Cisco Delivers Foundation for Next-Generation Mobile Internet

 

Cisco Delivers Foundation for Next-Generation Mobile Internet

New Mobile Platform Designed to Increase Performance by up to 10 Times and Provides Industry's First Elastic Design for New Mobile Experiences, "Your Way"

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 5, 2012) - With worldwide mobile network traffic expected to increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today introduced the foundation for a new generation of mobile Internet networks: the Cisco® ASR 5500 platform.

The new Cisco ASR 5500 system extends the industry-leading Cisco ASR 5000 Series and delivers the agility and scale that service providers need to meet the evolving mobile requirements of their customers. As the industry's first elastic solution for mobile networks, the new Cisco ASR 5500 platform was designed to capitalize on breakthroughs in software architecture optimized on new, purpose-built hardware. These design characteristics address three multi-dimensional challenges known as the "new normal," which are:

* Dramatic growth of mobile lifestyle devices - consumers are buying sophisticated and powerful Internet-enabled devices for use at home, on the road, and at work given the bring-your-own-device or BYOD movement.

* Increased usage of next-generation applications - explosive growth in applications by users, always-on applications and those that continually interact with the network.

* Rise of the "Internet of things" - also known as machine-to-machine or M2M, whereby machines like smart meters and sensors use the mobile network.

The result is nearly 19 billion mobile and fixed connections to the Internet by 2016, according to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011 to 2016). Each connection has its own specific requirements, based on device type and application used, that must be met to deliver a superior and personalized mobile experience, "your way."

Product Highlights/Key Facts

The Cisco ASR 5500 system delivers unprecedented levels of performance and elasticity to help service providers with the following unique capabilities and features:

* The industry's only elastic packet core solution capable of integrating signaling, data, in-line services, and policy and charging control within a single platform.

* A 10-times performance improvement in throughput, capable of scaling from hundreds of gigabits to a terabit platform.

* The only solution capable of auto-sizing existing network resources to address dramatic variations in network behavior:
          o Access (3G, 4G and Wi-Fi); and
          o User sessions, transactions, signaling, and data throughput.

* Cisco's elastic mobile architecture allows applications to intelligently and elastically scale up or down to meet processing requirements. This gives service providers the unique ability to adjust resources and adapt to multiple conditions and network usage patterns, resulting in improved network economics, saving customers up to 47 percent of the total cost of ownership, according to a study issued by ACG Research.

* Proven software platform shared across the Cisco ASR 5000 Series, minimizing operational complexities and accelerating time-to-market.

* The new Cisco ASR 5500 is available now.

To power next-generation 3G, 4G, 4G long-term evolution (LTE) and Wi-Fi mobile services, Cisco has deployed the Cisco ASR 5000 series with several leading global service providers including Bharti Airtel, Telekom Austria Group and Verizon Wireless.

Supporting Quotes

* Jagbir Singh, director, Network Services Group, Bharti Airtel

"As we are transforming our network in order to cater to increasing demand for data services, we wanted a product that was scalable, reliable and one that could adapt to varying requirements and technology needs of our customers. As part of our packet core modernization we have chosen Cisco's ASR 5000 series and have been very satisfied with its stability, scalability and integration across various technologies."

* Wolfgang Fleischer, group director, Core-Service Network, Group CTO Area, Telekom Austria Group

"At Telekom Austria Group we see our Cisco mobile core network infrastructure as key enabler for advanced 4G LTE services. With the Cisco ASR 5000 Series as the evolved packet core, we can develop and deploy mobile services quickly, reliably and cost-effectively. We are excited that Cisco is enhancing its ASR 5000 Series with increased performance, scalability and elasticity."

* Tom Sawanobori, vice president, Network Planning, Verizon

"Verizon Wireless has been at the forefront of 4G LTE with the largest global deployment to date. Our tradition of innovation and leading advancements in mobility is supported through our relationship with Cisco. The Cisco ASR 5500 platform will help serve our needs for scalability and agility in service deployment models addressing consumer and enterprise markets."

* Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president and general manager, Mobile Internet Technology Group, Cisco

"By 2016, more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from desktops. Through the leading technology and services of the Cisco ASR 5000 Series and its newest member, the Cisco ASR 5500, Cisco uniquely offers service providers the opportunity to not only keep up with this surging demands from their customers in the 'new normal,' but also to enable their ability to grow profitability, to provide new differentiated services and to maximize the return on their existing investments so that they can thrive in the ever-evolving mobile landscape."

Editor's and Blogger's Notes

* At 7:00 a.m. (PDT) / 10:00 a.m. (EDT) / 3:00 p.m. (GMT) today, Cisco will host an invitation-only news conference for journalists, bloggers and industry analysts to discuss this announcement. Cisco executives Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president and general manager of the Mobile Internet Technology Group, and Murali Nemani, senior director of service provider marketing, will be present and take questions from the audience.

* To register for the Cisco news conference, send an email to #NACiscoSPinf@text100.com. Once you are registered, an email will be sent with the log-in details.

