Adobe Study Reveals Tablet Users Were Biggest Online Spenders in 2011

Adobe Study Reveals Tablet Users Were Biggest Online Spenders in 2011

Study Indicates Tablet Visitors Spent 21 Percent More Per Purchase in 2011 than Other Online Consumers

Adobe Digital Marketing Summit 2012

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) today announced findings from its inaugural Adobe® Digital Marketing Insights report, designed to provide marketing, e-commerce, and retail executives with critical intelligence about digital marketing. The study evaluated how purchasing behavior is impacted by the device consumers used to visit retail websites. In the study, one of the most comprehensive of its kind, Adobe analyzed 16.2 billion anonymous visits to the websites of more than 150 top U.S. retailers. Results showed that, during the 2011 holiday season and throughout 2011, tablet visitors spent more per purchase than visitors using smartphones or traditional desktops and laptops, suggesting that tablet visitors were the most valuable online customers in 2011.

“This study shows the importance of optimizing your 2012 e-tail strategy for tablet visitors to avoid the risk of underserving a highly-profitable, fast-growing customer segment.”

Key Report Findings Included

  • Tablet visitors spent 54 percent more than smartphone visitors and 21 percent more per purchase than desktop/laptop visitors.
  • Tablet visitors were nearly three times more likely to buy products and services online than smartphone visitors and were nearly as likely to purchase as desktop/laptop visitors.

“Adobe has long championed the need for retailers to optimize their sites for mobile visitors, and the results of this study indicate that tablet devices have become an absolutely critical new sales channel that marketers must address head-on,” said Brad Rencher, senior vice president and general manager, Adobe Digital Marketing Business. “This study shows the importance of optimizing your 2012 e-tail strategy for tablet visitors to avoid the risk of underserving a highly-profitable, fast-growing customer segment.”

Optimizing websites for mobile devices, such as smartphones, is now becoming common practice. However, with the emergence of the iPad and Android™ tablets, companies now face additional mobile optimization requirements in order to provide enticing online shopping experiences. If retailers treat mobile and tablet optimization strategies alike, they may fail to leverage the power of tablet visitors, which the study suggests, convert nearly three times more frequently than smartphone visitors.

Why Tablet Visitors Spend More

The Adobe study suggests that demographics of tablet visitors, as well as the flexibility of the overall tablet user experience, contribute to higher tablet visitor profitability. Tablet visitors are typically males between the ages of 18-34 years old and tend to be more affluent than other online shoppers. Higher income levels among tablet owners is just one part of the story. Tablet users also have higher usage rates over the weekend, when there is more time to shop online.

Download the full Adobe Digital Marketing Insights report here or at CMO.com.

For more industry insight from Adobe and top digital marketers and advertisers from around the world, attend Adobe Digital Marketing Summit 2012. The annual event will convene thousands of marketers, advertisers, publishers, agencies and developers in Salt Lake City, Utah from March 20-23, 2012. To register, visit the conference site. For the latest event news and information, follow and join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.

About the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite

The Adobe Digital Marketing Suite offers an integrated and open platform for online business optimization, a strategy for using customer insight to drive innovation throughout the business and enhance marketing efficiency. The Suite consists of integrated applications to collect and unleash the power of customer insight to optimize customer acquisition, conversion and retention efforts as well as the creation and distribution of content. For example, using the Suite, marketers can identify the most effective marketing strategies and ad placements as well as create relevant, personalized and consistent customer experiences across digital marketing channels, such as onsite, display, email, social, video and mobile. The Suite enables marketers to make quick adjustments, automate certain customer interactions and better maximize marketing ROI, which, ultimately, can positively impact the bottom line.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

© 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Contacts

Adobe Systems Incorporated
David Olsen, 385-221-1600
davolsen@adobe.com

Motorola Solutions’ Platform Eliminates Need for Multiple Networking Appliances, Application Servers

Motorola Solutions’ Platform Eliminates Need for Multiple Networking Appliances, Application Servers; Simplifies Deployment, Management of Mobile Apps for Retailers

Launch of Wi-Fi-based proximity awareness, analytics application enhances customer in-store experience

 

NEW YORK – NRF 2012 (Booth #1702) – Jan. 16, 2012Motorola Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MSI) today unveiled the NX Integrated Services Platform – including the NX 4500 and NX 6500 – to simplify retailers’ deployment and management of branch office networking and communications. This new branch office solution allows retailers to elevate the customer experience while reducing the burden for IT staff. Retail associates can now have mobile access to voice, data and advanced applications, all delivered by a single platform.

