Oracle Announces Enhanced Oracle Identity Analytics

Oracle Announces Enhanced Oracle Identity Analytics

New Version Accelerates and Simplifies Access Governance and Compliance Reviews

Redwood Shores, Calif. – November 2, 2011

News Facts

Delivering the advanced identity analytics business managers need to meet increasingly complex time consuming compliance requirements, Oracle today announced the latest version of Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA).
Oracle Identity Analytics is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and the Oracle Identity Management 11g product family.
With this release, Oracle Identity Analytics simplifies access review certification with business-centric views and actionable dashboards, powered by rich identity analytics thereby helping to reduce errors in the certification process and increase user productivity by up to 80 percent.
OIA provides aggregated risk metrics along with in depth historical context, allowing approvers to focus their attention on critical applications and associated audit risks.
OIA's improved performance enables customers to scale compliance initiatives supporting millions of user entitlements across thousands of applications, whether on premise or in the cloud, without compromising speed or integrity.
Seamless integration with Oracle Identity Manager 11g makes Oracle Identity Analytics the industry's only access governance solution that provides an accurate closed-loop remediation solution including controls for preventive segregation of duties.

Advanced Capabilities Streamline Enterprise-Level Identity Compliance

Highlights of Oracle Identity Analytics include:

Re-designed business friendly access certification views powered by rich identity risk analytics and context that make it easier and faster for customers to achieve compliance. Other enhancements include:
Advanced sorting, filtering and search capabilities on tabular views with toggle screens for improved user experience and faster signoff.
Visual risk Indicators: provide a clear High/Medium/Low score associated to user roles, resources, entitlements allowing managers to quickly prioritize and recognize high-risk user access.
3X faster certification campaign generation tools for improved user productivity.
Faster data import engine to import data up to 3x faster.
Risk aggregation from Oracle Identity Manager provides in-depth understanding of how user access was provisioned, enabling reviewers with relevant risk-based context to make educated decisions.
Fully customizable modeling of risk metrics based on audit objectives, role or entitlement definition, or provisioning method.

Supporting Quote

"Enterprises increasingly need to achieve organization-wide compliance, but the end-goal often requires an unrealistic amount of time and resources," said Marc Boroditsky, vice president, Oracle Identity Management. "Oracle Identity Analytics offers both the appropriate scalability as well as the comprehensive and intuitive functions necessary to streamline how users, roles and entitlements are managed within an enterprise. With seamless integration into Oracle's existing identity management portfolio, these advanced capabilities simplify enterprise compliance and help ensure the security of critical company data and information."

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About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

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CA Technologies Turnkey Cloud Platform Powers ViaWest’s New KINECTed™ Cloud – Innovator Service

CA Technologies Turnkey Cloud Platform Powers ViaWest’s New KINECTed™ Cloud – Innovator Service

CA AppLogic® Software and CA Process Automation Help ViaWest Drive New Revenue and Build Margin by Optimizing Complex Virtual Application Development

ISLANDIA, N.Y. – November 2, 2011 - CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that ViaWest, one of the largest privately owned data center and managed services providers in North America, is using the CA AppLogic® turnkey cloud platform and CA Process Automation as the backbone of its new Xen-based KINECTed™ Cloud – Innovator service.

Developed with and delivered on the CA AppLogic platform, KINECTed™ Cloud – Innovator provides software developers with a flexible, customizable and secure on-demand infrastructure with the scalability, storage and computing power needed to build and test new environments.

The new ViaWest service offering combines the CA AppLogic platform, CA Process Automation, and an integrated customer-accessible service catalog to deliver a comprehensive packaged cloud solution. This enables ViaWest to:

• Quickly create, deploy and offer new business services through the cloud;
• On-board new customers quickly and easily;
• Offer a Web-based front-end for self-service purchase and delivery;
• Automate “pay-as-you-go” billing, cost allocations & chargebacks; and
• Integrate back office functions for more efficient customer management.

ViaWest customers benefit through access to Web-based self-service ordering, automated configuration and deployment, scalable, secure, and managed environments, and unique customer-defined offerings based upon their specific requirements.

KINECTed™ Cloud – Innovator complements ViaWest’s hybrid services portfolio, offering a comprehensive suite of solutions from test/dev to production, and from managed services to colocation, complex hosting and more.

