Dell Trade-in Program Helps EMC and NetApp Customers Move to Efficient, Flexible, Easy-to-Manage Storage Environments

Dell Trade-in Program Helps EMC and NetApp Customers Move to Efficient, Flexible, Easy-to-Manage Storage Environments

Date : 14/03/2012
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  • EMC and NetApp customers can upgrade to Dell storage systems with Fluid Data™ architecture designed to constantly adapt to changing business requirements
  • Flexible financing program and incentives help ease transition from legacy data centers to dynamic infrastructures that are scalable and help deliver results quickly
  • Former EMC customer AccuWeather realizes the benefits of Dell’s end-to-end solution that unifies management, shares capabilities, and delights end users with expert services and support




Dell today announced a new financing program to support customers migrating from EMC and NetApp legacy storage products to Dell storage arrays.

The new Dell Storage Swap program provides cash credits and attractive lease terms for customers retiring EMC CLARiiON CX, Celerra and VNX, and various NetApp FAS systems and upgrading to new Dell Compellent and EqualLogic virtualized, modular storage arrays. Dell simplifies the transition for customers by offering specialized migration services, award-winning ProSupport™ and Copilot support and other financial incentives such as Dell Financial Services leasing options. In keeping with its longstanding commitment to green initiatives, Dell will provide safe and environmentally responsible disposal of the obsolete and retired IT equipment.

The Dell Storage Swap program is available to all customers and Dell PartnerDirect resellers in the U.S. and Canada, now through July 31, 2012.

Customer Boosts Performance and Cuts Costs after Moving to Dell
Customers transitioning to Dell storage solutions can increase automation and help reduce cost of ownership by leveraging modern technologies such as automated tiering, thin provisioning, advanced virtualization and embedded system intelligence. A number of organizations are leaving their legacy IP behind and upgrading to the Dell Fluid Data architecture, delivering innovation and cost savings quickly to end users in the process. Dell end-to-end enterprise solutions help enable customers to better support their organization and deliver to the speed, efficiency and resiliency required in a rapidly changing world.

Due to its ease of installation and low cost, AccuWeather, The World’s Weather Authority®, purchased Dell EqualLogic PS arrays and PowerEdge blade servers. The Dell infrastructure enables AccuWeather to service rapidly growing worldwide consumer demand because it can deliver weather information up to four to six times faster than the previous solution. Utilizing Dell technology has enabled AccuWeather to spend up to 80 percent less time on storage administration and save up to five figures a year by eliminating calls to external storage experts; the company has also cut energy costs by up to 50 percent per Dell server blade and significantly reduced space requirements.

“With Dell’s flexible, user friendly data center solutions in place, we’ve been able to deliver innovative technologies and applications to better connect with our customers and optimize their experience,” said Steven Smith, CIO of AccuWeather, Inc. “Dell enterprise technology has enabled us to spend less time on maintenance and more of our resources on developing new, more personalized solutions for our customers, as well as exploring new markets to expand our business.”

Additional Quotes:
“The Storage Swap program enables customers to easily migrate to Compellent and EqualLogic and quickly gain better optimization and efficiency,” said Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager, Dell Enterprise Storage. “Dell’s strategy of delivering integrated end-to-end data center solutions makes it easier for customers to achieve greater efficiency, free themselves from legacy IP and cut cost and risk as they move their business forward.”

“To handle today’s massive data growth while controlling costs, organizations need to store more information on less hardware,” said Cheryl Cook, vice president, Dell Enterprise Solutions. “Putting intelligence and automation into their IT environment allow customers to only buy what they need today and capitalize on improved efficiency and lowered costs as they grow.”

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Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone In Hard Drive Storage With New Technology Demonstration

Seagate Reaches 1 Terabit Per Square Inch Milestone In Hard Drive Storage With New Technology Demonstration

CUPERTINO, Calif. - March 19, 2012 - Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) has become the first hard drive maker to achieve the milestone storage density of 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) per square inch, producing a demonstration of the technology that promises to double the storage capacity of today’s hard drives upon its introduction later this decade and give rise to 3.5-inch hard drives with an extraordinary capacity of up to 60 terabytes over the 10 years that follow. The bits within a square inch of disk space, at the new milestone, far outnumber stars in the Milky Way, which astronomers put between 200 billion and 400 billion.

Seagate reached the landmark data density with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR), the next- generation recording technology. The current hard drive technology, Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), is used to record the spectrum of digitized data – from music, photos, and video stored on home desktop and laptop PCs to business information housed in sprawling data centers – on the spinning platters inside every hard drive. PMR technology was introduced in 2006 to replace longitudinal recording, a method in place since the advent of hard drives for computer storage in 1956, and is expected to reach its capacity limit near 1 terabit per square inch in the next few years.

