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1.  EMC Loses Top Executive in NZ and Expands Relationship with Global Storage to Tartget Australian SME
In a surprising move, Craig Stoddart, the country manager for EMC New Zealand resigned end of last month citing personal reasons for the exit. He had joined EMC’s NZ operations in early 2006 from the ... (Read more)

2.  McAfee Launches Security Risk Management Solution and Announces Security Innovation Alliance
McAfee has launched ePolicy Ochestrator 4.0 (ePO), an integrated security management and compliance platform that offers businesses to manage security from a single console across multiple endpoint se ... (Read more)

3.  Sun Microsystems Likely to Trail the Inorganic Growth Path
Progressive efforts to put Sun Microsystems back into the limelight were pronounced when CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at driving revenue and profit growth through key acquisitions and new partnerships ... (Read more)

 
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1.  EMC Loses Top Executive in NZ and Expands Relationship with Global Storage to Tartget Australian SME
In a surprising move, Craig Stoddart, the country manager for EMC New Zealand resigned end of last month citing personal reasons for the exit. He had joined EMC’s NZ operations in early 2006 from the systems integrator Axon where he served as the GM, Sales & Service since 2004. Stoddart’s stint with EMC NZ has lasted less than two years and until a replacement is found for him, David Webster, Managing Director of EMC Australia and New Zealand will be acting as EMC’s NZ’s country manager.

In a separate development, EMC has expanded its 18-month-old relationship with integrator ‘Global Storage’. Targeting SMEs in Australia, EMC is offering two managed disaster recovery and backup services, EnvironmentReady and DataReady via this alliance. These managed services are based on EMC’s data de-duplication software Avamar that it had acquired for $165 million in November 2006.

Springboard Research believes that these services have been aptly targeted in the Australian marketplace that has a sprawling SME presence. These services that can be implemented in a remote environment are likely to address the disaster recovery and backup requirements of SMEs that mostly don’t have a separate budget for such IT requirements and often struggle to implement the costly solutions. Further, we believe that along with high implementation costs, lack of knowledge and understanding about the latest technology to be another likely reason these SMEs continue to use obsolete and labour-intensive technology.

Global Storage CEO David Duncan also confirmed that the company has added additional sales staff to assist with the new services and contracts for 3-7 Terabytes have already been signed with a few law firms. Further, he has declared focus on real estate agents, city councils, and other similar small businesses or agencies that look for capacities in the range of 100GB up to 3-5TB.

Along with the above announcement, EMC also introduced its Avamar Virtual Edition for VMware and pre-packaged EMC Avamar Data Storage Systems offerings that supports all VMware backup modes and can support up to 1TB of de-duplicated backup capacity. This solution targeted at the virtualization market, is based on data de-duplication software, Avamar and is likely to be shipped in November 2007 at a price of US$17,000 per post-de-duped TB of data.
EMC is expecting this offering to help companies reduce their reliance on physical tape-based backup operations and off-site data movement. Lastly, the company is touting ease of deployment, not having to buy additional hardware and remedy to bandwidth constraints as the key factors to the likely success of this new offering.

News Sources:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1385830598

http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/news/8B5AB1E1AC1EF669CC257360001D41DF

http://m-net.net.nz/industry/news-by-organisation/emc/emc-s-stoddart-quits-as-new-zealand-head.php

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId;=9034779

http://www.crn.com/storage/201804660

2.  McAfee Launches Security Risk Management Solution and Announces Security Innovation Alliance
McAfee has launched ePolicy Ochestrator 4.0 (ePO), an integrated security management and compliance platform that offers businesses to manage security from a single console across multiple endpoint security products. The company is targeting the Australian Mid-Market and Enterprises space and is touting to streamline IT security management with ePO’s feature of reporting and auditing on third party products and reducing the clutter on client and administrator desktops.

ePolicy Ochestrator 4.0 (ePO) became available in the market on 25th September and is being offered free to McAfee customers with an existing maintenance contract. Further to the development, McAfee announced that its security risk management offerings, including ePO, are fully compatible with virtual environments and the company is working with partners on new and innovative security offerings.

In a move to facilitate third party security vendors integrate their offerings with ePO, McAfee has launched the Security Innovative Alliance (SIA) that provides a series of application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits. Positioning ePO as the cornerstone to this alliance, McAfee is touting to work with its partners to deliver integrated, heterogeneous security and compliance optimization.

Springboard Research believes that although McAfee’s initiative to achieve higher interoperability with other security vendors is aptly defined, however, is likely to receive a lukewarm reception with the competing firms seeing little gain by confirming to McAfee’s standards. With vendor-controlled APIs having a history of failing to attract industry-wide support, the success of McAfee’s SIA is likely to hinge on the response of smaller niche players that are likely to receive higher gain from this alliance. Lastly, we believe that with virtualization gaining momentum in ANZ, McAfee could judiciously use ePO’s compatibility with virtual environments as a tool to promote its latest partner initiative.

