VMware Introduces New Platform for Enterprise Database as a Service

VMware Introduces New Platform for Enterprise Database as a Service

New VMware vFabric Data Director™ Will Help Control Database Sprawl,
Accelerate Application Development with Self-Service Database Operations
and Improve Datacentre Efficiency

Las Vegas, Aug. 29, 2011 - Today at VMworld® 2011, VMware, Inc. (NYSE:
VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure,
announced a new database provisioning and operations solution designed
to deliver a database as a service model for the enterprise. An
extension of VMware’s Cloud Application Platform strategy, VMware
vFabric Data Director™ will give IT the ability to control and manage a
growing set of heterogeneous databases through policy-based automation,
while streamlining application development via a self-service
provisioning model for developers to rapidly access the database
services needed for modern applications. Built on VMware vSphere,
vFabric Data Director will also extend the benefits of virtualized
infrastructures to the database tier, optimizing resource utilization
for increased operational efficiency and cost savings.

“Enterprises are increasingly challenged to manage the significant
growth of data needed for modern applications while supporting critical
application development initiatives,” said Tod Nielsen, Co- President,
Application Platform, VMware. “Today, VMware is advancing its ongoing
cloud application platform strategy by delivering innovative data access
and management services that more efficiently serve today’s
applications and establish a foundation for next generation, cloud era
applications.”

New Era of Applications Demand a Modern Cloud Application Platform
Applications in the cloud era are fundamentally different than those
written for previous client-server or internet architectures.
Increasingly, modern applications are written in high productivity
development frameworks and delivered via dynamic virtual and cloud
inf
rastructures. Today’s applications must also account for a wider
variety of web, SaaS, social and mobile platforms and exponentially
higher volumes of real-time data.

To address this changing nature of applications, VMware is investing in
a complete cloud application platform, including innovative developer
frameworks, application and data services and new cloud based Platform
as a Service (PaaS) delivery models that promise to significantly
increase developer productivity and operational efficiency while
enabling access to the broadest range of infrastructure services from
VMware, third parties and the open source community. VMware has
significantly advanced the modern cloud application platform, extending
the Spring community of Java developers with key framework innovations,
delivering a core set of cloud application services including messaging
and in-memory data services, introducing Cloud Foundry, the industry’s
first Open PaaS and leveraging the PaaS environment to embrace multiple
modern frameworks and languages including Erlang, JRuby, PHP and Python
as well as data services such as Neo4J.

Introducing VMware vFabric Data Director: Self-Service Database
Provisioning and Operations
With exponential growth in data to support today’s applications,
enterprises increasingly suffer from “database sprawl”, the
proliferation of under-managed, under-secured and even unknown databases
across the IT organization. Manual operations for this growing set of
databases restrict the ability of developers to rapidly access and
provision data services for their applications. vFabric Data Director
will establish a policy driven model for driving consistent security,
data protection and resource consumption across an enterprise’s
database portfolio. Automating routine database operations via
standardized policies and best practices will enable database
administrators to focus on higher value initiatives while laying the
foundation for a self-service database model for developers. Through a
powerful web-based portal, developers will be able to leverage vFabric
Data Director for self-service access to a broad range of database
services to serve their specific needs.

vFabric Data Director also extends the benefits of virtual
infrastructure to the database tier, reducing operating costs through
automation of database provisioning, backup, restore, cloning and
monitoring. Built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s most widely
deployed virtualization platform, vFabric Data Director integrates with
unique resource management capabilities in vSphere, optimizing resource
utilization and reducing overall operating costs.

“Making it easier for Tier 3’s Enterprise Cloud customers to manage
the complexities of their data is core to our Database as a Service
strategy,” said Jared Wray, Founder and CTO, Tier 3. “VMware vFabric
Data Director™ overcomes many of the challenges our customers face in
moving to self-service databases in the cloud and represents a real step
forward in technology that empowers Database as a Service.”

Introducing VMware vFabric Postgres Relational Database, Optimized for
VMware vSphere
The first database supported on Data Director is VMware vFabric
Postgres, a new offering from VMware based on and fully compatible with
PostgreSQL. Fully ACID and ANSI-SQL compliant, PostgreSQL is an
enterprise class database, with a long history of mission-critical
customer adoption and support from a vibrant open source community.

VMware has also completed specific optimizations of vFabric Postgres
for the vSphere environment. vFabric Postgres’ elastic database memory
dynamically adapts to changing workloads to achieve greater memory
efficiency and higher consolidation ratios. Dynamic checkpoint tuning
and the ability to automatically match VM parameters for optimal
performance and resource usage further establish vFabric Postgres as an
optimal database choice for vSphere environments.