“The growth of social media, search engines, cloud computing, rich media and other data-hungry applications continues to stoke demand for ever greater storage capacity,” said Mark Re, senior vice president of Heads and Media Research and Development at Seagate. “Hard disk drive innovations like HAMR will be a key enabler of the development of even more data-intense applications in the future, extending the ways businesses and consumers worldwide use, manage and store digital content.”

Hard drive manufacturers increase areal density and capacity by shrinking a platter’s data bits to pack more within each square inch of disk space. They also tighten the data tracks, the concentric circles on the disk’s surface that anchor the bits. The key to areal density gains is to do both without disruptions to the bits’ magnetization, a phenomenon that can garble data. Using HAMR technology, Seagate has achieved a linear bit density of about 2 million bits per inch, once thought impossible, resulting in a data density of just over 1 trillion bits, or 1 terabit, per square inch – 55 percent higher than today’s areal density ceiling of 620 gigabits per square inch.

The maximum capacity of today’s 3.5-inch hard drives is 3 terabytes (TB), at about 620 gigabits per square inch, while 2.5-inch drives top out at 750 gigabytes (GB), or roughly 500 gigabits per square inch. The first generation of HAMR drives, at just over 1 terabit per square inch, will likely more than double these capacities – to 6TB for 3.5-inch drives and 2TB for 2.5-inch models. The technology offers a scale of capacity growth never before possible, with a theoretical areal density limit ranging from 5 to 10 terabits per square inch – 30TB to 60TB for 3.5-inch drives and 10TB to 20TB for 2.5-inch drives.

The 1 terabit per square inch demonstration extends a long line of storied technology firsts for Seagate, including:

  • 1980: ST-506, the first hard drive, at 5.25 inches, small enough to be widely deployed in early microcomputers, the precursor of the modern PC. The 5 megabyte drive cost $1,500.
  • 1992: The first 7200RPM hard drive, a Barracuda ® drive
  • 1996: The first 10,000RPM hard drive, a Cheetah ® drive
  • 2000: The first 15,000RPM drive, also a Cheetah hard drive
  • 2006: Momentus ® 5400.3 drive, a 2.5-inch laptop drive and the world’s first drive to feature perpendicular magnetic recording technology
  • 2007: Momentus FDE (Full Disk Encryption) drive, the industry’s first self-encrypting hard drive
  • 2010: Momentus XT drive, the first solid state hybrid hard drive, combining traditional spinning media with NAND flash, to deliver speeds rivaling solid state drives (SSDs)

Seagate achieved the 1 terabit per square inch breakthroughs in materials science and near-field optics at its heads and media research and development centers in Bloomington, Minnesota, and Fremont, California.

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Microsoft Dynamics: Translating Customers’ Aspirations Into Reality

Microsoft Dynamics: Translating Customers’ Aspirations Into Reality
Microsoft announces key releases and cloud road map for customers on the path to the Dynamic Business transformation.

HOUSTON — March 19, 2012 — Customers of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) gathered today at Convergence 2012 to hear how Microsoft Business Solutions will help them become connected, forward-looking organizations. With an explicit commitment to simplicity and agility, Microsoft is designing software and cloud-based services that can help businesses be truly dynamic and inspire people to a higher level of commitment, innovation and leadership and, in turn, help businesses and people realize their full potential. Today at Convergence, Microsoft unveiled the evolution of its vision to help organizations become Dynamic Businesses.

“People are the heart of every business, and Microsoft business solutions deliver on the promise of enabling people to do their best work through modern, elegant business applications that provide unrivaled time to value, simplicity and agility,” said Kirill Tatarinov, president, Microsoft Business Solutions, speaking to more than 10,000 attendees in the opening keynote presentation at Convergence 2012. “We are committed to the technical and business process innovation necessary to help customers transform into Dynamic Businesses.”

Delivering Innovation for Dynamic Businesses

Microsoft Dynamics has continued to deliver on its promise of providing innovation for Dynamic Businesses by announcing that much of its portfolio of business solutions will be updated by the end of calendar year 2012. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 launched last fall and was followed by Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 for Retail in February of this year. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 will be available worldwide in Q4 calendar year 2012, and will deliver major industry enhancements such as multichannel retail capabilities with Web storefronts, as well as RoleTailored, in-context business intelligence using the latest Microsoft SQL Server technologies.

Microsoft also announced that both Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 and Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 will be cloud-enabled for Windows Azure, optimized for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), and generally available in Q4 of calendar year 2012. The beta release for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 is expected in May 2012. In addition, the company reiterated its commitment that the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics AX will evolve as an enterprise cloud service offering from Microsoft.

