Flexible workspace- Canadian Bosses vs. Employees

 Survey shows Office Workers, Bosses Want to 

Work from Everywhere and Anywhere

Microsoft Canada survey results found workers and bosses often feel more productive working remotely

March 29, 2012 – Microsoft Canada today announced the results of its Flexible Workspaces survey – a study which examined the workstyle preferences of employees and bosses with regards to working remotely and how they ranked their productivity while working remotely. The survey found that while many employees are seeking flexible work arrangements, not all of their bosses believe they work as efficiently when they are working outside the office.  In fact, only one-quarter of Canadian bosses polled feel employees are more productive when working remotely, compared to when in the office. However, the findings from employees countered the bosses’ perceptions, with 55% reporting that they believed they were more productive when working remotely. The survey polled Canadians who work full time in an office with 10 or more employees and for companies which allow remote working arrangements.

“What we once considered the traditional office is changing,” said James Nicholson, Deployment Specialist for Windows with Microsoft Canada. “More and more customers, colleagues and technology partners are finding themselves taking business calls from airport waiting lounges, reviewing work documents as they wait at the dentist office or sit on the train, or running important personal errands during their work day. And at the centre of their workstyles, people expect increased technological capabilities to keep up with them – everything from real time collaboration with colleagues to video conferencing and secure access to their files.”

The good news is: almost half of the polled bosses (42%) say that they do support remote working arrangements for their employees.   Mike Kennedy, Vice President at Aon Hewitt and National Lead, Health Strategies and Solutions, agrees, “As workers juggle longer hours and aim to maintain a work-life balance, employers who can offer flexible workspaces to their employees are leading the pack in becoming employers of choice. We are seeing more and more that employees are seeking out flexible work arrangements and the opportunity to work outside the office walls – anywhere and anytime, from the airport to the soccer field. And as the competition for top talent continues, particularly for the next generation entering the workforce and for the highly skilled experienced talent, employers who aren’t keeping up may be left behind.”   

Thinking Outside the Cubicle

The need for up-to-date technology is one thing everyone can agree on, the study found. The overwhelming majority of both bosses (95%) and employees (90%) polled say that it is very important to have similar capabilities when working remotely compared to when working in the office. 

“Organizations that will be successful in the future are those that remove the barriers between people, workplace and technology,” said James Nicholson. “When you empower your people by creating a workplace that facilitates flexibility with the technology and solutions that help them to be productive wherever they are, you get the most out of your people.”

The top reasons cited by the survey respondents for working remotely include needing to finish work that couldn’t be finished at the office (48%); having fewer distractions (44%); being more productive than in the office (35%); and having a better balance of work/home priorities (35%).

Leading Change – Right from the Top

“Boundaries between work and life are blurring, “says Carolyn Buccongello, Vice President of Human Resources with Microsoft Canada. “You may dismiss this as a Generation-C issue but this speaks broadly to all generations. There are pros and cons to this new way of work, but it is not going away and technology can become the key to resetting those boundaries.”

According to Ms. Buccongello, there are three core dimensions to transforming business for flexible work:

·         Technology – With the advances made in technology, the ability to work any time, any place, from virtually anywhere shatters the myth of the office as the primary work location.

·         Places – Canadian workers are on the move from airports, other offices, commuting home on the train – they are becoming more fluid in terms of their physical presence.

·         People – Canadian modern society is shifting as technology becomes commonplace, enabling Canadians to work and communicate in different ways.

 

“To create a flexible workforce begins with leadership teams building a culture of trust and a vision that focuses on individual results rather than how much time they spend at their desk. You have to empower your people with self-direction. That’s not just common sense, that’s business sense,” said Ms. Buccongello.

According to Mr. Kennedy, employers who combine these three elements will empower both the organization and people with an environment that lets them do their best work wherever they are. “For businesses large and small, there are several benefits including increased productivity, and the ability to attract and retain the best talent,” said Mr. Kennedy.

Additional stats-at-a-glance:

·         The survey revealed bosses’ top pet peeves in dealing with remote workers were:  the inability to talk face-to-face (49%), lack of focus (26%), lack of accountability (22%) and the belief that employees are doing less work (22%).

·         Bosses are much more likely than employees to conduct business in public spaces (62% vs. 34%). 

o   The most frequent places mentioned by bosses include while driving (46%), on public transportation (29%) and at a bar or restaurant (25%).

·         The majority of respondents (89%) indicate that their companies provide tech support for company owned devices.  In contrast, more than half (54%) of companies that respondents work for do not provide tech support for personally owned devices.

·         Bosses (62%) rate themselves higher than employees (55%) in feeling that they are more productive when working remotely.

To learn more about how Microsoft can accelerate your team’s productivity, visit: www.microsoft.com/canada/media.

In 2011, Microsoft was ranked the #1 overall “Best Workplaces in Canada”, for companies with more than 1,000 employees.

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About Microsoft Canada

Established in 1985, Microsoft Canada Inc. is the Canadian subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq "MSFT") the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft Canada provides nationwide sales, marketing, consulting and local support services in both French and English. Headquartered in Mississauga, Microsoft Canada has nine regional offices across the country dedicated to empowering people through great software - any time, any place and on any device. For more information on Microsoft Canada, please visit www.microsoft.ca.

About the survey:

From February 14, to February 21, 2012, an online survey was conducted among 1,249 employees (n=607) and bosses (n=642) who are Angus Reid Forum panelists. Employees are defined as Canadian adults who work full time in an office with 10 or more employees; Bosses are defined as Mid-Tier Managers and Business Owners who have direct reports and work in an office with 10 or more employees.  All respondents must work in companies which allow remote working arrangements. Discrepancies in or between totals are due to rounding.

