CA Technologies Further Advances SaaS based Service Management With Release of CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7

CA Technologies Further Advances SaaS based Service Management With Release of CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7

Innovative User Experience Empowers Enterprises and MSPs Alike to Boost Productivity and Reduce TCO

ISLANDIA, N.Y., February 19, 2013 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced CA Nimsoft Service Desk 7 (NSD), the latest version of its flagship SaaS service management solution.

CA NSD 7 delivers the full power of IT service management with an intuitive user experience enabling even those who have never used a service management system to request IT services and initiate problem resolution without any training. By leveraging familiar attributes from social media and consumer web sites, CA NSD 7 empowers end-users and IT staff to work together more quickly, easily and reliably than ever.

“Users who have become accustomed to consumer applications that require no learning expect the same from enterprise applications,” said Lokesh Jindal, general manager, Service and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. “With NSD 7, CA Technologies delivers a robust service management SaaS solution while making the end user experience simple and enjoyable.”

As a true multitenant SaaS solution, CA NSD 7 enables organizations of all kinds to achieve their service management objectives without capital investment. The SaaS model also enables MSPs to fulfill their customers’ diverse service requirements at less cost through a shared service desk staffing model.

CA NSD 7 also provides highly configurable ITIL-based “action driven” workflows that accelerate time-to-benefit, reduce ownership costs and make it easy for IT organizations to add and modify workflows as necessary to continuously improve operations.

The integration of CA NSD 7 with CA Nimsoft Monitor further streamlines service management by linking alerts from the IT environment to service tickets and making critical infrastructure data immediately available to service desk staff in context.
 
“We chose CA NSD 7 because it minimizes complexity, ensures faster and more complete user adoption, and reduces our ongoing maintenance and upgrade costs,” said Vijaya Kumar Adusumilli, senior manager, Infotech Enterprises Limited, which provides leading-edge engineering solutions to major organizations worldwide. “All these benefits and more made it substantially superior to our previous solution.”

CA NSD 7 lets customers choose monthly subscriptions based on named- or concurrent-user licensing. The SaaS model also gives customers immediate access to any and all upgraded functionality as soon as it becomes available.  CA NSD 7 is available directly from CA Technologies and from the company’s global partner network.

CA Technologies is also addressing the needs of customers looking to evolve their service management capabilities via traditional on-premise solutions with the latest release of CA Service Catalog. CA Service Catalog 12.8 empowers organizations to manage the delivery of services where, when, and how they are needed. It features a streamlined request and fulfillment UI that elevates the user experience and extends support for portal environments such as Liferay and Microsoft SharePoint.

CA Technologies is demonstrating CA Nimsoft Service Desk and CA Service Catalog this week at Pink 13—the 17th Annual International IT Service Management Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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Microsoft Officially Launches Outlook.com

Microsoft Officially Launches Outlook.com
Feb. 18, 2013
With 60 million active accounts, now fastest growing email service in the world.

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 18, 2013 — Today, Microsoft Corp. announced that its highly popular email service, Outlook.com, is ready for prime time. Since the release of Outlook.com last summer as a preview, millions of people have already actively started using it, making it the world’s fastest growing email service, going from 0 to 60 million in just six months.

A Vision for Modern Email

Email is a critical part of our everyday lives; email plays a crucial role in how we get things done. Outlook.com was designed as an email service focused on removing barriers and simply getting people going. Outlook.com gets people going in four key areas:

  • Delivering a beautiful, fresh and intuitive experience on modern browsers and devices

  • Keeping people connected with their friends and co-workers across the networks they really use

  • Providing a smart and powerful inbox to handle today’s email needs including SkyDrive for sharing virtually anything in a single email

  • Putting people in control by prioritizing their privacy

More Than 60 Million Help Make the Outlook.com Vision Come to Life

Through the preview, Microsoft has heard a great deal about customers’ favorite features, the way they use the product, and how well Outlook.com is delivering on the company’s vision for modern email. For example, Outlook.com lets customers connect to popular social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Today, millions of people are using those features to keep up to date with friends’ contact info updates, photos and tweets. Outlook.com is also designed to make it easy to send hundreds of photos and videos in a single message — all powered by SkyDrive. After only six months, nearly half of all people using Outlook.com have already used SkyDrive to share more than half a billion photos and Office documents.

A Great Upgrade for Hotmail Customers

Starting today, Microsoft will begin to upgrade every Hotmail user to Outlook.com. The upgrade is seamless and instant for Hotmail customers; everything including their @hotmail.com email address, password, contacts, etc., will stay the same. Now Hotmail customers will get all the benefits from the redesigned Outlook.com experience: a fresh and intuitive user interface, lots of new features, and better performance.

Get Started Today

Those who would like to get the new benefits of the Outlook.com experience can check it out today at Outlook.com.

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




































































HP Extends Converged Infrastructure Leadership

Press Release: February 19, 2013

HP Extends Converged Infrastructure Leadership

New offerings extend HP’s commitment to open, heterogeneous and efficient solutions

LAS VEGAS — HP today announced new innovations that strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio.

At its yearly Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, HP unveiled a new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged Storage and HP Networking solutions, as well as HP Services that accelerate return on IT investment and enable customers to refocus resources from operations to innovation.

