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1. CommVault Signs a Collaborative Agreement with Sun Microsystems to Target the Enterprise Segment with Advanced Data Management Solutions
CommVault recently signed an agreement with Sun Microsystems to offer data management solutions. Using CommVault’s flagship data and information management software, Simpana 7.0, on Sun’s server and storage systems, the duo are targeting the enterprise computing environment in ANZ, and globally. This news comes in a month after CommVault announced a distributor agreement with Value Added Distributors Ltd. (VAD) to target the enterprises in the New Zealand marketplace.
As per the agreement, the companies will offer a combined solution via each other’s direct sales force and channel to help customers optimize their infrastructure for 64-bit applications based on Microsoft’s messaging and collaboration platforms such as Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Proclaiming the combined solution as “reliable, scalable and highly available,” the duo is offering to provide enterprise customers with a low TCO per mailbox and high-value footprint, and also cater to their critical data and storage management needs.
Springboard Research believes that this combined solution offers value for enterprises; however it is definitely not the “first in its category.” The partnership also hinges on Sun’s success in the region. As reported in our Sun article this month, Sun’s last quarter financial results for the region have been dismal , registering a trend contrary to that achieved by the competition. Hence, unless Sun’s performance in ANZ (and the region) shows significant improvements in the coming quarters, CommVault will fall short of reaping the desired benefits from this alliance.
Further, we reiterate our belief that it’s vital for CommVault to also cater to the sprawling SMB base in ANZ that is today faced with critical issues like increasing compliance costs, lack of IT budgets and expertise and is much in need of quick-to-deploy solutions. CommVault will need to assist its go-to-market strategy for the enterprise segment with a robust and dedicated sales and product strategy for the SMBs in ANZ (and the region) to drive its growth figures.
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2. EMC Posts Q4 FY07 Results Showing Strong Growth in Asia; Appoints its Second VMware Distributor in Australia and Launches Series of Products with Heavy Consumer and SMB Focus
EMC recently announced its fourth quarter results for the period ending December 31, 2007. The numbers showed that the company registered strong 19% YTY growth, posted net revenue of US$3.83 billion in Q4FY07 and observed a record full-year revenue of $13.23 billion in FY2007, up 19% YTY. Geographically, although Asia Pacific showed a healthy growth of 21% YTY in this quarter, overall the region grew even faster at 24% during FY2007. Latin America showed the most growth with 27% YTY in the quarter, while EMEA grew at 23% and North America registered a 16% growth. The fastest growing business segment for the company continued to be VMware, showing a phenomenal growth of 78% YTY to US$412 million, followed by RSA Information Security (30%), Content Management & Archiving (17%), and Information Storage (14%). The quarter also recorded acquisitions worth US$183 million, totalling US $692 million in the financial year of 2007.
Springboard Research believes that EMC’s continued double-digit growth over the past quarters can be attributed to the company’s recognition of emerging markets (and segments like SMB) as the key drivers of revenue growth. EMC’s five-year market growth strategy for Asia Pacific (with a special focus on ANZ) has bolstered the company’s local presence and we believe that its new information infrastructure products and solutions, along with key acquisitions and alliances with universities to promote its Academic Alliance Program (EAP), have added immense value to the firm’s marketability.
Future Outlook and Direction:
- Continued focus on the Asia Pacific region, with a definite and special focus on ANZ will drive double-digit growth.
- Consolidated EMC revenues are expected to grow 13% to US$15 billion in 2008. Within the consolidated revenues:
- EMC’s Information Infrastructure’s revenues are expected to grow 9% to US$13 billion in 2008.
- VMware’s revenues are expected to grow 50% in 2008.
- RSA Information Security’s revenues are expected to grow 16% in 2008.
In an Australia exclusive announcement, VMware has appointed itX as its second distributor in the country. This announcement is a part of the vendor’s expansion plans for Australia in 2008 and aims at increasing the channel coverage. This will give VMware an expanded reach for its products and services in the country and access to a new set of customers via the reseller. The announcement ends Ingram Micro’s 3 year-old exclusive distribution rights for VMware’s virtualization products in Australia. VMware already has existing relationship with itX who till date was restricted to selling only low-end desktop solutions for the vendor.
Further, Paul Harapin, MD of VMware ANZ has also noted itX’s existing relationships with Sun, HP software, BEA Systems and Wyse as the key factor behind their decision to appoint the reseller as its second official distributor in the country. The distributor,on its part expects the absence of a formal agreement between Sun and VMware to open up value-added opportunities for itself and its resellers and also plans to bundle VMware’s VDI product with Wyse thin client terminals.
Springboard Research believes that although this is a good business move by VMware, but it is slightly behind schedule. In our view, in the wake of the explosive growth in the ANZ market for virtualization products, EMC has responded rather late. EMC should have anticipated this market growth and ended Ingram Micro’s monopoly on sale of its products at the end of 2006 itself. Reiterating our belief, we see EMC as a late entrant to the storage virtualization market that is currently dominated by IBM. Hence, there’s a clear need for EMC to ramp up its efforts in ANZ and cater to the growing demand for virtualization products in the country.
Along with its announcement of a stellar last quarter financial performance , EMC also launched a series of products during the last month. With a heavy consumer and SMB focus, these products have been aptly aimed at the ANZ market that is currently experiencing rapid growth in the information storage segment.