Rotary International Transforms IT with EMC

Rotary International Transforms IT with EMC

Humanitarian Service Organization Transforms 90 Per Cent Virtualized IT
Infrastructure to Manage 400 Per Cent Data Growth; Reduces System
Management Time by 25 Per Cent; Improves Backup Time 32X

HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 29, 2012 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)
today announced that Rotary International, a leading global humanitarian
service organization, has transformed its IT infrastructure and
standardized on EMC storage and backup and recovery technologies. With
90 per cent of its IT environment virtualized, Rotary has built a solid
foundation for improving the availability of its mission-critical
applications including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint,
Oracle PeopleSoft, SAP business intelligence and Avectra netFORUM
customer relationship management (CRM), while boosting the performance,
efficiency and scalability of its IT infrastructure.

Rotary has implemented EMC®VNXe™,
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm) EMC Isilon®,
(http://www.isilon.com/) EMC Avamar®
(http://www.emc.com/backup-and-recovery/avamar/avamar.htm) and EMC
RecoverPoint
(http://www.emc.com/replication/recoverpoint/recoverpoint.htm)™as well
as VMware vSphere™ and is using a VCE™ Vblock™
(http://www.vce.com/vblock/) Infrastructure Platform that integrates
EMC VNX™ unified storage, VMware vSphere virtualization and cloud
technologies and Cisco networking and Unified Computing System (UCS)
technologies. Rotary is using its Vblock platform for its
mission-critical applications and primary storage, while leveraging a
VNXe storage system at a second facility to replicate data.

Customer Benefits:

* Simplified Management – Rotary has reduced everyday system
management time by 25 per cent since transforming its IT infrastructure
* Strengthened Data Protection – With EMC Avamar, Rotary has
eliminated tape and reduced the window for full backups from 72 hours to
just two hours, a 32X improvement in time to backup
* Predictable Performance – Rotary’s “FLASH 1st” strategy using
EMC’s FAST™ (fully automated storage tiering) Suite on its Vblock
platform ensured that the most utilized data was stored on the highest
performing media, including flash drives
* Improved Efficiency – After transforming its IT infrastructure,
Rotary reduced time to deliver new projects to its internal clients from
days to hours, enabling IT staff to be more proactive in supporting
Rotary’s overall humanitarian mission
* Managing Digital Assets – EMC Isilon scale-out NAS delivers
increased performance, capability and scalability for Rotary’s growing
digital assets

Customer Challenges and Solution:

With greater use of digital media in its program promotion and demand
for speedier grants management, Rotary saw its data volume grow
approximately 400 per cent in just 18 months. To handle this massive
data growth, Rotary’s lean IT staff needed to simplify manageability
while enabling cost-effective scalability and maintaining high
performance.

A long-time EMC and VMware customer, Rotary decided to transform its IT
environment in the second quarter of 2011. Rotary selected EMC Isilon
during the second quarter of 2011 to better manage its growing digital
assets to complement its existing EMC Avamar solution, backing up its
entire IT infrastructure and eliminating all tape from its IT
environment.

The final stage of Rotary’s transformation included the adoption of a
fully integrated converged infrastructure. Their VCE Vblock platform
brings together leading storage, networking, server and virtualization
technologies to support mission-critical workloads with the highest
levels of performance, availability and simplified management of the
infrastructure. To maximize the performance of its applications, Rotary
is using the EMC FAST Suite on its Vblock to employ a “FLASH 1st”
strategy, ensuring that the most imp
ortant, active data is stored on
Flash drives for maximum performance, while older, inactive data is
stored on inexpensive, high capacity drives for optimal total cost of
ownership.

Customer Quotes:

Jon Shulda, SAN and VMware Administrator, Rotary International

On IT Transformation:

“We needed to transform our IT infrastructure and processes to better
support our strategic goals of increasing visibility of the Rotary
brand. Leveraging EMC, VMware and VCE, many of our internal IT resources
have transitioned away from an operational role to focus more on
delivering new projects to our internal and external clients. Time to
deliver underlying infrastructure for new projects has been reduced from
a couple days to just a few hours in most cases allowing us to be more
proactive to the needs of organization .We’re also able to ensure our
mission-critical applications like SQL Server, SharePoint and Oracle are
well-protected and scale to new data loads.”

On its Storage Environment:

“The VNXe was a breeze to implement. We were out of the box and
production-ready in about two hours. EMC Unisphere™ allows us to manage
all our resources with a single interface. We can easily manage our
infrastructure on a daily basis and leverage Unisphere’s features when
performing system upgrades. ”

“Provisioning storage on the Vblock platform has improved greatly
after implementing a ‘FLASH 1st’ strategy because EMC FAST VP
automatically distributes data onto the right tier of storage and
expands and contracts virtual storage pools as needed. As a result,
we’ve reduced the time we spend on day-to-day system management by
25 per cent. Despite our IT infrastructure growing by 400 per cent in
the past 18 months our IT staff has remained the same size and can
manage the growth easily with our EMC infrastructure.”

“EMC’s close partnership with VMware, Cisco and VCE ensures all
products are working in harmony. We know EMC will stand behind the
entire solution. We rely on the Vblock platform to support our
mission-critical applications and we have complete confidence in its
ability to meet our strict SLAs.”

“We also rely on EMC Isilon to provide high-performance, low-latency
storage to meet our multimedia initiatives need. Isilon integrated
seamlessly into our environment and has proven to be a reliable solution
to manage our multimedia files, allowing us to grow seamlessly as our
multimedia assets grow.”