Significant shifts in the IT industry, including cloud, big data, social media and mobility, have added new challenges for chief information officers (CIOs) in meeting customer, partner and employee expectations while aligning IT and enterprise goals with limited funding.

The HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio addresses these growing challenges and leads the industry in deploying and managing large-scale infrastructures. HP has delivered more than 8 million virtual connect ports, issued more than 7 million HP Insight Management licenses, shipped more than 40 petabytes of bladed storage and 50 million switch ports, and grown to nearly 900 HP CloudSystem customers.(1) In addition, HP has led the industry in blade server revenue and shipments for 24 consecutive quarters.(2)

Only HP Converged Infrastructure offers customers:

  • An open, standards-based, heterogeneous approach that integrates servers, storage, networking and management software.
  • Proven experience of implementing Converged Infrastructure solutions for customers around the world—as well as close collaboration with 4,500 HP AllianceOne members and partners who develop complete solutions built on HP Converged Infrastructure.
  • Comprehensive consulting and support services by HP and certified partners that simplify IT management, improve return on investment (ROI) by optimizing IT investments, and ensure a high-quality customer experience.

“HP pioneered the concept of a converged infrastructure, and we were the first to deliver it,” said David Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group, HP. “But we’re not resting on our achievements, we continue to innovate and extend the HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio to deliver the benefits that our business and government customers expect from us.”

New HP BladeSystem delivers breakthrough data center economics

Virtualization offers significant benefits to organizations. According to Gartner, in 2016, 82 percent of server workloads will be running in virtual environments,(3) which could increase management complexity and operational costs.

The new HP BladeSystem c7000 Platinum enclosure, a key solution within the industry-leading HP ProLiant portfolio, dramatically improves performance, efficiency and availability of resources in virtualized and cloud environments. As a result, organizations can save up to 68 percent in data center operating costs.(4) These groundbreaking data center economics are delivered through next-generation technologies that provide long-term investment protection and can scale to support growth.

The HP BladeSystem c7000 Platinum enclosure with the new SX1018 HP Ethernet switch, which provides the lowest port-to-port latency of any blade switch, is more than four times faster than previous switches.(5,6) HP also is the first in the industry to provide 40GB downlinks to each blade server for near-real time performance. This provides the ideal network interface for high-performance clusters or financial services applications.

HP also introduced the new HP ProLiant WS460c Generation 8 (Gen8) Server Blade, the only bladed infrastructure that supports virtualized client solutions with high-density 3-D graphics and eight GPUs per blade server. Supporting four times more users per host blade, the HP WS460c lowers costs by up to 60 percent per user compared to previous generations, to mobilize an entire workforce.(7,8)

HP innovations accelerate move to modern storage architecture

Unpredictable data growth and workload performance demands are forcing customers to upgrade legacy storage architectures. This transition—from legacy to modern, scale-out storage architectures—represents a multibillion dollar opportunity for channel partners.

HP StoreVirtual Storage offers pioneering software-defined storage that is delivered either as virtual storage appliance (VSA) software or as a converged storage appliance (CSA) on HP ProLiant hardware. HP has been shipping VSAs for more than seven years and has distributed more than 150,000 VSAs worldwide.

To capitalize on and accelerate the adoption of software-defined storage, HP announced two new HP StoreVirtual Storage systems, based on HP ProLiant Gen8 technologies. Improving both productivity and efficiency for businesses deploying virtualization, HP StoreVirtual Storage systems deliver nearly double the performance and capacity density compared to previous models.

In addition, the new HP StoreSystem, a channel-only midrange storage solution, combines HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup systems that are preracked for rapid deployment. Offering primary block-and-file storage with information protection in a single system, HP StoreSystem now includes all HP 3PAR platform and VMware software suites to maximize customer efficiency and agility.

HP Technology Services simplify, integrate, automate a Converged Infrastructure

With HP Technology Services, customers can simplify, integrate and automate their IT environments to rapidly respond to organizational change and accelerate time to revenue.

HP Technology Services is now offering the HP Proactive Insight experience, which enables customers to take proactive actions as well as automate and manage tasks, resulting in problem prevention and productivity gains averaging $32,000 per 100 users.(9)

The HP Proactive Insight experience begins with HP Proactive Care, which provides proactive problem avoidance and direct access to advanced technical expertise. This service is powered by innovative support and management technologies, including HP Insight Online, the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-based management portal; and HP Insight Remote Support, which remotely monitors servers, storage and networks. With the HP Proactive Insight experience, customers can increase user productivity and achieve a return on their services investment in 30 days or less.(9)

HP innovations deliver the industry’s only complete BYOD networking solution

By 2016, two-thirds of the workforce will own smartphones, and 40 percent of the workforce will be mobile.(10) Yet, today’s legacy infrastructure requires two separate networks to support wired and wireless connectivity, resulting in operational complexity and security challenges.

HP also launched the industry’s only complete solution that supports growing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives. This solution delivers unified wired and wireless management as well as switching platforms that create a single network for wired and wireless connectivity.

HP networking innovations also include device on-boarding and provisioning functionalities through a single management application, automated security with software-defined networks (SDN) technology, and mobility connectivity services that further extend the customer benefits of the HP FlexNetwork architecture.