Database Industry Support for Data Director
VMware plans
 to expand vFabric Data Director support beyond PostgreSQL,
extending the common provisioning and operations model to the broadest
range of commercial and open source databases.

Database industry leaders today announced their support for vFabric
Data Director:

Sybase, an SAP Company
"Sybase, an SAP Company, and VMware have a common vision that
customers’ new application demands and cloud deployment pursuits are
changing the database market from both an architectural and delivery
perspective. VMware vFabric Data Director™ will help deliver both
traditional as well as new database technologies as a service for
enterprises. We look forward to working closely with VMware as a
preferred partner to deliver Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise a leading
database solution through VMware vFabric Data Director."
- Dr. Raj Nathan, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer

EMC/Greenplum
"The introduction of VMware's vFabric Data Director represents a
powerful innovation at the intersection of cloud, virtualization, and
data. We are thrilled to have collaborated with VMware, and excited
about the role that the vFabric Data Director technology plays in our
enterprise data cloud product offering: Greenplum Chorus."
- Bill Cook, President, Greenplum - a division of EMC

Pricing and Availability
vFabric Data Director will be available for download in Q3 2011 at a
list price of US$600 per virtual machine for databases managed by
vFabric Data Director. vFabric Postgres is available in conjunction with
vFabric Data Director free of charge for non-production use and US$1,700
per virtual machine for production use.

vFabric Postgres is also now available on CloudFoundry.com.

Additional Resources
- Additional details on vFabric Data Director:
www.vmware.com/go/datadirector
- Additional details on Cloud Foundry: www.cloudfoundry.com

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that
enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the
industry leading virtualization platform - VMware vSphere® - customers
rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve
agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
With 2010 revenues of US$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and
25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which
consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered
in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found
online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington,
Ontario, and can be found online at www.vmware.ca.

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CAA Saskatchewan Selects Interactive Intelligence

CAA Saskatchewan Selects Interactive Intelligence IP Business Communications Solution

Insurance, travel and automotive company to deploy all-in-one IP communications software suite to improve member services

 

INDIANAPOLIS and Regina, saskatchewan, Aug. 29, 2011 CAA Saskatchewan, an insurance, travel, and road-side assistance company, has selected the Interactive Intelligence (Nasdaq: ININ) all-in-one IP communications software suite, Customer Interaction Center™ (CIC), for use throughout its organization.

 

CAA Saskatchewan is replacing its hosted Nortel system with CIC to improve member services by connecting all 12 of its branch offices using a single communications platform.

 

“Our previous system had several limitations, including an inability to verify if callers had been transferred between branches, or to our roadside assistance department,” said CAA Saskatchewan’s director of technology services, Paul Schubert. “With CIC, we’ll gain so much more functionality relative to agent availability, caller information, and call routing, all of which will help us improve member services.”

 

As a result of CIC’s IP-based architecture, CAA Saskatchewan also anticipates a reduction in long-distance charges, including branch-to-branch phone calls, according to Schubert.

 

CAA Saskatchewan will use CIC across its entire enterprise to support the company’s membership and automotive services, roadside assistance, and insurance and travel divisions.

 

CAA Saskatchewan selected CIC after narrowing its search to a short list composed of Cisco and Interactive Intelligence.

 

“We selected CIC because of its single-platform, all-in-one architecture,” Schubert said. “This unique, truly unified architecture meant that we would no longer struggle to make applications work together. It also meant we would be able to easily and quickly make system changes.”

 

CAA Saskatchewan purchased CIC from Interactive Intelligence elite partner KRP Communications USA, who is also assisting the company with its deployment.

 

“KRP guided us through the vendor selection process based on our unique needs,” Schubert said. “The team’s market knowledge, combined with its ability to really listen to our problems, helped us arrive at a decision in which we’re confident.”

 

CAA Saskatchewan will also deploy CIC add-on applications for multichannel recording and scoring, and customer feedback surveys. It also plans to capitalize on CIC’s remote support by offering an at-home worker program.

 

“Our previous system didn’t support at-home workers, and being located in central Canada we are often hit hard with winter snow storms,” Schubert said. “Using CIC to transparently route calls to agents working from home will improve our customer service, especially during really bad weather or natural disasters when we might otherwise have insufficient agents to answer calls.”