“ViaWest chose the CA  AppLogic platform and CA Process Automation for KINECTed™ Cloud - Innovator because the solutions allow us to deploy an IaaS cloud very quickly while also providing the ability to easily add additional services at an attractive price point,” said Jason Carolan, vice president of Product Development, ViaWest. “For customers looking for a turn-key, yet sophisticated self-service user experience, CA Technologies solutions satisfy that. Developers enjoy the fact that the CA AppLogic platform allows them to become more agile and operate more efficiently by quickly and easily designing and testing complex applications with the exact middleware and system configuration they will have in production.”

The CA AppLogic platform offers an application-centric approach for delivering infrastructure, tools, applications and virtual data centers in the cloud. Service providers can use the platform to add new services — driving new revenue — independent of hypervisor technology—with dramatic speed, flexibility and choice. The CA AppLogic platform sets a new standard for fast business service creation with support for multiple hypervisors in the same grid, including VMware ESX and Xen. This enables service providers to address more customers and architectures, and allows enterprises to protect their investments in VMware.

“The CA Technologies-powered KINECTed™ Cloud – Innovator service helps ViaWest drive new revenue and build margin,” said Roger Pilc, general manager, Virtualization and Automation, CA Technologies. “Our cloud platform and integrated automation offerings help ViaWest improve operational efficiency and reduce risks. They also help simplify the delivery of services and provide a broad set of choices for targeting specific markets with differentiated cloud services.”

John Greer, systems architect, ViaWest, will discuss the company’s use of the CA AppLogic platform and CA Process Automation during his CA World presentation ViaWest Delivers the Cloud.

For more information about the CA AppLogic cloud platform, please visit:

• CA AppLogic Solution Overview
• CA AppLogic Press Kit
• CA Cloud Storm Chasers Blog
• @CA_Cloud on Twitter

 

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments – from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

New Norton Tablet Security Protects Against Loss, Theft and Online Threats

New Norton Tablet Security Protects Against Loss, Theft and Online Threats

Norton Mobile Security update includes new “Scream”feature and web-based antitheft capabilities

  

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Nov. 2, 2011 – Norton by Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the availability of Norton Tablet Security and new updates for Norton Mobile Security, including a new “Scream” feature that helps users find a lost or stolen phone quickly. Both offerings for the Android platform further support the Norton Everywhere initiative, which extends Norton's security expertise and technologies to protect consumers everywhere they go, regardless of device or platform.


“With today’s smartphones, people stand to risk losing much more than contact information when a device is lost or stolen – it’s access to their email, social networking sites, financial institutions or even exposing personal photos or videos, as many celebrities have,” said Dave Cole, vice president, mobile products, Norton. “Given these risks, consumers are increasingly motivated to protect their mobile lives. Norton Tablet Security and Norton Mobile Security provide protection from physical and online threats from one of the most trusted brands in security.”


Norton Tablet Security

Available through retail partners, this new offering is designed specifically for Android tablets to protect the device, as well as the user’s privacy and important data, against loss, theft, viruses, and other threats through the following features:

  • Web-based Anti-Theft – By logging in through a web browser, users can access anti-theft features that include the ability to remotely lock a lost or stolen device, preventing information from being stolen. Users can also add a default or custom “device lost” message to the lock screen. A lost or stolen tablet can also be located on a map, which shows the device’s most recent locations. For those who want to see who may have their device, the “Sneak Peek” feature remotely takes a photo using the front-facing tablet camera and uploads the picture to the anti-theft site that stores and displays the most recent pictures.
  • Anti-Malware – Automatically scans all the apps and app updates downloaded to the mobile device and SD card for threats.
  • Web Protection – Norton Safe Web technology alerts on fraudulent and malicious websites, protecting the device from content accessed or downloaded over mobile networks and Wi-Fi connections, without slowdowns or interruptions.