To double network scalability over legacy infrastructure, the new OpenFlow-enabled HP 2920 Switch Series speeds data transfer by up to 45 percent, while increasing performance by up to 100 percent.(11) In addition, the new HP 830 Unified/WLAN Switch eliminates the need to purchase up to 50 percent of traditional network access devices, including separate switches and controllers, while supporting up to 1,000 wireless devices.(12)

To help customers create an optimized, scalable wired and wireless infrastructure, HP is offering HP FlexNetwork Design and Validation and HP Wireless LAN Lifecycle Services. These services provide validated and interoperable high-level designs and device configurations based on proven HP FlexNetwork reference architectures.

HP’s premier America’s client event, HP Discover, takes place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.



























































Press Release: TERMINALFOUR wins 10th Canadian university client

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TERMINALFOUR wins 10th Canadian university client


- Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland
is the latest success
- This marks TERMINALFOUR's 120th university client worldwide
- "A WCMS built for higher education by higher education", Piero
Tintori, TERMINALFOUR
- "TERMINALFOUR has vast experience in the higher education sector
around the world and its presentation and functionality were well ahead
of anything else we saw," Trevor Pike, Fisheries and Marine Institute

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 19th February, 2013: TERMINALFOUR, a leading
web content management company, today announced that it has secured its
tenth Canadian university client, completing a deal with the Fisheries
and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland. This marks
the 120th university client for TERMINALFOUR worldwide.

Canada has become a high growth market for TERMINALFOUR and higher
education in particular has witnessed significant recent success with
St. Mary's University (Nova Scotia), University of Fraser Valley
(British Columbia) and Algoma University (Ontario) all joining the
TERMINALFOUR community.

TERMINALFOUR is en route to become the vendor of choice for the Canadian
university market, mirroring its success in Ireland and the UK where it
is the number one provider of web content management solutions to higher
education. TERMINALFOUR now has 44 of the top 100 UK universities as
clients.

Piero Tintori, CEO, TERMINALFOUR, explained, "We're witnessing the
Canadian higher education sector investing heavily in web transformation
projects and this has created huge opportunities for TERMINALFOUR.
There's a real appetite for modern and progressive technologies, sector
specific expertise and proven project success from an international
perspective.

"We've been providing web content management solutions to the global
higher education sector for more than a decade and this experience and
insight is really helping us to gain traction in Canada. Our product
roadmap has always been driven by our clients resulting in a WMCS built
for higher education by higher education," he continued.

The Fisheries and Marine Institute sought a Web Content Management
Solution (WCMS) to enable it to manage its entire online world, and
delivers a modern website that is responsive, interactive and 'student
and client centric'. With personalized content delivering a targeted
homepage to individual visitors and the ability to provide more
comprehensive and live content, the website has become a central
communication, recruitment and engagement resource for the institute.

TERMINALFOUR's flagship WCMS - TERMINALFOUR Site Manager - is an
out-of-the-box solution custom built with higher education modules and
features including course catalog and calendar. Its open platform and
integration capabilities allow the institute to access, multipurpose and
reuse content through its other systems e.g. student management systems.
This allows the institute to leverage and maximize its entire content
repository, in a timely and up-to-date fashion.

A key decision in the selection of TERMINALFOUR is the ability to easily
integrate mobile websites. The institute can now publish content to
multiple platforms including iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows
devices, ensuring its many students and stakeholders can access all of
the websites content no matter how they choose to view it.

Trevor Pike, manager, information and communications technologies,
Fisheries and Marine Institute commented, "TERMINALFOUR has vast
experience in the higher education sector around the world and its
presentation and functionality were well ahead of anything else we saw.
We also feel secure for the future with TERMINALFOUR's Site Manager as
we are getting a product that is very current and a company that is
keeping pace with all new developments."


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Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland
Headquarters in St. John's, Newfoundland, the Fisheries and Marine
Institute (MI) of Memorial University of Newfoundland is Canada's most
comprehensive institute dedicated to education, training, applied
research and industrial support for the oceans industries. As part of
Memorial University of Newfoundland, the Marine Institute offers a range
of Master Degree, Advanced Diploma, Post-Graduate Certificate, Bachelor
Degree, Diploma of Technology, and Technical Certificate programs,
together with a variety of industry-oriented short courses.


About TERMINALFOUR:
TERMINALFOUR is one of the fastest growing web content management
companies in the world. Our flagship Web Content Management Systems
(WCMS) - TERMINALFOUR Site Manager - is a WCMS specifically built for
Higher Education. Our software enables organizations to improve the
creation, flow and delivery of accessible information through various
channels including Web sites, mobile, personalized student/staff
portals, intranets, extranets and emerging media. The software provides
you with a large number of modules specifically built for Higher
Education, including course catalog and prospectus publishing but also
integration points with solutions such as Blackboard, Ellucian, Oracle,
Angel and Datatel. We have a strong presence within the Higher Education
sector powering thousands of individual Higher Education websites and
empowering more than 10,000 HE users to manage their website content.
www.terminalfour.com

Media Contacts:

Niamh O'Sullivan (For TERMINALFOUR)
Comit Communications & Marketing
t: +353 (0) 1 215 7675
m: + 353 (0) 85 7667 193
e: nosullivan@comitmarketing.com

Or

Kimberley Thornhill (For Fisheries and Marine Institute)
Manager, Marketing and Communications
Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland
t: 709-778-0544
f: 709-778-0672

Cisco Opens Up New Business Opportunities for Service Providers With Major Mobile Internet Innovations

Cisco Opens Up New Business Opportunities for Service Providers With Major Mobile Internet Innovations

New Cisco Software Suite, Small Cell Innovations, and Network Infrastructure Help Service Providers to Monetize Data in Motion, Benefit From 'Internet of Everything'

SAN JOSE, CA--(Feb 19, 2013) - With the mobile Internet predicted to grow 13-fold between 2012 and 2017 with the addition of billions of connections between people, devices and objects, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today introduced a range of major innovations to enable service providers to more effectively monetize those connections. The new Cisco technologies enable service providers to deliver new, better and more personalized connected experiences and to gain more intelligence about those networked connections that they can utilize to deliver new revenue-generating services.

