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1. CommVault Publishes Q2’08 Financial Results and Announces Key Alliance with Riverbed Technology
CommVault has announced strong financial results for Q2 of fiscal 2008 with total revenues to $47.4 million, an increase of 29% over Q2’07 and 8% over Q1’08. This growth by the data management firm has been driven by a healthy 31% YoY increase in its software revenue to $26.6 million and a 27% YoY increase in services revenue to $20.9 million. Interestingly, the firm has reported a 42% YoY increase in its sales and marketing operating expenses that total up to $23.1 million for Q2’08.
Springboard Research believes that most of this growth for CommVault has been driven by its data management suite Simpana that takes a singular approach to data protection, replication and archive. Further to our view, the firm has been quick to establish key partnerships and alliances’ using its latest launch, CommVault Simpana 7.0 that it believes increases the firm’s competitive differentiation. Keeping Simpana 7.0 as its mainstay, the firm is looking to expand business around information management products and services.
Following its new market strategy, CommVault has announced a key partnership with Riverbed Technology to speed data performance and reduce backup and replication time significantly (up to 34 times). Targeting both enterprises and SMEs, the duo is touting to deliver high-performance data protection while eliminating the need for tape drives in branch offices with the combined solution. Riverbed Technology officially launched their Australian presence in October 2005 with a sales & support team and has since enjoyed significant presence in the region. The firm’s key product, Steelhead WDS [Wide-area Data Services] appliances is touted to deliver fast application performance while avoiding bandwidth saturation.
Springboard Research is of the view that this combined solution has been aptly targeted in ANZ to clients currently facing problems of stack space unavailability and increasingly managing the remote needs of employees. Hence, the need to consolidate IT and accelerate applications has critical for those enterprises that are looking for progressive ways to increase productivity from a mobile workforce. Further, these issues have a stronger impact on SMEs which typically do not have a substantial IT budget and often struggle to implement the costly solutions.
Both CommVault and Riverbed have become strategic partners in each others’ partner programs to deliver the joint solution. The duo will be using co-marketing, sales programs and other technical resources from their partner programs to push sales in the region and globally.
News Sources:
Company Website
Company Website
Company Website
2. EMC Enjoys a Strong Third Quarter in Fiscal 2007: Reports 17% YoY Growth, Wins $40 million Project from Telstra, Unveils new Virtualization offerings for Australian SMEs and Announces Key Acquisitions.
EMC has reported a healthy consolidated revenue of $3.3 billion for Q3 of fiscal 2007, an increase of 17% over Q2’07. This growth has been observed with a 9% YoY increase in its systems revenue, and a 25% YoY increase in both software and services revenue. Although the Asia-Pacific region for the firm has observed an 18% YoY increase, however remains to be fastest growing in the current fiscal year at 26% YTD revenue growth. The fastest growing business segment for the firm remained VMware showing a phenomenal growth of 90% YoY increasing the revenue to $354 million, followed by Content Management & Archiving at 27%, RSA Information Security at 22% and Information Storage at 8%.
Springboard Research is of the view that EMC’s move to target Australian SME’s via their disaster recovery and backup services has substantially fuelled the growth of its Information Storage subsidiary. These services have been aptly targeted to the sprawling SME base in Australia. Further, as reported in another story this month [refer to Top Story on CommVault] Australia is currently facing the problem of stack space unavailability and managing remote needs of employees. Hence, EMC’s initiative to help these SME’s reduce reliance on physical tape-based backup operations is a step in the right direction.
We also believe that the record growth for VMware is a result of the firm capitalizing on the virtualization wave that is currently experiencing healthy growth in ANZ. This has largely contributed to EMC’s overall growth in the region and shall continue to do so in the forthcoming quarters. We believe that with an installed base of 15% servers in ANZ, more than 30% of the large-scale Australian enterprises are currently migrating to the new technology per annum. Further, rival Microsoft’s latest hypervisor Windows Server Virtualization package (WSV) suffering yet another RTM [Release to manufacturing] date delay is a welcomed news for VMware. The company now gets another 4 to 6 quarters to further expand its presence in the region before WSV starts to eat into the competition’s market share.
In line with the above analysis, EMC has unveiled three new VMware Infrastructure product packages targeted at the SMEs and are expected to be available later this year. These bundles are based on the latest release of VMware Infrastructure, a 3rd generation, production ready virtualization suite. New products and features in VMware Infrastructure ideal for SMEs include VMware ESX Server 3i, VMware Guided Consolidation and VMware Update Manager. The company has revealed the following 3 bundles:
• VMware Infrastructure 3 Foundation Accelaration Kit, available at a list price of $2,995.
• VMware Infrastructure 3 High Availability Accelaration Kit, available at a list price of $5,995.
• VMware Infrastructure 3 Midsize Accelaration Kit, available at a list price of $14,495.
In a separate development, EMC has won a $40 million contract from Telstra replacing rivals Network Appliance and IBM. This contract covers the deployment of storage systems in Telstra’s core infrastructure and will help the telco revamp its IT and reduce its storage systems from 1100 to 800. This contract was awarded by Telstra as a part of its technology transformation program that also includes replacement of many legacy systems. Springboard Research believes this to be a key development that amplifies the trend towards smaller footprint and higher utilization of network storage equipment by enterprises in ANZ. Spiralling power bills have fuelled the need to drive operational efficiency and this trend has now become a wide-ranging concern for all enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region. Hence, we expect to see similar developments in the region driven by the critical need for enterprises to achieve higher power/cooling efficiency.