Norton Mobile Security

Also available through retail partners today, this updated mobile offering now includes web-based anti-theft functions and a “Scream” locator feature that lets users send a text to their missing phone to remotely activate an alarm, helping them locate their device. Users who have already purchased a version of Norton Mobile Security will receive these new feature updates through their existing product subscription:

  • SMS-Based Antitheft features – In addition to the “Scream” locator feature Users can remotely locate, lock and wipe their device through SMS commands. Users can also create a buddy list, specifying trusted contacts (like friends or family) who can send an unlock code through their phone.
  • Web-Based Antitheft features: Users can remotely locate and locate their device through the antitheft.norton.com web portal. A Web-based feature, “Lost Notice,” allows users to display a  customizable message to anyone who finds the missing device so the owner can make arrangements to get it back. Norton Mobile Security also includes a “Sneak Peek” feature that remotely takes a photo using the front-facing camera and uploads the picture to the anti-theft site.
  • Privacy features – Protects personal information from phishing scams and allows users to avoid unwanted communications. Users can browse safely while Norton Safe Web technology alerts on fraudulent and malicious websites, protecting the device from content accessed or downloaded over mobile networks and Wi-Fi connections, without slowdowns or interruptions. Call and text blocker also let users block calls and text messages from specific people or phone numbers.
  • Anti-Malware – Automatically scans all the apps and app updates downloaded to the mobile device and SD card for threats.

Pricing, Availability and Compatibility

Norton Tablet Security is available today from select US and regional retailers at an MSRP of $39.99USD, which provides one year of protection. Norton Tablet Security is available in the following languages: US English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese.


Norton Mobile Security is available today from select US and regional retailers at an MSRP of $29.99USD, which provides one year of protection. Norton Mobile Security is available in the following languages: US English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese.


About Norton from Symantec

Symantec’s Norton products protect consumers from cybercrime with technologies like antivirus, anti-spyware and phishing protection-- while also being light on system resources. The company also provides services such as online backup and PC tuneup, and family online safety. Fan Norton on Facebook at www.facebook.com/norton and follow @NortonOnline on Twitter.


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.

EMC OnDemand Brings Captiva, Document Sciences and Documentum to the Hybrid Cloud

EMC OnDemand Brings Captiva, Document Sciences and Documentum to the Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud Model Increases IT Efficiency and Business Agility
BERLIN - November 1, 2011
News Highlights:
  • New EMC OnDemand offering is a hybrid cloud deployment model for enterprise-class applications, designed to help customers accelerate journey to the cloud.
  • OnDemand is available for EMC® Captiva®, EMC® Document Sciences® and EMC® Documentum®, enabling customers to stay current on the latest software releases, simplify management of highly-complex applications, and lower IT maintenance spend.
  • Combining best-in-class technologies from VMware, RSA, and EMC, OnDemand increases business agility, saves time and costs, and improves IT efficiency. Customers can be online with system acquisition, installation and setup within hours instead of months.

At Momentum, the EMC Information Intelligence Group's EMEA user conference, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced the availability of EMC OnDemand for EMC® Captiva®, EMC® Document Sciences® and EMC® Documentum®. EMC OnDemand enables customers to save time and money, simplify their operations and transform their business by focusing on driving business value.

OnDemand enables customers to stay current on the latest software releases, simplify management of highly-complex applications and lower overall IT maintenance spend, as the IT stack required to run the applications and solutions are managed in data centers, securely connected to the customers' local area networks.

The initial solutions for OnDemand include:

  • EMC Captiva: an intelligent enterprise capture solution for reducing costs and improving paper-intensive processes through automatic classification, indexing, extraction and routing of business content.
  • EMC Document Sciences: an intelligent customer communications solution for automating the creation, production and multi-channel delivery (output for print, email, SMS, and Web channels) of personalized information.
  • EMC Documentum: Documentum clients including Webtop, CenterStage, Mobile and the My Documentum for Desktop applications, along with Documentum admin and developer tools and core services, including Documentum Content Server, Retention Policy Services, xPlore, Content Transformation Services and Content Intelligent Services.

The underlying technology of OnDemand is a new hybrid cloud deployment model for enterprise-class applications, designed to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud. Developed using a range of best-in-class technologies from VMware, RSA and EMC, the infrastructure can contain one or many EMC and EMC partner products and can be completely portable from one data center to another. It also enables customers to provision and configure the system for rapid deployment.

Customer Quote:

Lahey Clinic, a teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine, is a physician-led, nonprofit group practice with nearly 450 physicians and more than 4,000 nurses, therapists and other support staff working together to provide compassionate care and superior patient outcomes. As a participant in the OnDemand Early Adopter program, Lahey recognizes the value of the offering.
Paul Reed, ECM Manager at Lahey

"EMC OnDemand is a compelling approach to managing business-critical information. Simply put, EMC offers the expertise to install, configure and manage key components of our infrastructure, enabling us to focus on other areas."

