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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

F5 Announces Winners of 2012 Agility Customer and Partner Awards


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

F5 Announces Winners of 2012 Agility Customer and Partner Awards

MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting, and Future Com, Ltd. named 2012 Agility award winners

New York, July 24, 2012
F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, today announced the winners of the 2012 F5 Agility Awards, celebrating creativity, business value, and innovation with F5® solutions. This year’s winners include MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting®, and Future Com, Ltd. The awards were announced during F5’s Agility Summit 2012, taking place July 23–25 in New York.

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“We congratulate this year’s winners of the F5 Agility Awards,” said Dave Feringa, EVP of Worldwide Sales at F5. “MLB Network, Rackspace Hosting, and Future Com, Ltd. are clear examples of how enterprises can evolve and enhance their businesses with F5 solutions. We celebrate their innovation during the Agility Summit 2012, where we’ll focus on how application delivery technologies provide the enabling architecture for customers and partners to rethink their approach to delivering applications and services.”
The Agility Summit is F5’s invitation-only customer and partner conference. Held annually, Agility Summit is a venue for customers and partners to discuss ways to be flexible, adaptable, and innovative in order to meet today’s most pressing IT challenges. Nearly 1,000 customers and partners are in attendance at this year’s event.
Agility Summit 2012 platinum sponsors include HP, WhiteHat Security, and Carahsoft. Gold sponsors of the event include Avnet, Cenzic, Ingram Micro, Oracle, Payoda, SecureAuth, Splunk, and Westcon.

2012 F5 Agility Awards: Customers

MLB Network and Rackspace Hosting have been named winners of the 2012 F5 Agility Awards for customers.
  • MLB Network
MLB Network is Major League Baseball’s national cable television network, telecasting live games and original studio programming to approximately 70 million homes throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. MLB Network relies on F5 technology to support marquee events, including All-Star Games and the World Series, providing load balancing services and securing connections to MLB Network’s internal environment. With F5 BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM®), MLB Network has been able to achieve flawless implementation and deliver reliable service for over three years.
“F5 is a go-to technology partner for MLB Network,” said Cindy Cortell, Director of IT for MLB Network. “During the initial launch of the network, we relied on F5 products to ensure that our on-air and mission-critical applications were live and working as intended. F5 solutions have been easy to configure, deploy, and implement, and we’ve enjoyed 100 percent uptime with no issues. We’re pleased to accept this award as it recognizes MLB Network’s record-setting launch and our ability to ensure the best possible experience for viewers.”
  • Rackspace Hosting
Rackspace Hosting is a service leader in cloud computing. Given that many of Rackspace’s customers have both dedicated managed hosting and cloud hosting environments, Rackspace aimed to create a solution that bridged both environments. With the help of F5’s Application Delivery Networking platform, Rackspace developed a hybrid service called RackConnect™. With RackConnect, customers receive the performance and security of dedicated hosted servers, while allowing customers the flexibility to “jump” to the cloud to scale an application when needed. Using BIG-IP LTM and F5’s iControl® functionality, Rackspace was able to reduce the development time of RackConnect to only three months.
“RackConnect is more than a new service offering for Rackspace—it has become a differentiator for us in the market,” said Toby Owen, Solution Line Leader for Hybrid Clouds at Rackspace. “Thanks to the flexibility of the F5 platform, we’ve created a unique user experience which has allowed our customers to build new and innovative applications for their customers. We look forward to building on the success of RackConnect with ongoing innovation on the F5 platform.”

2012 F5 Agility Awards: Partner

Future Com, Ltd. has been named winner of the 2012 F5 Agility Award for partners.
  • Future Com, Ltd.
Future Com, Ltd., an integrator of top industry partners, provides network infrastructure, performance, and security solutions to enterprise customers. Future Com, Ltd. created an SAP portal solution to replace all standalone systems within food service giant Sysco’s IT infrastructure. Using a number of F5 products, including BIG-IP devices runningBIG-IP Edge Gateway™ and BIG-IP WebAccelerator™, Future Com, Ltd. standardized all ordering, billing, and inventory control systems across Sysco’s 180 locations.
“Our work at Sysco had enterprise-wide impact on their mission-critical applications, impacting nearly every corner of their business,” said Greg Christian, Vice President of Sales at Future Com, Ltd. “Their needs were met with an array of F5 solutions, and we’re honored to receive F5’s Agility Award. We look forward to replicating the success we’ve experienced at Sysco with other enterprise customers, as F5 products have the flexibility, performance, and security required to address challenges and opportunities today and in the future.”