EMC has announced two key acquisitions, Voyence and Berkeley Data Systems to extend its products and services portfolio. The firm did not disclose the purchase price for both these acquisitions and has commented that they will not impact its revenues or EPS (earnings per share) for 2007.
With the former acquisition of Voyence, EMC has bolstered its position in the ITSM marketplace by adding solutions for managing IT service delivery, network compliance, serviceability and security. VoyenceControl, the network configuration and change management solution by Voyence uses ITIL as a methodology for achieving visibility and control to ensure the reliability of IT-based business services. Voyence will be fully integrated into EMC’s Resource Management Software business unit.
The latter acquisition of Berkeley Data Systems adds Mozy Online backup and recovery services to the firm’s existing set of similar solutions for the enterprises. This acquisition bolsters EMC’s position in the consumer, SOHO (small office home office) and the SME space. This move further echoes Springboard Research’s view on the current Australian problem of managing remote needs of employees. We believe that this acquisition will help EMC keep to its plans for the SaaS space and offer SMEs and consumers a cost effective and safe way of managing information. We expect that EMC will use this acquisition to introduce new and robust products in early 2008.
News Sources:
ARnet
Company Website
Market Watch
Company Website
Market Watch
The Street
SMB Edge
Australian IT
Computer World
3. McAfee Posts Q3’07 Financial Earnings, Announces Key Acquisitions and Bolsters its Sales Leadership
McAfee has posted total net revenue of $322 million for Q3 of fiscal 2007, indicating a 12% YoY growth. This healthy growth for the firm has been balanced growth in both corporate and consumer segments, that reported revenues of $186 million with an 11% YoY growth and $136 million with a 14% YoY growth, respectively. The firm has also reported an overall 25% YoY growth in its international business. The Asia Pacific region observing YoY growth of 38% after Latin America at 72% and Japan at 41%. The firm has also announced a total of 271 deals over $100,000, including 22 deals over $500,000 and 8 deals over $1 million. Surprisingly, the firm has reported a 2.7% decrease in its sales and marketing operating expenses from Q3’06 that now totals up to $90.8 million, down from $93.3 million in Q3 last year.
Springboard Research believes this reported decrease in the Marketing and Sales operating expenses conveys much about the firm’s focus for the coming quarters. The firm is evidently diverting more resources towards Research & Development that reported 12% YoY growth, increasing total operating costs for this quarter to $54 million from $48 million in Q3’06. We also believe that the firm is looking to drive higher operating efficiencies in the wake of increasing compliance costs that have been reported with a 38%YoY increase for the past quarter.
Springboard Research views these healthy quarter earnings for McAfee as a result of numerous well planned corporate and product decisions. On the corporate front, the decision to grow inorganically via key acquisitions has bolstered McAfee’s growth and has added new capabilities to its product portfolio. The firm has recently announced the definitive agreements to acquire SafeBoot B.V. and ScanAlert for $350 million and $51 million, respectively. Springboard Research believes these acquisitions to bolster McAfee’s market share in ANZ that is currently experiencing strong growth for a complete solution that handles multiple tasks rather than individual software that deals with only one particular security concern.
The former acquisition of SafeBoot B.V. adds fully integrated end-point security and content encryptions solutions to complement McAfee’s existing portfolio of ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 and McAfee’s Data Loss Prevention to offer data protection solutions. This acquisition also helps McAfee enter the mobile security market and offer comprehensive suite of integrated device protection and data security solutions which is a growing area for the firm. SafeBoot, with more than 4,200 customers of which 23% are in Asia-Pacific, launched their ANZ operations in May 2007 with offices in Melbourne and Sydney and appointed David Jordan as the ANZ Manager. The company had then laid focus on building revenue via the company's reseller channel, aiming for a 100 per cent channel sales model by 2008. McAfee has also announced the opening of a new Data Protection product business unit following the close of acquisition in Q4’07. The firm is likely to combine its Data Loss Prevention solutions in this new business unit that will be headed by Gerhard Watzinger who will report to McAfee CEO Dace DeWalt.
McAfee has also decided to acquire ScanAlert, a web application security vendor for $51 million. ScanAlert is a paid service that scans websites for security vulnerabilities and checks for up-to-date patches in e-commerce applications. McAfee plans to integrate this service in its Web Security Group responsible for producing the firm’s Site Advisor service that recently reached the 90 million download milestone.
Other corporate level developments include two key executive level appointments. Michael DeCesare has been appointed as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales Operations. Under his new designation, DeCesare will be responsible for worldwide sales, channels, sales engineering, consulting services and education services and will report directly to the firm’s President and CEO, Dace DeWalt. DeCesare joins McAfee from EMC, where he was appointed as the Senior Vice President, Field Operations. The other appointment has been of Roger King as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Channel Operations, a newly created position to strengthen the firm’s channel operations.