On Backup and Eliminating Tape:

“In addition, EMC Avamar continues to be a key part of our
infrastructure and has been for a number of years. Before we implemented
Avamar, our full tape backups would run for more than 72 hours and often
included failed backups. Now, after completely eliminating tape from our
environment and with Avamar, we have achieved 92 per cent data
deduplication with Avamar, and most of our backups complete in just two
hours.”

Additional Resources:

* Customer Profile
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/customer-profiles/h9660-rotary-international-cp.pdf):
Read more about Rotary’s unified storage and backup and recovery
solutions
* Learn more about VNXe
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm), Unisphere
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/unisphere.htm), Isilon
(http://www.isilon.com/), RecoverPoint
(http://www.emc.com/replication/recoverpoint/recoverpoint.htm) and
Avamar (http://www.emc.com/backup-and-recovery/avamar/avamar.htm)
* Learn more about VCE (http://www.vce.com/vblock/) and Vblock
Infrastructure PlatformsConnect with EMC via Twitter
(http://emc.im/pv0ODN), Facebook (http://emc.im/oV8wDa), YouTube
(http://emc.im/njvQnq), LinkedIn (http://emc.im/p7PAo4) and ECN
(http://emc.im/bd2nk1)

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing
, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com


EMC, VNXe, VNX, Isilon, Unisphere and Avamar are registered trademarks
or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other
countries. VCE and Vblock are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE
Company LLC or its affiliates in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their
respective owners.

Study: Cloud Usage Surging, Leveling Playing Field for Small and Midsize Businesses

Study: Cloud Usage Surging, Leveling Playing Field for Small and Midsize Businesses
New Microsoft research finds SMBs leveraging cloud services to expand geographic reach and identifies opportunities for local service providers.

REDMOND, Wash. — March 28, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. today announced new research predicting a significant increase in paid cloud services over the next five years among small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The research conducted by Edge Strategies includes survey responses from IT decision-makers or influencers at more than 3,000 SMBs in 13 countries. According to survey results, paid cloud services are expected to double in five years, while the number of the world’s smallest companies using at least one paid cloud service will triple in the next three years.

The move to the cloud represents a major opportunity for service providers, and partnering with Microsoft offers the most complete set of cloud-based solutions to meet SMB needs.
The move to the cloud represents a major opportunity for service providers, and partnering with Microsoft offers the most complete set of cloud-based solutions to meet SMB needs.
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“Gone are the days of large enterprises holding the keys to enterprise-class IT and services,” said Marco Limena, vice president, Operator Channels, Microsoft. “The cloud levels the playing field for SMBs, helping them compete in today’s quickly changing business environment, by spending less time and money on IT and more time focused on their most important priority — growing their businesses.”

Cloud computing is able to deliver more of what small and midsize businesses need — cheaper operations and faster, better fusion of vital information to virtually any device. In fact, the research finds 59 percent of companies currently using cloud services report significant productivity benefits from information technology, compared with just 30 percent of SMBs not yet using the cloud.

Moreover, despite a sluggish global economy, 63 percent of SMBs using cloud services today expect to grow in sales in the next 12 to 18 months while 55 percent believe technology will power their growth. SMBs worldwide are embracing cloud services to reap those benefits and stay ahead of competitors — 50 percent of SMBs say cloud computing is going to become more important for their operations, and 58 percent believe working in the cloud can make companies more competitive.

More Options, Fewer Concerns

SMBs’ appetites for the cloud are only growing as they add more devices and services — and as their concerns about the cloud wane.

Cloud adopters want to do more with devices. Mobility is essential to current cloud users. They want mobile devices for more than email, including productivity and business apps.

Security is a priority but no longer a main concern. Only about 20 percent of SMBs believe that data is less secure in the cloud than it is in their on-premise systems. Thirty-six percent overall and 49 percent of larger SMBs actually think that data is as secure in the cloud as in their own systems.

Local is better when it comes to service providers. Most SMBs feel it is important to buy services from a provider with a local presence, and 31 percent feel this is critical.

Opportunities for Microsoft Partners

Although many SMBs are interested in the benefits that the cloud can deliver, many are unable to identify which services would be most valuable for them to implement and select a service provider. More than 60 percent of SMBs indicate they do not have the resources necessary to implement new technologies and services, and 52 percent do not have the resources to get their employees trained. For the large ecosystem of cloud service providers, this represents significant opportunity to bridge the knowledge and implementation gap and gain new customers — 56 percent of SMBs report a preference toward buying IT and cloud services from a single source.

“Trust development is critical to our work with SMBs,” said Aaron Hollobaugh, vice president of Marketing, Hostway. “Increasingly, clients tell us they work with Hostway because our global datacenter network often provides local support. Client trust is earned because we view every business – regardless of size – as an enterprise. We combine enterprise-class technologies and cost-effective service with the Microsoft brand to deliver cloud solutions that address the enterprise needs of SMBs.”

About the Research

The Microsoft SMB Business in the Cloud 2012 research report was designed and conducted in conjunction with Edge Strategies Inc. (http://www.edgestrategies.com) in December 2011. The research questioned 3,000 SMBs that employ 2 to 250 employees across 13 countries worldwide: Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, the U.K. and the U.S. A copy of the survey results can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/telecom/docs/SMBCloud.pdf

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: For more information, news and perspectives from Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft News Center at http://www.microsoft.com/news. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/news/contactpr.mspx.

