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1. McAfee Launches Service to Facilitate Secure Deployment of Virtualization Security
Looking to capture the first movers’ advantage, McAfee’s Foundstone Professional Services launched a service aimed at helping enterprises securely deploy virtualization technologies. Proclaiming it as an “industry first,” McAfee describes the service as part of its strategy to provide complete security solutions for virtual environments and to “educate” enterprises on the topic. The company has outlined a set of security best practices and guidelines that it states are “holistic” enough to cover people, processes and technology and to help customers meet the security requirements of virtual environments.
Describing some of the security requirements and practices of a virtualized environment as “unique,” the company also agrees that many of its security practices overlap with those in the physical environment. Furthermore, promoting its award-winning technology, ePolicy Orchestrator, McAfee states that its services “complement” the security features already built into VMware’s virtualization software and offer the “highest possible security” for the virtual infrastructure.
Further to the announcement, the company has listed several factors that enterprises need to consider while deploying virtualization technologies, including:
Data Protection
Protection of Management Controls
User access with respect to the host
Nuances of possible attacks on the system
Effect of hardware or firmware changes confidentiality and integrity
Management of assets and inventory
Strategies for contingency planning and disaster recovery
Springboard Research reiterates its belief that currently, virtualization security risks are largely insignificant and offer only a small market for most vendors to compete. However, we expect this market to increase rapidly as the fastest origination of demand for virtualization technology in the Asia-Pacific region is from ANZ. In a corporate IT environment with a predominant presence of virtualization equipment, security threats can arise and should be expected to arise from both external and internal sources. These critical threats demand urgent attention and effecient management to ensure that the corporate IT environment does not suffer an irrevocable loss of sensitive data and the consequent loss of time and money due to prolonged downtime.
We believe that it’s imperative for security vendors to work in tandem with virtualization companies to offer comparable solutions that are sensitive to new and unidentified threats and are capable of detecting and blocking those threats, prior to a potential harm to the environment.
As mentioned in previous months, we believe that the ANZ region has a growing market for server and storage virtualization and this shall continue with an escalating trend in the coming quarters. This definitive trend reflects in the market for security offerings for virtualized environments which shall experience growth in tandem with the parent industry. However, we also believe that this market opportunity will be tapped by start-up firms with a specialization in the virtualization security domain and this trend will need to be closely monitored by the main vendors currently dominating the market.
News Sources:
ITP
2. EMC Highlights Importance of Resellers for Mozy Services in Australia; Announces New Centra Operating System
Within a month of announcing a major price hike for its SaaS offering, MozyPro backup and recovery services, EMC has now put the Australian resellers in high focus. Referring to them as “the initial foundation”, the company has proclaimed definitive plans to use these resellers as an integral part of its ANZ go-to-market strategy. Leveraging the good local reach and partnerships of resellers, the company plans to create awareness for the service and quickly amass trust for the service and the brand. Further to the announcement, an unnamed company spokesperson confirmed the Australia localisation plans, but did not disclose the date when this could be expected by the local users. There is also a lack of clarity on the online backup and recovery service which is yet to be formally introduced in Australia. Company officials have not confirmed any details pertaining to the similarities the service would have to the company’s go-to-market US strategy.
Springboard Research reiterates its paramount belief that localisation is a must for any organisation that is looking at occupy a leadership position in the Australian SMB segment. EMC’s Mozy service targeted at SMBs in ANZ definitely needs a high level of push and local flavour to ensure high sales volumes and visibility in the industry. The company’s stress on the use of resellers is a step in the right direction and definitely a winning strategy for their backup and recovery service. However, as mentioned earlier, we believe the end-user in the ANZ marketplace is price sensitive to some extent and needs to see affable price points to go ahead with the purchase. Though the prices for Mozy service have witnessed a substantial increase last month , a suitable justification for the same can help EMC turn the tide in its favour.
In other news, EMC has announced an upgrade to its Centera Operating System that allows the content addressed storage (CAS) system to archive at ‘double the rate’ in comparison to the previous version and supposedly improves “system flexibility and security”. Dubbed as CentraStar 4.0, the software enables each 500 GB or 750 GB drive to hold up to 25 million objects and is claimed to enable the “self-management and healing” capabilities to operate at a 25 percent faster rate than the previous version CentraStar 2.4. The company is also promoting the software with a host of new administration facilities (listed below) which allow for “higher performance and protection”.
