Friday, November 30, 2012
Cognizant to Present at the BMO IT Services Conference
Cognizant Press Release:
Cognizant to Present at the BMO IT Services Conference
Nov 30, 2012
TEANECK, N.J., Nov. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, today announced that Gordon Coburn, President, will present at the following investor conference:
BMO IT Services Conference
- Date: Friday, December 7, 2012
- Time: 12:00 PM ET
Live audio webcast of this presentation will be available at Cognizant's website:
A replay of the webcasts will remain available on the company's website for 60 days.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant combines a passion for client satisfaction, technology innovation, deep industry and business process expertise, and a global, collaborative workforce that embodies the future of work. With over 50 delivery centers worldwide and approximately 150,400 employees as of September 30, 2012, Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world. Visit us online atwww.cognizant.com or follow us on Twitter: Cognizant.
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U.S. Federal Government Customers Choose NetApp More Than Any Other Storage Vendor
NetApp Press Release:
U.S. Federal Government Customers Choose NetApp More Than Any Other Storage Vendor
Deltek’s GovWin Consulting Study Places NetApp First Among Key Storage Vendors with More Than 40% Market Share
MCLEAN, Va. (November 29, 2012) – After thorough analysis of federal procurement data ranging from 2009 to 2011, GovWin Consulting, the management consulting division of Deltek, identified NetApp as the top vendor serving the federal government’s information storage needs. The study revealed that NetApp held a 41.2% market share in FY 2011. Overall, the top five vendors represent 86% of the federal market, with NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) leading its competitors by more than 12%.
“NetApp has been committed to its customers in the federal market for 20 years,” said Mark Weber, president of NetApp’s U.S. Public Sector unit. “Both defense and civilian agencies are seeing a substantial increase in the volume of storage they need. When you add big data, cloud computing, mobility, and virtualization into the networking mix, the demand for capacity is only going to continue to grow. We have strong relationships with all of our federal customers, rooted in NetApp’s game-changing and innovative products and services that will enable them to unleash the power of their data.”
GovWin Consulting determined that the total estimated federal storage market was $1.01B in FY 2011, which excludes intelligence agencies and other agencies such as the United States Postal Service and the Department of Energy labs that do not report spending data. The study found that the compound annual growth rate from FY 2009 to FY 2011 for NetApp was 33.6%, with its nearest competitor, EMC, at 19%.
“The federal data storage market presents some unique challenges given the various mandates, regulations, and demands on federal agencies,” said Pierre Bernasconi of GovWin Consulting. “Although IT spending may decrease with the current budgetary issues facing the government, the cloud computing mandate, and FDCCI, the exponential increase in big data and full-motion video on government networks and new IT-based health services and medical should continue to expand the opportunities in the federal data storage market.”
GovWin Consulting also revealed that the defense department, which includes the armed services and DoD agencies, is the largest buyer of data storage. Among the top five storage-buying departments, Health and Human Services is the only civilian agency. Within the DoD, the Army is the top storage buyer, which is among the agencies for which NetApp has the leading market share. This comprehensive data underscores NetApp’s commitment to its government customers and its ability to provide market-leading technologies to solve today’s major IT challenges.
Additional Resources
- View GovWin Consulting’s storage market appraisal: media.netapp.com/documents/storage-market-appraisal-govwin.pdf
- Read more about GovWin Consulting’s study: govwin.com/bernaspi_blog/big-data-cloud-and-video/713070/
- Read NetApp’s Government Gurus blog: communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/government-gurus
- Learn about NetApp® solutions for the Federal Government:www.netapp.com/us/solutions/industry/government/
- Follow NetApp on Twitter: twitter.com/NetAppGov
- Join NetApp on Facebook: www.facebook.com/NetAppGov
- View NetApp videos on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCXRliDVyJ9AbFPo4Jcd_H5A
- Connect with NetApp on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=111681
- Discuss this news in the NetApp Community, where you can exchange thoughts and ideas on a variety of topics with community members. Join now at www.netapp.com/us/communities
About GovWin
GovWin from Deltek is the essential source for information, teaming, and software solutions to help organizations find, manage, and win government business. More than 2,800 companies, including small businesses, new entrants to the public sector, and the largest government contractors, rely on GovWin for the latest and most comprehensive information solutions, including market intelligence, consulting, sales management tools, teaming solutions, and educational and networking events.
