PRESS RELEASE

Cisco and Federation of Canadian Municipalities Collaborate to Foster Awareness of Sustainable Communities

TORONTO, ON - July 26, 2012 - Cisco today announced it has entered into a strategic agreement with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to raise awareness and to provide education on the benefits of applying innovation and technology to the development of Canada's 21st century leading cities and communities.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco will provide thought leadership, tools, and support to the almost 2,000 FCM members, based on Cisco's acclaimed Smart+Connected Communities™ framework for the development of sustainable and competitive cities and communities. Together, Cisco and FCM will promote the benefits of technology and innovation for productivity, growth, competitiveness, and sustainable transformation.

Facts and Highlights:

• Cisco and FCM will seek to cultivate new and innovative solutions to the problems facing municipal governments and their communities, and to use technology to increase the participation and the productivity of citizens and businesses.
• Cisco and FCM hope to empower municipalities to foster, grow, and accelerate economic development, and social and environmental sustainability.
• Cisco's broad portfolio of public and private partnerships, products, services and solutions, along with FCM's municipal knowledge and experience, will provide the foundation for the strategic agreement.     
• Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities deliver new services and experiences over intelligent community networks to promote economic, social and environmental sustainability. Cisco has a number of Smart+Connected Communities initiatives throughout Canada with FCM members, including:
  • Rampart's Avenir Communities in St. Albert, Alberta: all services, business and residential as well as access to community and government services such as healthcare and education, will be based on an ultra high speed network infrastructure
  • The city of Vancouver, British Columbia: developing services to deliver enhanced energy efficiency to support the city's green energy and environmental goals
  • The city of Stratford, Ontario: developing advanced collaboration and citizen engagement solutions using Stratford's intelligent networks
  • The city of Fredericton, New Brunswick: Cisco helped the city develop the Fred-eZone, a free, community-wide Wi-Fi network.
• FCM is the national voice of municipal governments within Canada, with nearly 2,000 municipality members representing over 90 percent of Canada's population.

Supporting quotes:

Brock Carlton, chief executive officer, FCM:

"Municipal governments are on the front lines in meeting the challenges of the 21st century and as a result have a tremendous impact on the daily lives of Canadians. That makes municipal government the right place to start implementing technologies that can make our communities more livable, competitive and sustainable. With its Smart+Connected Communities initiative, Cisco has shown it can help municipalities apply technology to solve challenges and strengthen their communities. FCM looks forward to working with Cisco to help our members build sustainable and competitive cities and communities that will drive growth in Canada and improve our quality of life."    

Nitin Kawale, president, Cisco Canada:

"Cisco believes very strongly in the potential of technology to positively affect economic development. We continue to build strong relationships within the private and public sectors in order to facilitate the positive transformation of our communities, regions and country. FCM's members are looking for ways to operate more efficiently and sustainably while improving the quality of life and economic competitiveness of their communities. Through our new relationship, Cisco will help them meet this challenge."

Rick Huijbregts, vice president, Smart+Connected Communities, Cisco Canada:

"We applaud the vision of FCM to embrace technology and innovation as a future-enabler for its member communities. Together, we believe we can provide thought leadership and real-life examples to FCM members that can immediately be used in their own municipalities to foster economic growth, environmental sustainability, and social prosperity. Our unique partnership celebrates the formation of a nationwide public-private ‘human' network that will help advocate and accelerate innovation and productivity for Canada."

Supporting Resources:

·         Federation of Canadian Municipalities

·         Cisco Smart+Connected Communities

·         Cisco Smart+Connected Communities Institute

·         Follow Cisco Canada on Twitter and Facebook

·         Watch Cisco S+CC solutions.

About Cisco

Cisco, (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco Canada Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco, has offices across Canada dedicated to customer support, sales and service. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com/canada/.

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Demonstrates Strong Growth Across Its Storage Portfolio

Oracle Optimized Storage Helps Simplify IT, Increase Efficiency and Lower Costs

Redwood Shores, Calif. -- July 17, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced strong growth across its Optimized Storage portfolio spanning NAS, SAN and tape.

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances sales have more than doubled over the past year, and have now been purchased by 40 percent of the Global Fortune 100.

Oracle’s Pillar Axiom Storage Systems have seen significant international growth since joining Oracle and have been adopted by more than 100 new customers in over 25 new countries.

Oracle has shipped over 2 exabytes of media for its StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives since its launch in January 2011, and doubled the capacity shipped in just six months.

Oracle executives Mark Hurd and John Fowler will discuss Oracle’s Optimized Storage Strategy and share new customer testimonials in an online event on July 18. Register here.