Retailers are challenged with managing complex interactions with today’s connected consumers, to build a consistent brand experience in-store, online and with mobile commerce. Increasing use of mobile devices along with bandwidth-heavy mobile applications, both by retail associates and shoppers, requires IT infrastructure that supports today’s needs with the flexibility to evolve for tomorrow.

Motorola also launched the Proximity Awareness and Analytics Solution, further advancing retailers’ abilities to offer personalized customer service. This solution brings real-time data collection, analysis and visualization to Motorola’s industry-leading WLAN portfolio. It enables innovative, real-time mobility-based loyalty programs and delivers actionable data for improving the effectiveness of store operations, enhancing customer engagement and conversion.

KEY FACTS: NX Integrated Services Platform

  • The NX Integrated Services Platform delivers network extensibility and is designed to meet the needs of the enterprise with both the NX 4500 for small-medium branch offices and the NX 6500 for medium-large branch offices.
  • The modular platform will enable retailers to dramatically reduce telecommunications costs with SIP trunking while still leveraging existing phones and wiring. Initial modules include a wired switch, wireless LAN controller, branch voice over IP (VoIP) communications, radio link for push-to-talk interoperability with two-way radios, text messaging and mobile extension of the PBX to WLAN and cellular.
  • The NX platform supports all of Motorola’s Total Enterprise Access and Mobility (TEAM) voice solutions, bringing telephony to mobile computers and wireless local area network (WLAN) phones. With NX and TEAM, customers can reach the right associate the first time, reducing call abandonment and hold times and increasing sales. Ultimately, managers can spend more time on the sales floor and still be accessible.
  • Capital expenditures can be cut by up to 50 percent by eliminating the need to purchase or upgrade appliances. This solution only requires a single platform to address the security, wired, wireless, VoIP communications and enterprise applications for a branch office, thereby eliminating 75% of appliances. It also provides an easy way to oversee and manage services in a geographically distributed enterprise.
  • The platform is designed as an open, virtualized system that allows easy network and application extensibility depending upon the needs of the enterprise. It allows retailers to add functionality later when additional services are introduced, eliminating the need for individual servers for each new application.
  • Available in April 2012, the NX Integrated Services Platform is being demonstrated at NRF with SCOPIX’s Real.Suite™ video analytics software integrated on the platform to help retailers monitor, measure and manage the in-store customer experience.

KEY FACTS: Motorola Proximity Awareness and Analytics Solution

  • The Motorola Proximity Awareness and Analytics Solution is driven by a software application which uses advanced analytics to enable real-time engagement based on information collected from WLAN infrastructure.
  • The solution enables advanced retail applications such as real-time mobile offers for shoppers who opt-in, a virtual call box, and location-aware task management.
  • By combining data collected from all deployed access point (AP) radios, this new Motorola software application provides users with actionable customer location information to allow more effective engagement as customers navigate through the store.
  • The solution includes a state-of-the-art analytics package, allowing data from the system to be directly used in business intelligence systems. These customer and associate analytics are designed to drive sophisticated next generation retail decision making.
  • It also incorporates an open API architecture allowing third-party applications to use the analytical data gathered from the system. This creates a vendor-agnostic environment supporting a location-based services ecosystem with the Motorola WLAN portfolio. Existing Motorola WiNG 5 wireless customers can use the new functionality simply by activating a software license.
  • Available now, the Motorola Proximity Awareness and Analytics Solution is also featured at NRF as part of a demonstration showing how presence and rule-based push can be used to identify and engage customers on their mobile phones.

SUPPORTING QUOTES

Imran Akbar, vice president and general manager, Enterprise Networks & Communications, Motorola Solutions
“With consumers becoming even more connected, there is a tremendous opportunity for retailers to deploy mobile applications that will help drive customer loyalty while helping store associates respond to connected shoppers. Customers and independent software vendors can run their applications on this open platform which is designed for modularity and virtualization. While budgets are tight, retailers should not have to add a lot of new hardware and systems along with more complexity and cost to keep up with new technology demands. Retailers are demanding simple, integrated, cost-effective services platforms like the NX Series.”

Todd Nightingale, general manager, AirDefense Solutions, Motorola Solutions
“Helping retailers drive customer engagement with the most advanced technologies remains a key priority for Motorola Solutions. Wi-Fi-based, location-driven information provides a more compelling alternative for indoor environments where GPS-based positioning solutions cannot provide the level of detail required. Our Proximity Awareness and Analytics Solution delivers a new level of functionality for customers who can now benefit from the security, network assurance, advanced management and new proximity awareness capabilities of our centralized services platform.”

