Acquire the skills to make your data protection strategy successful with the Veritas NetBackup 10.0: Advanced Administration course. You will learn advanced NetBackup topics, including NetBackup performance, security, disaster recovery, application, and database protection on physical and virtual machines, and protecting data backed up to and from the cloud. This course also covers using NetBackup to manage Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft SharePoint, Cassandra, and Hadoop backups and restores along with other modern workloads like containerized applications, and Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor. NetBackup APIs, Parallel Streaming Framework, Universal Shares, Bare Metal Restore, and NetBackup MSDP Cloud are also discussed in this course. 

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is a multinational technology company that offers a range of computing solutions and technology consulting services. Big Blue traces its origins back as early as the 1880s, but it was in 1911 that the company was first incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. (C-T-R) in the state of New York.

C-T-R manufactured and sold a range of machinery, including commercial scales, industrial time recorders, meat and cheese slicers, tabulators, and punched cards. The company formally changed its name to its current name in 1924 and has since grown into a major global corporation focused on software, technology and business consulting, and cloud computing.

IBM generated annual net income of $5.6 billion on revenue of $73.6 billion in 2020. It has a market capitalization of $125.3 billion as of July 13, 2021. It currently operates through five business segments: Cloud & Cognitive Software, Global Business Services, Global Technology Services, Systems, and Global Financing.

IBM’s early history is marked by its focus on the manufacture of machinery and computer hardware products. But beginning around the 1990s, the company began to shift its focus toward computer services and software. It sold off hardware businesses, such as flat-panel displays, disk drives, and personal computers, while simultaneously acquiring services and software companies. In accurate years, the company has set its sights on becoming a leader in cloud computing, a strategic push underscored by its 2019 acquisition of Red Hat Inc. To facilitate this shift toward cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI), IBM has announced that it will spin off its infrastructure management business. The new company will be called Kyndryl, and the spin-off is expected to be complete by the end of 2021.

Below, we take a closer look at six of IBM’s more accurate acquisitions, all of which have taken place within the past 20 years. The company does not provide a breakdown of how much profit or revenue each acquisition currently contributes, except for quarterly revenue for Red Hat. 

spring people

About

Founded in 2009, SpringPeople is a global premier corporate training provider for high-end and emerging technologies, methodologies and products. Partnering with parent organizations behind these technologies, SpringPeople delivers authentic and most comprehensive training on related topics.

SpringPeople management team is made up of IIT/IIM alumni, with several decades of IT experience. The delivery team consists of very senior technical consultants who are IT industry veterans, with each having over a decade of design and development experience. Such high technical expertise along with professional management has made SpringPeople a brand trusted by organizations for all their education needs - always rated 9+ out of 10 by the participants and training/education managers.

SpringPeople serves several verticals worldwide - IT, BFIS, CRM, Hospitality, Travel, Education, Manufacturing etc.; boasting some of the industry marquee names as customers - GE, Cisco, Fidelity, Sun, ANZ, EMC, Intuit, Essar, Travelex, RBS - to name a few.

A noteworthy partnership - SpringPeople is an exclusive master partner in APAC (and one of the hand-picked seven global partners) of SpringSource, a division of VMware - delivering the immensely popular, high-quality public and onsite training courses from SpringSource University curriculum on Spring, Groovy/Grails, tc Server technologies - the "official" world-class education & certification from the open-source thought leaders who created and maintain these technologies.

SpringPeople is committed to provide unparalleled effective and complete learning experience to the industry, and not just training classes.

Mission

Deliver rich and effortless training experience to customers by taking complete ownership of end-to-end training process; take an economical, efficient and flexible approach to organize and deliver training; provide tailored training solutions for customer training requirements - through highly experienced and motivated trainers/consultants. We strive to exceed customer expectations and meet training objectives – this includes ensuring employees have a comprehensive learning experience and customers are able to derive immediate measurable benefits and long term commercial gain from their training investment.

Vision

At SpringPeople, we are committed to transform the way the corporate training is procured, organized, delivered, and training results measured - setting the benchmarks in the Corporate Training Industry & be the leader - enabling organizations & communities to swiftly enrich their knowledge capital/skills.

Future goals

• Be the preferred training vendor for all companies, which have corporate training requirements
• Establish highly defined processes focused at ensuring rich, smooth & effortless training experience for customers
• Make our corporate training offerings accessible/available across India
• Create network of high-quality, open-house corporate training/learning centers. This will cater to small batch-size corporate training requirements
• Reduce Total Cost of Learning (TCL) and maximize Return on Investment (ROI) made by organisations on training
• Maintain our consistent superior record of training feedback rating of 9 on10
• Relieve managers from the rigor of organizing and managing training courses.