* At 8:00 a.m. (PDT) today, Cisco will host a public webcast where you'll hear from Cisco, Verizon Wireless and Vodafone executives and other industry thought leaders on the innovations enabled by the "new normal." To register, go to: The New Normal - How Mobility Is Changing the Way You Live, Work, Play, and Learn http://cisco-apps.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/sreg2/register/e_family.pl?&LANGUAGE=E&METHOD=W&FAMILY_CODE=1073&PRIORITY_CODE=000013652

YouTube Videos

* Watch: "History's Greatest Mysteries Traced to Mobile Network Issues"

* Watch: "Introduction of Cisco ASR 5500" http://www.youtube.com/embed/AsPBDqUzCnA

Supporting Resources

- Cisco http://www.cisco.com/

- Cisco ASR 5500 http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps12543/index.html

- Cisco ASR 5000 Series http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11072/index.html

- Cisco Visual Networking Index http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns827/networking_solutions_sub_solution.html

- Cisco Mobility: Enabling mobile experience, your way http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/trends/yourway/index.html?CAMPAIGN=your+way&COUNTRY_SITE=us&POSITION=vanity&REFERRING_SITE=print&CREATIVE=may16+mobile+experience

- Information on Cisco Service Provider products and technologies http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns341/networking_solutions_service_provider_home.html

- For more information about Ciscos service provider news and activities visit the SP360 Blog http://blogs.cisco.com/category/sp/ or follow us on Twitter @CiscoSPMobility or hashtag #thenewnorm or SP360 SlideShare http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoSP360/

- Subscribe to Cisco's SP360 feed http://blogs.cisco.com/category/sp/feed

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Wireless Sector's Contribution to the Canadian Economy Reaches $43 Billion

Wireless Sector's Contribution to the Canadian Economy Reaches $43 Billion

New report provides an economic assessment of the benefits of the wireless telecommunications industry  

OTTAWA, June 4, 2012 /CNW/ - Canada's wireless industry generated $43 billion for the Canadian economy in 2010 according to UK-based Ovum Consulting. In a report released today by the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA), Ovum quantifies the economic impact of Canada's wireless sector in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), investment and employment.

Ovum determined the wireless communications services industry directly contributed $18 billion to Canada's GDP and provided an additional $15.66 billion of economic flow through to contributing suppliers in the supply chain. The sector also generated a consumer surplus - the additional benefit or satisfaction that consumers receive from wireless services, above and beyond what they pay for the services - of $9.31 billion.

"Canada's wireless industry has once again demonstrated its critical importance to our country's economy and prosperity," said CWTA President & CEO Bernard Lord. "The industry remains committed to ensuring that Canadians are provided with the most advanced and reliable wireless networks available."

The report also examines the extraordinary investments made by the industry. In 2010, the industry deployed $2.5 billion in capital expenditures, which represented more than 14% of aggregate Canadian mobile operators' revenues. This level of capital intensity was greater than the average for North America, which was 13.3% in 2010.

Ovum also determined the wireless industry supported more than 260,000 jobs in 2010. The wireless sector continues to offer high value employment, with an average salary level of more than $64,000, compared to the Canadian average salary of just over $44,000

"The Benefit to the Canadian Economy from the Wireless Telecommunications Industries: An Economic Impact Assessment" is based on empirical data from the year 2010. Data was provided by a number of CWTA members, and obtained from publicly available sources including the CRTC, Statistics Canada, Industry Canada and annual reports of wireless operators, terminal suppliers and network equipment manufacturers. Ovum forecasts for revenues and services in the wireless sector have also been used in the modeling. A complete copy of the 45-page report is available on the CWTA Web site.

Bernard Lord will be discussing further results of the study in a keynote address at 12.30pm today at the Canadian Telecom Summit in Toronto.

Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA)

CWTA is the authority on wireless issues, developments and trends in Canada. It represents cellular, PCS, messaging, mobile radio, fixed wireless and mobile satellite carriers as well as companies that develop and produce products and services for the industry.

For further information:

Marc Choma, CWTA
613-233-4888 ext. 207
mchoma@cwta.ca

A world premiere - A global discussion on the future of the digital society!

A world premiere - A global discussion on the future of the digital society!

MONTREAL, June 4, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - As a lead-up to WCIT 2012, being held in Montreal in October 2012, organizers are presenting tomorrow, June 5th, starting at 8 AM E.T. a World Tech Jam in collaboration with IBM. This online activity is offered at no cost to participants and will take place June 5, 6 and 7. Moderators from all over the world will invite participants to discuss issues related to the digital society.

Citizens around the world will be able to have their say on ICT's role in healthcare and education, in smart cities, sustainable development and energy consumption, as well as in the media, the arts and culture. For example, participants will be able to share their vision of healthcare in 2025, comment on threaded discussions or chat with experts.

These exchanges will influence WCIT's program and will give rise to a Digital Society Action Plan that will be unveiled at WCIT 2012.

World Tech Jam participants may register here.

Global stars at WCIT 2012

WCIT 2012, which will take place at the Palais de congrès de Montréal from October 22 to 24, 2012, will feature world-renowned speakers. The luminaries attending WCIT 2012 include:

  • Andrew P. McAfee, Researcher, MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Bernard Charlès, CEO, Dassault Systèmes
  • Jonathan Zittrain, Co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Professor of Computer science and Law, Harvard University
  • Richard C. Alvarez, President and CEO, Canada Health Infoway
  • Robin Chase, Founder and CEO, Zipcar and GoLoco
  • Wim Elfrink, Chief Globalization Officer, CISCO

In addition, Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture), Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, and Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, will participate as panelists in WCIT 2012.

