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1. McAfee Partners with Yahoo! To Offer Safer Web Search Experience to Users in ANZ; Proclaims Focus on Small and Medium Acquisitions
McAfee has announced a partnership with Yahoo! Inc. to offer a “safer Web search experience” through Yahoo! Search. This ‘multi-year, global agreement’ has been launched in beta and is currently being ... (Read more)
2. Trend Micro Announces InterScan Messaging Hosted Security Service to Target ANZ Medium-Sized Businesses
Targeting the medium-sized mail businesses in ANZ and the Asia-Pacific region, Trend Micro has launched its InterScan Messaging Hosted Security application. Described as providing “enterprise class” m ... (Read more)
3. Sun Microsystems Posts Q308 Results Showing Asia Pacific Registering Growth of 5% YTY; Claims Upsurge in Open Storage in Asia-Pacific
Sun recently announced its Q308 results for the period ending March 30, 2008, which showed Asia Pacific revenues up 5% YTY. The region contributed 19% to the company’s total revenues in the quarter, u ... (Read more)
4. CommVault Reports Q408 and Overall FY08 Results ; Identifies New Growth Areas
CommVault recently announced its Q408 results, which, with total revenues of $56.6 million, represent a robust growth of 33% over Q407 and 13% over Q308. The data management firm’s revenue growth wa ... (Read more)
5. CA Posts Q408 earnings; Appoints Alan Smith To Drive Channel Sales in the Pacific
According to CA’s financial results for the fourth quarter (FY08) ending April 31, 2008, revenue increased 8% YTY to US$1.1 billion, while for the whole fiscal year, revenue increased by 8% YTY to US$ ... (Read more)
6. EMC Announces Enhancements to its Product Lines; Expects Enterprise Flash Storage Drives to Lower Cost by 2010; Announces Deal with Brocade
EMC unveiled a range of storage hardware and software products on the opening day of its EMC World Conference held in May at Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.). This mega launch included the company’s disk-base ... (Read more)
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1. McAfee Partners with Yahoo! To Offer Safer Web Search Experience to Users in ANZ; Proclaims Focus on Small and Medium Acquisitions
McAfee has announced a partnership with Yahoo! Inc. to offer a “safer Web search experience” through Yahoo! Search. This ‘multi-year, global agreement’ has been launched in beta and is currently being offered only in ANZ in the Asia-Pacific region. Using McAfee SiteAdvisor Technology, the companies are looking to offer “always-on-alert” security feature to users to guard them against ‘risky’ sites that can potentially damage a user’s PC with spyware and other infected software. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies also plan to introduce Yahoo! Search to McAfee users in the coming quarters.
Springboard Research believes that although this agreement is a step in the right direction, it is tagged with its fair share of uncertainty. Given the controversy currently looming over Yahoo!, the fate of this partnership would depend upon the possible outcome of the former. Further, a lot of users in ANZ prefer to use local search engines over global web search engines of the likes of Yahoo!, Google and MSN. We are of the view that to aptly target users in ANZ, McAfee will need to deep-dive into the local search engine market and aim at similar partnerships with the local players.
In a recent announcement, McAfee proclaimed its strategic intent to only undertake acquisitions that it defines as "small and medium-sized.” The company's top executive, Dave DeWalt, also stated that the company would avoid "transformative deals" and grow by “building and partnering” to effectively enable it to overtake its biggest rival, Symantec.
Crediting its latest go-to-market strategy for its accelerated growth over the past three quarters, the company stated that it aims to continue the trend with a mix of new product introductions, key partnerships and alliances with technology firms, and acquisitions in the range of US$50M to US$350M. DeWalt also stated that he aims to accelerate revenue growth in 2009 and 2010 past the “mid-teens” percentage growth targeted for 2008.
The company also announced that it plans to keep to its current rate of 2-3 acquisitions a year and build new revenue streams by introducing new products. Identifying data center protection using virtualization technology as its key growth area, the company also mentioned that it has already initiated efforts in this area and is looking forward to releasing products that scan data which has been stored and used by SAP.
Lastly, balancing his robust growth predictions for the company, DeWalt sounded a note of caution stating that McAfee “could see a fallout” from the U.S. economic downturn.
Springboard Research believes this strategy could well be a “double-edged sword” for McAfee which is currently doing very well in ANZ and the Asia-Pacific region. In our view, McAfee will need to watch out for new areas of growth like managed security services and security for virtualized environments and for niche firms which might function in these growing spaces. Security solutions and services is becoming an aggressively competitive space in ANZ with a host of niche and local firms increasingly targeting the SME segment. In our view, any company looking to attain or retain market leadership status, will not only need to offer solutions that fit well with the local demands, but will also have to form meaningful local alliances that will give it the requisite breadth and depth of operations in ANZ.