GovWin from Deltek is the essential source for information, teaming, and software solutions to help organizations find, manage, and win government business. More than 2,800 companies, including small businesses, new entrants to the public sector, and the largest government contractors, rely on GovWin for the latest and most comprehensive information solutions, including market intelligence, consulting, sales management tools, teaming solutions, and educational and networking events.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
2013: The Rise of SDN, Death of the "Transaction-Based" User and Customers Bite Back on Vendor Lock-In
Brocade Press Release:
2013: The Rise of SDN, Death of the "Transaction-Based" User and Customers Bite Back on Vendor Lock-In
Brocade Predicts That 2013 Will See Fundamental Changes in the IT Industry, Driven by a More Demanding and IT-Aware End User
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 29, 2012) - Brocade (NASDAQ : BRCD ) -- The Year 2012 will be remembered for many remarkable events, including the Summer Olympics in London that not only showcased the best in human achievement and global collaboration, but also illustrated how technology-obsessed the world has become. Indeed, more than 4.8 billion people watched the event, with digital viewers outnumbering traditional television viewers for the first time in history.
This single event epitomizes how much society depends on networking technology, and while 2012 was a breakthrough year for broadcasters, enterprises and consumers, what does 2013 hold?
David Meyer, Service Provider business CTO and Chief Scientist at Brocade looks into his crystal ball to outline the top five technology trends we should watch out for in 2013:
1. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) deployments begin -- The Olympics proved that consumer demand for information accessibility shows no sign of abating. However, as service providers try to meet that demand and juggle the complexities of running a profitable business -- for instance, to reduce CapEx (capital expenditure) and OpEx (operating expenditure) and increase service responsiveness -- they are looking for technology alternatives that will streamline service creation and foster innovative applications and services. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) offers a means of doing this. SDN links networks and applications, enabling direct programmatic control of both network and orchestration layers in line with end-user application needs, rather than programming around the network, as is done today. IDC predicts that by 2016, the SDN market will be worth $2 billion (USD) a year, up from just $168 million today. With the promise of SDN architectures radically decreasing total cost of ownership (TCO), and vendor innovation/support continuing to increase, I predict that we'll see pockets of actual SDN service deployments across the globe... primarily in the U.S. and Japan to start. 2013 will be the start of great things for this technology.
2. Death of the "Transaction-Based" user -- Users, whether business or consumer, are addicted to their Internet-connected devices. In fact, more than 440 million mobile handsets were shipped in the third quarter of 2012, with more than 25 percent of those being smartphones, indicating the user appetite for connectivity. However, with the roll-out of higher-performing networks (such as 4G and LTE) and devices that offer seamless connectivity, I predict that 2013 will be the year that we see the decline of the "transaction-based" user and the rise of the "always-connected" user [A "transaction-based user" is an individual that will connect to the Internet to conduct an activity (such as to make a purchase or to stream content), and then log off. The premise is that the user will sparingly use bandwidth and not rely on connectivity for every aspect of their life]. Operators will vie for consumer loyalty by offering attractive pricing models, fueling the trend for 24/7 connectivity. Businesses will leverage this phenomenon and increasingly turn to social media and communities to host a larger portion of their customer experience and support processes. While this will transform engagement models, to be successful, operators and businesses will need to ensure that their back-end networks can meet user expectations. In situations such as this, even one service disruption could be fatal to the customer relationship.
3. Cloud under the microscope -- Last year Brocade predicted that non-IT organizations would move towards "cloud service provisioning" in order to uncover new ways of optimizing and monetizing cloud and service provider networks. For the next 12 months, I see this trend continuing, but in an evolved state. First, businesses will scrutinize the impact of the cloud, its benefits, usage and ROI more than ever before. Are deployments delivering the agility and cost savings predicted? Are users benefitting? How can one measure cloud ROI when, by design, the assets are not owned by the organization? With this in mind, I predict that IT organizations will attempt to take back control of their own assets (and budgets) and the deployment of private cloud architectures will accelerate during the second half of the year. IT organizations will also challenge the new breed of service provider by offering competing hosted services. This strategy will help them to bolster revenue opportunities from a market that will be worth $73 billion by 2015. This will be good news for users, but will need to be accompanied by a thorough evaluation strategy to ensure that performance, resilience and cost models meet organizational expectations.
