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1. CommVault Publishes Q3 2008 Financial Results; Targets SMBs in ANZ with its Last Month’s SaaS Launch
In its latest financial announcement for Q308, CommVault reported record revenues of $50.3 million, representing robust growth of 31% over Q307 and 6% over Q208. The data management firm’s revenue gro ... (Read more)
2. Trend Micro Publishes its Q4 FY07 Results Showing Healthy Growth in Asia-Pacific; Also Acquires a UK-based Internet Content Security Firm
Trend Micro recently announced its fourth quarter results for the period ending December 31, 2007. The numbers showed that the company registered strong growth of 13% YTY, and 4% sequential growth (in ... (Read more)
3. NetApp Publishes Q3 FY07 Financial Results; Expands Channel Program; Undertakes Key Internal Promotions; Introduces New Products to Cater to Enterprises
NetApp announced its Q3 FY08 results for the period ending December 31, 2007, showing net revenue up to US$884 million, a 21% YTY from 2007, and 12% sequential increase, from Q2 FY08. The company also ... (Read more)
4. EMC Asserts Focus on Asia For Growth; Appoints Key Personnel to Drive Business From Emerging Industries and Countries; Acquires a Start Up to Boost its Cloud Computing Strategy & Launch Online Services and Announces Massive Price Hike for Mozy Services
Within a month of announcing healthy 21% YTY growth in Asia Pacific for Q4 FY07, EMC now asserts an absolute focus on Asian markets. According to EMC, these markets have transformed from the company’ ... (Read more)
5. McAfee Reports Q4 FY07 Financial Earnings; Partners with Microsoft and VMware to Offer Virtualization Security
McAfee announced its fourth quarter results for the period ending December 31, 2007. The company reported 17% YTY growth and net revenue of US$356 million in Q4 FY07. Among its geographies, Asia Pacif ... (Read more)
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1. CommVault Publishes Q3 2008 Financial Results; Targets SMBs in ANZ with its Last Month’s SaaS Launch
In its latest financial announcement for Q308, CommVault reported record revenues of $50.3 million, representing robust growth of 31% over Q307 and 6% over Q208. The data management firm’s revenue growth was driven by a healthy 28% YTY increase in its software revenue, which reached $27 million, and an impressive 36% YTY and 12% sequential increase in its services revenue, which measured $23.3 million. In addition, the company reported a 34.8% YTY increase in its sales and marketing expenses that totalled $23.4 million for Q308.
Springboard Research reiterates its belief that most of CommVault’s growth is driven by its latest product, Simpana 7.0, the data management suite that takes a singular approach to data protection, replication and archiving. Furthermore, we believe the company is successfully forming meaningful alliances and partnerships in ANZ that are helping it move up the value stream and accrue more revenue from its services offerings designed mainly around Simpana 7.0.
We also believe that with record growth in the past quarter and its revised go-to-market strategy focusing on emerging products (like ROMS) targeted at the high-potential SMB segment, CommVault should be seen as a key player in ANZ’s data management marketplace. The SaaS package, ROMS that was launched last month, is being sold via channel partners in ANZ and licensed on a per CommCell (media server) basis to be billed to the customer on a monthly basis. Further, ROMS has been targeted at SMBs in ANZ with 50 or less servers that are currently using the company’s Simpana software suite. To ensure channel partner interest in ROMS, CommVault continues to offer product support through its centralised support team,thereby releasing the reseller from the responsibility of setting up dedicated infrastructure for the same.
Lastly, we also assert that the company will need to ramp up its R&D; activities and better differentiate itself from the competition. In our view, CommVault must ensure that they are leading, rather than following the market, and not producing only “me too” products.
Revenue Outlook:
- Consolidated CommVault revenues for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008 are expected to be in the range of $195 million to $196 million.
- Continued focus on the Asia Pacific region to drive double-digit growth, especially from China.
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2. Trend Micro Publishes its Q4 FY07 Results Showing Healthy Growth in Asia-Pacific; Also Acquires a UK-based Internet Content Security Firm
Trend Micro recently announced its fourth quarter results for the period ending December 31, 2007. The numbers showed that the company registered strong growth of 13% YTY, and 4% sequential growth (in Yen), posted net sales of US$231 million (26,213 million Yen) in Q4 FY07 and observed steady full-year net sales worth US$848 million (99,805 million Yen) in FY2007, up 17% YTY. Geographically, Asia Pacific showed healthy growth of 12% YTY in this quarter, while North America showed the most growth with 21% YTY in the quarter, closely followed by Europe at 14%. Japan came in last with 8% . Operating income for Q4 FY07 was pegged at US$73 million (8,300 million Yen) and net income at US$46 million (5,227 million Yen). In FY07, products and services sold to enterprises, mid-market and small business customers, contributed 74% of the consolidated revenue, while the remaining 26% was contributed by consumer product sales.
Springboard Research believes that although the company is doing reasonably well in the region, in the wake of a slowdown in the U.S. economy, it will need to work hard to drive higher growth rates.. Trend Micro’s latest product introduction, LeakProof 3.0, aimed at the data-leak prevention (DLP) market, is a robust product and addresses the growing demand in the local marketplace. In our view, Trend Micro must focus on similar areas and continue to launch innovative products for a more vigorous thrust in the region, which can help drive higher growth rates.
In a separate development, Trend Micro announced its decision to acquire Identum, a U.K.-based company specializing in the development of identity-based email encryption technology. The acquired company will be christened Trend Micro (Bristol) Ltd. and use its cryptography expertise to add value to the parent company’s existing encryption technology.
Revenue Outlook:
- Consolidated net sales for the first quarter ending March 31, 2008 is expected to be US$239 million (25,100 million yen)
- Operating income and net income are expected to be US$62 million (6,600 million yen) and US$39 million (4,100 million yen), respectively.
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3. NetApp Publishes Q3 FY07 Financial Results; Expands Channel Program; Undertakes Key Internal Promotions; Introduces New Products to Cater to Enterprises
NetApp announced its Q3 FY08 results for the period ending December 31, 2007, showing net revenue up to US$884 million, a 21% YTY from 2007, and 12% sequential increase, from Q2 FY08. The company also reported a healthy 18% YTD increase for the first nine months of the current 2008 fiscal year, with net revenue totalling US$2.4 billion as compared to US$2 billion for the same period of the previous fiscal year.
In a move to strengthen its partner ecosystem and expand market share, the company has launched a new partner program dubbed the Authorized Professional Service Partner Program. By aggressively promoting its storage devices and software, the company is hoping to bring almost a quarter of its channel partners into its Authorized Professional Service network in the first year and approximately half over the coming years. The company is also looking to rope in system integrators by touting a successful channel program whereby indirect sales from its current worldwide network of 1,000 channel partners account for almost 70% of total revenues.