Many of the new business opportunities presented by the growing connectivity of people, data, processes, information and devices (the 'Internet of Everything') center on analyzing and monetizing "data in motion." Data in motion consists of real-time and near real-time data generated by mobile and fixed connections between people, things and processes. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, by 2017 there will be more than 10 billion mobile-ready devices/connections -- including 8.6 billion personal mobile devices and 1.7 billion machine-to-machine connections

To help ensure service providers accommodate exploding network traffic and profit from it, Cisco is aggressively delivering innovative mobile solutions in three key areas: software, access and infrastructure.

Intelligent Software via Cisco Quantum

To better enable service providers to analyze and monetize the data in motion in their networks, Cisco is today introducing the Cisco® Quantum™. The result of the integration of more than $1.5 billion in recent acquisitions with in-house innovation, Cisco Quantum delivers unparalleled mobile network intelligence to service providers and enables greater network programmability, a key building block for the delivering of new network services. The suite includes:

- Cisco Quantum Network Abstraction Suite: provides a real-time network abstraction layer for network data collection, aggregation and orchestration to augment available information in all network decision processes.

- Cisco Quantum Policy Suite: offers a next-generation policy management solution that enables service providers to scale, control, monetize and personalize any service on any type of network through a flexible, interactive architecture that supports application-centric policy capabilities.

- Cisco Quantum Analytics Suite: provides business and network analytics capabilities that enable both historical and real-time predictive policy decisions. It includes dashboards for data visualization and programmable interfaces to create system alerts in conjunction with policy.

- Cisco Quantum Wide Area Network (WAN) Orchestration Suite: provides network management tools to simplify capacity and traffic management, increase network efficiency, and reduce operational costs for service providers, particularly in IP/MPLS (Internet Protocol/Multiprotocol Label Switching) environments.

Global service providers, including Vodafone Netherlands, are recognizing the importance of using an intelligent network to deliver new experiences and expand revenue opportunities.

Intelligent Access

To provide improved coverage and capacity to the mobile network architecture, Cisco is also transforming small cells into a platform for business and service innovation, with new small-cell licensed radio technology. Cisco's market leadership in the small-cell market sets the stage for success in the licensed radio market. Innovations include:

- Cisco 3G Small Cell Module for Cisco Aironet® Access Points is Wi-Fi compatible and integrates licensed and unlicensed small cells with a plug-in 3G radio for ease of deployment.

- Cisco 3G Small Cell expands Cisco's proven solution for enterprises with an unsurpassed channel to market for premises-based deployments.

- Cisco ASR 901S is designed to enable wide-scale deployment of outdoor small cells by extending carrier-class small-cell routing to the outdoor installation pole to break the backhaul bottleneck.

Softbank, a Japanese telecommunications and Internet services providers; WiLine Networks, a provider of fast, flexible, affordable broadband solutions; and Telkom, a wireline and wireless telecommunications provider in South Africa, have joined more than 100 global service providers selecting Cisco as their infrastructure partner for wireless carrier backhaul and licensed data backhaul services.

"Softbank's customers have come to expect instantly available mobile broadband wherever they happen to be, on whichever device they happen to choose," said Keiichi Makizono, Corporate Officer, Deputy Unit Head, Technology Unit, and Division Head, Network Division, SoftBank Mobile Corp. "We use Cisco today for backhaul, including the Cisco ASR 903 for Internet Protocol radio access network. The new Cisco small-cell backhaul technology will potentially help enable us to expand our service portfolio so that we can provide customers with anytime, anywhere access on any network."

"With the accelerated growth of mobile networks, speed and flexibility are hallmarks of successful next-generation backhaul providers," said John McGuire, CEO, WiLine Networks. "WiLine Networks chose Cisco and the Cisco ASR 901 Series, which provides unequaled flexibility to both address immediate demands and the expected growth of backhaul driven by the advance of small cells. Our relationship with Cisco is a win for our customers, speeding time to deploy Ethernet services with best-in-class network solutions."

"With the rapid growth in the number and sophistication of mobile devices, mobile networks are challenged to provide adequate capacity and performance," said Zoltan Miklos, executive, Telkom South Africa. "Telkom South Africa prides itself on delivering the highest quality and reliability to our customers. With that in mind that we are implementing the Cisco ASR 900 Series of routers for cellular backhaul and mobile aggregation requirements today, and look forward to utilizing the next generation in small cell backhaul."

Intelligent Infrastructure

To provide the ability to handle the many connections required in the Internet of Everything, Cisco's market-leading Cisco ASR 5000 Series evolved packet core sits at the heart of the market transition to 4G technology. With more than 210 deployments by global service providers, the Cisco ASR 5000 Series provides the elasticity necessary to meet the dynamic and ever-evolving demands of the mobile Internet.