Messenger Plus! for Skype 1.2 Takes the Next Step in Revolutionizing Skype


Messenger Plus! for Skype 1.2 Takes the Next Step in Revolutionizing Skype


Second release of Messenger Plus! for Skype features video and voice transformation effects; ringtones

MONTREAL, March 28, 2012 /CNW/ - Yuna Software, the company that develops, designs and markets Messenger Plus!, has released Messenger Plus! for Skype 1.2,  the second version of this new product from the makers of the most popular and respected extension for Windows Live Messenger. The premier version of Messenger Plus! for Skype, 1.0 reached more than one million downloads in less than a month. Whereas the first version of Messenger Plus! for Skype introduced free animations and recording of video and voice calls, the latest version adds special video display effects, voice changer, translations of the software into several languages and more.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20120327/518948 )

"Messenger Plus! for Skype 1.2 continues to season Skype with cool technology," says Alex Shamash, Business Director, Yuna Software. "We're pleased to have added so many additions to the original product in such a short time and hope that Skype users will be as excited as we are to get such a feature-rich product that is practical as well as fun, absolutely free."

Look special

Using special video transformation effects from Messenger Plus!, Skype users can clone themselves online, create a mirror effect, bulge and shrink their images, change the colors of their video display and more.

Sound different

When you make a Skype call, Messenger Plus! for Skype lets you change or amplify your voice to produce all sorts of robotic, alien and fun sound effects.  You can also identify contacts according to their ringtones.

Display texts in your video conversations

This version lets you display a text in your video conversation with your favorite font, color and positioning.

Messenger Plus! for Skype 1.2 download (17 languages):

http://www.msgplus.net/Features/For_Skype or from the Skype App Directory

Click here for the full list of features.

Messenger Plus! for Windows Live™ Messenger download 22 languages: http://www.msgplus.net/Downloads/MsgDetailDownload

About Messenger Plus!

Messenger Plus! lets users get more from their Instant Messenger experience including plugins, skins, sounds, emoticons, and more. Messenger Plus! users benefit from tons of exciting features of this freeware that has been enhancing Windows Live™ Messenger since 2001, with a new add-on available for Skype. The Messenger Plus! brand is owned by Yuna Software, a private company with headquarters in Montreal, Canada and additional offices worldwide.

For further information:

Media Contact:
Ronni Kives
pr@yunasoftware.com
+1(438)380-4114

Iomega Announces North America Availability of All-In-One Security Video Surveillance and Network Storage Solution ...

Iomega Announces North America Availability of All-In-One Security
Video Surveillance and Network Storage Solution for Small and
Medium-Sized Businesses and Others

News Highlights:

* Introducing the all-in-one, pre-packaged Iomega® StorCenter™ PX
series desktop NAS integrated with video management system (IVMS)
software and eight-camera license*
* Iomega StorCenter network storage devices with MindTree SecureMind
software deliver feature-rich management of local digital video
surveillance cameras and recordings for small and medium businesses
(SMBs), remote offices and distributed enterprises
* Top-of-the-line Iomega® StorCenter™ PX series of network storage
products offer optional server-class series drives, delivering high duty
access and longer life cycles for dependable data storage

Full Story:

LAS VEGAS, NV – March 28, 2012 – Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC)
and a global leader in data protection, today announced the North
America availability of an all-in-one network storage video surveillance
product that includes both hardware and software, providing SMBs and
others with an easy-to-deploy, high performance yet economical video
surveillance solution that incorporates network storage for capturing,
storing and managing video surveillance files.

Iomega will be showcasing all its video surveillance solutions at this
week’s ISC West security tradeshow in Las Vegas, March 28-30. (See it
all at Iomega booth #3035.)

The new Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300d Server Class Series with MindTree
SecureMind Surveillance Manager, Integrated Video Management System
(IVMS), combines a desktop four-bay Iomega StorCenter px4-300d device,
populated with two 1TB** server class drives and an eight-camera
SecureMind license. This flexible network storage surveillance SKU can
be expanded with additional hard disk drives (HDDs) and/or licenses for
additional camera channels.

The MindTree SecureMind Surveillance Manager software is ideal for
small to mid-level camera count installations and now available to the
Iomega worldwide network of distributors and resellers. Iomega’s
channel partners can purchase MindTree SecureMind video management
software directly from Iomega along with Iomega’s broad line of
StorCenter network storage products to create a complete solution for
the recording, management and access of surveillance video information.
The combined solution, targeted for stand-alone surveillance
applications of 48 cameras (channels) or less, is ideal for small to
medium businesses (SMB) and distributed enterprise environments.

The MindTree SecureMind application is now included at no additional
chargewith Iomega StorCenter network storage products as a
fully-featured application for one video surveillance camera. This
enables users to set up a video surveillance environment and experience
the ease-of-use and full capabilities of the Iomega all-in-one video
surveillance network storage solution. Users have the option to purchase
licenses for additional cameras to upgrade their installation up to the
maximum capability of each of Iomega’s StorCenter network storage
models.

Executive Quote

“Iomega’s new all-in-one StorCenter network storage plus video
surveillance solution is specifically designed to meet the needs of SMBs
and distributed enterprises,” said Mike Nikzad, Chief Operating
Officer, Iomega Corporation. “Combining Iomega’s high performance
and durable StorCenter px4-300d NAS, integrated with MindTree’s
SecureMind VMS application, which supports a broad selection of leading
IP camera brands, creates a versatile IT appliance for SMBs as well as
an easy to deploy and manage video surveillance appliance priced at a
fraction of traditional DVR-based surveillance systems.”