Furthermore, Rick DeTurck, Senior Director of Services Marketing, has stated a preference for Microsoft applications. These according to him, “really do well” on NetApp’s storage devices. He has also asserted that since almost half of their existing partners are certified Microsoft partners, NetApp has customized its software to take advantage of Microsoft’s OS and applications.
The company rolled the partner program out in two phases, each with its own distinct speciality solution area for partners. The company is initially focusing on the below:
- Storage system design and implementation
- Network storage for virtualized infrastructure
- Virtual tape library design and implementation
- Microsoft applications
Other speciality areas for the channel that NetApp is looking to concentrate on in the second phase include disaster recovery, backup and recovery, metroclustering, security encryption, and data assessment.
Springboard Research is of the view that although NetApp is doing well to target the ANZ marketplace by adopting the right channel and product strategy, a strong Microsoft orientation might hinder rather than facilitate the corporate aim of being a dominant player locally and in the region. Players like VMware are key competition to Microsoft in the virtualization sphere and are well-entrenched in the ANZ marketplace. For long term sustained growth, we believe NetApp will need to adopt a vendor-neutral stance and position its products on the strength of its own credentials rather than ride on other names.
NetApp has also announced two key internal promotions, which the company believes will help make it more competitive, grow faster and put it in a good position to make inroads into the market share of other competing storage vendors in the region. The company has announced a promotion for Tom Georgens to the newly created position of Company President and COO. Georgens, who has been tasked to oversee the company’s products and field operations, continues to report directly to NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven. The other key promotion is for Tom Mendoza, who held the position of president for nearly 7 years. Mendoza has been promoted to the position of vice chairman, another newly created position that will free him of operational responsibilities and allow him to focus on the company’s customers and culture in order to help NetApp become more “responsive to the market.” Like Georgens, Mendoza will continue to report to NetApp CEO Dan Warmenhoven, and focus on the areas of customer advocacy and channel partnerships, among other critical functions.
In new product news, NetApp is targeting the enterprise segment with software products and services to manage networked storage for firms with existing server virtualization platforms. Aiming to help corporate IT departments manage underutilized and over-provisioned storage resources, NetApp is aggressively promoting this service to its channel partners who can sell and deliver professional services under their own brand.
In another product launch announcement aimed at SMEs, NetApp unveiled StoreVault S550, a 2U rack-mount system that supports 750GB and 1TB drives up to 12TB of storage. Prices start at US$6,000 for 1TB and the product is being proclaimed as a good fit for firms looking for a “more scalable, higher performance device for a rack environment.” Furthermore, the company has stated that this latest SAN system supersedes its 6-Tbyte S500, the company’s first StoreVault product launched in 2006, and is complementary to its S300, which it says is apt for a “budget-challenged or smaller environment.” The company reports that its latest product, the S550, performs 7% better than the S500 and 67% better than the S300. StoreVault S550 does not support SnapManager for Oracle, but comes equipped with SnapManager for SQL Server, and supports SnapManager for Exchange, and also comes with an optional replication feature. This product introduction puts NetApp partly in competition with its own low-end fabric-attached-storage (FAS) product range and with competitors like Dell, EMC, HP and IBM.
Revenue Outlook:
- The company expects consolidated revenue for Q4 FY08 to be between US$915 million and US$945 million.
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RCP Mag
PR Inside
Byte & Switch
eChannel Line
4. EMC Asserts Focus on Asia For Growth; Appoints Key Personnel to Drive Business From Emerging Industries and Countries; Acquires a Start Up to Boost its Cloud Computing Strategy & Launch Online Services and Announces Massive Price Hike for Mozy Services
Within a month of announcing healthy 21% YTY growth in Asia Pacific for Q4 FY07, EMC now asserts an absolute focus on Asian markets. According to EMC, these markets have transformed from the company’s slowest growing region in 2006 to the fastest in 2007. The company confirmed last month that its Asia Pacific region revenue grew 24% during 2007, totalling US$1.46 billion, and that the company was successful in taking market share from rivals like IBM and HP. The company credits this turnaround to its regional leader, Steve Leonard, President of Asia-Pacific and Japan, who was appointed in 2006 to expand EMC’s business in Asia Pacific. Having successfully achieved this goal, Leonard believes that EMC is currently undergoing a period of “very high innovation” and is making history with a record number of recent product introductions.
In addition, the company confirmed that, with its latest products it was looking to increase market share in the growing segments of information storage, content management, and information security. The company also hopes to increase profits with its latest offering - flash memory-based drives designed to replace disk drives in its Symmetrix storage array product line.
Springboard Research believes that the storage product and information security market is currently burgeoning in ANZ and EMC is aptly positioned in both segments to capitalize on the opportunities. Furthermore, we believe that the company’s latest product introductions, targeted at the SMB and consumer marketplace, and part of EMC’s five-year market growth strategy for the region, are contributing handsomely to ramping up company revenue in ANZ.
In other significant recent news, EMC announced a series of key appointments with the aim of making inroads into emerging industries, product categories and countries. These strategic business positions have been filled or created to ensure the company continues to drive double-digit growth as it has for the past few quarters.
EMC appointed the former BearingPoint CEO, Harry You, as its EVP, Office of the Chairman. Reporting directly to Joe Tucci, EMC’s Chairman, President and CEO, You is expected to drive the company’s growing presence in new industries, including hosted services, one of EMC’s latest focus areas. You has a strong background in IT Services and Financial markets and is said to be an expert in managing complex and growing global businesses. You resigned from BearingPoint in December 2007, and has previously served as CFO to Oracle and Accenture and has held executive posts at Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers.
With a view to creating value for customers and increasing customer satisfaction, EMC has also redefined its NZ operations and has created three new senior leadership positions in its Auckland office to replace the original position of country manager.
The position of country manager was vacated four months ago by Craig Stoddart who held office for 18 months before leaving to join Datacom as a Director for their engineering operations. The gap will now be filled by Robin Whitaker who has been appointed as Country Sales Manager, Vivienne Larsen will be Country Channels Manager and Arron Patterson will serve as Country Services Manager. Whitaker moves from a senior management role within IBM while Vivienne comes from Ingram Micro where she held several leadership roles and director positions in sales and marketing. The third senior management position has been filled internally by Patterson, who has been with the company for three years, and has now been promoted to handle the global services lines for the company including consulting, maintenance, and support. Explaining the move as “necessary”, the company stated that the new positions had been created due to unprecedented growth in the local demand for storage services.