Additional Supporting Quotes


Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider Mobility Group, Cisco

"Data in motion presents a major monetization opportunity for service providers. As this data traverses access, core and cloud networks, the close orchestration between intelligent infrastructure and software enables our customers to optimize network resources through granular visibility at all levels. Cisco is unique in offering architectural solutions that capitalize on data in motion, and we are aggressively pursuing all aspects of our mobile strategy to be service providers' vendor of choice as they work to take advantage of the immense opportunities for their consumers and their business in the Internet of Everything."

Supporting Videos

Softbank Upgrades its Mobile Backhaul Network with Cisco - 

"Cisco Mobile Internet Innovations 2013: Executive Roundtable" - Murali Nemani, Shailesh Shukla, Partho Mishra -

"Cisco Mobile Internet Innovations 2013" - Kelly Ahuja -

Supporting Resources

- Softbank http://mb.softbank.jp/en/

- WiLine Networks http://www.wiline.com/

- Telkom South Africa http://www.telkom.co.za/

- Vodafone Netherlands http://www.vodafone.nl/english/mobile_communication_in_the_netherlands/

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

- Vodafone Netherlands Deploys Cisco Quantum Software-Based Networking Solutions to Control and Manage Enterprise Broadband Services http://newsroom.cisco.com/release/1142051

- The Road to Cloud Nine: How Service Providers Can Monetize the Mobile Cloud http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac79/docs/sp/Mobile-Cloud.pdf

- Information on Cisco Service Provider Mobile Internet solutions and services http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns973/networking_solutions_market_segment_solution.html

- Cisco Visual Networking Index Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update (2012-2017) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.html

- Cisco: Changing the world around us with Mobile internet Innovations

-  For more information about Cisco's service provider news and activities visit the SP360 Blog http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/ or follow us on Twitter @CiscoSPMobility https://twitter.com/ciscospmobility

- Cisco SP SlideShare presentations http://www.slideshare.net/CiscoSP360

- Cisco Service Provider Mobility Community https://communities.cisco.com/community/solutions/sp/mobility

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

Tags/Keywords

Cisco, Cisco Quantum, Quantum, Softbank, WiLine Networks, Telkom South Africa, Vodafone Netherlands, mobility, mobile Internet, software-defined networking and SDN, cloud computing, data center, unified computing system, UCS, routing, switching, ASR, ASR 5000, ASR 901S, video, Visual Networking Index, VNI, software, hardware, service providers, mobile operators, access, coverage, capacity, spectrum offload, small cells, 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi, SON, self-optimizing network, self-organizing networks, policy, analytics, data, licensed, unlicensed, converged, data in motion

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Toronto-based Neighbourhood Buzz and Vertica Resident Services Launch Mobile Websites

Neighbourhood Buzz and Vertica Resident Services Launch Mobile Websites

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 15, 2013) - In response to the rapid rise of mobile usage in Canada, Neighbourhood Buzz has launched an industry-leading mobile website product that features GPS technology for apartment hunters. Vertica Resident Services has partnered with Neighbourhood Buzz to launch this white labeled, mobile-optimized site for their national residential apartment portfolio. Now, when a prospect visits Vertica's corporate website or any of their other individual property specific websites, from any mobile device, they will instantly be redirected to the mobile site. The mobile experience for the websites strives to replicate the user experience from a computer with the goal being to further enhance an apartment hunter's search on the go.

"Mobile usage already accounts for 11% of our website traffic, and we only expect it to rise in the future." said Laura Holland, Vice President of Vertica Resident Services. "The user experience has always been important to us for any marketing initiatives we undertake. Now with our mobile optimized websites, prospects on the go will be able to quickly find the perfect Vertica apartment home closest to them and easily contact our leasing consultants."

The mobile websites employ user location data to map out a property management company's nearby apartments, as well as generating a route from the user's current location to the apartment building. Other features include mobile-optimized design, 'One-click' call and email functionality, local amenities mapping, standard rental rates, easy browsing and downloading of suite pictures, floorplans and application details.

"Today's renters rely heavily on the internet to do research before walking into a building. They form opinions before you've even talked to them. It's kind of scary," says Steve Ballantyne, Co-founder of Neighbourhood Buzz. "We are giving the growing number of mobile users a premier first impression of Vertica buildings. A simple user experience will have people across mobile platforms calling, emailing, and visiting Vertica's buildings quickly and easily."

Experience this fresh take on mobile for apartments. Go to http://m.vertica.ca on any phone today.

About Vertica Resident Services

Vertica Resident Services is a multi-residential property management company that manages apartments for rent across Canada. Vertica's philosophy is to ensure "Living made easy" for residents by providing superior satisfaction and value to residents.

About Neighbourhood Buzz

Founded in 2010, Neighbourhood Buzz, Inc. provides industry-leading digital marketing services to Canada's largest & most progressive property management companies. Based in Toronto, Neighbourhood Buzz is committed to helping clients build online marketing assets using mobile, social & content marketing systems improving lead generation & resident retention. For more information visit:www.neighbourhoodbuzz.com.

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State of Texas to Improve Communication and Collaboration by Adopting Office 365 for More Than 100,000 State Employees

State of Texas to Improve Communication and Collaboration by Adopting Office 365 for More Than 100,000 State Employees
Feb. 15, 2013
Cloud-based productivity service to help state meet CJIS security and HIPAA privacy requirements.

REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 15, 2013 — The Texas Department of Information Resources is moving to the cloud with Microsoft Office 365 as part of a statewide IT modernization strategy. Office 365, an always-up-to-date cloud productivity service, will streamline and improve the state’s communication and collaboration capabilities for more than 100,000 employees, making it the largest statewide deployment of email and collaboration services in the U.S. Office 365 has already been deployed across multiple state agencies, including the Health and Human Services System, Department of Transportation, Department of Motor Vehicles, Department of Information Resources, and Department of Insurance, with the Department of Criminal Justice and Alcoholic Beverage Commission coming on board soon. The move to Office 365 offers the state significant savings in IT spending because of greater efficiencies and increased capacity.

“No other solution provides the rich capabilities of Office 365, including webconferencing, real-time collaboration, and document and calendar sharing,” said Todd Kimbriel, director of E-Government for the Texas Department of Information Resources. “Office 365 will increase efficiency and help our agencies better serve the needs of citizens without compromising on security or privacy.”

Compliance was an important factor in the state’s selection of Office 365. Several agencies, including Texas’ Department of Criminal Justice, Alcoholic Beverage Commission, Department of Insurance, and Health and Human Services System, require access to data that is subject to complex security and privacy regulations.

Texas Department of Information Resources and Microsoft Corp. worked together to support the state’s requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS), in order to maintain the state’s compliance posture and high standards for security and privacy. Microsoft has made a contractual commitment to the Texas Department of Information Resources by signing the CJIS Addendum in addition to a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement. As a result of this partnership, jurisdictions at all levels within the State of Texas, including cities and counties, will be able to take advantage of Office 365.

“Microsoft has been a long-standing strategic partner with a commitment to understanding and addressing the unique requirements law enforcement and health care practitioners must meet,” said Karen Robinson, Department of Information Resources executive director and State of Texas chief information officer. “The enterprise-class capabilities of Office 365 and Microsoft’s proven track record gave us the confidence we needed to move to the cloud.”

“We’ve worked hard to provide security and privacy solutions the State of Texas can trust,” said Michael Donlan, vice president for Microsoft’s State and Local Government business. “The familiarity of Office backed by deep investments in cloud security, privacy and compliance play an important role in how Microsoft is enabling city, state and federal agencies to move to the cloud.”

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HP Helps Clients Transform Finance and Accounting Processes with New BPO Solution

Press Release: 02/14/2013

HP Helps Clients Transform Finance and Accounting Processes with New BPO Solution

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP Enterprise Services today announced a new business process outsourcing (BPO) solution, HP AutoFlow, that enables clients to automate core business processes, including finance and accounting, to enhance operational agility.

As business functions become more complex, organizations struggle to maximize efficiencies while maintaining quality and process transparency. At the same time, these complexities often prompt organizations to perform inefficient, time-consuming manual workarounds when responding to and solving issues. Yet, while enterprises are constantly looking for ways to cut costs, they are also aiming to increase the return on investment (ROI) of their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.  

HP AutoFlow integrates with any ERP platform and is designed to provide a scalable, unified solution that automates and streamlines finance and accounting processes. Utilizing a leveraged, private cloud infrastructure, the solution offers out-of-the-box functionality. HP AutoFlow can be rapidly deployed to support client efforts to:

  • Reduce the need for manual intervention and shift valuable resources to more strategic projects by increasing automation through improved integration with ERPs and legacy systems.
  • Support enablement of e-invoicing to achieve better invoice accuracy and improve on-time payment performance.
  • Drive process transformation via process-modeling capabilities.
  • Realize improved cost and additional savings by accelerating processing time for accounts payable, thereby increasing opportunities for early payment discounts.

“Today’s chief financial officers are plagued with diminishing resources and the growing complexity of processes and technology,” said Danila Meirlaen, vice president, Business Process Outsourcing, HP Enterprise Services. “HP AutoFlow builds on our strong history in finance, administration and technology to increase process automation and optimize cost structures, so clients can focus on revenue-generating activities.”

HP AutoFlow combines HP’s deep BPO experience with the Omniflow workflow solution from leading business process management and enterprise content management provider Newgen Software Technologies. Hosted in a leveraged cloud environment, HP AutoFlow fully integrates with HP Document Processing Services and the HP invoice automation program to enable electronic receipt, document scanning, data capture and document repository services while allowing easy integration into clients’ back office systems.

In addition to finance and administration, HP AutoFlow can be used in other business processes such as human resources, procurement, supply chain, master data management, dispute management and financial services.

Pricing and availability

HP AutoFlow is available immediately worldwide; pricing varies according to client needs and environment.

HP’s premier Americas client event, HP Discover, takes place June 11-13 in Las Vegas.


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Trend Micro Reports Results for Q4 and Fiscal Year 2012

Trend Micro Reports Results for Q4 and Fiscal Year 2012

TOKYO, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TSE: 4704; TYO 4704), the global leader in cloud security and virtualization, announced earnings results for the fourth quarter and consolidated revenue for fiscal year 2012, ending December 31, 2012.

For the fourth quarter, Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of 24,313 million Yen (or US $ 298 million81.33 JPY = 1USD). The company posted operating income of 5,795 million Yen (or US $ 71 million) and net income of 2,680 million Yen (or US $ 32 million) for the quarter.