On January 7, 2008, EMC launched LifeLine OEM Software, targeted at consumers and Small Office Home Office (SOHO) users. This software has been developed in-house by EMC for manufacturers of consumer-grade NAS (Network Attached Storage) , and aims to help users collate all their digital files in a centralized place and access them from any networked device. This software supports both Windows and Mac computers and has built-in data protection capabilities of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disk) and Retrospect Backup software. The software is being touted as “a simple and easy-to-use system” that helps prevent data loss and manage data effectively. Information can be managed through most browsers and other gaming consoles like the Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3 and PSP. The system has also been enabled with various other features and supports multiple languages including three Asian languages. EMC’s OEM software is currently used by Intel Corporation for their entry-level storage system, SS4200-E, and is also being considered by another storage vendor, Iomega Corporation. Springboard Research believes that although this system has been aptly positioned in the region, it will need to support more Asian languages to cater to all the regional markets for optimum success.
Soon after its LifeLine launch, EMC introduced another NAS (network attached storage) system, the iSCSI CLARiiON AX4, specifically designed for SMBs and deployable with the VMWare Infrastructure. Available at a starting list price of $8,599 for at least 3TB of storage, the system can be configured with up to 60 SAS and SATA disk drives and is built on the same architecture used for the mid-range storage system, EMC CLARiiON CX3. The system is available from EMC’s partners and resellers and is also being offered by Dell and NEC under their own brand names. Springboard Research believes that this system offers good value for SMBs that typically have few or no IT support resources and that are increasingly faced with restrictive compliance requirements and the need to facilitate an increasingly mobile workforce.
Continuing its product announcement spree, EMC launched EMC Virtual Provisioning and new management capabilities for EMC Symmetrix DMX storage systems on January 14, 2008. On the same day, the company also introduced a line of solid-state drives using flash memory as an option to replace some disk drives in the company’s Symmetrix storage arrays. [Please refer to Other Top Stories for the full articles detailing these launches.]
Another major announcement by EMC was the launch of its SaaS offering, MozyEnterprise, the first offering from the company’s EMC Fortress strategy. This is a subscription-based online backup and recovery services for remote PCs and Windows Server environments. Defined as “a secure, multi-tenant, scalable SaaS delivery platform,” the service aims to provide customers with “centralized billing, management and metering” functionality. Primarily aimed at SMBs, the offering has been priced at $5.25 a month, along with 70 cents a month per gigabyte stored; while the server module is being offered at $9.25 a month and an additional $2.35 per gigabyte stored. EMC acquired this service from Berkeley Data Systems for US$76 million in September 2007.
Springboard Research believes this offering has very attractive/ comfortable price points and will be well received by most in ANZ and hence help EMC keep to its projected growth trajectory. However, we also believe that the company must exploit the capabilities of the SaaS model and continuously innovate and customise to the country/region or vertical specific needs.
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ZDNet
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CRN
3. McAfee Augments Asia Pacific Focus: Launches New Partner Program to Target Mid-Market; Appoints Steve Redman of EMC as Regional President
Aiming to capitalize on the robust growth of security products in ANZ (and Asia Pacific), McAfee has launched a new partner program targeted at midmarket enterprises, which the company proclaims will help bolster its local presence. This “invite-only” initiative from the security company requires partners to meet eligibility criteria of having at least two fully trained sales staff, along with a technically certified worker. A part of the company’s professedly “aggressive” go-to-market strategy, the program has already enrolled about 40 resellers in Asia Pacific and intends to further focus on strengthening relationships with midmarket enterprises. Most of the resellers signed to the program are existing McAfee partners who already target the midmarket segment.
In a bid to supplement resellers’ efforts to further its presence in the segment, McAfee is touting increased coverage and support with its latest program. The company is now offering a rebate-based incentive program that will assure a 7% return on all deals once the reseller achieves base target transactions of $14,000 in the financial year. Other reseller incentives include direct contact with a channel account manager, 24-hour technical support, access to web portals and deal registration. According to Alan Bell, McAfee’s Marketing Director for APAC, the company’s “free online training and sales and technical certifications” are “practical resources” for its resellers; resources that he further claims are “portable” and not specific to any single reseller.
Citing lack of expertise as a reason for weak implementation of already existing strong security policies, Bell asserted that the company’s latest efforts “help resellers to help organizations.” The executive also noted that McAfee, which already has a dedicated midmarket staff, is now looking to launch more midmarket campaigns and other “midmarket-friendly” products in the near future. McAfee’s current range of products for the midmarket includes its Total Protection Software, which resellers can manage remotely and gateway appliances, like the Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) 3x00.
Springboard Research believes that McAfee’s go-to-market strategy to target Mid-market enterprises has been aptly designed for ANZ (and the region) and should do well (at least in theory) to churn higher revenue. However, we also believe that with most of the competition adopting a similar strategy with nearly the same offerings, McAfee will need to be aggressive in its offerings and offer a ‘better deal’ to the resellers who typically show little stickiness to any specific vendor.