Earlier this year, Microsoft also announced the Q2 service update of Microsoft Dynamics CRM featuring native mobile support for popular mobile devices. In keeping with its commitment to release updates to its cloud service twice a year, Microsoft announced the next Microsoft Dynamics CRM service update will be available in Q4 calendar year 2012, delivering capabilities in social customer care and cloud-based data enrichment services.

Microsoft Partners Help Customers Transform Into Dynamic Businesses

Microsoft today announced that the independent software vendor (ISV) ecosystem for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2013 will offer multiple vertical services hosted on Windows Azure to provide customers with the specialized capabilities required for their businesses, from industrial equipment manufacturing to specialized retail and fashion, with more offerings becoming available over time.

“I am excited by the opportunity that cloud provides To Increase to better serve our customers,” said Cornelis Bosch, chief executive officer of To Increase, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and global ISV. “Our end-to-end industry solutions, powered by the strength of Microsoft Dynamics on Windows Azure, represent a comprehensive, consumer-centric, next-generation business solution for customers.”

Microsoft also announced a number of significant global ISV partners supporting Dynamics AX 2012. Accenture (transportation services solution), Bull (public sector), Cincom Systems Inc. (complex enterprise and manufacturing solutions), and McLane Logistics Technology (distribution solution) have all chosen Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 as the foundation for their solutions for its modern architecture, flexibility and ease of use and for ensuring their customers a path to the cloud. These partners join Microsoft’s broad portfolio of other leading vertical global ISVs, which view Microsoft Dynamics as a critical component in helping propel customers to become connected, forward-looking enterprises.

CareWorks (social services solution) and Redknee Inc. (customer care solution) are also entering the global ISV program, joining Ericsson (call center) and Convergys (customer care solution) to build their solutions on the innovation, flexibility and agility of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Microsoft is also announcing a social intelligence alliance with InsideView Inc., a silver sponsor for Convergence 2012 and 2011 Microsoft Dynamics Marketplace Solution Excellence Partner of the Year. This alliance will allow customers to use the InsideView platform directly within Microsoft Dynamics CRM to analyze social media and user-contributed, traditional and proprietary editorial information to provide compelling insights about their customers directly within Microsoft Dynamics CRM at no additional cost.

Dynamic Business Momentum

Microsoft announced the latest Microsoft Dynamics CRM adoption numbers, with 33,000 customers and 2.25 million users, and is showcasing a record number of customers who are making the Dynamic Business transformation. Customers such as Hunter Douglas Group, Rockwater Energy Solutions and World Vision Inc. are taking advantage of the simplicity and agility that Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 delivers today. Lotus F1 Team has chosen Microsoft Dynamics for its end-to-end business transformation, from design and manufacturing to retail and merchandising operations. Microsoft Dynamics helps customers, such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada, Specialists On Call Inc., Nissin Foods Co., The Bradshaw Group Inc., Sta-Home Health & Hospice, Hydro Resources Inc., Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the New York Jets, get to the heart of what really makes an organization successful.

More information about Microsoft’s Dynamic Business vision can be found by downloading the new white paper at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics/about.aspx. More information and news from Convergence 2012 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/dynamics. The opening keynote presentation and general session keynote speeches are available on the new virtual event platform for Convergence 2012. Those who want to follow and engage with the Microsoft Dynamics Twitter community can do so at @MSDYNCOMM using #CONV12.

About Microsoft Dynamics

Microsoft Dynamics solutions empower your people to be more productive and your systems to last longer and scale as your business grows, while enabling you to derive the insights necessary to respond quickly in an ever-changing world of business.

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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Symantec Corporation Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies for 2012

Symantec Corporation Named One of the World's Most Ethical Companies for 2012

 

Company recognized for fifth straight year for demonstrated leadership in ethical governance, compliance practices and corporate social responsibility

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 19, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:  SYMC) has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute, a leading international think-tank dedicated to the creation, advancement, and sharing of best practices in business ethics, corporate social responsibility, anti-corruption and sustainability. The complete list of rankings can be found at http://www.ethisphere.com/wme/.

“Ethics and compliance requires participation by employees at all levels of the organization. At Symantec, we’ve devoted resources and energy to building a strong ethical corporate culture and we continually assess our programs and evaluate what we can and should be doing better,” said Enrique Salem, president and CEO at Symantec. “Receiving this award for the fifth consecutive year is an endorsement that we are doing things right. It sets an expectation for our employees and other stakeholders that we will continue to work on building a culture of ethics and integrity and exercise good business judgment.”