WCIT 2012 is made possible with support from the following sponsors: Air Canada, AMD, Bell, Canon, CGI, Cisco, Dassault Systèmes, Dell, IBM, Intel, Investissement Québec, Microsoft, OpenText, RIM, SaskPower, Sasktel International, Softchoice, Xerox.

Information: http://www.wcit2012.org

For further information:

Polina Lichagina
BICOM Communications
1 (514) 223-6770
plichagina@bicom.ca

IBM Expands Collaborative Software Development Solutions to Cloud, Mobile Technologies

IBM Expands Collaborative Software Development Solutions to Cloud, Mobile Technologies

Helps Development Teams Deliver Software with Quality, Speed, Agility
China Merchants Bank Modernizes Core Banking Processes with IBM Tools

ORLANDO, Florida - 04 Jun 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a range of new software solutions that will help clients create software applications faster and with higher quality across multiple development environments including cloud, mobile, and complex systems.

The software world’s push toward continuously evolving systems necessitates consistency and collaboration across the entire software lifecycle and supply chain. Often software development teams are struggling to meet business expectations due to a lack of hard facts. There is a need for shared data and a consistent context across organizational boundaries, exposed through clear and honest metrics.

To address these challenges, IBM is introducing a new version of its integrated software Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution with extended design management capabilities. CLM is built on IBM’s open development platform, Jazz, and brings together IBM Rational Requirements Composer, IBM Rational Team Concert, and IBM Rational Quality Manager in one easy-to-install and easy-to-use solution. The new CLM software ensures that software design is integrated with the rest of the software application development lifecycle. Development teams are now able to seamlessly collaborate on the design and development of software with key stakeholders from across the business.  

According to preliminary findings of an IBM Institute for Business Value Global Study on software delivery,* more than three-fourths of the participating organizations said they are underprepared for major technology trends that will impact their competitiveness. These trends include the proliferation of mobile devices, the ability to leverage cloud-based resources for flexibility and savings, and the growing percentage of smart products with embedded software. While 50 percent of organizations believe successful software delivery is crucial to their competitive advantage, only 25 percent currently leverage it. 

“Today’s business dilemma is how to address both the need for rapid delivery and sufficient control in the software development process,” said Dr. Kristof Kloeckner, general manager, IBM Rational. “We must balance the need for speed and agility with better governance to manage cost and quality, achieve regulatory compliance, ensure security, and have some level of financial predictability.” 

Top Bank in China Transforms Core Processes

China Merchants Bank (CMB), headquartered in Shenzhen, China, has over 800 branches, more than 50,000 employees and is cited as one of the world’s top 100 banks. China Merchants Bank environment spans IBM System z and IBM Power platforms. With geographically dispersed developers responsible for modernizing core banking and credit card processing applications, collaboration became essential. CMB uses IBM Rational CLM software capabilities to create a multiplatform application lifecycle management (ALM) environment to help automate their development processes and breakdown skills silos for effective cross-teaming.  

“IBM Rational Developer and ALM tools were brought into our credit card migration and core banking system project,” said Zhanwen Chen, manager of configuration management, China Merchants Bank. “Replacing older tools and coordinating the efforts of our 1,000+ developers improved our quality and performance.” 

DevOps in the Cloud

In a typical organization, it may take weeks or months to deliver a development change, due to infrastructure and configuration, testing and manual deployment, and lack of collaboration between development and operations teams. Continuous software delivery in the cloud allows customers to continuously and automatically deliver changes across the enterprise software delivery lifecycle, spanning development, application testing and operations. With a “DevOps” approach in the cloud, customers can reduce time to market and automate changes in development, test and production. IBM is supporting cloud delivery, development and operations with new solutions, including:

·        IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise provides an agile cloud computing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) well suited for development and test that is designed to provide rapid access to secure, enterprise-class virtual server environments. 

·        The IBM SmartCloud Application Services pilot provides a pay-as-you-go service that coordinates activities across business and system requirements, design, development, build, test and delivery.

·        IBM SmartCloud for Government Development and Test Platform as a service delivers industry-leading Rational tools for government agencies in a highly scalable, elastic computing environment for agencies that want the cost savings of a shared cloud environment combined with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) security.

·        IBM SmartCloud Continuous Delivery managed beta via a hosted sandbox in the cloud, provides a hands-on-experience of DevOps capabilities enabling accelerated code-to-deploy through automation, standardization of repeatable processes and improved coordination and visibility among development, test and operations teams.

·        IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management software provides comprehensive monitoring and management capabilities that enable development and operations professionals to reduce costly troubleshooting. It also provides free resources to focus on developing new innovations and services for customers. With this tighter integration, application issues can be found and resolved faster, but also proactively prevented to avoid future service disruption. 