News Sources:
Company Website
Reuters
2. Trend Micro Announces InterScan Messaging Hosted Security Service to Target ANZ Medium-Sized Businesses
Targeting the medium-sized mail businesses in ANZ and the Asia-Pacific region, Trend Micro has launched its InterScan Messaging Hosted Security application. Described as providing “enterprise class” mail security to businesses, this latest Trend Micro product, is touted byb the company as resolving real concerns for SMEs which continue to face increased security risks and are therfore “seriously considering” outsourcing data security management.
Pointing to its success in ANZ, and other regions where its hosted email security service was launched almost a year back, Trend Micro stated that it serves a whole range of customers with mailboxes from 5 to 25,000. Further, unlike other hosted services, this service does not require the customer to invest in hardware or software, a feature the company is aggressively using to promote its service.
The company also claims that its service provides features such as zero-day protection, advanced heuristics, and behavior analysis to block targeted attacks, along with “flexible content filtering” to help enforce compliance and prevent data leakage.
Trend Micro’s service is currently available in Asia Pacific as an extended free trial until June 30, 2008; this extends the usual 30-day trial period to 90 days. The service is available as an annual standard package that covers 10 users at US$23.60, and an advanced yearly package that covers 10 users for US$35.60.
Springboard Research believes that the market for managed security services, including hosted email security is gaining pace in ANZ and will continue to grow in the coming years. However, the competitive landscape for this service is flooded with a host of offerings and companies that are vying for market share in both the enterprise and SME segments. While Google and niche local firms like SurfControl are the latest entrants into this market, it’s MessageLabs that continues to come across as the dominant player. While this competition is helping the quick maturity of solutions that increasingly offer escalated benefits like meeting compliance requirements and saving storage costs, it’s also leading to a price-war between the main players.
News Source:
Hardware Zone
3. Sun Microsystems Posts Q308 Results Showing Asia Pacific Registering Growth of 5% YTY; Claims Upsurge in Open Storage in Asia-Pacific
Sun recently announced its Q308 results for the period ending March 30, 2008, which showed Asia Pacific revenues up 5% YTY. The region contributed 19% to the company’s total revenues in the quarter, up from 17% in Q208. Worldwide, Sun’s total revenues decreased by 0.5% YTY to US$3.266B. By region, both Asia Pacific and EMEA recorded revenue growth of 5% YTY, while Sun’s highest revenue growth came from the International Americas (15% YTY), and the lowest from the U.S., which recorded negative growth of 10% YTY.
Notably, Sun stated that India showed double-digit YTY growth in Q308. The company also commented that the products that accounted for the majority (61%) of Sun’s business witnessed a decrease in revenue by 3% YTY, while those that accounted for just 39% of Sun’s revenue observed 3% YTY growth. Furthermore, breaking down its services into Support Services, and Professional Services/Educational Services segments, Sun announced that the former’s contribution to total services revenue increased by 1% YTY, while the latter’s increased by 11% YTY.
Springboard Research observes that Sun’s growth pattern is contrary to that detailed in other firms’ last quarter earnings. While double-digit growth in India is definitely good news, Sun’s overall regional growth patterns raise serious concerns about the company’s go-to-market strategy.
In Asia-Pacific wide news, Sun Microsystems has proclaimed an “upsurge” in the preference for open storage as compared to proprietary storage, which they believe locks the customer in to a single vendor.While targeting sectors such as telecom, retail, banking, financial services and insurance in key markets like ANZ and India for growth in the storage market, the company is also focusing on startups which it believes will spur the adoption of open source.
To assist the adoption of its OpenSolaris server hardware and OpenStorage by its developer community, Sun has announced technical support and how-to guides for NAS and OpenSolaris storage. Further, the company has also promised new software tools and expanded professional support in the coming quarters which it claims will allow developers to set up an OpenSolaris server in approximately 10 minutes.
Springboard Research believes Open-Source Storage (OSS) to be a natural evolution of storage and definitely a step in the right direction by Sun. However, in our view, OSS is yet to make much of an impression in the storage market and continues to be plagued by a host of issues like commercial applicability and pricing that might not fall in line with the developer’s expectations.
News Sources:
Company Website
News Factor
4. CommVault Reports Q408 and Overall FY08 Results ; Identifies New Growth Areas
CommVault recently announced its Q408 results, which, with total revenues of $56.6 million, represent a robust growth of 33% over Q407 and 13% over Q308. The data management firm’s revenue growth was driven by a healthy 32% YTY increase in its software revenue, which reached US$31.3 million, and an even more impressive 34% YTY increase in its services revenue, which measured $25.3 million. In addition, the company reported a 36% YTY increase in its sales and marketing expenses to total US$26.2 million for Q408.
For the complete fiscal year, CommVault’s total revenue increased by 31% YTY, measuring US$198.3 million; its software revenue grew by 30% YTY, rising to US$109 million and its services revenue increased by 33% YTY, totalling US$89.3 million.
