EastLink Selects Ericsson to build Mobile Broadband Network


EastLink Selects Ericsson to build Mobile Broadband Network

  • EastLink to provide Canadians with latest mobile broadband services in 2012
  • Ericsson sole supplier of HSPA radio access networks and Evolved Packet Core (EPC)
  • Ericsson further expands its global HSPA leadership

TORONTO, Aug. 17, 2011 /CNW/ - Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) announced today that it has signed a four-year agreement as the sole vendor for EastLink's core and radio access networks, using HSPA+ and next generation technologies. Ericsson will deploy its multi-standard radio base station; RBS 6000, circuit switched and packet networks including Evolved Packet Core and Operation Support Systems (OSS), as well as, providing professional services.

"We strive to provide our customers with the best communications and entertainment experience possible," said Matthew MacLellan, President, EastLink Wireless.  "With this network evolution, our customers will be able to work and communicate more reliably and faster than ever before."

The RBS 6000 is a multi-standard radio base station which supports GSM/EDGE, WCDMA/HSPA and LTE, providing a cost-effective deployment for next-generation high-speed mobile broadband, video, and web application services while providing subscribers with a superior user experience.

"Ericsson is excited to work with EastLink as it enhances its communications capabilities and services with the latest mobile broadband technology," said Angel Ruiz, head of Ericsson North America. "We take great pride in providing telecommunication companies with the best network technology available."

Ericsson has operated in Canada since 1953 and today has more than 3,000 employees. In 2010, Ericsson invested more than $350 million in Canada and ranks as one of the top R&D investors in the country.  Approximately 85% of all mobile calls in Canada are served by Ericsson.

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About Ericsson

Ericsson is the world's leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators. Ericsson is the leader in 2G, 3G and 4G mobile technologies, and provides support for networks with over 2 billion subscribers and has the leading position in managed services. The company's portfolio comprises mobile and fixed network infrastructure, telecom services, software, broadband and multimedia solutions for operators, enterprises and the media industry. The Sony Ericsson and ST-Ericsson joint ventures provide consumers with feature-rich personal mobile devices. 

Ericsson is advancing its vision of being the "prime driver in an all-communicating world" through innovation, technology, and sustainable business solutions. Working in 180 countries, more than 90,000 employees generated revenue of SEK 203.3 billion (USD 28.2 billion) in 2010. Founded in 1876 with the headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ New York.

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About EastLink

Headquartered in Nova Scotia with more than 1,500 employees from coast to coast, EastLink delivers world class video entertainment, internet and telephone services to residential, business and public sector customers across Canada.  Powered by our state of the art fibre network, EastLink has one of the fastest and most reliable networks in North America.  EastLink has been recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for the past five years. For more information on EastLink, please visit eastlink.ca.

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General Mills Builds E-Commerce Site on Windows Azure to Promote Gluten-Free Lifestyle

General Mills Builds E-Commerce Site on Windows Azure to Promote Gluten-Free Lifestyle
Cloud-based, direct-to-consumer channel provides consumers an easy way to find and shop for gluten-free products and information.

REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 15, 2011 — Microsoft Corp. today announced that General Mills Inc. has built a direct-to-consumer online channel, called Gluten Freely, based on the Windows Azure platform. Designed to help consumers who have Celiac disease or are sensitive to gluten, a protein naturally found in certain grains, the website helps people locate and shop for gluten-free foods and provides diet and health information.

“We needed to build an e-commerce solution without incurring the costs and maintenance of a traditional on-premises platform,” said Dom Alcocer, marketing manager at General Mills. “Gluten Freely was brought to market about twice as fast and at about half the cost of what we were expecting from a traditional IT development.”

Recognizing the growing importance of meeting the needs of consumers who need to remove gluten from their diet, General Mills began making a range of gluten-free food products beginning with Rice Chex cereal in 2008. The company looked for a focused way to direct its products and information to the public while avoiding the burden of investing in traditional hardware and software IT resources.

Using Windows Azure as a platform, General Mills was able to build a direct-to-consumer online channel in the cloud. So far, the company has experienced substantial site traffic, sales, consumer enthusiasm and positive social media feedback, including more than 90,000 Facebook fans.

“General Mills is excelling at developing innovative business models, and we enjoyed supporting the company’s effort to build a brand-new business solution in the cloud,” said Mark Hindsbo, vice president U.S. Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft. “Windows Azure was just right for Gluten Freely: a scalable and comprehensive platform that was flexible and cost-effective.”