In another significant development, McAfee appointed Steve Redman as President of its Asia Pacific region. With this appointment, the company aims to take its APAC business to the “next level” and use Redman’s “proven leadership skills” to drive business across all segments – employees, customers/partners and shareholders. Redman, who will be reporting to Michael DeCesaer, EVP, Sales Operations, begins in his new role immediately and is responsible for sales in North Asia, South East Asia, India, Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to his appointment at McAfee, Redman held the position of VP, Asia Pacific at EMC, and was responsible for the field operations of their software group across Asia Pacific and Japan. Redman was also the driving force behind the successful merger of the companies, Documentum and Legato, into the EMC Software Group. Redman comes with a vast range of experience and has had very successful stints at Rockwell Electronic Commerce, Lucent Technologies and Fuji Xerox. Redman holds a diploma in A/S engineering and a MBA from Macquarie University. He is also a member of the Nobel Laureates Advisory Board and is an associate lecturer in the MBA program at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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CRN
4. Sun Microsystems Posts Q2 FY08 Results Showing Asia Pacific Registering Least Growth with 2% YTY; Appoints ANZ Systems Product Manager
Sun announced its Q2 FY08 results for the period ending December 31, 2007, with Asia Pacific revenues up 2% YTY. The region continued to contribute 17% to the company’s total revenues in the quarter. Worldwide, Sun’s total revenues increased 1.3% YTY to US$3.62B, while among the geographies; Asia Pacific recorded the least revenue growth of 2% YTY, with highest revenue growth being observed by International Americas at 24% YTY, followed by EMEA at 7% YTY.. U.S. revenues were down by 8% YTY. Interestingly, products that account for the majority (62%) of Sun’s business witnessed a decrease in revenue by 0.5% YTY, while services that account for just 38% of Sun’s revenue observed a 5% YTY growth. Further, breaking down its services into Support Services, and Professional Services/Educational Services segments, Sun announced that the former’s contribution to total services revenue increased by 4% YTY, while the latter’s increased by 7% YTY.
Springboard Research believes that although Sun has been active in the region (with a high focus on ANZ) with significant new product introductions, like the Black box which was well received; its overall financial performance has remained well below expectations. The Asia Pacific region, that witnessed the highest growth for Sun in Q1 FY08, now shows the most sluggish growth at a mere 2% YTY in Q2 FY08. This growth pattern is contrary to that observed for other firms that have recently released their last quarter earnings, and so raises serious questions regarding Sun’s go-to-market strategy. While most companies are now looking at the Asia Pacific region (and ANZ) to drive double-digit growth, a similar occurrence remains largely questionable for Sun. We believe, that in the wake of a likely recession in the U.S., Sun has a very strong need to perform better in ANZ to keep to its envisioned corporate growth trajectory.
Further, although Sun has been signing ANZ-exclusive deals (deal with Acer to sell its storage and server products announced last month) ,most of its chosen partners have not been particularly robust in the ANZ marketplace. Springboard Research views ANZ as a unique market that requires a high degree of customization and localization. We believe Sun must associate with companies that currently enjoy a market leadership status in their respective local markets and are dedicated to their ANZ operations.
Future Outlook and Direction:
- In terms of geography, no clear growth patterns for Sun can be observed and so growth forecasts are unavailable.
- Despite the recent introduction of the Black Box, the likelihood of Sun resurfacing locally solely based on this product is yet again questionable.
- Reiterating our assessment on Sun Microsystems’ move to merge its Server and Storage product teams to form the Systems group: The proposal of a Sun exclusive data centre in ANZ, a marketplace that is already inundated with choice, seems a bit short- sighted.
In another significant development, Sun Microsystems appointed Sam Tan as its ANZ systems product manager. With this announcement, Sun is looking to grow its systems business in the region and use Tan to manage its systems portfolio including x86 AMD/Intel systems, blade servers, CoolThreads systems and Solaris OS. Tan, who will report to the ANZ Marketing Director, Paul O’Connor, comes with more than 15 years experience in the ICT industry of which 8 years have been with Sun. He will continue to support the company’s strategic relationships across ANZ and drive business at a time when Sun is proclaiming special focus on the region.
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Computer World
5. Trend Micro Announces Free Services for Australian Resellers
Trend Micro has announced a complete waiver of fees on Worry-Free Remote Manager (WFRM), a hosted console that the company launched for its partner ecosystem in 2007. The system that was primarily developed for SMBs also caters to the needs of the partners offering managed services operations and allows them to centrally manage multiple customers from a single location. Proclaiming WFRM as “of critical strategic importance”, the company has also asserted that it will develop and innovate the platform on the basis of its continuous communication with its partners. Touting increased costs benefits and a potential rise in service profitability for its ANZ channel partners, the company is aiming to create the “ultimate loyalty system” with this move. Trend Micro claims that the system is unique in its “true understanding of the SMB reseller market space” and offers more than the ‘shopping voucher’ incentives and other promotional products offered by most competitors.
Springboard Research believes this move will be well received by most of Trend Micro’s resellers in ANZ and hence will stand the company in good stead in strengthening its local partner ecosystem. However, the move will fail to deliver the desired outcomes if the company does not follow it up with a sound product strategy targeted at the SMBs. We also believe that there is a clear opportunity for companies like Trend Micro since despite intense competition and a highly fragmented market, the demand for security services in ANZ is currently on an all-time high. Enterprises, irrespective of their size, are today faced with key challenges of regulatory compliance related issues, managing security complexity, lack of in-house IT expertise, high operational costs, and other corporate governance concerns. Lastly, we believe that the current market dynamics strongly indicate the need for vendors to offer ‘complete’ security solutions rather than functioning in their own niche.