In another noteworthy move, EMC signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pi, a Seattle-based start up that develops software and services for personal information management. The deal is expected to boost EMC’s cloud computing strategy and the company plans to roll out software for online services by the end of this year. Proclaimed as an all-cash transaction, the terms of the deal continue to remain undisclosed but the deal is expected to close by the end of this quarter. Pi, which has a total workforce of 100 engineers spread across US, Canada and India, is currently beta testing its first products, Pi Worx and Smart Desktops, amongst a chosen set of customers (like Amazon.com’ simple storage services). Although Pi will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC, these products will be released under its own brand name.
Touted as “next generation software environments”, Pi’s products will allow both end-user consumers and corporate environments to “create, repurpose, store, share, and access personal information.” Pi’s software will be offered as a part of EMC’s cloud computing storage offering by EMC partners looking to provide services based on it.
The founder and CEO of Pi, Paul Maritz will join EMC as President & GM of the company’s new Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division which is expected to be launched post the completion of the acquisition. Reporting to EMC President, Chairman and CEO, Joe Tucci, Martiz will continue to lead the product development for Pi software and other EMC cloud computing offerings, including EMC Fortress SaaS infrastructure and the Mozy online backup service. Prior to founding Pi, Maritz was a key member of the executive inner circle at Microsoft Corp. and held numerous senior leadership positions during his 14-year tenure, including the position of Group Vice President of Platform and Strategies Group at the time of leaving. [The original links for these stories have been given below; please access the same for additional information]
In a related move, EMC has announced a major hike in the prices of MozyPro backup and recovery services, the SaaS offering it launched last month. Quoting the current business model as “not sustainable”, EMC is reportedly changing the pricing scheme from a single licensing model for all systems to separate schemes for desktop and server computers. The company has stated that it has informed all its existing customers about this change and shall “grandfather” them to the current price list. While the existing customers have 30 days to buy additional storage capacity at current prices, the new customers signing up for the service post 1st March this year shall be charged the new price.
Explaining this move, the company has stated that the prices have been raised to “support upgraded features and reliability by large customers”, while the desktop prices remain unchanged. Stating the earlier licensing system as “not practical for the scalability and application demands of a server”, the company is confident of communicating its intent to its current customer base. The company has announced a price hike of nearly three times ($8.95 to $24.45) for a single server license and 10GB of storage, nearly double ($29.75 to $69.75) for 5 servers and 20 GB storage and three times ($329 to $1,014) for 20 servers and 500GB of storage space.
Springboard Research believes that with the anvil of server virtualization across ANZ, the spread of cloud storage shall grow at a solid pace in the coming quarters. EMC has a good spread of data centres across the region and these will help it become a robust player in the arena. In our view, the key to being a preferred vendor is to customise to the local needs; ANZ enterprises are extremely sensitive to where the data is being sent and stored (location of data centre) and the effective data protection laws. Companies will need to account for this, else service adoption rates by enterprises could be scant.
Further, we believe the end-user consumer in the ANZ marketplace has a some degree of sensitivity towards the price points at which the services are being offered. Though the prices for the offered services like Mozy will need to be increased for viability of the business, the accompanying drop-out of existing customers cannot be ignored. These numbers can rise to unsustainable levels unless the company presents a strong justification behind the move.
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Computer World
Computer World
5. McAfee Reports Q4 FY07 Financial Earnings; Partners with Microsoft and VMware to Offer Virtualization Security
McAfee announced its fourth quarter results for the period ending December 31, 2007. The company reported 17% YTY growth and net revenue of US$356 million in Q4 FY07. Among its geographies, Asia Pacific grew the highest (39%), followed by Latin America (30%), Europe and the Middle East (24%), and finally Japan and North America (11%). The increase in profits was supported by the robust sales of Total Protection Endpoint, a strong pillar of McAfee’s security risk management strategy, which grew by an astronomic 112%. In its corporate/ enterprise business, the firm reported a total of 453 deals over US$100,000, including 56 deals of over US$500,000 and 11 deals over US$1 million in the last quarter.
McAfee also registered a 7.47% YTY increase in its sales and marketing operating expenses, which reached US$108.85 million, as compared to US$101.3 million in Q4 FY06. Springboard Research believes this reflects from McAfee’s impressive comeback in the regional marketplace. Not only has McAfee managed a better financial performance over Q3 FY07, the company has also made a higher number of deals. Further a near YTY doubling of the firm’s R&D; operating costs to 13.8% supports our belief that the firm is focusing on introducing products with distinct technical capabilities.
In other important news, McAfee has announced a “broad” relationship with both VMware and Microsoft to offer virtualization security for their respective server virtualization offerings. Further to the announcement with VMware, McAfee has stated that it plans to embed the VMware VMsafe security technology into its upcoming security solution offerings. The company has also signed an OEM agreement with VMware to use its VMware ESX Server technology, 3i. In addition, the company has announced the availability of the beta version of its new Email and Web Security Virtual Appliance which has been built in-house for exclusive use with VMware platforms.
Furthermore, offering a “complete solution for virtualization security” as a part of its strategy, the company has also launched a new Foundstone(R) Professional Services offering Foundstone’s Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment, proclaiming it as a first-of-its-kind dedicated service for virtualization.
In a related announcement, McAfee has stated that its products run ran on the Windows Server 2008 operating system. As part of its marketing strategy, the company made this public announcement on the same day as of the server launch at an event in Los Angeles. Asserting compatibility with the server operating system for most of its product line, the company will launch the beta version of the first such product, McAfee Network Access Control 3.0 in March this year. The beta version of this product will reportedly support Microsoft’s Network Access Protection (NAP), a policy enforcement platform for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The company states that this product offers “extensive health check information”, running up to 600 checks with the ability of creating custom checks and offering centralized management through the company’s ePolicy Orchestrator. Further, the company has also stated that its product, VirusScan(R) Enterprise supports Windows Server 2008 Core and a customised beta release with “unique capabilities” of the same is being planned in March this year.
Springboard Research believes that although the virtualization security risks stand ‘low’ as of date, but the scenario will certainly change rapidly. In a virtualized environment, security threats can originate both externally and internally and need critical care to ensure corporate IT environments do not come to a rude halt. Overlooking these threats, can burden enterprises with the cost of data theft and regulatory compliance issues, among other problems.
We believe it is important for security companies to work with the vendors offering virtualization platforms and ensure the loop holes are blocked even before they are exploited. As mentioned before, we believe that the ANZ region has a burgeoning market for server virtualization and this shall continue to rapidly expand in the coming quarters. This clearly defines the opportunity for security companies with an expertise in virtualization security, the market for which shall continue to flourish in tandem with the parent industry. However, we also believe that the growing server virtualization market will give rise to numerous start up companies specializing in the virtualization security niche – the big security guys will need to watch out for them!
Revenue Outlook:
- Consolidated net revenue for McAfee for Q1 FY08 is expected to be between US$345 million and $360 million.