4. Customers bite back on vendor lock-in -- As consumers, we don't like being shackled. More generally, "product de-siloing" is a clear macro-trend. Whether it is the flexibility to personalize apps on our phone, or select the optional extras on our vehicles, choice is paramount. Within the networking space, choice is even more imperative. As alliances ebb and flow, and integrated offerings continue to break into the mainstream, the importance of open architectures and multivendor solutions will become more prevalent in 2013. Trust is essential when building a network to support mission-critical applications, and enterprises will turn to trusted vendors to deploy flexible and scalable solutions. As such, those vendors not able to coexist in multivendor environments will struggle in this more demanding, and competitive, landscape. Only the agile and collaborative will prosper, and I expect at least one major vendor casualty in the coming year.
5. Technology will begin to overcome human shortcomings -- I remember when desktop icons did not exist... a time when a user had to manually type the name of an application in a shell-like text window to access applications. This was time-consuming, error-prone and frustrating, but the desktop icon revolutionized the user experience. Innovations such as this overcame human shortcomings and simplified the user experience, and I predict more such innovations over the next 12 months. Think of voice-command devices, and the fact that modern smartphones can deliver communications, content and compute services in a single form factor. This kind of human multitasking would not happen naturally, but the rate of technology innovation has increased to such a degree that it is now second nature to even the most basic user. I expect more breakthrough advances this year... exactly, what that breakthrough will be is the million-dollar question.
For more information, please visit www.brocade.com.
About BrocadeBrocade® (NASDAQ : BRCD ) networking solutions help the world's leading organizations transition smoothly to a world where applications and information reside anywhere. (www.brocade.com)
CA Technologies Delivers Enhanced Management and Governance Solutions for Amazon Web Services
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CA Technologies Delivers Enhanced Management and Governance Solutions for Amazon Web Services
New Capabilities Target Enterprise Cloud Computing for Business-critical Applications and Services
ISLANDIA, N.Y. and LAS VEGAS, November 29, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA), the leader in cloud systems management software*, today announced it is offering enhanced management and governance capabilities powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Enterprise customers rely on CA Technologies solutions—including CA Automation Suite for Clouds, CA Application Performance Management, CA Nimsoft Cloud Monitor and CA ARCserve®—to manage, monitor and protect applications and services running on AWS.
At the AWS re: Invent customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, CA Technologies unveiled robust solutions developed on AWS within CA Automation Suite for Clouds. With this new integration, customers can streamline and govern the provisioning of AWS services, allowing them to rapidly move workloads to the cloud. This enables customers to realize even faster time to value for cloud deployments and greater agility as their resource needs change.
“While enterprises are moving computing resources to third-party cloud service providers to give them increased flexibility, scalability and responsiveness in meeting rapidly changing business demands; CIOs have been slower to consider cloud environments for their business-critical applications because of perceived concerns about the ability to manage or govern those resources,” said Roger Pilc, general manager, Industries, Solutions & Alliances, CA Technologies. “With our offerings developed on AWS, we’re helping to remove some of those barriers, giving enterprises the management, monitoring and governance capabilities they are accustomed to using in their on-premise systems and cloud environments.”
“As we work closely with our enterprise customers, we understand that they are looking for a wide range of options to manage and govern their applications, services and resources on AWS,” said Terry Wise, Head of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services. “Many enterprise customers already use CA Technologies solutions on premise, and by enabling these customers to extend these capabilities to AWS, enterprises are able to deploy critical workloads in the cloud while maintaining similar operational and governance frameworks that they do on premise.”
Additional features of CA Automation Suite for Clouds Powered by Amazon Web Services include:
• Enterprise Lifecycle Management of AWS Services o Pre-designed workflows and approvals for automated self-service delivery of infrastructure and application services within the AWS Cloud
• Governance and Administration o Configurable processes to allow finance, compliance and configuration management for customers to establish approval and audit trails
• Holistic Portfolio Support o Application performance management to deliver quality of experience for critical business services
o Data management for recovery and availability of data
• Governance and Administration o Configurable processes to allow finance, compliance and configuration management for customers to establish approval and audit trails
• Holistic Portfolio Support o Application performance management to deliver quality of experience for critical business services
o Data management for recovery and availability of data
“CA Technologies has a strong set of enterprise-level capabilities that we can use to take advantage of the AWS Cloud when our customers need to quickly deploy important work loads,” said Darren House, technologist, GTSI Corp. “The self-service capability will reduce the burden for our customers, allowing them to focus on strategic initiatives and on driving innovation, while maintaining governance processes for compliance and audits.