News Sources:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61402,mcafee-announces-new-security-risk-management-solution.aspx

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61446,mcafee-touts-security-management-standard.aspx

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070917_050000_k.html

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070917_050000_f.html

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070911_080000_g.html

3.  Sun Microsystems Likely to Trail the Inorganic Growth Path
Progressive efforts to put Sun Microsystems back into the limelight were pronounced when CEO Jonathan Schwartz hinted at driving revenue and profit growth through key acquisitions and new partnerships in an analyst brief held last month in New York. He also commented that continued spending on IT infrastructure by business customers is likely to be the key growth stimulator for the company. Giving further details, Schwartz indicated that Sun is likely to acquire software companies and establish fresh alliances with companies like Juniper Networks to further expand its presence in the enterprises space.

In tandem with the above announcement, Sun declared a definitive agreement to acquire intellectual property and assets of Cluster File Systems, including the Lustre File System that will be pivotal for Sun in providing an end-to-end High Performance Computing storage solution. The transaction is expected to be completed in the beginning of Sun’s second fiscal quarter starting October 1, 2007.

In a similar development, Sun announced a strategic alliance with Microsoft to offer Windows Server 2003 on its 64-bit servers. Further, the two companies will collaborate on IPTV and interoperability between virtualisation of Windows Server on Sun’s Solaris OS and vice versa. This alliance is also indicative of joint solutions by the duo in the near future when Sun introduces its Galaxy Server line and Microsoft launches Windows Server 2008. Interestingly, John Fowler, EVP Sun Systems Group, noted during a conference call that 100 percent of Sun’s customers run both Solaris and Windows in their environments.

Springboard Research believes that Sun’s intention to expand presence in the enterprises space is a good business decision and shall help the company keep to its planned growth curve. Further, in our view, many enterprises in ANZ are increasingly looking to curb their IT expenditure by using hosted applications and innovative outsourcing arrangements. This trend is indicative of an increasing demand for data centres operated and maintained by IT infrastructure vendors, hence a good opportunity for Sun Microsystems.

News Sources:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070912.1.xml

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070912.2.xml

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61078,sun-microsoft-expand-partnership-sun-to-sell-windows.aspx

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/60696,sun-ceo-hints-at-growth-through-acquisition.aspx
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1.  Sun; Microsystems Lays Off 129 in Colorado
Category: HR
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems Inc. has notified 129 people at its sites in Broomfield and Louisville that they will be laid off before the end of the year. Sun announced layoffs of 108 people at its Broomfield campus and 21 people at its Louisville site this week, according to paperwork filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.”

News Source:

http://www.9news.com/money/top-article.aspx?storyid=78226
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2.  CA; Promotes Andy Cooper
Category: HR
Storage: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

CA has promoted Andy Cooper to vice president of field marketing for the Asia/Pacific and Japan region. He was previously marketing director for Australia and NZ.

News Source:

http://tc106.metawerx.com.au/Rustreport/rustreport_sep28_07.pdf
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3.  McAfee; Inc. Appoints Mark Cochran to Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Category: HR
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced that Mark Cochran has joined the company as its executive vice president and general counsel, reporting to McAfee® Chief Executive Officer and President, Dave DeWalt. Cochran will be based out of the company's Santa Clara, California office. "We're thrilled to welcome Mark to our executive team at such an important time in the company's history," said DeWalt. "Mark has over twenty years of technology industry experience, managing law departments of both large and small technology companies - he brings the skills necessary to strengthen our corporate infrastructure and help propel the company forward."

News Source:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070910_191010_h.html
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4.  Sun; Microsystems CEO Gets $7.7M in 2007 Compensation
Category: HR
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received compensation the company valued at $7.7 million in fiscal 2007, nearly a third of which was bonus money, as he helped the server and software maker emerge from its prolonged dot-com-era-induced slump and return to consistent profitability. Schwartz, who replaced Sun co-founder Scott McNealy as chief executive in April 2006, saw his base salary increase 9 percent over his pay before the promotion to $980,769 during the latest fiscal year. The salary remained the same throughout the year.“

News Source:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6998104

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Marketing & Promotion:


1.  Sun; Microsystems Launches First-Of-Its-Kind, OpenWeb Community
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Drawing on its history of building online communities, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) launched OpenEco.org, a new community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. OpenEco.org is free and open to all organizations. The only cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants. Sun will publicly introduce OpenEco.org today at an event the company is sponsoring with the Carbon Disclosure Project featuring President Bill Clinton in New York.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070924.2.xml

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2.  Sun; Christens its Xen-based Virtualization xVM
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, a longtime participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot xVM, short for x86 Virtual Machine. "Because Xen is trademarked, we don't want to call the code we've implemented Xen," said Marc Hamilton, Sun's vice president of Solaris marketing, on Wednesday. It works only on computers with x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon; those with Sun's newer UltraSparc processors use an equivalent technology called logical domains, or LDoms.“

News Source:

http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9778296-39.html?part=rss&subj;=news&tag;=2547-1_3-0-20
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Mergers & Partnerships:


1.  VMware; Acquires Virtual Machine Management Vendor Dunes
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “VMware has acquired Dunes Technologies, a Swiss company that sells software for managing virtual machines running in corporate data centers. Financial terms were not disclosed. VMware, controlled by data-storage vendor EMC, announced the transaction on the first day of the VMWorld conference in San Francisco.”

