Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Tuesday, July 16th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

Fujitsu today announces that it is powering cloud solutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. The company has entered into an agreement with Pacific Controls Cloud Services (PCCS) to offer cloud computing solutions. Fujitsu is enabling its long-term customer, Pacific Controls Cloud Services which has a partnership with Etisalat, to set up, operate and market the first cloud services in the region.

Fujitsu has designed and delivered a highly secure, scalable, sustainable, ubiquitous and cost effective carrier grade cloud solution allowing end-user in government and private sector enabling them to focus on their core business rather than maintaining their information Communication Technology (ICT).­

Using Fujitsu cloud infrastructure, PCCS offers Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), cloud storage solutions with data back-up and recovery to small, medium and large enterprises enabling cl ... Read more »

INGELHEIM, Germany - Monday, July 15th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

    Patients with EGFR positive lung cancer now have a new treatment option in the U. S. – Gilotrif™ – which has shown superior efficacy versus the standard of care chemotherapy1
    Approval supported by LUX-Lung 3, the largest global Phase III trial in patients with EGFR mutation positive lung cancer
    First approval for afatinib, the frontrunner from Boehringer Ingelheim’s new oncology pipeline

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Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved afatinib tablets under the U.S. brand name GILOTRIFTM for oral use, as a new first-line treatment for patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) exon 19 deletions or exon 21 (L858R) substitution mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.2

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Baulé Recognized for Innovative Use of Third-Party Support to Cut Costs and Drive Innovation for Leading Aerospace Manufacturer

LAS VEGAS - Monday, July 15th 2013 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including SAP AG’s (NYSE:SAP) Business Suite and BusinessObjects software and Oracle Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ORCL) Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite, Oracle Database and Hyperion software, congratulates Alexandre Baulé, chief information officer at Embraer SA. (NYSE: ERJ), for being named Brazilian IT Executive of the Year – Cost Efficiency, by InformationWeek. Baulé received the prestigious award for his use of Rimini Street third-party support in realizing his mission to significantly reduce the company’s annual maintenance costs for its existing SAP system by 50 percent and improve the level of service it receives for its SAP software implem ... Read more »