 

About CAA Saskatchewan
CAA Saskatchewan serves more than 185,000 members, offering benefits and services through its nonprofit motor club, its travel and insurance agencies, and its auto maintenance and repair facilities. CAA Saskatchewan also advocates for motorists and travellers, supporting traffic safety and environmental programs, and addressing related public policy issues. CAA Saskatchewan was founded in 1917 and has 12 offices, two vehicle repair and maintenance facilities, and one call centre throughout the region, staffed by approximately 250 employees. CAA Saskatchewan can be reached at 800.564-6222, or on the Web at www.caask.ca.

 

About Interactive Intelligence
Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) is a global provider of unified business communications solutions for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation. The company's solutions, which can be deployed via an on-premise or hosted model, include vertical-specific applications for insurance and collections. Interactive Intelligence was founded in 1994 and has more than 4,000 customers worldwide. The company is among Software Magazine's 2010 Top 500 Global Software and Services Suppliers, and Forbes Magazine's 2010 Best Small Companies in America. The company employs approximately 1,000 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has offices throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000 or info@inin.com; on the Net: www.inin.com.

 

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are described in the company's SEC filings.

 

Interactive Intelligence Inc. is the owner of the marks INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE, its associated LOGO and numerous other marks. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

 

ININ-G

 

Contacts:

Lisa Wilson-Sturm

Director, Corporate Communications

CAA Saskatchewan

+1 306.791.4327

lisa.wilson-sturm@caask.ca

 

Christine Holley

Senior Director of Market Communications

Interactive Intelligence

+1 317.715.8220

Christine.holley@inin.com

 

Follow Interactive Intelligence:

Twitter: http://www.inin.com/twitter

Blog: www.inin.com/blog

YouTube: http://www.inin.com/YouTube

Facebook: http://www.inin.com/facebook

LinkedIn: http://www.inin.com/linkedin

 

 

 

 

 

Sydnee Fox
PR Director
P 801 208 1100
C 801 440 5838

 

 

CAA Saskatchewan Selects Interactive Intelligence

CAA Saskatchewan Selects Interactive Intelligence IP Business Communications Solution

Insurance, travel and automotive company to deploy all-in-one IP communications software suite to improve member services

 

INDIANAPOLIS and Regina, saskatchewan, Aug. 29, 2011 CAA Saskatchewan, an insurance, travel, and road-side assistance company, has selected the Interactive Intelligence (Nasdaq: ININ) all-in-one IP communications software suite, Customer Interaction Center™ (CIC), for use throughout its organization.

 

CAA Saskatchewan is replacing its hosted Nortel system with CIC to improve member services by connecting all 12 of its branch offices using a single communications platform.

 

“Our previous system had several limitations, including an inability to verify if callers had been transferred between branches, or to our roadside assistance department,” said CAA Saskatchewan’s director of technology services, Paul Schubert. “With CIC, we’ll gain so much more functionality relative to agent availability, caller information, and call routing, all of which will help us improve member services.”

 

As a result of CIC’s IP-based architecture, CAA Saskatchewan also anticipates a reduction in long-distance charges, including branch-to-branch phone calls, according to Schubert.

 

CAA Saskatchewan will use CIC across its entire enterprise to support the company’s membership and automotive services, roadside assistance, and insurance and travel divisions.

 

CAA Saskatchewan selected CIC after narrowing its search to a short list composed of Cisco and Interactive Intelligence.

 

“We selected CIC because of its single-platform, all-in-one architecture,” Schubert said. “This unique, truly unified architecture meant that we would no longer struggle to make applications work together. It also meant we would be able to easily and quickly make system changes.”

 

CAA Saskatchewan purchased CIC from Interactive Intelligence elite partner KRP Communications USA, who is also assisting the company with its deployment.

 

“KRP guided us through the vendor selection process based on our unique needs,” Schubert said. “The team’s market knowledge, combined with its ability to really listen to our problems, helped us arrive at a decision in which we’re confident.”

 

CAA Saskatchewan will also deploy CIC add-on applications for multichannel recording and scoring, and customer feedback surveys. It also plans to capitalize on CIC’s remote support by offering an at-home worker program.

 

“Our previous system didn’t support at-home workers, and being located in central Canada we are often hit hard with winter snow storms,” Schubert said. “Using CIC to transparently route calls to agents working from home will improve our customer service, especially during really bad weather or natural disasters when we might otherwise have insufficient agents to answer calls.”

 

About CAA Saskatchewan
CAA Saskatchewan serves more than 185,000 members, offering benefits and services through its nonprofit motor club, its travel and insurance agencies, and its auto maintenance and repair facilities. CAA Saskatchewan also advocates for motorists and travellers, supporting traffic safety and environmental programs, and addressing related public policy issues. CAA Saskatchewan was founded in 1917 and has 12 offices, two vehicle repair and maintenance facilities, and one call centre throughout the region, staffed by approximately 250 employees. CAA Saskatchewan can be reached at 800.564-6222, or on the Web at www.caask.ca.

