company Huawei on Wednesday said it would aggressively expand in the Indian market, targeting $1 billion order book by 2015 to get 10 per cent of market share.

Huawei said, solutions in segments like power, transportation, banking and financial sectors will be part of the expansion plans. The company also showcased its solutions in cloud computing, unified communications and data center solutions as part of the Huawei Enterprise Roadshow 2012, which has reached Delhi after covering Mumbai. The roadshow will travel to Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Displaying intelligent surveillance solutions for the small and large client, Eric Yu, president of the business enterprise group, speaking exclusively with the Financial Chronicle, said that Huawei’s data storage and cloud computing solutions can help record large amounts of data and then distribute its analysis over the network. “There are big surveillance projects being implemented in Delhi and Mumbai. I think we will also get a chance to participate in that. This will take time as this is a government process,” he said.

Security concerns regarding Chinese equipment has been flagged as a concern by different Indian intelligence and security agencies. Yu said that Huawei “follows the laws and regulations in every country we operate in” and that it wants to build good relations with the government. Yu also asked the media to focus on the value that Huawei is adding to India’s economy, and not on issues that have been repeatedly addressed in the past.

Huawei aims to become a major supplier in enterprise market while delivering great value at affordable prices, he added.

sriramshankar@mydigitalfc.co

Companies will work to enable performance of in-depth analytics on vast amounts of Big Data in less time, at less cost.

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 08, 2012

Hortonworks, a leading commercial vendor promoting the innovation, development and support of Apache Hadoop, and in-memory data analytics pioneer Kognitio, driving the convergence of Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing, today announced a joint strategic partnership, pairing Hortonworks’ technical knowledge and the Hortonworks Data Platform with the Kognitio Analytical Platform, the industry’s fastest and most scalable solution for companies performing data-intensive exploration across multiple sources of information.

Through the partnership, the two companies will work together to simplify the movement of data between multiple, heterogeneous enterprise data systems and Apache Hadoop. The end result will enable companies to perform in-depth analytics on vast amounts of Big Data in far less time and at less cost that previously required.

Kognitio offers the industry’s most advanced analytical platform for business, enterprise, research and government. Standards-driven and mature, it enables users to query what they want, when they want, no matter how complex, or granular, or how voluminous the data, returning responses in seconds. Users can gain insight from large, complicated sets of data with minimal fuss on a load-and-go basis, without the need for teams of DBAs to set things up and the associated long delays. By leveraging Apache Hadoop, the Kognitio Analytical Platform runs data transformations directly inside Hadoop for maximum scalability.

“Kognitio is making it possible for more companies than ever before to implement in-depth analytics on vast amounts of data via the cloud,” said Eric Baldeschwieler, CTO and co-founder of Hortonworks. “Apache Hadoop gives organizations the power to integrate and refine enterprise data from multiple sources, delivering more insight, and driving more intelligent decisions. Kognitio’s power, coupled with our knowledge, will help enable Hadoop to become the next-generation enterprise data platform and achieve our vision of processing half of the world’s data within the next several years.”

Hortonworks provides expert technical support for organizations implementing solutions based on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). Powered by Apache Hadoop, HDP is a massively scalable, 100 percent open source platform for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. HDP includes the most popular and essential Apache Hadoop projects including HDFS, MapReduce, HCatalog, Pig, Hive, HBase and Zookeeper.

“Simply put, Hortonworks gets it. Hortonworks understands the need companies have to analyze all of their data and they know how Apache Hadoop can help them achieve the goal of maximizing the value of data flowing throughout their organizations,” said Roger Gaskell, Kognitio Chief Technology Officer. “The combination of Kognitio and Hortonworks will pay significant dividends to both companies and our clients as we move forward.”

“As an analytical accelerator, Kognitio is the perfect complement to Hadoop clusters, as it leverages the same parallel processing on industry-standard Linux servers,” Gaskell continued. “This makes Hadoop more readily accessible, as everyday business users can use the BI tools and standard interfaces with which they are accustomed to perform analytics on more data, more quickly than ever before.”

About Kognitio

Kognitio is driving the convergence of Big Data Analytics and Cloud Computing. Having delivered the first in-memory analytical platform in 1989, it was designed from the ground-up to turn massive amounts of raw, complex data into valuable business insight. As an appliance, in the cloud, or on industry-standard x86 servers, Kognitio provides the highest amount of scalable compute power to allow rapid execution of complex analytical queries without the administrative overhead of manipulating data.