News Source:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61000,vmware-acquires-virtual-machine-management-vendor-dunes.aspx

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2.  Trend; Micro Announces Alliance with Intego to Secure Apple Mac OS X Users
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704) announced a new partnership that allows for the direct distribution of Intego’s market-leading Mac OS X security products. Under the agreement, Trend Micro representatives worldwide will be able to offer customers endpoint and network security, and centralized management solutions for Apple Mac OS X users. This technology collaboration extends protection to heterogeneous networks in businesses of all sizes.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070925010217.html
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3.  CommVault; and Clearwell to Deliver Complementary E-Discovery Capabilities
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) and Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced that they are teaming up to jointly market the value proposition of the two companies' solutions for e-discovery, risk mitigation and compliance. CommVault and Clearwell will work together to deliver end-to-end e-discovery solutions to enterprise IT and legal departments utilizing the CommVault Simpana™ software suite and the Clearwell Intelligence Platform®.”

News Source:

http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=339
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4.  Mozy; to Join EMC Storage Portfolio for Predicted Price of US$76 M
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “EMC may be set to close a US$76 million purchase of the Mozy online backup product from Berkeley Data Systems, according to a report on the TechCrunch blog. The acquisition would give EMC a foothold in the fast-growing online backup arena, which has been fuelled by laptop and desktop user demands to easily store personal and business data on a hosted service for a low monthly fee.”

News Source:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1115513588
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5.  AT;&T; Wins Global IT and Network-Management Contract From Sun Microsystems
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “AT&T; (NYSE:SBT) (NYSE:T) Inc said it has been awarded a global contract to provide network management and maintenance services to Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) Inc. AT&T;, which did not disclose financial terms, said it will provide services for a wide area network, a local area network and voice infrastructure in more than 250 facilities in more than 45 countries.”

News Source:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-19654468.htm
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6.  NEC; and Sun Microsystems to Combine Expertise
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise

Excerpt from News Source: “NEC Corporation of America, a provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced the intent to work with Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide high performance computing (HPC) professional services in North America. The goal is to provide turnkey HPC services for the mid-market at industry leading prices. Previously available only to large enterprises, now both mid-market and large enterprises have a choice when they want to leverage HPC applications.“

News Source:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId;=20070914005454&newsLang;=en

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Product:


1.  Sun; Breaks New Design Ground With Preview of World's First Four-Socket, 2U Quad-Core Server
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) previewed the first and only four-socket, 2U quad-core system on the market from a tier-one vendor, powered by the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series that Intel announced separately today. At the processor launch in San Francisco, Intel also endorsed the Solaris Operating System (OS) as the only mission-critical UNIX operating system for the Intel Xeon processor, recommending that OEMs and systems builders show support for the Solaris OS on Xeon-based platforms.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070905.1.xml
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2.  Sun; Announces World's First Blade Server Uniquely Designed For Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module, the world's first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Sun also previewed a next-generation four-socket, 2U quad-core server that will be available by the end of the year, powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Building on Sun's momentum in the x86 server market, both systems enable customers to take advantage of Sun's unique systems design approach built around the power of the Solaris Operating System (OS) and AMD's much-anticipated native quad-core processors.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070910.1.xml
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3.  Sun; Introduces the Next Major Version of the Open Source Java EE 5 (GlassFish V2) Application Server
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the GlassFish community, today announced the immediate availability of GlassFish V2, the next major version of the open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server, and its commercially-supported counterpart, the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1. Building on the success of GlassFish V1, this release adds enterprise features such as clustering, advanced administration and record-breaking performance. In addition, the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 offers new industry leading cost-efficient annual subscriptions for customers that need production quality support.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070917.1.xml
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4.  Sun; Solaris Express Developer Edition Gets Usability Makeover
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), announced new support subscriptions and enhanced graphical user interfaces to make Solaris Express Developer Edition software easier for developers to install and use. The new support offerings and usability enhancements in Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 software are designed to provide a faster route to productivity developing for the Solaris Operating System (OS), Java platform and Web 2.0 applications.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070924.1.xml
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5.  Sun; Introduces Its First Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor-Based Systems
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world's smallest four-socket x64 server -- which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.”