 

About Interactive Intelligence
Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ) is a global provider of unified business communications solutions for contact center automation, enterprise IP telephony, and business process automation. The company's solutions, which can be deployed via an on-premise or hosted model, include vertical-specific applications for insurance and collections. Interactive Intelligence was founded in 1994 and has more than 4,000 customers worldwide. The company is among Software Magazine's 2010 Top 500 Global Software and Services Suppliers, and Forbes Magazine's 2010 Best Small Companies in America. The company employs approximately 1,000 people and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It has offices throughout North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Interactive Intelligence can be reached at +1 317.872.3000 or info@inin.com; on the Net: www.inin.com.

 

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are described in the company's SEC filings.

 

Interactive Intelligence Inc. is the owner of the marks INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENCE, its associated LOGO and numerous other marks. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

 

ININ-G

 

Contacts:

Lisa Wilson-Sturm

Director, Corporate Communications

CAA Saskatchewan

+1 306.791.4327

lisa.wilson-sturm@caask.ca

 

Christine Holley

Senior Director of Market Communications

Interactive Intelligence

+1 317.715.8220

Christine.holley@inin.com

 

Follow Interactive Intelligence:

Twitter: http://www.inin.com/twitter

Blog: www.inin.com/blog

YouTube: http://www.inin.com/YouTube

Facebook: http://www.inin.com/facebook

LinkedIn: http://www.inin.com/linkedin

 

 

 

 

 

Sydnee Fox
PR Director
P 801 208 1100
C 801 440 5838

 

 

Largest Online Collection of Study Notes to Launch Across Canada

Largest Online Collection of Study Notes to Launch Across Canada

Notesolution helps students gain better understanding of course material through knowledge exchange online

TORONTO, Aug. 24, 2011 /CNW/ - Notesolution.com, an online note sharing platform for post-secondary students is about to launch its free service to over 20 universities across Canada. Notesolution is a Toronto based start-up, which was originally exclusive to the University of Toronto, currently has over 10,000 active users sharing 12,000 study documents.

"From Facebook to Foursquare, people are looking to their peers for the best source of information. Notesolution is the next natural progression for this concept of social learning" says Jack Tai, CEO and co-founder of Notesolution. Notesolution believes the future of education should revolve around the concept of peer-to-peer learning and will be releasing Notesolution 2.0 later this week.

Notesolution.com currently holds the largest collection of university notes in Canada. Students share their own study guides, lecture and textbook notes to earn credits which they use towards downloading notes from their peers. Students earn credits every time their notes are downloaded and can also exchange the credits for gift cards through Notesolution's reward program. The Notesolution reward program encourages students to take quality notes.

"We believe that experience is the best teacher, so why not learn from the experiences of fellow students? Notesolution is a gateway for students to exchange study materials with each other, connecting and enhancing their university life." -Kevin Wu, COO and co-founder of Notesolution.

About Notesolution
Notesolution.com launched in Sept 2010 and is dedicated to help students gain a better and more comprehensive understanding of course material through a network of knowledge exchange. Notesolution currently has the largest collection of university course notes in Canada and was founded by Jack Tai, Kevin Wu and Jackey Li.

Comwave Launches ePhone in the Cloud for Web Users Worldwide

Comwave Launches ePhone in the Cloud for Web Users Worldwide

TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2011 /CNW/ -- Comwave, Canada's largest Voice over IP provider today announces the release of ePhone. Fresh off the heels of a successful launch of ePhone for the BlackBerry Playbook(TM), Comwave introduces ePhone as a web-based Adobe® Flash® video phone. Users can access their ePhone from any computer in the world with an internet connection. "ePhone is an incredible value that every laptop should have," says Yuval Barzakay, President. "In the boardroom or in the dorm room, ePhone turns your laptop into a regular phone."

Customers receive their own phone number so even people from landlines and mobile phones can call ePhone users. Comwave ePhone also includes free local and long distance calls to almost 60 countries for only $20 per year. All you need is a PC or Apple® Mac computer with an internet connection to log into ePhone to make and receive calls and no software is required to install. Additionally, Customers can make unlimited Video Calls to other ePhone users absolutely free.