Analyst Quote:

Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, IDC, EMC Announces EMC OnDemand: Hybrid Cloud Deployment Model with Managed Service for Content and Case Management, Capture, Customer Communications, and Governance, Doc lcUS22825711, May 2011

"EMC OnDemand offers tremendous benefits to customers in speed of deployment, ease of management, cost savings, and flexibility. OnDemand should dramatically accelerate new application delivery and reduce implementation costs for EMC's customers. We think this could significantly change the total cost of ownership (TCO) equation for EMC's Information Intelligence Group products, and give EMC an important competitive advantage."

EMC Executive Quote:

Paul O'Brien, Vice President of EMC OnDemand for the Information Intelligence Group at EMC

"EMC is thrilled to deliver revolutionary technology to accelerate our customers' journey to the cloud. Taking industry-leading solutions like Captiva, Document Sciences and Documentum to the cloud is an exciting next step in information management. The initial interest and feedback from customers and partners has been overwhelming; the overall ease of on-boarding, combined with the time-to-market and continuous cost savings benefits simply jump off the page."

Additional Resources:
About EMC

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

Press Contacts

David De Jear
(925) 600-6790
david.dejear@emc.com

TIA Answers the Call for the Global Standardization Collaboration Meeting

October 31, 2011

TIA Answers the Call for the Global Standardization Collaboration Meeting

TIA Engages in Development of New Technology Standards

Arlington, Va. - The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), a standards developing organization (SDO) that represents the manufacturers and suppliers of global communications networks, is excited to attend the 16th annual meeting of the Global Standardization Collaboration (GSC-16), Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada hosted by ICT Standards Advisory Council of Canada (ISACC).

TIA, with the help of its many member companies, has been actively preparing contributions to address specific tasks assigned by the GSC.

Several submissions to the GSC address the M2M (Machine-to-Machine) Initiative through the Machine-to-Machine Standardization Task Force (MSTF). At the second MSTF meeting, hosted by TIA at the Georgia Tech Research Institute in September, presenters and participants from vertical market groups and associations, SDOs, and other standards groups converged to share visions, challenges, and opportunities in the M2M space. A comprehensive panel discussion led to the creation of an Activity Roadmap to help the GSC make critical decisions on the future of M2M standardization.

"For years, the telecommunication industry has focused on connecting people to people," said Cheryl Blum, Vice President of Technology & Standards for TIA and head of the TIA delegation to GSC-16. "The M2M initiative will enable us to expand our focus to include people-to-machine and machine-to-machine connections, which are becoming more and more important to so many aspects of our daily lives. Opportunities for smart device, vehicular telematics, healthcare, and smart grid are already deploying M2M technologies, but to enable the large-scale growth of these technologies it is important to establish some standardization in how these devices will communicate."

TIA will make contributions to GSC-16 on 15 subjects, such as Emergency Communications, Smart Grid, Security and Lawful Intercept, Cloud Services, IMT Standardization, Cybersecurity, Information Communications Technologies (ICT) and the Environment, Intelligent Traffic Systems, Reconfigurable Radio Systems, and Broadband Wireless Access. TIA is also proud to deliver a submission on ICT Accessibility, matching well with the theme of this event, "ICT Accessibility for All."

To inquire about participating in TIA standards developing efforts, please contact Germaine Palangdao at +1.703.907.7497 or at gpalangdao@tiaonline.org.

Learn more about TIA standards development and view TIA's engineering committee meetings calendar at tiaonline.org/standards/. Sign up for news feeds on new TIA standards projects and publications.

TIA's Engineering Committees will be meeting during the association's annual meeting, TIA 2012: Inside the Network Conference & Exhibition, June 5-7 in Dallas.

About TIA
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry through standards development, policy and advocacy, business opportunities, market intelligence, and events and networking. Since 1924, TIA has been enhancing the business environment for broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite and unified communications. Members' products and services empower communications in every industry and market, including healthcare, education, security, public safety, transportation, government, the military, the environment, and entertainment. Visit tiaonline.org.

TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Read ANSI's report, "Standards Boost Business" at http://www.standardsboostbusiness.org/.