Springboard Research believes that CommVault cleverly uses a variety of business approaches to achieve its robust growth rates. Not only has the company been successful in forming meaningful alliances and partnerships, it has also strategically used its latest product, Simpana 7.0, to create new revenue streams.
In tandem with its Q408 announcement, CommVault also identified emerging technologies which, it says, will provide the company with the most future growth , namely, block-level data de-duplication, information management, records management, storage as a service and laptop/desktop backup. However, the company also mentioned that it will not enter the hosted online backup market, and will let its partners, Rackspace, Incentra and others, operate in that space.
Springboard Research is of the view that these emerging technologies are the key to growth for most vendors operating in this space who continue to fight stagnant market shares and decreasing margins in other, more matured geographies of US and EU. However, most of these MNC vendors will need to keep a vigil on the local and niche firms in ANZ that are steadily expanding base in the SME segment. We believe it’s critical for vendors in this marketplace to look for suitable local alliances that will allow them to cater to the local needs and also gather the requisite coverage in ANZ.
News Sources:
Company Website
TechTarget
5. CA Posts Q408 earnings; Appoints Alan Smith To Drive Channel Sales in the Pacific
According to CA’s financial results for the fourth quarter (FY08) ending April 31, 2008, revenue increased 8% YTY to US$1.1 billion, while for the whole fiscal year, revenue increased by 8% YTY to US$4.3 billion. Total product and services revenue for the quarter accounted for US$1.5 billion, indicating 30% YTY growth for the quarter, while for the total year, revenues grew 15% YTY to reach US$4.5 billion.
The company also claimed a revenue of US$1.4 billion during FY 08 from a total of 61 license agreements greater than US$10 million. Significantly, the number of such licenses was only 42 in the previous year. From a geographic perspective, the company showed a 2% YTY increase for North America, and grouped other countries under “International Revenue” that showed 16% YTY growth for the company.
Furthermore, CA announced its decision to restructure its development teams around enterprise IT management (EITM), governance and mainframe solutions, and common infrastructure.
Springboard Research is not surprised that CA didn’t reference its Asia Pacific revenue in its latest financial update. Since CA closed some of its major offices in the region, the industry has almost forgotten the player, even while the company touts sweeping internal changes designed to help it make a comeback in the region’s security market. As we’d said in our previous statement on CA’s decision to re-enter the market, Asia Pacific does not usually allow comebacks and we doubt if CA will be able to make significant accretion to its revenue from the region.
In other news, CA announced the appointment of Allan Smith to the position of Vice President, Channel Sales, Pacific. The company expects Smith to make a “major contribution” to their channel partner strategy in the area. Smith has held key positions of country manager for Australia, Korea, and Hong Kong during his 30-year old tenure. Prior to joining CA, Smith was the CEO-ANZ at Ariba and technical support operations manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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Company Website
ITWirre
6. EMC Announces Enhancements to its Product Lines; Expects Enterprise Flash Storage Drives to Lower Cost by 2010; Announces Deal with Brocade
EMC unveiled a range of storage hardware and software products on the opening day of its EMC World Conference held in May at Las Vegas, Nevada (U.S.). This mega launch included the company’s disk-based backup products bundled with the much-talked about de-duplication technology from Quantum, along with the new “fast-start” version of its NetWorker data protection software that is being touted as helping EMC change its reputation of a “clunky application” provider.
EMC’s latest products are based on Quantum technology, which allows for host-based de-duping, post-processing de-duping and also for “policy-based deduping” for improved performance. While the EMC Disk Library 3D 1500 and DL3D 3000 virtual tape libraries (VTL) already include Quantum’s licensed de-dupe software, the company has announced definitive plans to add the technology to its DL 4000 disk-based VTL “as an upgrade” by the end of July 2008.
Further to the announcement, the company introduced the DL3D 1500 and the DL3D 3000 on May 28 at starting prices of $150,000, and $200,000, respectively.
The company also used the conference to promote flash drives as the future of enterprise storage and proclaimed that it expects these flash storage drives to cost “as little as fibre channel alternatives” by 2010. Referring to them as the “most significant announcement” made by EMC this year, the company expects a “dramatic reduction” in their prices thereby making way for “price parity”.
In another noteworthy news, EMC has announced a deal with Brocade which will allow Brocade's “developing” fabric encryption technology to interoperate with EMC RSA's Key Manager for Datacenters. The integration, it is claimed, will enable single-point encryption for enterprises that use a variety of data. EMC already has an existing OEM relationship with Brocade for its SAN switches and directors and offers them as part of its EMC Connectrix family.
Springboard Research believes the market for emerging technologies such as “dedupe” in ANZ is definitely on the increase and will gain higher traction in the coming quarters. While reduced storage costs are the main promoter for using such technologies, these also help to more effectively manage documents, improve workflow and maintain the compliance protocol. When substantiated by suitable alliances, like the one noted above these technologies , assist performance considerably and this is surely welcome in a geography like ANZ that is inundated with SMEs.