On the product front, we believe McAfee has done well to address the regional (ANZ) needs and has hence managed to establish a strong presence. As reported last month, the firm has aptly targeted the Australian mid-market and enterprises space with its latest offering, ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0 (ePO) and is touting its compatibility with virtual environment as its mainstay. Further, the company’s Security Innovation Alliance to expand its partner ecosystem and work closely with them has also been of help to achieve the strong financial earnings in the third quarter of 2007.
News Sources:
Company Website
Company Website
Computer World
Australian IT
Company Website
4. Sun Microsystems Unveils Project Blackbox and Mergers Server & Storage Product Teams
Sun Microsystems has merged its Server and Storage product teams to form the Systems group that focuses on the convergence of computing, storage and networking. The firm now plans to be highly focused on being a multiplatform storage provider and expects most of its futuristic growth to be driven by the open and general source platforms which it believes is the future of the IT world. Springboard Research does not agree with this approach. A spokeswoman for Sun who refused to divulge other details of this merger has confirmed that Executive Vice President John Fowler will lead the new business unit and Jon Benson, Senior Vice President of Storage will report to him. Springboard Research believes this move will do little to improve Sun’s competitive stance and other vendors will continue to keep their market share and play by their strengths.
This move supports Sun’s last year change in go-to-market strategy when it shifted to a multipurpose approach with the release of three general purpose servers, including Sun Fire x4500 which was the firm’s first general purpose storage system. Schwartz has also commented that the new systems team will continue to develop and sell standalone storage and networking. This realignment comes in just a month after Sun hinted at driving revenue and profit growth through key acquisitions and new partnerships.
Springboard Research believes that although Sun’s CEO endorses a futuristic vision and is striving hard to put the firm’s performance back on track, however, this strategy is quite contrary to what other market players are pursuing. Further, we although believe that Sun’s latest move might find it more opportunities to cross-sell or up-sell to end users, however proposing a Sun exclusive data centre in the ANZ marketplace that is already inundated with choice, seems a bit naive.
In a separate development, Sun has unveiled its ‘Project Blackbox’ in the Asia Pacific region last month and plans to officially launch it worldwide on November 20 this year. Sun’s latest mobile data centre is scheduled to travel other Asia Pacific cities of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney between October 22 and December 20, 2007. Revealing details about the mobile data centre, Sun proclaimed that all the typical data centre equipment have been stacked in a standard shipping container and can support performance of 146 teraflops, hold 2 petabytes of storage and 7 terabytes of memory. The company is promoting its Blackbox at a starting price of US$750,000 and is touting its configuration flexibility between servers, storage and other equipment and its virtualization capabilities as its mainstay.
Sun is aggressively promoting the 8 to 10 times smaller footprint of its Blackbox and is looking to drive sales in the region based on its higher efficiency (power consumption) which the company claims is 40% more than a traditional data centre. Further, claiming that Blackbox can withstand earthquakes measuring up to 6.7 on the Richter scale, the company has mentioned that the mobile data centre can only function while stationary and can also run on diesel power generators.
Springboard Research believes that Sun’s Project Blackbox has a lot to offer and is likely to do well in the region. Sun is doing well to promote its Blackbox on data centre issues of high carbon footprint, possible higher performance ratios, unavailability of stack space and managing remote needs of employees which are the pain points for most organisations in the region.
News Sources:
Information Week
ARnet
ARnet
ZDNet Asia
Market Watch
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Marketing & Promotion:
1. Sun; Microsystems Introduces Eco Innovation Initiative
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Strategy
Storage: Sun
b>Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, in collaboration with APC-MGE, AMD, Hitachi Data Systems and Wipro Infotech announced a new eco consortium to address the growing issues of limited power, space, and energy, in a climate of increasing demand for performance and utilisation. As a part of Sun Microsystems' Eco Innovation Initiative, the consortium is designed to enable customers to tackle the datacentre eco issues of cost savings and energy efficiency. APC-MGE will provide know-how of datacentre infrastructure architecture as a potential solution to address power and cooling issues, wherein AMD will offer its energy efficient computing technologies which will help customers reduce business energy costs.”
News Source:
EFY Times
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2. McAfee; Offers Free Trial of Security Appliance
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee is offering mid-sized businesses a free trial of the McAfee Secure Internet Gateway appliance for 30-days. The VMware trial has the same features and effectiveness of the physical appliance including anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware technologies. "For the first time, customers can try a spam-filtering appliance through the download of a virtual software file, to see how it performs relative to their current anti-spam solution," said Michael Sentonas, director, SE & services Asia Pacific, McAfee.”
News Source:
iTnews
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Mergers & Partnerships:
1. CommVault; and Dell Simplify Data Management with New Simpana 7.0 Software Suite
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) announced that Dell will deliver the Simpana™ 7.0 software suite as part of the companies' OEM agreement. Together, the two companies will offer customers expanded options for Data Protection, Replication and Archive, including new Single Instance Store (SIS), optimized 64-bit integration and support for the latest Microsoft advanced platform capabilities, as well as the ability to discover enterprise information across all tiers of storage. To date, thousands of customers have reaped the benefits of CommVault's unique singular approach to data management and Dell storage solutions.”
News Source:
Company Website
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2. Hitachi; Data Systems Extends OEM Agreement with CommVault
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASD: CVLT) announced that it has added the Simpana™ 7.0 software suite of products to its OEM agreement with Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), for CommVault's industry-leading data protection software suite, CommVault Simpana™ 7.0. Available immediately from Hitachi as the new Hitachi Data Protection Suite 7.0 Powered by CommVault®, this software is a powerful solution designed to improve the performance, availability and security of enterprise customers' data storage assets, while reducing storage complexity, administrative overhead and operating costs.”
