Financial Services Provider Calls on EMC VNX and VNXe for 100 Per cent Virtualized Environment


Financial Services Provider Calls on EMC VNX and VNXe for 100 Per cent
Virtualized Environment

Chooses EMC VNX over NetApp and HP in 100 Per cent Virtualized
Environment; Achieves 40-Per cent Smaller Footprint Adopting a ‘FLASH
1st’ Strategy

HOPKINTON, Mass. – August 24, 2011 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)
today announced that Safe Systems, Inc., a managed service provider for
community financial institutions, selected EMC® VNX®
(http://canada.emc.com/products/family/vnx-family.htm) unified
storage over NetApp and HP. Safe Systems is using EMC VNX and EMC VNXe
(http://canada.emc.com/products/series/vnxe-series.htm) unified
storage and VMware vSphere® virtualization solutions to meet
fast-growing demand for its managed and network-based services through a
100 per cent virtualized private cloud
(http://canada.emc.com/microsites/cloud/cloud.htm) infrastructure.

Customer Benefits:

* Better efficiency and simplicity – storage management time was
reduced by 90 per cent. Storage administration, which once required 10
hours per week, now only requires an hour per week – freeing more
resources for development of client services.

* Increased agility – storage can now be scaled out to support
fast-growing databases in just 10 minutes.

* Consolidated infrastructure – data centre footprint was reduced by
40 per cent with the FAST Suite, Flash drives and high capacity NL-SAS
drives in a 100 per cent virtualized infrastructure.

Safe Systems was looking to help its clients operate more efficiently
when using their services. To enable their clients to optimize the
desired efficiency, Safe Systems decided to deploy a private cloud
computing model by virtualizing its IT environment.

Brendan McGowan, Vice President of Technical Services, Safe Systems,
said, “We began our private cloud journey with virtualization but
found that our old storage infrastructure was holding us back because it
wasn’t scaling cost-effectively. We evaluated EMC, NetApp, HP and
other vendors and concluded that EMC VNX unified storage offered the
richest feature set at a very competitive price – with the best
integration with VMware software.”

“Since moving to EMC VNX, we’re able to deliver our very
predictable service levels and response times even though our workloads
are constantly fluctuating. We manage everything from network monitoring
systems that shoot out anti-virus updates to 20,000 endpoints as well as
spikes in our SQL Server and Exchange environments. EMC VNX is able to
support our unpredictable IT infrastructure with ease. Additionally,
we’ve deployed a ‘FLASH 1st’ strategy where, with just a few
Flash drives and the FAST Suite, we’re able to automatically ensure
that the most highly active data is served from Flash drives using FAST
Cache or FAST VP. Lastly, we save on ‘physical’ space in our data
centre. Without ‘FLASH 1st’ and virtualization, we’d require about
40-times more real estate to deliver our current level of services,”
said McGowan. “For example, seven Flash drives replaced 100 x 15k
spindles – that’s a dramatic savings!”

Safe Systems decided to use VNX for its enterprise infrastructure to
deliver hosted services to customers and its internal operations, while
using VNXe for its on-premise solution for customers.

“The shared storage options that were available to us before VNXe
made it difficult for our customers to afford an entire solution,”
said McGowan. “With VNXe, we can now offer services with the features
and scalability that our customers demand.”

Safe Systems also implemented EMC Unisphere across its complete VNXe
and VNX infrastructure to help focus developing new services for its
customers while decreasing the time spent on storage administrative
tasks.

McGowan stated, “Simplicity was a key benefit that we saw from
implementing our VNX, from basic storage administration to s
calability.
We spend about an hour a week on basic storage admin now – compared
with at least 10 hours before we moved to the VNX family. It’s just a
whole lot simpler to manage with Unisphere. We’ve had certain
databases that overwhelmed our old infrastructure. The ability to scale
out the storage behind them quickly was a requirement for us. With VNX
and VMware software, it’s simple to add more disks or create a new
storage location, and then move that workload to the new location – in
just a few clicks,” said McGowan.

McGowan added, “Safe Systems is a small company. We don’t have the
resources to be experts on every technology. EMC has helped us to
develop our business and accelerate our adoption of cloud. And as EMC
and VMware develop new features and technologies, we know they’ll be
integrated before any other vendor.”

Safe Systems relies on EMC VNX and VMware
(http://canada.emc.com/products/family/vmware-family.htm) vSphere to
deliver services to clients and support its own operations. Safe
Systems’ most demanding applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server
databases, run on EMC VNX unified storage, and leverage the benefits of
Flash drive and EMC FAST Cache for performance optimization. Safe
Systems provides clients on-premise solutions based on EMC VNXe unified
storage and VMware. EMC Unisphere®software provides a simple and
intuitive interface for provisioning, monitoring and managing storage.

Additional Resources

* View the customer video ()
* Learn more about EMC VNX
(http://www.emc.com/products/family/vnx-family.htm)
* Learn more about EMC VNXe
(http://www.emc.com/products/series/vnxe-series.htm)

About EMC

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

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

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trademarks of EMC Corporation. VMware and VMware vSphere are registered
trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or
other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or
“partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship
between VMware and any other company. Other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.


Citrix Sets New Standard for Desktop Virtualization

Citrix Sets New Standard for Desktop Virtualization

Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 Enhances User Personalization and High-Definition Experience over the LAN or WAN

Santa Clara, Calif. » 8/24/2011 » Citrix Systems today announced a new version of its market-leading Citrix XenDesktop® product line that adds major enhancements in personalization, user experience and rich consumer device support. The new XenDesktop 5.5 adds the “Personal vDisk” technology acquired earlier this month from RingCube (see the announcement) to all editions of XenDesktop, making it far easier for customers to deploy highly personalized virtual desktops at a substantially lower cost. XenDesktop 5.5 also features the most significant enhancement in company history to its market-leading Citrix HDX™ user experience technology, enabling customers to deliver high-definition virtual desktops up to three times faster for both LAN and WAN users. Using XenDesktop 5.5, customers can now build true “private desktop clouds” for the first time ever, delivering virtual desktops and apps with rich voice, video and multimedia support to more than one billion end user devices, even for the most challenging remote, branch and mobile users. (See announcement blog)

As the industry moves from the PC Era to the Cloud Era, virtual desktops are growing rapidly in popularity. IT organizations like the security, flexibility and cost-savings of delivering desktops as a centralized service, while end users like the ability to access corporate apps and desktops from any device, in any location. Addressing these market needs is one of the reasons Citrix was recently recognized as the only vendor in the Leaders category of the IDC MarketScape: Desktop Virtualization 2011 Vendor Analysis(1).