News Source:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070925.1.xml
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6.  Trend; Micro Licenses Host Intrusion Defense Technology
Category: Product
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro, Incorporated (TSE: 4704) announced it has licensed technology from Third Brigade, an Ottawa-based security software company specializing in host intrusion defense. Trend Micro plans to integrate the technology utilizing the extensible plug-in architecture currently available in Trend Micro OfficeScanTM 8.0, its flagship corporate endpoint security solution.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070912173614.html
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7.  New; Trend Micro Internet Security Products Strengthen Personal Information Protection
Category: Product
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro, Incorporated (TSE: 4704) unveiled the 2008 versions of its security products for consumers. Two are updates to the existing 2007 versions: Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2008 and Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. Trend Micro Internet Security Pro is new this year. Trend Micro 2008 security products offer consumers powerful protection from cyber criminals by safeguarding multiple attack points, from the operating system to browsers to keyboards.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070926085426.html
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8.  Vulnerability; Advisory: McAfee, Inc. Solutions Protect Against Four Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), announced that it provides coverage for the four security vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft Corporation today. Thesevulnerabilities have been reviewed by McAfee® Avert® Labs, and based on their findings, McAfee recommends that users confirm the Microsoft product versioning outlined in the bulletins and update as recommended by Microsoft and McAfee. This includes deploying solutions to ensure protection against the vulnerabilities outlined in this advisory.”

News Source:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070912_153000_h.html
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9.  McAfee; SiteAdvisor Reaches 75 Million Download Milestone
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced the achievement of a significant milestone in consumer protection: McAfee® SiteAdvisor has been downloaded more than 75 million times by Internet users. This helps consumers avoid malware such as browser exploits that make the PC inoperable, as well as adware, spam, viruses and other online dangers that could slow the PC and make it difficult to use. The SiteAdvisor safe search technology also includes browser-based anti-phishing protection to shield consumers from sites designed to steal personal information. McAfee SiteAdvisor is increasingly vital to the online safety of millions of Web consumers. In fact, consumers ask for SiteAdvisor's safety ratings 850 million times each day.”

News Source:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070912_152000_f.html
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10.  CommVault; and Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions to Deliver Mid-Size Enterprise Archive Solutions
Category: Product, Sales & Channels
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market

Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) and the Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) announced an agreement to offer multiple new archive software bundles. Providing customers tailored solutions that offer operational efficiencies, regulatory compliance, cost savings and increased data availability, the turnkey mid-size enterprise (MSE) solutions combine modules from the CommVault Simpana™ 7.0 software suite with HP storage hardware and are designed to better serve Arrow ECS' reseller partners seeking to enter the mid-market.”

News Source:

http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=342
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11.  CommVault; and Clearwell to Deliver Complementary E-Discovery Capabilities
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) and Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced that they are teaming up to jointly market the value proposition of the two companies' solutions for e-discovery, risk mitigation and compliance. CommVault and Clearwell will work together to deliver end-to-end e-discovery solutions to enterprise IT and legal departments utilizing the CommVault Simpana™ software suite and the Clearwell Intelligence Platform®.”

News Source:

http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=339
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12.  CA; Releases Entire Line of 2008 Consumer Software, Featuring Internet Security Suite Plus 2008
Category: Product
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “CA (NYSE: CA) announced the immediate availability of its 2008 line of internet security and desktop management products for the home and small office. The new line provides a stronger line of defence against the latest online threats including identity theft, viruses, spyware, spam, and phishing. Its flagship product, CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008, now incorporates website authentication, data backup and PC-to-PC data transfer, delivering a more robust PC security and desktop tool.”

News Source:

http://ca.com/au/press/release.aspx?cid=156004
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13.  EMC; Gets Into IPv6 Network Management
Category: Product, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “EMC has announced that the discovery and mapping capability within its EMC Smarts network management software family will work in IPv6 settings. EMC is one of the first management software vendors to support native IPv6 networks, an EMC spokesman said. The networks will become increasingly important, because the US government has required that all networks that access federal agencies must comply with native IPv6 by June 2008.”

News Source:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1932445258.com
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14.  Sun; Increases its Intel x86 Server Line
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems introduced two Intel-based x86 servers, bringing to three the number of servers based on Intel's Xeon architecture. The Sun Fire X4450 and X4150 are the computer maker's first servers powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon processors. Sun offers a choice of four operating systems, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Linux, or VMware.”

News Source:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61982,sun-increases-its-intel-x86-server-line.aspx
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15.  NEC; and Sun Microsystems to Combine Expertise
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise

Excerpt from News Source: “NEC Corporation of America, a provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced the intent to work with Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide high performance computing (HPC) professional services in North America. The goal is to provide turnkey HPC services for the mid-market at industry leading prices. Previously available only to large enterprises, now both mid-market and large enterprises have a choice when they want to leverage HPC applications.“

News Source:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId;=20070914005454&newsLang;=en

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16.  Sun; Christens its Xen-based Virtualization xVM
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, a longtime participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot xVM, short for x86 Virtual Machine. "Because Xen is trademarked, we don't want to call the code we've implemented Xen," said Marc Hamilton, Sun's vice president of Solaris marketing, on Wednesday. It works only on computers with x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon; those with Sun's newer UltraSparc processors use an equivalent technology called logical domains, or LDoms.“

News Source:

http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9778296-39.html?part=rss&subj;=news&tag;=2547-1_3-0-20
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17.  Sophos; Helps Organizations Block Unauthorized Remote Connection Tools
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “IT security and control firm Sophos has announced that the application control feature of Sophos Endpoint Security and Control has been extended to give businesses the option to block remote connection tools, that enable employees to access remote-based PCs or laptops from any other computer via the internet.”