News Source:
Company Website
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3. Sun; Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) expanded the Sun and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise server line with the introduction of the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers - the first servers using the new UltraSPARC T2 processor. The new SPARC Enterprise servers run the Solaris Operating System (OS) and are ideal platforms for customers needing to achieve increased scale, density and performance, particularly in the web and application tiers and for online transaction processing (OLTP) and technical workloads. Built-in, no-cost virtualization capabilities in the servers also enable IT staff to easily maximize system utilization, helping to lower the cost of delivering new IT services.”
News Source:
Company Website
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4. Manaccom; Signs Agreement with Trend Micro
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Sales & Channels
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Australian e-commerce and IT company, ASX-listed Jumbo Corporation Limited (ASX code: JUM), announced that its newly acquired Manaccom business has signed a new sales agreement with global IT protection giant, Trend Micro. The new agreement follows a highly successful Manaccom-Trend Micro alliance over the past decade which has seen Manaccom secure distribution for the Trend Micro range of products into all key retail accounts in Australia and New Zealand including Harvey Norman, Dick Smith, Officeworks and JB Hi-Fi and numerous independent stores.”
News Source:
Company Website
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Product:
1. CommVault; and Dell Simplify Data Management with New Simpana 7.0 Software Suite
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) announced that Dell will deliver the Simpana™ 7.0 software suite as part of the companies' OEM agreement. Together, the two companies will offer customers expanded options for Data Protection, Replication and Archive, including new Single Instance Store (SIS), optimized 64-bit integration and support for the latest Microsoft advanced platform capabilities, as well as the ability to discover enterprise information across all tiers of storage. To date, thousands of customers have reaped the benefits of CommVault's unique singular approach to data management and Dell storage solutions.”
News Source:
Company Website
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2. Hitachi; Data Systems Extends OEM Agreement with CommVault
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASD: CVLT) announced that it has added the Simpana™ 7.0 software suite of products to its OEM agreement with Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), for CommVault's industry-leading data protection software suite, CommVault Simpana™ 7.0. Available immediately from Hitachi as the new Hitachi Data Protection Suite 7.0 Powered by CommVault®, this software is a powerful solution designed to improve the performance, availability and security of enterprise customers' data storage assets, while reducing storage complexity, administrative overhead and operating costs.”
News Source:
Company Website
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3. RSA; Delivers Authentication Choice to More Smartphone Users
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced the availability of the RSA SecurID® Software Token 2.2 for Symbian OS™ and UIQ. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS. Symbian OS is licensed by leading mobile phone manufacturers; to date, more than 145 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to more than 250 major network operators. Businesspeople who use smartphones based on UIQ and Symbian OS can now leverage their devices to access protected corporate information securely, eliminating the need to carry a separate, stand-alone authenticator.”
News Source:
Company Website
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4. RSA; and EMC Expand Information-Centric Approach to Security; Focus on Managing Information Risk
Category: Product, Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), announced an expansion of its solutions designed to make information security a reality for organizations worldwide, and to help them solve their most sensitive and complex security challenges. Key to this expansion are RSA’s moves to provide organizations with a comprehensive and effective means of recognizing, assessing and mitigating the risks that information is exposed to throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.”
News Source:
Company Website
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5. EMC;, Hitachi Set to Unveil Data Protection, Storage Wares
Category: Product, Sales & Channels
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Storage Networking World this week in the US, vendors are unveiling a number of products that make it easier for users to manage and protect their storage environments. Among the announcements: EMC will introduce a new version of its Legato Networker data protection software and enhancements to its virtual tape library. Legato Networker now includes data de-duplication and continuous data protection capabilities. The company acquired de-duplication technology with its acquisition of Avamar; it acquired continuous data protection capability with its acquisition of Kashya. The company also introduced new capabilities for its EMC Disk Library DL4000 -- the appliance now supports RAID 6 and new 1TB disk drives.”
News Source:
ARnet
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6. McAfee; Announces First "Triple Play" Offer In The Security Industry With Its 2008 Consumer Security
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced its 2008 security solutions will provide consumers with the industry’s first triple-play protection, securing consumers’ PCs, Web experiences, and mobile phones with one offering to lead the industry with security solutions unavailable anywhere else. “This year, consumers will benefit from triple-play protection from McAfee,” said Todd Gebhart, senior vice president and general manager, McAfee Consumer, Mobile and Small Business. “Not only have we added additional anti-threat technologies for the PC unavailable from competitors, but we have trumped the competition once again with the only safe search and surf technology integrated into our consumer security suites.”
News Source:
Company Website
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7. McAfee; Delivers Data Loss Prevention Host 2.0
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. released McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host 2.0. The new version includes comprehensive device management and integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). It is a key component of the industry's most comprehensive solution for preventing both accidental and malicious data loss. High profile data breaches continue to make headlines, impacting corporate reputations and bottom lines. According to Privacy Clearinghouse, more than 166 million American records (personal data) have been compromised.”