Iomega StorCenter Network Storage and MindTree SecureMind Software

Iomega StorCenter devices combined with MindTree Limited’s SecureMind
S
urveillance Manager video management system (VMS) application deliver a
feature-rich video surveillance management application, enabling users
to manage surveillance activities while simultaneously storing the
video. The SecureMind Surveillance Manager is completely integrated with
the Iomega StorCenter device to simplify installation and configuration.
The Iomega StorCenter+SecureMind combination supports up to 48 cameras
and up to 36TB of storage capacity per device (depending on the Iomega
StorCenter model). Among the features and benefits of this combined
surveillance solution:

* Simple installation and configuration
* View Live Video from anywhere using a web browser
* Support for multiple branded H.264, MPEG4 and MJPEG IP and USB
connected cameras for monitoring your office premises
* ONVIF 2.0 Ready
* Activity-based recording with Activity Alerts
* Timeline mode for easy viewing of recorded videos
* Video Loss and Tamper Alert Detections
* “Alert-Me” reporting of Alerts via email
* Control and Configure Cameras Remotely

Iomega StorCenter Network Storage Products

Iomega StorCenter products make it easy to archive, protect and share
physical security video and audio files from anywhere (with an Internet
connection). Iomega StorCenter units deliver the innovation and
convenience of optimizing video surveillance installations at a fraction
of the cost of traditional DVR/NVR installations. Iomega StorCenter
units deliver the missing element from today’s video management
systems – the ability to offer storage with advance data protection

Iomega StorCenter network storage products range from the new double
drive desktop Iomega® StorCenter™ ix2, which is available from diskless
configurations up to 6TB of storage, to the new top-of-line Iomega®
StorCenter™ PX Server Class Series of desktop and rackmount models.

The Iomega® StorCenter™ px4-300d utilizes four HDD bays and up to 12TB
of storage; the Iomega® StorCenter™ px6-300d features six HDD bays and
up to 18TB of storage capacity. Both models are available diskless,
partially populated and fully populated. Empty bays in both models are
fitted with a drive carrier that can accommodate 2.5-inch and 3.5 inch
HDD drives, as well as Solid State Drives (SSDs) for
performance-intensive applications.

With up to 12TB of storage capacity, the rackmount Iomega® StorCenter™
px4-300r Network Storage Array Server Class Series features four bays
for use with HDDs or SSDs. The px4-300r comes in a space-saving 1U form
factor ranging from diskless to fully populated with HDD and/or SSDs.
Iomega’s flagship rackmount unit, the Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-350r
Network Storage Array Server Class Series, utilizes 12 bays in a 2U form
factor that ranges from partially populated with 4TB to fully populated
with up to 36TB.

Pricing and Availability

All Iomega StorCenter network storage products and SecureMind licenses
are available immediately. A one-camera MindTree SecureMind license is
included with all Iomega StorCenter products. Upgrade licenses start at
US$69.99 for two camera channels and are also available in 4, 8, 16, 32,
and 48 camera increments. The new IVMS Iomega Desktop Surveillance SKU,
which includes one Iomega StorCenter px4-300d network storage, two 1TB
Server Class hard disk drives and a SecureMind license for eight camera
channels, is priced at US$1,199.99.

Stand-alone Iomega StorCenter network storage products start at less
than US$400.00. (All pricing is U.S. suggested retail.)

About MindTree

MindTree Limited is a global IT and Product Engineering Services
Company with deep knowledge in specific domains. MindTree is
acknowledged as the best mid-size software services company in India for
its capability to build, test and deploy solutions. The Company also
places significant emphasis on culture, customer centricity and
corporate governance. Please visit us at www.mindtree.com.

About Iomega

Iomega Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corpo
ration
headquartered in San Diego, is a worldwide leader in innovative storage
solutions for small businesses, home offices, consumers and others. The
Company has sold more than 425 million digital storage drives and disks
since its inception in 1980. Today, Iomega’s product portfolio
includes industry leading desktop and rackmount network attached storage
products ideal for content sharing, data protection at small and medium
businesses and distributed enterprises, as well as vertical applications
such as video surveillance installations; a broad selection of
direct-attached portable and desktop external hard drives; and
multimedia drives, making it easy to move video, pictures and other
files from the computer room to the livingroom. To learn about all of
Iomega’s storage products and network storage solutions, please go to
the Web at www.iomega.com. Resellers can visit Iomega at
www.ioclub.net.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com


* Cameras not included in the product offering
**1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes


Copyright© 2012 Iomega Corporation. All rights reserved. Iomega and
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Alberta Research Institutions to Launch Powerful Computing Resources

 

 

Compute Canada / WestGrid to Launch Powerful Computing Resources at Alberta Institutions

 

Calgary, AB (Wednesday, March 28, 2012) – More than 100 members of Alberta’s academic, government and innovation sectors will gather on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 for an Alberta-wide launch of powerful computing and data storage resources that will support the next generation of leading-edge Canadian research.

 

As part of the launch, five Alberta research institutions -- Athabasca University, the University of Alberta, the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge and The Banff Centre -- will connect via videoconference to share remarks from key partners in the investment, as well as host local facility tours and equipment demonstrations. The new resources include high performance computers, data storage resources, and collaboration facility upgrades, and will support the development of new applications and research discoveries in the sciences, engineering, medicine, arts and humanities.

 

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GLOO Software Embeds MicroStrategy Platform into their Social Business Suite

GLOO Software Embeds MicroStrategy Platform into their Social Business Suite

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March 27, 2012 (Kitchener, ON) - - IGLOO Software, the leading provider of social business software in the cloud, today announced that it has partnered with MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, to integrate reporting and analytics into IGLOO’s social business suite.

Next Generation Reporting Solution to Turn Employee Interactions into Business Insights.

March 27, 2012 (Kitchener, ON) - - IGLOO Software, the leading provider of social business softwarein the cloud, today announced that it has partnered with MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, to integrate reporting and analytics into IGLOO's social business suite. The solution will allow IGLOO customers to track user participation, influence, activity and engagement in a social intranet or extranet.