More information about how Windows Azure helped General Mills build its new e-commerce channel is available in a case study at http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?CaseStudyID=4000010724. More information about Windows Azure is available at http://www.WindowsAzure.com.

About General Mills

General Mills is one of the world’s leading food companies, operating in more than 100 countries. Its consumer brands include Cheerios, Fiber One, Haagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Green Giant and Old El Paso. Headquartered in Minneapolis, General Mills had fiscal 2011 global net sales of $14.9 billion (U.S.).

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta Now Available

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta Now Available


Latest Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization release includes new advanced virtualization management features and industry-leading performance and scalability

Raleigh, NC - August 17, 2011

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the release of the Beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, the next-generation version of the company’s end-to-end virtualization solution.  With the release of the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta, Red Hat previews new capabilities that build upon its industry-leading scalability and performance for both server virtualization and desktop virtualization use cases.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor technology have experienced strong momentum and support leading up to today’s 3.0 Beta release.  Customers such as DreamWorks Animation and NTT Communications have announced that their cloud services and offerings are built using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.  In addition, in collaboration with other industry leaders, Red Hat helped to establish the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) to promote KVM as an open alternative to proprietary virtualization solutions.  The OVA has been well-received by the industry with significant growth in membership.  Further, KVM has powered the majority of published SPECvirt 2010 benchmark results at www.spec.org, including the highest score and highest scale-up overall, clearly demonstrating its performance excellence.

Today’s Beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 previews several key enhancements, including:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager is now a Java application running on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • An updated KVM hypervisor based on the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Industry-leading performance and scalability levels, supporting up to 128 logical CPUs and 2TB memory for hosts, and up to 64 vCPUs and 2TB memory for guests
  • A power user portal that allows end users to provision virtual machines, define templates and administer their own environments
  • A RESTful API that allows all aspects of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to be managed and configured programmatically
  • New multi-level administrative capabilities, improving product functionality for very large deployments
  • New local storage capabilities
  • An integrated and embedded reporting engine allowing for analysis of historic usage trends and utilization reports
  • SPICE WAN optimization and enhanced performance including dynamic compression and automatic tuning of desktop effects and color depth.  The new version of SPICE also features enhanced support for Linux desktops.

 

"Red Hat and BMC have a longstanding partnership that has extended into the cloud and virtualization arenas," said Herb VanHook, vice president, CTO Office at BMC.  "We are working closely with Red Hat to integrate BMC Cloud and Virtualization Management solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization so that our customers can leverage the compelling benefits of our joint technologies.  We look forward to leveraging the new capabilities in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 for our joint customers.”

“We’ve worked closely with Red Hat to architect storage solutions that enable our mutual joint customers to optimize their shared IT infrastructures,” said Vaughn Stewart, director and virtualization evangelist at NetApp. “The combined strengths of NetApp and Red Hat deliver scalability, performance and cost-effectiveness to organizations with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and allow customers to take advantage of NetApp’s industry-leading storage efficiencies to free up resources and innovate for the future.”

“Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 is expected to provide customers with many exciting new features and capabilities, previewed in today’s Beta,” said Navin Thadani, senior director, Virtualization Business at Red Hat.  “One of the most significant new features of the release is the ability to deploy the management server on Linux, making it an ideal platform for customers moving away from proprietary solutions.”

For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, visit www.redhat.com/rhev.

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About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for seven consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with virtualization, applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.

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HP Simplifies Multivendor Delivery Models

HP Simplifies Multivendor Delivery Models

New service helps clients improve supplier management, governance

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 11, 2011

HP Enterprise Services today announced a new service to help enterprises and governments gain control of multivendor service environments, improving overall IT performance and quality while optimizing costs.

Most large enterprises combine services and technologies from multiple providers to deliver services to their end users. These multivendor delivery models challenge IT leadership to ensure efficient workflow, timely problem resolution and adequate service-level performance. The inability to effectively integrate service delivery in these multivendor delivery models can lead to poor IT performance and higher costs.

By improving supplier management and the handoffs between suppliers and internal delivery teams, the new HP Multi-Supplier Integration (MSI) Service helps chief information officers (CIOs) improve overall IT performance and manage multivendor environment complexities while keeping costs in check.