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Financials:
1. CA; Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Category: Financials
Storage: CA
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “, Inc. (NYSE:CA) announced results for its third quarter fiscal year 2008, which ended Dec. 31, 2007. "CA has recorded another solid quarter — our fifth in a row," said John Swainson, CA's president and chief executive officer. "Most importantly, we remain on course to finish the year with revenue and earnings per share exceeding the updated annual outlook provided at our financial analyst day last December.”
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2. Iomega; Expects Fourth Quarter Revenue and Net Income to Exceed Previous Guidance
Category: Financials
Storage: Iomega
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega Corporation announced that it expects fourth quarter 2007 net revenue to be within a range of $117.0 million to $121.0 million, earnings per share to be within a range of $0.09 to $0.11 per fully diluted share and non-GAAP earnings per share to be within a range of $0.06 to $0.08 per fully diluted share. This compares to previous Company guidance given December 12, 2007 of net revenue of $92.0 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.04 per fully diluted share. Further, this compares to existing street estimates of net revenue of $85.9 million and $91.9 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.02 and $0.04 per fully diluted share, respectively.”
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3. ExaGrid; Systems Posts Record Sales Results in Q4 2007
Category: Financials
Storage: ExaGrid Systems
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced record sales for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2007. Fourth quarter sales for the company increased 30% compared to the previous quarter. ExaGrid is targeting a 30% or higher quarter-over-quarter sales growth rate going forward.”
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HR:
1. Whitaker; Touted as Next EMC Boss
Category: HR
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Unconfirmed reports suggest that Robin Whitaker, who resigned as IBM’s southern region manager last Tuesday, January 15, will join EMC, mostly likely as its new country manager. The position has been left vacant since Craig Stoddart’s departure from the storage vendor in October and several industry sources believe Whitaker is likely to take the role. “It would make sense considering his high profile,” says one insider, who did not want to be named.”
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2. Vignette; APAC Chief Exits
Category: HR
Storage: Vignette
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Mr Pullen has been in the IT industry for over 33 years, including an initial two years at Vignette as national sales director before leaving in 2001. In 2002 he joined Documentum as managing director of Australia and New Zealand. The following year storage giant EMC acquired Documentum. Mr Pullen spent less than 24 months under the new EMC management before returning to Vignette in early 2005 as Asia-Pacific general manager and vice-president. A Vignette spokesperson confirmed his tenure had ended.”
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3. Sophos; Seeks Manager for New Office
Category: HR
Security: Sophos
Country: New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Security vendor Sophos is on the hunt for a country manager after growing at the rate required to open a local office. Australia/New Zealand head Zoe Nicholson has had responsibility for both countries for the past year, but Sophos now wants to recruit a leader for its New Zealand operation.”
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Mergers & Partnerships:
1. EMC; and Dell Unveil AX4 Storage Array
Category: Product, Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC is looking to simplify its entry-level product line with the introduction of its new Clariion AX4. At the same time, EMC's biggest reseller, Dell, said it will resell the AX4 under the Dell AX4-5 moniker, making it the latest in a long line of EMC products that Dell resells. This reseller relationship continues despite Dell's decision in June to acquire EqualLogic in a deal worth US$1.4 billion, a move that gives the Round Rock, Texas-based vendor products that potentially compete with its EMC line. One solution provider who asked to remain anonymous, said that EMC is probably keeping an eye on the Dell/EqualLogic potential with the introduction of its AX4. "It seems met to combat EqualLogic more than anybody else," the solution provider said.”
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2. RSA; Enhances Its PCI Solutions through Collaboration with Cisco
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), announced the interoperability of five RSA® PCI Solutions in the CiscoPayment Card Industry (PCI) reference architectures The Cisco PCI Solution for Retail Validated Network Designs help retailers of all sizes effectively address the data security requirements mandated by the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).”
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3. F-Secure; Partner with Sony Ericsson for Smart Security
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: F-Secure
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: “Finnish security vendor F-Secure has announced a partnership with mobile phone company Sony Ericsson to supply mobile security to selected smartphone devices. F-Secure will provide a trial version of Mobile Security 3.3 UIQ on selected Sony Ericsson UIQ devices. According to both companies cooperating closely in mobile security for highly connected computing devices is a must.”
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4. IOMEGA; Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire ExcelStor Group
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Iomega
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire ExcelStor Great Wall Technology, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology Limited, a PRC company (collectively, with their subsidiaries, “ExcelStor”).”
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5. Datacraft; Buys Security-Assessment.com for $5 million
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Datacraft
Country: New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Asia Pacific services firm Datacraft, based in Singapore, has bought leading New Zealand security consultancy Security-Assessment.com for NZ$5 million, the second local ICT security firm to be sold this month. Datacraft announced today it has reached final agreement to acquire the business of Security-Assessment.com, to boost its ability to provide security services to clients across the Asia Pacific region. A conditional agreement was announced in early December.”
