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OCTOBER 13, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technology , the provider of software used to transform traditional, desktop and server software applications into cloud-based, software-as-a-service, reported today that it has deployed a home healthcare software suite on IBM's SmartCloud platform. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2010

Pasadena-based Guidance Software , a developer of forensics software for digital investigations of computers, said today that it has hired Leo J. Cole was most recently VP of Marketing for Websense, and also served for over 25 years at IBM. Tags: guidance software executive forensics security saas websense. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. RightScale said it will support creating, managing, and automating IBM DB2 Express-C on such services as Amazon EC2. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based NantBiosciences , one of the group of companies created by billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raised $100M in San Diego-based Tealium , the developer of enterprise "tag" management software led by Jeff Lunsford, said today that it has connected its software into IBM Commerce.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software announced today that it has named Michael Sotnick as its Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliance, and added Kevin Norlin as Vice President and General Manager of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Sotnick has previously served at ActiveIdentity, VERITAS Software, and SAP America.

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OCTOBER 20, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the provider of enterprise build software, said today that it has launched a new version of the firm's product, Maestro. The firm is targeting fortune 500 customers with it software, used by enterprise customers for deploying and managing build and deployment of software projects. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2016

IBM and XPRIZE , the Culver City organization which runs major challenges to advance technology and help apply innovation to solving some of the world's biggest challenges, have announced a new IBM Watson AI PRIZE. The new prize will be awarded in 2020, and rules for the new competition will be announced in May. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2016

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , the $5M competition being run by Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , has opened up registrations to teams, and has published guidelines for the artificial intelligence competition.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The firm's software runs across such social services as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. and also served at IBM and other companies. Fan Appz said it differs from other, social media marketing products because it is focused on helping brands close a sale. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , a firm developing Java build, test, and release tools for the software development community, has uncloaked at the JavaOne conference, exposing the latest firm started by GlueCode founder Winston Damarillo. He's currently heading up Morphlabs , which shares the same address as MaestroDev. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Wednesday, November 7, 2012 -- Turn Your Software App into SaaS in Days! How do you turn your software application into a fully operational, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), without investing a lot of time, programming resources, and money into the effort? 1 and IBM Glendale office Nov 7, both from 8:30-10:00. See [link].

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APRIL 27, 2009

Pasadena-based X1 Technologies , the document indexing and search software firm backed by Idealab, disclosed this morning that it has released two upgrades to its software. Among the updates is a new release of its X1 Profesisonal Client software, and a new versino of its connector to the Symantec Enterprise Vault product.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing software run by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has released a "significant upgrade" to its mCloud Controller product. Morphlabs is the latest startup of Winston Damarillo, who was the founder of GlueCode, which he sold to IBM. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Aliso Viejo-based data protection, system management, and security software developer Quest Software announced two new executives this morning, saying it has named Heath Thompson as President and General Manager of its Information Systems Management (ISM) business and Bhagwat Swaroop as President and General Manager of the One Identity business.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -- Turn Your Software App into SaaS in Days! How do you turn your software application into a fully operational, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), without investing a lot of time, programming resources, and money into the effort? 1 and IBM Glendale office Nov 7, both from 8:30-10:00. See [link].

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The firm's software runs across such social services as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest and Instagram. and also served at IBM and other companies. Fan Appz said it differs from other, social media marketing products because it is focused on helping brands close a sale. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