With HP as the single service integration and management layer, clients can focus their efforts on innovation and process improvement. As a single point of contact, the HP MSI Service drives effective supplier collaboration, rapid problem resolution and workflow process improvements. In the event of a service interruption, the MSI Service provides comprehensive diagnostics, accountability and timely restoration of services.

“Clients are embracing hybrid delivery models that increase complexity with traditional and new ‘as a service’ offerings from multiple suppliers,” said Rhonda Vetere, vice president, Enterprise Service Management, HP Enterprise Services. “The HP MSI Service provides the tools, processes and personnel to effectively manage multisupplier delivery and the governance to drive continuous service quality improvement.”

MSI will be delivered through HP’s global IT service delivery system, which is based upon efficiency and optimization. MSI provides the people, processes, technology and tools required to manage the delivery of IT infrastructure to enterprise clients worldwide.

Instant-On Enterprises employ HP MSI Service to improve service delivery to their end users, which helps improve the speed of responding to business change. In a world of continuous connectivity, the Instant-On Enterprise embeds technology in everything it does to serve customers, employees, partners and citizens with whatever they need, instantly.

The HP Multi-Supplier Integration and Management Service is expected to be available worldwide on Aug. 31. Pricing will vary based on solutions components selected, volumes and contract duration.

More information about the service is available at www.hp.com/go/multisupplier.

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure at the convergence of the cloud and connectivity, creating seamless, secure, context-aware experiences for a connected world. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.


This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of HP and its consolidated subsidiaries could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements of the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations; any statements concerning expected development, performance or market share relating to products and services; any statements regarding anticipated operational and financial results; any statements of expectation or belief; and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include macroeconomic and geopolitical trends and events; the competitive pressures faced by HP’s businesses; the development and transition of new products and services (and the enhancement of existing products and services) to meet customer needs and respond to emerging technological trends; the execution and performance of contracts by HP and its customers, suppliers and partners; the achievement of expected operational and financial results; and other risks that are described in HP’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2011 and HP’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to HP’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2010. HP assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.

© 2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.


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Erin Hendrick, Burson-Marsteller for HP: erin.hendrick@bm.com

Canada's young entrepreneurs set to shake-up mobile app market: The Next 36

Canada's young entrepreneurs set to shake-up mobile app market: The Next 36

Top investors from Silicon Valley, New York and across Canada flock to first pitch day

TORONTO, Aug. 16, 2011 /CNW/ - Heavy-hitting investors and business elite from across North America heard pitches from Canada's youngest entrepreneurs yesterday, and are evaluating the first business ventures created through game-changing program, The Next 36.

Supported by more than 50 Canadian business leaders - including Galen Weston, Paul Desmarais Sr. and Jim Pattison as founding patrons - The Next 36 aims to transform the country's most promising undergraduates into high-impact entrepreneurs and nation builders.

"For years, I have been looking for the best way to help young entrepreneurs," explains Anthony Lacavera, a director of The Next 36 and Chairman and CEO of Globalive. "The Next 36 is the perfect formula."

Yesterday's 'Venture Day' marked the culmination of the program's inaugural year. The accomplished young co-founders (aged 19 to 23) spent the last eight months working in teams and together with CEO mentors, top business school faculty, and others to seize opportunities in mobile application technology. These ventures include mobile apps relating to local bartering, customer feedback, exercise rewards, flirting and virtual clothing.

Monday's graduation ceremony featured the presentation of three highly-coveted awards. The 2011 Valedictorian, selected by his peers, was David Berkal, a Peace & Conflict Studies graduate from The University of Toronto. Emily Dimytosh, who is entering her final year in Commerce at Queen's, was chosen by the program's co-founders as winner of the Satchu Prize, named in honour of Founding Chair, Reza Satchu.  "In terms of raising the bar, The Next 36 has taken me from varsity high jump to Olympic pole vaulting," states Dimytosh.  The recipient of the Outstanding Venture Award was Tradyo, a swapping application that allows users to buy & barter on a local level through their smartphone.  Tradyo's co-founders come from McGill, Western, Guelph and Toronto.

"Canadian prosperity depends on our ability to generate more seasoned entrepreneurs to drive this country forward." said Claudia Hepburn, co-founder and executive director of The Next 36. "Entrepreneurs who see opportunities where others see challenges have the ability to change our community and our economy. We can't wait to see how they build on this experience in the real world."

As the first cohort of The Next 36 makes plans to forge ahead with their businesses - some while juggling their studies - the program is gearing up to welcome its next wave of students. The application process is open until October 7, 2011.