View video news programming on TIA Now at www.tianow.org.

TIA's 2011 Market Review & Forecast, is available for purchase online at the TIA store. TIA members receive a discount of more than 60 percent off of the cover price. Review copies are available for qualified media.

TIA's Board of Directors includes senior-level executives from ADTRAN, Alcatel-Lucent, ANDA Networks, AttivaCorp, Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical Company, Ericsson, Inc., GENBAND, Inc., Henkels & McCoy, Juniper Networks, ILS Technology, Intel Corporation, Intersect, Inc., LGE, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia Siemens Networks, OneChip Photonics, Panasonic Computer Solutions Co., Qualcomm, Research In Motion, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave Corporation, Tellabs, TE Connectivity, Ulticom, Inc., Walker & Associates and WirefreeCom, Inc. Advisors to the Board include FAL Associates.

Skills/Compétences Canada and Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists Launch National Skilled Trades and Technology Week


Skills/Compétences Canada and Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists Launch National Skilled Trades and Technology Week

Annual event draws attention to the impending shortage of skilled trade and technology workers and the growing career opportunities available to youth

OTTAWA, Nov. 1, 2011 /CNW/ - Skills/Compétences Canada, a national not-for-profit organization that actively promotes careers in skilled trades and technology, today hosted the official launch of National Skilled Trades and Technology Week 2011 at a joint event held at the Canada Museum of Science and Technology. This marked the kick off of activities taking place from October 31 to November 6, 2011 across Canada.

This year's theme is energy, underscoring the important role of building sustainable energy workforce to meet the needs of industry and future generations. To illustrate this theme, a 28 foot model wind turbine by Edey FX built by Algonquin College students was displayed and a model wind turbine competition was featured at the launch event. The Canada Museum of Science and Technology also introduced their dynamic new energy exhibit which included electric eels.

"Industries that depend on quality skilled trade workers are key drivers of our economy and contributes to more than 50% of Canada's GDP,"' said Shaun Thorson, Chief Executive Officer, Skills/Compétences Canada. "At the regional, provincial, territorial and national level, National Skilled Trades and Technology Week helps showcase and raise awareness to youth of the broad range of opportunities and benefits of pursuing professions in skilled trades and technology."

An initiative of Skills/Compétences Canada, National Skilled Trades and Technology Week is an annual event that generates awareness of the growing skilled labour challenges in Canada, and recognizes students developing trade and technology skills. According to the Conference Board of Canada, a shortage of more than one million skilled workers is forecasted by 2020, with an estimated 40% of all new jobs in the skilled trades and technology industries. The event includes interactive student skills demonstrations and activities across the country, hosted by Skills/Compétences Canada Provincial/Territorial offices.

"We are committed to having the most educated and skilled workforce in the world, so it is more important than ever that youth gain the skills and experience needed to prepare for and succeed in the jobs of tomorrow," said the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development. "Through grants, tax credits and support for training programs, our government is encouraging apprenticeships and careers in the skilled trades and technology sectors."

About Skills/Compétences Canada
Skills/Compétences Canada was founded in 1989 as a national, not-for-profit organization that works with employers, educators, labour groups and governments to promote skilled trades and technology careers among Canadian youth. Its unique position among private and public sector partners enables it to work toward securing Canada's future skilled labour needs while helping young people discover rewarding careers. Skills/Compétences Canada offers experiential learning opportunities including skilled trades and technology competitions for hundreds of thousands of young Canadians through regional, provincial/territorial, national and international events, as well as skilled trades awareness programs. Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Skills/Compétences Canada is the Canadian Member organization of WorldSkills International. For more information visit www.skillscanada.com or call 877-754-5226.

About CCTT
The Canadian Council of Technicians and Technologists (CCTT) establishes high standards of excellence for working professionals and is the national voice on issues such as pan-Canadian standards, national and international mobility, and national accreditation of technology programs. CCTT establishes and maintains the National Technology Benchmarks® in the following applied science and engineering technology disciplines: bioscience, industrial, building, instrumentation, chemical, mechanical, civil, mining, electrical, petroleum, electronics, geomatics, forestry, and information technology. CCTT's provincial associations are responsible for issuing these highly regarded credentials.

Note to Editors:  High resolution photos are available upon request.