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Block & Files
iTNews
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Financials:
1. Checkpoint; Systems, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
Category: Financials
Security: Check Point
Excerpt from News Source: "Checkpoint Systems, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2008. For the first quarter of 2008, revenue was $209.6 million, an increase of 22.4%, compared to revenue of $171.2 million in the first quarter of 2007. Foreign currency had a positive impact on revenue of 8.7%, and revenue from the Alpha, SIDEP and Asialco businesses, which were acquired during the fourth quarter of 2007, accounted for approximately 9.2% of the overall sales growth in the quarter. Net earnings for the first quarter were $4.8 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $5.0 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2007."
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2. Isilon; Systems Announces 2008 First Quarter Financial Results
Category: Financials
Storage: Isilon Systems
Excerpt from News Source: "Isilon(R) Systems announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2008 that ended March 31, 2008. Revenue for the first quarter was $24.1 million, an increase of 35 percent compared with $17.8 million in the first quarter of 2007. "I am encouraged by these results as we emerge from the challenges of the past few quarters," said Sujal Patel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Isilon Systems. "Despite recent business headwinds and a seasonally slower first quarter, we witnessed record levels of repeat purchases from existing customers, reflecting Isilon's strong value proposition and the modular, 'pay as you grow,' architecture of our clustered storage systems.""
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3. NetApp; Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008
Category: Financials
Storage: NetApp
Excerpt from News Source: "NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), reported results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008. Revenues for the fourth fiscal quarter were $938 million, an increase of 17% compared to revenues of $801 million for the same period a year ago and an increase of 6% compared to $884 million in the prior quarter. For the fourth fiscal quarter, GAAP net income was $90 million, or $0.26 per share1 compared to GAAP net income of $90 million, or $0.23 per share for the same period in the prior year. Non-GAAP2 net income for the fourth fiscal quarter was $131 million, or $0.38 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $114 million, or $0.30 per share for the same period a year ago."
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4. Blue; Coat Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter
Category: Financials
Security: Blue Coat
Excerpt from News Source: "Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI) reported its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2008. Net revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008 was $88.2 million, an increase of 62% compared to net revenue of $54.5 million for the same quarter last year and an 8% increase compared to net revenue of $81.4 million in the immediately preceding quarter. Net revenue for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2008 was $305.4 million, an increase of 72% when compared to net revenue of $177.7 million for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2007."
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HR:
1. McAfee;, Inc. Names Albert A. 'Rocky' Pimentel as New Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Category: HR
Security: McAfee
Excerpt from News Source: "McAfee, Inc. announced that Albert A. "Rocky" Pimentel is joining the company as chief operating officer and chief financial officer beginning May 15. He will be responsible for leading all worldwide finance, IT, facilities and manufacturing functions, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer and President, Dave DeWalt."Rocky brings proven business transformation skills across finance, mergers and acquisitions, as well as overall business leadership," said DeWalt."
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2. No; APAC numbers revealed in Sun job cuts
Category: HR
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "No figures have been released for any staff reductions in the Asia Pacific operations of U.S.-based IT company Sun Microsystems, which has announced it will cut up to 2,500 jobs globally in a bid to revive profit. Sun expects the cuts will lower its operating expenses by about US$100-150 million annually. Sun Microsystems has more than 700 employees based in Singapore. Only two months ago, the company said it planned to hire 300 people across Asia, as part of its plans to expand in the region. The fourth-largest maker of server computers posted a net loss of $34 million in the three months ended March 30, capping the company's run of five straight quarters of profit."
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3. Sophos; names Michael McGuinness Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations
Category: HR
Security: Sophos
Excerpt from News Source: "Sophos announced the appointment of Michael McGuinness to Senior Vice President of worldwide sales and field operations. McGuinness will assume responsibility for the company's global sales and sales support organizations as well as its worldwide subsidiary operations. In this newly-created position, McGuinness will be charged with managing Sophos's rapid, global sales and organizational growth while identifying new ways to accelerate the company's success in key markets worldwide."
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4. New; Country Manager Takes Reigns at Hitachi
Category: HR
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Hitachi Data Systems has appointed Neville Vincent as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. Based in Sydney, Vincent replaces Mark Kay, who has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific. Vincent will be responsible for driving Hitachi’s business strategies and setting performance goals across the region. He will also oversee the company’s channel programs and will manage major
sales."
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5. Hitachi; Global Storage Appoints Sr. V.P., Worldwide Marketing
Category: HR
Storage: Hitachi
Excerpt from News Source: "Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, developers of hard disk drives, has announced the appointment of Raj Das as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. Das has nearly two decades of experience leading product planning and marketing organizations in the storage industry. Previous to joining Hitachi GST, he served as vice president at SGI (SGIC). In his new position, Das will be responsible for worldwide product planning and strategy, positioning, promotion and fulfillment."