Additional system logging and auditing capabilities, including the ability to custom configure password complexity rules for enhanced security.
Capability that allows administrators to segregate, configure and separately manage application, management and replication traffic.
EMC is also expecting this latest improvement to help it’s enVision application users which the company claims, produce security-log records worth multi-millions and billions each day, though each archive is only of 500 bytes on an average. Assuming leadership in the active archive space, the company has stated that since introduction in 2002, EMC Centera has a total customer base of 4,500 customers and has shipped more than 230 petabytes of capacity. The latest version of the software is now being shipped with all new Centera systems and is available as a free upgrade to those currently operating on CentraStar 2.4.
Springboard Research believes that the ANZ marketplace definitely has a large and growing pool of data that needs to be managed and protected. Given the strict compliance issues, rising power bills and the perennial limitation of IT budgets, most enterprises (especially SMBs) are always on the lookout for a solution that helps them to achieve more, enhance performance and most of all, cut costs. EMC’s latest solution has been directly aimed at this sweet spot and definitely intends to ramp up company’s extensive presence in the ANZ marketplace for active archive.
News Sources:
Tech Target
Company Website
3. Trend Micro Launches E-Mail Archiving Software Targeted at Australian Mid-Market
Making a foray into the e-mail archiving space, Trend Micro has launched a server-based and Microsoft Outlook plug-in e-mail archiving software that allows users to archive emails and undertake authorized searches. Named ‘Trend Micro Message Archiver’, the software runs on Windows 2003 and is intended to “extend” the half gigabyte per user, per year storage limit that most Australian mid-market enterprises typically fix.
With little experience in the domain, Trend Micro is mindful of the major players like HP, CommVault, Quest Software and Google that are already prevalent in this space and enjoy high market share. However, with this latest software, constructed with/ based on technology acquired in an undisclosed transaction with a German firm, Trend Micro is now aiming to carve out its niche within the ANZ e-mail archiving market.
Further, the company has also announced that the software contains a special feature called Data Guardian that it claims will “prompt midsize companies to take a closer look” at the company’s offering. The company has also stated that this feature, along with other controls, ensures that e-mail archiving meets regulatory compliance requirements for data protection. Available at a cost of USD 33 per user, the company has also made a free trial-download available on its website.
Springboard Research believes that despite the competition, Email archiving is a highly relevant part of Australia’s IT market and this shall definitely remain an upscale trend in the coming years. We believe that with a higher focus on ways to better manage information, this segment will witness a convergence of email and other content archiving offerings. Further, we also believe that this trend will be fuelled by regulatory compliance requirements and other performance and storage issues faced by most business environments in the ANZ marketplace.
News Sources:
PC World
4. Iomega Targets SMBs in ANZ: Introduces REV 120 GB Backup Drives and Expands its Rack Mount Offerings
Iomega has launched the Iomega REV 120 GB Backup drive, which intends to provide the performance of a hard drive with the removability of a tape. Proclaiming it as a “benchmark in smart, sensible backup”, the company is targeting the extensive SMB base in Australia and New Zealand along with other segments like SOHO and remote workgroups. Expected to be available by April this year, the drive will be rolled out in two models, as external USB 2.0 and internal SATA interface, while its ATAPI interface model has been scheduled for mid of 2008.
Positioning the device at its lower price points, the company avidly compares this latest drive with other entry-level tape products like LTO-1 and DAT 160 format tape drives and proclaims “lowest” total cost of ownership (TCO) for “cost-conscious” SMBs. Stating savings from reduced labour, hardware costs, and system downtime, Iomega is touting this drive as being up to five times faster and with at least 20% more native capacity.
Further, quoting it as an “ideal tape-replacement solution” and “zero maintenance” disk, the company states other benefits like a maximum transfer rate of up to 35 Mbps, extensive third-party software support and an estimated 30-year archival life. The company has also claimed that its products, including the earlier generations of REV products are used in a diverse range of industries including graphic design firms, academic institutions, network professionals, etc.
Promoted as a “complete storage solution”, Iomega REV 120 GB Backup Drives come pre-installed with EMC’s Retrospect Express software for automatic backup and disaster recovery while the server solutions come with CA’s BrightStor ArcServe Backup software with disaster recovery.