Customers can sign up for a 3-Day Risk Free trial and enjoy 100 minutes of free calling to almost 60 countries and unlimited talk between other ePhone users. Once the free trial has expired, Customers will have the option to continue for only $20 per year.

ePhone includes: -- Your own telephone number -- Unlimited Free Incoming calls from anywhere in the world includingland and mobile phones. -- Unlimited ePhone-2-ePhone voice or video calling -- 250 Free Minutes per month to call almost 60 countries. Calls that exceed the 250 free minutes will be charged at low rates guaranteed lower than Skype(TM) -- No monthly bills or fees, just a one-time annual payment  Sign up for Comwave ePhone here and call the world for only $20 a year. About Comwave

Comwave is Canada's largest independent communications company specializing in Voice Over IP (VoIP), long distance and mobile for residential and business customers. Led by President and CEO, Yuval Barzakay, Comwave has become Canada's leader in VoIP solutions. Comwave serves over 500 cities in Canada and over 1100 in the United States.

In our competitive landscape Comwave has always been the go-to company for great savings and we continue to bring our customers the absolute best rates. We are never undersold, and we don't compromise on reliability and customer satisfaction.

Our Focus: -- To improve on the customer experience and overall satisfaction -- Keep things simple -- Innovate

For further information: Jamie Fine, Social Media and Communications Specialist, +1-416-663-9700 x 329, jfine@comwave.net Web Site: http://www.comwave.net

Ricoh Canada Inc. and TreeZero introduce environmental initiative to Canadian Market: tree-free paper.

Ricoh Canada Inc. and TreeZero introduce environmental initiative to Canadian Market: tree-free paper.

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Aug. 26, 2011 /CNW/ - As part of the company's global and longstanding mandate to operate in an environmentally sustainable and responsible fashion, Ricoh Canada Inc. is introducing TreeFrog - a paper product made entirely from sugar cane that is certified for use on its line of business equipment.

This initiative, created through a partnership with paper manufacturer TreeZero, provides a consumable that is both biodegradable and compostable, and can be recycled alongside traditional paper. "Sugar cane is a very innovative approach to paper production.  Trees require something in the order of decades of growth before harvesting. Contrast that with the incredibly rapid growth of sugar cane, where you have as many as two harvests per year, and you can see what a compelling idea this really is," said David Armstrong, VP Marketing for Ricoh Canada.  TreeFrog paper is sourced from a by-product of sugar cane production, so instead of burning the sugar cane or dropping the waste into landfill, the sugar cane husk is converted into high-quality paper.

TreeFrog paper can be used for print volumes ranging from everyday use to production printing. Priced competitively, TreeFrog paper has the potential to drive significant environmental and financial cost savings for customers, while delivering excellent print quality thanks to reduced roller dusting when compared to the print quality of regular recycled paper.

According to Armstrong, "exploring ways to embed environmental sustainability directly into our business has always been part of the Ricoh mission, and TreeFrog paper provides another high-quality, environmentally responsible alternative for our customers."

TreeZero Vice President, Jim Rochford, echoes these sentiments: "Ricoh is a natural partner for this kind of progressive product, as it speaks to their very well established vision for a sustainable future - which is, of course, something we at TreeZero also subscribe to."

TreeFrog paper is now available in the Canadian market through Ricoh Canada Inc.

About Ricoh Canada Inc.
Ricoh Canada Inc, headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ricoh Company Ltd., the 75-year old leading supplier of office automation equipment and electronics, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion.

Ricoh Canada Inc. is a leading provider of document solutions.  Ricoh's fully integrated hardware and software products help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.

Information about Ricoh's complete range of products and services can be accessed on the World Wide Web at www.ricoh.ca.

About TreeZero
TreeZero is dedicated to providing the most environmentally-friendly paper products on Earth. All TreeZero products are 100 percent tree free, meaning they contain no wood or wood-based fibers including post-consumer waste that originated in wood. Founded in 2009 to address the growing need for environmentally sustainable practices in the paper industry, TreeZero is ISO 9001 certified and provides the highest quality products that eliminate the need to log forests for paper consumption. Striving to further its commitment to and responsibility for the environment, TreeZero currently offers a tree-free copy paper called TreeFrog. For additional information, visit www.treezeropaper.com.

Recent news from VMware: VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere(R) 5

VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere® 5

Latest Version of Industry Leading Virtualization Platform Helps
Customers Accelerate Toward More Efficient and Automated Cloud
Infrastructure

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2011 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global
leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the
general availability of VMware vSphere® 5, delivering nearly 200 new and
enhanced capabilities to help customers transform IT by driving greater
efficiency from existing investments and improving operational agility.

“With the release of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers
accelerate their journey toward a more efficient and automated cloud
infrastructure,” said Bogomil Balkansky, senior vice president, cloud
infrastructure products, VMware. “The enhancements and new innovations
we’ve introduced in VMware vSphere 5 provide a robust, reliable
platform for any business application, enabling customers to effectively
respond to the growing needs of their business and giving them
confidence in their IT transformation.”