- Consolidated net revenue for full-year 2008 is expected to be in the region of US$1.425 billion to $1.525 billion.
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Financials:
1. Iomega; Reports Fourth Quarter Financial Results
Category: Financials
Storage: Iomega
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega Corporation reported net revenue of $120.6 million and net income of $6.5 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2007. In comparison, fourth quarter 2006 net revenue was $76.2 million with net income of $4.9 million, or $0.09 per diluted share. Fourth quarter 2007 net revenue increased $44.4 million, or 58%, from the same quarter last year, primarily due to strong growth in Consumer Storage Solutions and Network Storage Systems products of 86% and 76%, respectively. Gross margin for fourth quarter 2007 was $20.9 million, or 17.3%, as compared to fourth quarter 2006 gross margin of $15.4 million, or 20.2%. The increase in gross margin dollars and decrease in gross margin percentage from the same period last year was a result of growth in Consumer Storage Solutions products, and an expected Zip revenue decline of 48% which carries a higher gross margin percentage than Consumer StorageSolutions products."
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2. F-Secure; Delivers Strong Growth and Profitability for 2007
Category: Financials
Security: F-Secure
Excerpt from News Source: “F-Secure Corporation grew its revenue by 20% during its 2007 fiscal year, and reached an all-time high of €96.8m. The strategically important Internet Service Provider business grew by 38% year over year. Profitability improved by 120% with an EBIT of €19.5m, representing 20% of revenues. The revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were €26.0m with an EBIT of 5.5m, 21% of revenue."
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1. Blue; Coat Appoints A/NZ Channel Manager
Category: HR
Security: Blue Coat
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Security vendor Blue Coat has announced the appointment of a dedicated channel manager for Australia and New Zealand. Craig Flatt will join Blue Coat Systems from February 2008 as channel account manager for A/NZ. He brings nearly 10 years experience in the security and networking sectors of IT. In this role, Flatt will be responsible for channel management, program development and partner recruitment in the region."
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2. Isilon; Systems Announces Appointment of Two New Directors
Category: HR
Storage: Isilon Systems
Excerpt from News Source:"Isilon Systems announced the appointment of Peter H. van Oppen and Matt McIlwain to its board of directors. Mr. van Oppen, who previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for the Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC), brings extensive storage industry, leadership and business advisory experience to Isilon's board. Mr. McIlwain, a Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, rejoins Isilon's board after serving as a director from May 2001 to April 2007."
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3. McAfee; Introduces New Board of Directors
Category: HR
Security: McAfee
Excerpt from News Source:"McAfee, Inc. said that it has appointed Carl Bass, chief executive officer and president at Autodesk, and Thomas Darcy, former executive vice president for strategic projects at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), to its Board of Directors, effective January 28, 2008. "We are pleased to welcome Carl and Tom to our board of directors," said Dave DeWalt, chief executive officer and president of McAfee. "Each is a proven business leader with a wealth of experience in strategy, finance and operations. Their impeccable credentials and broad industry knowledge will make them valuable additions to our board.""
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Marketing & Promotion:
1. Leading; Internet security vendor Grisoft changes name to AVG Technologies
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Security: AVG Technologies
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Global change designed to enhance AVG brand awareness Grisoft, developer of the AVG family of security software products, today announced that it is changing its name to AVG Technologies."
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2. Sun; Makes Digital Archiving Free, Open With Code Donation of Fixed Content Object Storage System
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Storage: Sun
Excerpt from News Source:"Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has donated the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 System, the world's first integrated digital archive storage system that is powered by the Solaris Operating System (OS) and built using open source software."
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Mergers & Partnerships:
1. McAfee;, Inc. Teams With VMware to Advance Virtualization Security
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. announced that it has entered into a broad relationship with VMware Inc. to advance virtualization security.
As part of the relationship McAfee plans to embed the newly announced VMware VMsafe security technology into future security solution offerings. McAfee has also signed an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with VMware to utilize its VMware ESX Server technology.In addition, McAfee today announced beta availability of its new Email and Web Security Virtual Appliance, built from the ground up for the VMware platform. McAfee also unveiled a new virtual infrastructure security assessment service."
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2. VMware; to Unveil Major Partnerships
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"VMware has formed partnerships with Symantec, IBM and other major security vendors to boost protection of computers running on its virtualization software, Reuters reported this week. The initiative is called VMsafe and will be announced next week at the VMworld Europe users conference. A VMware spokeswoman contacted by Network World would not confirm the project."
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3. CA; and VMware Team up For The Environment
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"At the recent Computer Associates (CA) Expo 2008 – 360° Vision, CA presented several seminars relevant to the current climate in the IT industry, including a joint presentation with VMware on the virtues of adopting green business practices. CA held the event on 15 February 2008 at Sydney’s Darling Harbour to educate partners in some of the key topics affecting the Australian channel. The Greening of IT was one of the final seminars of the day, hosted by Alan Monument, senior consultant at CA and Paul Harapin, vice president of VMware A/NZ."
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4. Sun; and VMware forge OEM agreement
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Sun
Excerpt from News Source:"Sun Microsystems and VMware have forged an OEM agreement in an effort to ramp up their virtualisation offerings with an integrated solution. Sun will offer the VMware Infrastructure product suite on Sun hardware systems effectively combining the scalability and energy efficiency of Sun's x64 servers while leveraging VMware’s virtualisation solutions to improve asset utilisation, operational efficiency, and business agility. Full support from Sun will also be included."
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5. PGP; Corporation Selects Lumension Security to Extend Enterprise Data Protection Solution for Devices and Removable Media
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: PGP Corporation
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"PGP Corporation has partnered with Lumension Security to deliver PGP(R) Endpoint. This new solution prevents data loss through unauthorized devices, connections, and applications. PGP Endpoint is a centrally managed solution that integrates Lumension Security's Sanctuary Device and Application Control with PGP(R) Whole Disk Encryption to protect data transferred or stored on portable devices. With PGP Endpoint, administrators easily establish and continuously enforce encryption security policies for device usage via USB, FireWire, WiFi, DVD/CD, and Bluetooth connections, preventing potential data loss. PGP Endpoint joins an award-winning family of applications that are part of the PGP(R) Encryption Platform, enabling organizations to protect data throughout the enterprise while reducing the operational costs associated with point solutions."
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Product:
1. IBM; Unveils New Storage Products
Category: Product
Security: IBM
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “IBM unleashed a torrent of new storage products. Big Blue had a little something for everyone, including new USB-connected tape drives for X64 servers, new policy-based data management features in its popular DR550 archiving array, a major upgrade to its high-end SAN switch, and significant enhancements to its N Series SAN arrays.”