About The Next 36

The Next 36 provides key resources to young Canadians with the potential to build and lead great organizations. Promising undergraduates are selected from a variety of academic disciplines, and from across Canada, through a rigorous national selection process. The young entrepreneurs selected are placed in teams of four, and for 8 months are provided mentorship from some of Canada's top business leaders, $50,000 cash, and academic instruction from some of the world's top faculty. The program is spearheaded by a founding group of 50 high-profile business leaders, entrepreneurs, and academics.

For more information, please visit: www.thenext36.ca

For further information:

For further details or to speak to a participating student, please contact:

Jon French
Director, Marketing & Events. The Next 36
jon@thenext36.ca

RIM Announces BlackBerry Management Center for Small Business

RIM Announces BlackBerry Management Center for Small Business

Free Online Service Helps Small Businesses Centrally Manage and Protect BlackBerry Smartphones in the Cloud

WATERLOO, ONTARIO - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced BlackBerry® Management Center – a free online service* for small businesses to centrally manage company- or employee-owned BlackBerry® smartphones in the cloud and protect business-related content stored on the handsets. The service is designed for businesses with up to 100 BlackBerry smartphones that access email services from an Internet service provider (ISP) or web-based email services like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo!.

"We are pleased to introduce RIM's latest cloud service designed specifically for small businesses," said Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management at Research In Motion. "BlackBerry Management Center is a free service and an effective way to centrally manage and support employees' BlackBerry smartphones in the cloud."

BlackBerry Management Center makes it easy to manage company- or employee-owned smartphones in the cloud, and helps to minimize risk from lost or stolen handsets to keep business moving forward. Small businesses can use the service to:

  • Wirelessly back up BlackBerry smartphones automatically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to aid in the recovery of lost business-related content stored on the handset
  • Protect content on an employee's lost or stolen BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it and, if necessary, wiping the contents, including the microSD card
  • Locate a lost BlackBerry smartphone by remotely locking it, initiating a loud ring, and displaying a message on the Home screen
  • Easily restore the settings and content on a new or replacement device
  • Reset a password

BlackBerry Management Center is available today at www.blackberry.com/managementcenter.

* Subject to availability and local regulatory restrictions.

About Research In Motion
Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry® solution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ:RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

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ITU Telecom World 2011 invites Canadian inventors to pitch their ideas

 

Ideas that could change the world?

 

60 innovators will win the chance to pitch their great idea
to industry leaders at ITU Telecom World in Geneva

 

Geneva, 16 August  2011 – ITU Telecom World 2011 has launched a global competition that gives 60 Young Innovators and Digital Innovators the chance to come to the event in Geneva (October 24-27) to pitch their ground-breaking ideas to the cream of the ICT industry.

 

The three entrants from each category judged to have the best all-round concepts by an online vote of delegates attending ITU Telecom World 2011 will share prize money totalling over CHF 50,000 to help them realise their digital dreams.

 

Industry mentors will also continue to work with the six winners after the event to help them turn their vision into reality.

 

Would-be innovators simply submit their idea online in one of two competition categories:

·         Young Innovators: Entrants should be 18-25 years or age, and their idea must have been developed independently of any project with their current employer. The best ideas from around the world will win finalists an all-expenses-paid trip to Geneva, where they will benefit from two intensive days of training on how to best pitch their concept, culminating in a final ‘quickfire pitch’ at a grand final event on 25 October. ITU is actively encouraging submissions from women and those still looking to enter the workforce.

·         Digital Innovators: partnering with an NGO or other not-for-profit body: Entrants are encouraged to submit their ideas for new ways in which ICTs could help further their causes in areas like environmental sustainability, improved access to health and education, digital accessibility or the alleviation of poverty. The best partnerships will be brought to Geneva and trained on how to best pitch their developed idea, before making their final pitch on 25 October.

 

Entries will be judged on innovation, feasibility (technical implementation/cost) and applicant experience (ability to deliver). ITU Telecom World’s online community will initially vote on their favourite submissions, with the 60 most popular ideas from each category then submitted to a high-level selection panel of independent experts from the public and private sector, who will choose the finalists.

 

In addition to the chance to win one of six cash prizes, the competition is designed to offer finalists an enriching experience that will help them better succeed in the competitive world of ICT development. As well as the chance to build a valuable network of new professional contacts worldwide, all contestants will have their pitches filmed and uploaded to YouTube, Facebook and the ITU Telecom website, to give them and their great ideas maximum global exposure.