The foundation of VMware’s cloud infrastructure suite, VMware vSphere
5, includes new features and enhancements to deliver better application
performance and availability for all business-critical applications. It
also introduces advanced automation capabilities to free IT from manual
processes and allow it to be more responsive to changing business
requirements.

VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four
times more powerful than previous versions -- VMs can now be configured
with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. When combined with
VMware vSphere 5’s enhanced High Availability, these gains in VM
scalability and performance enable customers to virtualize any
business-critical applications with confidence in the application’s
continued performance and availability. (Please see
http://www.vmware.com/products/high-availability/overview.html.)

VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features --
Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage
(http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/profile-driven-storage/overview.html)
and Storage DRS
(http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/vsphere-storage-drs/features.html)
-- that extend the platform’s unique datacentre resource management
capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an
automated “set it and forget it” approach to managing datacentre
resources, including server deployment and storage management. Customers
can define policies and establish the operating parameters, and VMware
vSphere 5 does the rest.

VMware vSphere 5 and the cloud infrastructure suite are supported by
more than 25,000 partners, including technology partners, independent
software vendors (ISVs), solution providers, service providers, and
systems integrators, as well as every major global hardware
manufacturer. VMware's partner community continues to mature as the
company consistently sets the bar for innovation in virtualization and
cloud technologies. Read more about ecosystem support for VMware vSphere
5:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-cloud-infrastructure-partner-quotes-071211.html#vSphere5.

Pricing and Availability
VMware vSphere 5 is currently available in packages and prices that
address the widest range of customer requirements, starting at US$83 per
processor.  Visit the VMware vSphere Upgrade Center
(http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center/overview.html)
for more information on licensing and editions.

Additional Resources
- Learn more about VMware vSphere 5:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html
- Learn more about what’s new in VMware vSphere 5:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/press-kit/vmw-vsphere-cloud-infrastructure.pdf
- Read wh
at partners are saying about VMware vSphere 5:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-cloud-infrastructure-partner-quotes-071211.html
- Visit the VMware vSphere blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/
- Get product graphics, datasheets and videos:
http://www.vmware.com/company/mediaresource/cloud-infrastructure-press-kit.html
- Read “VMware Unveils VMware vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure
Suite” blog post by VMware CTO, Steve Herrod:
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2011/07/vmware-unveils-vsphere-5-and-the-cloud-infrastructure-suite.html
- Read “VMware Building the Foundation for the Cloud Era” blog post
by VMware senior vice president of product marketing, Bogomil Balkansky:
http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/07/vmware-building-the-foundation-for-the-cloud-era-with-the-launch-of-vsphere-5-and-the-cloud-infrastr.html

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that
enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the
industry leading virtualization platform -- VMware vSphere® -- customers
rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve
agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
With 2010 revenues of US$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and
25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which
consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered
in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found
online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington,
Ontario, and can be found online at www.vmware.ca.

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VMware and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks
of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All
other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective companies. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership"
does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any
other company.

For more information please contact:
Cindy Watson/Claire McCorquodale
StrategicAmpersand Inc.
cindy@stratamp.com / claire@stratamp.com
(416) 961-5595

Symantec achieves largest overall SSL market growth and named leader in several categories by Gartner

 


 

Symantec Positioned as a Leader in Three Recent Magic Quadrants

 

 

TORONTO, ON – August 24, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in the following reports:

The Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Click to Tweet: Symantec named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrants for DLP, email gateway and SIEM. http://bit.ly/qA0CwK

“To give our  customers confidence that their information and infrastructure are protected, Symantec will continue to innovate and deliver multiple layers of protection and increased visibility,” said Sean Doherty, Security Group CTO, Symantec. “We believe being recognized as a leader in three important areas of security technology is evidence that our diverse security portfolio is ideally suited for today’s complex threat landscape.”

Symantec Data Loss Prevention

 

Symantec, the recognized world leader in Data Loss Prevention, delivers a proven solution to discover, monitor and protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. The solution allows organizations to measurably reduce the risk of a data breach, establish broad-based security awareness and safeguard customer privacy, brand equity and intellectual property. 

 

Email Security from Symantec

 

Symantec Messaging Gateway delivers inbound and outbound messaging security and leverages the depth and breadth of the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to catch more than 99% of spam4 with less than one in a million false positives. Symantec Messaging Gateway combines effective and accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering and email encryption.  In addition, Symantec Messaging Gateway integrates Symantec’s leading data loss prevention technology to protect confidential information.