CA Technologies at AWS re: Invent
As a gold sponsor of AWS re: Invent, CA Technologies is demonstrating its solutions designed for AWS in booth #206.
On Thursday, November 29th from 3:00-3:50 p.m. PT, Jeff Williams, principal product manager, CA Technologies, will present, “Learn how enterprises can manage their AWS cloud services with CA Automation Suite for Clouds Powered by Amazon Web Services.” In this session, attendees will gain insights to help them unlock the full potential of AWS for their enterprise applications and services.
For information about CA Technologies partnership with AWS, visit www.ca.com/amazon.
*According to IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2011 Vendor Shares: Market Moves Beyond Self-Service, Doc #236556 August 2012.
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.
CA Technologies Named a Leader in Identity Provisioning by KuppingerCole
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CA Technologies Named a Leader in Identity Provisioning by KuppingerCole
Research Report Evaluates CA IdentityMinder, Places CA Technologies Among Leaders in Every Category of Market Analysis
ISLANDIA, N.Y., November 29, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that it has been named a “Leader” in every category of a market analysis report on identity provisioning recently issued by KuppingerCole, a leading analyst firm focused on identity-centric information security.
In the “KuppingerCole Leadership Compass” report, CA Technologies was named a leader in market, product, innovation and overall strength. The report specifically examined the CA IdentityMinder™ solution, which helps improve IT operational efficiency and effectiveness by providing a scalable and configurable identity management foundation in the context of customers’ unique business roles and processes.
The report evaluated 22 identity provisioning products in five key areas and was written by Martin Kuppinger, founder and principal analyst at KuppingerCole.
CA IdentityMinder was rated a “Strong Positive” in the areas of Security and Functionality, and it received a “Positive” rating in Functionality, Integration, Interoperability and Usability.
“CA Technologies is amongst the largest infrastructure software vendors worldwide and offers a broad portfolio of products in the IAM market segment, including CA IdentityMinder,” Kuppinger wrote in the report. “The current version is well integrated and provides the full feature set to be expected from Identity Provisioning solutions.”
Kuppinger also stated, “Based on the long history of the product and the market position of CA Technologies, it is no surprise that CA has done a large number of deployments of CA IdentityMinder. As a consequence, there is – besides a mature and rich feature set – a number of additional solutions from CA Services available which add to this functionality.”
“The KuppingerCole report clearly articulates the value proposition and comparative strength of both our company and our specific identity management capabilities across the most critical areas,” said Mike Denning, general manager, Security, CA Technologies. “We are proud of this latest industry analyst recognition and the added confidence it provides our customers who rely on us to protect their business with the richest, most comprehensive identity and access management portfolio in the market.”
For more information on the report, please visit the KuppingerCole website. To hear a webcast with Martin Kuppinger and CA Technologies on identity management and governance and how to succeed in switching vendors to meet emerging requirements, register here. To learn more about CA Technologies Identity and Access Management solutions, visit http://www.ca.com/us/it-security-solutions.aspx.
For additional analyst reports in which CA Technologies was positioned as a “Leader”, visit:
• Forrester Research, Inc., "The Forrester Wave™ Risk-Based Authentication, Q1 2012," February 15, 2012.
• Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for User Authentication,” Ant Allan, January 17, 2012.*
• Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance,” Earl Perkins, Perry Carpenter, December 15, 2011. *
• Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning,” Perry Carpenter, Earl Perkins, December 22, 2011. *
• Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for User Authentication,” Ant Allan, January 17, 2012.*
• Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Governance,” Earl Perkins, Perry Carpenter, December 15, 2011. *
• Gartner, Inc., “Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning,” Perry Carpenter, Earl Perkins, December 22, 2011. *
* Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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.
CUSTOMER WIN: mobily Extends Relationship with BMC Software to Create a Private Cloud
BMC Software Press Release:
CUSTOMER WIN: mobily Extends Relationship with BMC Software to Create a Private Cloud
BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and Consulting Services ensure a quick implementation
RIYADH, Nov. 29, 2012 – mobily, one of the two largest mobile telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia, is a regional thought leader in the optimization of IT operations. As such, it quickly saw the benefits of cloud computing and embarked on a major strategic initiative to fully implement cloud and automate its IT infrastructure.