Gartner expects mainstream adoption of hosted virtual desktops (HVDs) to take place in 2012 through 2014, with 70 million users by 2014(2). Driving broad mainstream adoption of desktop virtualization at this scale will require continued enhancements in personalization and user experience, along with continued reduction in deployment and operation costs. XenDesktop 5.5 raises the bar in all of these areas:

What’s New

  • Virtual Desktops Made Personal - XenDesktop 5.5 gives IT the ability to deliver personal VDI desktops through the innovative “Personal vDisk” technology acquired recently from RingCube. This technology is now available at no charge as an early access capability in all editions of XenDesktop 5.5, making it easy for customers to gain hands-on experience and begin pilot deployments. This new feature will enable broader enterprise-wide deployment of virtual desktops by storing a single copy of Windows centrally, and combining it with a personal vDisk for each employee’s personal apps, data and settings, enhancing user personalization and reducing storage costs. (See blog for additional details)
  • Raising the Bar on High-Definition User Experience - With more than 150 new features, XenDesktop 5.5 represents the most significant enhancement ever to HDX user experience technology. Central to the release is the ability to deliver virtual desktops over the WAN to mobile workers and branch office employees up to three times faster, at a fraction of the cost. Key enhancements include six times faster printing and scanning, two times faster app launch, and flexible new Quality of Service controls to ensure superior user experience in all network conditions. The new release also features significant multimedia, voice and video enhancements, including new Flash redirection technology that delivers stunning video and audio experience over the WAN at less than half the cost. (See blog for additional details)
  • Support for More than One Billion Devices – Combined with the Citrix Receiver™ universal software client, XenDesktop 5.5 extends the company’s already significant lead in delivering apps and desktops to the widest possible range of end user devices. Using XenDesktop 5.5, customers can deliver self-service apps and desktops to more than one billion devices, including PCs, Macs, tablets, smartphones and thin clients – and all major device operating platforms, including new environments like Apple iOS, Google Android and Google ChromeOS. (See blog for additional details)
  • Unparalleled Native User Experience on Tablets and Smartphones – Unlike competing products that offer only basic support for non-PC devices, XenDesktop 5.5 enables a rich, native experience on each unique device, including support for gestures and multi-touch features. This experience is also customized based on the type of device. Smartphone users, for example, tend to be document-centric. Instead of opening a full Windows desktop, they generally prefer to interact with individual files. Tablet users, by contrast, tend to be app-centric, preferring to launch individual applications, rather than navigating a full Windows desktop. In all cases, XenDesktop 5.5 enables a rich, native experience on each unique device, allowing users to access corporate apps and data in whatever way is most convenient and natural. No other desktop virtualization product in the industry comes close.
  • Millions More Laptops Supported with XenClient 2 – XenDesktop 5.5 also includes Citrix XenClient™ 2 as a standard feature (see XenClient tech preview announcement). XenClient extends the value of XenDesktop to millions of laptop users, enabling customers to manage desktops centrally, but execute them locally on client hypervisors rather than run directly on each laptop – even when disconnected from the network. The XenClient 2 technology includes a host of new enhancements that significantly expand hardware compatibility, deliver a simple user experience and enable larger more complex production deployments. (See blog for additional details)
  • Faster App Delivery with XenApp 6.5 - XenDesktop 5.5 includes the new Citrix XenApp™ 6.5 as an integrated feature. XenApp 6.5 delivers applications with the same high-definition experience as desktops delivered via XenDesktop. In addition, end-users benefit from the new Instant App Access feature that reduces application launch times by 50 percent. Customers can also manage applications delivered by XenApp alongside virtual desktops from within the XenDesktop Desktop Director console.  (See blog for additional details)
  • Enhanced Support for Microsoft Technologies – XenDesktop 5.5 includes support for Microsoft RemoteFX, a key capability of Microsoft Hyper-V. XenDesktop with HDX and RemoteFX delivers a great user experience for rich content, including Aero-based Windows 7 desktops, whether executing on the server or the client device. Support for Microsoft management technologies, such as App-V and System Center enables IT to virtualize applications and manage their desktop infrastructure, including physical and virtual desktops and applications, from a single view.

Quotes
Bob Schultz, Group Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Desktops and Applications at Citrix
“With this new release of XenDesktop, we are making virtual desktops simple and affordable for IT by incorporating technology from our recent RingCube acquisition. In addition, XenDesktop 5.5 brings unprecedented levels of technology innovation with HDX so users will have high-performance, personal desktops and applications on any device, whether they are working at home, at work or at a branch office. Bringing together on-demand apps with XenApp, support for billions of devices with Citrix Receiver, XenDesktop enables enterprises to transform their distributed desktop computing into an on-demand service delivered from their own private clouds.”

Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group
“Desktop virtualization will play a key role in centralized IT strategies and bringing remote and branch office employees on board as part of this strategy is critical. The unique challenges of this group of employees really underscore the need for optimized and accelerated delivery over the WAN. Citrix has been dealing with the central issues around WAN delivery for 20 years and it has leveraged this experience and intelligence in XenDesktop 5.5 to not only optimize virtual desktop delivery over the WAN but ensure that users in remote and branch offices are receiving the best user experience regardless of their location.”

Availability
XenDesktop 5.5, XenApp 6.5 and XenClient 2 are available for download today from the Citrix website. Suggested pricing for XenDesktop starts at $95 per user or device for the VDI-only edition. Comprehensive desktop and application virtualization is available in the Enterprise or Platinum editions, priced at $225 and $350. XenClient 2 is available standalone as a free download from the Citrix website and included along with the Synchronizer for XenClient with XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum.

 

VMware Delivers Micro Cloud Foundry


VMware Delivers Micro Cloud Foundry (TM), Bringing the Industry’s
First Open PaaS Directly to any Developers’ Mac or PC


Free, downloadable PaaS lets developers build cloud applications
locally and explore the latest developer technologies

PALO ALTO, Calif., August 24, 2011 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the
global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today
announced the immediate beta availability of Micro Cloud Foundry™ as a
free download at http://micro.cloudfoundry.com. The industry’s first
open Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution, Cloud Foundry delivers
access to modern, high productivity frameworks and a rich ecosystem of
application services from VMware, third parties and the open source
community. A complete version of Cloud Foundry that runs on a
developer’s Mac or PC, Micro Cloud Foundry lets developers build
end-to-end cloud applications locally, without the hassles of
configuring middleware while preserving the choice of where to deploy
and the ability to scale their applications without changing a line of
code.