For 2012, Trend Micro posted consolidated net sales of 93,839 million Yen (or US $ 1,174 million79.89 JPY=1USD). The company also reported operating income of 22,407 million Yen (or US $ 280 million) and net income of 13,447 million Yen (or US $ 168 million).

Based on information currently available to the company, consolidated net sales for the first quarter ending March 31, 2013 is expected to be 24,700 million Yen (or US $ 274 million, based on an exchange rate of 90 JPY = 1USD). Operating income and net income are expected to be 5,600 million Yen (or US $ 62 million) and 3,400 million Yen (or US $ 37 million), respectively.

Growth rate figures are calculated from Japanese Yen results. Some discrepancy may therefore be noted in US Dollar comparisons owing to fluctuations in currency conversion rates.

"Today, in the face of various targeted, stealthy, sophisticated attacks, Trend Micro is courageous and honest enough to tell the world that, 'outbreak life cycle management' is not enough anymore,'" said Eva Chen , CEO. "We announced that 'Custom attacks need a custom defense,' a new way of thinking and a new process that customers need to implement to protect their digital assets and company's reputation against targeted attacks."

Q4 2012 Business Highlights

In October, Trend Micro unveiled "Custom Defense" – the industry's first advanced threat protection solution that enables businesses and government agencies not only to detect and analyze advanced persistent threats (APTs) and targeted attacks, but also to rapidly adapt their protection and respond to these attacks. Trend Micro also enhanced its email security products for better threat detection capability and superior custom defenses to detect zero-day attacks that aggressively pursue and compromise specific targets. 

Trend Micro announced that global customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) are able to take advantage of highly optimized security solutions from Trend Micro for their AWS deployments, including AWS Storage Gateway.  Trend Micro security solutions shield AWS cloud-based applications from threats, meet strict compliance regulations, and protect the privacy of customer data stored in the cloud – all in a way that is easy to deploy and manage.

Trend Micro introduced its Online Security Assessment Tools for Cloud, Cyber & Mobile Security, which provide customers with an assessment of their current business' security posture with respect to cloud adoption, consumerization and targeted attacks. These cost-free security assessment tools are designed to be used to help plan and deploy security measures needed to manage mobile devices, secure the journey to cloud computing and defend against targeted cyber-attacks.

Trend Micro announced three new apps for Windows 8 available through the Windows Store, that offer consumers added protection of their digital lives on Windows 8 devices at home or on the go.  The three apps include: Trend Micro SafeGuard, a tablet- optimized web browser with built-in security technology for use with Windows 8; Trend Micro Go Everywhere app, a simple-to-use solution that will help protect Windows 8 tablet PCs from loss or theft; and Trend Micro DirectPass, which helps make saving passwords online easy by encrypting saved passwords and helping provide an extra layer of security for banking and financial transactions.

Trend Micro integrated security management products with ConnectWise for increased reporting, billing, and service ticket automation. 

Trend Micro Deep Security 8.0 achieved Oracle Solaris Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), demonstrating that Trend Micro has fully tested and supports Deep Security 8.0 on Oracle Solaris 11.  Trend Micro also achieved Gold Partner status in OPN, recognizing Trend Micro for its commitment to establish Oracle-related knowledge in delivering security management.

Trend Micro added a new PartnerPlus Portal to facilitate Channel partners' journey to the cloud. The new PartnerPlus Portal is designed specifically to support Trend Micro partners growing their security practice.  The portal serves as the central hub for sales tools, training, certification, on-demand marketing, announcements, promotions, webinars, and much more.

Trend Micro announced mobile security services with Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan's largest telecom service company. Together they announced two cloud computing services, Mobile Device Management (MDM) for SME and Trend Micro Mobile Security (TMMS) for personal mobile security.

Awards and Recognition for Q4 2012

Corporate

Eva Chen , CEO, was named one of CRN's Top 100 Executives in the "Innovators" category in the IT Channel for 2012.  This annual list salutes the most influential and innovative channel executives in North AmericaEva Chen was recognized as one of the top 25 innovators who are bringing new, game-changing technology to the market and driving sales/profits in emerging technologies.

Trend Micro was recognized with Eloqua's 2012 Markie Award in the "Connecting in the Eloqua AppCloud" category. Eloqua's Markie awards set out to honor the world's best modern marketers, demonstrating right brain creativity meeting left brain analytics. Winners must prove how their marketing activities produce successful results and revenue growth for their companies.

Products and Innovation

Trend Micro SecureCloud was Virtualization Review Readers Choice Award Winner and Trend Micro Deep Security was Preferred Product Award Winner.

Trend Micro Titanium 2013 Internet Security received a favorable review in CNET where the reviewer comments, "Now into its third year, Titanium's updated detection system has proven itself handily. Independent efficacy tests indicate that Titanium 2013's initial performance has been stellar, following reasonably strong scores for Titanium 2012. That combined with zippy scan speeds and a very light system impact means that Titanium is one of the best security suites for 2013."

V3 awarded Technology Awards 2012 to Trend Micro SecureCloud, for best cloud security product.

CRN listed Trend Micro as one of the 2012 Best Companies to Partner With.