At Symantec, ethics and integrity are the foundation of the company’s business success. The company strives to demonstrate innovation and leadership in corporate governance, compliance, sustainability, and corporate responsibility, with the goal of continuously improving ethics and compliance programs and policies. Learn more about our global corporate responsibility initiatives at http://www.symantec.com/corporate_responsibility/.

In its sixth year, the World’s Most Ethical Companies list highlights companies exhibiting a strong commitment to ethical leadership and compliance practices. The companies chosen go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action, introducing innovative ideas to benefit the public and compelling their competitors to follow suit. They incorporate ethics into business practices and have been able to thrive despite an ever-changing global regulatory environment. Ethisphere reviewed nominations from companies in more than 100 countries and 36 industries and the methodology includes reviewing codes of ethics, litigation, and regulatory infraction histories; evaluating the investment in innovation and sustainable business practices; analyzing activities designed to improve corporate citizenship; and studying nominations from senior executives, industry peers, suppliers, and customers.

“Symantec recognizes that a strong ethics program is a key component to a successful business model and over the last five years we have really watched this come to life as they continually scrutinize their ethical standards to keep up with an ever-changing regulatory environment,” said Alex Brigham, executive director of the Ethisphere Institute. “Each year the competition for World’s Most Ethical Companies intensifies as the number of nominations submitted for consideration grows. Ethisphere congratulates Symantec on being one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for 2012.”

In addition, Symantec was also recently recognized in Brazil by the Great Place to Work Institute as one of the “Best Companies to Work For,” and also by ComputerWorld magazine as one of the “Top IT and Telecom Companies” in the country.

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.  Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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Cincom Systems and Microsoft Dynamics Sign Global ISV Partnership

Cincom Systems and Microsoft Dynamics Sign Global ISV Partnership

On March 19, 2012, in aerospace & defense, Cincom Enterprise, by Donna Hedge Burns

Cincom and Microsoft have signed a strategic, global independent software vendor (ISV) agreement to deliver enhanced enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution capabilities to complex enterprises.

CINCINNATI, Ohio  –Cincom Systems, a worldwide provider of business software, and Microsoft [NASDAQ: MSFT] have signed a strategic, global independent software vendor (ISV) agreement to deliver enhanced enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution capabilities to complex enterprises.

COMPLEX ENTERPRISE ERP EXPERTS

Combining the depth of Cincom’s more than 40 years of complex enterprise ERP expertise with the breadth of Microsoft Dynamics AX, customers in the following industries will be able to realize exponential gains in profitable growth.

CINCOM + MICROSOFT = TRANSFORMING YOUR COMPLEX ENTERPRISE INTO A DYNAMIC BUSINESS

Cincom was selected by Microsoft to build on the Microsoft Dynamics AX foundation as part of its Global ISV program because of Cincom’s reputation as an industry leader with 40 years transforming complexity into sustainable competitive advantage for global manufacturers.  Cincom fulfills a critical customer need by providing deep domain expertise in solving the most pressing complex enterprise challenges. The partnership will enable complex enterprises to quickly transform into dynamic businesses.

“Dynamic businesses display the agility to anticipate and embrace change while sustaining competitive advantage,” said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Microsoft Dynamics Partners and Support Services. “The enhanced offering from Cincom, combines their vertical industry expertise with the powerful Microsoft Dynamics AX application, and is an example of the innovative solutions being delivered by our partners to help transform complex enterprises into dynamic businesses.”

“Leveraging the power of both companies and focusing on our strengths – Cincom’s deep industry knowledge and Microsoft’s technology and business platform – will be a great benefit to customers worldwide,” says Dave Schwarber, managing director of Cincom’s Business Manufacturing Solutions division. “They will be able to embrace nimble, dynamic systems that quickly simplify complexity and keep pace with today’s ultra-competitive business environment.”

BENEFITS

New capabilities derived from the Cincom/Microsoft global partnership will help complex businesses quickly increase customer acquisition, service and retention. An internal analysis of Cincom customers shows that Cincom products deliver a 30 to 1 return on investment. Combined with Cincom’s stellar ERP implementation record, complex enterprises can increase profit margins, improve quality and empower flawless supply chain execution on a project-by-project basis.

Today’s news was announced at Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2012 in Houston, Texas. Cincom Systems is a bronze sponsor of Microsoft Dynamics Convergence 2012 at Booth #1346.

ABOUT CINCOM

For 43 years, Cincom has helped thousands of clients worldwide by solving complex business problems with its software and services. For more information about Cincom’s products and services, contact Cincom at 1-800-2CINCOM (USAonly), send an e-mail to info@cincom.com or visit the company’s website at www.cincom.com. Cincom is a Global Independent Software Vendor of the Microsoft Corporation.