Micro Cloud Foundry is a complete version of Cloud Foundry
(http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/cloud-foundry-apr2011.html)
that runs directly on a developer's machine and offers developers choice
of frameworks, choice of application infrastructure services and choice
of clouds in which to deploy applications. Micro Cloud Foundry will be
able to dramatically enhance developers’ abilities and options to
build, test and deploy their applications while offering symmetry with
other instances of Cloud Foundry in enterprise datacentres and public
cloud service providers.

Because Micro Cloud Foundry runs in a local virtual machine, developers
can easily create and experiment with cutting-edge applications on their
own computers, a model consistent with traditional development
processes, but lacking from current PaaS models. As a result, developers
can eliminate the need to install and configure complex application
infrastructure and thereby greatly accelerate their application
development process.  Additionally, because applications created on
Micro Cloud Foundry can be deployed directly to www.cloudfoundry.com or
other instances of Cloud Foundry, it enables true application
portability across a range of cloud environments.

“Today VMware is taking another significant step forward in
delivering a modern cloud application platform ideal for the hybrid
cloud environment, by delivering industry’s only PaaS solution that
can be run on an individual developer’s laptop,” said Jerry Chen,
vice president of cloud and application services, VMware. “Micro Cloud
Foundry gives developers a full cloud development environment that
combines all the flexibility of local development with the ability to
deploy and scale their applications anywhere in the future.  Micro
CloudFoundry gives developers the ability to build cutting edge cloud
applications while exploring the latest developer frameworks and
application services without configuration hassles.”

Support for High-Productivity Programming Frameworks

The first version of Micro Cloud Foundry supports popular,
high-productivity programming frameworks and application services
including:

- Spring for Java
- Ruby on Rails and Sinatra
- Node.js
- Grails and other JVM-based frameworks including Scala Lift
- MongoDB, MySQL, and Redis application services
- VMware plans to include support for additional VMware vFabric
services in future versions of Micro Cloud Foundry

Micro Cloud Foundry supports Cloud Foundry’s scriptable command line
interface and integration with the Eclipse-based SpringSource Tool Suite
(STS), which allows developers to retarget deployments between
on-premise and public environments without code modifications.

With built-in dynamic DNS sup
port, developers can run their Micro Cloud
Foundry wherever they happen to be working - whether at home, office or
coffee shop - without any reconfiguration required.

Available as a downloadable virtual machine image, Micro Cloud Foundry
is compatible with VMware Fusion for Mac OS X and VMware Workstation and
VMware Player (available as a free download) for Linux and Windows
computers. It provides easy installation, setup, and virtual machine
management.

Significant Adoption by the Developer Community

Micro Cloud Foundry is the third element of Cloud Foundry to become
available. The first two, which debuted on April 12, 2011, are
CloudFoundry.com (http://www.cloudfoundry.com/), a public cloud PaaS
environment; and CloudFoundry.org (http://www.cloudfoundry.org/), an
open source project that allows developers and community members to
collaborate and contribute to the Cloud Foundry project.

The interest in CloudFoundry.com continues to grow with the number of
beta users more than doubling and the number of applications more than
tripling since the offering was unveiled in April 2011. CloudFoundry.org
has already received hundreds of material contributions from the open
source community, including additional frameworks and languages such as
Erlang, JRuby, PHP and Pythonas
(http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/post/5161514264/the-cloud-foundry-community)
well as data services such as Neo4J.

VMware will provide regular Micro Cloud Foundry updates to include
additional frameworks and services. VMware continues to drive core
innovation to Cloud Foundry by adding new frameworks and languages, such
as Lift and Scala
(http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/post/6109591023/cloud-foundry-now-supporting-scala),
as well as releasing a Hyperic plugin
(http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/post/7050968416/hyperic-brings-application-monitoring-to-cloud-foundry)
for Cloud Foundry that provides increased monitoring and visibility to
applications.

To get started with your Micro Cloud Foundry, please visit
www.cloudfoundry.com/micro.

Additional Resources:
- Steve Herrod, VMware CTO view on Micro Cloud Foundry, see:
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2011/08/micro-cloud-foundry-open-paas-on-your-laptop-available-today.html

- Cloud Foundry open PaaS , please see:  http://www.cloudfoundry.com
- Technical Micro Cloud Foundry Blog, please see:
http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/
- Watch Cloud Foundry screencast, please see:
http://www.youtube.com/cloudfoundry
- Micro Cloud Foundry Community support and knowledge base, please see:
http://support.cloudfoundry.com/forums/20180298-micro-cloud-foundry-documents


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 ( http://www.vmware.com/ ). VMware Canada is
headquartered in Burlington, Ontario, and can be found online at
www.vmware.ca.

VMware, Cloud Foundry,VMware vSphere and Micro Cloud Foundry are
registered trademarks 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.

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EMC Accelerates Customers’ Journey to the Cloud at VMworld 2011


EMC Accelerates Customers’ Journey to the Cloud at VMworld 2011

EMC to Provide Practical Guidance, Demonstrations and Hands-On Lab
Showcasing the Unique Benefits of EMC With VMware Virtualization and
Cloud Infrastructure

HOPKINTON, Mass. – August 24, 2011 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC),
the number one choice of customers for information infrastructure
(http://canada.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
in VMware virtual and cloud
(http://canada.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
environments according to a recent Wikibon survey
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint),will
again provide customers with a unique opportunity to gain practical
guidance from vExperts and their peers, view real-time demonstrations
and develop skills in a hands-on lab at the VMworld 2011 conference in
The Venetian, Las Vegas (Aug. 29 – Sept. 1). At the show EMC will
highlight its recently announced
(http://canada.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110712-01.htm) broad
technology support and the industry’s most comprehensive integration
with VMware vSphere® 5 and cloud infrastructure suite. The combination
of EMC’s industry-leading products, solutions and services with VMware
virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies accelerates the
customer journey to the cloud – lowering IT costs and improving
business agility.