Westcon Group and F5: Global Distribution Partnership

In addition to today’s announcement of the 2012 Agility Awards, F5 also announced a global distribution partnership with Westcon Group.

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks, Inc., the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), helps the world’s largest enterprises and service providers realize the full value of virtualization, cloud computing, and on-demand IT. F5® solutions help integrate disparate technologies to provide greater control of the infrastructure, improve application delivery and data management, and give users seamless, secure, and accelerated access to applications from their corporate desktops and smart devices. An open architectural framework enables F5 customers to apply business policies at “strategic points of control” across the IT infrastructure and into the public cloud. F5 products give customers the agility they need to align IT with changing business conditions, deploy scalable solutions on demand, and manage mobile access to data and services. Enterprises, service and cloud providers, and leading online companies worldwide rely on F5 to optimize their IT investments and drive business forward. For more information, go to www.f5.com.
You can also follow @f5networks on Twitter or visit us on Facebook for more information about F5, its partners, and technology. For a complete listing of F5 community sites, please visit www.f5.com/news-press-events/web-media/community.html.
F5, BIG-IP, Edge Gateway, iControl, Local Traffic Manager, LTM, and WebAccelerator are trademarks or service marks of F5 Networks, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

EMC Recognized as Microsoft's 2012 Search Partner of the Year


EMC Press Release
EMC Recognized as Microsoft's 2012 Search Partner of the Year
EMC Demonstrates Excellence in Innovation & Implementation With Microsoft Technologies
HOPKINTON, Mass - July 17, 2012

News Summary:

EMC today announced:
  • EMC has been honored as Microsoft's Search Partner of the Year
  • The Microsoft Partner awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional, robust solutions and services expertise based on Microsoft technology during the past year
  • The award was presented to EMC for its consulting services designed to help customers develop strategies and build applications using Microsoft FAST Search Server
  • EMC architected and implemented a successful enterprise custom search system for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to search legacy content management and Microsoft SharePoint systems that enables users easy access to disparate data sources
  • Early evidence suggests a marked improvement in IMF staff satisfaction with their ability to locate important materials for their work

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that it has been selected as the 2012 Microsoft Search Partner of the Year. The award recognizes the global partner that excels in delivering robust solutions and services that effectively and efficiently support complex searches in Big Data and other environments across desktops, mobile devices and the Internet. The award specifically honors EMC for its EMC Consulting portfolio of search services that help customers identify content sources, define user personas, capture business and technical requirements, design architectures, and implement technologies. According to a recent McKinsey & Company report, "The Impact of Internet Technologies: Search Report," July 2011, the productivity benefits of a well designed and implemented search solution are significant and can save time and enhance ROI by 17 times. 1
For more than a decade EMC and Microsoft have helped customers to efficiently and securely scale their solutions and applications.
The award follows closely on the heels of another significant industry acknowledgement of EMC's leadership in helping Microsoft customers excel and transform their IT and, ultimately, their businesses. In the recent bi-annual global update published by leading industry analyst firm, IDC2, in their Storage User Demand Survey (SUDS) report, EMC is named as the #1 choice for mission critical applications for Microsoft SharePoint®, Microsoft Exchange®, Business Intelligence Analytics, Oracle Applications, SAP, Home Directory, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) & Virtual Server as ranked by customers in an extensive study. Results show that more customers choose EMC storage for deployments of Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange for their mission critical applications than any other vendor in the first half of 2011.