In a related announcement targeted at the SMBs and SOHO, Iomega has stated its decision to expand its rack mount offerings with StorCenter Pro NAS 200rL Linux Server. Claiming that the solution has a “very good performance at a great price point”, the company maintains that the servers are capable of holding four SATA-II “hot swappable drivers” which can be configured for RAID or JBOD and removed without interruption. Compatible with both Windows and EMC Retrospect Express software, its latest offering is expected to give tape technology a run for its money.
Springboard Research believes Iomega has a decent enough installed base in ANZ to proclaim reasonable market repute and compete with other noted vendors .However, though the company is doing well to target the huge base of SMBs (including SOHO, remote workgroups) in ANZ, , it will need to market its products at more ‘acceptable’ price points. As stated previously, SMBs, SOHO and the household consumers in ANZ are sensitive to price and operate under the constraints of a limited IT budget. Hence, it’s imperative for an organization like Iomega to offer a good bargain to ensure the requisite sales volumes which will help it reach the perceived market leadership status. Also, we do not believe that tape drives are as yet phasing out completely and being replaced with products like Iomega REV 120 GB Backup Drive. Although the market has started to show mixed reactions to tape drives, the sales continue to trickle through for vendors who are still pushing them in the marketplace.
News Sources:
iTWeb
Internet News
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HR:
1. CA;, Inc. Designates Michael Christenson President
Category: HR
Storage: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"CA, Inc. announced the appointment of Michael Christenson as the company's new President. He will remain as the company's Chief Operating Officer and report to John Swainson, Chief Executive Officer of the company. Christenson, in his new role, will administer the company's direct and indirect sales, services, technical support and business development and strategic alliances."
News Source:
Trading Marekts
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2. Datacraft; Appoints CFO
Category: HR
Storage: Datacraft
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Datacraft has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead the organisation’s finance team and contribute to its financial performance. Stanley Ip, who will be taking up this position effective 1st April 2008, brings with him 27 years of financial management experience in US corporate headquarters, Asia Pacific regional headquarters and country sales & marketing operations. Prior to Datacraft, Mr. Ip was the Senior Finance Director, Asia Pacific Region of Sun Microsystems covering six sub-regions- Japan, Australiasia, Greater China, Korea, Asia South & India."
News Source:
SDA Asia
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3. Isilon; Systems Names Brett Helsel SVP Of Engineerin
Category: HR
Storage: Isilon Systems
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Isilon Systems (ISLN) appointed Brett Helsel as Senior Vice President of Engineering of the company. He would lead the company's product development and ascendance of clustered storage as a infrastructure in the enterprise. Most recently, Helsel served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockdown Networks. He also served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice-President of Product Development at F5 Networks."
News Source:
RTTNews
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Marketing & Promotion:
1. NetApp; Launches Multiyear Branding Campaign
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"In order to facilitate company growth, NetApp, a global storage and data management company, has launched a new multiyear brand and awareness campaign. “It's all reflective of everything we already are. We're just expressing it better,” said Elisa Steele, SVP of corporate marketing for NetApp."
News Source:
DMNews
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2. Sophos;'s Forsyth Appointed Deputy Chairman of IIA for second consecutive year
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia
Excerpt from News Source:"At the annual Internet Industry Association (IIA) Members Gala Dinner, Rob Forsyth, managing director of Sophos Asia Pacific, was appointed as the association’s Deputy Chairman for the second consecutive year. Forsyth has also been a member of the board since he was first nominated in 2005. The night was a stunning success with 500 industry representatives in attendance, with addresses by the Minister Stephen Conroy, Facebook Advisor Mozelle Thompson and a keynote address by Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia."
News Source:
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Mergers & Partnerships:
1. ExaGrid; Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: ExaGrid Systems
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"ExaGrid Systems, Inc., announced that it has become a VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) and has validated its product's use within VMware virtualized environments. Using an ExaGrid system, VMware customers can cut their costs of retaining VMware data for centralized backups and disaster recovery."