Enterprise Mobile Development

IBM Rational CLM has also been extended to the IBM Mobile Foundation platform for centralized code sharing and distributed mobile application development. Currently, fragmentation of mobile devices, tools, and platforms complicates delivery of mobile applications that typically have faster time-to-market and more frequent releases. The IBM Enterprise Mobile Development solution helps teams apply an end-to-end lifecycle management process to design, develop, test and deploy mobile applications while enabling seamless integration with enterprise back-end systems and cloud services through mobile-optimized middleware. The Enterprise Mobile Development solution brings together several offerings that optimize the recent Worklight acquisition as well as IBM enterprise development environments, including:

·        Rational Solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management

·        IBM Worklight Studio 5.0 and IBM Worklight Server 5.0

·        Rational Application Developer v8.5

·        Rational Developer for System z v8.5

·        Rational Developer for Power Systems v8.5

·        IBM Application Center 5.0

·        Android SDK and Emulator

Green Hat Technology in New IBM Test Automation Solutions
Today's applications and manufactured products put additional pressures on development teams to find innovative ways to attain agility and increase the rate that software updates are delivered for testing. IBM has integrated the recently acquired Green Hat technology with IBM Rational CLM to help address the challenges of testing highly integrated and complex systems and simplify the creation of virtual test environments. New IBM test automation solutions use virtualized test environments and can reduce costs associated with the setup, maintenance and tear down of infrastructure associated with traditional testing or cloud based implementations.

Over a Decade of IBM Software Development Leadership

For the eleventh consecutive year, IBM has been named the number one shareholder in the worldwide application development software market according to Gartner with 25 percent of the market. Gartner reported that IBM continues to lead in key and growing segments including Distributed Software Change & Configuration Management, Requirements Elicitation and Management, Design and Java Platform AD Tools, and realized 25 percent growth in the Security Testing (DAST & SAST) market. 

Additionally, according to Evans Data Corporation's Users' Choice: 2012 Software Development Platforms, for the overall platform rankings, IBM's Rational continues its reign as the most highly rated overall offering, an honor they have obtained 6 in the last 7 years in this Evans Data survey of 1,200 developers globally.

Autonomy Announces Big Data Solutions in the Cloud

Autonomy Announces Big Data Solutions in the Cloud

Innovations unify 100 percent of organization's data, deliver enhanced support for Hadoop, bring big data analytics to marketers

LAS VEGAS, June 4, 2012 - Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced a series of cloud-based solutions designed to help organizations generate a greater return on their big data initiatives.

Based on HP Converged Cloud and Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) 10, these solutions include new capabilities for processing Hadoop data as well as a new clickstream analytics solution. The solutions enable businesses to discover new trends, opportunities and risks, and accelerate revenue growth by understanding and acting on web clickstream, sentiment and transactional data.

According to Gartner, "Through 2015, organizations integrating high-value, diverse, new information types and sources into a coherent information management infrastructure will outperform their industry peers financially by more than 20 percent."(1)

HP and Autonomy are uniquely positioned to help organizations capitalize on the big data opportunity by providing the scalability, flexibility and real-time conceptual understanding of information organizations need to transform islands of disparate data into actionable assets that can drive growth and profits.

Announced in November 2011, Autonomy IDOL 10 has generated significant market momentum. Businesses in every industry recognize the value of combining traditionally isolated information into one analytics platform to discover and act on patterns and trends in 100 percent of their information.

Get clever big data with Autonomy IDOL powered Hadoop

Since its inception, Autonomy IDOL has been designed to be embedded in other software platforms, and today more than 400 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) use Autonomy IDOL in their product offerings. As part of today's announcement, Autonomy has released new capabilities for leveraging Autonomy IDOL technology within Hadoop deployments.

While Hadoop is a widely adopted and proven distributed file system, it does not understand the meaning of concepts contained in the information. Now customers and software vendors can embed the Autonomy IDOL 10 engine in each Hadoop node, and take advantage of more 500 IDOL functions, including automatic categorization, clustering, eduction and hyperlinking.

Organizations also can combine Hadoop data with other enterprise and external data by leveraging Autonomy IDOL, which supports over 1000 files types and connects to over 400 data repositories. By embedding Autonomy IDOL 10 within Hadoop, organizations can automatically gain access to the deep processing power, conceptual understanding and diverse data sets enabled by Autonomy IDOL and technology from Vertica, an HP Company.

Optimize revenue with Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics

As the volume and variety of customer data continues to grow exponentially, marketers are increasingly focused on harnessing the value of this information to accelerate revenue growth. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2017 the chief marketing officer (CMO) will spend more on IT than the chief information officer (CIO).(2)

Autonomy is extending its industry-leading digital marketing platform by delivering Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics, which provides marketers with a single, consistent view of visits, conversions and customer engagement.

The solution leverages the Vertica Analytics Platform and Autonomy IDOL to provide unprecedented scale, performance, extensibility and understanding of 100 percent of an organization's information. Autonomy Optimost Analytics uniquely provides marketers with access to granular clickstream data, enabling them to aggregate, combine and analyze the information any way they choose.

Marketers also can blend this data with unstructured human information and other third-party data to gain a more complete and actionable understanding of customer interests, sentiments and buying patterns. Customers can use Autonomy's new prepackaged user interface, a third-party visualization technology like QlikView or Tableau, or write their own user interface. Autonomy's revenue optimization solution, which includes Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics, allows businesses to combine information from disparate sources, understand the concepts and ideas in this information, and act on the information in real time.