News Source:
SMB Edge
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8. Sun; Micro Introduces Servers Based on New Chip
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems Inc launched the first server computers based on its newest microprocessors as it tries to boost sales of energy-efficient, high-performance computers for businesses. The servers, typically used for hosting Web sites and running corporate networks, use Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T2 chip, which Sun introduced in August as the world's fastest commodity microprocessor. Sun says the new servers, available on Tuesday, deliver the same performance in a quarter of the space and at less than half the cost of competing systems."
News Source:
Reuters
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9. Sun; Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) expanded the Sun and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise server line with the introduction of the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers - the first servers using the new UltraSPARC T2 processor. The new SPARC Enterprise servers run the Solaris Operating System (OS) and are ideal platforms for customers needing to achieve increased scale, density and performance, particularly in the web and application tiers and for online transaction processing (OLTP) and technical workloads. Built-in, no-cost virtualization capabilities in the servers also enable IT staff to easily maximize system utilization, helping to lower the cost of delivering new IT services.”
News Source:
Company Website
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10. Sun; Delivers First UltraSparc T2-based Servers
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems has announced its first UltraSparc T2-based servers, which the company hopes will cut the number of servers required in datacentres. The multicore and multithreaded Sun Sparc Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers deliver double the performance and capacity than its predecessor, UltraSparc T1-based servers, without an increase in size, product manager at Sun, Mat Keep, said. The servers were powered by the UltraSparc T2 processor, which has eight cores with eight threads per core, giving it the power of 64 individual systems in one server, Keep said."
News Source:
ARnet
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11. Trend; Releases 2008 Security Suites, Debuts Pro Package
Category: Product
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro has released it's 2008 Internet security suite, comprising three separate offerings aimed at various levels of Internet usage. The AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware, and the PC-cillin Internet Security products are updated versions for 2008, with Internet Security Pro making its debut this year. The Antivirus plus AntiSpyware version, costing $49.95, is the most basic offering and is aimed at casual Internet users. New features include proactive intrusion blocking capabilities to prevent changes to operating systems and critical software, an enhanced software history cleaner, and improved browser and cookie management.”
News Source:
Computer World
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12. CA; Advances Mainframe Security Tools
Category: Product
Storage: CA
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CA added automation and business intelligence features to five mainframe security software products designed to control access, manage entitlements, and audit and report on compliance across IBM z/OS systems. The software maker says the enhanced releases have one thing in common: improved controls for corporate policy, security and compliance requirements. For instance, CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret r12 for z/OS -- two products bundled to work together -- provide access controls for z/OS operating systems and now feature a data repository and compliance analysis tools to help IT managers better define user privileges and access controls for changing business needs, CA says.”
News Source:
ARnet
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13. Sun; Previews Solaris-Xen Hypervisor
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems is preparing to launch a Xen-based hypervisor in an attempt to catch up in the virtualisation market. The server maker plans to release a first preview of its xVM server in January, followed by a release in the second quarter of 2008. An xVM Ops Center management application will be released in December. Virtualisation is primarily used to consolidate infrastructure applications such as email, print and file servers on a single physical server. The technology's greatest promise, however, lies in the ability to move workloads to a different server in the event of a hardware failure or to allow for maintenance without system downtime.”
News Source:
iTnews
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Sales & Channels:
1. RSA; and EMC Expand Information-Centric Approach to Security; Focus on Managing Information Risk
Category: Product, Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), announced an expansion of its solutions designed to make information security a reality for organizations worldwide, and to help them solve their most sensitive and complex security challenges. Key to this expansion are RSA’s moves to provide organizations with a comprehensive and effective means of recognizing, assessing and mitigating the risks that information is exposed to throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.”
News Source:
Company Website
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2. EMC;, Hitachi Set to Unveil Data Protection, Storage Wares
Category: Product, Sales & Channels
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Storage Networking World this week in the US, vendors are unveiling a number of products that make it easier for users to manage and protect their storage environments. Among the announcements: EMC will introduce a new version of its Legato Networker data protection software and enhancements to its virtual tape library. Legato Networker now includes data de-duplication and continuous data protection capabilities. The company acquired de-duplication technology with its acquisition of Avamar; it acquired continuous data protection capability with its acquisition of Kashya. The company also introduced new capabilities for its EMC Disk Library DL4000 -- the appliance now supports RAID 6 and new 1TB disk drives.”
News Source:
ARnet
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3. Isilon; Officially Moves to Australian Shores
Category: Sales & Channels, Strategy
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “US based storage vendor Isilon Systems has signalled its push into the Australian market with the appointment of two local staff. Specialising in clustered storage systems for digital content, the company already has a small base of local reseller partners and the new team will sell its solutions exclusively through the channel. Michael Burnie has been named country manager with Paul Rosham as technical director. Having previously worked as the first local managing director for both EMC and Network Appliance, Burnie is well positioned to expanding Isilon’s A/NZ presence."
News Source:
CRN
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4. Sophos; Boosts Queensland Coverage
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Security vendor Sophos has appointed Brisbane-based Centra Networks as a Gold Partner. Centra is fully certified to provide consultative and support services for Sophos’s web, email, network and endpoint security offerings. Craig Belcher, director for Centra Networks, said: “Meeting the business goals of our clients in today's competitive landscape requires a team approach. Sophos's well regarded reputation is founded on its commitment to research and develop, and rigorous attention to quality. Together with Centra's proven expertise in delivering and managing mission critical business systems, our partnership with Sophos will further enhance the value we provide to our customers around Australia.”