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2. Dell; Unveils Newest Storage Servers
Category: Product
Storage: Dell
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: “Dell is putting its acquisition of EqualLogic to use less than a week after wrapping up the deal. The company introduced a new mid-market storage server at an event in San Francisco. The Dell EqualLogic PS5000 series falls between the entry-level MD3000i and AX systems, and the high-end CX series. The PS5000's enclosure consists of 16 drive bays, each capable of holding a 1TB Sata drive.”
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3. Dell; Introduces Storage Assessment Services
Category: Product
Storage: Dell
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Dell Inc. has launched the Dell Storage Simplification Assessments portfolio includes server virtualization assessments, backup restore and archive assessments, and data management and storage technology assessments, according to the company. Dell has introduced a suite of asessment services geared toward enterprise customers and Dell Registered Partners.”
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4. NetApp; Launches SnapManager for VMware
Category: Product
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “NetApp is piling into the server virtualization market with SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure for VMware. The company said it was extending SnapManager capabilities to virtual infrastructures to give customers common data management tools for virtualized and physical servers, and claimed products would help accelerate deployment of existing Windows applications on virtual servers.”
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5. Check; Point Announces the First Single Agent for Comprehensive Endpoint Security
Category: Product
Security: Check Point
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) announced Check Point Endpoint Security™, the first and only single agent for total endpoint security that combines the highest-rated firewall, network access control (NAC), program control, antivirus, anti-spyware, data security and remote access. The new solution protects PCs by providing superior security and eliminates the need to deploy and manage multiple agents, reducing total cost of ownership."
News Source:
Computer World
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6. F-Secure; Offers Improved Security to Windows Servers
Category: Product
Security: F-Secure
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “F-Secure has launched the latest version of its F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers system.F-Secure AV for Windows protects against the 1,300 viruses created daily, said F-Secure.F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 8 features new scanning technology to better combat rapidly evolving and increasingly targeted malware threats, said the supplier.It provides real-time protection against viruses, spyware and riskware to prevent infections from spreading across a company's network.The system allows companies to protect their Microsoft server platforms with centrally managed security."
News Source:
Computer Weekly
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7. F-Secure; Introduces Data Protection for SMBs
Category: Product
Security: F-Secure
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “F-Secure has unveiled its new Protection Service for Business (PSB), targeting small and midsize businesses. This automated security package provides constantly updated protection against Internet-based threats for both desktop and mobile users. F-Secure's Security-as-a-Service solution has been developed to allow value-added resellers to offer managed IT security as part of their service portfolio. It also enables additional services to be bundled with the PSB hosted service. PSB protects against viruses, spyware and hidden malware. It contains a firewall, intrusion prevention, application control, proactive protection, as well as rootkit detection."
News Source:
Inc.
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8. Hitachi; Announces Data Migration Services Portfolio
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Addressing increasing customer demands for data migration solutions that do not suffer from severe scalability constraints or bring applications to a business-grinding halt, Hitachi today introduced new data migration services that places the needs of the business first. Supporting Hitachi’s Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy which leverages Hitachi’s market-leading virtualization technology to deliver common storage services, the Hitachi Data Migration Services, enables enterprises to easily and transparently migrate data between heterogeneous storage systems while servers and applications stay online."
News Source:
Money Control
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9. AVG; Internet Security 8.0 Released
Category: Product
Security: AVG Technologies
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “AVG Technologies (formerly Grisoft) has released version 8.0 of its security suite, AVG Internet Security. The suite includes AVG's flagship antivirus product as well as spyware protection, personal firewall, antispam, and protection against malicious Web sites. According to Karel Obluk, CTO of AVG Technologies and the chief architect behind AVG 8.0, the suite offers "solid, reliable protection against … sophisticated web-borne threats that can infect computers without the user even needing to click a link"."
News Source:
PCMag
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10. ISONet; Launched to Secure Independent School Networks
Category: Product
Security: Earthwave
Country: Australia
Excerpt from News Source:"Managed security service provider, Earthwave, has publicly launched ISONet a wide area network initiative for independent schools, in response to the Rudd government’s ‘digital education revolution’. In conjunction with the Association of Independent Schools NSW (AIS), ISONet aims to give independent schools access to secure high quality broadband data and secure sharing of education resources within the network."
News Source:
CRN
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11. EMC; Reveals Virtual Tape Library for Mainframes
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"EMC is looking to tread on IBM's toes after extending its virtual tape library (VTL) to cater for IBM's mainframe community. The EMC Disk Library for mainframe (EMC DLm) is a virtual tape library system made for IBM's zSeries mainframes. EMC said that DLm will offer "high-performance disk-based backup and recovery, batch processing and storage."
News Source:
ARN Net
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12. CA; Delivers Broad Support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Servr 2008 and Visual Studio 2008
Category: Product
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"CA (NYSE: CA) announced it will provide broad-based support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 across its product lines to enable Microsoft customers to effectively manage, govern and secure even the most complex enterprise environments."IT organizations seeking to take advantage of new features offered by Microsoft's latest releases need to manage these new versions in a manner consistent with the rest of their enterprise assets and services," said Louis Blatt, senior vice president for Strategy and Business Development at CA. "CA's comprehensive support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 give them this ability.""
News Source:
Company Website
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13. EMC; Simplifies Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"EMC Corporation announced groundbreaking advances in its heterogeneous data protection software family for local and remote replication, EMC RecoverPoint. EMC RecoverPoint provides customers with the ability to quickly and consistently recover data with minimal business disruption in the event of a disaster, corruption or other outage. The solution attained commercial success in 2007, achieving triple digit revenue growth, year over year, with close to 400 customers leveraging the solution."
News Source:
Fox Business
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14. CA; Revamps Its Data Protection Software
Category: Product
Storage: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"CA unveiled a new version of its CA Recovery Management software, including new releases of its CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability, and CA XOsoft Replication. The launch of the new software is aimed at simplifying management, tightening security, and offering faster recovery of data,said Glenn Rhodes, vice president of product marketing for CA Recovery Management."
News Source:
CRN
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15. Hitachi; Offers New VTL Solutions
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"Storage solutions provider Hitachi Data Systems has introduced three new Virtual Tape Library (VTL) data storage solutions – the 500M, 1000L and 1000E. According Hitachi, VTL appliances are disk-based storage devices aimed at medium- to large-sized enterprises that are designed to virtually backup and restore data."
News Source:
The Star
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16. Hitachi; Group Companies Announce Support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems, and Hitachi Consulting, three business units of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), jointly announced their support for the Microsoft 2008 Global Launch Wave featuring Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Together the three Hitachi businesses will enable thousands of customers around the globe to optimize their corporate infrastructure for applications based on the latest Microsoft application platform."