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Computer World
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6. Sun; Snaps up MySQL for US$1 billion
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems has ended the public expectation of open source database vendor MySQL becoming a public entity by announcing it would purchase the company for US$1 billion. The acquisition will make Sun part owner of the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) open source software stack, widely viewed as the foundation of the Internet. Already deployed across all major operating systems and countless Web applications including Facebook and Google, MySQL will now be leveraged to drive new adoption of the open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises, said Sun. The acquisition will also position Sun as a firm competitor to Oracle and IBM who dominate deployments of relational database management systems in the enterprise market.”
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1. EMC; and Dell Unveil AX4 Storage Array
Category: Product, Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC is looking to simplify its entry-level product line with the introduction of its new Clariion AX4. At the same time, EMC's biggest reseller, Dell, said it will resell the AX4 under the Dell AX4-5 moniker, making it the latest in a long line of EMC products that Dell resells. This reseller relationship continues despite Dell's decision in June to acquire EqualLogic in a deal worth US$1.4 billion, a move that gives the Round Rock, Texas-based vendor products that potentially compete with its EMC line. One solution provider who asked to remain anonymous, said that EMC is probably keeping an eye on the Dell/EqualLogic potential with the introduction of its AX4. "It seems met to combat EqualLogic more than anybody else," the solution provider said.”
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2. EMC; in Major Storage Performance Breakthrough; First with Enterprise-Ready Solid State Flash Drive Technology
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) became the first enterprise storage vendor to integrate flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) into its core product portfolio. Solid state flash drives utilize flash memory to store and retrieve data, yielding response times that are an order of magnitude faster than the fastest hard disk drives and require dramatically less power to run. The EMC® Symmetrix® DMX-4 storage system is the only enterprise storage system available on the market today to leverage this technology, which has been tested by EMC for the past year, to deliver ultra-high performance for mission-critical applications.”
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3. EMC; Introduces Virtual Provisioning, New Management Capabilities For Symmetrix
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) introduced EMC® Virtual Provisioning and new management capabilities for EMC Symmetrix® DMX enterprise storage systems. By further helping to simplify and speed both virtual and physical provisioning of storage capacity, EMC is continuing to help customers to lower the total cost of ownership in high-end storage environments.”
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4. EMC; Dramatically Advances Web-Based Distributed Document Capture
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced its newest distributed document capture solution that offers dramatic advances in Web-based distributed capture—EMC Captiva eInput 2.0. Key to streamlining paper-based transactional processes, eInput 2.0 makes the scanning and indexing of paper documents from remote offices faster and easier—automating the classification of documents, extraction of data, and validation of information directly from a Web browser. eInput 2.0's market-leading remote capture capabilities are key enabling technologies, helping companies realize more seamless, effective, and responsive distributed operations.”
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5. EMC; ships Hulk, says multiprotocol storage to dominate
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “During EMC's fourth-quarter earnings report this morning, CEO Joe Tucci discussed the company's progress on a hotly-anticipated clustered storage product, as well as providing an outlook on the storage market for 2008. "We've already GA'd a new hardware system to a limited number of customers," Tucci said, referring to a new Web 2.0 clustered storage system codenamed Hulk. Tucci said betas are working the bugs out of the hardware before companion software, codenamed Maui, is introduced later this year. Calling Maui a "new operating system," Tucci said that EMC will "make more of a splash" about the clustered system when it comes out.”
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6. McAfee;, Inc. Releases First Data Protection Offering With Powerful Encryption Technology
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced McAfee® Total Protection for Data, a comprehensive solution delivering complete protection, full visibility and control of confidential data anytime and anywhere. With unmatched scalability and centralized management, the new solution includes endpoint encryption, device control, and host data loss prevention (DLP). McAfee Total Protection for Data was created in response to the growing number of regulations placed on enterprises that require them to ensure customer privacy and data confidentiality. McAfee protects data regardless of how the data is used, stored, accessed or located. Customers receive comprehensive monitoring and protection of all communication channels including corporate E-mail, personal E-mail, instant messaging, file transfer, P2P file sharing, Web mail and other applications. The inclusion of end-point encryption protects businesses if a computer is ever lost or stolen.”
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7. Iomega; eGo Portable Hard Drives Now Available in Higher Capacities, Dual Interface models
Category: Product
Storage: Iomega
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega has introduced its eGo Portable Hard Drive family in higher capacity and dual interface models. Now, you can get these hard drives in 160GB and 250GB storage capacity with dual USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 interfaces. Also announced was the new 250GB USB 2.0-powered eGo Portable Hard Drive models which come in three colors- Cherry Red, Midnight Blue and Jet Black.These new eGo Portable Hard Drive models are being showcased at the ongoing Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.”
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8. McAfee; Releases Comprehensive DLP Suite
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “The McAfee Total Protection for Data, released Monday, offers comprehensive protection with full visibility and control of confidential data including endpoint encryption, device control and host DLP in an all-in-one security platform. Data loss prevention has become a little bit easier after McAfee announced a new all-in-one security suite that addresses security needs that span the segments.”
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9. Sophos; Strengthens Next-Generation Web Security with WS1000
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “IT security and control firm Sophos today announced the latest version of its WS1000 web appliance, which brings together enterprise-grade policy and URL filtering with trusted real-time security filtering–all managed on one easy-to-use platform. The new Sophos solution enables businesses to effectively protect against growing web threats at the gateway, which are not adequately protected by current market offerings. The WS1000 also offers network administrators improved oversight and reporting of web browsing behaviors in their organization.”