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marketnews
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Mergers & Partnerships:
1. APTARE; and Hitachi Data Systems Renew Global Partnership
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "APTARE?, Inc. announced that it has renewed its global partnership with Hitachi Data Systems. Under the agreement, Hitachi Data Systems is leveraging the APTARE StorageConsole 6.5 platform to power Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, part of the newly introduced Hitachi Storage Command Suite. Over the past three years, both companies have collaborated to deliver management tools that help organizations effectively manage their primary storage and complex backup and recovery environments."
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CNNMoney.com
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2. Hitachi; Data Systems Selects Anacomp for Global Data Storage Product Maintenance
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Anacomp(R) Inc., a leading business process solutions company, today announced that it has signed a three year global field service maintenance agreement with Hitachi Data Systems, a leading provider of services-oriented storage solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Anacomp will provide on-site maintenance and services for Hitachi Data Systems customers, starting in more than 500 cities in the US and Canada, followed by additional locations throughoutEurope andAsia in the future."
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Product:
1. Iomega; Makes the Move From Gigabytes to a New One Terabyte 'Super eGo' External Hard Drive
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: "Iomega Corporation announced that stylish data security has reached the 1TB* plateau with the worldwide introduction of the Iomega(R) eGo(TM) 1TB Desktop Hard Drive.This new single-drive HDD "Super eGo" is now available worldwide in ruby red, midnight blue, and jet black. Its design is based on the popular Iomega(R) eGo(TM) Portable Hard Drive, one of Iomega's best-selling line of hard drives. The eGo Portable is currently available in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities, and in several different colors, including new camouflage and leather-wrapped models. The new eGo Desktop model houses a 1TB, 3.5-inch hard drive with USB 2.0 connectivity that holds up to 4,000,000 photos, over 18,500 hours of music or 1,500 hours of video."
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PR Newswire
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2. BitDefender; Announces Beta Release of BitDefender Total Security 2009
Category: Product
Security: BitDefender
Excerpt from News Source: "BitDefender announced that BitDefender Total Security 2009 will be available for beta testing soon. Available mid-May, users that wish to test the beta product can subscribe on beta.bitdefender.com. Those who register will receive e-mail notification of the availability of the first beta kit."
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The Earth Times
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3. ExaGrid; Announces 30 TB Backup System
Category: Product
Storage: ExaGrid Systems
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "ExaGrid has announced a product enhancement taking the capacity of its backup systems to a maximum of 30 TB. The firm's EX series of servers is to be subject to the increased storage capacity, which allows for greater retention periods and up to 30 TB of archived data on a single GRID system."
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4. Hitachi; Announces the Hitachi Storage Command Suite
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: "Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, ushered in a new wave in storage resource management, with the introduction of the industry's fastest, most reliable and simple-to-use unified portfolio of highly-advanced storage management software solutions. The next-generation Hitachi Storage Command Suite is uniquely architected to combine advanced data management and protection capabilities in a simple, centralized interface, which provides the foundation for customers to achieve significant improvements in operational efficiency and business resilience throughout the enterprise.
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The Earth Times
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5. Xiotech; Offers New Super disk
Category: Product
Storage: Xiotech
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "Xiotech Corp is billing its Empress Intelligent Storage Element based storage systems as a less costly and more manageable alternative to the standard hard drive. The new systems represent an effort to solve issues like drive failures stemming from inadequate cooling and drive vibration and resulting in unstable environmental causes and premature drive failures, stated Steve Sicola, the company's chief technology officer."
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6. Two; New Hitachi CinemaStar Hard Drives Coming Soon to a Home Theater Near You
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: "As Hollywood prepares to release its latest summer blockbusters, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies proudly introduces two new stars of its own: the CinemaStar C5K320, a 2.5-inch hard drive with up to 320 GB capacity and the CinemaStar? 5K500, a 3.5-inch hard drive with 500GB of storage capacity and new CoolSpin? technology to deliver high levels of power efficiency and quiet operation for digital video applications. CoolSpin drives use a low-power motor design, which requires less power to spin up the drive than most 3.5-inch hard drives. The low-power profile of these new drives enables the use of more cost-effective power supplies, which lowers energy costs for consumers."
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7. NetApp; Introduces SANscreen Suite of Products Backed by Global Sales and Support
Category: Product
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: "NetApp announced that the SANscreen? product suite, which was acquired in the acquisition of Onaro, is now available through NetApp's global sales and channel partner programs. In addition, more than 100 current SANscreen customers will benefit from NetApp?s global 24x7 support organisation. SANscreen is an award-winning product suite that extends data centre automation to storage with its real-time, heterogeneous, service-level views of the storage environment. SANscreen allows customers to manage storage as a true end-to-end IT service, which reduces capital and operational costs and improves application service quality. Furthermore, its actionable service-level information can be leveraged by both storage teams and non-technical storage users, effectively integrating storage into the entire IT service delivery chain."