News Source:
centre Daily
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17. FalconStor;'s Totally Open(TM) Storage Virtualization Technology Provides Risk-Free Migration for Windows Server 2008 Platform with Maximal Business Continuity
Category: Product
Storage: FalconStor
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"FalconStor Software, Inc. announced that the FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) and the FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solutions, with built in snapshot technology for Windows, enable fast, risk free migration of customer applications during migration from the Windows Server 2003 platform to Windows Server 2008."
News Source:
Fox Business
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Sales & Channels:
1. MailGuard; Appoints Firewall Systems as First Local Distributor
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: MailGuard
Country: Australia
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source:"Security vendor enters distribution strategy and targets Australia-wide sales growth of 25 percent by the end of the year.The distributor now has access to MailGuard’s suite of products which includes MailGuard email solution which aims to give businesses a layer of protection against web-based virus attacks, and allows organisations to manage, control and report on internet use."
News Source:
CRN
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Strategy:
1. VMware; Takes Aim at Virtualised Security
Category: Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “VMware has unveiled a security technology that protects applications running in virtual machines in ways previously not possible in physical environments. The company's VMsafe APIs allow vendors to develop advanced security products that combat the latest generation of malware, according to VMware. The technology integrates directly into the VMware hypervisor and can prevent threats such as viruses, Trojans and key-loggers from reaching a virtual machine.”
News Source:
iTNews
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2. McAfee; Cuts Users Out of Mobile Security Loop
Category: Strategy
Security: McAfee
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"McAfee, which last year announced it was getting out of the consumer mobile anti-malware business, has said it is now concentrating on getting network operators to sort out the problem.Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Jan Volzke, McAfee's head of global marketing, said that it would be nearly impossible to get a client side security software onto handsets because of the plethora of handset operating systems."
News Source:
iTNews
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3. Sepaton; Marks 2007 by Record Customer Acquisition and Global Company Expansion
Category: Strategy
Storage: Sepaton
Excerpt from News Source: "Record customer acquisition and corporate expansion across key functional areas of the business and geographies fueled SEPATON’s growth and continued dominance in the high-performance data protection market during 2007. SEPATON reported today that its user base has expanded to more than 900 customers with over 57PB of data, a 180% percent increase in the number of customers and a 320% increase in overall PBs shipped compared to this time last year. Additionally, its enterprise-class virtual tape library is now installed in more than 25 countries around the world, demonstrating SEPATON’s ongoing commitment to expanding its international business, and developing the virtual tape library market in new regions around the world."
News Source:
Business Wire
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4. Hitachi; Returns to Capital with SMS Storage Device
Category: Strategy
Storage: Hitachi
Country: New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems New Zealand - the wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese data storage technology company - opened an office in Wellington and hopes to capture the data storage market for small to medium-sized businesses with its SMS 100 storage product.Manager Brent Wilkinson says the SMS - an external storage device - has been designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses - where general managers often perform the roles of procurement officer and IT manager."
News Source:
Stuff (NZ)
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CA:
1. CA; Revamps Its Data Protection Software
Category: Product
Storage: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"CA unveiled a new version of its CA Recovery Management software, including new releases of its CA ARCserve Backup, CA XOsoft High Availability, and CA XOsoft Replication. The launch of the new software is aimed at simplifying management, tightening security, and offering faster recovery of data,said Glenn Rhodes, vice president of product marketing for CA Recovery Management."
News Source:
CRN
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Dell:
1. Dell; Unveils Newest Storage Servers
Category: Product
Storage: Dell
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: “Dell is putting its acquisition of EqualLogic to use less than a week after wrapping up the deal. The company introduced a new mid-market storage server at an event in San Francisco. The Dell EqualLogic PS5000 series falls between the entry-level MD3000i and AX systems, and the high-end CX series. The PS5000's enclosure consists of 16 drive bays, each capable of holding a 1TB Sata drive.”
News Source:
CRN
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2. Dell; Introduces Storage Assessment Services
Category: Product
Storage: Dell
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Dell Inc. has launched the Dell Storage Simplification Assessments portfolio includes server virtualization assessments, backup restore and archive assessments, and data management and storage technology assessments, according to the company. Dell has introduced a suite of asessment services geared toward enterprise customers and Dell Registered Partners.”
News Source:
CRN
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EMC:
1. VMware; Takes Aim at Virtualised Security
Category: Strategy
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “VMware has unveiled a security technology that protects applications running in virtual machines in ways previously not possible in physical environments. The company's VMsafe APIs allow vendors to develop advanced security products that combat the latest generation of malware, according to VMware. The technology integrates directly into the VMware hypervisor and can prevent threats such as viruses, Trojans and key-loggers from reaching a virtual machine.”
News Source:
iTNews
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2. EMC; Reveals Virtual Tape Library for Mainframes
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"EMC is looking to tread on IBM's toes after extending its virtual tape library (VTL) to cater for IBM's mainframe community. The EMC Disk Library for mainframe (EMC DLm) is a virtual tape library system made for IBM's zSeries mainframes. EMC said that DLm will offer "high-performance disk-based backup and recovery, batch processing and storage."
News Source:
ARN Net
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3. VMware; to Unveil Major Partnerships
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"VMware has formed partnerships with Symantec, IBM and other major security vendors to boost protection of computers running on its virtualization software, Reuters reported this week. The initiative is called VMsafe and will be announced next week at the VMworld Europe users conference. A VMware spokeswoman contacted by Network World would not confirm the project."
News Source:
Computer World
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4. EMC; Simplifies Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"EMC Corporation announced groundbreaking advances in its heterogeneous data protection software family for local and remote replication, EMC RecoverPoint. EMC RecoverPoint provides customers with the ability to quickly and consistently recover data with minimal business disruption in the event of a disaster, corruption or other outage. The solution attained commercial success in 2007, achieving triple digit revenue growth, year over year, with close to 400 customers leveraging the solution."
News Source:
Fox Business
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FalconStor:
1. FalconStor;'s Totally Open(TM) Storage Virtualization Technology Provides Risk-Free Migration for Windows Server 2008 Platform with Maximal Business Continuity
Category: Product
Storage: FalconStor
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"FalconStor Software, Inc. announced that the FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) and the FalconStor Continuous Data Protector (CDP) solutions, with built in snapshot technology for Windows, enable fast, risk free migration of customer applications during migration from the Windows Server 2003 platform to Windows Server 2008."
News Source:
Fox Business
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Hitachi:
1. Hitachi; Announces Data Migration Services Portfolio
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Addressing increasing customer demands for data migration solutions that do not suffer from severe scalability constraints or bring applications to a business-grinding halt, Hitachi today introduced new data migration services that places the needs of the business first. Supporting Hitachi’s Services Oriented Storage Solutions strategy which leverages Hitachi’s market-leading virtualization technology to deliver common storage services, the Hitachi Data Migration Services, enables enterprises to easily and transparently migrate data between heterogeneous storage systems while servers and applications stay online."