After a thorough competitive review, mobily selected the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management (CLM) solution from BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) because of its proven ability to deliver on key business requirements for the telecommunications leader. The company also engaged BMC Consulting Services to ensure a smooth and rapid implementation.
“As a longtime partner of BMC Software, we have been very impressed with the company’s approach on Business Service Management and their best practices concerning the automation of our IT services,” said Medhat Amer, CIO at mobily.
Faisal Bakhashwain, mobily’s data center planning manager, added, “BMC Software’s cloud solution is very straightforward, even for a first-time user. BMC is already producing real business savings in terms of user friendliness and the time needed to help our employees get onboard with the solution.”
The Challenge
mobily wanted to implement a private cloud that would automate service provisioning, provide an easy-to-use interface to encourage rapid take-up by end-users and ensure scalability for anticipated growth.
The Solution
mobily implemented the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution to meet these objectives. The company also engaged BMC Consulting Services, including its BMC Cloud Rapid Deployment and BMC Education Services offerings.
Benefits
With BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and supporting BMC Consulting Services, mobily:
- Reduced time for provisioning services from three to four weeks to 35 minutes
- Increased IT productivity by automating manual capacity management processes – such as provisioning – across both the physical and virtual data center environment
- Eliminated bottlenecks that delayed deployment of new applications
- Obtained quick, dashboard-driven access to data that enabled better planning for data center power and cooling requirements over time
For more information on mobily’s implementation and the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management solution, please:
- Read the full mobily case study
- Watch the BMC Cloud Life Cycle Management Demo
- Access the BMC Cloud Computing Community
- Visit the On the Mark blog
- Follow @BMCSoftware and @BMCCloud on Twitter
- Become a fan of BMC on Facebook
Business runs on IT. IT runs on BMC Software.
Business runs better when IT runs at its best. Tens of thousands of IT organizations around the world -- from small and mid-market businesses to the Global 100 -- rely on BMC Software (NASDAQ: BMC) to manage their business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments. BMC helps customers cut costs, reduce risk and achieve business objectives with the broadest choice of IT management solutions, including industry-leading Business Service Management and Cloud Management offerings. For the four fiscal quarters ended September 30, 2012, BMC revenue was approximately $2.2 billion. www.bmc.com
ESET Wins PCMag Consumer Recommended Award for Security Suites and Stand Alone Antivirus Software
ESET Press Release:
San Diego, CA, November 29, 2012
San Diego, CA, November 29, 2012
ESET Wins PCMag Consumer Recommended Award for Security Suites and Stand Alone Antivirus Software
ESET, the leader in proactive protection celebrating 25 years of its technology this year, has won the PCMag Consumer Recommended award in its inaugural year for its Security Suites and Stand Alone Antivirus products, showing once again its ability to beat out the competition in customer preference.
PCMag awards are considered the ultimate seal of brand loyalty and satisfaction. In determining winners in each category, PCMag takes into account feedback from its 25 million international readers, gauging their satisfaction with the technology products they use and the service they receive when problems arise. Value, design, trust, reliability and usability, as well as the intangibles that vary from user to user, are all considered. In addition, PCMag asks respondents to rate their overall satisfaction in terms of customer experience and technical support.
“To succeed, antivirus vendors have to provide great protection without affecting the performance of a user's system,” reported PCMag.com. “Every vendor attempts to get the balance right, but this year the most recommended company in the antivirus market was the Slovakia-based ESET, edging past larger, better-known competitors.”
The Consumer Recommended award is granted only to products that achieve outstanding levels of customer satisfaction throughout the year, and ESET has consistently rated highest in 2012. ESET has become the first and only security vendor to receive such recognition, beating all other available Antivirus and Security Suite products. Additionally, ESET secured a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 85 percent, the highest of any company in the security category, reflecting the percent of respondents who are likely to recommend the product to others. ESET’s NPS was the second highest of all products reviewed across six different categories.
"We are truly humbled by winning the PCMag Consumer Recommended award in the security category, and would like to thank our users and the millions who responded to PCMag for ranking ESET's solutions as best in class," said Richard Marko, CEO of ESET. "We will continue to do all that we can to make sure our users and the PCMag readership stay this happy and satisfied in the future!"