"The Autonomy digital marketing platform is a comprehensive offering that enables marketers to accelerate revenue growth," said Anthony Deighton, chief technology officer at QlikView. "QlikView's unique Business Discovery platform, in conjunction with Autonomy's powerful Optimost Clickstream Analytics, gives marketers the ability to simplify complex data-driven decisions. Together these solutions will enable our joint customers to gain unparalleled insight into consumer behavior, ultimately resulting increased engagement and acquisition."

"Autonomy and Vertica offer an unparalleled platform from which to automatically understand, optimize, and act on 100 percent of an organization's data," said Rafiq Mohammadi, chief executive officer of Promote at Autonomy, an HP Company. "Today's announcement further extends this platform, by enabling organizations to get more value from their Hadoop deployments, and blend clickstream data with unstructured, human information. Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics uniquely enables marketers to see and act on customer trends and sentiment-as they emerge-in order to optimize offers and campaigns, and to ultimately accelerate revenue growth."

Please visit http://www.autonomy.com/clickstream_analytics to learn more about Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics.

About HP

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(1) Gartner presentation, "Deriving New Value from Merging the Worlds of Diverse Data," Rita Sallam, April 2-4, 2012.

(2) Gartner webinar, "By 2017 the CMO Will Spend More on IT Than the CMO," Laura McClellan, Jan. 3, 2012.

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Quest Simplifies the Management of Microsoft Office 365 Environments

Quest Simplifies the Management of Microsoft Office 365 Environments

Recovery Manager for Exchange - Discovery Edition Performs Email Recovery and Email Discovery Across Multiple Environments

ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Quest Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSFT) – Regardless of where email is stored – in the cloud, on premises, or in other data silos – organizations must be able to find and recover it to meet legal, organizational or end-user requirements. Further, migrations to new email platforms, such as Office 365, present a risk that sensitive or mission-critical emails may get lost, deleted or corrupted. Quest Software helps organizations recover and discover email data across multiple environments, helping them to avoid potentially costly distractions or business disruptions.

Tweet This: @Quest extends Office 365 #cloud migration leadership to post-migration management; fast, easy email discovery is an added bonus. http://bit.ly/LTasD5

News Facts:

  • Quest Software today announces Quest® Recovery Manager for Exchange – Discovery Edition, which recovers email and performs email discovery across multiple data silos, including on-premises or in the cloud.
  • Recovery Manager for Exchange – Discovery Edition makes Exchange recovery and email discovery fast and easy, without requiring a dedicated recovery server. Using a single console, message-level data can be found and retrieved from Exchange backups or Office 365 in minutes.
  • Recovery Manager uses intelligent search capabilities based on sender, recipient, date, attachment type, subject, message keyword or attachment keyword. This information enables IT staff to compare the contents of an online mailbox with a backup mailbox to identify any differences.

Quest’s Unique Email Recovery and Email Discovery Solution Delivers Migration Benefits

  • While competing products perform either email recovery or email discovery, Recovery Manager for Exchange – Discovery Edition facilitates email discovery for legal inquiries or internal investigations and recovers lost or corrupted emails during an Exchange or Office 365 migration, or post-migration. Recovery Manager performs email discovery tasks with the same type of search, and can export data in a variety of formats to ease the ongoing management of post-migration environments.
  • Recovery Manager for Exchange – Discovery Edition supports email discovery across on-premises Exchange and Office 365 environments. This email discovery solution also saves time, as it doesn’t need to be installed and collecting data prior to a legal mandate. Recovery Manager can be utilized once a request for email content is made, and then will search the organization’s email repositories regardless of whether they are in on-premises Exchange or in Office 365.
  • Failure to optimize management of a newly migrated environment is a common pitfall for many organizations. Quest’s Recovery Manager complements the company’s robust portfolio of solutions designed to ensure successful migrations from start to finish, including the ability to provide the highest levels of compliance, availability and security.

Supporting Quotes:

  • Steve Dickson, senior vice president and general manager, Windows Server Management, Quest Software
    “Whether driven by an email discovery mandate or to recover email lost during a migration, Quest has recognized the need for IT organizations to perform recovery and email discovery of email regardless of where it’s located. This understanding is at the heart of Recovery Manager for Exchange – Discovery Edition. This is another testament to Quest’s commitment to providing easy to use, best-in-class solutions.”
  • Michael Osterman, president, Osterman Research, Inc.
    “Email storage is growing by leaps and bounds in organizations of every size. Quest understands the importance not only of recovering email data lost or damaged during a migration project, but also the absolutely essential need to have the capability of pulling data quickly and easily for an e-discovery request. Every company must have a solution that assists with email discovery to satisfy legal obligations in a timely manner. Quest offers a significant cost savings with a solution that does both. “

In Related news, Quest Alleviates Windows 7 Migration Challenges

  • Furthering its overall migration leadership, Quest has announced a unique combination of the Quest® ChangeBASE™ and Asset Manager solutions in its User Workspace Management portfolio to alleviate the challenges of Windows 7 deployments.

Supporting Resources:

About Quest:

Established in 1987, Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT) provides simple and innovative IT management solutions that enable more than 100,000 global customers to save time and money across physical and virtual environments. Quest products solve complex IT challenges ranging from database management, data protection, identity and access management, monitoring, user workspace management to Windows management.