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5. Manaccom; Signs Agreement with Trend Micro
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Sales & Channels
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Australian e-commerce and IT company, ASX-listed Jumbo Corporation Limited (ASX code: JUM), announced that its newly acquired Manaccom business has signed a new sales agreement with global IT protection giant, Trend Micro. The new agreement follows a highly successful Manaccom-Trend Micro alliance over the past decade which has seen Manaccom secure distribution for the Trend Micro range of products into all key retail accounts in Australia and New Zealand including Harvey Norman, Dick Smith, Officeworks and JB Hi-Fi and numerous independent stores.”
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Strategy:
1. RSA; and EMC Expand Information-Centric Approach to Security; Focus on Managing Information Risk
Category: Product, Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), announced an expansion of its solutions designed to make information security a reality for organizations worldwide, and to help them solve their most sensitive and complex security challenges. Key to this expansion are RSA’s moves to provide organizations with a comprehensive and effective means of recognizing, assessing and mitigating the risks that information is exposed to throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.”
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2. EMC; Looks to Manage Information Growth
Category: Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Over the years EMC has presented itself as 'The Storage Architects" and, later, "The Enterprise Storage Company." Its latest moniker is "Where Information Lives" as the company tries to stay ahead of a rapidly evolving data storage marketplace. In Canada recently for the EMC Forum conference, vice-chair Bill Teuber said over the years the company has tried to change the way people think about storage. With the goal of leading the market, and not following it, he said EMC sees the major challenges of the next five years centering around information growth. Quoting figures from research firm IDC, Teuber said the volume of new data created annually is expected to rise from 161 billion GB in 2006 to 988 billion GB in 2010, a 6X increase.”
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3. Isilon; Officially Moves to Australian Shores
Category: Sales & Channels, Strategy
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “US based storage vendor Isilon Systems has signalled its push into the Australian market with the appointment of two local staff. Specialising in clustered storage systems for digital content, the company already has a small base of local reseller partners and the new team will sell its solutions exclusively through the channel. Michael Burnie has been named country manager with Paul Rosham as technical director. Having previously worked as the first local managing director for both EMC and Network Appliance, Burnie is well positioned to expanding Isilon’s A/NZ presence."
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4. Sun; Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) expanded the Sun and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise server line with the introduction of the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers - the first servers using the new UltraSPARC T2 processor. The new SPARC Enterprise servers run the Solaris Operating System (OS) and are ideal platforms for customers needing to achieve increased scale, density and performance, particularly in the web and application tiers and for online transaction processing (OLTP) and technical workloads. Built-in, no-cost virtualization capabilities in the servers also enable IT staff to easily maximize system utilization, helping to lower the cost of delivering new IT services.”
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Company Website
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5. Sun; Microsystems Introduces Eco Innovation Initiative
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Strategy
Storage: Sun
b>Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, in collaboration with APC-MGE, AMD, Hitachi Data Systems and Wipro Infotech announced a new eco consortium to address the growing issues of limited power, space, and energy, in a climate of increasing demand for performance and utilisation. As a part of Sun Microsystems' Eco Innovation Initiative, the consortium is designed to enable customers to tackle the datacentre eco issues of cost savings and energy efficiency. APC-MGE will provide know-how of datacentre infrastructure architecture as a potential solution to address power and cooling issues, wherein AMD will offer its energy efficient computing technologies which will help customers reduce business energy costs.”
News Source:
EFY Times
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6. Sun; Fires Back With NetApp Patent Countersuit
Category: Strategy
Storage: Sun
Excerpt from News Source: “Last month, Network Appliance sued Sun Microsystems, alleging that Sun's ZFS file system infringes on a number of NetApp patents. In a countersuit, Sun have returned fire, claiming that NetApp is in violation of 12 Sun patents. Sun's suit also argues that NetApp's patents are invalid and that it doesn't infringe them anyway. And it requests an injunction prohibiting the company from selling any products that infringe Sun's patents. Patent suits are often expensive and acrimonious proceedings, and they're particularly unpleasant when fought among Silicon Valley rivals who often share mutual customers and sometimes even are business partners.”
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1. CA; Advances Mainframe Security Tools
Category: Product
Storage: CA
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CA added automation and business intelligence features to five mainframe security software products designed to control access, manage entitlements, and audit and report on compliance across IBM z/OS systems. The software maker says the enhanced releases have one thing in common: improved controls for corporate policy, security and compliance requirements. For instance, CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret r12 for z/OS -- two products bundled to work together -- provide access controls for z/OS operating systems and now feature a data repository and compliance analysis tools to help IT managers better define user privileges and access controls for changing business needs, CA says.”
News Source:
ARnet
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CommVault:
1. CommVault; and Dell Simplify Data Management with New Simpana 7.0 Software Suite
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault (NASDAQ: CVLT) announced that Dell will deliver the Simpana™ 7.0 software suite as part of the companies' OEM agreement. Together, the two companies will offer customers expanded options for Data Protection, Replication and Archive, including new Single Instance Store (SIS), optimized 64-bit integration and support for the latest Microsoft advanced platform capabilities, as well as the ability to discover enterprise information across all tiers of storage. To date, thousands of customers have reaped the benefits of CommVault's unique singular approach to data management and Dell storage solutions.”