As social technologies are introduced to business, workflow and employee interactions become more and more visible. The resulting activity and dialogue produces unprecedented volumes of data around social behaviors and actions. The addition of an analytics module provides organizations with the ability to identify areas where social interactions are most effective and model those more broadly across the entire organization to improve the effectiveness of team collaboration.

"Traditionally, engaging in a dialogue with employees and gathering deep insights from those interactions was achieved through an annual opinion survey," said Dan Latendre, CEO of IGLOO Software. "IGLOO's social business suite provides a new type of visibility into the collaborative conversations and activities that occur within an organization. For many companies, uncovering this insight is a game-changer.  With our new social business suite, we will enable our customers to more effectively manage and optimize their talent and their ongoing interactions with customers and partners."

MicroStrategy is one of the leading business intelligence companies focused on developing powerful technologies that capitalize on Big Data, Mobile, Social and Cloud trends. The IGLOO integration, managed by Gensquared, is built on MicroStrategy 9, a fully integrated BI platform that delivers reports and dashboards to business users via the web and mobile devices.

IGLOO will integrate MicroStrategy's BI platform into the IGLOO administrative console in order to enrich the community management and reporting process.  A dashboard of indicators will be presented graphically, including activity, contribution types and top content. Over time, new applications will be built to apply social analytics in a number of innovative ways that include:   

  • Creating a more personalized user experience that delivers proactive recommendations of relevant people to connect with and content to explore
  • Adding detailed analytics that gauge employee sentiment and measure the effectiveness of project teams in order to understand its impact on business performance

"MicroStrategy is pleased to provide the reporting and analytics platform for IGLOO's cloud-based social business suite," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy Chief Operating Officer.  "To meet accelerating customer demand for critical cloud solutions, Value Added Resellers like IGLOO Software are choosing MicroStrategy's platform and easily integrating its powerful reporting and dashboard capabilities into their innovative cloud-based services."

"Gensquared provides a highly customized integration between the MicroStrategy platform, IGLOO and existing data living outside the IGLOO social business suite, allowing customers to perform powerful analysis right within their intranet or extranet," said Patrick Siconolfi, Principal at Gensquared Inc. "We are excited to be a part of a solution that brings together both MicroStrategy and IGLOO to deliver on this important customer need." 

The first phase of reporting will be made available to all IGLOO customers in the Spring '12 release.

About MicroStrategy
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a leading provider of enterprise software platforms for business intelligence (BI), mobile intelligence, and social intelligence applications. MicroStrategy's BI platform enables leading organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions. Companies choose MicroStrategy BI for its ease-of-use, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. MicroStrategy's mobile intelligence platform helps companies and organizations build, deploy, and maintain mobile apps across a range of solutions by embedding intelligence, transactions, and multimedia into apps. MicroStrategy's social intelligence platform includes a number of applications that help enterprises harness the power of social networks for marketing and e-commerce, as well as a suite of free consumer friendly apps that use MicroStrategy's enterprise technologies. The MicroStrategy Cloud offering combines MicroStrategy and third-party software, hardware, and services to enable rapid, cost-effective development of hosted BI, mobile, and social applications. To learn more about MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR), visit http://www.microstrategy.com/ and follow us on Facebook andTwitter.

About Gensquared
Gensquared is a boutique consulting firm focused on enabling organizations capitalize one of their most important assets - their Data. Gensquared offers end-to-end professional services focused on delivering world-class business intelligence and data warehouse solutions that enable its customers to gain actionable insight for growing and effectively managing their businesses.

About IGLOO Software
IGLOO's social business software is the fastest way to enable modern business collaboration. Delivered purely in the cloud, IGLOO empowers your people to become more productive, responsive and agile. That is why world-class companies, such as Cisco, NetApp, Deloitte and the ATP World Tour, choose IGLOO. Learn more at www.igloosoftware.com.


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UniPrint Continues Global Expansion with UK Location

UniPrint Continues Global Expansion with UK Location


Company Opens Office and Appoints New Hire to Address Growth

TORONTO, March 28, 2012 /CNW/ - UniPrint (www.uniprint.net), the leader in printing virtualization, today announced the opening of its new office in Cardiff, Wales, which will provide technical sales support to customers throughout Europe. The UK-based office will serve as an efficient base for local clients and a convenient hub for doing business across the region. Heading the UK office will be UniPrint's Sales Engineer, Christopher Hathway. Mr. Hathway previously worked with several of UniPrint's channel partners and has extensive experience in client service, especially addressing the specific needs of UniPrint's customers. He will provide additional technical support to customers in the region and help drive sales for channel partners.

"Our new office is an important strategic step for UniPrint's long term growth plans as we continue to expand our business in Europe and other regions," said Arron Fu, Vice President of Software Development at UniPrint. "We are excited to welcome a new member to our management team and to our support hub in the UK. Chris has the experience and expertise to help guide UniPrint's expansion into the printing virtualization and managed print services market as a major enterprise player."

"As enterprises look for new ways to reduce costs, they are realizing they can achieve major benefits by simplifying their printer management and embracing virtualization solutions in this arena," added Mr. Hathway. "By providing global solutions that enable accurate and stable printing via our patented Universal Printer Driver, UniPrint has eliminated the headaches that come with printer driver incompatibility and opened up the managed print space to new possibilities and greater efficiency."

The expansion of the UK office comes just a few weeks after UniPrint announced the launch of UniPrint Infinity, the industry's first printer-vendor independent managed print solution for anywhere, anytime, any device secure pull printing. Inquiries to the UK UniPrint office can be directed to uksales@uniprint.net or +44 (0) 2033 718179.

About UniPrint

UniPrint, a division of GFI Business Solutions Inc., is the recognized leader in printing virtualization.