Craig Mathias, principal, Farpoint Group
“Retailers are looking for ways to simplify their network while being able to easily deploy mobility applications now and in the future. Motorola Solutions is answering that need by enabling retailers to integrate all their communication solutions into one platform with a single network management view.”

SUPPORTING RESOURCES

Website:

NX Integrated Services Platform
Proximity Awareness and Analytics Solution
Motorola Solutions Wireless Controllers Overview

Data sheet:

AP 622

###

About Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions is a leading provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers. Through leading-edge innovation and communications technology, it is a global leader that enables its customers to be their best in the moments that matter. Motorola Solutions trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “MSI.” To learn more, visit www.motorolasolutions.com. For ongoing news, please visit our media center or subscribe to our news feed.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Delivers Strategic Virtualization Alternative

January 18, 2012

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Delivers Strategic Virtualization Alternative

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 now available worldwide, offering leading features, performance, scalability and cost advantages to customers

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the global availability of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, with significantly expanded capabilities for both its server and desktop virtualization management tools and its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, Red Hat provides a compelling open virtualization alternative to customers that offers exceptional performance, scalability, security, manageability and cost benefits.

"The virtualization market is getting more competitive every day, and IDC believes that over the next couple of years customers will be looking closely at alternative solutions to supplement and/or replace existing products," said Gary Chen, research manager, Cloud and Virtualization System Software at IDC. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is a major release, and a real turning point in the maturity of KVM. Red Hat has made a big commitment to virtualization and it shows with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. IDC believes that this product deserves to be on customers' short lists for evaluation."

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers was initially released in November 2009, followed by the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops in mid 2010. Since its debut, the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization product portfolio has enjoyed growing customer adoption and an expanding partner ecosystem. Customers have expressed that they are looking for an alternative to proprietary solutions and are deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization in mission-critical production deployments. In addition, approximately 50 percent of Red Hat's largest customers, based on revenue, have begun deploying or piloting Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.1 Many are recognizing and executing on the trend of deploying dual-source virtualization strategies, with over 80 percent of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization customers deploying Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as an alternative side-by-side with VMware2.

Open virtualization has achieved increased visibility in recent months through the Open Virtualization Alliance and oVirt project. As a founding member of the Open Virtualization Alliance, Red Hat has worked closely with leading IT vendors across the industry to foster the adoption of KVM-based solutions, ensuring that customers can choose from a wide range of virtualization products and services. Additionally, Red Hat is a lead sponsor of the industry-backed open source oVirt project, which has the goal of promoting the development of open source virtualization management technologies.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 brings a balance of new enterprise virtualization management features, performance and scalability for both Linux and Windows workloads, at a lower cost than proprietary alternatives.3 With its open source hypervisor and virtualization management system, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization offers an interoperable solution without lock-in to proprietary platforms. Red Hat has established itself as an industry leader in virtualization performance, holding all of the top five current SPECvirt_sc2010 results (www.spec.org), including the best 2-socket, 4-socket and 8-socket results. Similarly, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization leads the industry in scalability metrics for VM density and hosts per cluster. These leading performance and scalability benefits also come at prices one third to one fifth of the cost of alternative proprietary offerings.4

With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, the management system is now a Java application running on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It provides over 1,000 new features, enhancements and improvements, such as a power user portal for self-service provisioning, RESTful API, local storage and more. Offering a reliable and versatile foundation for cloud platforms, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is designed to meet the heavy demands of the cloud and create a secure, scalable environment for sharing resources and for managing them simply and flexibly.

"Highlighting once again the benefits of the open source development model, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 offers enterprises around the world a true strategic alternative to incumbent proprietary solutions," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president and president, Products and Technologies at Red Hat. "We've heard from companies around the world that they have a need for an alternative to VMware and, with 3.0, Red Hat is providing an attractive offering that combines leading performance and scalability with compelling economics."

"Red Hat is taking a major step into the cloud and virtualization market, and we believe that the BMC/Red Hat joint initiative to bring customers choice and expand their options is complementary to this effort. BMC plans to support Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in the near future, enabling our joint customers to leverage the best technology of both companies," said Kia Behnia, BMC's CTO. "Red Hat and BMC give customers the choice they need to make the cloud a reality."