News Source:

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/remoteconn.html
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18.  Sophos; Releases New Version of PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “IT security and control firm, Sophos, has announced the release of PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0, to protect the email servers of organizations running Microsoft operating systems against email-borne threats, including spam, phishing, viruses and spyware. The new release, which provides support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 64 bit Windows Server 2003, significantly enhances the ability to define and enforce email content policies across multiple servers.”

News Source:

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/pmexchange.html
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19.  Sun; Microsystems Expands Leading Storage Virtualization Platform
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced the expansion of its leading storage virtualization portfolio: the introduction of the Sun StorageTek 9985V Enterprise Storage System, concurrent with its technology opartner, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT). Today's announcement expands the reach of the latest virtualization capabilities into Sun's high-end storage portfolio and into new storage products that are expected to ship next quarter CY'07.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070910.2.xml
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20.  Sun;'s Solaris 10 Advances Virtualization and Network Performance
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), the creator of Solaris, announced the latest update to the free and open source Solaris Operating System (OS)-Solaris 10 8/07-to deliver an operating system that is optimized for virtualization, performance and resource management. The update makes it easier for new customers to migrate to Solaris, while enabling existing customers to reap the power of Sun's continuing investment in innovations for Solaris without disrupting operations. The update also makes Solaris even better suited to data intensive environments where price and performance are driving factors, enabling more cost-effective and agile datacenters.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070911.2.xml

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21.  Sun; Desktop Virtualization Software Improves Desktop Security and Ease of Management, Reduces Costs
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), the creator of Solaris, today announced a new software offering to provide a more secure and manageable virtual desktop environment. Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 1.0 (Sun VDI), installed on the Solaris operating system (OS), helps enable organizations to move applications and operating systems off of personal computers, consolidate them in the data center, and present them to end users on a wide array of devices through high performance display protocols.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070911.1.xml
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Sales & Channels:


1.  Trend; Micro to Foster New Open Security Ecosystem
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704) announced major enhancements to its Alliance Partner Program designed to establish an open partner ecosystem. The Trend Micro™ program for alliance partners has been expanded to provide an enhanced set of benefits and services that enable Trend Micro and its alliance partners to grow business together, create joint business solutions, and provide opportunities for joint marketing and collaboration that can help increase value to customers.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070912170124.html

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2.  CommVault; and Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions to Deliver Mid-Size Enterprise Archive Solutions
Category: Product, Sales & Channels
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market

Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) and the Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) announced an agreement to offer multiple new archive software bundles. Providing customers tailored solutions that offer operational efficiencies, regulatory compliance, cost savings and increased data availability, the turnkey mid-size enterprise (MSE) solutions combine modules from the CommVault Simpana™ 7.0 software suite with HP storage hardware and are designed to better serve Arrow ECS' reseller partners seeking to enter the mid-market.”

News Source:

http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=342
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Strategy:


1.  EMC; Gets Into IPv6 Network Management
Category: Product, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “EMC has announced that the discovery and mapping capability within its EMC Smarts network management software family will work in IPv6 settings. EMC is one of the first management software vendors to support native IPv6 networks, an EMC spokesman said. The networks will become increasingly important, because the US government has required that all networks that access federal agencies must comply with native IPv6 by June 2008.”

News Source:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1932445258.com
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2.  AT;&T; Wins Global IT and Network-Management Contract From Sun Microsystems
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “AT&T; (NYSE:SBT) (NYSE:T) Inc said it has been awarded a global contract to provide network management and maintenance services to Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) Inc. AT&T;, which did not disclose financial terms, said it will provide services for a wide area network, a local area network and voice infrastructure in more than 250 facilities in more than 45 countries.”

News Source:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-19654468.htm
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3.  Sun; Microsystems Launches First-Of-Its-Kind, OpenWeb Community
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Drawing on its history of building online communities, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) launched OpenEco.org, a new community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. OpenEco.org is free and open to all organizations. The only cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants. Sun will publicly introduce OpenEco.org today at an event the company is sponsoring with the Carbon Disclosure Project featuring President Bill Clinton in New York.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070924.2.xml

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Storage:
CA:


1.  CA; Promotes Andy Cooper
Category: HR
Storage: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

CA has promoted Andy Cooper to vice president of field marketing for the Asia/Pacific and Japan region. He was previously marketing director for Australia and NZ.

