Industry Insight

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World Wide Technology (WWT) and Embrane have formed a strategic partnership to provide software-defined network services to enterprises building data centers.   Read More...

St. Louis has seen the biggest year-over-year growth in technology jobs posted to the job search website Dice.com and ranks as the fasting-growing city for technology jobs.   Read More...

In what might be a first, three state health information organizations, namely Missouri Health Connection (MHC), the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII) and the Kansas Health Information Network (KHIN), have connected to each other's networks and are able to exchange secure messages following the Direct Project protocol.    Read More...

St. Louis IT professionals have seen a 13 percent pay increase in 2012 on average and can expect more well paying jobs in 2013, according to two reports out today.   Read More...

In 2012, Netelligent moved its headquarters into a new 21,000-square-foot building, hired 24 new employees (bringing its total head count to 70) and booked record revenue of $33 million.    Read More...

Garmin International Inc., the maker of GPS products, is expanding its engineering internship program by opening a new software engineering facility at Missouri University of Science and Technology.   Read More...

Managed hosting and colocation company XIOLINK says it’s downtown data center, at 1111 Olive St., uses 55 percent less power to cool its facility than the average enterprise data center.   Read More...

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Neither Andrew Mayhall nor his data storage startup Evtron have a lot of name recognition. But that may soon change, as the 19 year old gets ready to introduce his company and his product at one of the most prestigious technology launch events.   Read More...

The startup simMachines is relocating its headquarters to St. Louis from Costa Rica after receiving funding from Arch Grants, the global business plan competition providing $50,000 grants to startups and taking no equity in return.   Read More...

Data Specialties Inc., an Orange County, Calif.-based data center design-build firm, has opened an office in St. Louis. The company has two offices in California and one in Phoenix, Ariz., and was is looking to expand into the Midwest.   Read More...

Sporting Innovations,  a company that creates web software to enrich the experience of sports fans, including mobile applications, announced plans to expand operations in Kansas City.   Read More...

JMARK Business Solutions Inc., a company that specializes in the management and maintenance of the IT infrastructure for its business customers, announced plans to expand its headquarters, a capital investment of $564,000 that is expected to create 42 new high-tech jobs over the next three years.   Read More...

Seven Missouri-based firms are among Computerworld's 2012 list of the 100 Best Places to Work in Information Technology: Monsanto (29th), Scottrade Financial Services Inc. (31st), National Information Solutions Cooperative (54th),  Ascension Health (55th), Cerner Corp. (59th), Jack Henry & Associates (60th), and Edward Jones (83rd).   Read More...

Canadian information-technology services provider CGI agreed to buy embattled Anglo-Dutch rival Logica for £1.7 billion as it seeks to expand its global footprint.   Read More...

National Sales Co. today opened its new distribution and sales center at its headquarters located within McEagle Properties’ NorthSide Regeneration project at 1533 Delmar Blvd. in St. Louis. The 100,000-square-foot facility features a recently completed addition of 24,000 square feet to house the company’s relocated showroom, distribution center and main administrative offices. Its corporate headquarters relocated to the building in February 2011.   Read More...

The Boyd Co., based in Princeton, N.J., has ranked Kansas City No. 20 in a study of the annual operating costs for a data security center in the nation’s 45 largest regional financial centers.
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Dell acquired backup and replication software maker AppAssure Software in its first software acquisition since forming its software group.   Read More...