For further information:

Media Contacts:

Christianne Scholfield
Skills/Compétences Canada
343 883-7545 or 613 282-3774
christiannes@skillscanada.com

Caroline McGrath
CMM Communications Group (for Skills/Compétences Canada)
416 972-1642 or 416-357-2702
caroline@cmm-communications.com


Adobe Acquires Auditude to Capitalize on Exploding Video Advertising Opportunity

Adobe Acquires Auditude to Capitalize on Exploding Video Advertising Opportunity

Auditude Platform Empowers Publishers and Media Companies to Maximize Value of Video Content

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 1, 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that it has acquired privately held Auditude Inc., a leader in video ad management and monetization technologies for premium publishers and media companies. Through the acquisition of Auditude, Adobe® is now uniquely positioned to provide an end-to-end video offering, seamlessly connecting authoring, publishing, monetization and optimization with the goal of helping customers build long-term businesses through the delivery of quality video content and superior viewing experience across all IP-enabled devices.

“Premium video publishers want to capitalize on the foundational shift to digital by providing viewers with great media experiences and maximizing the value of their content on every IP device,” said David Wadhwani, senior vice president and general manager, Digital Media Business Unit, Adobe. “With this acquisition, Adobe can now offer an unparalleled platform for authoring, distributing, analyzing and monetizing digital video experiences everywhere – simplifying workflows, increasing consumer engagement, delivering insights and driving increased revenue for content publishers.”

Supporting video ad management and monetization delivered via an open architecture platform, Auditude lets premium publishers and media companies efficiently create a high-quality, TV-like, multi-device advertising experience that is an essential component to viewer loyalty and attracting major brand advertisers. Industry-leading features of the Auditude platform include: easy integration into content management and other video operations systems; outstanding targeting capabilities; flexible ad placement and ad product offerings; intuitive sales rights management; access to and control of incremental advertising demand; and efficient cross-device workflow.

“By joining Adobe we are accelerating our vision of helping top media companies and publishers maximize the value of their video content,” said Jeremy Helfand, chief executive officer, Auditude. “Adobe has deep roots in video and bringing our capabilities together will provide great incremental benefits for our customers. As part of Adobe we are excited to bring publishers and media companies a platform offering that has never been possible before, driving unprecedented monetization opportunities for them.”

Auditude’s advertising server platform meshes neatly with Adobe’s video technologies, such as Adobe Flash® Media Server 4.5 software and Adobe Pass. The Flash Media Server family of products delivers media to multiple platforms – including Flash, HTML and native apps – with a choice of powerful protocols that can save significant bandwidth costs and lighten network load. In addition, Adobe Pass, the industry leading TV Everywhere Platform, is enabling premium content publishers to securely bring large catalogues of programming online. The combination of Adobe Flash Media Server, Adobe Pass and Auditude creates the most comprehensive solution for the world’s leading content publishers, broadcasters and brands
to encode video once, securely deliver their content across platforms on-demand and efficiently monetize it.

Adobe also plans to integrate Auditude with the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which consists of integrated analytics and optimization products to collect and unleash the power of customer insight. For example, using the Suite, customers can identify the most effective marketing and content delivery strategies and ad placements as well as create relevant, personalized and consistent customer experiences across channels, such as onsite, video, display, email, social and mobile. The Suite enables Adobe customers to better maximize marketing ROI and advertising yield, which ultimately can positively impact the bottom line.

Auditude Acquisition FAQ (PDF, 9k)

Forward-Looking Statements Disclosure
This press release includes forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, including risks and uncertainties related to Adobe’s ability to successfully address the market for digital video advertising and Adobe’s ability to integrate Auditude’s technology into other products and services offered by Adobe. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including statements regarding: the ability of Adobe to address the market for digital video advertising and other cloud-based creative services and the growth of this market and other anticipated benefits of the transaction to Adobe; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. These risks, uncertainties and other factors, and the general risks associated with Adobe’s business, could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. The reader is cautioned not to rely on these forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to Adobe and are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, individuals should refer to Adobe's SEC filings. Adobe does not assume any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements or other statements included in this press release.