 

For hosted email security, Symantec offers Symantec MessageLabs Email Security. cloud, which combines advanced email antivirus, antispam, and content filtering capabilities delivered across a globally integrated infrastructure in an easy to manage  solution that requires no on-site hardware or software. Part of an integrated approach to securing and managing email, Web, and instant messaging traffic, Email Security.cloud has  industry-leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that cover 100 percent protection against known and unknown viruses, 99 percent spam capture rate and 100 percent service uptime and includes 24x7 global customer support through a dedicated team of hosted services specialists. 

 

Security Information & Event Management from Symantec

Symantec Security Information Manager enables a documented, repeatable process for security threat response and IT policy compliance via integrated log management and incident response solutions.  Comprehensive real-time correlation of malicious security with the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, one of the world’s leading cyber intelligence communities,  makes it a world-class threat monitoring and response system.  Symantec Security Information Manager delivers proactive security protection, helping organizations effectively demonstrate compliance and reduce overall security risk.

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Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).


Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.  Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

 

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Symantec Shows Largest Growth in SSL Certificates for August and

Continues to Lead Critical EV SSL Market

 

TORONTO, ON – August 24, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it achieved the largest overall SSL certificate growth in the market for August, with a gain of 19,892 total certificates for the month. Symantec remains the market share leader among all SSL certificate authorities worldwide. Symantec also demonstrated leadership in the growing extended validation (EV) SSL market, which grew overall to more than 47,000 certificates.

 

Click to Tweet: Symantec leads the growing EV SSL business, according to Netcraft Survey: http://bit.ly/q6jhiU    

 

Extended Validation growth

Symantec was responsible for most (1,752) of this month's overall growth of 2,725 EV certificates, helping to increase the total to 47,532. Netcraft reported that Symantec leads the space with a market share of 68 percent, further demonstrating that when it comes to web security, the majority of organizations online rely on Symantec. 

 

When a website is protected with an EV SSL Certificate, the latest high-security browsers show prominent visual cues to signal that the site has been authenticated to a higher level. For instance, Internet Explorer as well as Firefox browsers display a green address bar and a field with the name of the organization that owns the website. Both are instantly recognizable signals to consumers that they have reached a website whose identity has been certified by a recognized SSL certificate authority such as Symantec.

 

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“The Netcraft Survey data for August clearly demonstrates that EV SSL is a growing business and that Symantec is leading the charge,” said Fran Rosch, vice president of Trust Services at Symantec. “Customers continually realize the value of working with a trusted certificate authority for SSL and EV SSL and view Symantec as a trusted partner as we continue our innovation and leadership to provide the most comprehensive product lineup and highest standards in technical support.”

 

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CA Technologies and HyTrust Inc. Forge Alliance to Arm Customers With Tools Needed to Secure Virtual and Cloud Infrastructures

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CA Technologies and HyTrust Inc. Forge Alliance to Arm Customers With Tools Needed to Secure Virtual and Cloud Infrastructures

Complementary Technologies Allow Organizations to Virtualize with Confidence

ISLANDIA, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – August 24, 2011 – Technology alliance partners CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) and HyTrust Inc., a leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, today announced a collaboration to further improve security and compliance for customers leveraging virtualized systems and cloud infrastructures.

HyTrust Appliance complements CA Access Control by administering various aspects of a virtual infrastructure such as unified access control, policy enforcement and audit-quality logging. HyTrust also supports the recently announced CA Automation Suite for Clouds by providing the security policy and compliance capabilities needed to improve security of the cloud infrastructure.

“A big part of security in the virtualized and cloud world is control of internal users and mitigating internal threats. Organizations need to enforce controls, and they need to have assurance from any cloud provider that its IT administrators are in control - with respect to accessing customer information, applications and systems,” said Lina Liberti, vice president, Security Business, CA Technologies.

Liberti continued, “Our customers have been using CA Access Control for years to help secure and govern privileged user access to critical systems. When coupled with the HyTrust Appliance, the synergies can deliver a robust solution to address control, security management and compliance in virtual and cloud environments from the infrastructure to the services and applications hosted in the private or public cloud.”

Large enterprises continue to explore the benefits of the cloud based on their experiences with virtualization, according to a December 2010 study conducted by Management Insight on behalf of CA Technologies. This expansion moves them to a more complex infrastructure that demands more sophisticated and automated management and security.