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Veeam Introduces Free Backup for VMware and Hyper-V with “The New FastSCP”

Veeam Introduces Free Backup for VMware and Hyper-V with “The New FastSCP”

In Addition, Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 Now Available with vPower and Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V


Baar, Switzerland, June 4, 2012

Click to Tweet: Veeam introduces free backup for VMware and Hyper-V with “the new FastSCP”

News Facts:

  • Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, introduces the successor to its widely used free FastSCPTM tool: Veeam BackupTM Free Edition. (How did it all begin? Read the blog post about the history of FastSCP at http://vee.am/free.) The new free product, released in conjunction with Veeam Backup & ReplicationTM 6.1, offers ad-hoc backups of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs).
  • The capabilities of Veeam Backup Free Edition address tasks that VM admins deal with every day:
    • VeeamZIP™: Ad-hoc backup of a running VM for operational, archival or portability purposes. For example, admins can now back up a VM before applying patches, create an archive copy of a VM, or copy a VM to a remote test lab—without powering off the production VM.
    • Instant File-Level Recovery: Restore individual guest files directly from an image-level backup.
    • File Manager: Easily manage VM and host files.
    • Quick Migration for VMware: Migrate a running VM to any host or datastore—even if you don’t use clusters or shared storage.
  • Also now available is Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 with new capabilities:
    • vPower® and Instant VM Recovery for Hyper-V: Enables IT to boot and run a VM directly from a compressed, deduped backup file, in a matter of minutes, so business can continue undisrupted during the restore of the VM back into the production environment.
    • SCVMM 2012 Support: Extends support for System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 to System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager. SCVMM support streamlines discovery and ensures protection of VMs managed by SCVMM.
    • Updated UI and Additional Enhancements: Designed based on user requests and Veeam R&D innovation. The updated UI is an evolution, not a complete re-design. Current users will still be able to use all of their existing jobs, settings and the workflow for the wizards has not changed.

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Gabriel van Zanten, Blogger at GabesVirtualWorld.com
"Love the new FastSCP integration and how easy I can transfer a VM to my workstation and import it again. Just press the VeeamZIP button. I can even export files straight from that backup."

Elias Khnaser, CTO at Sigma Solutions
"I have a crush on Veeam Backup & Replication. The free edition is yet another contribution to the virtualization community and instantly is a killer tool for the VMware and Hyper- V administrator."

Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO at Veeam Software
“Veeam FastSCP has been hugely popular since we introduced it in 2006. More than 150,000 Virtualization Lovers use it, and with these new capabilities, Veeam Backup Free Edition offers even more value. We are excited to offer this latest gift to the virtualization community.”


Availability:
Veeam Backup Free Edition is available now at no cost and with no limitations on the number of hosts or VMs. For more information and to download, visit: http://www.veeam.com/free-vm-backup.

Veeam Backup & Replication 6.1 is available now. North American pricing (MSRP) is $1,099 USD per CPU socket for Enterprise Edition and $699 USD for Standard Edition. For more information, or to download a free 30-day trial, visit: http://www.veeam.com/vm-backup-recovery-replication-software.html.

Current Veeam Backup & Replication customers can attend a webinar on Friday, June 15 at 11 a.m. ET to learn more about the new release. Register today: http://go.veeam.com/webinar-backup-vanover-henley-06152012-whats-new-in-6-1.html

Attendees at TechEd 2012, in Orlando June 11-14, can visit Veeam booth 413 for demos and a free USB drive for use with Veeam Backup Free Edition and VeeamZIP.


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About Veeam Software
Veeam® Software develops innovative solutions for VMware backup, Hyper-V backup, and virtualization management. Veeam Backup & Replication™ is the #1 VM Backup solution. Veeam ONE™ is a single solution for real-time monitoring, resource optimization and management reporting for VMware and Hyper-V. The Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) and Smart Plug-in™ (SPI) extend enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Veeam also provides free virtualization tools. Learn more by visiting http://www.veeam.com.


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Retailer gaining trust among Canadian consumers, says IBM study

 

IBM study shows retailers and manufacturers

gaining trust among Canadian consumers

 

Canadians increasingly embracing digital shopping technologies

Toronto, ON – 4 June,  2012: : An IBM study of more than 2,000 Canadian consumers shows in 2011 we placed more trust in the retailers and manufacturers we interact with than ever before. In fact, our trust in retailers and manufacturers has doubled over the past year.

While family and friends still rank highest among trusted influencers, they and all other sources including product experts and customer reviews lost trust to the benefit of retailers and manufacturers, who collectively scored 26 per cent of the “trust ranking” score (12 and 14 per cent respectively) in the 2011 study, up from 13 per cent in 2010 (four per cent and nine per cent respectively).  

 

IBM:  Canadian Consumer Trust Ranking – 2010  vs. 2011

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Description: 53% Family/Friends ,Description: 17% Customer Reviews ,Description: 16% Product Experts ,Description: 12% Retailer ,Description: 4% Retailer ,Description: 14% Manufacturer ,Description: 12% Product Experts ,Description: 15% Consumer Reviews ,Description: 9% Manufacturer ,Description: 48% Family/Friends
 

 

 

 

 

 


The Canadian results were part of IBM’s third global study to examine peoples’ shopping beliefs, attitudes and habits. In the most recent study, more than 28,000 consumers in 15 countries were surveyed, and approximately one million digital conversations were listened to.