Key opportunities to listen, learn and gain hands-on experience:

* Super Session (Tuesday, August 30 at 10:00 AM PT): Pat Gelsinger
(http://canada.emc.com/about/emc-at-glance/exec-team/gelsinger.htm),
President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure
Products will deliver a Super Session presentation and ‘Live’
demonstrations highlighting EMC’s shared vision with VMware and
EMC’s latest technology designed to accelerate the journey to the
cloud. The Super Session will conclude with a live episode of
‘Chad’s World’ featuring EMC’s Chad Sakac, Vice President
of the VMware Alliance.
* EMC Booth (#1101): At the EMC booth, attendees will have the
opportunity to discuss best practices, see demonstrations of technology
integrations between EMC and VMware solutions as well as meet with EMC
executives and subject matter experts to discuss what’s on their
minds. Featured in the booth will be demonstrations of EMC storage,
backup and recovery, virtual desktop infrastructure, security, solutions
as well as services to virtualize mission critical applications,
analytics and action, and information management features with VMware
technologies. In addition every hour will feature a presentation by EMC
and VMware’s joint customers and subject matter experts.
* EMC Interactive Demo Area (Booth #1001): For customers seeking
practical experience for accelerating their journey to the cloud, EMC
for the second year has a one-of-a-kind hands-on lab to showcase
combined EMC and VMware technologies. Attendees can interact with the
latest EMC cloud technologies such as EMC® Atmos
(http://canada.emc.com/storage/atmos/atmos.htm)® and learn how EMC’s
portfolio of products including EMC Symmetrix® VMAX
(http://canada.emc.com/products/storage/symmetrix/symmetrix.htm)™, EMC
VNX (http://canada.emc.com/products/family/vnx-family.htm)® family and
EMC Isilon (http://www.isilon.com/)® storage platforms integrate with
VMware to provide the best visibility and management of the cloud, and
understand how to secure, backup and protect their EMC and VMware
virtualized and cloud environments with vLabs featuring EMC Avamar
(http://canada.emc.com/products/family2/avamar-family.htm)®, RSA
(http://www.rsa.com/)® and EMC VPLEX
(http://canada.emc.com/storage/vplex/vplex.htm)®.
* VCE (booth #1121): VCE (http://www.vce.com/), the Virtual Computing
Environment Company, a converged infrastructure product and solutions
company forme
d by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel,
will showcase the capabilities of its Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms.
Available through a comprehensive ecosystem of partners, Vblock
Platforms deliver a complete IT infrastructure that integrates
best-of-breed virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security,
and management technologies. Todd Pavone, Executive Vice President,
Product Development will lead a Super Session to bring to life the
efficiencies that Vblock platforms, solutions and services offer as
customers move along their journey to the cloud.
* 7 Sessions: EMC executives and technical speakers joined by VMware
and customers will address attendees at seven sessions and panel
discussions. EMC customers will share their real experiences and provide
practical guidance on how EMC and VMware accelerate their journey to the
cloud.
* Second Annual “EMC Journey to the Cloud” awards: Five customers
and partners will be honoured as the winners of the “EMC Journey to
the Cloud” awards based on award submissions and judged by a panel of
experts to highlight excellence in innovation, value and performance.
* EMC Video Cube: Throughout the event, the EMC Video Cube will keep
attendees visiting the EMC booth informed with multiple displays and
broadcast interviews and videos from customers, EMC executives and
partners as well as industry analysts.

Supporting Quotes:

“Since our data centre is over 98 per cent virtualized including
Microsoft Exchange, we chose an EMC solution because of its broad and
deep integration with VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure
solutions and because after we compared it against the competition, it
was also the most cost-effective and reliable solution available. With
features like EMC PowerPath/VE we’ve realized the high-availability
and performance we wanted for our mission-critical applications.
Additionally, with all of the EMC plug-ins for VMware vCenter including
the one for PowerPath/VE, our VMware administrators are able to more
efficiently manage the VMware vSphere cluster, virtual machines, and
storage all from a single management console which is critical to gain
business agility.”
Christopher Apostolof, Storage and Virtualization Engineer,
Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas

“EMC’s pervasive integration with VMware vSphere® 5 and cloud
infrastructure suite accelerates customers’ journey to the cloud and
has made it the number one choice of customers for their VMware
environment. Next week, we’ll once again provide thousands of
attendees with the opportunity to learn from the experiences of their
peers, get hands-on instruction and advice from technical experts and
also recognize those exceptional customers and partners who are driving
innovation and success in virtualization.”
Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer,
EMC

About EMC

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

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

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trademarks or registered trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other
trademarks used are the property of their respective owners.

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of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other juris
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Growing IT skills gap between post-secondary and on the job


Growing IT skills gap between post-secondary and on the job

Canada's emerging tech CEOs challenged with recruiting new talent: PwC report

TORONTO, Aug. 25, 2011 /CNW/ - Canadian emerging technology CEOs are finding it more difficult to add new qualified employees to their payroll, according to a PwC report exploring talent management issues for the Canadian emerging technology sector.

The report found 44% of CEOs listed recruiting new talent and management team members as their biggest hiring issue. What's more, an overwhelming majority (72%) either don't have a talent management strategy in place or aren't sure if their existing strategy is effective.

"It is interesting to hear that IT entrepreneurs are challenged with finding qualified people," says Peter Matutat, National Emerging Company Practice Leader, PwC. "At the heart of the issue may be that IT grads are coming out of school with a skill set that isn't quite what employers are looking for."

"The nature of emerging technology companies means they aren't just seeking people with the technical know-how, but employees who are more well-rounded," adds Matutat. "Start-up companies also highly value softer skills like creativity, an entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen."

Tobi Day-Hamilton, director of advancement at the University of Waterloo Stratford Campus, says change needs to happen at the university level to ensure grads are equipped with the skills technology companies are looking for.

According to Day-Hamilton, "We're seeing a skills gap in what grads learn in post-secondary and what companies are now requesting in employees. In recent years, we found students were specializing in one area of technology, which meant grads were lacking general business and creativity skills. Increasingly, these are attributes that are becoming must-haves for many employers."

Day-Hamilton also stresses the importance of co-op education throughout the university experience. "Employers want new hires to come in and hit the ground running, which is difficult to do if you don't have the practical experience," she says. "The more experience you can get before graduating, the better."

