Aurora honored internationally for product excellence

Guy Sucharczuk (c), Aurora Founder and CEO, accepts UPC Award

Having grown rapidly to achieve a prominent market position and global presence, Aurora Networks is now attracting increasing worldwide recognition -- this time from leading European cable operator UPC Broadband. Launched at the Liberty Global Technology Summit in the Netherlands these annual awards are designed to provide recognition to those vendors that have become key elements of UPC Broadband’s most advanced secure offerings. Aurora’s Founder, Chairman, CEO and President, Guy Sucharczuk, was on hand to accept the Best HFC Supplier Award from UPC.

Additionally, the company was recognized by Cable Satellite International Magazine at their annual Product of the Year Awards for Best Cable Video/Data/Voice Last Mile Transmission Technology by a distinguished panel of worldwide experts. [More Info]

Gartner and Forrester recognize Agiliance for IT GRC leadership

Agiliance leads the market in delivering an integrated platform to manage the interdependent disciplines of IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). Recently two of the industry’s leading independent research firms recognized Agiliance for its emerging leadership in the rapidly growing IT GRC sector.

Gartner reported that based on their market analysis of the demands of IT GRC customers, Agiliance’s solutions excelled in addressing those needs and rated them highly in the MarketScope for IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management. Shortly afterwards, Forrester released their Forrester Wave: IT Risk and Compliance Software Report and positioned Agiliance as a leader. [More Info]

Inc. 500 lists Ahura Scientific First for category; ships 2000th unit

Ahura Scientific receives three awards from Inc. 500

Continuing to expand its accolades from leading industry publications, Ahura Scientific received three awards in the 27th Annual Inc. 500 listings of the Fastest Growing Private Companies. Most prominent was its ranking as First in the Environmental Services category. Ahura was also ranked Fourth in the Greater Boston Metro Area and 65th for Gross Dollar Growth. Additionally, Chairman and CEO Doug Kahn was profiled by Inc. for Ahura’s outstanding rankings and his leadership accomplishments.

Its strong product reputation and broad market appeal has propelled Ahura’s growth and helped them achieve a significant corporate milestone – the shipment of its 2000th chemical identification unit. The accomplishment is the result of an increasing demand for the company’s award-winning Raman spectroscopy-based FirstDefender and TruScan instruments, and its most recent product, TruDefender FT, which is based on Fourier-Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. Ahura Scientific’s units are widely deployed by numerous organizations across the globe in the safety and security, pharmaceutical, and consumer products industries. [More Info]

Enterprise mobility innovation garners Agito Networks industry awards

Unveiling at Interop results in key innovation awards for Agito

Agito Networks’ RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, which enables enterprises to mobilize voice and data applications for their workforce, made its debut at Interop, one of the industry’s largest trade shows. At the show, Computer Reseller News (CRN) reviewed over 200 product exhibits and selected Agito as a Hot On-the-Go Solution. In addition to numerous accolades, CRN cited RoamAnywhere for “packing in a host of industry firsts.”

ChannelWeb, a sister publication to CRN and a key publication read by Agito’s sales channel, also named Agito as the No. 2 Coolest Emerging Technology Company of 2008 due to its Enterprise Mobility Innovation. These awards cap a year of almost a dozen industry publications recognizing Agito for their outstanding product and teams. [More Info]

Funambol collaboration pushes email and Mobile Sync to 1.5B Smartphones

Thanks to Funambol’s new collaboration users of iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and other mobile phones will be able to easily receive push email and synchronize personal information on their desktops. The collaboration between Funambol and Open-Xchange’s respective open source software will enable almost 1.5 billion users worldwide to take advantage of this powerful solution.

Funambol announced that they have closed its fifth consecutive quarter of growth after signing several major new customers in the past three months. Funambol continues to gain traction among leading service providers, portals, mobile operators and device manufacturers in the Americas and Europe, and is expanding to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. [More Info]

Sandbridge releases chip for 4th generation (4G) mobile handsets

Sandbridge Technologies has announced the availability of their latest processor which for the first time facilitates the implementation of 4G mobile handsets entirely in software. This chip positions Sandbridge as an early leader in 4G platforms by supporting ultra-high speed standards such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) in addition to the many different radio technologies used by legacy cellular systems.

Sandbridge’s new technology takes away one of the biggest obstacles in the introduction of new wireless technology – the lack of devices and their underlying chipsets. The company’s chip is particularly attractive to major handset OEMs because it gives them the flexibility to leverage their internal software R&D efforts with a commercially available baseband processor. This new design is currently being sampled by select top-tier customers who are developing next generation handsets and other wireless devices that will provide consumers with an array of new services. [More Info]