 

“The survey shows Canadian retailers are gaining traction as they begin to recognize trust – which is the strongest driver of both advocacy and spend – matters,” says Pinar Cardwell, associate partner in IBM’s retail consulting practice. “The key is retailers must monitor consumer dialogue and sentiment on how well they are faring. Retailers who listen and engage in these dialogues will be best-positioned to build trust and loyalty by addressing consumers’ evolving expectations.”

 

Canadian consumers empowered by digital shopping technologies

 

The survey also showed Canadian consumers are digitally savvy in their shopping habits. Fifty per cent of survey respondents in Canada said they would use mobile devices to check out of a retail location and receive promotions at the point of sale, and 68 per cent said they were not concerned with security when using their mobile device.

 

Thirteen per cent of Canadian consumers are willing to use three or more technologies such as websites, social networks, videos or mobile devices, to shop. Among them, the idea of buying with a TV remote in response to a commercial or product placement in a show is quickly gaining popularity, the survey also revealed.

 

The rapid influx of digital data is posing new challenges for retailers. Customers are sharing experiences widely online, giving them more control and influence over brands, and are looking for a more personalized shopping experience. Increasingly, retailers are responding and using sophisticated analytics to gain insight and adjust marketing messages to address what they are hearing on the wire.

 

"Retailers must now deploy an evolved strategy for redefining the customer experience to deepen the brand relationship and build the trust necessary to create brand advocates who will promote the retailer to others," said Elizabeth Evans, associate dean, Ted Rogers School of Management.

                                                                                                                     

For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/ca/retail

 

For video of IBM’s Pinar Cardwell discussing the Canadian results of the IBM retail report, visit

 

To download a copy of the IBM retail report, visit

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CANADA's BLUEPRINT TACKLES EXCESSIVE RATE OF SOFTWARE PROJECT FAILURES

 
CANADA's BLUEPRINT TACKLES EXCESSIVE RATE OF SOFTWARE PROJECT FAILURES

SOFTWARE PLATFORM DESIGNED TO SHRINK WIDE "COLLABORATION GAP" BETWEEN BUSINESS AND IT.

Toronto, ON - June 4, 2012: Blueprint(TM), the market leading requirements software provider, today unveiled its newest weapon to help companies grapple with software development challenges that leave a third of approved software projects cancelled.  Blueprint's Requirements Definition and Management Platform is designed to reduce the "collaboration gap" between business and IT by providing a unified approach to defining business requirements, then offering a systematic process to manage requirements through to completion. In turn, organizations deliver major revenue-generating business applications faster, with less cost and risk, and with greater end-user adoption.
"Complex software projects in the past spanned months if not years before reaching end users--this is simply not acceptable in a world that is web-enabled, mobile and increasingly social," says David Nyland, President & CEO of Blueprint. "Software remains key to competitiveness. But inadequate collaboration between business strategists and IT teams remains a long-standing and chronic problem that we have proven can be solved by changing the way software is developed."

Nyland says IT is often blamed, but they are left stretched by "reworking" projects in which business requirements weren't properly defined at the outset, causing time and cost overruns. In the past decade two other factors exacerbated the problem--extensive global merger and acquisition activity along with a trend towards outsourcing to reduce costs. So instead of software development scattered between floors or campuses, the collaboration gap can stretch across continents and time zones.

"Over the past decade or so, organizations grew increasingly worried about the problems that took root in bad requirements," writes Tom Grant, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. "That's the change of mindset that has put requirements at the top of the list of priorities and made the people responsible for requirements willing to invest in new practices and tools."1

Blueprint's unified platform closes this gap, enabling a business analyst to work with business and IT to define and translate various business requirements into a systematic process that supports collaboration, validation and enables all parties to model and visualize software as it is developed. Over the past five years, more than 200 customers -- including major Fortune 500 banks, insurance companies, retailers, pharmaceutical companies and government agencies -- have improved collaboration between their business and IT teams using Blueprint's patented requirements visualization and social features. Customer best practices and insights from Blueprint's Global 2000 customer base inform many new features of the platform.

"Blueprint's new platform enables our team to effectively achieve certainty in the requirements elaboration and validation process, which, we believe, will ultimately reduce costly rework and increase the quality of deliverables being handed to our design team," said Kan Zhu, Senior Manager at Teranet. "Blueprint's new collaboration, social interaction, and online review features allow us to visualize outcomes collectively, enabling everyone to efficiently participate in the requirements process without the need for multiple, time-consuming requirements review meetings."

1Blog Post - "Software Requirements Are Where We Define Value", Tom Grant, Forrester Research, Inc. January 4, 2012
About the New Platform Architecture
Blueprint has introduced a new web-centric architecture including an Microsoft Office-like rich internet application accessible through a browser, and a cloud based requirements repository residing either in a customer's own private cloud or in Blueprint's secure 24x7x365 hosted data center.  Blueprint's architecture allows for secure authentication and role-based project access across a diverse range of Blueprint users, including business analysts, IT and business review and approval stakeholders, as well as downstream project management, development, and QA teams.