The University of Waterloo has developed new program offerings to address this skills gap issue. The university is launching its Masters of Digital Experience Innovation this September and its Bachelor of Global Business and Digital Arts next year.

For job seekers, the industry looks positive. Turnover continues to be low with 81% of CEOs reporting less than 10% turnover and close to 70% with less than 5% turnover. The primary reasons for staff voluntarily leaving their companies last year were for higher compensation and new challenging opportunities (both 21%). Involuntary staff turnover was mostly attributed to poor performance (32%) rather than cost containment (11%), and 35% of respondents indicated they had no involuntary turnover at all.

For a full copy of the PwC 2011 Report on Emerging Canadian Software Companies, visit: www.pwc.com/ca/cv2r.

Follow PwC's Technology group on Twitter at @PwC_Tech and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pwccanada.

About PwC
The firms of the PwC network provide industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to enhance value for clients. More than 161,000 people in 154 countries in PwC firms across the PwC network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. In Canada, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership, and its related entities have more than 5,700 partners and staff in offices across the country. See www.pwc.com/ca for more information.

"PwC" is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the PwC network. Each firm in the network is a separate legal entity and does not act as agent of PwCIL or any other member firm. PwCIL does not provide any services to clients. PwCIL is not responsible or liable for the acts or omissions of any of its member firms nor can it control the exercise of their professional judgment or bind them in any way.

Note to Editors: PwC changed its name from PricewaterhouseCoopers to PwC in the fall of 2010. "PwC" is written in text with a capital "P" and capital "C." Only when you use the PwC logo is the name represented in lower case.

"PwC" refers to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership, which is a member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each member firm of which is a separate legal entity.

For further information:

Kiiran Chauhan
Tel.: 416 947 8983
Email: kiran.chauhan@ca.pwc.com

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Infosys BPO Renews Contract With Alcoa


Infosys BPO Renews Contract With Alcoa

BANGALORE, India, Aug. 25, 2011 /CNW/ - Infosys BPO, a leading player in the outsourcing services sector, today announced a five year renewal of its contract with Alcoa Global Business Services (GBS). Alcoa is the world's leading producer of aluminum and alumina with over USD 21 billion in revenues. Infosys BPO's partnership with Alcoa started in 2004 and has grown to include services across Finance and Accounting (F&A) and Knowledge Services (KS) processes.

Ritesh Idnani, COO, Infosys BPO, said, "We at Infosys BPO greatly value our long association with Alcoa, which is known for being a best-in-class finance organization. As a key partner enabling this, we continue to work with Alcoa to explore avenues of continually adding business value. The contract renewal for five more years is testimony to our collaborative partnership and delivery excellence."

Today, Infosys BPO's engagement with Alcoa has reached a level of excellence and sustained performance that has helped enhance the competitive edge for Alcoa GBS; thereby enabling it to provide different types of services to Alcoa business units in a timely, accurate and cost-effective manner. This in turn, translates into profitable business for the company and good relationships with existing and potential customers.

About Infosys BPO

Infosys BPO Ltd. (http://www.infosysbpo.com [http://www.infosysbpo.com/Pages/index.aspx]), the Business Process Outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Technologies, was set up in April 2002. Infosys BPO focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients through reduced costs, ongoing productivity improvements, and process reengineering. Infosys BPO operates in India, the Czech Republic, China, the Philippines, Poland, Mexico, USA and Brazil and as on June 30, 2011 employed approximately 19,631 people. It closed FY 2010-11 with revenues of $426.8 million.

About Infosys Technologies Ltd.

Many of the world's most successful organizations rely on the 133,000 people of Infosys to deliver measurable business value. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries build tomorrow's enterprise.

For more information about Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY), visit http://www.infosys.com

Infosys Safe Harbor

Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, industry segment concentration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks or system failures, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies in which Infosys has made strategic investments, withdrawal or expiration of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability and regional conflicts, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings including our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011 and on Form 6-K for the quarters ended June 30, 2010, September 30, 2010 and December 31, 2010.These filings are available at http://www.sec.gov. Infosys may, from time to time, make additional written and oral forward-looking statements, including statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.

For further information:

Neha Iyer
Infosys BPO Ltd., India
Phone: +91-8861257257 
neha_iyer@infosys.com

James Roger D'silva
Corporate Voice | Weber Shandwick
Phone: +91-9880781969 
james@corvoshandwick.co.in

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What's Souring Our BlackBerry Maker?

http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2011/08/23/RIM-Company-Woes

RIM's woes are partially a product of Canadian telecom policy.

By Michael Geist, Today, TheTyee.ca


Government can't save RIM, but it helped shape its products.


The past year has not been kind to Research in Motion Ltd., Canada's leading technology company. The Waterloo-based maker of the BlackBerry smartphone has seen its share price nosedive in the wake of less than stellar launches of new products such as the Playbook, disappointing earnings guidance, and plans to cut its global workforce.

The company is still profitable -- it earned $695 million on revenue of $4.9 billion in its last quarter -- yet some have begun to speculate on whether the Canadian government should step in to "save" RIM from the fate that befell Nortel Networks Corp., the last great Canadian technology company which filed for bankruptcy two years ago.

Given that RIM remains profitable, it seems premature to suggest that the government can or should do much of anything to assist it. The company faces mounting criticism over its product lines and its failure to address the competitive threats from Apple Inc. and Google Inc., business issues that lie beyond the expertise or mandate of government policy makers.

While RIM's current problems can't be solved by government policy, some of its shortcomings may be a product of Canadian policy. Indeed, RIM is the quintessential Canadian technology company, reflecting the market's strengths and weaknesses.

Born and raised in Canada

RIM was never shy about trumpeting its perceived competitive advantages. For years, co-founder Mike Lazaridis promoted the data efficiency of RIM's BlackBerry, while emphasizing that wireless spectrum is a finite resource. From RIM's perspective, efficient use of data makes its devices more attractive to wireless carriers which incur lower costs when compared with bandwidth hogging devices such as the Apple iPhone.


The emphasis on spectrum scarcity and the value of currying favour with telecom carriers is very much a product of the Canadian marketplace. Bell, Rogers and Telus dominate our wireless market, resulting in longer consumer contracts than those found elsewhere, among the highest roaming fees in the world, and expensive wireless data costs. Moreover, the government has retained foreign investment restrictions in the telecom sector long after most other developed economies dropped them, and it is years behind the United States in conducting spectrum auctions that could yield new competitors.