The newest solution in UniPrint's award-winning product line, UniPrint Infinity, is the industry's first truly secure enterprise-wide solution for any computing environment. Enabling anywhere, anytime, any device secure pull printing, UniPrint Infinity comes with a proven ROI and Virtual Print Queue technology.

The patented, award-winning UniPrint Suite 7 offers a comprehensive range of software-based solutions for all server and client platforms. UniPrint replaces all manufacturer printer drivers with a single PDF generator to promote faster, more efficient printing, helping organizations to improve both productivity and return on investments. For additional information on UniPrint, please visit www.uniprint.net.

UniPrint Infinity, UniPrint Server, UniPrint Terminal Server Edition, UniPrint Gateway Edition, UniPrint Gateway Terminal Server Edition, UniPrint VDI Edition and UniPrint Host Edition are trademarks of UniPrint. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

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IBM and Hydro One Team to Improve the Power Grid in Ontario

IBM and Hydro One Team to Improve the Power Grid in Ontario

Smarter technologies to be tested on Hydro One's distribution power grid

ARMONK, N.Y. and TORONTO - 27 Mar 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) and its Business Partner Telvent announced that they have been selected by Hydro One, the largest distributor of electricity in Ontario (Canada), for a new smart grid project that will help transform the province's electrical system. Together, the companies will run simulations and tests to determine the smart grid technologies that have the potential to improve power efficiency and reliability.

Installed in the 1950s, many components of Ontario's current electricity distribution system have reached the end of their service life. More recently, technological advancements, provincial governmental policy, market forces and increased environmental awareness have added pressure to the demands on Ontario's electricity distribution system.

"As equipment on our distribution system ages, it needs to be replaced. This creates an opportunity to create a world-class network with new, intelligent and sophisticated technologies to meet the changing needs of our customers," Rick Stevens, Vice President, Asset Management, Hydro One. "Our collaboration with IBM and Telvent will help Hydro One assess the next generation of distribution equipment and make the right choices for our customers looking for more reliable electricity, particularly in rural areas."

The Advanced Distribution System (ADS) project will help the utility identify and assess equipment, test new delivery models for electricity, validate the costs and benefits anticipated with a new smart grid and recommend changes to cost effectively modernize Ontario's distribution system.

The project intends to enable an increased amount of Distributed Generation into the grid as well as help increase the reliability of the current distribution system and improve outage management during large scale situations. By taking advantage of the insights gained from new data sources based on analytics, Hydro One will be able to optimize energy utilization and management for greater efficiency while accommodating consumer demand.

"Utilities around the world are investigating new smart grid technologies to help solve complex challenges caused by an aging infrastructure and increasing demand," said Guido Bartels, General Manager of IBM's Energy & Utilities Industry and Chairman of the Global Smart Grid Federation. "Together with Hydro One, we are paving the way for transformation by testing new sophisticated monitoring and control technologies that will enable the integration of renewable energy in the distribution grid while improving its reliability and responsiveness, and ensuring customer satisfaction. This will prepare Hydro One and the province of Ontario for further growth and deliver more affordable and reliable renewable energy for Ontarians."

As the overall system integrator, IBM will provide expertise in smart grid technologies, planning and implementation to oversee the reliability of the network solution. Hydro One will use the Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS), from Telvent, a real-time solution that will provide complete functionality for planning, operation and analysis of its distribution system. This will allow Hydro One to more accurately manage and plan their grid investments.

According to Telvent's Chairman and CEO, Ignacio Gonzalez, "In addition to the ADMS solution, Hydro One will benefit from the strategic collaboration between Telvent and IBM. Over the years, we have provided solutions to several large utilities to help make mid-project technology adjustments while increasing the speed of the solution development."

The project is in line with the requirements of Ontario's Green Energy and Green Economy 2009 Act ("GEGEA"), which fosters the growth of renewable and cleaner sources of energy while promoting a greener economy.

About Hydro One 
Hydro One provides services to 1.2 million residents of Ontario with the vast majority of its rural customers in low-density areas. Hydro One is the largest distributor of electricity with about 120,000 km of distribution lines over a rural service territory of about 640,000 square kilometers covering 75% of the province.

About IBM

IBM is involved in more than 150 smart grid engagements around the world, in both mature and emerging markets. IBM is the founding member of the Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition, a unique collaboration of utilities from around the globe who are working to accelerate the use of smart grid technologies and move the industry forward through its most challenging transformation. More about IBM's vision to bring a new level of intelligence to how the world works—how every person, business, organization, government, natural system, and man-made system interacts, can be found here: http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

For more information about Smarter Energy at IBM, please visit:www.ibm.com/press/smarterenergy. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Microsoft Joins Financial Services Industry to Disrupt Massive Zeus Cybercrime Operation That Fuels Worldwide Fraud and Identity Theft

Microsoft Joins Financial Services Industry to Disrupt Massive Zeus Cybercrime Operation That Fuels Worldwide Fraud and Identity Theft
Microsoft collaborates with financial services industry in unprecedented cross-industry action against notorious cybercrime operation behind online fraud and identity theft.
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REDMOND, Wash. — March 25, 2012 — In its most complex effort to disrupt botnets to date, Microsoft Corp., in collaboration with the financial services industry — including the Financial Services – Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association — as well as Kyrus Tech Inc., announced it has successfully executed a coordinated global action against some of the most notorious cybercrime operations that fuel online fraud and identity theft. With this legal and technical action, a number of the most harmful botnets using the Zeus family of malware worldwide have been disrupted in an unprecedented, proactive cross-industry action against this cybercriminal organization.