 

They will also be encouraged to blog about their experiences and their ups and downs on the ITU Telecom website during the two-day pitch development process, and to upload their own photos, videos and audio podcasts. 

 

“The Young Innovators and Digital Innovators competition draw on our long-standing expertise in facilitating youth events and harnessing the power of fresh, digital thinking,” said ITU Secretary-General Dr Hamadoun Touré. “Applications, services and products driven by next-generation networks can truly transform the everyday life of millions. These competitions offer a unique and exciting opportunity for young talent and digital innovators to receive the support, recognition and seed funding needed to turn promising digital ideas into valuable, working contributions to a better world.”

 

The deadline for submissions is 15 September. Young Innovators can enter online at: http://world2011.itu.int/young-innovators. Digital Innovators working with an NGO or not-for-profit can enter at: http://world2011.itu.int/calling-all-geeks-and-not-profits

 

Sharing experiences

 

As part of the lead-up to ITU Telecom World 2011, ITU also wants to hear inspirational stories and burning questions from stakeholders around the world:

 

·         Share Your Stories: Large enterprises with a CSR story to share or citizens whose connected project made a real difference to their community are invited to tell their stories online through short films about an innovative project that uses mobile or connected technologies to transform people’s lives. The most popular stories, as voted for and commented on by ITU Telecom’s global constituencies, will be fed into ITU Telecom World 2011 in October. The event will provide a platform where the best stories will inspire delegates and catalyse action.

·         Pose Your Questions: Online readers are asked submit any question that they would like to be put to a panel of political and business ICT leaders at ITU Telecom World 2011.

 

Ideas, stories and questions on driving real-life change and development in the connected world can be uploaded now on the Get Involved page of the ITU Telecom World 2011 website: http://world2011.itu.int/get-involved.

 

Follow the competition and other ITU Telecom World 2011 event activities on Facebook at www.itu.int/facebook, through our @GInvolved twitter account and through our @ITU_News twitter account #ITUworld 2011.

 

 

About ITU

ITU is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technology. For over 145 years, ITU has coordinated the shared global use of the radio spectrum, promoted international cooperation in assigning satellite orbits, worked to improve communication infrastructure in the developing world, and established the worldwide standards that foster seamless interconnection of a vast range of communications systems. From broadband networks to new-generation wireless technologies, aeronautical and maritime navigation, radio astronomy, satellite-based meteorology and converging fixed-mobile phone, Internet and broadcasting technologies, ITU is committed to connecting the world.

www.itu.int

 

 

Lenovo and SED International Agreement Brings Lenovo PCs to More Small-to-Medium Businesses

Lenovo and SED International Agreement Brings Lenovo PCs to More Small-to-Medium Businesses

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & TUCKER, Ga., August 15, 2011 -- Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and SED International Holdings, Inc. (AMEX:SED) today announced that the companies have entered into an agreement under which SED will distribute a selection of Lenovo ThinkPad laptops, ThinkCentre desktops,IdeaPad laptops,Lenovo-branded laptops and options to SED’s network of U.S. reseller partners.

“We do the majority of our business through channel partners, and by adding SED International as a new distributor, we’re strengthening our commitment to the channel and leveraging SED International's expertise in a market we do not serve today, especially for partners who specialize in small business computing,” said Chris Frey, Channel Chief, Lenovo North America. “The Lenovo-SED collaboration can quickly bring them products with the performance, reliability and innovation their customers require.”

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) intend to expand their use of technology to improve customer interactions, mobility options and operational efficiencies, according to the Third Annual Small and Medium Business Technology Adoptions Trends study released on July 27, 2011 by CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry. Seven out of 10 SMBs surveyed said that they expect to increase their technology spending over the next 12 months. A full third of the companies surveyed expect to increase their IT budget by 10 percent or more, and in the aggregate, SMB IT budgets are expected to increase by an average of slightly over five percent. Among the factors driving SMB technology buying decisions over the next 12 months are desires for better network efficiencies and robustness; improved connections with customers online and in a mobile environment; enhanced resource management and tracking; and more business analytics.

“SED is excited about our new relationship with Lenovo,” said Jonathan Elster, President and Chief Executive Officer, SED. “We’re continually evolving and expanding our line card to better meet the needs of our partners, and this agreement provides an excellent opportunity for SED to showcase its efficient and growing distribution network. We see a lot of opportunity for growth in the SMB space, and our new agreement with Lenovo enables SED to offer our reseller customers serving this market a richer portfolio of products designed specifically to address their SMB clientele’s unique needs.”