Supporting Quotes

“Oracle’s ability to engineer hardware and software together is clearly resonating with our customers who are using Oracle’s optimized storage to simplify their data centers and reduce storage related costs,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “The storage optimizations in Exadata Storage Servers are key to delivering significant performance improvements in our engineered systems, while the stunning performance of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, the immense consolidation capabilities of the Pillar Axiom, and efficiencies provided by Hybrid Columnar Compression are allowing our customers to dramatically reduce the amount of storage they buy and the amount they spend to buy it.”

"Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances have exceeded our every expectation, increasing our hosted ERP core application performance by over 35 percent across the board and providing us with a level of flexibility and analytics that allow us to be much more agile than ever before," said Skip Khasky, president, iDataWorks. "The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance has allowed us to consolidate our fibre channel block-level storage and our NAS appliance into one unified system, while significantly increasing performance and decreasing costs over our previous SAN and NetApp filer solution. Our bottom line is happy, our engineers are happy, and most importantly our customers are happy."

Supporting Resources

Oracle Optimized Storage

Register to attend the Oracle Optimized Storage Online Event on July 18

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

Oracle’s Pillar Axiom Storage Systems

Oracle’s StorageTek Tape

Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com.

Tata Steel Selects CA Technologies to Help Accelerate Innovation of New Steel Solutions and Drive Business Growth in Europe

Press Releases

Tata Steel Selects CA Technologies to Help Accelerate Innovation of New Steel Solutions and Drive Business Growth in Europe

Leading European Steel Producer Deploys CA Clarity PPM to Help Manage the Innovation Lifecycle, Increase Profitability, Drive Competitive Differentiation and Enhance Customer Satisfaction

ISLANDIA, NY and MORGES, Switzerland – June 19, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced that Tata Steel has chosen CA Technologies to help accelerate the innovation of new steel solutions to drive top-line growth.

The company, which supplies steel and related services to many demanding markets worldwide, will use the CA Clarity™ Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) to manage the entire new product and service lifecycle from innovation and product design through production and delivery. As a result, Tata Steel expects to achieve a structured approach to innovation which will help drive profitability and competitive differentiation, and enhance customer satisfaction.

“The PPM Solution will help us to more efficiently innovate to speed our products to market, build market share and better align with customer needs,” said Rene Kieft, manager, product development portfolio and IP strategy, strategic marketing, Tata Steel.

“Efficiency is not about cutting costs, but about using what you have the best way possible, getting the most out of resources and facilities. CA Clarity PPM will enable us to continue to innovate and adapt to customer demands.”

Tata Steel has been transforming its European operations into a more customer-focused organisation by realigning its internal resources to industry sectors such as automotive, lifting and excavating, energy and power, packaging, construction and rail. This new organisational structure enables Tata Steel to better support customers for success in their markets. By gaining better insight into customer needs and emerging market opportunities, Tata Steel can quickly innovate in ways that better drive company growth. 

CA Clarity PPM will be used to better manage this process. By overcoming silos of innovations that previously resided in each business unit, the PPM solution will help optimise Tata Steel’s time-to-value and return on investment, by aligning the portfolio of innovation initiatives with the steelmaker’s business strategy. Every possible innovation will come under the microscope, ranging from ways to expand and improve the quality and performance of the company’s steel products and related service to facilitating new products to be tested on an industrial scale, such as can making, automotive solutions, parts for lifting and excavating equipment and for various construction applications. 

“Using CA Technologies Project and Portfolio management solution will help us implement a structured process to our innovation, product design and development process,” said Kieft. “CA Clarity PPM will give us the right documents and data to aid the decision making process as well as a structured process to help reduce risk and keep the business focused on doing the right things well. We expect this to help to innovate with customers, get us to market faster and help control costs.”

CA Clarity PPM will provide Tata Steel with a single, unified “decision engine” which will capture and hold information about the portfolio of steel products and development projects, and the people and resources that support the innovation activities. This centralised decision engine will enable the company to prioritise the right opportunities, collaborate on developing the right products, and track and optimise the innovation portfolio at every stage. In the renewable energy market, for example, Tata Steel will be uniquely positioned to capture, prioritise and accelerate steel innovations used in the manufacture of wind farms.

”To meet increasing business demands from customers, organizations are using CA Technologies Business Service Innovation approach to help their CIOs, IT and business executives shift from simply maintaining their current portfolios to accelerating the delivery of new, transformative business services,” said Lokesh Jindal,  senior vice president, Service and Portfolio Management, CA Technologies. “By making better portfolio decisions, more closely aligning investments and enhancing collaborative decision-making,  Tata Steel will be able to drive business growth by reducing  innovation cycle times and keeping a rigorous focus on the customer.”

About CA Technologies

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