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2. Hitachi; Data Systems Extends OEM Agreement with CommVault
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASD: CVLT) announced that it has added the Simpana™ 7.0 software suite of products to its OEM agreement with Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT), for CommVault's industry-leading data protection software suite, CommVault Simpana™ 7.0. Available immediately from Hitachi as the new Hitachi Data Protection Suite 7.0 Powered by CommVault®, this software is a powerful solution designed to improve the performance, availability and security of enterprise customers' data storage assets, while reducing storage complexity, administrative overhead and operating costs.”
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EMC:
1. RSA; Delivers Authentication Choice to More Smartphone Users
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced the availability of the RSA SecurID® Software Token 2.2 for Symbian OS™ and UIQ. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS. Symbian OS is licensed by leading mobile phone manufacturers; to date, more than 145 million Symbian smartphones have shipped worldwide to more than 250 major network operators. Businesspeople who use smartphones based on UIQ and Symbian OS can now leverage their devices to access protected corporate information securely, eliminating the need to carry a separate, stand-alone authenticator.”
News Source:
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2. RSA; and EMC Expand Information-Centric Approach to Security; Focus on Managing Information Risk
Category: Product, Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), announced an expansion of its solutions designed to make information security a reality for organizations worldwide, and to help them solve their most sensitive and complex security challenges. Key to this expansion are RSA’s moves to provide organizations with a comprehensive and effective means of recognizing, assessing and mitigating the risks that information is exposed to throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used.”
News Source:
Company Website
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3. EMC; Looks to Manage Information Growth
Category: Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Over the years EMC has presented itself as 'The Storage Architects" and, later, "The Enterprise Storage Company." Its latest moniker is "Where Information Lives" as the company tries to stay ahead of a rapidly evolving data storage marketplace. In Canada recently for the EMC Forum conference, vice-chair Bill Teuber said over the years the company has tried to change the way people think about storage. With the goal of leading the market, and not following it, he said EMC sees the major challenges of the next five years centering around information growth. Quoting figures from research firm IDC, Teuber said the volume of new data created annually is expected to rise from 161 billion GB in 2006 to 988 billion GB in 2010, a 6X increase.”
News Source:
ARnet
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4. EMC;, Hitachi Set to Unveil Data Protection, Storage Wares
Category: Product, Sales & Channels
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Storage Networking World this week in the US, vendors are unveiling a number of products that make it easier for users to manage and protect their storage environments. Among the announcements: EMC will introduce a new version of its Legato Networker data protection software and enhancements to its virtual tape library. Legato Networker now includes data de-duplication and continuous data protection capabilities. The company acquired de-duplication technology with its acquisition of Avamar; it acquired continuous data protection capability with its acquisition of Kashya. The company also introduced new capabilities for its EMC Disk Library DL4000 -- the appliance now supports RAID 6 and new 1TB disk drives.”
News Source:
ARnet
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Sun:
1. Sun; Micro Introduces Servers Based on New Chip
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems Inc launched the first server computers based on its newest microprocessors as it tries to boost sales of energy-efficient, high-performance computers for businesses. The servers, typically used for hosting Web sites and running corporate networks, use Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T2 chip, which Sun introduced in August as the world's fastest commodity microprocessor. Sun says the new servers, available on Tuesday, deliver the same performance in a quarter of the space and at less than half the cost of competing systems."
News Source:
Reuters
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2. Sun; Microsystems And Fujitsu Expand SPARC Enterprise Server Line
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) expanded the Sun and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise server line with the introduction of the SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers - the first servers using the new UltraSPARC T2 processor. The new SPARC Enterprise servers run the Solaris Operating System (OS) and are ideal platforms for customers needing to achieve increased scale, density and performance, particularly in the web and application tiers and for online transaction processing (OLTP) and technical workloads. Built-in, no-cost virtualization capabilities in the servers also enable IT staff to easily maximize system utilization, helping to lower the cost of delivering new IT services.”
News Source:
Company Website
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3. Sun; Delivers First UltraSparc T2-based Servers
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems has announced its first UltraSparc T2-based servers, which the company hopes will cut the number of servers required in datacentres. The multicore and multithreaded Sun Sparc Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers deliver double the performance and capacity than its predecessor, UltraSparc T1-based servers, without an increase in size, product manager at Sun, Mat Keep, said. The servers were powered by the UltraSparc T2 processor, which has eight cores with eight threads per core, giving it the power of 64 individual systems in one server, Keep said."
News Source:
ARnet
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4. Sun; Microsystems Introduces Eco Innovation Initiative
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Strategy
Storage: Sun
b>Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, in collaboration with APC-MGE, AMD, Hitachi Data Systems and Wipro Infotech announced a new eco consortium to address the growing issues of limited power, space, and energy, in a climate of increasing demand for performance and utilisation. As a part of Sun Microsystems' Eco Innovation Initiative, the consortium is designed to enable customers to tackle the datacentre eco issues of cost savings and energy efficiency. APC-MGE will provide know-how of datacentre infrastructure architecture as a potential solution to address power and cooling issues, wherein AMD will offer its energy efficient computing technologies which will help customers reduce business energy costs.”