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8. earthwave; – First Australian Company to Offer Full Firewall Lifecycle Management
Category: Product
Security: Earthwave
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "earthwave, leading Australian managed security service provider, today announced the release of its next generation MSS Client Portal, earthport. The new earthport enhancements offer the only comprehensive solution that will automatically detect security holes in any organisations firewall policies."
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Sales & Channels:
1. VMware; Accelerates Channel Partner Momentum With New and Enhanced Programs
Category: Sales & Channels
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "At VMware Partner Exchange 2008, VMware, Inc.announced new and enhanced strategic enhancements to its world-class, award-winning channel partner programs. The enhancements build on initiatives announced in February 2008 to enhance the VMware VIP Partner Program, helping VMware's more than 13,000 partners around the world that resell VMware virtualization solutions by accelerating partners' expertise, profitability and opportunity in VMware virtualization."
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2. Blue; Coat Modifies Channel Program
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: Blue Coat
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Blue Coat, a vendor focused on the Web gateway and WAN optimization markets, has made changes to its channel program that levels pricing around the globe and offerings marketing resources and tools for its partners. As a company with a 100 per channel sales model, Blue Coat has made five major changes to its partner program, all of which address partner benefits."
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3. NetApp; Ups Channel Investment
Category: Sales & Channels
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Storage vendor, NetApp, is bolstering its internal channel headcount and restructuring incentive programs in a bid to drive partner relationships. Partner director, Scott Morris, said the vendor was investing $2 million into building its channel enablement team and has appointed Tanya Pugsley to head it up. She was previously focused on developing NetApp's Authorised Professional Services Program (APSP) and service partner relationships. It has also brought on two additional partner trainers."
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4. AVG; Grows Reseller Numbers by 33 percent
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: AVG Technologies
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News source: "Australian distributor of Grisoft’s AVG security products, AVG Australia/New Zealand, has grown its resellers numbers by 33 percent. In the last six months, AVG A/NZ's reseller channel has gone from around 1200 to over 1600 resellers. Peter Cameron, managing director of AVG A/NZ, said revenue from the AVG reseller channel was up 41 percent over the same period last year. Cameron told CRN there were no plans to stop signing on more resellers."
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1. Iomega; Makes the Move From Gigabytes to a New One Terabyte 'Super eGo' External Hard Drive
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: "Iomega Corporation announced that stylish data security has reached the 1TB* plateau with the worldwide introduction of the Iomega(R) eGo(TM) 1TB Desktop Hard Drive.This new single-drive HDD "Super eGo" is now available worldwide in ruby red, midnight blue, and jet black. Its design is based on the popular Iomega(R) eGo(TM) Portable Hard Drive, one of Iomega's best-selling line of hard drives. The eGo Portable is currently available in 160GB, 250GB and 320GB capacities, and in several different colors, including new camouflage and leather-wrapped models. The new eGo Desktop model houses a 1TB, 3.5-inch hard drive with USB 2.0 connectivity that holds up to 4,000,000 photos, over 18,500 hours of music or 1,500 hours of video."
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2. VMware; Accelerates Channel Partner Momentum With New and Enhanced Programs
Category: Sales & Channels
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "At VMware Partner Exchange 2008, VMware, Inc.announced new and enhanced strategic enhancements to its world-class, award-winning channel partner programs. The enhancements build on initiatives announced in February 2008 to enhance the VMware VIP Partner Program, helping VMware's more than 13,000 partners around the world that resell VMware virtualization solutions by accelerating partners' expertise, profitability and opportunity in VMware virtualization."
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ExaGrid Systems:
1. ExaGrid; Announces 30 TB Backup System
Category: Product
Storage: ExaGrid Systems
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "ExaGrid has announced a product enhancement taking the capacity of its backup systems to a maximum of 30 TB. The firm's EX series of servers is to be subject to the increased storage capacity, which allows for greater retention periods and up to 30 TB of archived data on a single GRID system."
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Hitachi:
1. Hitachi; Announces the Hitachi Storage Command Suite
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: "Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, ushered in a new wave in storage resource management, with the introduction of the industry's fastest, most reliable and simple-to-use unified portfolio of highly-advanced storage management software solutions. The next-generation Hitachi Storage Command Suite is uniquely architected to combine advanced data management and protection capabilities in a simple, centralized interface, which provides the foundation for customers to achieve significant improvements in operational efficiency and business resilience throughout the enterprise.