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Survey Says Canada Tops Mobile Data Loss, 58 Percent of Organizations Lose Data Through Insecure Mobile Devices

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TORONTO—March 19, 2012— A new “Global Study on Mobility Risks” reveals that corporate mobile devices and the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon are rapidly circumventing enterprise security and policies in Canada. Seventy-one percent of more than 400 respondents in Canada agree that the use of mobile devices in the workplace is important to achieving business objectives. But 72 percent also believe that these devices put their organizations at risk—and only half the organizations surveyed have the necessary security controls to address the risk.

 

“IT has spent years working on desktop security and trying to prevent data loss over web and email channels—but mobile devices are radically changing the game,” said Fiaaz Walji, Websense Canadian Country Manager. “Tablets and iOS devices are replacing corporate laptops as employees bring-their-own-devices to work and access corporate information. These devices open the door to unprecedented loss of sensitive data. IT needs to be concerned about the data that mobile devices access and not the device itself.”

 

According to a previous Ponemon Institute© survey, IT respondents said 63 percent of breaches occurred as a result of mobile devices. And only 28 percent said employee desktop computers were the cause.(i)

 

Today’s research, conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by content security provider Websense, Inc.® (NASDAQ: WBSN), is designed to help IT security professionals plan for an increasingly mobile workforce. The research shows that organizations often don’t know how and what data is leaving their networks through non-secure mobile devices. Traditional static security solutions such as antivirus (AV), firewalls, and passwords are not effective at stopping advanced malware and data theft from malicious or negligent insiders. This survey defines mobile devices as laptops, USB drives, smartphones, and tablets.

 

To safely permit corporate use of mobile devices, Websense recently released its new Websense TRITON Mobile Security solution. It combines four key components (web security, data security, mobile malware and app protection, and vital mobile device management features) into one solution. As a cloud security service, available anytime anywhere, it prevents confidential data loss on iPads, iPhones, Android, and other mobile devices.

 

Key findings

 

-          Forty-five percent of respondents report that employees circumvent or disengage security features, such as passwords and key locks, on corporate and personal mobile devices.

 

-          Fifty-eight percent of the organizations in this study experienced data loss resulting from employee use of insecure mobile devices, including laptops, smartphones, USB devices, and tablets. Canada and Italy ranked the highest out of the 12 countries surveyed for mobile data loss.

 

-          Seventy-one percent of respondents agree that the use of mobile devices in the workplace is important to achieving business objectives. A similar percentage (72 percent) believes that these tools put their organizations at risk. Only half of the organizations have the necessary security controls to address the risk, and only six percent say that all employees are compliant and five percent do not know.

 

-          Sixty-two percent of respondents say that over the past 12 months, their organizations experienced an increase in malware infections as a result of insecure mobile devices in the workplace. Twenty-six percent of respondents say that mobile devices are responsible for an increase of more than 50 percent in malware infections. And, out of the 12 countries surveyed, Canada made the top three for the highest amount of infections.

 

-          Sixty-five percent of respondents are most concerned with employees taking photos or videos in the workplace—probably due to fears about the theft or exposure of confidential information.

 

Websense cloud security services protect remote users anytime and anywhere, including mobile devices and laptops.

 

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“This survey shows that Canadian organizations need a safe way to manage their mobile devices,” said Fiaaz Walji, Websense Canadian Country Manager. “Websense saw that need and developed our new Websense TRITON Mobile Security solution. We believe we are the only vendor that addresses the security gaps detailed in the survey. We take mobile security to the next level by combining device management (MDM) with real-time protection from data loss, dynamic web threats, mobile malware, and malicious mobile apps.”

 

“We surveyed hundreds of IT security professionals, and mobile devices were overwhelmingly important to business objectives,” said Dr. Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “However, mobile devices put organizations at risk—risks that they do not have the necessary security controls and enforceable policies to address. It’s also clear that employees are deliberately disabling security controls, which is a serious concern.”

 

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A full copy of the Websense “Global Study on Mobility Risks,” which focuses on the Canadian results, can be downloaded here.

 

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(i) Source: Ponemon Institute “Perceptions about Network Security” by Ponemon Institute, June 2011. 

 

About Websense, Inc.

Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN), a global leader in unified web security, email security, mobile security, and data loss prevention (DLP), delivers the best content security for modern threats at the lowest total cost of ownership to tens of thousands of enterprise, mid-market and small organizations around the world. Distributed through a global network of channel partners and delivered as appliance-based software or SaaS-based cloud services, Websense content security solutions help organizations leverage social media and cloud-based communication, while protecting from advanced persistent threats and modern malware, preventing the loss of confidential information, and enforcing internet use and security policies. Websense is headquartered in San Diego, California with offices around the world. For more information, visit www.websense.com.

 

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Xplornet Responds to Industry Canada's Spectrum Auction Announcement


Xplornet Responds to Industry Canada's Spectrum Auction Announcement


MARKHAM, ON, March 15, 2012 /CNW/ - John Maduri, CEO of Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's leading provider of rural broadband, responded today to Industry Canada's announcement of proposed changes to foreign ownership and spectrum auction rules.  Overall, Xplornet is conditionally supportive of the direction of the proposed changes.  "Industry Canada has responded to a wide range of complex issues and diverse interests around foreign investment and spectrum rules in a fair and balanced way," said Maduri today.  However, Xplornet remains disappointed that spectrum auctions will continue to be biased towards urban mobile providers and against providers of rural broadband.  "To acquire spectrum for rural use, bidders would be required to buy urban areas.  This prices many rural broadband providers out of the spectrum market and slows expansion of broadband to rural Canadians," said Maduri.

Xplornet looks forward to participating in the upcoming auctions.  However, Xplornet believes that 700 MHz alone will not be able to meet the growing capacity needs of broadband users.  "Our strongest recommendation to Industry Canada is to advance, as quickly as possible, the 2.5 GHz auction.  Every delay making this spectrum available slows the development and improvement of broadband networks for all Canadians.  We sincerely hope Minister Paradis makes expediting this auction a major priority," concluded Maduri.

About Xplornet Communications Inc.

Headquartered in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Xplornet Communications Inc. (formerly Barrett Xplore Inc.) is Canada's leading rural broadband provider.  We believe everyone should have access to the transformative benefits of broadband, so we make our service available everywhere in Canada, including the hard to reach places.  We overcome the challenges of Canada's vast geography through our deployment of Canada's first national 4G network, which leverages both fixed-wireless towers on the ground and next-generation satellites in space.  Our customers live in the farthest reaches of the country and just outside of major urban centres, and through our coast-to-coast network of local dealers we connect them to all that the Internet offers.  Xplornet is high-speed Internet - for all of Canada.

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The Royal Canadian Mint's exciting new digital currency system to be unveiled at The Canadian Institute's Forum on Canadian Payment Innovations on April 16-17, 2012


The Royal Canadian Mint's exciting new digital currency system to be unveiled at The Canadian Institute's Forum on Canadian Payment Innovations on April 16-17, 2012


TORONTO, March 15, 2012 /CNW/ - The Royal Canadian Mint has been actively monitoring the growth of electronic payments and, with a research and development focus, has developed a new beta product called MintChip. It has been designed as the evolution of currency that could become the digital equivalent of the coins we use every day. The Mint will shortly execute a competition with the North American software developer community to vet the technology and challenge developers to identify innovative ways to use and integrate the MintChip proposition.

The Mint's Chief Financial Officer Marc Brulé will be giving a keynote address on April 17th at The Canadian Institute's Forum on Canadian Payment Innovations to provide details and discuss the development of MintChip.

The Canadian Institute's Forum on Canadian Payment Innovations is a strategic business conference that will bring together an impressive line-up of speakers representing the key stakeholders in Canada's payments ecosystem. These leaders will provide vital information on the issues driving the evolution of the payments landscape in Canada. Delegates will gain crucial insights and practical strategies, including:

  • Strategies to address the fundamental change of the business, including funding and operational models
  • Crucial action plans to enhance overall consumer experience and adoption by retailers
  • Blueprints to plan a future for your payment organization which successfully negotiates a world infused with new payment methods and stakeholders
  • A thorough understanding of the regulatory environment for new payment technologies and the applicable rules and regulations
  • New methods to protect privacy, minimize fraud and generate revenue
    …and much more!

Conference Title:   The Canadian Institute's Forum on Canadian Payment Innovations
Date:     April 16-17, 2012
Location:    Marriott Bloor Yorkville - Toronto, Ontario
Website:    www.canadianinstitute.com/PaymentInnovations
Phone:     1-877-927-7936

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About The Canadian Institute
For over 25 years, The Canadian Institute's conferences, summits and executive briefings have provided the business intelligence that Canadian decision makers need to respond to challenges and opportunities both here at home, and around the world.  The Canadian Institute operates as a think tank, monitoring trends and developments in all major industry sectors, in the law, and in public policy, with a view to providing information on the leading edge.  Headquartered in Toronto, The Canadian Institute produces over 180 events a year, attended by thousands of senior and C-level delegates from across the country. For more information, visit www.CanadianInstitute.com.

