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BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire -06/28/12)- JBOSS WORLD -- CloudBees, Inc., the Java Platform as a Service (PaaS) innovation leader, today announced that Bullhorn, the global leader in web-based software for staffing and recruiting agencies, has selected the CloudBees Platform to accelerate their customized application development. Bullhorn serves over 100,000 users in 126 countries. The CloudBees Platform allows Bullhorn to accelerate its develop-to-deploy process for Java web applications -- eliminating the time and resources typically required for deploying applications in the cloud.

"The ROI we've experienced since we began working with CloudBees has been phenomenal. The CloudBees Platform has enabled us to scale dramatically, as it frees up our developers to do what they do best -- build applications to meet customer needs," said Matthew Fischer, VP of Engineering, Bullhorn. "We're committed to providing a high level of service to Bullhorn customers; utilizing the CloudBees Platform we are consistently meeting or exceeding our customers' expectations."

Since utilizing the CloudBees Platform, Bullhorn has delivered 60 customized, cloud-based applications. CloudBees allows Bullhorn's development team to focus on satisfying the specific needs of their customers, rather than allocating valuable time and resources to solving infrastructure maintenance issues that often come with cloud deployments. To date, the CloudBees Platform has already resulted in significant benefits for Bullhorn's organization, including:

Other value Bullhorn has realized from streamlining application development and cloud deployment using the CloudBees Platform include:

"Bullhorn is the type of customer we covet -- a cutting-edge business understanding the significant cost and operational efficiencies which can be gained from deployment in the cloud," said Sacha Labourey, CEO and founder, CloudBees. "Today, Java developers spend far too much time on tasks that are completely outside of their workflow. Bullhorn's services team can now concentrate on delivering quality customer applications, rather than being bogged down in issues that ordinarily plague application deployments."

For more information on Bullhorn's customized application deployment using RUN@cloud, please visit: http://www.cloudbees.com/case-study/bullhorn-inc.cb

About BullhornBullhorn (www.bullhorn.com) creates software and services that improve the way employees and employers come together. For over ten years our innovations have powered the recruiting and staffing operations of fast-growing start-ups up through the world's largest employment brands. Headquartered in Boston, with offices in London and Sydney, Bullhorn's recruiting CRM and social recruiting products serve over 100,000 users across 126 countries. Independently operated, Bullhorn is owned by Vista Equity Partners.

About CloudBees CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com) turbo-charges the way Java applications are built and deployed to meet the rapid pace of business in an on-line and increasingly mobile world. By eliminating the friction caused by provisioning, maintaining and administering complex hardware and software infrastructure, we streamline and accelerate the entire Java application lifecycle from development to deployment. The CloudBees platform provides a set of rich services that are easily consumed by developers allowing them to rapidly build and deploy new business applications with zero IT administrative overhead. Our AnyCloud Service Architecture enables those applications to be easily deployed to any public, regional or enterprise cloud environment. CloudBees serves the needs of a wide range of businesses from small startups that want to focus on quickly creating new on-line businesses to large IT organizations that need to rapidly respond to new business application projects.

Backed by Matrix Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of middleware and open source technology professionals.

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When an old system is replaced in the office, usually one of two things happens to it. The IT guys might keep it around as a spare unit, or they will cannibalize it for certain components before giving it the final send off.

Since many computer technologies have changed within the last five years, most components are not worth keeping from much older systems. However, hard drives, while gettingmore capaciousand faster, have used the same interface for about eight years now. The industry sticking with Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) for this long means that you are more likely to find use for the hard drive from an old system than any other type of component.

Of course, since new systems already come with hard drives, the IT storage room tends to fill up with the old ones. These SATA drives technically are usable, so most IT people are loathe to simply throw them away. But it would be nice to find a use for one or two of them, say, as a cloud server, for instance.

Akitio Cloud Hybrid

Pros: Can access from anywhere, use any drive.

Cons: Tools required for setup, interface less than intuitive.