Patents

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Trend Micro was awarded the following patents in Q4 2012:


Patent 8286253

Data Leakage Prevention for Resource Limited Device



Patent 8291024

Statistical Spamming Behavior Analysis on Mail Clusters



Patent 8289981

Apparatus and Method for High Performance Network Content Processing



Patent 8291498

Automatic registration of a virus/worm monitor in a distributed network



Patent 8307432

Generic Shellcode Detection



Patent 8312270

DHCP-Based Security Policy Enforcement System



Patent 8316440

System of detecting change of name-to-IP resolution



Patent 8321910

Determining the Source of Malware



Patent 8321661

Input Data Security Processing Systems and Methods Therefor



Patent 8321434

Two-Tier Architecture of Named Entity Recognition Engine



Patent 8321937

Methods and System for Determining Performance of Filters in a Computer Intrusion Prevention Detection System



Patent 8321669

Electronic Data Communication System



Patent 8327446

Antivirus Stand-alone Network or Internet Appliance and Methods Therefor



Patent 8327431

Managing Configurations of a Firewall



Patent 8332941

Exploit Nonspecific Host Intrusion Prevention/Detection Methods And Systems And Smart Filters Therefor

Notice Regarding Forward-looking Statements

Certain statements that we make in this release are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon management's current assumptions and beliefs in light of the information currently available to it, but involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Many important factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed in our forward-looking statements. These factors include:

  • Difficulties in addressing new virus and other computer security problems
  • Timing of new product introductions and lack of market acceptance for our new products
  • The level of continuing demand for, and timing of sales of, our existing products
  • Rapid technological change within the antivirus software industry
  • Changes in customer needs for antivirus software
  • Existing products and new product introductions by our competitors and the pricing of those products
  • Declining prices for products and services
  • The effect of future acquisitions on our financial condition and results of operations
  • The effect of adverse economic trends on our principal markets
  • The effect of foreign exchange fluctuations on our results of operations
  • An increase in the incidence of product returns
  • The potential lack of attractive investment targets and
  • Difficulties in successfully executing our investment strategy

About Trend Micro:

Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704;TSE: 4704), the global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers.  A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physicalvirtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro Smart Protection Networkcloud computing security infrastructure, our products and services stop threats where they emerge – from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe. 

Additional information about Trend Micro Incorporated and the products and services are available at Trend Micro.com. This Trend Micro news release and other announcements are available athttp://newsroom.trendmicro.com/. Or follow our news on Twitter at @TrendMicro.

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Tech Data Canada Achieves Build and Configure to Order Certification for Cisco UCS C-Series

Tech Data Achieves Build and Configure to Order Certification for Cisco UCS C-Series

    BusinessWire · Feb. 14, 2013 

Tech Data Canada, a leading distributor of IT products, logistics management and other value added services, today announced it has achieved high level certification for build-to-order and configure-to-order Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) C-Series rack servers, in addition to the services offered around increased system engineering support, forecasting and stocking capabilities, and customizable enablement programs.

“This level of authorization will enable us to significantly reduce the prerequisite lead time and increase our reseller partners’ competitive advantage to win deals,” said Greg Myers, Vice President, Marketing at Tech Data Canada. A typical C-Series configuration would take 21 days but Tech Data is able to reduce turnaround time to 72 hours or less.

Resellers can benefit from Tech Data’s reduced lead time, data centre certification and authorization enablement, as well as enhanced system engineering support.

"Partners can now take advantage of Tech Data's ISO 9001:2008 integration centre to provide fully configured Cisco rack mount server technology. Partners can choose to have a complete solution delivered to them or to their customer, at a fraction of the cost and in 85% less time,” said Todd Madgett, Director, Distribution Sales for Cisco Canada.

The addition of the Cisco UCS C-Series Authorized Configurator certification to Tech Data’s existing capabilities provides Tech Data with the ability to add additional components to pre-configured C-Series bundles or build C-Series servers up from the bare chassis.

“We are now able to offer the complete Cisco solution to meet the end-customers’ unique requirements. This provides more choice for resellers in how they deliver unified data centre solutions,” Myers explained.

Tech Data received its BTO and CTO certification after successfully completing a series of Cisco UCS C-Series training, testing and dual audit processes.

Currently, Tech Data is assisting hundreds of partners via the Advanced Technology Solution Centre (ATSC), a demo lab where resellers can test the Cisco UCS C-Series platform and its benefits, as well as the Configuration Centre to accelerate their UCS practice to market.

“Tech Data’s configuration centre saves resellers the cost of having to manage their own integration services and the associated overhead. Tech Data’s track record of delivering results from small projects to multi-destination rollouts speaks for itself,” said Myers. Tech Data’s team of over 20 certified technicians hold over 30 industry certifications and provide project management and onsite proof-of-concept testing to ensure every configuration order meets the end-customers’ unique requirements.

To learn more about Cisco offerings at Tech Data or to speak with one of Tech Data’s dedicated Cisco Solutions team members, call 1.800.668.5588 or email ciscosales@techdata.ca.

About Tech Data Canada

Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq:TECD) is one of the world's largest wholesale distributors of technology products. Its advanced logistics capabilities and value added services enable more than 125,000 resellers in more than 100 countries to efficiently and cost effectively support the diverse technology needs of end users. Tech Data generated $26.5 billion in net sales for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2012 and is ranked 109th on the Fortune 500®. To learn more, visitwww.techdata.ca.

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