Key advancements in the new platform include its intuitive Microsoft Office-like user interface, public and private cloud-based access, extended definition and visualization vocabulary, online stakeholder review and approval, and social commenting and discussions.  For more information on Blueprint's new platform please visit: please visit http://www.blueprintsys.com/saveyourprojects/

About Blueprint
Blueprint is the world leader in collaborative requirements definition and management solutions for companies looking to improve the success of critical revenue-generating projects. Blueprint transforms the business-IT relationship into a visual and engaging collaboration, enabling a unified approach that results in on-time, and on-budget applications. Predictable project schedules combined with faster time-to-market is critical to the competitive success of Blueprint's Global 2000 customers.  Headquartered in Toronto, Blueprint has global sales, operations and partner presence.   Visit http://www.blueprintsys.com

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Gartner Says Worldwide Server Shipments Grew 1.5 Percent in the First Quarter of 2012 While Revenue Declined 1.8 Percent

Gartner Says Worldwide Server Shipments Grew 1.5 Percent in the First Quarter of 2012 While Revenue Declined 1.8 Percent

STAMFORD, Conn., May 30, 2012— Worldwide server shipments grew 1.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012, while server revenue declined 1.8 percent year over year, according to Gartner, Inc.

“The first quarter of 2012 produced relatively weak shipment growth on a global level with a variation in results by region,” said Jeffrey Hewitt, research vice president at Gartner. “All regions showed growth in server shipments except Western Europe which posted a decline of 6.4 percent. In terms of revenue, Asia/Pacific, Middle East/Africa, and Western Europe posted declines. These results are not that surprising considering the current variations in regional economic conditions.”

“x86 servers forged ahead and grew 1.7 percent in units in the first quarter of 2012 and 5.6 percent in revenue. RISC/Itanium Unix servers declined 5.7 percent in shipments and dropped 15.2 percent in vendor revenue compared to the same quarter last year. The ‘other’ CPU category, which is primarily mainframes, showed a decline of 16.4 percent in vendor revenue,” Mr. Hewitt said.

From a regional standpoint, Eastern Europe grew the most significantly in shipments with a 16.0 percent increase. Japan posted the highest vendor revenue growth at 10.6 percent for the period. 

IBM had the lead in the worldwide server market based on revenue (see Table 1)--the company posted nearly $3.5 billion in server vendor revenue for a total share of 28.1 percent worldwide for the first quarter of 2012. IBM’s server revenue declined 7.2 percent. Most of IBM’s revenue contribution came from its Power Systems brand with some contribution by System x as well.

Among the top five global server vendors, Fujitsu was the only company to post positive revenue growth (at 4.5 percent).

Table 1
Worldwide: Server Vendor Revenue Estimates, 1Q12 (U.S. Dollars)

Company

1Q12

Revenue

1Q12 Market Share (%)

1Q11

Revenue

1Q11 Market Share (%)

1Q12-1Q11 Growth (%)

IBM

3,490,477,200

28.1

3,761,762,079

29.7

-7.2

HP

3,455,759,513

27.8

3,826,499,364

30.2

-9.7

Dell

1,857,578,951

14.9

1,892,881,243

14.9

-1.9

Oracle

739,825,931

5.9

798,599,723

6.3

-7.4

Fujitsu

618,818,853

5.0

591,959,434

4.7

4.5

Other Vendors

2,275,395,408

18.3

1,798,805,381

14.2

26.5

Total

12,437,855,857

100.0

12,670,507,223

100.0

-1.8

Source: Gartner (May 2012)

In server shipments, HP remained the worldwide leader in the first quarter of 2012 (see Table 2) with relatively flat shipment growth (-0.4 percent). This decline was driven primarily by drops in HP’s ProLiant and Integrity brands. HP’s worldwide server shipment share was 29.2 percent in the first quarter of 2012.

Fujitsu and Cisco were the two vendors among the top five to experience server shipment growth in the first quarter of 2012 (see Table 2).

In terms of server form factors, blade servers fell 1.3 percent in shipments and grew 5.6 percent in revenues for the quarter. The rack-optimized form factor climbed 0.4 percent in shipments and fell 5.3 percent in revenue for the first quarter of 2012.

 Table 2
Worldwide: Server Vendor Shipments Estimates, 1Q12 (Units)

Company

1Q12

Shipments

1Q12 Market Share (%)

1Q11

Shipments

1Q11 Market Share (%)

1Q12-1Q11 Growth (%)

HP

685,015

29.2

687,502

29.7

-0.4

Dell

503,450

21.5

508,650

22.0

-1.0

IBM

267,556

11.4

272,238

11.8

-1.7

Fujitsu

86,360

3.7

76,648

3.3

12.7

Cisco

40,498

1.7

23,690

1.0

70.9

Other Vendors

763,205

32.5

742,970

32.1

2.7

Total

2,346,083

100.0

2,311,698

100.0

1.5

Source: Gartner (May 2012)

Additional information is available to subscribers of Gartner’s Servers Quarterly Statistics Worldwide program. This program provides worldwide market size and share data by vendor revenue and unit shipments. Segments include: region, vendor, vendor brand, sub brand, CPU type, CPU group, Max CPU, platform, price band, operating systems and distribution channels.

Contact:

Christy Pettey
Gartner
+1 408 468 8312
christy.pettey@gartner.com


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