News Source:

http://tc106.metawerx.com.au/Rustreport/rustreport_sep28_07.pdf
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CommVault:


1.  CommVault; and Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions to Deliver Mid-Size Enterprise Archive Solutions
Category: Product, Sales & Channels
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market

Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) and the Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) announced an agreement to offer multiple new archive software bundles. Providing customers tailored solutions that offer operational efficiencies, regulatory compliance, cost savings and increased data availability, the turnkey mid-size enterprise (MSE) solutions combine modules from the CommVault Simpana™ 7.0 software suite with HP storage hardware and are designed to better serve Arrow ECS' reseller partners seeking to enter the mid-market.”

News Source:

http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=342
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2.  CommVault; and Clearwell to Deliver Complementary E-Discovery Capabilities
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: CommVault
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT) and Clearwell Systems, Inc. announced that they are teaming up to jointly market the value proposition of the two companies' solutions for e-discovery, risk mitigation and compliance. CommVault and Clearwell will work together to deliver end-to-end e-discovery solutions to enterprise IT and legal departments utilizing the CommVault Simpana™ software suite and the Clearwell Intelligence Platform®.”

News Source:

http://www.commvault.com/news_story.asp?id=339
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EMC:


1.  VMware; Acquires Virtual Machine Management Vendor Dunes
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “VMware has acquired Dunes Technologies, a Swiss company that sells software for managing virtual machines running in corporate data centers. Financial terms were not disclosed. VMware, controlled by data-storage vendor EMC, announced the transaction on the first day of the VMWorld conference in San Francisco.”

News Source:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61000,vmware-acquires-virtual-machine-management-vendor-dunes.aspx

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2.  EMC; Gets Into IPv6 Network Management
Category: Product, Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “EMC has announced that the discovery and mapping capability within its EMC Smarts network management software family will work in IPv6 settings. EMC is one of the first management software vendors to support native IPv6 networks, an EMC spokesman said. The networks will become increasingly important, because the US government has required that all networks that access federal agencies must comply with native IPv6 by June 2008.”

News Source:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1932445258.com
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3.  Mozy; to Join EMC Storage Portfolio for Predicted Price of US$76 M
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “EMC may be set to close a US$76 million purchase of the Mozy online backup product from Berkeley Data Systems, according to a report on the TechCrunch blog. The acquisition would give EMC a foothold in the fast-growing online backup arena, which has been fuelled by laptop and desktop user demands to easily store personal and business data on a hosted service for a low monthly fee.”

News Source:

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1115513588
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Sun:


1.  Sun; Breaks New Design Ground With Preview of World's First Four-Socket, 2U Quad-Core Server
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) previewed the first and only four-socket, 2U quad-core system on the market from a tier-one vendor, powered by the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series that Intel announced separately today. At the processor launch in San Francisco, Intel also endorsed the Solaris Operating System (OS) as the only mission-critical UNIX operating system for the Intel Xeon processor, recommending that OEMs and systems builders show support for the Solaris OS on Xeon-based platforms.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070905.1.xml
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2.  Sun; Announces World's First Blade Server Uniquely Designed For Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module, the world's first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Sun also previewed a next-generation four-socket, 2U quad-core server that will be available by the end of the year, powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. Building on Sun's momentum in the x86 server market, both systems enable customers to take advantage of Sun's unique systems design approach built around the power of the Solaris Operating System (OS) and AMD's much-anticipated native quad-core processors.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070910.1.xml
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3.  Sun; Introduces the Next Major Version of the Open Source Java EE 5 (GlassFish V2) Application Server
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the GlassFish community, today announced the immediate availability of GlassFish V2, the next major version of the open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server, and its commercially-supported counterpart, the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1. Building on the success of GlassFish V1, this release adds enterprise features such as clustering, advanced administration and record-breaking performance. In addition, the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 offers new industry leading cost-efficient annual subscriptions for customers that need production quality support.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070917.1.xml
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4.  Sun; Solaris Express Developer Edition Gets Usability Makeover
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), announced new support subscriptions and enhanced graphical user interfaces to make Solaris Express Developer Edition software easier for developers to install and use. The new support offerings and usability enhancements in Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 software are designed to provide a faster route to productivity developing for the Solaris Operating System (OS), Java platform and Web 2.0 applications.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070924.1.xml
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5.  Sun; Introduces Its First Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor-Based Systems
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world's smallest four-socket x64 server -- which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, enable customers to solve critical problems in the datacenter by offering more performance, higher density, and better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market today. Both servers also give customers a choice of operating systems, running the Solaris Operating System (OS), Windows, Linux or VMware, with the flexibility to deploy a broad range of applications.”

News Source:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070925.1.xml
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6.  Sun; Increases its Intel x86 Server Line
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems introduced two Intel-based x86 servers, bringing to three the number of servers based on Intel's Xeon architecture. The Sun Fire X4450 and X4150 are the computer maker's first servers powered by Intel's quad-core Xeon processors. Sun offers a choice of four operating systems, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows, Linux, or VMware.”