"Cisco and Red Hat have been working together to develop solutions that ease the management of the virtualized data center. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 now offers integration with Cisco's industry-leading Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which enables customers to easily collapse virtual and physical networking into a single infrastructure for greater automation and simplification of the virtualized data center," said Satinder Sethi, vice president, Data Center Solutions, Server, Access and Virtualization Technology Group for Cisco.

"Fujitsu welcomes the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, which will enable our customers to run optimized virtualization environments on Fujitsu's PRIMEQUEST and PRIMERGY servers. With this release, we expect that the trend of KVM-based open virtualization will accelerate," said Kazuto Fujioka, general manager, Linux Development Division at Fujitsu. "Fujitsu has contributed to KVM development through the open source community, so as to continue to offer optimized virtualization solutions to our customers with Red Hat."

"Hitachi welcomes the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. With this release, we expect Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 will address customers' needs, such as expandability and flexibility for cloud infrastructure, and also accelerate the adoption of open source software in the market," said Susumu Okuhara, general manager of Platform Software at Hitachi, Ltd., Software Division.

"High-performance virtualization solutions give organizations increased flexibility to quickly address changing enterprise requirements," said Doug Oathout, vice president, Strategy and Alliances, Converged Infrastructure at HP. "Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 on HP BladeSystem and HP ProLiant servers is a secure, automated and high-performance virtualization solution that delivers a responsive IT environment for achieving organizational innovation and competitive advantage."

"Enterprises today expect scalable performance and manageability from their virtualization infrastructure," said Doug Fisher, vice president and general manager of the Systems Software Division at Intel. "Intel's long-standing investments in optimizing KVM for Intel architecture demonstrates our commitment to accelerate innovation through open source. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 running on Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers offers a robust open virtualization solution based on KVM, taking full advantage of Intel® Virtualization Technologies and the SRIOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization) standard."

"We welcome the announcement of the release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, which will strengthen operability on the virtualization environment," said Kotetsu Omiya, general manager of 1st IT Software Division at NEC Corporation. "NEC is offering Express5800 series with virtualization platform including KVM and will provide a virtualization environment and cloud platform that is well-suited for customer systems."

"NetApp is continuing to innovate to help customers simplify enterprise data management and reduce total cost of ownership through its collaboration with Red Hat," said Patrick Rogers, vice president, Solutions and Integrations Group at NetApp. "Working together, NetApp and Red Hat provide our mutual customers a cost-effective solution that combines Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 with NetApp® Data ONTAP® to help customers achieve greater performance, scalability and business agility."

"SGI customers already benefit from the flexible, scalable performance in a virtualized workflow achieved with KVM running on our leading-scale SGI® UV platform," said Christian Tanasescu, vice president of Software Engineering at SGI. "SGI believes Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is an important step toward making the KVM virtualization solution easier to configure and manage for these users, in addition to supporting the scalability that demanding workloads require."

For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, including a full list of new features and capabilities, or to download a free, fully supported 60-day trial of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, visit www.redhat.com/rhev3.

To learn more about this announcement and to hear from Red Hat executives, partners and customers about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, join us for our virtual launch event keynote and following presentations kicking off at 12 p.m. ET on Wednesday, January 18. The keynote and presentations will also be available on demand following the live event. Join by visiting http://bit.ly/AxCJav.

For more information about Red Hat, visit www.redhat.com. For more news, more often, visit www.press.redhat.com.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

Social Media Release: WatchGuard Lists PCI Pitfalls for Retailers

Social Media Release:
WatchGuard Lists PCI Pitfalls for Retailers

NEW YORK (January 16, 2012) – WatchGuard Technologies

Highlights / News Facts:

Businesses that process, transmit or store cardholder data must implement security controls as defined by the latest PCI DSS standard. The following are the nine common PCI DSS compliance pitfalls that many retailers fall into and tips to avoid them.

Keywords:

PCI DSS, Network Security, Firewall, Cardholder Data, Passwords, Encryption, IPS, Anti-Virus, Application Control, Next-Generation UTM, Policy

Quote:


About WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To learn more, visit www.watchguard.com.