Beginning immediately, products available through SED International include the ThinkPad Edge and SL laptops, designed for customers who want business-class performance, are style-conscious and need these features at an affordable price. Starting around $600, the laptops are equipped with choices of second generation Intel® Core™ processors and include robust multimedia functionality. Lenovo G Series laptops offer essential computing features that will meet virtually any budget, while IdeaPad laptops feature multimedia and entertainment technologies that customers can use for business or enjoy for personal computing. The SED portfolio also includes the ThinkCentre A70z of all-in-one desktop for high performance computing that features a modern, professional design and small footprint, making it ideal for crowded offices.

About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a $US21 billion personal technology company serving customers in more than 160 countries, and the world’s fourth-largest PC vendor. Dedicated to building exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo’s business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded consumer PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile internet devices, including tablets and smart phones. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com
 
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About SED International Holdings, Inc.
Founded in 1980, SED International Holdings, Inc. is a multinational, preferred distributor of leading computer technology, consumer electronics, small appliances and cellular products. The Company also offers custom-tailored supply chain management services ideally suited to meet the priorities and distribution requirements of the e-commerce, Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer markets. Headquartered near Atlanta, Georgia with business operations in California; Florida; Georgia; Texas; Bogota, Colombia and Buenos Aires, Argentina, SED serves a customer base of over 10,000 channel partners and retailers in the U.S. and Latin America. To learn more, please visit www.SEDonline.com; or follow us on Twitter @SEDIntl.
 

CA Technologies Delivers Next-generation Service Assurance Solution to Help Improve Service Quality and Predictability, and Optimize IT Operations

CA Technologies Delivers Next-generation Service Assurance Solution to Help Improve Service Quality and Predictability, and Optimize IT Operations

CA Service Operations Insight Simplifies ‘Cloud Choice’ by Managing Business Services Across Traditional IT and Cloud-connected Environments

ISLANDIA, N.Y. – August 16, 2011 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced the general availability of CA Service Operations Insight 3.0, a next-generation solution that manages business services across traditional IT and cloud-connected environments for enterprises, service providers and governments.

CA Service Operations Insight is the latest release among a group of new and updated CA Technologies products and solutions that help IT organizations make the right ‘cloud choice’ and realize faster time-to-value from hybrid cloud environments. In order to make the right cloud choice for the business, management and security must be at the forefront of any consideration. To help ensure customers are successful in their cloud initiatives, CA Technologies provides a breadth of products and solutions that support a lifecycle approach to successful cloud deployment which includes: plan, design, deliver, secure and assure.

CA Technologies is significantly enhancing and expanding its Service Assurance portfolio to help customers accommodate complex, composite applications, services and transactions that span hybrid cloud environments. This release of Service Operations Insight and the company’s recent acquisitions of both ITKO and WatchMouse are just a few examples of the portfolio’s growth.

“Today’s challenging, dynamically changing business and technical environments are outpacing the abilities of current management tools. IT needs a game changer,” said Mike Sargent, general manager, Service Assurance, CA Technologies. “CA Service Operations Insight is a next-generation solution that is precisely designed to address the service quality requirements of real-time, interactive online services that drive many businesses and governments.”

With CA Service Operations Insight (formerly CA Spectrum Service Assurance), IT operations executives and staff can visualize and analyze their infrastructure, applications and transactions together, in the context of the business services they support. This helps pinpoint, prioritize and resolve service problems across technology domains and IT supply chains to diminish risk to services, improve service quality and predictability and optimize operational efficiency. Examples of business services include online banking, retail, insurance claims processing, driver license renewal, warehouse/distribution systems and e911.

CA Service Operations Insight also provides the data necessary for CA Business Service Insight to determine which services are operating in an IT environment, and to compare the service performance against benchmarks. CA Business Service Insight also can then identify alternative services to help better manage contractual relationships with outsourcers, internal parties and customers.

“IT organizations are rightfully measured by their ability to deliver on committed service levels and support business expectations for critical business services,” said Dennis Drogseth, vice president, Enterprise Management Associates. “CA Service Operations Insight offers a cohesive and powerful design for delivering time-sensitive insights into dynamic  service-to-applications interdependencies and performance issues in order to mitigate business risks, align resources with business objectives and meet service quality expectations for end-user consumers as well as key business stakeholders.”
 