News Source:

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61982,sun-increases-its-intel-x86-server-line.aspx
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7.  Sun; Microsystems Lays Off 129 in Colorado
Category: HR
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems Inc. has notified 129 people at its sites in Broomfield and Louisville that they will be laid off before the end of the year. Sun announced layoffs of 108 people at its Broomfield campus and 21 people at its Louisville site this week, according to paperwork filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.”

News Source:

http://www.9news.com/money/top-article.aspx?storyid=78226
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8.  AT;&T; Wins Global IT and Network-Management Contract From Sun Microsystems
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “AT&T; (NYSE:SBT) (NYSE:T) Inc said it has been awarded a global contract to provide network management and maintenance services to Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) Inc. AT&T;, which did not disclose financial terms, said it will provide services for a wide area network, a local area network and voice infrastructure in more than 250 facilities in more than 45 countries.”

News Source:

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-19654468.htm
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9.  Sun; Microsystems Launches First-Of-Its-Kind, OpenWeb Community
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Drawing on its history of building online communities, Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) launched OpenEco.org, a new community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. OpenEco.org is free and open to all organizations. The only cost of admission is sharing data, transparently or anonymously, with other community participants. Sun will publicly introduce OpenEco.org today at an event the company is sponsoring with the Carbon Disclosure Project featuring President Bill Clinton in New York.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070924.2.xml

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10.  NEC; and Sun Microsystems to Combine Expertise
Category: Mergers & Partnerships, Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise

Excerpt from News Source: “NEC Corporation of America, a provider of IT, network and identity management solutions, today announced the intent to work with Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide high performance computing (HPC) professional services in North America. The goal is to provide turnkey HPC services for the mid-market at industry leading prices. Previously available only to large enterprises, now both mid-market and large enterprises have a choice when they want to leverage HPC applications.“

News Source:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId;=20070914005454&newsLang;=en

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11.  Sun; Microsystems CEO Gets $7.7M in 2007 Compensation
Category: HR
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems Inc. Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz received compensation the company valued at $7.7 million in fiscal 2007, nearly a third of which was bonus money, as he helped the server and software maker emerge from its prolonged dot-com-era-induced slump and return to consistent profitability. Schwartz, who replaced Sun co-founder Scott McNealy as chief executive in April 2006, saw his base salary increase 9 percent over his pay before the promotion to $980,769 during the latest fiscal year. The salary remained the same throughout the year.“

News Source:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6998104

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12.  Sun; Christens its Xen-based Virtualization xVM
Category: Marketing & Promotion, Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, a longtime participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot xVM, short for x86 Virtual Machine. "Because Xen is trademarked, we don't want to call the code we've implemented Xen," said Marc Hamilton, Sun's vice president of Solaris marketing, on Wednesday. It works only on computers with x86 chips such as Intel's Xeon; those with Sun's newer UltraSparc processors use an equivalent technology called logical domains, or LDoms.“

News Source:

http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9778296-39.html?part=rss&subj;=news&tag;=2547-1_3-0-20
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13.  Sun; Microsystems Expands Leading Storage Virtualization Platform
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced the expansion of its leading storage virtualization portfolio: the introduction of the Sun StorageTek 9985V Enterprise Storage System, concurrent with its technology opartner, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT). Today's announcement expands the reach of the latest virtualization capabilities into Sun's high-end storage portfolio and into new storage products that are expected to ship next quarter CY'07.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070910.2.xml
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14.  Sun;'s Solaris 10 Advances Virtualization and Network Performance
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), the creator of Solaris, announced the latest update to the free and open source Solaris Operating System (OS)-Solaris 10 8/07-to deliver an operating system that is optimized for virtualization, performance and resource management. The update makes it easier for new customers to migrate to Solaris, while enabling existing customers to reap the power of Sun's continuing investment in innovations for Solaris without disrupting operations. The update also makes Solaris even better suited to data intensive environments where price and performance are driving factors, enabling more cost-effective and agile datacenters.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070911.2.xml

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15.  Sun; Desktop Virtualization Software Improves Desktop Security and Ease of Management, Reduces Costs
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), the creator of Solaris, today announced a new software offering to provide a more secure and manageable virtual desktop environment. Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 1.0 (Sun VDI), installed on the Solaris operating system (OS), helps enable organizations to move applications and operating systems off of personal computers, consolidate them in the data center, and present them to end users on a wide array of devices through high performance display protocols.”

News Source:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-09/sunflash.20070911.1.xml
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Security:
CA:


1.  CA; Releases Entire Line of 2008 Consumer Software, Featuring Internet Security Suite Plus 2008
Category: Product
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “CA (NYSE: CA) announced the immediate availability of its 2008 line of internet security and desktop management products for the home and small office. The new line provides a stronger line of defence against the latest online threats including identity theft, viruses, spyware, spam, and phishing. Its flagship product, CA Internet Security Suite Plus 2008, now incorporates website authentication, data backup and PC-to-PC data transfer, delivering a more robust PC security and desktop tool.”