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10. Sun; Renames, Rejiggers Project Blackbox
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Project Blackbox, Sun Microsystems' modular data center, has a new name and a new reference customer, signaling a new level of maturity and acceptance for the concept, an analyst said. Today, Sun announced that the Blackbox, Initially introduced in late 2006, is now called the Sun Modular Datacenter S20. The S20 data center comes in a standard, 20-foot-long shipping container equipped with all the necessary data center amenities: cooling, power distribution, external hookups for water, air conditioning equipment and network connectivity. The product is generally available and lists at $559,000, not including professional services.”
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TechTarget
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Sales & Channels:
1. McAfee;, Inc. Welcomes Nine New Partners to Its Security Innovation Alliance Program
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced that Absolute Software, Application Security, Inc., Bit9, Inc., Guardium, LogLogic, Palamida, Q1 Labs, Raytheon Oakley Systems and Voltage have joined the McAfee® Security Innovation AllianceTM, a technology partnering program that accelerates the development of interoperable security products and simplifies the integration of those products within complex customer environments. Through the program, these companies will be able to integrate with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePOTM) for an industry-leading security and compliance risk management solution.”
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2. Sun; Shines on Channel Investment
Category: Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems is ramping up investment into channel development and will roll out new partners tools in an effort strengthen its indirect relationships. Partner sales director, Sam Srinivasan, said the forthcoming initiatives were about giving partners more transparency with Sun. The channel investment is also being driven by the vendor's growing portfolio of x86 and storage volume products.”
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Strategy:
1. Storage; Education Kicks-Off in NZ
Category: Strategy
Country: New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is launching an international education programme in New Zealand, beginning with a virtualisation seminar in March. The Storage Academy scheme originated in Europe about three years ago and is now being expanded into Asia, Australia and New Zealand. SNIA board member and EMC product manager Clive Gold says attendees appreciate getting an industry-wide perspective on storage issues.”
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2. McAfee; Launches Platinum Support for Enterprise
Category: Strategy
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Security vendor McAfee has launched an advanced support portfolio for its enterprise customers. Platinum Select is an additional tier in the vendor's existing program covering all customer products internationally. The initiative provides a single account manager and direct access to assigned technical product specialists. It signals the expansion of the vendor’s support model that currently includes McAfee Gold and McAfee Gold Select. The main differentiating feature of McAfee Platinum is additional dedicated resources for focused security support.”
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3. Sun; Shines on Channel Investment
Category: Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems is ramping up investment into channel development and will roll out new partners tools in an effort strengthen its indirect relationships. Partner sales director, Sam Srinivasan, said the forthcoming initiatives were about giving partners more transparency with Sun. The channel investment is also being driven by the vendor's growing portfolio of x86 and storage volume products.”
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1. CA; Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Category: Financials
Storage: CA
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “, Inc. (NYSE:CA) announced results for its third quarter fiscal year 2008, which ended Dec. 31, 2007. "CA has recorded another solid quarter — our fifth in a row," said John Swainson, CA's president and chief executive officer. "Most importantly, we remain on course to finish the year with revenue and earnings per share exceeding the updated annual outlook provided at our financial analyst day last December.”
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Datacraft:
1. Datacraft; Buys Security-Assessment.com for $5 million
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Datacraft
Country: New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Asia Pacific services firm Datacraft, based in Singapore, has bought leading New Zealand security consultancy Security-Assessment.com for NZ$5 million, the second local ICT security firm to be sold this month. Datacraft announced today it has reached final agreement to acquire the business of Security-Assessment.com, to boost its ability to provide security services to clients across the Asia Pacific region. A conditional agreement was announced in early December.”
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Computer World
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EMC:
1. EMC; and Dell Unveil AX4 Storage Array
Category: Product, Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC is looking to simplify its entry-level product line with the introduction of its new Clariion AX4. At the same time, EMC's biggest reseller, Dell, said it will resell the AX4 under the Dell AX4-5 moniker, making it the latest in a long line of EMC products that Dell resells. This reseller relationship continues despite Dell's decision in June to acquire EqualLogic in a deal worth US$1.4 billion, a move that gives the Round Rock, Texas-based vendor products that potentially compete with its EMC line. One solution provider who asked to remain anonymous, said that EMC is probably keeping an eye on the Dell/EqualLogic potential with the introduction of its AX4. "It seems met to combat EqualLogic more than anybody else," the solution provider said.”
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2. EMC; in Major Storage Performance Breakthrough; First with Enterprise-Ready Solid State Flash Drive Technology
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) became the first enterprise storage vendor to integrate flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) into its core product portfolio. Solid state flash drives utilize flash memory to store and retrieve data, yielding response times that are an order of magnitude faster than the fastest hard disk drives and require dramatically less power to run. The EMC® Symmetrix® DMX-4 storage system is the only enterprise storage system available on the market today to leverage this technology, which has been tested by EMC for the past year, to deliver ultra-high performance for mission-critical applications.”