Given a Canadian environment where data is expensive, competition limited, and spectrum relatively scarce, it should come as no surprise that RIM viewed data efficiency as a key competitive advantage. On a global level, however, RIM's positioning has emerged as a disadvantage, since lower data costs elsewhere mean consumers are more interested in using the wireless Internet than in rationing it.

Canada needs to reflect wider market

Moreover, telecom carriers are the key decision makers for the availability of devices in uncompetitive markets only where they can dictate what consumers can use. In a fully competitive marketplace, it is consumer demand, not carrier choice that carries the day. Garnering carrier support may have been viewed as crucial through the prism of a Canadian market that until recently featured only one GSM provider, but in more competitive markets consumers and companies that offer "must have" devices hold the upper hand.

The government response to RIM's troubles should therefore not focus on assisting the troubled but still-profitable BlackBerry maker. Rather, it should recognize that the policies that resulted in an uncompetitive telecom market have implications that extend well beyond pricey consumer cell phone plans.

For better or worse, RIM is very much a product of its environment. Addressing RIM's woes requires establishing policies that ensure that the next Canadian tech giant emerges from a more globally competitive market where conserving Internet use and prioritizing carriers over consumers are not viewed as competitive advantages.

Trend Micro Announces Titanium™ 2012 Protection for Your Digital Life

Trend Micro Announces Titanium™ 2012 Protection for Your Digital Life

Empowers social media and Internet users against even the most sophisticated security threats

OTTAWA, Aug. 22, 2011 /CNW/ - Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in Internet security solutions, today announced a family of security tools designed to protect all aspects of consumers' digital lives. Trend Micro™ Titanium™ 2012 is designed to empower consumers against all malicious threats, no matter how they are delivered, where they try to hide, or what connected device is in use. Building upon award-winning protection first introduced in 2010, Titanium 2012 provides complete, overall protection against increasingly sophisticated threats to the digital lifestyle, protecting everything from family photographs to family finances; online shopping to Facebooking; mobile computing to game-playing - no matter whether the preferred device is a laptop, a smart phone, a tablet, or a fully-loaded gaming PC.

"Trend Micro is committed to empowering online users and their families to live their digital lives to the fullest, without fear or hesitation," said Carol Carpenter, Trend Micro's executive general manager for the Consumer business unit. "As consumers continue to take advantage of all the Internet has to offer, we continue our commitment to enhancing the protection our products provide. Our innovative cloud approach has enabled us to proactively defend our customers' online experience. Our new up-to-the-minute features such as social media and mobile protection to ensure all aspects of the digital lifestyle can be made secure."

Titanium 2012 is powered by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure, providing consumers with robust threat protection.  Smart Protection Network technology has been ranked #1 in protection by three independent labs across 10 individual tests since September 2009. Titanium 2012 is a cloud based solution utilizing less than half the disk space and memory of other security products while providing up-to -the-minute protection and proactively stops threats before they reach the consumer, all with a user-friendly, "set-and-forget" user interface.

Titanium 2012 's new security enhancements include a tool to eliminate programs posing as antivirus software (Fake AV), proactive botnet and PE Virus protection, protection against malware packer technology, as well as a tool to visually identify safe and malicious links on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Trend Micro provides mobile security for smart phones and tablets, including robust tools for Android devices with Trend Micro™ Mobile Security Personal Edition and file and folder synchronization and backup through Trend Micro™ SafeSync™online service.   Titanium 2012 also includes enhancements to Titanium's Parental Controls, Behavioral Monitoring, and Rootkit detection and removal.   In a recent test conducted by AVTest.org, Titanium 2012 showed a 60% improvement in detecting and removing Rootkits, a difficult to detect, subversive form of malware.

Titanium 2012 is available in three packages; each designed to meet specific needs of families and individuals. A fun "skin" feature also offers consumers the opportunity to completely customize the look of their digital life protection.

Titanium 2012

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus + Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security
Essential protection for emailing and surfing the web hassle free Advanced protection for your family—connect with confidence Maximum protection for your digital life—your all-in-one security solution
Proactively stops threats before they reach you All of the essentials, plus: All of the benefits of Internet Security, plus:
Uses less than half the disk space and memory of other security products Control and monitor your kids' online access and content with parental controls Protects you from malicious links on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter
Intuitive interface is easy to install and use Data theft prevention protects your private information like credit card numbers, email addresses and passwords Data security tools like a file shredder and vault keep your most important documents secure
Set-and-forget security—won't hassle you with alerts and pop-ups Optimizes your PC's performance and helps protect your privacy by cleaning registry and temp files and deleting browsing histories and cookies Includes 10 GB Trend Micro SafeSync account to sync, access and share your photos, documents and more
        Includes Trend Micro Mobile Security Personal Edition to extend your security to mobile phones and tablets, including robust tools for Android devices

Titanium 2012 is available for purchase at the Trend Micro online store, through retail partners in select countries worldwide, and at numerous retail locations online at the following prices:

Trend Micro Titanium Antivirus $59.99 for protection for 3 PCs for a year
Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security   $69.99 for protection for 3 PCs for a year
Trend Micro Titanium Maximum Security   $79/99 for protection for 3 PCs for a year

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro Incorporated (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4704), a global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers.  Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ cloud security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge - from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.

Iomega Announces New Top-of-the-Line Rackmount Network Storage for SMBs and Distributed Enterprises

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Iomega Announces New Top-of-the-Line Rackmount Network Storage for SMBs
and Distributed Enterprises: New Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network
Storage Array

Iomega Ratchets Up Power and Performance of Category-Leading Rackmount
NAS:
* Intel Core2 Duo Processor, 7,200 RPM Hard Drives, Optional Solid
State Drives
* VMware, Citrix and Windows Certifications
* Full Hyper-V Live Migration Support
* Deduplicating Backup with EMC Avamar
* Revolutionary Iomega Personal Cloud Technology With No Fees
* Expandable From 8TBs Up to 36TBs in a Single Array
* EMC Designed and Tested With Enterprise Results For SMB Economics
* Prices Start at less than US$6,000

SAN DIEGO - August 23, 2011 - Iomega, an EMC company (NYSE: EMC) and a
global leader in data protection, today announced the worldwide launch
of the new Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-350r Network Storage Array, a
powerful next-generation network storage solution delivering the highest
levels of performance and advanced data protection for small-to
medium-sized businesses and distributed enterprises.