News Source:

http://ca.com/au/press/release.aspx?cid=156004
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McAfee:


1.  Vulnerability; Advisory: McAfee, Inc. Solutions Protect Against Four Microsoft Vulnerabilities
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), announced that it provides coverage for the four security vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft Corporation today. Thesevulnerabilities have been reviewed by McAfee® Avert® Labs, and based on their findings, McAfee recommends that users confirm the Microsoft product versioning outlined in the bulletins and update as recommended by Microsoft and McAfee. This includes deploying solutions to ensure protection against the vulnerabilities outlined in this advisory.”

News Source:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070912_153000_h.html
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2.  McAfee; SiteAdvisor Reaches 75 Million Download Milestone
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced the achievement of a significant milestone in consumer protection: McAfee® SiteAdvisor has been downloaded more than 75 million times by Internet users. This helps consumers avoid malware such as browser exploits that make the PC inoperable, as well as adware, spam, viruses and other online dangers that could slow the PC and make it difficult to use. The SiteAdvisor safe search technology also includes browser-based anti-phishing protection to shield consumers from sites designed to steal personal information. McAfee SiteAdvisor is increasingly vital to the online safety of millions of Web consumers. In fact, consumers ask for SiteAdvisor's safety ratings 850 million times each day.”

News Source:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070912_152000_f.html
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3.  McAfee; Inc. Appoints Mark Cochran to Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Category: HR
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced that Mark Cochran has joined the company as its executive vice president and general counsel, reporting to McAfee® Chief Executive Officer and President, Dave DeWalt. Cochran will be based out of the company's Santa Clara, California office. "We're thrilled to welcome Mark to our executive team at such an important time in the company's history," said DeWalt. "Mark has over twenty years of technology industry experience, managing law departments of both large and small technology companies - he brings the skills necessary to strengthen our corporate infrastructure and help propel the company forward."

News Source:

http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/press/corporate/2007/20070910_191010_h.html
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Sophos:


1.  Sophos; Helps Organizations Block Unauthorized Remote Connection Tools
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “IT security and control firm Sophos has announced that the application control feature of Sophos Endpoint Security and Control has been extended to give businesses the option to block remote connection tools, that enable employees to access remote-based PCs or laptops from any other computer via the internet.”

News Source:

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/remoteconn.html
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2.  Sophos; Releases New Version of PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “IT security and control firm, Sophos, has announced the release of PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0, to protect the email servers of organizations running Microsoft operating systems against email-borne threats, including spam, phishing, viruses and spyware. The new release, which provides support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 64 bit Windows Server 2003, significantly enhances the ability to define and enforce email content policies across multiple servers.”

News Source:

http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2007/09/pmexchange.html
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Trend Micro:


1.  Trend; Micro Licenses Host Intrusion Defense Technology
Category: Product
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro, Incorporated (TSE: 4704) announced it has licensed technology from Third Brigade, an Ottawa-based security software company specializing in host intrusion defense. Trend Micro plans to integrate the technology utilizing the extensible plug-in architecture currently available in Trend Micro OfficeScanTM 8.0, its flagship corporate endpoint security solution.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070912173614.html
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2.  Trend; Micro to Foster New Open Security Ecosystem
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704) announced major enhancements to its Alliance Partner Program designed to establish an open partner ecosystem. The Trend Micro™ program for alliance partners has been expanded to provide an enhanced set of benefits and services that enable Trend Micro and its alliance partners to grow business together, create joint business solutions, and provide opportunities for joint marketing and collaboration that can help increase value to customers.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070912170124.html

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3.  Trend; Micro Announces Alliance with Intego to Secure Apple Mac OS X Users
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704) announced a new partnership that allows for the direct distribution of Intego’s market-leading Mac OS X security products. Under the agreement, Trend Micro representatives worldwide will be able to offer customers endpoint and network security, and centralized management solutions for Apple Mac OS X users. This technology collaboration extends protection to heterogeneous networks in businesses of all sizes.”

News Source:

http://us.trendmicro.com/us/about/news/pr/article/20070925010217.html
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4.  New; Trend Micro Internet Security Products Strengthen Personal Information Protection
Category: Product
Security: Trend Micro
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise, Mid-market, SMB

Excerpt from News Source: “Trend Micro, Incorporated (TSE: 4704) unveiled the 2008 versions of its security products for consumers. Two are updates to the existing 2007 versions: Trend Micro AntiVirus plus AntiSpyware 2008 and Trend Micro Internet Security 2008. Trend Micro Internet Security Pro is new this year. Trend Micro 2008 security products offer consumers powerful protection from cyber criminals by safeguarding multiple attack points, from the operating system to browsers to keyboards.”

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