Archive for July, 2009

COLUMBIA – Cybersecurity vendor Sourcefire has named Chris Peterson as vice president of Worldwide Channel Sales.  Peterson’s plans call for expanding the firm’s indirect sales and leveraging strategic relationships in the U.S., EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America.  He has been recognized as a 2009 Channel Chief by Everything Channel magazine.

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COLUMBIA – Chemical and materials specialist W. R. Grace & Co. has named Pamela Wagoner as vice president and chief human resources officer.  Wagoner will oversee recruitment and retention, leadership development, employee training, labor relations, talent and performance management, regulatory compliance and compensation.  She was previously with Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

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COLUMBIA – Database marketer Merkle is acquiring the catalog marketing services firm CMS Direct.  When the sale is completed later this summer, the list processing operations and database services will be integrated under Merkle’s CognitiveDATA brand.

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EVANSTON, IL – Industrial employment in Maryland/Washington, D.C. fell 4.8% over the past twelve months, according to the 2010 Maryland/DC Manufacturers Directory from Illinois-based Manufacturers’ News, Inc.  Maryland lost 9,826 industrial jobs and 231 manufacturers between May 2008 and May 2009, the sharpest decline MNI has ever reported for the state.  Previous numbers were a 1.7% loss from 2006-2007, and a .5% loss from 2007-2008.  This year’s tally is based on 5,214 manufacturers employing 196,336 workers.

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ORLANDO, FL – Beginning October 6th AirTran Airways will offer new flight service from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport to Indianapolis and New Orleans.  This brings the airline’s total flights from Baltimore to 52 and its reach to 21 cities.

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MILLERSVILLE – IT consulting firm Light Industries has obtained Certified Champion Partner status from ShoreTel, a provider of Pure IP Unified Communications (UC) solutions.  Under the arrangement Light Industries will offer ShoreTel solutions that integrate voice, data and messaging communications with business processes.

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PASADENA – Smart CEO magazine has bestowed a Circle of Excellence award to Creative Fire Apparatus for the Hydra H-1, a miniature but full-capacity emergency vehicle.  The Hydra H-1 can navigate arrow streets, make tight turns, traverse unstable surfaces and get under low overhead structures where full-sized trucks can’t.

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ANNAPOLIS – Managed hosting and Web design firm Sidus Group has been awarded a master contract for the state’s Consulting and Technical Services (CATS) II.  With the agreement Sidus can help state agencies obtain IT resources through Task Order Requests for Proposals or Requests for Resumes geared toward specific needs in various functional areas.

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ANNAPOLIS – Network and systems monitoring firm Zenoss Inc. has won the CompTIA SoftwareCEO Award for “Most Innovative Enterprise Software,” which honors technological and business model breakthroughs in virtualization, cloud computing and software-as-a-service.  This award comes at the same time as Zenoss crested the milestone of one million network and server devices being monitored around the world.

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LAUREL – Health IT company HealthTrio LLC has been selected by Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC to facilitate greater access to patient and administrative health data.  Specific solutions are the HealthTrio connect and HealthTrio personal health record/electronic health record, which will be available through a portal and accessible across all Johns Hopkins HealthCare sites.

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