Featuring world class EMC® storage and security technologies, the new
StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage Array replaces the Iomega
StorCenter ix12-300r as Iomega’s top-of-the-line rackmount network
storage array. The new StorCenter px12-350r combines the best software
capabilities with category-leading hardware to improve capacity and
performance, making the px12-350r ideally suited for use in production
data stores, server virtualization, backup-to-disk target and video
surveillance – all at amazing entry-level prices as well as a
budget-keeping and category-shattering price of less than US$10,500 for
the maximum 36 terabytes of network storage.

With full Hyper-V Live migration support, multiple RAID levels and hot
swap drives, certification for the most popular virtualization
environments and the only SMB rackmount NAS in the industry to natively
support Avamar® deduplicating backup, the new StorCenter px12-350r is
sophisticated data management and protection that is also easy to use,
easy to manage, and affordable for SMBs to own.

Executive Quote

“The new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r leverages leading EMC
technologies, bringing best-in-class storage, security and cloud
capabilities that cater to the network storage and management needs of
today’s small and mid-sized businesses, and distributed
enterprises,” said Jonathan Huberman, President of Iomega. “As the
flagship of our most advanced and powerful business class of NAS
devices, the px12-350r incorporates the latest in high performance
technologies including solid state disk drives, expanded memory and 3TB
7,200 RPM disk drives, as well as Iomega’s Personal Cloud technology
and the only network storage array in the world to natively support
Avamar deduplicating backups. The px12-350r is truly advanced network
storage that can be the foundation for today’s high growth SMBs and
distributed enterprises.”

Analyst Quote

“Small and mid-sized businesses face many of the same challenges as
larger organizations, including rapid storage growth, infrastructure
sprawl and even more severe budget constraints,” said David Vellante,
Co-Founder of The Wikibon Project. “The problem is that smaller
organizations don’t have the resources to manage increasing levels of
data complexity. What they need are extensible products with rich
feature sets and rock solid data assurance that are dead simple to
operate. The new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r array is a leading example
of an affordable solution for today’s SMB buyer that delivers turnkey
business value without breaking the bank.”

Configurations of the new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage
Array

 A 2U Form factor rackmount NAS with 12 slots for drive expansion, the
StorCenter px12-350r comes in two base configurations: 4 x 2TB drives
for minimum of 8TB* of network storage, and
 4X 3TB drives for 12TB of
network storage. Users can expand capacity with 7,200 rpm SATA HDDs in
four-drive increments up to 12 x 3TB drives for up to 36TBs of network
storage. Users can also add very high performance 128GB solid state
drives (SSDs), which are available from Iomega.

Advanced Business Features of the new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r

In addition to standard network storage features, the new StorCenter
px12-350r has many of today’s most important business class features
and advanced capabilities, including:
* High performance computing with Intel Core2 Duo processor and
expanded 4GB memory.
* Four gigabit Ethernet ports with bonding capability for load
balancing and high performance bandwidth aggregation or failover.
* Advanced Data protection with RAID levels 1, 10, 5 and 6 with hot
spare, automatic RAID rebuild and hot swap functionality (RAID 0 and
JBOD mode also available).
* UPS support, hot swap drives and data replication with
device-to-device copy jobs that can be defined and scheduled as needed
to keep data backed up and secure.
* Server class pedigree – certified for VMware® vSphere 5, Citrix®
XenServer™ 5.6, and Windows Server 2003/2008/2008 R2.
* With Avamar support on the px12-350r, users have the industry’s
first storage product that natively supports EMC’s industry-leading
Avamar sub-file deduplication for remote office/branch office (ROBO)
backup.
* Sophisticated networking – Ethernet port bonding for load
balancing, high performance bandwidth aggregation or failover, as well
as VLAN tagging for security and manageability.
* ISCSI target capability provides block level access for most
efficient storage utilization, as well as topping out at a blazing
425MB/second in sequential read I/O performance.
* Storage pools group together drives of like size and RAID protection
to simplify management.
* Windows Active Directory Trusted Domains, MSCS and Hyper-V Live
Migration Support.
* Embedded AXIS® Video Hosting System (AVHS) provides support for up to
12 AXIS IP security cameras for affordable and superior video
surveillance solutions.

Iomega Personal Cloud – manage your own cloud with no extra costs

Iomega® Personal Cloud is a revolutionary technology that allows users
to protect and share data by connecting their Iomega StorCenter network
storage array devices to other individual devices via the Internet.
Unlike public and private cloud applications, Iomega’s Personal Cloud
technology comes without incremental costs and is completely self-owned
– the content and accessibility is always under the user’s control.
Bundled with every Iomega StorCenter device, including the new
StorCenter px12-350r, Iomega Personal Cloud enables offsite backups,
collaboration with others, easy sharing of large files, archiving and
other data management and protection benefits to an organization.

Use Cases for the StorCenter px12-350r

The new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r is the ideal network storage device
for multiple business uses, including:

* Databases: Boot performance by running small database applications
entirely from a StorCenter px12-350r utilizing SSDs. Or enhance
performance and lower costs for larger databases by running application
files, log files and index files from a px12 with SSDs, and then use
traditional SATA HDD storage for the actual data.
* Offsite Backup: No more worrying about important up-to-date data
residing in one place. Keep data protected by installing one StorCenter
ix12-350r at the main location and a second unit (or any of Iomega’s
StorCenter NAS devices) at a second location such as a warehouse, second
office or the home office. Both StorCenter units can be in the user’s
Personal Cloud, and the “Copy Jobs” functionality allows the user to
copy their entire storage or selected files and folders from one unit to
the other.
* Virtualized Infrastructure: The StorCenter px12-350r works flawlessly
with all leading virtualization platforms, allowing users to create
high
-performance shared storage resources for virtualized servers by
incorporating an Iomega StorCenter ix12-350r. Take a step further and
utilize SSDs along with SATA drives to experience dramatically enhanced
shared storage performance for virtualized environments. SMBs will find
the px12-350r particularly appealing for virtualized desktop
infrastructure (VDI) environments like VMware View.