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3. EMC; Introduces Virtual Provisioning, New Management Capabilities For Symmetrix
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) introduced EMC® Virtual Provisioning and new management capabilities for EMC Symmetrix® DMX enterprise storage systems. By further helping to simplify and speed both virtual and physical provisioning of storage capacity, EMC is continuing to help customers to lower the total cost of ownership in high-end storage environments.”
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4. RSA; Enhances Its PCI Solutions through Collaboration with Cisco
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “RSA, The Security Division of EMC (NYSE: EMC), announced the interoperability of five RSA® PCI Solutions in the CiscoPayment Card Industry (PCI) reference architectures The Cisco PCI Solution for Retail Validated Network Designs help retailers of all sizes effectively address the data security requirements mandated by the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).”
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5. EMC; Dramatically Advances Web-Based Distributed Document Capture
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) announced its newest distributed document capture solution that offers dramatic advances in Web-based distributed capture—EMC Captiva eInput 2.0. Key to streamlining paper-based transactional processes, eInput 2.0 makes the scanning and indexing of paper documents from remote offices faster and easier—automating the classification of documents, extraction of data, and validation of information directly from a Web browser. eInput 2.0's market-leading remote capture capabilities are key enabling technologies, helping companies realize more seamless, effective, and responsive distributed operations.”
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6. Whitaker; Touted as Next EMC Boss
Category: HR
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Unconfirmed reports suggest that Robin Whitaker, who resigned as IBM’s southern region manager last Tuesday, January 15, will join EMC, mostly likely as its new country manager. The position has been left vacant since Craig Stoddart’s departure from the storage vendor in October and several industry sources believe Whitaker is likely to take the role. “It would make sense considering his high profile,” says one insider, who did not want to be named.”
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7. EMC; ships Hulk, says multiprotocol storage to dominate
Category: Product
Storage: EMC
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “During EMC's fourth-quarter earnings report this morning, CEO Joe Tucci discussed the company's progress on a hotly-anticipated clustered storage product, as well as providing an outlook on the storage market for 2008. "We've already GA'd a new hardware system to a limited number of customers," Tucci said, referring to a new Web 2.0 clustered storage system codenamed Hulk. Tucci said betas are working the bugs out of the hardware before companion software, codenamed Maui, is introduced later this year. Calling Maui a "new operating system," Tucci said that EMC will "make more of a splash" about the clustered system when it comes out.”
News Source:
TechTarget
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ExaGrid Systems:
1. ExaGrid; Systems Posts Record Sales Results in Q4 2007
Category: Financials
Storage: ExaGrid Systems
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced record sales for the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2007. Fourth quarter sales for the company increased 30% compared to the previous quarter. ExaGrid is targeting a 30% or higher quarter-over-quarter sales growth rate going forward.”
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Iomega:
1. Iomega; eGo Portable Hard Drives Now Available in Higher Capacities, Dual Interface models
Category: Product
Storage: Iomega
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega has introduced its eGo Portable Hard Drive family in higher capacity and dual interface models. Now, you can get these hard drives in 160GB and 250GB storage capacity with dual USB 2.0 and FireWire 400 interfaces. Also announced was the new 250GB USB 2.0-powered eGo Portable Hard Drive models which come in three colors- Cherry Red, Midnight Blue and Jet Black.These new eGo Portable Hard Drive models are being showcased at the ongoing Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco.”
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2. IOMEGA; Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire ExcelStor Group
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Iomega
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega Corporation announced that it has entered into a definitive share purchase agreement to acquire ExcelStor Great Wall Technology, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology Limited, a PRC company (collectively, with their subsidiaries, “ExcelStor”).”
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3. Iomega; Expects Fourth Quarter Revenue and Net Income to Exceed Previous Guidance
Category: Financials
Storage: Iomega
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Iomega Corporation announced that it expects fourth quarter 2007 net revenue to be within a range of $117.0 million to $121.0 million, earnings per share to be within a range of $0.09 to $0.11 per fully diluted share and non-GAAP earnings per share to be within a range of $0.06 to $0.08 per fully diluted share. This compares to previous Company guidance given December 12, 2007 of net revenue of $92.0 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.04 per fully diluted share. Further, this compares to existing street estimates of net revenue of $85.9 million and $91.9 million and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.02 and $0.04 per fully diluted share, respectively.”
News Source:
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Sun:
1. Sun; Snaps up MySQL for US$1 billion
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems has ended the public expectation of open source database vendor MySQL becoming a public entity by announcing it would purchase the company for US$1 billion. The acquisition will make Sun part owner of the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) open source software stack, widely viewed as the foundation of the Internet. Already deployed across all major operating systems and countless Web applications including Facebook and Google, MySQL will now be leveraged to drive new adoption of the open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises, said Sun. The acquisition will also position Sun as a firm competitor to Oracle and IBM who dominate deployments of relational database management systems in the enterprise market.”
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2. Sun; Shines on Channel Investment
Category: Sales & Channels, Strategy
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Sun Microsystems is ramping up investment into channel development and will roll out new partners tools in an effort strengthen its indirect relationships. Partner sales director, Sam Srinivasan, said the forthcoming initiatives were about giving partners more transparency with Sun. The channel investment is also being driven by the vendor's growing portfolio of x86 and storage volume products.”