News Source:
ad.hoc.news
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2. FalconStor; Software Enters Strategic Partnership With Total Tec Systems
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: FalconStor
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"FalconStor Software announced that it has partnered with Total Tec Systems to distribute FalconStor storage virtualization appliances and data protection appliances to the mid-market. The company noted that Total Tec would offer the FalconStor Virtual Tape Library Storage Appliances with embedded data de-duplication, the FalconStor Continuous Data Protector Storage Appliances, and the FalconStor Network Storage Server Appliances for environments using HP servers and HP storage.
News Source:
Trading Markets
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Product:
1. McAfee; to support VMsafe
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"Security vendor McAfee has announced an agreement to use VMsafe virtualisation APIs to build VMware-compatible security products. The VMsafe APIs, will allow security vendors to build and sell VMware compatible security products. McAfee products will include host-based intrusion prevention "to prevent tampering with VMware processes", according to McAfee chief technology officer Christopher Bolin."
News Source:
ZDNet
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2. Intel;, Soon to Release 160GB Solid State Drives
Category: Product
Storage: Intel
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"Intel is reported to soon unveil their mini solid state drives with 80GB and 160GB of storage. These new solid state drives are expected to amaze because they are very small at 1.5 and 2.5-inches. Notebook PCs and laptops will be the rightful beneficiaries of the new Intel’s solid state drives sometime the next quarter of this year. No word yet on the price and when the shipping will start."
News Source:
gadgetell
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3. Hitachi; Tackles Rogue Corporate Data
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled a product at the CeBIT show in Hanover designed to help companies search and retrieve unmanaged data scattered throughout the enterprise. The firm claims that around 80 per cent of company data is unstructured and located outside a managed database or email environment. HDS reckons that only four per cent of this data is managed by a content management system."
News Source:
vnunet.com
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4. Hitachi; Offers Data Management Solution with Mid-Market Channel Focus
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems claimed it has created opportunities for resellers in the mid-market space with the release of Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, featuring file and content services designed to streamline data management. The new products include Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series as well as a new version of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform. Simon Elisha, newly appointed chief technologist, Hitachi Data Systems told CRN that the focus in storage over the last 10 to 15 years has been on structured data, however there is a growing need to reign in unstructured data."
News Source:
CRN
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5. Hitachi; Announces New Line-Up Of Advanced NAS Services
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, recently announced a new line-up of advanced network attached storage (NAS) services with the introduction of the Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series. This news in concert with Hitachi's major advancements in enabling organizations to manage rogue data signals significant breakthroughs in file services consolidation and management."
News Source:
Data Storage Connection
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6. Sophos; Endpoint Suite adds Network Access Control
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Sophos has become one of the few makers of endpoint security suites to include network access protection as an integrated part of their application. The British company said today that Endpoint Security and Control 8.0, to be generally available next month, will not only include agent-based virus, spyware, host intrusion and application control scanning, but also NAC technology gained from its 2007 purchase of Endforce."
News Source:
iTWorldCanada
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7. Australia;'s Biggest Datacentre comes to Brisbane
Category: Product
Storage: Digital Sense
Country: Australia
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:" Engineering giant Emerson and datacentre company Digital Sense have signed a deal to build what they claim is Australia's largest high-density datacentre, totalling 10,000 square metres and drawing a maximum of 196 megawatts of power. Dubbed "Data Centre City", the planned datacentre will be built near Kenmore outside Brisbane, with a maximum capacity of 6,500 watts per square metre. Digital Sense hopes the first parts of Data Centre City will come online late this year. The pair are also working on a smaller datacentre in Kenmore, totalling 1,600 square metres and drawing 2000 watts per square metre, which is scheduled for completion this July."
News Source:
ZDNet
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Sales & Channels:
1. SanDisk; signs Ingram Micro as distributor
Category: Sales & Channels
Storage: SanDisk
Country: Australia
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"SanDisk has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro for its entire retail product range, expanding its Australian network which already includes Cellnet and Brightpoint. Ingram Micro will distribute the flash memory maker’s full suite of retail products including audiovisual, USB, cards and accessories and mobile computing solutions. “Ingram Micro is the largest IT distributor in the world so naturally we are looking forward to engaging in this new partnership,” said SanDisk country manager – Australia, Joshua Velling."