The Service Offering

The award-winning EMC Consulting services include:
  • Discovery – Identify content sources, define user personas, and capture business and technical requirements
  • Definition – Design the user experience, infrastructure, and application architecture for Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint
  • Delivery – Install and configure Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint and integrate it with Microsoft SharePoint, domain security as well as work in partnership with third party companies to crawl external content sources and integrate with auto categorization applications
This comprehensive approach to deployment has yielded transformational results for clients, one of which is the IMF.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a global finance organization with 187 member countries, employing over 3,000 people, the majority of whom work at its Washington, D.C. headquarters. The IMF had vital information spread across its intranet making it very difficult, time consuming, and costly for staff to find relevant information necessary for them to perform their jobs. Productivity was impacted and decisions weren't always based on the full scope of information.
The solution designed by EMC Consulting for IMF provides the ability to handle large indexes, various source types, and quickly return results. An easy to use interface customized by user type delivers the right information to the right user. As a result of this solution, IMF employees can perform a single search across multiple repositories and find the documents they need among millions that are stored there.
EMC, as a leading information infrastructure provider for Microsoft applications, provides customers running Microsoft applications with the availability, protection, and automation needed to gain competitive advantage. EMC's portfolio of Proven Solutions for Microsoft FAST Search Server document best practices and technical guidance for deploying enterprise scale Microsoft SharePoint collaborations environments. The EMC Performance Optimization For Microsoft FAST Search Server for SharePoint helps customers address requirements for accelerated search and query, data protection, and rapid recovery.

Microsoft Executive Quote:

Kirk Koenigsbauer, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Office Division, Microsoft Corporation
"EMC Consulting continues to be successful in providing enterprise search solutions that meet real business needs. Because of their track record, we are pleased to name EMC Consulting, the Microsoft Search Partner of the Year."

EMC Executive Quote:

Dave Cox, Vice President, Consulting, EMC Corporation
"We believe our customers have been able to speed the time-to-value from their investments in Microsoft and EMC technology due to the combination of proven technical skills with deep industry expertise that EMC Consulting provides. We can help customers quickly deploy comprehensive search solutions that enable them to accelerate deployments, improve their customers' experience, and make it easier for employees to find the information they need to be more productive."

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About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
Press Contacts
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408.562.1519
Julie.Quattro@emc.com
1 McKinsey & Company, "The Impact of Internet Technologies: Search Report," July 2011
    IDC, "Storage Users Demand Study 2011 - Fall Edition: Customers Still Want Choice" (2011 / Doc # 234651)
2 McKinsey & Company, "The Impact of Internet Technologies: Search Report," July 2011
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Microsoft Recognizes Accenture and Avanade with Three 2012 Partner of the Year Awards

Press release:


July 11, 2012
Microsoft Recognizes Accenture and Avanade with Three 2012 Partner of the Year Awards
 
NEW YORK: July 11, 2012 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN), a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, and Avanade, a business technology solutions and managed services provider, have been honored with three Microsoft Partner of the Year awards for 2012. Together the companies have earned more Microsoft partner awards worldwide than any other company to date. Recognitions for 2012 include:
 
  • Alliance Partner of the Year – Application Platform
  • Mobility Partner of the Year
  • France – Country Partner of the Year
 
“We’re pleased that Accenture and Avanade have once again been honored with Microsoft partner of the year awards in recognition of our ability to deliver outstanding results for clients on the Microsoft platform,” said Scott Harrison, global lead for Accenture’s Microsoft alliance. “Our consistent showing in these awards year after year is clear evidence of the joint commitment by our two companies to delivering business value and outcomes for our clients around the world.”
 
“Technology advancements in cloud computing and mobility are transforming the enterprise to help improve agility, lower costs and adapt to a changing workplace,” said Ian Jordan, Avanade executive vice president for sales, marketing and alliances. “Recognition by Microsoft in game-changing technology areas underscores our Microsoft leadership in delivering innovation that drives results for our customers.”
 
“Microsoft is pleased to recognize Accenture/Avanade as the Alliance Application Platform Partner of the Year and Mobility Partner of the Year. Together, Accenture and Avanade provide leading mission-critical application platform solutions for today’s enterprises,” said Mark Hill, Vice President, Enterprise Partners, Microsoft Corporation. “Accenture’s deep industry expertise combined with Avanade’s stellar technical skills for the Microsoft platform offer a complete end-to-end solution for our mutual customers.”
 
Accenture and Avanade have been jointly recognized for winning in the following award categories:  
 
Alliance Partner of the Year – Application PlatformAccenture and Avanade received the Alliance Partner of the Year – Application Platform award for their demonstrated leadership in driving Microsoft-based application platform solutions to enterprise customers that best integrate the infrastructure, database, business logic, user experience and server management layers for on-premises or cloud-based mission critical applications.
 