Dr. Peter Blume-Jensen has extensive expertise in basic and translational cancer research, oncogenic signaling, and targeted oncology therapeutics drug discovery prior to joining Metamark as CSO in 2010.  From 2001 to 2008 Peter was department head at first Serono, US and ... later at Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Inc. where he established novel, integrated oncology drug discovery departments and programs linking therapeutics to patient responder populations. During his tenure he advanced a number of pre-clinical drug programs into the clinic, and provided translational support for clinical programs. Since 2008 he was Exec. Dir. and Vice President for External Scientific Affairs at Daiichi Sankyo Inc., served as the global 'Therapeutic Area Advisor' for Oncology, and was co-responsible for formulating a global oncology R&D strategy. He co-led the scientific M&A and due diligence resulting in the acquisition of Plexxikon (US$935M).  In 2010 he joined Metamark as CSO and 2nd employee.  Here he built and let R&D, a world-class KOL Advisory Board, and a novel, automated proteomics imaging platform for CLIA-certified cancer tests.  He designed and let 4 clinical studies culminating with the successful blinded, clinical validation of ProMark, a prognostic prostate cancer biopsy test for intact tissue.  During the initial commercial launch in Q1-2, 2014 he led Medical Affairs and training of all commercial staff.  Since June 2014, Peter has joined Xtuit Pharmaceuticals, a targeted therapeutics start-up, as CSO, and first employee.  Peter continues to serve as Chief Scientific Advisor and on the SAB for Metamark and also has joined the SAB of Veritas Gene, Inc, a NGS company. <br /> <br />Dr. Blume-Jensen has authored highly-cited original articles, reviews, and book chapters in Personalized Molecular Oncology. His review 'Oncogenic Kinase Signaling' in Nature is a citation classic in 'Clinical Medicine', and his work on genetically engineered cancer and male infertility mouse models has been widely portrayed on CNN and other news channels. His approaches for efficacy-predictive biomarkers have appeared on Nature Biotechnology's 'Hot patents' watch-list and in numerous Editorial highlights for Personalized Oncology. Dr. Blume-Jensen obtained his M.D. from Copenhagen, Denmark, his Ph.D. from Dr. Carl-Henrik Heldin's laboratory at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Uppsala, Sweden, and conducted his Post-Doctoral studies in Dr. Tony Hunter's laboratory at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA. He has consulted extensively for Biotech and Pharma on targeted therapeutics and Precision Medicine

The Veterans Health Administration’s video connect program to bridge the digital divide is two years old, but many of the veterans who loaned iPads through the initiative aren’t actually using the devices to go to virtual appointments.

An Aug. 4 audit report by Office of the Inspector General found VHA distributed devices to about 41,000 patients during the first three quarters of fiscal 2021, but 51% of the patients are not using the devices for virtual appointments.

Now OIG is making 10 recommendations to increase patient’s use of the devices. 

During the pandemic, VA social workers partnered with the VHA’s Office of Connected Care to distribute iPads and internet service to eligible patients to connect them with video telehealth appointments.

“VHA’s [standard operating procedure] includes eligibility criteria purposely left broad in light of the pandemic and does not require scheduling the patient for a VA Video Connect appointment,” the audit said. 

The devices, which, on average, the VHA provided two weeks after the consult, were not always used to connect to video telehealth. The OIG audit estimated 20,300 patients enrolled in the program, or around 49%, completed a video appointment.

The review estimated more than 10,000 patients had a video appointment scheduled, but did not complete the visit for various reasons, such as technical issues or a cancellation, and never scheduled another virtual appointment.

The OIG report concluded the low completion rates occurred because VHA did not establish clear oversight roles for Veterans Integrated Service Network and medical facility employees, and because the program did not require staff to schedule a virtual appointment for patients with a loaned device.

In addition, the report found that a lag in sending devices could have delayed scheduling and completing the virtual appointments. 

Once the device arrives, patients have 90 days to have a virtual appointment. If the device is not used in those 90 days, VHA staff will take it back. Despite the requirement, OIG found VHA did not collect 11,000 unused devices.

When OIG went back to November 2021, VHA’s tablet dashboard showed patients did not use nearly 8,300 of those 11,000 devices.

“The value of the 8,300 devices was about $6.3 million and cost VHA about $78,000 in additional cellular data fees during the period under review,” the audit said.

Although many patients did not use the devices they requested, VHA’s data showed 3,119 patients had multiple devices. In addition, as of January 2022, VHA had a backlog of 14,800 returned devices that needed to be refurbished. 

In August 2021, VHA ordered 9,720 additional new devices, totaling about $8.1 million. “The review team determined that VHA could have made better use of approximately $14.5 million in program funds with better device monitoring and retrieval controls and oversight,” the audit stated.

Recommendations from OIG include developing a mechanism to alert the clinics that a patient can be scheduled for a virtual appointment. They also suggest revising procedures to clarify the number of days from consult initiation to device order and adding procedures to prevent and retrieve duplicate devices.

OIG also asked VHA to enhance tracking device packages, create detailed refurbishment reporting and use the data when considering buying new devices. 

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By Emma Mayer On 6/15/21 at 1:51 PM EDT