Oracle PartnerNetwork Hosts Inaugural Oracle Applications and Industry Partner Summit

Oracle PartnerNetwork Hosts Inaugural Oracle Applications and Industry Partner Summit

Enables North American Partners with Strategies and Opportunities to Extend Business Growth and Profits with Oracle Applications and Industry-Specific Solutions

Redwood Shores, Calif., January 19, 2012

News Facts

Further providing partners the enablement resources they need to learn and grow with Oracle, Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) hosted its inaugural Oracle Applications and Industry Partner Summit last week in Arizona.
Welcoming more than 350 senior sales and practice leaders from 80 leading System Integrators from across North America, the event offered partners the strategies and resources they need to extend their service and solutions offerings and drive enhanced revenue and customer opportunities with Oracle technology.
The event, which will take place annually, featured commentary from Oracle customers, partners, and top Oracle executives:
Keith Block, Executive Vice President, Oracle North America
Thomas Kurian, Executive Vice President, Product Development
Sonny Singh, Senior Vice President, Industries Business Unit
Block shared Oracle’s strategy and momentum and explained why there has never been a better time to partner with Oracle. He also shared his perspective on the competitive landscape and insight from global customers.
Kurian shared upcoming roadmaps for Oracle Applications and discussed how partners can capitalize on new opportunities around Oracle’s Fusion Application and Cloud offerings.
Singh outlined Oracle’s comprehensive go-to-market strategy across numerous industries and explained the opportunity for partners to jointly collaborate with Oracle for industry success.
In addition, the summit highlighted joint partner opportunities for increased industry-specific selling and provided industry specific break-out sessions offering ideas and best-practice strategies across 12 unique industries.
OPN is dedicated to expanding and improving its partner enablement offerings. Since the inception of the OPN Specialized program:
More than 47 applications or industry-specific Specializations from industries have been made available to partners.
1,800 partners have achieved nearly 6,000 Oracle Application or industry Specializations.
More than 59,000 Industry and Application Boot Camp Training days have been conducted with 12,200 taking place in FY12 alone.
More than 11,000 Individual Certified Implementation Specialists have achieved Application/Industry-specific accreditations.

Supporting Quote

“Without question, Oracle’s leading technologies and our partners’ undeniable services and solutions expertise create a winning proposition for customers,” said Tyler Prince, group vice president North America Alliances & Channels Applications and System Integrators. “A significant opportunity exists for our partner community to work in tandem with Oracle to build, sell and deliver unique solutions and services to a wide range of industries. The inaugural Oracle Application and Industry Partner Summit was designed to arm partners with the tools, techniques and information they need to drive a competitive edge and accelerate joint selling with Oracle.”

Supporting Resources

Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn, and OPN on YouTube and OPN on Twitter

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle’s products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners.

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Contact Info

Jessica Moore
Oracle
+1.650.506.3297
jessica.moore@oracle.com

Kristin Reeves
Oracle
+1.415.856.5145
kreeves@blancandotus.com

McGuinty Government Remains Focused On Jobs And The Economy

McGuinty Government Remains Focused On Jobs And The Economy

Partnership With Cisco Creating 300 Ontario Jobs For Ontario Families

January 19, 2012 - Ontario is partnering with companies like Cisco
Canada to attract investment, create jobs and strengthen our economy.

Cisco Canada is one of many businesses that are leading in their field
around the world from right here in Ontario. With provincial support,
Cisco has expanded its R&D projects to:

· Further advance Internet routing.
· Create next-generation technology for the mobile Internet.
· Develop new technology for the future of broadband Internet.
· Create new ways to share online video.

Partnering with business and fostering innovation are key components of
the McGuinty government’s plan to strengthen Ontario’s economy and
to create jobs for families.

QUOTES

“Companies like Cisco come to Ontario because we have a workforce
that’s second to none. Our government will continue to look for ways
to work with growing Ontario businesses, and attract more investment by
building the best workforce in the world.”
— Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario

“Ontario provides an excellent environment for technology innovators.
When Cisco was considering places to grow our global R&D investment,
Ontario had all the attributes we look for — access to skilled
engineering graduates, a stable and predictable economy, and an
excellent combination of research tax credits and government investment
that supports innovation.”
— Nitin Kawale, President, Cisco Canada

QUICK FACTS
- Ontario created more than 121,000 net new full-time jobs in 2011.
Read more at
http://news.ontario.ca/mof/en/2012/01/ontario-focused-on-jobs.html
- Cisco’s expansion is creating 300 new research and development jobs
in Toronto and Ottawa while retaining 300 existing jobs.
- Cisco has started the first phase of their recruiting process
(https://communities.cisco.com/community/general/universityconnection)
— 16 engineers have been hired so far.
- Cisco products include computer routers, wireless technology Internet
security, communications software and tele-video conferencing.

