June 2006 Newsletter

VMC Opens Montreal Office and Announces Data Center Services for the Next Wave of Online Games

Responding to the surge of game development and testing needs, VMC announced the opening of a new games facility in Montreal. Noted as a booming North American hub for video games and entertainment, Montreal is a fabulous place for VMC to attract local game talent and expand its offering of scalable game development services.

VMC also announced its data center support services for Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, a new massively multiplayer online game, due out later this year. For all the latest news of our new testing facility in Montreal and our data center support services for online games, see News from VMC.




STAREAST: Final Exam Time for the Software Industry
It's all about testing at the annual STAReast conference, held recently in Orlando, Florida. VMC presented case studies, ideas and on-site consulting to the hundreds of attendees at the conference. For more on what VMC can do to save you money in testing and other areas of your product development cycle, see Affordable Testing at VMC.com



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Welcome to Compass, VMC's quarterly newsletter. Compass will spotlight the passionate people, and milestones, and innovations that drive our technology solutions.

Get in the Game - Go Online
PC games are booming due in part to online gaming, as U.S. spending on PC-based video games hit $1.4 billion in 2005, according to market research firm NPD Group. Online subscriptions to PC games and gaming web sites accounted for $344 million of those annual sales. For more on this story see NPD Group's link.

Top 10 Tech Priorities for 2006
Interesting to note that in January of this year, Gartner EXP completed a survey of 1,400 CIOs and reported the following as Top 10 Technology Priorities for 2006:
  1. Business intelligence applications
  2. Security technologies
  3. Mobile workforce enablement
  4. Collaboration technologies
  5. Customer sales and service
  6. Service Oriented Architectures
  7. Workflow Management
  8. Networking, voice and data communications
  9. Virtualization
  10. Legacy application modernization

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