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2. APTARE; and Hitachi Data Systems Renew Global Partnership
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "APTARE?, Inc. announced that it has renewed its global partnership with Hitachi Data Systems. Under the agreement, Hitachi Data Systems is leveraging the APTARE StorageConsole 6.5 platform to power Hitachi Storage Capacity Reporter, part of the newly introduced Hitachi Storage Command Suite. Over the past three years, both companies have collaborated to deliver management tools that help organizations effectively manage their primary storage and complex backup and recovery environments."
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3. Hitachi; Data Systems Selects Anacomp for Global Data Storage Product Maintenance
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Anacomp(R) Inc., a leading business process solutions company, today announced that it has signed a three year global field service maintenance agreement with Hitachi Data Systems, a leading provider of services-oriented storage solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Anacomp will provide on-site maintenance and services for Hitachi Data Systems customers, starting in more than 500 cities in the US and Canada, followed by additional locations throughoutEurope andAsia in the future."
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4. Two; New Hitachi CinemaStar Hard Drives Coming Soon to a Home Theater Near You
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: "As Hollywood prepares to release its latest summer blockbusters, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies proudly introduces two new stars of its own: the CinemaStar C5K320, a 2.5-inch hard drive with up to 320 GB capacity and the CinemaStar? 5K500, a 3.5-inch hard drive with 500GB of storage capacity and new CoolSpin? technology to deliver high levels of power efficiency and quiet operation for digital video applications. CoolSpin drives use a low-power motor design, which requires less power to spin up the drive than most 3.5-inch hard drives. The low-power profile of these new drives enables the use of more cost-effective power supplies, which lowers energy costs for consumers."
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5. New; Country Manager Takes Reigns at Hitachi
Category: HR
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Hitachi Data Systems has appointed Neville Vincent as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. Based in Sydney, Vincent replaces Mark Kay, who has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific. Vincent will be responsible for driving Hitachi’s business strategies and setting performance goals across the region. He will also oversee the company’s channel programs and will manage major
sales."
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6. Hitachi; Global Storage Appoints Sr. V.P., Worldwide Marketing
Category: HR
Storage: Hitachi
Excerpt from News Source: "Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, developers of hard disk drives, has announced the appointment of Raj Das as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. Das has nearly two decades of experience leading product planning and marketing organizations in the storage industry. Previous to joining Hitachi GST, he served as vice president at SGI (SGIC). In his new position, Das will be responsible for worldwide product planning and strategy, positioning, promotion and fulfillment."
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Isilon Systems:
1. Isilon; Systems Announces 2008 First Quarter Financial Results
Category: Financials
Storage: Isilon Systems
Excerpt from News Source: "Isilon(R) Systems announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2008 that ended March 31, 2008. Revenue for the first quarter was $24.1 million, an increase of 35 percent compared with $17.8 million in the first quarter of 2007. "I am encouraged by these results as we emerge from the challenges of the past few quarters," said Sujal Patel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Isilon Systems. "Despite recent business headwinds and a seasonally slower first quarter, we witnessed record levels of repeat purchases from existing customers, reflecting Isilon's strong value proposition and the modular, 'pay as you grow,' architecture of our clustered storage systems.""
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NetApp:
1. NetApp; Introduces SANscreen Suite of Products Backed by Global Sales and Support
Category: Product
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: "NetApp announced that the SANscreen? product suite, which was acquired in the acquisition of Onaro, is now available through NetApp's global sales and channel partner programs. In addition, more than 100 current SANscreen customers will benefit from NetApp?s global 24x7 support organisation. SANscreen is an award-winning product suite that extends data centre automation to storage with its real-time, heterogeneous, service-level views of the storage environment. SANscreen allows customers to manage storage as a true end-to-end IT service, which reduces capital and operational costs and improves application service quality. Furthermore, its actionable service-level information can be leveraged by both storage teams and non-technical storage users, effectively integrating storage into the entire IT service delivery chain."
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2. NetApp; Ups Channel Investment
Category: Sales & Channels
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Storage vendor, NetApp, is bolstering its internal channel headcount and restructuring incentive programs in a bid to drive partner relationships. Partner director, Scott Morris, said the vendor was investing $2 million into building its channel enablement team and has appointed Tanya Pugsley to head it up. She was previously focused on developing NetApp's Authorised Professional Services Program (APSP) and service partner relationships. It has also brought on two additional partner trainers."
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ARN Net
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3. NetApp; Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008
Category: Financials
Storage: NetApp
Excerpt from News Source: "NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), reported results for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008. Revenues for the fourth fiscal quarter were $938 million, an increase of 17% compared to revenues of $801 million for the same period a year ago and an increase of 6% compared to $884 million in the prior quarter. For the fourth fiscal quarter, GAAP net income was $90 million, or $0.26 per share1 compared to GAAP net income of $90 million, or $0.23 per share for the same period in the prior year. Non-GAAP2 net income for the fourth fiscal quarter was $131 million, or $0.38 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $114 million, or $0.30 per share for the same period a year ago."