About ESET
ESET is on the forefront of security innovation, delivering trusted protection to make the Internet safer forbusinesses and consumers. IDC has recognized ESET as a top five corporate anti-malware vendor and one of the fastest growing companies in its category. Trusted by millions of users worldwide, ESET is one of the most recommended security solutions in the world. ESET NOD32 Antivirus consistently achieves the highest accolades in all types of comparative testing, and powers the virus and spyware detection in ESET Smart Security, ESET Cybersecurity for Mac, ESET Endpoint Security and ESET Endpoint Antivirus. ESET has global headquarters in Bratislava (Slovakia), with regional distribution centers in San Diego (U.S.), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Singapore; with offices in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Prague (Czech Republic). ESET has malware research centers in Bratislava, San Diego, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Prague, Košice (Slovakia), Krakow (Poland), Montreal (Canada), Moscow (Russia), and an extensive partner network for 180 countries. For more information, visit http://www.eset.com/us or call +1 (619) 876-5400.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
NetApp Supports Amazon Web Services Direct Connect with Private Storage Solution
NetApp Press Release:
NetApp Supports Amazon Web Services Direct Connect with Private Storage Solution
Solution Provides Performance, Agility, and Control of NetApp Private Storage with all the Benefits of the AWS Cloud
LAS VEGAS, NV – Nov. 28, 2012 – Today at re: Invent, NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) unveiled NetApp Private Storage for AWS – an enterprise storage solution that utilizes AWS Direct Connect to provide customers the ability to establish a dedicated network connection from their existing infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
With this offering, organizations can now replicate data from on-premise NetApp® storage environments to NetApp Private Storage in an AWS Direct Connect facility to leverage on-demand cloud services. NetApp Private Storage for AWS allows enterprises to build an agile cloud infrastructure that balances internal datacenter resources along with AWS cloud resources to best meet their business needs.
NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services is featured at the AWS re: Invent conference, November 27 – 29, in NetApp booth #510.
Key Highlights
- Access big data analytics: Leverage NetApp Private Storage along with Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) to accomplish big data analysis at a fraction of the cost of running on premise
- Gain cost-effective data protection: Deploy cost-effective disaster recovery by leveraging Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in failover scenarios; leverage tiered disk backup and recovery using Amazon S3 as a more reliable alternate to a tape archive
- High performance NFS and CIFS support to AWS cloud infrastructure: Easily move traditional enterprise applications to the cloud
- Support for secure synchronous or asynchronous data replication: Seamlessly move data between AWS regions, increasing application redundancy
“Our work with NetApp provides customers with the performance, security, compliance, and availability benefits of AWS with the high value enterprise offerings customers have come to expect from NetApp,” said Terry Wise, head of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, AWS. “Together, we’re enabling more customers to use our on-demand web services with increased confidence for their critical business applications.”
“Organizations use the on-demand scalability and reliability of Amazon Web Services as a critical extension to their on-premise IT infrastructure,” said Brendon Howe, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, NetApp. “NetApp Private Storage for AWS provides customers the ability to leverage infrastructure that spans cloud and internal IT resources. We are committed to helping our customers achieve greater agility for their IT infrastructure.”
Availability
NetApp Private Storage for AWS is immediately available through a select group of resellers in North America and will be available in Europe and Asia in the near future. For more information visit the NetApp Solution Connection.
NetApp Private Storage for AWS is immediately available through a select group of resellers in North America and will be available in Europe and Asia in the near future. For more information visit the NetApp Solution Connection.
Supporting Quotes
“We share AWS and NetApp’s vision for building the optimal infrastructure to deliver on-demand workloads enterprises requires to succeed in the cloud,” said Tim Fitzgerald, vice-president of Avnet Cloud Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “Customers can take advantage of AWS’s scalability and low utility cost and NetApp’s fortified storage foundation to run performance applications in the cloud, provide cost-effective disaster recovery, and satisfy development and test needs. We have built NetApp, AWS, and Equinix services to enable VARs to easily offer this to their customers.”
“The global outlook for cloud adoption continues to be favorable as companies look to increase cost efficiencies throughout their computing and storage operations,” said Vince DiMemmo, general manager for Enterprise at Equinix. “Customers can now easily connect their NetApp Private Storage with the AWS Cloud.”
Additional Resources
- Read further about today’s announcement: “Agile Storage Comes to Amazon’s Cloud” and “NetApp Private Storage for Amazon Web Services”
- Connect with NetApp experts and storage enthusiasts in the NetApp Community
- Follow NetApp on Twitter
- Connect with NetApp on Facebook
About NetApp
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and consistently being recognized as a great place to work around the world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success as well as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Use of the words “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership between NetApp and any other company. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our commitment to living our core values and consistently being recognized as a great place to work around the world are fundamental to our long-term growth and success as well as the success of our pathway partners and customers. Use of the words “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership between NetApp and any other company. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com.
