DataDirect Networks (DDN), has opened a research and development centre in Paris, in response to strong demand the French market and across Europe for high-performance big data storage solutions

Computer Simulation Technology has announced the acquisition of IdemWorks, a provider of modelling tools and services

The Pistoia Alliance has announced that the Presidents Challenge 2016 is now open for entries. The deadline for entries is Friday 2 September

Autoscribe Informatics has appointed Ritme as its distributor for the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in France, Italy and Switzerland

Cluster and cloud management software company Bright Computing has announced a partnership with Boston Germany

Tecplot, a provider of visual data analysis software for engineers and scientists in the aerospace and oil and gas industries, has announced that it has been acquired by Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software

Adam Darwich is teaching and conducting research into the use of modelling and simulation for individual patient dosing and helping to bring this approach into mainstream clinical care

Altair has announced that it has acquired CEDRAT and its New York-based wholly-owned subsidiary, Magsoft, expanding the electromagnetic and thermal simulation capabilities of its HyperWorks CAE portfolio

Cruise ships are more complicated than modern aircraft - they are made up of more than 10 million individual parts and assemblies, compared to about one million parts for the largest passenger airplanes and about 10,000 parts for a car. But both cruise ships and next-generation electric cars will benefit from life-cycle software, according to two announcements made this month

Two software houses providing bioinformatics and biosimulation for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries - one based in the USA and one in Europe - have both announced that they are expanding into East Asia