Through an extensive and collaborative investigation into the Zeus threat, Microsoft and its banking, finance and technical partners discovered that once a computer is infected with Zeus, the malware can monitor a victim’s online activity and automatically start keylogging, or recording a person’s every keystroke, when a person types in the name of a financial institution or ecommerce site. With this information, cybercriminals can steal personal information that can be used for identity theft or to fraudulently make purchases or access other private accounts. In fact, since 2007, Microsoft has detected more than 13 million suspected infections of the Zeus malware worldwide, including approximately 3 million computers in the United States alone.

“With this action, we’ve disrupted a critical source of money-making for digital fraudsters and cyberthieves, while gaining important information to help identify those responsible and better protect victims,” said Richard Boscovich, senior attorney for the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit. “The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has long been working to combat cybercrime operations, and today is a particularly important strike against cybercrime that we expect will be felt across the criminal underground for a long time to come.”

This disruption was made possible through a successful pleading before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, which allowed Microsoft and its partners to conduct a coordinated seizure of command and control servers running some of the worst known Zeus botnets. Because the botnet operators used Zeus to steal victims’ online banking credentials and transfer stolen funds, FS-ISAC and NACHA joined Microsoft as plaintiffs in the civil suit, and Kyrus Tech Inc. served as a declarant in the case. Other organizations, including F-Secure, also provided supporting information for the case.

As a part of the operation, on March 23, Microsoft and its co-plaintiffs, escorted by the U.S. Marshals, seized command and control servers in two hosting locations, Scranton, Pa., and Lombard, Ill., to seize and preserve valuable data and virtual evidence from the botnets for the case. Microsoft and its partners took down two Internet Protocol addresses behind the Zeus command and control structure, and Microsoft is currently monitoring 800 domains secured in the operation, which are helping identify thousands of computers infected by Zeus.

This is the second time Microsoft has conducted physical seizures in a botnet operation, and it is the first time other organizations have joined Microsoft as plaintiffs in the legal case for a botnet operation. This is also the first operation for Microsoft that involved the simultaneous disruption of multiple operating botnets in a single action and is the first known time the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act has been applied as the legal basis in a consolidated civil case to charge all those responsible in the use of a botnet.

“As crimes against banks and their customers move from stickups to mouse clicks, we’re also using our own mouse clicks — as well as the law — to help protect consumers and businesses,” said Greg Garcia, a spokesperson for the three major financial industry associations that worked with Microsoft on this initiative. “Disrupting the Zeus botnets is just one strike in our long-term commitment to help defend and protect people.”

Because of the complexities of these targets, unlike Microsoft’s previous botnet operations, the goal of this action was not to permanently shut down all impacted Zeus botnets. However, this action is expected to significantly impact the cybercriminals’ operations and infrastructure, advance global efforts to help victims regain control of their infected computers, and also help further investigations against those responsible for the threat. As with its previous botnet operations, Microsoft will now use the intelligence gained from this operation to partner with Internet service providers and Community Emergency Response Teams around the world to help rescue people’s computers from the control of Zeus, helping to reduce the size of the threat that these botnets pose and to help make the Internet safer for consumers and businesses worldwide. Together, these aspects of the operation are expected to undermine the criminal infrastructure that relies on these botnets every day to make money and to help provide new tools for the industry to work together to proactively fight cybercrime.

Michael Tanji, chief security officer of Kyrus Tech Inc., who helped analyze the Zeus malware and determine which botnets were the most dangerous said, “We are proud to have played a part in this groundbreaking effort and hope that others will start working together to combat malicious activity at the same scale as it is being perpetrated.”

There are steps consumers and businesses can take to better help protect themselves from becoming victims of malware, fraud and identity theft. All computer users should exercise safe practices, such as running up-to-date and legitimate computer software, firewall protection, and antivirus or antimalware protection. People should also exercise caution when surfing the Web and clicking on ads or email attachments that may prove to be malicious. For computer owners worried their computers might be infected, Microsoft offers free information and malware cleaning tools at http://support.microsoft.com/botnets that can help people remove Zeus and other malware from their computers. For businesses looking for more information about corporate account takeover issues, including those due to malicious software, a fraud advisory from FS-ISAC, the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service can be found athttp://www.fsisac.com/files/public/db/p265.pdf.

More information about today’s news and the coordinated action against Zeus is available athttp://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/dcu. Legal documentation in the case can be found at http://www.zeuslegalnotice.com.

About FS-ISAC

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center was formed in 1999 and is a non-profit, private financial sector initiative. It was designed and developed and is owned by financial institutions. Its primary function is to share timely, relevant and actionable information of physical and cyber security threat and incident information to help mitigate the risk associated with these threats. [http://www.fsisac.com/]

About NACHA – The Electronic Payments Association

NACHA manages the development, administration, and governance of the ACH Network, the backbone for the electronic movement of money and data. The ACH Network provides a safe, secure, and reliable network for direct account-to-account consumer, business, and government payments. Annually, it facilitates billions of Direct Deposit via ACH and Direct Payment via ACH transactions. Used by all types of financial institutions, the ACH Network is governed by the fair and equitable NACHA Operating Rules, which guide risk management and create payment certainty for all participants. As a not-for-profit association, NACHA represents more than 10,000 financial institutions via 17 regional payments associations and direct membership. Through its industry councils and forums, NACHA brings together payments system stakeholders to foster dialogue and innovation to strengthen the ACH Network. To learn more, please visit www.nacha.org.

AboutKyrus Tech, Inc.

Kyrus is a security innovation company. We have deep expertise in vulnerability research, reverse engineering, computer forensics and custom software development. We apply those skills to conduct research and develop solutions for the business, critical infrastructure and national security communities. We strive to disrupt the status quo. We believe that approaching security problems from diverse perspectives and without preconceptions is the only way for security to become both a valued and a cost-effective capability.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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