The Kognitio Cloud is a ready-to-use analytical platform. A secure, private cloud Platform-as-a-Service, it leverages the cloud computing model to make the Kognitio Analytical Platform available for a monthly operational cost on a fixed term. Clients span industries, including market research, consumer packaged goods, retail, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, gaming, media and utilities.

To learn more about Kognitio, visit http://www.kognitio.com and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

About Hortonworks

Hortonworks is a leading commercial vendor of Apache Hadoop, the preeminent open source platform for storing, managing, and analyzing large volumes of data. The Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open and stable foundation for enterprises and a growing ecosystem to build and deploy big data solutions. Together with the Apache community, Hortonworks is making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage, and use. Hortonworks provides unmatched technical support, training and certification programs for enterprises, systems integrators, and technology vendors. For more information, visit http://www.hortonworks.com.

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Good things come to those who wait is a phrase that has rung true for the Jones Family Farm.

On Monday afternoon, US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced a $20,000 federal grant for the Mohawk Valley Economic Development District to purchase new equipment to help the Jones Family Farm expand its operations in Herkimer.

The federal funding was allocated through the US Department of Agricultures Rural Economic Business Enterprise Grant program, which provides grants for rural projects that finance and facilitate development of small and emerging rural businesses.

This federal funding is so important for Mohawk Valley farms, Gillibrand, D – New York, said in a news release. Small businesses and family farms are among the most important economic engines we have. When we invest in rural small businesses, we can help them grow and expand, support job creation and revitalize rural communities.

Suzie and Peter Jones of Jones Family Farm were shocked to hear they received the grant.

I heard about a few different grants so I did some research and we decided to apply for this particular one and wait to see what happens. I really didnt expect to hear back, especially to hear that we received the grant, Suzie Jones said.

Upgrades and improvement possibilities through the federal grant include a draining rack, vacuum sealer, dry ingredient storage room, anti-microbial shelving and a dishwasher to help expand the farms cheese-making operation.

The Jones Family Farm also is considering to use the grant to purchase a new freezer, cooling system and blast freezer to support their new gelato production.

We would like to expand our cheese production by making gelato. Its something different that everyone enjoys. We could offer both strawberry and blueberry flavors when the berries are in season, Peter Jones said.

The Jones Family Farm is a believer in buying locally. The farm purchases dairy milk locally to produce its cheese products.

The Jones Family Farm specializes in fresh, healthy food and produces all-natural cheeses, grass-fed meats and free-range eggs. The farm offers its products at the Clinton and Herkimer farmers markets and is a supplier for many local restaurants and businesses.

Nolas Restaurant in Clinton offers a cheese plate appetizer with a number of different cheeses, all produced by the Jones Family Farm, and the farms cream cheese is used by The Tailor amp; The Cook in Utica to create specialty cheesecake. The farms cheese can also be purchased at Peters Cornucopia, in New Hartford.

For more information about the farm and to view a complete list of stores, restaurants and markets that sell the farms products, visit www.anotherjonesfamilyfarm.com.

A PERSONS first year in business can be fraught with uncertainty, cash-flow concerns and muddled marketing campaigns as they struggle to carve out a viable niche in the regions growing market.

Its a struggle thats all too familiar for the team at the Macarthur Business Enterprise Centre.

However, chief executive David Waudby said there was a lot of support for small-business owners in Macarthur and Wollondilly if they looked for it.

The non-profit organisation has delivered a free one-on-one business-advisory service for the past 20 years and started up its Business Development Centre in Smeaton Grange a decade ago.

We help people realise the complexities of small business with the view of them being successful in that business and creating employment opportunities, he said.

If we can create an employment market then we can help keep people locally.

They help about 800 businesses across the south-west each year with information about markets, cash flow, business plans, pricing and break-even analysis.

Mr Waudby said the Business Development Centre, dubbed the incubator, gave new small businesses the chance to grow and mature with a strong support network.

Its the best place to be in business. It can support 21 individual businesses with office space or light-industrial space for businesses in a start-up or growth phase for a maximum of three years, he said.

It gets them over that two-year risk hump and we offer a month-by-month lease, on-site support, mentoring and networking.