Mobility Partner of the Year
The two companies were jointly recognized with the Mobility Partner of the Year Award for their proven ability to deploy, integrate and support breakthrough solutions that help accelerate clients’ business cycles, increase productivity, reduce operating costs, and extend their infrastructures with the Windows Phone platform.
 
Country Partner of the Year – FranceAccenture and Avanade’s France business was honored with the Country Partner of the Year award for demonstrated business excellence in delivering Microsoft solutions to customers and for driving customer satisfaction and innovation.
 
In addition, Accenture and Avanade were also selected as finalists in the following categories, making them the most recognized partner across technical, civic, and geographic categories for 2012.
 
  • Citizenship Partner of the Year - Opportunities for Youth
  • Dynamics CRM Partner of the Year
  • Dynamics Public Sector Partner of the Year
  • Microsoft Office 365 Innovation Partner of the Year
  • Sustainability Partner of the Year
  • Windows Azure SI Partner of the Year
 
The recipients of the 2012 Microsoft Partner of the Year awards were recognized at this year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, held July 8-12 in Toronto, Ontario Canada. More information can be found at: http://www.digitalwpc.com/Pages/Home.aspx#fbid=eTdrPfzErPf
 
About Avanade
Avanade provides business technology services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Avanade’s services and solutions help improve performance, productivity and sales for organizations in all industries. The company applies Microsoft expertise from its global network of consultants, drawing on the right mix of onshore, offshore and nearshore skills, which together are designed to help deliver results faster, at lower cost and with less risk. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft Corporation and serves customers in more than 20 countries worldwide with more than 15,000 professionals. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.
 
About Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 249,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$21.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2010. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
 
Avanade and the Avanade logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Avanade Inc. Other product, service, or company names mentioned herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
 
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities for Partners

Press release:


Microsoft Announces New Cloud Opportunities for Partners
July 10, 2012
New guidance, training and programs for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure unveiled at Worldwide Partner Conference.
TORONTO — July 10, 2012 — During the second day of Microsoft Corp.’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), top executives from the company announced new training, tools and other programs that enable partners to deliver compelling new cloud services to their customers. Satya Nadella, president of the Server and Tools Business, announced a community technology preview (CTP) of new technologies that enable hosting service providers to use their Windows Server data centers to deliver capabilities consistent with services running in Windows Azure. In addition, he announced a new program that gives partners guidance, training and software tools to help customers transition from VMware’s virtual infrastructure to Microsoft’s cloud.
“We’ve taken everything that we’ve learned from running data centers and services at a global scale to usher in the new era of the cloud OS,” Nadella said. “Microsoft offers partners modern yet familiar technology to meet customer demand on their path to the cloud.”
With the new CTP, hosting service providers can offer customers turnkey cloud services, including high-scale websites and virtual machine hosting with an extensible self-service portal experience. These capabilities, which run on Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012, will offer hosting providers some of the same experiences and services recently announced by Windows Azure. Go Daddy, the largest global Web hoster, is piloting these new capabilities to deliver new cloud services for customers.
“Customers view Go Daddy as an IT partner with which they can grow,” said Scott Brown, vice president of Product Development – Hosting at Go Daddy. “These new capabilities give customers a seamless path to expanding their online presence. In addition, the improved site performance, scalability and availability all lead to a more enjoyable experience for our customers and their visitors.”
In addition, the new program announced on stage, Switch to Hyper-V, will allow partners to grow their virtualization, private and hybrid cloud computing practices while also helping customers improve IT agility at a lower cost with Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure.
Already, partners are making significant progress in helping their customers with this transition. Microsoft Gold Certified Partner FyrSoft recently helped Iowa-based Pella Corp. migrate nearly 100 percent of its VMware infrastructure — nearly 700 VMware virtual machines — to Hyper-V, moving the company beyond virtualization to a private cloud solution. With the Microsoft private cloud, Pella has evolved its business while reducing IT costs and improving efficiencies. Server and Tools Business Corporate Vice President Takeshi Numoto further details partner opportunities in the era of the cloud OS on a blog published today, and more information can be found here.
In addition, in a keynote that further reinforced how Microsoft is working with its partners to transform businesses throughout the world, Microsoft Business Solutions President Kirill Tatarinov highlighted the incredible opportunity in the year ahead for partners focused on selling business solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics.
“Microsoft brings together technologies in a way that no other company can match,” Tatarinov said. “Microsoft Dynamics takes full advantage of the amazing innovations Microsoft is delivering, and we’re actively supporting our partners in developing and delivering a complete, modern, flexible and cloud-based business solution to grow their businesses. There’s never been a better moment to be a Microsoft Dynamics partner.”
With a renewed focus on building enterprise partnerships, Microsoft announced new global independent software vendors that are choosing or extending their solutions across Microsoft Dynamics. Companies such as Campus Management Corp., Cenium Inc., Cincom Systems Inc., PROS Pricing and Technosoft that are industry leaders in their markets are embracing the Microsoft Dynamics solutions to expand their offerings and in some cases as the core foundation on which to build their unique industry-focused solutions. For instance, global hospitality and hotel solution organization Cenium is extending its Microsoft Dynamics-based business offerings in areas such as property management, procurement, human resources and point of sale; and Campus Management, a leading provider of enterprise software solutions for higher education, is planning to expand global reach by leveraging Microsoft Dynamics AX and providing institutions of any size or complexity more choices when it comes to student information systems and enterprise resource planning solutions.
Other keynotes included the following news and momentum updates from Microsoft senior executives:
• Thom Gruhler, corporate vice president of Windows Phone Marketing, took the stage to demo Windows Phone 8 and highlight that Windows Phone is now a true extension of the Windows that 1 billion users worldwide know and use today.
• Laura Ipsen, corporate vice president of Worldwide Public Sector, provided an overview of Microsoft’s National Plan and citizenship efforts, including empowering youth and driving societal change through the proliferation of Microsoft technology.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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Monday, July 9, 2012