Brocade Networking Solutions Identified as Key to High-Performance Cloud Architecture and TCO Optimization
Brocade Press Release:
Brocade Networking Solutions Identified as Key to High-Performance Cloud Architecture and TCO Optimization
Ajubeo Selects Brocade as Best-in-Class for Network Simplicity, Flexibility and Performance
SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 28, 2012) - Companies that deploy best-in-class solutions within their IT operations find that their networks are more streamlined, reliable and higher performing than those using a single-vendor network. Ajubeo found that the best-in-class strategy gives them the best price/performance value and the company recently implemented Brocade® (NASDAQ : BRCD ) solutions featuring VCS® Fabric technology within its production networks to better serve customers.
Ajubeo, a provider of high-performance, enterprise-class virtual private data centers and cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), chose Brocade networking solutions for its network cloud infrastructure layer based on performance, scalability and reliability. The decision followed thorough due-diligence by Ajubeo's CEO Chuck Price, and the company's CTO Tom Whitcomb, whereby the company tested all major technologies at each cloud infrastructure stack position, hand-picking options that combined maximum performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization. This custom cloud architecture allows Ajubeo to offer better pricing to its customers while outperforming the competition.
As part of Ajubeo's cloud infrastructure-as-a-service implementation, the company installed Brocade VDX® 6720 switches with VCS Fabric technology, Brocade ICX™ 6610 switches and Brocade NetIron® CER 2000 Series routers. Ajubeo executives have confirmed ideal integration within its heterogeneous cloud network.
"Ajubeo uses Brocade VCS fabrics to help support not only the carrier-grade network infrastructure, but virtualization capabilities and cloud storage as well. Our goal was to consolidate Ajubeo's network backbone into a unified cloud architecture while maintaining industry-leading performance. The result is a less resource-intensive network environment, key to enabling the explosive growth we are experiencing today," said Tom Whitcomb, CTO, Ajubeo. "The amount of data being created, stored and transmitted within our customers' virtual private data centers continues to grow on a daily basis, constituting multiple terabytes per company. The flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability of Brocade networking solutions help enable the superior cloud performance our company is known for, even during periods of rapid expansion and high cloud infrastructure utilization."
Ajubeo requires a network that is agile, resilient and self-healing on account of the custom-architected virtual private data centers it delivers to companies of all sizes and industries. Brocade VDX switches and VCS Fabric technology allows Ajubeo to build redundant Ethernet fabrics, providing interface speeds from 1 to 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) today, as well as 40 and 100 GbE in the near future.
To deliver this level of flexibility and performance, Ajubeo deployed Brocade ICX 6610 switches at the access layer and Brocade VDX 6720 switches in a VCS fabric at the core layer with a fully redundant active/active 40 GbE backbone.
At the Wide Area Network (WAN) routing edge layer, Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series routers provide multiple options for customer connectivity including standard BGP routing and many metro Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) options. Ajubeo is able to offer customers direct MPLS connectivity options from their on-premises infrastructure to Ajubeo cloud infrastructure at any cloud hub.
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Product Information
The award-winning Brocade VDX 6720 is a high-performance 10 GbE fixed configuration switch with LAN ports that support the most demanding business applications. It is specifically designed to improve network utilization, maximize application availability, increase scalability and dramatically simplify network architecture in virtualized data centers.
The Brocade ICX 6610 delivers wire-speed, non-blocking performance across all ports to support latency-sensitive applications such as real-time voice and video streaming and VDI. Brocade ICX 6610 switches can be stacked using four full-duplex 40 Gbps stacking ports that provide an unprecedented 320 Gbps of backplane stacking bandwidth with full redundancy, eliminating inter-switch bottlenecks. Additionally, each switch can provide up to eight 10 GbE ports for high-speed connectivity to the aggregation or core layers.
The Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series is a family of compact routers that are purpose-built for high-performance Ethernet edge routing and MPLS applications.
"For customers like Ajubeo, where the network sits at the heart of the business and downtime is unacceptable, scalability, ease of deployment and interoperability in heterogeneous IT landscapes are of utmost importance," said Jason Nolet, vice president data center networking group, Brocade.
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