LEARN MORE
See the backgrounder at
http://www.ontariocanada.com/ontcan/1medt/en/news_2011_08_17-CiscoBackgrounder_en.jsp
for more about Cisco’s Ontario IT Innovation Initiative and the
Memorandum of Understanding.

About Cisco

Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking that
transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco Canada
Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco, has offices across Canada
dedicated to customer support, sales and service. For ongoing news,
please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com/canada/.

-30-

Cisco, the Cisco logo and Cisco Systems are registered trademarks or
trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United
States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in
this document are the property of their respective owners. The use of
the word partner does not imply a partnership relationship between Cisco
and any other company. This document is Cisco Public Information.


Contact Information

Jennifer Rideout
StrategicAmpersand Inc. (for Cisco)
416-961-5595, Ext. 438
jerideou@cisco.com

Karin Scott
Cisco
416-306-7164
karisc
ot@cisco.com


Symantec Announces Intelligent Information Governance to Mitigate Risks and Free Information

Symantec Announces Intelligent Information Governance to Mitigate Risks and Free Information

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 16, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced an intelligent information governance solution that allows organizations to bridge the gap between business, legal and IT, reduce their risks and costs, and empower employees to work freely in a connected world. In order to enable organizations to better protect their information, establish retention policies and streamline their eDiscovery process, Symantec announced its plans for increased integration between its leading storage and eDiscovery offerings. Additionally, Symantec announced that it has acquired LiveOffice, a privately-held cloud-based archiving leader, for a purchase price of approximately $115 million. The acquisition will extend Symantec’s intelligent information governance offering to the cloud, providing customers choice between on-premise, cloud or hybrid delivery of Symantec solutions.


Click to Tweet: @Symantec to acquire @LiveOffice to enhance #archiving, #eDiscovery and cloud portfolio http://bit.ly/zOkQhj, http://bit.ly/xRsF9g.


The Advantage of Intelligent Information Governance

By implementing the proper controls for information retention and protection, organizations can confidently allow their employees to share information freely. This provides a critical edge in a world where corporate information is increasingly accessed from a wider variety of devices (including smartphones and tablets), shared via social media, and stored in the cloud. The organization’s ability to secure this information, while allowing employees the ability to access it virtually anywhere, improves employee productivity and reduces information risk.


Symantec’s intelligent information governance solutions provide organizations with the technology needed to reduce the risks related to eDiscovery and compliance, and allow them to consolidate previously discrete portions of IT operations. Symantec provides federated search and a common classification engine across critical data sources, bringing context and relevance to information so organizations can find what they need, when they need it, and appropriately enforce policies and controls. Additionally, the ability to centrally manage security, information retention and eDiscovery functions reduces operational expenses and training costs.


“The governance of information is increasingly important to businesses. Companies need to simultaneously control and liberate information, letting employees freely access the information they need for maximum productivity without resulting in compliance risks to the organization,” said Katey Wood, analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “By bringing together on-premise and cloud-based security, archiving, classification and eDiscovery, Symantec provides a solution that can help organizations proactively classify, retain and discover information while reducing risk and avoiding costs.”


“What were once disparate issues—information management, eDiscovery, and data security—are rapidly coming together due to the explosion of electronically stored information and the on-premise and cloud-based technologies that deliver and disseminate it. Organizations are increasingly demanding that these issues be addressed in a unified way through information governance,” stated Brian Dye, vice president, Information Intelligence Group, Symantec Corp. “As a market leader for storage, eDiscovery and security, Symantec continues to enhance its offerings and deepen its commitment to provide the most comprehensive intelligent information governance solutions.”


New Enhanced Governance Functionality

Adding an information archive is one of the simplest steps an organization can take to improve its information governance. With an archive, organizations can systematically index, classify and retain information and thus establish a proactive approach to eDiscovery. Today, Symantec announces its plans to strengthen the integration of its leading archiving and eDiscovery solutions.


Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform is expected to have the only collector certified by Symantec to collect directly from Symantec Enterprise Vault. This can allow users to collect content at scale from Enterprise Vault in the same manner they collect from other data sources over the network using the collection management console, accelerating collections and avoiding archive performance degradation.


Additionally, by leveraging Enterprise Vault’s existing index and Data Classification Services tags, users can perform targeted collections by providing metadata and keyword filters, specifying collection criteria via a simple point-and-click interface. Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform also is expected to be able to preserve archived information in Symantec Enterprise Vault in place, thereby reducing risk and streamlining the eDiscovery process.