Microsoft Sees Big Opportunities for Partners With Upcoming Wave of New Products and Services

Press release:


Microsoft Sees Big Opportunities for Partners With Upcoming Wave of New Products and Services
July 09, 2012
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicks off Worldwide Partner Conference; Microsoft Office Division announces 1 billion Office users and new investments in Office 365 partners.
TORONTO — July 9, 2012 — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened Microsoft Corp.’s annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) by highlighting key product milestones and opportunities for partners contributing to the beginning of a new era for the company. The four-day event celebrates the accomplishments of the company’s more than 640,000 global partners and gives a preview of what will be the most exciting product releases for Microsoft in the coming year.
“This will be the biggest product and services launch year in our company’s history, creating massive opportunities for our partners to grow their businesses,” Ballmer said. “With Windows — Windows 8, Windows Phone 8, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Azure — and Office 365, there’s never been a better time to be a Microsoft partner. The opportunities for us to do amazing things for our joint customers have never been greater.” 
Speaking before nearly 16,000 attendees from around the globe, Kurt DelBene, president of the Microsoft Office Division, announced that 1 billion people worldwide now use Microsoft Office. Fueling that growth has been Office 2010, the most popular version of Office ever. Worldwide, someone buys a copy of Office 2010 every second. 
DelBene also announced two new investments in Office 365 partners:
  • Office 365 Open is a new way for partners to sell Office 365. It establishes a traditional reseller model, enabling partners to realize more revenue, deliver packaged services with a single invoice, and own the customer relationship.
  • Office 365 Advisors Program updates let the most active partners earn more up front with Office 365. Starting today, partners who sell more than 150 seats are eligible to earn more revenue.
“The Office Division has never been stronger, and our amazing partners are critical to this success. Office is now used by more than a billion people, and Office 365 is on track to be one of the fastest-growing offers in our history,” DelBene said. “The investments announced today will fuel even more robust growth ahead.”
Other news from today’s keynote speeches included the following: 
  • In a wide-ranging Q&A that highlighted major moments from the past year and looked ahead to what’s next, Ballmer focused on business performance driven in large part by Microsoft partners. He specifically highlighted successes from partners working with Windows 7, Office, Windows Server, Windows Azure and Microsoft Dynamics. Ballmer also stated that, beyond any one product, the big trends the company is focused on include machine learning, form factors and UI, cloud, core platform, and new scenarios — communications, productivity and entertainment.
  • Tami Reller, corporate vice president and CFO, Windows and Windows Live Division, described the wave of ecosystem innovation coming with Windows 8 and demonstrated how Windows 8 is enterprise ready by design.
Partners to Hear From Other Executives
Throughout the week, senior executives will offer an inside look at the road ahead for Microsoft and its partners: 
  • Tomorrow, Satya Nadella, president of the Server and Tools Business; Kirill Tatarinov,president of Microsoft Business Solutions Division; and Thom Gruhler, corporate vice president of Windows Phone Marketing, will highlight new product opportunities for Microsoft partners and customers.
  • Jon Roskill, corporate vice president, Worldwide Partner Group, will give a keynote speech on Wednesday about finding the balance between the right products, the right local team alignment and the right partner growth opportunity.
  • Kevin Turner, chief operating officer, will speak on Wednesday, addressing the competitive advantages to partnering with Microsoft and the partner opportunity in emerging markets.
  • Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, the renowned physician, author and thought leader of the mind-body-spirit movement, will conclude the conference on Wednesday as the guest headliner.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