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VMware Announces Spring 3.1 Release Compatibility, Open Source Framework More Popular than Ever

 
VMware Announces Spring 3.1 Release Compatibility, Open Source Framework More Popular than Ever
 
Spring Framework 3.1 Adds Key Innovations for Cloud, Big Data, and Mobile Applications

                                                                                                                  

PALO ALTO, Calif., Mar. 14, 2012 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced all the major extensions to the Spring Framework are now compatible with Spring 3.1, the latest version of the popular open source Java development framework.  Spring Integration, Spring Security, Spring Batch, Spring Data, Spring Mobile and Spring for Android all now support Spring 3.1, making it easier and faster for enterprise developers to build the next generation of enterprise applications.

 

“Driving application development for today’s enterprises with powerful simplifying technology, Spring is the premier choice for developers looking for an extensible, portable and open source framework,” said Adrian Colyer, CTO Cloud and Application Services, VMware. “The latest release of the Spring Framework and its major extensions continue the tradition of taking care of the infrastructure so developers can focus on building applications that address today’s business requirements.”

 

The Spring Framework makes it easy for enterprise developers to integrate security models, databases, web services and messaging systems into applications that can be deployed and thrive within any Java environment. Spring makes it simple to access enterprise information stored in traditional databases as well as new NoSQL data platforms and “big data” distributed processing solutions like Apache Hadoop™. With the addition of new REST enhancements, Java developers can use Spring to build the critical services to mobilize enterprise applications.

 

VMware reports that average monthly Spring downloads via Maven Central have grown 40 per cent year to date and all community participation metrics for Spring are at the highest levels ever recorded. Recent research from Evans Data ("Spring Usage Study," Evans Data Corporation, September 2011) analyzes the ubiquity achieved by Spring:

  • Spring is the framework of choice among expert Java developers
  • Spring developers report productivity and speed of deployment as the top two reasons they use Spring:  70 per cent of Spring users report at least a 50 per cent productivity gain by using Spring and 73 per cent report that Spring allows them to deliver projects twice as fast  
  • More than two thirds of Java developers are either using Spring today or plan to do so within the next two years
  • More than half of Spring users expect to grow or significantly grow their use of Spring
  • Spring users are more cloud ready; The Evans Data results show heavy Spring adopters are more likely to have already deployed applications to the cloud
  • More than half of all Spring developers report that they plan to move Java applications to a lightweight server such as Apache Tomcat within one year.

Spring community members are invited to attend the SpringOne On the Road event in Europe in April and May to learn about the newest innovations for the framework. These special developer-focused one-day events will be co-hosted with the Cloud Foundry Open Tour  

 

Availability

The Spring family of open source projects can be found on the Spring community Web site at www.springsource.org. Spring projects are available under the Apache 2.0 open-source, free software license.

 

Additional Resources

Spring Community:                    www.springsource.org  

Cloud Foundry Open Tour:         http://opentour.cloudfoundry.com

SpringOne On the Road:            http://www.springsource.org/springone-on-the-road

What is Spring? Video:              

 

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of US$3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, and can be found online at www.vmware.ca.


Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire NDS

Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire NDS

Acquisition of NDS Will Expand Cisco’s Ability to Transform How Service Providers and Media Companies Worldwide Deliver Next-Generation Video Experiences to Subscribers

SAN JOSE, CA and LONDON–(Marketwire -03/15/12)- Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO – News) today announced its intent to acquire NDS Group Ltd., a leading provider of video software and content security solutions that enable service providers and media companies to securely deliver and monetize new video entertainment experiences.

NDS uses the combination of a software platform and services to create differentiated video offerings for service providers that enable subscribers to intuitively view, search and navigate digital content anytime, anywhere and on any device.

The acquisition of NDS will complement and accelerate the delivery of Videoscape™, Cisco’s comprehensive platform that enables service providers and media companies to deliver next-generation entertainment experiences. Acquiring NDS will broaden Cisco’s opportunities in the service provider market, expanding its reach into emerging markets, such as China and India, where NDS has an established customer footprint.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will pay approximately $5 billion, including the assumption of debt and retention-based incentives, to acquire all of the business and operations of NDS. The acquisition has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

The acquisition is expected to close during the second half of calendar year 2012, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review in the United States and elsewhere. The net impact to Cisco is expected to be accretive to EPS in the first full year on a non-GAAP basis.