Performance: A

Ease of Use: B+

Features: B+

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HAMILTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Voxware, a leading provider of voice solutions, today introduced Cloud Voice Management Suite (VMS), a cloud-based voice software solution that empowers organizations to enhance operational productivity, improve accuracy, and better serve their customers without investing in costly IT infrastructure.The benefits of this new offering include:

Our newest offering enables companies who are looking for easy, but high-impact change to implement a robust voice solution that improves productivity, safety, accuracy,and ultimately, customer relationships, said Keith Phillips, President and CEO, Voxware. By leveraging Cloud VMS, organizations are equipped to cost-effectively address their current needs and adapt to changing demands.

Cloud VMS is a fully productized bundle that includes:

Cloud VMS removes the headaches of implementation, maintenance, and updates freeing organizations from relying on heavy internal IT resources, continued Phillips. Customers do not have to manage servers, undergo timely and expensive deployments, or costly upgrades. Instead, we handle the heavy-lifting, allowing organizations to more efficiently realize the advantages that voice solutions provide.

About Voxware

Voxware helps organizations with teams who are on the move to more effectively receive, act on, and communicate information critical to their work. Our hands-free voice solutions enable employees to safely and accurately speed through tasks, thereby boosting operational productivity and improving customer experiences. Whats more, Voxware easily adapts to changes in technology and processes, enabling organizations to quickly address shifting demands without disruptions to the operation.Our innovative approach to voice communication has proven to help our customers increase profitability by cutting costs and enhancing brand loyalty.For more information, please visit http://www.voxware.com.

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Cybercriminals have built a cloud-based fraud system that targeted wealthy people and commercial accounts in bilking primarily European banks of possibly billions of dollars, security vendors say.

The international ring targeted accounts with an average of $300,000 to $600,000, and attempted to transfer as much as $130,000 to bogus business accounts, Intel-owned McAfee said Tuesday. While McAfee did not know how much money was actually stolen, the vendor estimates that it ranged from $75 million to $2.5 billion.

The ring targeted banks in Europe and then expanded to Latin America and more recently the United States, where it had just gotten started, Dave Marcus, director of advanced research and threat intelligence at McAfee Labs, said. McAfee, which investigated the ring's operation over the last six months with Guardian Analytics, is working with law enforcement agencies to shut down the fraudsters.

What is unique about the fraud was the amount of automation used, a feat made possible through the use of cloud computing, Marcus said. The combination of remote servers and an intimate knowledge of banking transaction systems made it possible to automate the theft, rather than simply stealing user names and passwords and having someone manually transfer money from a computer.

"The automated nature of these attacks really require that kind of server/cloud functionality," Marcus said. "It can't all take place on the host [computer]. All of the logic and all of the sophistication really does reside on that [cloud] server."

McAfee first discovered the fraudsters operating in Italy, and later followed them to Germany, the Netherlands and other countries in Europe. In March, the ring was found operating in Colombia and one server was later traced to the United States. "It looks like it [the ring] just started making the transition to the U.S.," Marcus said.

The fraud started with an email cleverly disguised to look like it came from the recipient's bank. Clicking on a link in the message downloaded the malware that would later use web-injects to steal the information needed to perform fund transfers. Web-injects are fake pages or form fields launched while a person is on an online banking site.'

McAfee, which dubbed the investigation "Operation High Roller" because of the wealthy victims, found 60 servers processing thousands of attempted thefts. Most of the transfers were for less than $10,000, with the highest reaching $130,000.

The fraudsters used common Zeus and SpyEye malware platforms as the base of the malicious code, which was customized for each targeted bank. Once the malware stole the needed information, transfers were performed via the control servers, which were even able to obtain the information needed to bypass smartcard readers often used in Europe for two-factor authentication. "We have not seen this level of sophistication before," Marcus said.

Besides the use of the cloud, the fraudsters had an impressive knowledge of how banking transaction systems worked. McAfee wasn't able to determine how the criminals gained that level of understanding. "You can't make a fraudulent transaction look like a valid transaction, if you don't know what you're doing," Marcus said. "And these guys know what they're doing."

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