CA Service Operations Insight correlates and analyzes information from infrastructure, application performance and other IT management tools in real time. The solution uses this information to map and display IT assets that deliver specific business services, calculate service quality, and identify which IT assets impact service quality and put it at risk. In response to service degradations and outages, CA Service Operations Insight triggers service desk tickets, and escalations and corrective actions such as process automation, to allocate data center and cloud resources.

CA Service Operations Insight 3.0 includes enhancements designed to provide:

• Dynamic business service modeling that automates and simplifies the task of building and maintaining a real-time, end-to-end view of services;
• Automated actions that allocate data center and cloud resources to quickly fix service problems and help proactively mitigate risks;
• Mobile user interface that lets executives and staff  manage services and alerts while away from their desks;
• Unified event management that helps operations teams to standardize and enforce best-practice response to alerts from across all technology domains; and
• Tiered architecture that enables organizations to flexibly distribute the responsibility and processing of business service modeling and analysis across geographies while maintaining a centralized view.

“Like most companies, we’ve invested in management tools and processes to ensure the health of the underlying infrastructure and applications that support business services. CA Service Operations Insight is helping us move to the next level of IT-business alignment by consolidating management across domains into a single view of business services,” said Dan Colleli, monitoring technician, Raymond James. “We are impressed with the product’s ability to import infrastructure and transaction models, and accurate status of the components from CA Technologies and third-party tools, to build and maintain real-time, end-to-end views of business services. Impact analysis from CA Service Operations Insight allows for quick problem identification, notification and automated help desk ticketing, so service quality problems can be quickly resolved and other risks to business services can be mitigated.”

For more information about CA Service Operations Insight, visit:

• CA Service Assurance Portfolio
• CA Service Operations Management Solution
• @CAsvcAssur on Twitter
• Service Assurance Daily Blog
• LinkedIn’s CA Service Assurance Group

About CA Technologies

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

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Roamware Unveils RoamCloud(TM), World's First Cloud-based Roaming Service for Mobile Operators


Roamware Unveils RoamCloud(TM), World's First Cloud-based Roaming Service for Mobile Operators

RoamCloud™ reduces time to market by enabling on demand roaming services supported by a 24x7 managed services infrastructure

SAN JOSE, CA, Aug. 16, 2011 /CNW/ - Roamware, Inc., the global leader in the mobile roaming solutions, launched RoamCloud , a comprehensive suite of cloud-based roaming services for mobile operators. RoamCloud will make the entire suite of Roamware products available on demand.

RoamCloud is the world's first value centric roaming solution offering packaged with a blend of cloud services, business consulting, managed services and predictive intelligence to deliver targeted business results for operators.

The key challenge for mobile operators is keeping pace with the service innovation required to maximize revenue, delivering best in class service quality while optimizing capex and mitigating investment risks in new services. This needs to be accomplished without a hitch in the delivery of mission critical voice, data and video services.  According to Camille Mendler of Informa, Communication service providers (CSPs) committed nearly US$8 billion to cloud-related pursuits in the first six months of 2011.

RoamCloud provides a range of benefits to mobile operators - minimal capex investments in software & hardware, time to market business value, flexibility to start small and expand capacity on demand, and seamless roll out of new roaming services in line with business and customer imperatives and growth, outsourcing and automation of roaming business & technical operations, and 24X7 service monitoring.

"Mobile Operators need a solution that will help them mitigate risks associated with new roaming services. As the global leader in roaming solutions, RoamCloud will take us further in addressing real business issues for mobile operators and deliver solid returns on investments while mitigating risks", said Dr. John Jiang CTO and EVP of Product Management.

About Roamware, Inc.

Roamware, Inc. is the leading provider of roaming and mobile financial services solutions with a customer base of over 480 mobile operators across 154 countries.  Roamware is the global leader in mobile roaming solutions with an estimated 60 pc share of GSM, 3G and CDMA voice and data roaming segments. Roamware m-commerce and mobile banking solutions have been successfully deployed by major banks and global operators globally including: Vodafone, Permanent TSB and Bank of Ireland. The company is headquartered in San Jose with operations across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa. http://www.roamware.com

For further information:

Roamware Contacts:

Srinivas B Vijayaraghavan, Director Marketing 
Tel: +919739970225 
srinivas.v@roamware.com

Abraham Punnoose, VP, Cloud Services Business Development 
Tel: +919967927777 
abraham.punnoose@roamware.com

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