EMC "Certified Solution" Partner Program Heats Up


EMC Press Release
EMC "Certified Solution" Partner Program Heats Up
Demonstrates Traction with 45 Certified Partner Solutions with Information Intelligence Group Products in First Year of Program; Announces Partner Innovation Awards for Solution Excellence
EMC WORLD, LAS VEGAS - May 22, 2012

News Highlights:

  • EMC announces 45 partner solutions achieved "EMC® Certified Solution" status
  • Certification validates the solution for performance, scalability and interoperability with Information Intelligence Group products
  • EMC awards Americas' partners for Innovation in solution development and best practices in implementation, and the first President's Award for Customer Satisfaction

Full Story:

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) today announced significant progress with its global partner ecosystem, validating 45 partner-generated "EMC® Certified Solutions" in the first year. The certification is for tested, proven solutions that extend the functionality of products from the Information Intelligence Group (IIG) division of EMC. The Certified Solution program demonstrates a shared commitment for EMC and its partners to deliver solutions that drive direct business value for customers.

EMC Certified Solution Program

Announced at EMC World 2011, the EMC Certified Solutions program has quickly become a competitive differentiator for information management companies looking to innovate and build solutions and enabling technologies across the IIG product portfolio. These partner solutions are validated by EMC® Proven Professional Certified Architects as well as an independent third party organization for functional completeness, performance and scalability, security and interoperability. Certified status instills high standards of customer confidence in the solution architecture and foundation.
With more than 45 solutions certified globally, EMC is pleased to recognize recently EMC Certified Solutions and Enabling Technologies from the following partner organizations:
  • 6pm Holdings PLC
  • Arizen Systems Pte. Ltd.
  • Daeja Image Systems Ltd
  • enChoice, Inc.
  • euroscript
  • Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC)
  • INFOTEHNA Group LLC
  • International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
  • Nantian Software Co., Ltd.
  • Perficient, Inc.
  • Reveille Software
  • Trinity Technologies Corp
  • Wave Technology Solutions Group
  • Wipro Technologies

Partner Innovation and Customer Satisfaction Awards

EMC also announced the winners of its IIG Partner Innovation Awards for the Americas. These awards recognize partners for excellence in innovative solution development, design integration, and best practices in implementation and deployment. The partner award winners are:
  • Best ApplicationXtender Solution: Business Imaging Systems for Life Insurance Policy Processing Solution
  • Best Capture Solution: Information Capture Solutions for ICS Dental Claims Processing Solution
  • Best Case Management Solution: BRT, Inc. for Accounts Payable Automation Solution
  • Best Customer Communications Solution: ACS, a Xerox Company, for Enterprise II MMIS Solution
  • Best eDiscovery Solution: eMag Solutions for eDiscovery Processing and Review Solution
  • Best Pervasive Governance Solution: Paragon Solutions for Information Analytics & Remediation Solution
  • Outstanding Industry Solution for Energy and Utilities: Trinity Technologies for Trinity Suite
  • Outstanding Industry Solution for Financial Services: Paragon Solutions for New Account Opening Solution
  • Outstanding Industry Solution for Healthcare: Gimmal LLC for Healthcare Information Management Imaging Solution
  • Outstanding Industry Solution for Public Sector: Wave Technology Solutions Group for Tax Processing Management Solution
  • Excellence in Services Integration: Flatirons Solutions for Application Retirement Solution
  • Excellence in Design Integration: Pitney Bowes for Digital Mailroom Solution
Lastly, EMC announced its first-ever IIG President's Award for Customer Satisfaction, which recognizes partners for delivering high levels of customer satisfaction in a services or solution implementation. The award was presented to Capgemini.