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

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Seagate Streamlines Barracuda Product Family; Simplifies Selection For Consumers And Reduces Costs For Computer Makers

Seagate Streamlines Barracuda Product Family; Simplifies Selection For Consumers And Reduces Costs For Computer Makers
Barracuda® zeroes in on performance and capacity as consumption of rich content continues to explode

CUPERTINO, Calif. - November 1, 2011 - Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is streamlining its flagship family of desktop drives under a single product that hones in on performance and big capacities to help satisfy the explosive growth in content creation and consumption by businesses and consumers worldwide. The new Barracuda® family makes it easier for consumers to find the product they need and reduces costs for Seagate’s original equipment manufacturer and distribution channel customers by reducing the number of product qualifications and amount of inventory they need to manage.

Seagate 3–terabyte Barracuda hard drive featuring 1 terabyte of storage capacity per disk platter, the highest storage density available.

“A simpler desktop drive product family is exactly what Seagate customers are asking for,” said Scott Horn, vice president of Marketing at Seagate. “The new Barracuda® family reflects the reality that end-users want a full range of hard drive capacities and as much performance as we can give them to help manage and store massive amounts of digital content. In addition, our OEM and channel customers want to reduce overhead costs by having fewer product lines to qualify and manage in their inventory.”

Desktop PC performance is growing in importance as computer users consume and otherwise use more and more multimedia – a blend of text, audio, images, animation and video – and other rich-content files in areas as diverse as business, advertising, art, education, entertainment, engineering, medicine, mathematics and science. Higher hard drive performance often means a faster computer and quicker access to this content.

The new Barracuda hard drive – to be available first at online retailers Amazon, CDW, Newegg and TigerDirect – is designed for desktop, tower or all-in-one personal computers; workstations, home and small business servers; network-attached storage devices; direct-attached storage expansion; and home and small-business RAID solutions. Capacities of the family range from 250GB to a massive 3TB.

The simplification of the Barracuda family comes as Seagate begins volume shipments of its 1TB-per-disk Barracuda® hard drive. Seagate plans to end production of its Barracuda® Green drive in February 2012. Seagate analysis shows that its new Barracuda drives have a nearly identical power-consumption profile as energy-efficient desktop drives but deliver much higher performance. Barracuda® XT, Seagate’s fastest desktop hard drive, will be folded into the new Barracuda family and re-emerge, in name, as the company’s desktop solid state hybrid drive.

Technical Specifications

The new Barracuda hard drive features a SATA 6GB/second interface, 7200RPM spin speed and up to 64MB cache to deliver high performance across all capacities. Seagate’s SmartAlign™ technology, a feature of Seagate’s Barracuda Green drives, will continue to ship with the flagship Barracuda drives to help the hard drive industry segue from the current 512-byte sector standard for hard drives to the new 4096-byte sector size. The new 4K standard enables the use of stronger error correction algorithms to maintain data integrity at higher storage densities and capacities.

Environmental Commitment

Seagate is committed to building hard drives to the highest quality and environmental standards. More than 70 percent of materials used in its storage products are recyclable, and all of its products are halogen-free and comply with the rigorous REACH standard*. These and other initiatives at Seagate are what truly make a difference to the environment.

*REACH is the most far-reaching and comprehensive chemical-restriction law in the world. Seagate drives do not contain the harmful halogen elements chlorine and bromine. The absence of halogen exceeds the strictest legal requirements for environmental cleanliness to satisfy the higher standards of many computer makers and environmental groups.

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Gartner Says Cloud Banking Can Drive 'Creative Destruction' in the Banking Industry

Gartner Says Cloud Banking Can Drive 'Creative Destruction' in the Banking Industry

Analysts to Discuss the Future of Cloud Banking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, November 7-10, in Barcelona

Egham, UK, October 31, 2011— 


               A rapid shift in attitude towards cloud banking is happening within the financial services (FS) industry, according to Gartner, Inc. A Gartner survey* found that cloud is the top priority for global FS CIOs and that 39 percent of those surveyed expect that more than half of all their transactions will be supported via cloud infrastructure and software as a service (SaaS) by 2015.

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), 44 percent of FS CIOs expect that more than half of all their institutions' transactions will be supported via cloud infrastructure by 2015 and 33 percent of them expect that the majority of transactions will be processed via SaaS by 2015.

“Early cloud adoption, especially in the FS sectors, may have been limited to non-core areas and proofs of concept, but it is set to go mainstream, moving the heart of the business, transaction origination and processing, into the cloud,” said Peter Redshaw, managing vice president at Gartner. “Cloud banking should be innovative, dedicated to this industry and transformative.”