Highlights/Key Facts

Cisco’s open, standards-based Videoscape platform, which spans the cloud, the network and end-user clients, is a key part of the company’s overall video strategy to deliver TV experiences that make access to content more visual, mobile and social for consumers, while protecting and enhancing the value of content for service providers and media companies.
The addition of NDS’s leading software solutions, such as the end-user viewing client and content security solutions, combined with its systems integration expertise, will accelerate the delivery of the Cisco Videoscape platform.
This acquisition reflects Cisco’s increased strategic focus on video, one of its five foundational priorities, and its investment in software and services revenue streams and competencies.
This acquisition underscores Cisco’s commitment to its “build, buy, and partner” strategy to grow through a combination of organic innovation, targeted acquisitions and strategic partnering.
In terms of valuation, on a forward-looking basis, the acquisition is generally in line with the earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) multiples paid when NDS was taken private in 2009, and is within the multiples ranges for comparable deals, including Cisco’s acquisition of Tandberg.
A significant portion of NDS’s software, services and content protection business is recurring, with long-term contracts, typically with an average duration of approximately five years.
Prior to the close, Cisco and NDS will continue to operate as separate companies. Upon completion of the transaction, NDS’s global operations, including sites in the United Kingdom, Israel, France, India and China, and its approximately 5,000 employees will join the Cisco Service Provider Video Technology Group (SPVTG), led by Senior Vice President and General Manager Jesper Andersen.
Dr. Abe Peled, NDS Executive Chairman, will be named Senior Vice President and Chief Strategist for Cisco’s Video & Collaboration Group, of which SPVTG is a part. Dr. Peled will report directly to Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President, Cisco Video and Collaboration Group.

Quotes

John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco

“Our strategy has always been driven by customer need and on capturing market transitions. Our acquisition of NDS fits squarely into this strategy, enabling content and service providers to deliver new video solutions that leverage the cloud and drive new monetization opportunities and service differentiation.”

Dr. Abe Peled, Executive Chairman, NDS

“Cisco and NDS are helping drive the transition that will enable service providers and media companies to offer new revenue-generating video experiences. NDS’s open software video platform and services are highly complementary to Cisco technology, and together we are uniquely positioned to enable service providers to deliver fresh and exciting multi-screen video services to their customers. A key component of NDS’s success has been our open software and services model, working with a wide range of set-top box manufacturers to enable greater choice for our customers; following this acquisition this strategy will continue and expand the choice of hardware solutions available to service providers worldwide.”

Dave Habiger, CEO, NDS

“This is a transformational opportunity for not only NDS and Cisco, but also our service provider customers and their consumers. Together we make the connected vision a reality.”

Investor and Media Events:

John Chambers, Cisco’s Chairman and CEO, Ned Hooper, Cisco’s Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, and Abe Peled, Executive Chairman of NDS, will host a joint investor call on March 15 at 6:00 a.m. PDT to discuss the proposed transaction. The dial-in number is 517-308-9354 (international) and 800-619-2472 (United States). Conference call replay will be available from 10:00 a.m. PDT, March 15, 2012, to 4:30 p.m. PDT, March 30, 2012 at 203-369-3287 (international) and 800-469-5424 (United States). The replay also will be available via webcast from Thursday, March 15, through April 13, 2012 on the Cisco Investor Relations website at http://investor.cisco.com.

John Chambers and Abe Peled will host a joint Web-based video press conference on March 15 at 9:30 a.m. PDT. Members of the media are invited to watch this live webcast by clicking here. Please note that online registration is required. A broadcast replay will be available within 24 hours. For more information on this announcement, please visit newsroom.cisco.com.

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Tags / Keywords:

Cisco, NDS, video, service provider

About Cisco

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About NDS

NDS Group Ltd. creates the technologies and applications that enable pay-TV operators to securely deliver digital content to TV STBs (set-top boxes), DVRs (digital video recorders), PCs, mobiles and other multimedia devices. Over 90 of the world’s leading pay-TV platforms rely on NDS solutions to protect and enhance their business.

NDS’ VideoGuard® is the world’s market-leading content and service protection solution, deployed in 125 million pay-TV households. VideoGuard conditional access (CA) and digital rights management (DRM) technologies safeguard pay-TV service revenues exceeding $50 billion. NDS middleware, which enables a host of advanced services for subscribers, has been deployed on 214 million devices. NDS DVR technology, centred around XTV™, is a leader in the global industry with 47 million units deployed. (Deployment figures as of 31st December 2011).

Headquartered in the UK, with over 5000 employees, NDS remains committed to investing in technology and development with over 75% of its employees dedicated to pioneering work at development centres in France, India, Israel, Korea, UK and US.

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NDS is a registered trademark or trademark in the U.S. and certain other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.