Upgrades for ix12-300r Customers

Iomega is also pleased to announce the availability of upgrades for the
thousands of StorCenter ix12-300r systems in use today. Current
StorCenter ix12-300r customers can upgrade to the new 4GB memory, as
well as add SSDs to existing ix12-300r units. And they can continue to
add SATA disk drives to expand capacity to the ix12-300r’s limit.
Current StorCenter ix12-300r -users should check the Iomega support site
for the latest software updates. Contact your Iomega reseller for
further details.

Availability and Warranty

The new Iomega® StorCenter™ px12-350r Network Storage Array is now
available worldwide.

The StorCenter px12-350r is available in two models: the 8TB model (4 x
2TB HDD) is US$5,999.99, and the 12TB model (4 X 3TB HDD) is US$6,999.99
(7200 rpm SATA HDDs are used in both models.)

There are two Expansion Pack options for flexibility and growth: the
8TB Expansion Pack (4 x 2TB HDD) is US$1,399.99, and the 12TB Expansion
Pack (4 X 3TB HDD) is US$1,699.99. Additionally, 128GB Solid State
Drives (SSDs) are available from Iomega at US$399.99 each.

All pricing is U.S. suggested retail.

Also available are single spare SSDs, spare power supply, spare fan and
spares kits that include a single spare drive (2TB or 3TB HDD), fan and
power supply.

The Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage Array includes a
standard three-year limited warranty with phone support 8 hours a day,
five days a week. Optional service plans include Iomega’s Enhanced
Service Plan which includes 24x7 phone support with advance
replacement.

To learn more about the new Iomega StorCenter px12-350r Network Storage
Array, please go to www.iomega.com.

About Iomega

Iomega is a worldwide leader of innovative storage solutions for small
businesses, distributed enterprises, home offices, and consumers. A
wholly-owned subsidiary of EMC, the world's premier information
infrastructure technology provider, Iomega has shipped more than 14
million terabytes of storage since its inception in 1980. Today,
Iomega’s portfolio includes industry-leading network attached
storage solutions that utilize world class EMC storage and security
technologies as well as Iomega’s Personal Cloud technology; one of the
industry’s broadest selections of portable and desktop hard drives;
multimedia drives that make it easy to view video and Internet content
in the living room; and the one-of-a-kind Iomega® SuperHero™ Backup &
Charger for iPhone. To learn more go to www.iomega.com. Resellers
worldwide can visit www.ioclub.ne.

About EMC

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

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

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


*1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

NOTE: This release contains “forward-looking statements” as defined
under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ
materially from those projected in the forward-looking st
atements as a
result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i)
adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or
reductions in information technology spending; (iii) our ability to
protect our proprietary technology; (iv) risks associated with managing
the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions
and investments and the challenges and costs of integration,
restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (v) fluctuations in
VMware, Inc.’s operating results and risks associated with trading of
VMware stock; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited to
pricing pressures and new product introductions; (vii) the relative and
varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the
volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (viii) component
and product quality and availability; (ix) the transition to new
products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product
offerings and rapid technological and market change; (x) insufficient,
excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) war or acts of terrorism; (xii) the
ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xiii)
fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xiv) other one-time events and
other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in
EMC’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC
disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements
after the date of this release.


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trademarks of Iomega Corporation in the United States and/or other
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Norton's Back-to-School Checklist for Online Safety

 


*****MEDIA ADVISORY****MEDIA ADVISORY***MEDIA ADVISORY****

 

Norton’s Back-to-School Checklist for Online Safety

Tips from Norton on getting kids ready for the cyber-schoolyard

 

WHAT/WHY:       Parents’ back-to-school checklist usually includes getting the new backpack, school supplies, and new clothes, but they shouldn’t forget about getting their kids ready for the cyber-schoolyard. Trouble with peers online, an accidentally deleted term paper, or a ruined hard drive are all obstacles kids can run into during the school year. Reviewing cybersecurity basics with kids will help ensure their back-to-school experience goes smoothly. 

 

First, parents should remind their kids about the risks of cyberbullying, and teach them how to avoid being a participant or a victim. Second, parents can protect their family from malicious websites that target people searching for common back-to-school search terms. And third, families can ensure that they’ll always have the computer help they need with a reliable technology assistance service.

 

·         Cyberbullying. As kids get ready to go back to school, they’re also getting ready to re-enter the intense social world they probably tuned out during the summer. As summer ends, parents should take the time to review the dangers of cyberbullying.

      • In a 2011 survey of Canadian parents conducted by Norton and Impulse Research, one in four parents polled (26 %) said their child had been involved in a cyberbullying incident
      • According to the survey, the number one channel children are using to cyberbully is through social networks (63%), followed by email (25%) and phone (19%)

       

      Remind kids that “real life” etiquette applies in cyberspace and that if they see someone being cyberbullied, they should talk to an adult. For more information on how to protect your child from cyberbullying, as well as other online dangerous, check out the Norton Family Online Safety Guide.

       

      ·         Poisoned Back-to-School Search Terms. Searching for back-to-school basics isn’t always safe. Cybercriminals monitor trends and calendar events so they’ll know what Internet users are most likely to search. Then they create malicious websites that turn up in searches for the term. When clicked, unsuspecting search engine users are tricked into downloading unwanted malware. Additionally, kids may run into inappropriate websites when doing research for school.  Parents can use a free, Web-based service such as Norton Online Family to stay in the loop on their kids’ online lives.  

      ·         Get prepared to prevent tech perils. It’s 2 a.m., the assignment is due tomorrow and…the document is gone! Tech catastrophes always occur at the worst times. Parents and students can disaster-proof their computer with NortonLive Ultimate Help Desk, a personal IT assistance service. Students can have peace of mind throughout the year, knowing they’ll receive immediate help for PC, network, printer, smartphone and other digital device problems. Experts are available 24/7, 365 days a year to help students get the most out of their technology, without having to leave the comfort of their own home – or dorm room.

      In addition to these tips, parents should remember to cover the basics of staying safe online with a comprehensive security suite such as Norton Internet Security or Norton 360.

      EXPERTS:             Lynn Hargrove, Director of Consumer Solutions, Symantec Canada, is on hand to share information about the most recent back-to-school threats online and best practices for kids and parents.

       

      WHEN:                 Interviews with Norton experts available upon request.

       

      MATERIALS:       Cyberbullying survey fact sheet available upon request.

       

      CONTACT:           Nicole Cayer                                      

                                      MAVERICK PR for Norton

                                      416-640-5525 Ex 238

                                      nicolec@maverickpr.com  

       

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