News Source:
Current.com.au
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Strategy:
1. NetApp; Says Flagging Economy could Boost its Sales
Category: Strategy
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"The downturn in the U.S. economy that NetApp blamed for shortfalls in its revenues last year is now being hailed as a growth trigger by company officials. Executives speaking at NetApp's Analyst Day today said diminished storage budgets could actually help it sell more storage. NetApp executives said economic pressures will drive organisations to rethink their current storage infrastructures with a focus on improving capacity utilisation and reducing power and cooling to lower operating expenses. According to CEO Dan Warmenhoven, "As customers rethink the issue of storage and data management, we think we have the best solutions for them to turn to."
News Source:
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1. CA;, Inc. Designates Michael Christenson President
Category: HR
Storage: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"CA, Inc. announced the appointment of Michael Christenson as the company's new President. He will remain as the company's Chief Operating Officer and report to John Swainson, Chief Executive Officer of the company. Christenson, in his new role, will administer the company's direct and indirect sales, services, technical support and business development and strategic alliances."
News Source:
Trading Marekts
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Datacraft:
1. Datacraft; Appoints CFO
Category: HR
Storage: Datacraft
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Datacraft has appointed a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead the organisation’s finance team and contribute to its financial performance. Stanley Ip, who will be taking up this position effective 1st April 2008, brings with him 27 years of financial management experience in US corporate headquarters, Asia Pacific regional headquarters and country sales & marketing operations. Prior to Datacraft, Mr. Ip was the Senior Finance Director, Asia Pacific Region of Sun Microsystems covering six sub-regions- Japan, Australiasia, Greater China, Korea, Asia South & India."
News Source:
SDA Asia
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Digital Sense:
1. Australia;'s Biggest Datacentre comes to Brisbane
Category: Product
Storage: Digital Sense
Country: Australia
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:" Engineering giant Emerson and datacentre company Digital Sense have signed a deal to build what they claim is Australia's largest high-density datacentre, totalling 10,000 square metres and drawing a maximum of 196 megawatts of power. Dubbed "Data Centre City", the planned datacentre will be built near Kenmore outside Brisbane, with a maximum capacity of 6,500 watts per square metre. Digital Sense hopes the first parts of Data Centre City will come online late this year. The pair are also working on a smaller datacentre in Kenmore, totalling 1,600 square metres and drawing 2000 watts per square metre, which is scheduled for completion this July."
News Source:
ZDNet
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ExaGrid Systems:
1. ExaGrid; Joins VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: ExaGrid Systems
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"ExaGrid Systems, Inc., announced that it has become a VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) and has validated its product's use within VMware virtualized environments. Using an ExaGrid system, VMware customers can cut their costs of retaining VMware data for centralized backups and disaster recovery."
News Source:
ad.hoc.news
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FalconStor:
1. FalconStor; Software Enters Strategic Partnership With Total Tec Systems
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: FalconStor
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"FalconStor Software announced that it has partnered with Total Tec Systems to distribute FalconStor storage virtualization appliances and data protection appliances to the mid-market. The company noted that Total Tec would offer the FalconStor Virtual Tape Library Storage Appliances with embedded data de-duplication, the FalconStor Continuous Data Protector Storage Appliances, and the FalconStor Network Storage Server Appliances for environments using HP servers and HP storage.
News Source:
Trading Markets
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Hitachi:
1. Hitachi; Tackles Rogue Corporate Data
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has unveiled a product at the CeBIT show in Hanover designed to help companies search and retrieve unmanaged data scattered throughout the enterprise. The firm claims that around 80 per cent of company data is unstructured and located outside a managed database or email environment. HDS reckons that only four per cent of this data is managed by a content management system."
News Source:
vnunet.com
Back to top
2. Hitachi; Offers Data Management Solution with Mid-Market Channel Focus
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems claimed it has created opportunities for resellers in the mid-market space with the release of Hitachi Data Discovery Suite, featuring file and content services designed to streamline data management. The new products include Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series as well as a new version of the Hitachi Content Archive Platform. Simon Elisha, newly appointed chief technologist, Hitachi Data Systems told CRN that the focus in storage over the last 10 to 15 years has been on structured data, however there is a growing need to reign in unstructured data."