Together, the announced integration of Enterprise Vault and Clearwell will enable organizations to reduce their eDiscovery costs from information management through production, reduce their risk by improving the defensibility and repeatability of their processes, and streamline their processes to meet legal and regulatory deadlines.


Symantec’s Continued Investment in Archiving

Symantec continues to enhance its market leading archiving and eDiscovery offerings with the acquisition of LiveOffice, Symantec’s hosted archiving OEM partner for Enterprise Vault.cloud. This acquisition, completed on Jan. 13, 2012, further deepens the company’s commitment to provide the most comprehensive and innovative archiving, compliance and eDiscovery solutions delivered on-premise, in the cloud, or as a hybrid solution. With the addition of LiveOffice, Symantec will help organizations to store, manage, and discover an increasingly broad range of unstructured information including on-premise and cloud-based information sources such as email, instant message, social media and file sharing.


Through the existing integrations between LiveOffice and the recently acquired Clearwell eDiscovery Platform, customers can export information from LiveOffice to the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform where it is collected along with information from Enterprise Vault and other data sources for processing, analysis, early case assessment and review. This acquisition will continue to enable Symantec to provide customers deeper alignment between these industry leading archiving and eDiscovery software solutions.


This acquisition also provides an opportunity for tighter integration between archiving and Symantec.cloud’s email security and management capabilities. With LiveOffice, Symantec provides customers a complete cloud-based solution for messaging protection, including: anti-SPAM, security, continuity, archiving, compliance, and eDiscovery – all from one vendor. With LiveOffice’s cloud-based archiving, customers can confidently address the challenges of messaging protection for both on-premise and hosted email. With no hardware or software required, this solution frees up IT resources and provides users with rapid and secure access to email from their inbox, any supported web browser or hand held device.


Related

Connect with Symantec

About Symantec

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.

LinkedIn Surpasses Five Million Members in Canada

LinkedIn Surpasses Five Million Members in Canada 

Nearly one out of every six Canadians now uses LinkedIn 

Toronto, Canada — January 19, 2011LinkedIn, the world's largest professional network with over 135 million members globally, today announced more than five million members in Canada.  

“LinkedIn has experienced phenomenal growth in the Canadian market this past year, adding more than two million new members in 12 months. Needless to say, we’re thrilled to reach this milestone,” said Brian Church, country manager, LinkedIn Canada. “Canadians clearly understand that LinkedIn is an invaluable tool for advancing career goals, establishing a personal brand and developing a professional network. We’re very excited to see what 2012 will bring.” 

With the arrival of 2012, many Canadians are taking stock of their career, contemplating changing jobs or even setting a new vocational path. For Canadians seeking their next promotion, now is the best time to make that happen: LinkedIn research shows that January is the best month to get promoted in Canada.  

More than five million Canadians view LinkedIn as a crucial tool for reaching the next rung on the corporate ladder and taking professional networking to the next level. Whether through LinkedIn Groups, Company Pages, Today or Signal, LinkedIn allows Canadians to tap into the expertise and advice of professionals not only in Canada, but also around the world. 

A number of brands in Canada including Cisco Canada, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Randstad Canada and Scotiabank are using LinkedIn’s marketing solutions to target advertising campaigns and build engagement with educated, affluent and influential professionals. Canadian companies such as Barrick Gold Corporation, IKEA Canada and Kobo are using LinkedIn’s hiring solutions to identify and recruit top talent quickly and efficiently.  

- ### -  

Press contacts

press@linkedin.com  

About LinkedIn

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 135 million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. The company has a diversified business model with revenues coming from member subscriptions, marketing solutions and hiring solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices in 22 countries across the globe.

Campaign Performance and ROI Tools to Become the 'Killer Apps' for Corporate Social Media Clients in 2012, Predicts Parta Dialogue's Senior VP

Campaign Performance and ROI Tools to Become the 'Killer Apps' for Corporate Social Media Clients in 2012, Predicts Parta Dialogue's Senior VP

MONTREAL and PARIS, Jan. 18, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - PARTA Dialogue Inc. (TSXV: PAD), the social media optimization experts predicts that in 2012, the next frontier for tech companies will be the measurement of performance, cost-efficiency and return on investment of corporate social media investments.