News Source:
Money Control
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2. Hitachi; Offers New VTL Solutions
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"Storage solutions provider Hitachi Data Systems has introduced three new Virtual Tape Library (VTL) data storage solutions – the 500M, 1000L and 1000E. According Hitachi, VTL appliances are disk-based storage devices aimed at medium- to large-sized enterprises that are designed to virtually backup and restore data."
News Source:
The Star
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3. Hitachi; Group Companies Announce Support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008
Category: Product
Storage: Hitachi
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi America, Ltd., Hitachi Data Systems, and Hitachi Consulting, three business units of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT), jointly announced their support for the Microsoft 2008 Global Launch Wave featuring Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Together the three Hitachi businesses will enable thousands of customers around the globe to optimize their corporate infrastructure for applications based on the latest Microsoft application platform."
News Source:
centre Daily
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4. Hitachi; Returns to Capital with SMS Storage Device
Category: Strategy
Storage: Hitachi
Country: New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"Hitachi Data Systems New Zealand - the wholly owned subsidiary of the Japanese data storage technology company - opened an office in Wellington and hopes to capture the data storage market for small to medium-sized businesses with its SMS 100 storage product.Manager Brent Wilkinson says the SMS - an external storage device - has been designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses - where general managers often perform the roles of procurement officer and IT manager."
News Source:
Stuff (NZ)
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Iomega:
1. Iomega; Reports Fourth Quarter Financial Results
Category: Financials
Storage: Iomega
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega Corporation reported net revenue of $120.6 million and net income of $6.5 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, for the quarter ended December 31, 2007. In comparison, fourth quarter 2006 net revenue was $76.2 million with net income of $4.9 million, or $0.09 per diluted share. Fourth quarter 2007 net revenue increased $44.4 million, or 58%, from the same quarter last year, primarily due to strong growth in Consumer Storage Solutions and Network Storage Systems products of 86% and 76%, respectively. Gross margin for fourth quarter 2007 was $20.9 million, or 17.3%, as compared to fourth quarter 2006 gross margin of $15.4 million, or 20.2%. The increase in gross margin dollars and decrease in gross margin percentage from the same period last year was a result of growth in Consumer Storage Solutions products, and an expected Zip revenue decline of 48% which carries a higher gross margin percentage than Consumer StorageSolutions products."
News Source:
Fox Business
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Isilon Systems:
1. Isilon; Systems Announces Appointment of Two New Directors
Category: HR
Storage: Isilon Systems
Excerpt from News Source:"Isilon Systems announced the appointment of Peter H. van Oppen and Matt McIlwain to its board of directors. Mr. van Oppen, who previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board for the Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC), brings extensive storage industry, leadership and business advisory experience to Isilon's board. Mr. McIlwain, a Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, rejoins Isilon's board after serving as a director from May 2001 to April 2007."
News Source:
Fox Business
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NetApp:
1. NetApp; Launches SnapManager for VMware
Category: Product
Storage: NetApp
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “NetApp is piling into the server virtualization market with SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure for VMware. The company said it was extending SnapManager capabilities to virtual infrastructures to give customers common data management tools for virtualized and physical servers, and claimed products would help accelerate deployment of existing Windows applications on virtual servers.”
News Source:
Computer World
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Sepaton:
1. Sepaton; Marks 2007 by Record Customer Acquisition and Global Company Expansion
Category: Strategy
Storage: Sepaton
Excerpt from News Source: "Record customer acquisition and corporate expansion across key functional areas of the business and geographies fueled SEPATON’s growth and continued dominance in the high-performance data protection market during 2007. SEPATON reported today that its user base has expanded to more than 900 customers with over 57PB of data, a 180% percent increase in the number of customers and a 320% increase in overall PBs shipped compared to this time last year. Additionally, its enterprise-class virtual tape library is now installed in more than 25 countries around the world, demonstrating SEPATON’s ongoing commitment to expanding its international business, and developing the virtual tape library market in new regions around the world."
News Source:
Business Wire
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Sun:
1. Sun; Makes Digital Archiving Free, Open With Code Donation of Fixed Content Object Storage System
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Storage: Sun
Excerpt from News Source:"Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it has donated the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 System, the world's first integrated digital archive storage system that is powered by the Solaris Operating System (OS) and built using open source software."
News Source:
Company Website
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2. Sun; and VMware forge OEM agreement
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Sun
Excerpt from News Source:"Sun Microsystems and VMware have forged an OEM agreement in an effort to ramp up their virtualisation offerings with an integrated solution. Sun will offer the VMware Infrastructure product suite on Sun hardware systems effectively combining the scalability and energy efficiency of Sun's x64 servers while leveraging VMware’s virtualisation solutions to improve asset utilisation, operational efficiency, and business agility. Full support from Sun will also be included."
News Source:
CRN
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AVG Technologies:
1. Leading; Internet security vendor Grisoft changes name to AVG Technologies
Category: Marketing & Promotion
Security: AVG Technologies
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Global change designed to enhance AVG brand awareness Grisoft, developer of the AVG family of security software products, today announced that it is changing its name to AVG Technologies."
News Source:
Linux World
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2. AVG; Internet Security 8.0 Released
Category: Product
Security: AVG Technologies
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “AVG Technologies (formerly Grisoft) has released version 8.0 of its security suite, AVG Internet Security. The suite includes AVG's flagship antivirus product as well as spyware protection, personal firewall, antispam, and protection against malicious Web sites. According to Karel Obluk, CTO of AVG Technologies and the chief architect behind AVG 8.0, the suite offers "solid, reliable protection against … sophisticated web-borne threats that can infect computers without the user even needing to click a link"."
News Source:
PCMag
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Blue Coat:
1. Blue; Coat Appoints A/NZ Channel Manager
Category: HR
Security: Blue Coat
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"Security vendor Blue Coat has announced the appointment of a dedicated channel manager for Australia and New Zealand. Craig Flatt will join Blue Coat Systems from February 2008 as channel account manager for A/NZ. He brings nearly 10 years experience in the security and networking sectors of IT. In this role, Flatt will be responsible for channel management, program development and partner recruitment in the region."
News Source:
CRN
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CA:
1. CA; Delivers Broad Support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Servr 2008 and Visual Studio 2008
Category: Product
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source:"CA (NYSE: CA) announced it will provide broad-based support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 across its product lines to enable Microsoft customers to effectively manage, govern and secure even the most complex enterprise environments."IT organizations seeking to take advantage of new features offered by Microsoft's latest releases need to manage these new versions in a manner consistent with the rest of their enterprise assets and services," said Louis Blatt, senior vice president for Strategy and Business Development at CA. "CA's comprehensive support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 give them this ability.""