News Source:
CRN
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3. Hitachi; Announces New Line-Up Of Advanced NAS Services
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. and the only provider of Services Oriented Storage Solutions, recently announced a new line-up of advanced network attached storage (NAS) services with the introduction of the Hitachi Essential NAS Platform and Hitachi High-performance NAS Platform 3000 Series. This news in concert with Hitachi's major advancements in enabling organizations to manage rogue data signals significant breakthroughs in file services consolidation and management."
News Source:
Data Storage Connection
Back to top
Intel:
1. Intel;, Soon to Release 160GB Solid State Drives
Category: Product
Storage: Intel
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"Intel is reported to soon unveil their mini solid state drives with 80GB and 160GB of storage. These new solid state drives are expected to amaze because they are very small at 1.5 and 2.5-inches. Notebook PCs and laptops will be the rightful beneficiaries of the new Intel’s solid state drives sometime the next quarter of this year. No word yet on the price and when the shipping will start."
News Source:
gadgetell
Back to top
Isilon Systems:
1. Isilon; Systems Names Brett Helsel SVP Of Engineerin
Category: HR
Storage: Isilon Systems
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Isilon Systems (ISLN) appointed Brett Helsel as Senior Vice President of Engineering of the company. He would lead the company's product development and ascendance of clustered storage as a infrastructure in the enterprise. Most recently, Helsel served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockdown Networks. He also served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice-President of Product Development at F5 Networks."
News Source:
RTTNews
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NetApp:
1. NetApp; Says Flagging Economy could Boost its Sales
Category: Strategy
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"The downturn in the U.S. economy that NetApp blamed for shortfalls in its revenues last year is now being hailed as a growth trigger by company officials. Executives speaking at NetApp's Analyst Day today said diminished storage budgets could actually help it sell more storage. NetApp executives said economic pressures will drive organisations to rethink their current storage infrastructures with a focus on improving capacity utilisation and reducing power and cooling to lower operating expenses. According to CEO Dan Warmenhoven, "As customers rethink the issue of storage and data management, we think we have the best solutions for them to turn to."
News Source:
Tech Target
Back to top
2. NetApp; Launches Multiyear Branding Campaign
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"In order to facilitate company growth, NetApp, a global storage and data management company, has launched a new multiyear brand and awareness campaign. “It's all reflective of everything we already are. We're just expressing it better,” said Elisa Steele, SVP of corporate marketing for NetApp."
News Source:
DMNews
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SanDisk:
1. SanDisk; signs Ingram Micro as distributor
Category: Sales & Channels
Storage: SanDisk
Country: Australia
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"SanDisk has signed a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro for its entire retail product range, expanding its Australian network which already includes Cellnet and Brightpoint. Ingram Micro will distribute the flash memory maker’s full suite of retail products including audiovisual, USB, cards and accessories and mobile computing solutions. “Ingram Micro is the largest IT distributor in the world so naturally we are looking forward to engaging in this new partnership,” said SanDisk country manager – Australia, Joshua Velling."
News Source:
Current.com.au
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McAfee:
1. McAfee; to support VMsafe
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"Security vendor McAfee has announced an agreement to use VMsafe virtualisation APIs to build VMware-compatible security products. The VMsafe APIs, will allow security vendors to build and sell VMware compatible security products. McAfee products will include host-based intrusion prevention "to prevent tampering with VMware processes", according to McAfee chief technology officer Christopher Bolin."
News Source:
ZDNet
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Sophos:
1. Sophos;'s Forsyth Appointed Deputy Chairman of IIA for second consecutive year
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia
Excerpt from News Source:"At the annual Internet Industry Association (IIA) Members Gala Dinner, Rob Forsyth, managing director of Sophos Asia Pacific, was appointed as the association’s Deputy Chairman for the second consecutive year. Forsyth has also been a member of the board since he was first nominated in 2005. The night was a stunning success with 500 industry representatives in attendance, with addresses by the Minister Stephen Conroy, Facebook Advisor Mozelle Thompson and a keynote address by Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia."
News Source:
Company Website
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2. Sophos; Endpoint Suite adds Network Access Control
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Sophos has become one of the few makers of endpoint security suites to include network access protection as an integrated part of their application. The British company said today that Endpoint Security and Control 8.0, to be generally available next month, will not only include agent-based virus, spyware, host intrusion and application control scanning, but also NAC technology gained from its 2007 purchase of Endforce."
News Source:
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