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Sun:
1. No; APAC numbers revealed in Sun job cuts
Category: HR
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "No figures have been released for any staff reductions in the Asia Pacific operations of U.S.-based IT company Sun Microsystems, which has announced it will cut up to 2,500 jobs globally in a bid to revive profit. Sun expects the cuts will lower its operating expenses by about US$100-150 million annually. Sun Microsystems has more than 700 employees based in Singapore. Only two months ago, the company said it planned to hire 300 people across Asia, as part of its plans to expand in the region. The fourth-largest maker of server computers posted a net loss of $34 million in the three months ended March 30, capping the company's run of five straight quarters of profit."
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Xiotech :
1. Xiotech; Offers New Super disk
Category: Product
Storage: Xiotech
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "Xiotech Corp is billing its Empress Intelligent Storage Element based storage systems as a less costly and more manageable alternative to the standard hard drive. The new systems represent an effort to solve issues like drive failures stemming from inadequate cooling and drive vibration and resulting in unstable environmental causes and premature drive failures, stated Steve Sicola, the company's chief technology officer."
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1. AVG; Grows Reseller Numbers by 33 percent
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: AVG Technologies
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News source: "Australian distributor of Grisoft’s AVG security products, AVG Australia/New Zealand, has grown its resellers numbers by 33 percent. In the last six months, AVG A/NZ's reseller channel has gone from around 1200 to over 1600 resellers. Peter Cameron, managing director of AVG A/NZ, said revenue from the AVG reseller channel was up 41 percent over the same period last year. Cameron told CRN there were no plans to stop signing on more resellers."
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BitDefender :
1. BitDefender; Announces Beta Release of BitDefender Total Security 2009
Category: Product
Security: BitDefender
Excerpt from News Source: "BitDefender announced that BitDefender Total Security 2009 will be available for beta testing soon. Available mid-May, users that wish to test the beta product can subscribe on beta.bitdefender.com. Those who register will receive e-mail notification of the availability of the first beta kit."
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The Earth Times
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Blue Coat:
1. Blue; Coat Modifies Channel Program
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: Blue Coat
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: "Blue Coat, a vendor focused on the Web gateway and WAN optimization markets, has made changes to its channel program that levels pricing around the globe and offerings marketing resources and tools for its partners. As a company with a 100 per channel sales model, Blue Coat has made five major changes to its partner program, all of which address partner benefits."
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2. Blue; Coat Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter
Category: Financials
Security: Blue Coat
Excerpt from News Source: "Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI) reported its financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2008. Net revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008 was $88.2 million, an increase of 62% compared to net revenue of $54.5 million for the same quarter last year and an 8% increase compared to net revenue of $81.4 million in the immediately preceding quarter. Net revenue for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2008 was $305.4 million, an increase of 72% when compared to net revenue of $177.7 million for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2007."
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Check Point:
1. Checkpoint; Systems, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
Category: Financials
Security: Check Point
Excerpt from News Source: "Checkpoint Systems, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 30, 2008. For the first quarter of 2008, revenue was $209.6 million, an increase of 22.4%, compared to revenue of $171.2 million in the first quarter of 2007. Foreign currency had a positive impact on revenue of 8.7%, and revenue from the Alpha, SIDEP and Asialco businesses, which were acquired during the fourth quarter of 2007, accounted for approximately 9.2% of the overall sales growth in the quarter. Net earnings for the first quarter were $4.8 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $5.0 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, in the first quarter of 2007."
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Earthwave:
1. earthwave; – First Australian Company to Offer Full Firewall Lifecycle Management
Category: Product
Security: Earthwave
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: "earthwave, leading Australian managed security service provider, today announced the release of its next generation MSS Client Portal, earthport. The new earthport enhancements offer the only comprehensive solution that will automatically detect security holes in any organisations firewall policies."
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McAfee:
1. McAfee;, Inc. Names Albert A. 'Rocky' Pimentel as New Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Category: HR
Security: McAfee
Excerpt from News Source: "McAfee, Inc. announced that Albert A. "Rocky" Pimentel is joining the company as chief operating officer and chief financial officer beginning May 15. He will be responsible for leading all worldwide finance, IT, facilities and manufacturing functions, reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer and President, Dave DeWalt."Rocky brings proven business transformation skills across finance, mergers and acquisitions, as well as overall business leadership," said DeWalt."
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Sophos:
1. Sophos; names Michael McGuinness Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Operations
Category: HR
Security: Sophos
Excerpt from News Source: "Sophos announced the appointment of Michael McGuinness to Senior Vice President of worldwide sales and field operations. McGuinness will assume responsibility for the company's global sales and sales support organizations as well as its worldwide subsidiary operations. In this newly-created position, McGuinness will be charged with managing Sophos's rapid, global sales and organizational growth while identifying new ways to accelerate the company's success in key markets worldwide."
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