News Source:
ARNet
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3. Sun; Renames, Rejiggers Project Blackbox
Category: Product
Storage: Sun
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Project Blackbox, Sun Microsystems' modular data center, has a new name and a new reference customer, signaling a new level of maturity and acceptance for the concept, an analyst said. Today, Sun announced that the Blackbox, Initially introduced in late 2006, is now called the Sun Modular Datacenter S20. The S20 data center comes in a standard, 20-foot-long shipping container equipped with all the necessary data center amenities: cooling, power distribution, external hookups for water, air conditioning equipment and network connectivity. The product is generally available and lists at $559,000, not including professional services.”
News Source:
TechTarget
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Vignette:
1. Vignette; APAC Chief Exits
Category: HR
Storage: Vignette
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Mr Pullen has been in the IT industry for over 33 years, including an initial two years at Vignette as national sales director before leaving in 2001. In 2002 he joined Documentum as managing director of Australia and New Zealand. The following year storage giant EMC acquired Documentum. Mr Pullen spent less than 24 months under the new EMC management before returning to Vignette in early 2005 as Asia-Pacific general manager and vice-president. A Vignette spokesperson confirmed his tenure had ended.”
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1. CA; Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results
Category: Financials
Storage: CA
Security: CA
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “, Inc. (NYSE:CA) announced results for its third quarter fiscal year 2008, which ended Dec. 31, 2007. "CA has recorded another solid quarter — our fifth in a row," said John Swainson, CA's president and chief executive officer. "Most importantly, we remain on course to finish the year with revenue and earnings per share exceeding the updated annual outlook provided at our financial analyst day last December.”
News Source:
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F-Secure:
1. F-Secure; Partner with Sony Ericsson for Smart Security
Category: Mergers & Partnerships
Security: F-Secure
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market
Excerpt from News Source: “Finnish security vendor F-Secure has announced a partnership with mobile phone company Sony Ericsson to supply mobile security to selected smartphone devices. F-Secure will provide a trial version of Mobile Security 3.3 UIQ on selected Sony Ericsson UIQ devices. According to both companies cooperating closely in mobile security for highly connected computing devices is a must.”
News Source:
CRN
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McAfee:
1. McAfee;, Inc. Welcomes Nine New Partners to Its Security Innovation Alliance Program
Category: Sales & Channels
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced that Absolute Software, Application Security, Inc., Bit9, Inc., Guardium, LogLogic, Palamida, Q1 Labs, Raytheon Oakley Systems and Voltage have joined the McAfee® Security Innovation AllianceTM, a technology partnering program that accelerates the development of interoperable security products and simplifies the integration of those products within complex customer environments. Through the program, these companies will be able to integrate with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator® (ePOTM) for an industry-leading security and compliance risk management solution.”
News Source:
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2. McAfee;, Inc. Releases First Data Protection Offering With Powerful Encryption Technology
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) announced McAfee® Total Protection for Data, a comprehensive solution delivering complete protection, full visibility and control of confidential data anytime and anywhere. With unmatched scalability and centralized management, the new solution includes endpoint encryption, device control, and host data loss prevention (DLP). McAfee Total Protection for Data was created in response to the growing number of regulations placed on enterprises that require them to ensure customer privacy and data confidentiality. McAfee protects data regardless of how the data is used, stored, accessed or located. Customers receive comprehensive monitoring and protection of all communication channels including corporate E-mail, personal E-mail, instant messaging, file transfer, P2P file sharing, Web mail and other applications. The inclusion of end-point encryption protects businesses if a computer is ever lost or stolen.”
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3. McAfee; Launches Platinum Support for Enterprise
Category: Strategy
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “Security vendor McAfee has launched an advanced support portfolio for its enterprise customers. Platinum Select is an additional tier in the vendor's existing program covering all customer products internationally. The initiative provides a single account manager and direct access to assigned technical product specialists. It signals the expansion of the vendor’s support model that currently includes McAfee Gold and McAfee Gold Select. The main differentiating feature of McAfee Platinum is additional dedicated resources for focused security support.”
News Source:
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4. McAfee; Releases Comprehensive DLP Suite
Category: Product
Security: McAfee
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “The McAfee Total Protection for Data, released Monday, offers comprehensive protection with full visibility and control of confidential data including endpoint encryption, device control and host DLP in an all-in-one security platform. Data loss prevention has become a little bit easier after McAfee announced a new all-in-one security suite that addresses security needs that span the segments.”
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Sophos:
1. Sophos; Seeks Manager for New Office
Category: HR
Security: Sophos
Country: New Zealand
Excerpt from News Source: “Security vendor Sophos is on the hunt for a country manager after growing at the rate required to open a local office. Australia/New Zealand head Zoe Nicholson has had responsibility for both countries for the past year, but Sophos now wants to recruit a leader for its New Zealand operation.”
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2. Sophos; Strengthens Next-Generation Web Security with WS1000
Category: Product
Security: Sophos
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Company Size: SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise
Excerpt from News Source: “IT security and control firm Sophos today announced the latest version of its WS1000 web appliance, which brings together enterprise-grade policy and URL filtering with trusted real-time security filtering–all managed on one easy-to-use platform. The new Sophos solution enables businesses to effectively protect against growing web threats at the gateway, which are not adequately protected by current market offerings. The WS1000 also offers network administrators improved oversight and reporting of web browsing behaviors in their organization.”
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