"With roughly 100,000 brand pages on Facebook currently collectively boasting over 1 Billion followers, it is clear that companies large and small have learnt how to build a following online. Now, the questions top managers are asking are 'Is social media working for us? Is it making us money?' Tools that can answer these questions will be hot stuff in 2012," states Tom Liacas, M.A., Parta Dialogue's VP Social Media.

Market activity directly reflects the rising value accorded to social media analytics solutions, according to Liacas. "Two recent milestones in this area are the acquisition of analytics company Omniture, by Adobe, for $1.8 billion in 2009 and the recent 2011 buyout of Radian 6's social media monitoring software by Salesforce. Both of these transactions demonstrate that large online solutions providers are eagerly looking to acquire analytics tools to answer client demand," states Liacas.

Parta Dialogue, is actively working on the rollout of a suite of campaign analytics solutions for 2012, beginning with a social media cost-efficiency calculator named "e-Value™". In the words of Tom Liacas: "This tool is the first building block for credible ROI calculation. Companies that use it to measure their social media campaign efficiency will quickly learn whether their efforts on social media are reaching full potential and also how they compare to thousands of other brands doing the same."

For more information on Parta's research into social media metrics
http://www.socialmediaefficiency.com/white-paper/

About PARTA
For more information on PARTA, visit www.partadialogue.com.

For further information:

Tom Liacas, VP Social Media
Parta Dialogue Inc.
+1 (514) 771 - 5120
tom.liacas@partadialogue.com

HP Helps Retailers Create Seamless Customer Experience

HP Helps Retailers Create Seamless Customer Experience

HP showcases mobile point-of-sale, self-checkout, digital signage and POS at National Retail Federation convention

 

NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2012 – HP today unveiled new offerings designed to help retailers create an exciting, seamless customer experience across multiple store touch points.

HP is offering National Retail Federation convention attendees a firsthand look at the company’s wide range of retail-focused products and services, including point-of-sale (POS) and self-service solutions, digital signage, analytics software, managed print services and mobility solutions. These solutions are supported by more than a dozen partners that combine their solutions and expertise with HP technology.

The offerings are being showcased as part of HP’s Seamless Customer Experience demonstration in booth 431 at the convention. The demonstration is HP’s representation of an ideal store environment where every retail touch point – be it the point of sale, a digital display or a retail-ready tablet or kiosk – engages with the customer in a consistent and integrated way.

“Many retailers are working toward creating a much more interesting environment for shoppers with the goal of improving and differentiating the entire shopping experience,” said Ray Carlin, vice president and general manager, Retail Solutions Global Business Unit, HP. “HP is becoming the provider of choice for retailers that want to implement this seamless customer experience with affordable, leading-edge technology backed by best-in-class software partners.”

HP at the National Retail Federation Convention and Expo

New offerings from HP include:

  The HP mobile POS solution based on the HP Slate 2 tablet running the Windows® operating environment, which combines a barcode scanner and magnetic stripe reader into a secure case to enable store associate applications such as sales and clienteling – better serving customers based on their past purchases.

  The HP CX (Customer Experience) family of self-checkout solutions and the expansion of the HP IX (Interactive Experience) family of kiosks. HP CX is a cost-effective, flexible, self-checkout solution available in small and full-size configurations. Industry-leading software from ECRS and Retalix power these offerings.

  The HP LD4730 and HP LD4730G 47-inch Micro Bezel Video Wall Displays. Both touch-enabled displays feature HP DreamColor and the LD4730G offers durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass, ideal for high traffic settings. The displays use an HP exclusive video input – simplified Video over Ethernet (VOE) – to manage and deploy network-attached digital signage.

  A touch-enabled interactive wall, built on HP VantagePoint technology, combines six HP LD4730G 47-inch Micro Bezel displays with a custom infrared-based touch overlay that provides 32 points of simultaneous touch to enable new, interactive and fully immersive digital signage experiences.

  The HP Presentation Barcode Scanner is a high-performance on-counter presentation scanner that can read most common 1-D and 2-D barcodes. The HP Linear Barcode Scanner is an entry-level linear scanner that is affordable and durable and can read normal and distressed 1-D barcodes. Both scanners can read barcodes presented on mobile devices.

Also highlighted at the show:

  HP’s full line of retail-hardened POS terminals, including the rp5800, rp3000 and the all-in-one ap5000, along with the full complement of HP peripherals.

Follow us

More information on HP’s activities at the convention is available via the @HP_Retail Twitter channel and the HP Retail Technology and Solutions LinkedIn group.


About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Corning and Gorilla are registered trademarks of Corning Incorporated.