News Source:
Company Website
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2. CA; and VMware Team up For The Environment
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source:"At the recent Computer Associates (CA) Expo 2008 – 360° Vision, CA presented several seminars relevant to the current climate in the IT industry, including a joint presentation with VMware on the virtues of adopting green business practices. CA held the event on 15 February 2008 at Sydney’s Darling Harbour to educate partners in some of the key topics affecting the Australian channel. The Greening of IT was one of the final seminars of the day, hosted by Alan Monument, senior consultant at CA and Paul Harapin, vice president of VMware A/NZ."
News Source:
CRN
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Check Point:
1. Check; Point Announces the First Single Agent for Comprehensive Endpoint Security
Category: Product
Security: Check Point
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) announced Check Point Endpoint Security™, the first and only single agent for total endpoint security that combines the highest-rated firewall, network access control (NAC), program control, antivirus, anti-spyware, data security and remote access. The new solution protects PCs by providing superior security and eliminates the need to deploy and manage multiple agents, reducing total cost of ownership."
News Source:
Computer World
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Earthwave:
1. ISONet; Launched to Secure Independent School Networks
Category: Product
Security: Earthwave
Country: Australia
Excerpt from News Source:"Managed security service provider, Earthwave, has publicly launched ISONet a wide area network initiative for independent schools, in response to the Rudd government’s ‘digital education revolution’. In conjunction with the Association of Independent Schools NSW (AIS), ISONet aims to give independent schools access to secure high quality broadband data and secure sharing of education resources within the network."
News Source:
CRN
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F-Secure:
1. F-Secure; Offers Improved Security to Windows Servers
Category: Product
Security: F-Secure
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “F-Secure has launched the latest version of its F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers system.F-Secure AV for Windows protects against the 1,300 viruses created daily, said F-Secure.F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 8 features new scanning technology to better combat rapidly evolving and increasingly targeted malware threats, said the supplier.It provides real-time protection against viruses, spyware and riskware to prevent infections from spreading across a company's network.The system allows companies to protect their Microsoft server platforms with centrally managed security."
News Source:
Computer Weekly
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2. F-Secure; Introduces Data Protection for SMBs
Category: Product
Security: F-Secure
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “F-Secure has unveiled its new Protection Service for Business (PSB), targeting small and midsize businesses. This automated security package provides constantly updated protection against Internet-based threats for both desktop and mobile users. F-Secure's Security-as-a-Service solution has been developed to allow value-added resellers to offer managed IT security as part of their service portfolio. It also enables additional services to be bundled with the PSB hosted service. PSB protects against viruses, spyware and hidden malware. It contains a firewall, intrusion prevention, application control, proactive protection, as well as rootkit detection."
News Source:
Inc.
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3. F-Secure; Delivers Strong Growth and Profitability for 2007
Category: Financials
Security: F-Secure
Excerpt from News Source: “F-Secure Corporation grew its revenue by 20% during its 2007 fiscal year, and reached an all-time high of €96.8m. The strategically important Internet Service Provider business grew by 38% year over year. Profitability improved by 120% with an EBIT of €19.5m, representing 20% of revenues. The revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were €26.0m with an EBIT of 5.5m, 21% of revenue."
News Source:
VAR India
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IBM:
1. IBM; Unveils New Storage Products
Category: Product
Security: IBM
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “IBM unleashed a torrent of new storage products. Big Blue had a little something for everyone, including new USB-connected tape drives for X64 servers, new policy-based data management features in its popular DR550 archiving array, a major upgrade to its high-end SAN switch, and significant enhancements to its N Series SAN arrays.”
News Source:
IT Jungle
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MailGuard:
1. MailGuard; Appoints Firewall Systems as First Local Distributor
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: MailGuard
Country: Australia
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source:"Security vendor enters distribution strategy and targets Australia-wide sales growth of 25 percent by the end of the year.The distributor now has access to MailGuard’s suite of products which includes MailGuard email solution which aims to give businesses a layer of protection against web-based virus attacks, and allows organisations to manage, control and report on internet use."
News Source:
CRN
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McAfee:
1. McAfee;, Inc. Teams With VMware to Advance Virtualization Security
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. announced that it has entered into a broad relationship with VMware Inc. to advance virtualization security.
As part of the relationship McAfee plans to embed the newly announced VMware VMsafe security technology into future security solution offerings. McAfee has also signed an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) agreement with VMware to utilize its VMware ESX Server technology.In addition, McAfee today announced beta availability of its new Email and Web Security Virtual Appliance, built from the ground up for the VMware platform. McAfee also unveiled a new virtual infrastructure security assessment service."
News Source:
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2. McAfee; Cuts Users Out of Mobile Security Loop
Category: Strategy
Security: McAfee
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"McAfee, which last year announced it was getting out of the consumer mobile anti-malware business, has said it is now concentrating on getting network operators to sort out the problem.Speaking at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Jan Volzke, McAfee's head of global marketing, said that it would be nearly impossible to get a client side security software onto handsets because of the plethora of handset operating systems."
News Source:
iTNews
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3. McAfee; Introduces New Board of Directors
Category: HR
Security: McAfee
Excerpt from News Source:"McAfee, Inc. said that it has appointed Carl Bass, chief executive officer and president at Autodesk, and Thomas Darcy, former executive vice president for strategic projects at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), to its Board of Directors, effective January 28, 2008. "We are pleased to welcome Carl and Tom to our board of directors," said Dave DeWalt, chief executive officer and president of McAfee. "Each is a proven business leader with a wealth of experience in strategy, finance and operations. Their impeccable credentials and broad industry knowledge will make them valuable additions to our board.""
News Source:
SDA Asia
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PGP Corporation:
1. PGP; Corporation Selects Lumension Security to Extend Enterprise Data Protection Solution for Devices and Removable Media
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: PGP Corporation
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source:"PGP Corporation has partnered with Lumension Security to deliver PGP(R) Endpoint. This new solution prevents data loss through unauthorized devices, connections, and applications. PGP Endpoint is a centrally managed solution that integrates Lumension Security's Sanctuary Device and Application Control with PGP(R) Whole Disk Encryption to protect data transferred or stored on portable devices. With PGP Endpoint, administrators easily establish and continuously enforce encryption security policies for device usage via USB, FireWire, WiFi, DVD/CD, and Bluetooth connections, preventing potential data loss. PGP Endpoint joins an award-winning family of applications that are part of the PGP(R) Encryption Platform, enabling organizations to protect data throughout the enterprise while reducing the operational costs associated with point solutions."
News Source:
The Earth Times
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