News Source:
EFY Times
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5. Sun; Fires Back With NetApp Patent Countersuit
Category: Strategy
Storage: Sun
Excerpt from News Source: “Last month, Network Appliance sued Sun Microsystems, alleging that Sun's ZFS file system infringes on a number of NetApp patents. In a countersuit, Sun have returned fire, claiming that NetApp is in violation of 12 Sun patents. Sun's suit also argues that NetApp's patents are invalid and that it doesn't infringe them anyway. And it requests an injunction prohibiting the company from selling any products that infringe Sun's patents. Patent suits are often expensive and acrimonious proceedings, and they're particularly unpleasant when fought among Silicon Valley rivals who often share mutual customers and sometimes even are business partners.”
News Source:
ZDNet
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6. Sun; Previews Solaris-Xen Hypervisor
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems is preparing to launch a Xen-based hypervisor in an attempt to catch up in the virtualisation market. The server maker plans to release a first preview of its xVM server in January, followed by a release in the second quarter of 2008. An xVM Ops Center management application will be released in December. Virtualisation is primarily used to consolidate infrastructure applications such as email, print and file servers on a single physical server. The technology's greatest promise, however, lies in the ability to move workloads to a different server in the event of a hardware failure or to allow for maintenance without system downtime.”
News Source:
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1. CA; Advances Mainframe Security Tools
Category: Product
Storage: CA
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “CA added automation and business intelligence features to five mainframe security software products designed to control access, manage entitlements, and audit and report on compliance across IBM z/OS systems. The software maker says the enhanced releases have one thing in common: improved controls for corporate policy, security and compliance requirements. For instance, CA ACF2 and CA Top Secret r12 for z/OS -- two products bundled to work together -- provide access controls for z/OS operating systems and now feature a data repository and compliance analysis tools to help IT managers better define user privileges and access controls for changing business needs, CA says.”
News Source:
ARnet
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McAfee:
1. McAfee; Announces First "Triple Play" Offer In The Security Industry With Its 2008 Consumer Security
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced its 2008 security solutions will provide consumers with the industry’s first triple-play protection, securing consumers’ PCs, Web experiences, and mobile phones with one offering to lead the industry with security solutions unavailable anywhere else. “This year, consumers will benefit from triple-play protection from McAfee,” said Todd Gebhart, senior vice president and general manager, McAfee Consumer, Mobile and Small Business. “Not only have we added additional anti-threat technologies for the PC unavailable from competitors, but we have trumped the competition once again with the only safe search and surf technology integrated into our consumer security suites.”
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2. McAfee; Delivers Data Loss Prevention Host 2.0
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. released McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host 2.0. The new version includes comprehensive device management and integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO). It is a key component of the industry's most comprehensive solution for preventing both accidental and malicious data loss. High profile data breaches continue to make headlines, impacting corporate reputations and bottom lines. According to Privacy Clearinghouse, more than 166 million American records (personal data) have been compromised.”
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3. McAfee; Offers Free Trial of Security Appliance
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee is offering mid-sized businesses a free trial of the McAfee Secure Internet Gateway appliance for 30-days. The VMware trial has the same features and effectiveness of the physical appliance including anti-spam, anti-virus and anti-spyware technologies. "For the first time, customers can try a spam-filtering appliance through the download of a virtual software file, to see how it performs relative to their current anti-spam solution," said Michael Sentonas, director, SE & services Asia Pacific, McAfee.”
News Source:
iTnews
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Sophos:
1. Sophos; Boosts Queensland Coverage
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Security vendor Sophos has appointed Brisbane-based Centra Networks as a Gold Partner. Centra is fully certified to provide consultative and support services for Sophos’s web, email, network and endpoint security offerings. Craig Belcher, director for Centra Networks, said: “Meeting the business goals of our clients in today's competitive landscape requires a team approach. Sophos's well regarded reputation is founded on its commitment to research and develop, and rigorous attention to quality. Together with Centra's proven expertise in delivering and managing mission critical business systems, our partnership with Sophos will further enhance the value we provide to our customers around Australia.”
News Source:
CRN
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Trend Micro:
1. Manaccom; Signs Agreement with Trend Micro
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Sales & Channels
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Australian e-commerce and IT company, ASX-listed Jumbo Corporation Limited (ASX code: JUM), announced that its newly acquired Manaccom business has signed a new sales agreement with global IT protection giant, Trend Micro. The new agreement follows a highly successful Manaccom-Trend Micro alliance over the past decade which has seen Manaccom secure distribution for the Trend Micro range of products into all key retail accounts in Australia and New Zealand including Harvey Norman, Dick Smith, Officeworks and JB Hi-Fi and numerous independent stores.”
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2. Trend; Releases 2008 Security Suites, Debuts Pro Package
Category: Product
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro has released it's 2008 Internet security suite, comprising three separate offerings aimed at various levels of Internet usage. The AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware, and the PC-cillin Internet Security products are updated versions for 2008, with Internet Security Pro making its debut this year. The Antivirus plus AntiSpyware version, costing $49.95, is the most basic offering and is aimed at casual Internet users. New features include proactive intrusion blocking capabilities to prevent changes to operating systems and critical software, an enhanced software history cleaner, and improved browser and cookie management.”
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