IBM , and the Los Angeles Times. The effort is applying language analysis and language software from IBM to try to distinguish positive and negative tweets about films, actors, and actresses, to predict the possible winners of an Oscar.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Way back in the early eighties, I was privileged to be part of the original IBM PC development team, led by Don Estridge. For example, even though we were leading an entrepreneurial effort within IBM, we found it a challenge to deal with the inbred mainframe culture, reverence for process, and accounting practices of a large company.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software developer RightScale has expanded into Australia, the firm said last week. RightScale is a provider of software used to manage the configuration, monitoring, and other aspects of both private and public cloud computing. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of IT analytics annd management software, announced today that former FileNet CEO Lee Roberts is joining the firm's board of directors. Roberts headed up FileNet as Chairman and CEO at the time of its acquisition by IBM. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based MaestroDev , the developer of private cloud computing software, has officially named Doug Dennington as the firm's new President. Dennington was most recently Director, Open Source Sales at Progress Software and IONA Technologies, and was also a member of the founding team at Simula Labs, LogicBlaze, and Gluecode.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

My introduction to startups really came when I first worked in IBM with Philip Donald Estridge back in 1981. Known as Don Estridge, he led development of the original IBM Personal Computer, and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC" He’s gone now, but I still remember him fondly. mHz, now 3.0

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

San Diego-based venture investor Avalon Ventures has scored an exit this morning, after IBM said it has acquired Boston-based Cloudant , a developer of a NoSQL-based, cloud-based database. cloudant venture capital merger acquisition exit cloud software nosql database' Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. in funding.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , the developer of the Roambi business application for the iPhone and iPad, said this morning that it has integrated its software with Oracle's Business Intelligence (BI) suite. The Oracle support comes on top of existing support for SAP, IBM, and Microsoft products. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 6, 2010

Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of performance analytics software for the enterprise, reported today that it has hired Phil Rugani as Executive Vice President of Sales and Field Operations. Rugani also served at AXS-One, IBM, FileNet, Oracle, Informix, and Alta Vista. Tags: integrien executive analytics software.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Southern California--despite the lack of huge, name brand firms-- has a significant number of enterprise software companies, of which Network Automation is just one. We are handling IT processes which are normally the purview of large players like BMC and CA Technology, HP, and IBM--considered the Big 4 in IT administration.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based Dreamhost , and Los Angeles cloud computing software firm Morphlabs both said this week that they have become founding Gold members of the new group. The foundation said it will help the development, distribution and adoption of the OpenStack cloud software.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , the developer of mobile software used to help citizens to communicate with cities and local government, has rolled out in Honolulu, Hawaii. CitySourced said the win came via a referral from IBM; the company said it how has nearly 50 cities worldwide in 7 countries using its technology. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Los Angeles-based Inktank , the developer of the open source, distributed storage software Ceph, is expanding its executive tem today, saying that it has hired James Duncan as its new CTO, Russell Kojima as VP Professional Services, and Debbie Moynihan as VP Marketing. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The company's CEO, Jeff Drake, was a founder at Access360 (acquired by IBM), and also served at IBM, Akana, and ServiceMesh. The company's President, Jeff Curie, was also an executive at Access360, IBM, and SupplyFrame.

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OCTOBER 31, 2020

The honest truth is that I worked directly with him in the early days of Microsoft from my “safe” perch in big IBM, during the startup of the IBM PC. We in IBM didn’t get it at all, and we insisted on calling the IBM PC a “workstation” which in retrospect sounds like “work” for a bunch of robots at their “stations.”

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Corent , which develops software tools to more easily port traditional software to the software-as-a-service model, has raised $3.2M Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. in a funding round.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. Series C funding from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), IBM--via its new "Watson Fund"--and Qualcomm Ventures, along with existing investors Emergence Capital Partners, InterWest Partners, Miramar Venture Partners and Okapi Venture Capital.

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DECEMBER 28, 2009

Irvine-based eEye , a developer of security and vulnerability management software, said today that it has named a new CEO, CFO, and VP of Strategy. Hickey is currently a venture partner at JMI Equity, and was most recently at NetPro Computing, and also has served at HomeBid.com, ViaSoft, and IBM. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Redland-based Esri , the developer of geographical information software, said Thursday that it has acquired SpotOn Systems , a developer of business intelligence and interactive mapping software. Esri said that SpotOn provides interactive mapping software for IBM Cognos, IBM's business intelligence software.

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