Analysts at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, being held in Barcelona on November 7-10, will discuss the future for cloud banking.

“Cloud banking has the ability to drive ‘creative destruction,’” added Mr. Redshaw. “As well as helping to improve or optimize an existing service or process, cloud banking can provide the wealth – or the freedom - to try completely new services and processes, such as reverse auctions and third-party core banking systems, maybe even running them in parallel. Successful new cloud services can displace the existing and dominant process for design, distribution or transacting in a disruptive way, rather than just incrementally improving them.”

Among the most attractive benefits of cloud banking is being able to deploy (in an economically feasible way) the “champion-challenger” model. This adds a competitive dynamic to the way processes are improved and chosen. As banks progressively replace people in the value chain with algorithmic operations (AOs) to run processes and make decisions, their intellectual property increasingly resides in these algorithms. The value of people is not in running operations but in improving the AOs.

Although the technology is still immature in many places, cloud is a top priority for banks that need to continue a long-term focus on efficiency and support the CEO's growth strategy by becoming more flexible and agile to support new business models, new markets, new channels, and new products.

Peter Redshaw will provide further insight on the future of cloud banking at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2011, in Barcelona on November 7-10. Additional information for the event is available at www.gartner.com/eu/symposium. To register for the event, please contact Laurence Goasduff at Gartner on + 44 (0) 1784 267 195 or at laurence.goasduff@gartner.com.

Notes to editors:
* This analysis relates to the Gartner Executive Programs annual CIO survey. In the fourth quarter of 2010, a total of 2,014 CIOs responded, representing $160 billion in CIO IT budgets and covering 38 industries in 50 countries. Respondents included 290 CIOs from financial services organizations, including 109 from insurance and 181 from banking and investment service organizations.

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The event will feature industry focused tracks, which include a wide variety of sessions aligned to the particular challenges and opportunities faced by vertical industries. For more information on the financial services/banking track please visit financial services/banking.

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SIRC releases 2010-2011 Annual Report

SIRC releases 2010-2011 Annual Report

"Checks and Balances: Viewing Security Intelligence Through the Lens of Accountability"

OTTAWA, Oct. 26, 2011 /CNW/ - The Annual Report of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) was tabled in Parliament today by the Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety. The report presents SIRC's key findings and recommendations from its reviews and complaints investigations of the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), for the 2010-2011 fiscal year. Established in 1984, SIRC is an independent, arms'-length agency whose role is to reassure Parliament and Canadians that CSIS investigates and reports on threats to national security effectively, and in a manner that respects the rule of law and the rights of Canadians.

"With the release of this year's report, we hope to advance the goal we set out last year - to generate public discussion on the future role and challenges of security intelligence, as well as the review function in support of that role" noted the Chair of SIRC, the Honourable Dr. Arthur T. Porter.  "As part of our contribution to that dialogue," stated Dr. Porter, "our annual report demonstrates to all Canadians that in today's heightened threat environment, it's important that Canada's security intelligence service has the authority and capacity to investigate new threats."  "Equally important", he added, "those activities need to be carried out within a framework that provides proper accountability to Canadians."

This year, SIRC carried out "baseline" reviews on new areas of inquiry, including CSIS's use of the internet, and its interactions with the private sector. SIRC also continues to pay close attention to CSIS's expanding foreign investigative activities.  Of particular note, SIRC examined CSIS's role in interviewing  Afghan detainees, and made findings concerning how CSIS should handle information originating from agencies that may engage in human rights abuses - an issue that has animated previous SIRC reviews.  This review was prepared pursuant to section 54 of the Canadian Security Intelligence Act, which allows SIRC to provide the Minister with a special report pertaining to CSIS's performance on any matter it deems appropriate.

"Amidst the shifting sands of public opinion and the rapid pace of international events and change," concluded Dr. Porter, "SIRC's role and composition takes on special importance.  As Members of this Committee, we bring diverse expertise to our work, having served in a variety of public sector fields.  Canadians expect our work to transcend events and politics, and we will remain vigilant to ensure that collective security does not come at the expense of individual rights and freedoms."

SIRC's annual report is available on the Committee's website at
http://www.sirc-csars.gc.ca

For further information:

please contact SIRC at:
(613) 991-9111