“Virtualization presents one of the most significant security challenges an IT organization faces, with the IT administrator being essentially given the ‘keys to the kingdom’ -- access to every system and application. In the move to the cloud, the added complexity and multi-tenancy aspects of the infrastructure bring management, security, and compliance issues to the forefront,” said Eric Chiu, founder and president, HyTrust, Inc.

Chiu continued, “HyTrust Appliance, working in conjunction with CA Technologies access control and cloud automation solutions, helps solve the issues involved in enforcement of end-to-end security policies and compliance controls. The combined solution supports sophisticated cloud infrastructures and enables the deployment of mission-critical and regulated applications in virtual environments.”

Both companies will showcase these solutions at VMWorld 2011 in Las Vegas (August 29 – September 1). CA Technologies, a platinum sponsor of the conference, will be speaking at the conference and will be demonstrating its technology in booth number 439 and HyTrust will be demonstrating its technology in booth number 460.

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Symantec Survey Finds Surprising Number Of Small Businesses Not Protecting Data on Virtualized Servers

 


 

 

Symantec Survey Finds Surprising Number Of Small Businesses Not Protecting Data on

Virtualized Servers


TORONTO, ON  – August 24, 2011
– Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the findings of its 2011 Small Business Virtualization Poll which examined the adoption of virtualization within small businesses and  its impact on their organizations.  According to the survey, small businesses have a strong interest in virtualization, but are still learning how to adopt it in their organizations.  As they implement server virtualization, small businesses are putting their data at risk.  The survey found that most small businesses aren’t taking the most basic steps to secure and protect their virtual environments.  The survey is based on 658 respondents in 28 countries worldwide.  

 

“Despite what you may think, small businesses are evaluating how virtualization can benefit their organizations.  We’re still early in the adoption cycle, but virtualization enables small businesses to reduce expenses and meet the increasing demands for greater productivity and efficiency, said Steve Cullen, senior vice president, Strategy and Marketing, Symantec Corp.“However, whether or not small businesses are ready to make the transition to virtualized technologies, it’s critical that they always secure and protect their data no matter what type of environments they have.”  

 

Click to Tweet: Only 15 percent of small businesses back up data in virtual environments: http://bit.ly/nPoYTU

 

Survey Highlights

·         Financial Benefits Driving Decision to Virtualize.  Seventy percent of respondents said their organizations are considering virtualization.  Not surprisingly, financial benefits rank highest among reasons to adopt server virtualization.  Reduced capital expense was cited by 70 percent, while 68 percent said reduced operating expense would drive their decisions to deploy virtualization.  Other benefits include the ability to use fewer servers for the same number of applications (67 percent) and improved server scalability (65 percent). 

 

·         Limited IT Skills Holding Some Small Businesses Back. Despite their interest, small businesses are finding it difficult to move from discussions to execution.  Only 10 percent of respondents have deployed virtualized servers and they are focusing their early-stage efforts on simpler, less critical application areas.  Top challenges include performance (60 percent), backup (56 percent), and security and patch management (56 percent).  Nearly a third of small businesses not now planning virtualization cited lack of experience as a factor.

 

·         Data on Virtualized Servers Lacking Basic Security Protection. As small businesses move to virtual environments, they do not protect and secure their data.  Only 15 percent always back up their virtualized servers and 23 percent backup infrequently or not at all.  They aren’t doing any better in securing their data –only 40 percent are completely secured.  Respondents say budget and staffing issues are preventing them from taking these essential actions.  Even those who said they are somewhat or completely secure are, in fact, less secure than they think.  A staggering 78 percent don’t have antivirus on their virtual servers, 48 percent don’t have a firewall, and 74 percent forego endpoint protection.

 

Recommendations

Fortunately there are some simple things small businesses can do to make sure they are properly protecting their data and systems:

 

·         Define a virtualization strategy:  Work with an IT consultant to develop a strategy.  Proactively develop guidelines and assess your data protection and security needs.  Determine if moving to these cloud services are right for you.   Once you have a strategy, develop a plan and stick to it.

 

·         Secure your virtual environments:  Consider what security solutions you need to secure your virtual environment, including a firewall, antivirus, and endpoint security.  Make sure you have established security practices as an additional layer of protection.

 

·         Protect your data:  Have a simplified approach to backup.  Implement a solution that protects both physical and virtual environments.  Consider a data deduplication solution to save space and time.

 

Symantec’s Small Business Virtualization Poll

Symantec’s Small Business Poll is the result of research conducted in May 2011 by Applied Research, which surveyed IT professionals responsible for managing computer resources at small businesses with between 5 and 249 employees.  The survey was designed to gauge how small businesses are embracing virtualization. The survey included 658 respondents in 28 countries in North America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

 

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