Partner Quotes:

Christian Becht, Global ECM Lead, Capgemini France
"We are honored to be the first recipient of the President's Award for Customer Satisfaction from EMC's Information Intelligence Group. This validates our long-standing client focus and Collaborative Business Experience approach, which is the essence of how we work. We look forward to continued success, teaming with EMC to drive business value with the high standards of service and satisfaction our customers expect."
John Middleton, Vice President, BRT, Inc.
"We are delighted to receive the Best Case Management Solution award from EMC for our Accounts Payable Automation solution. Our customers continue to be faced with challenges in automating and streamlining complex processes. By leveraging EMC Documentum xCP and EMC Captiva technologies, we've built a solution that delivers significant efficiencies for customers. Our BRT Accounts Payable Automation solution was one of the first to achieve the EMC Certified Solution designation, which allows us to ensure higher degrees of customer confidence."

Executive Quote:

Chris McLaughlin, Vice President of Channels and Alliances for EMC's Information Intelligence Group
"The EMC Certified Solution program continues to gain momentum, with 45 solutions and enabling technologies certified to date. This program ensures customers will continue to achieve the solid business benefits they expect from EMC and its valued partner community; realizing efficiencies across their organizations' complex business processes, while achieving quicker time to value than ever before."

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About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Dell and Red Hat Collaborate for Embedded Solutions through Dell OEM Partner Program

Press release:


Dell and Red Hat Collaborate for Embedded Solutions through Dell OEM Partner Program

RALEIGH

NC, Global, May 8, 2012

Combined Dell Hardware and Red Hat Software Solutions Help Manufacturers Save Money, Speed Time-to-Market

Dell and Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced they have signed an agreement to produce Dell and Red Hat hardware/software solutions for IT manufacturers worldwide. Enabling fast time-to-market and considerable cost reductions, Dell OEM Solutions group, as part of its recently announced Dell OEM Partner Program, will offer flexible, integrated systems based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat JBoss Middleware Solutions. Now manufacturers can customize Dell Precision and PowerEdge platforms and utilize the performance and reliability of Red Hat's offerings with approved terms and conditions.
"This newly announced extension of our successful ten-year collaboration means that Dell and Red Hat today can serve the most demanding builders of technology solutions,” said Dion Cornett, vice president, Strategic Alliances at Red Hat. “Appliance and application vendors leveraging the trusted brands and proven solutions of Dell and Red Hat, integrated into a cohesive and readily consumable offering, will enjoy compelling value."
Dell designed the OEM Partner Program to be a highly customizable, one-stop shop for manufacturers. Organized into OEM Channel Partners and OEM Solution Partners, the program includes various levels and types of partnerships which tailor support according to customer needs. Red Hat and/or Dell provide IT manufacturers with several key components to enable their success including:
  • deep technical resources and close collaboration with critical suppliers;
  • best-of-breed technologies at competitive price points;
  • product certification and regulatory compliance;
  • extended-life products with locked down hardware configurations; and
  • high level of product customization and branding.
“Dell OEM Solutions division collaborates with key technology providers, such as Red Hat, to enable manufacturers to build a more robust and flexible hardware platform,” said Ron Pugh, executive director and general manager, Dell OEM Solutions, Americas. “The technical integration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Middleware offerings with Dell solutions addresses customer specific requirements including regulatory compliance, product life cycles, and quality testing. We are thrilled to have Red Hat as part of the OEM Partner Program as they will help manufacturers with their unique go-to-market needs while allowing them to deliver innovative solutions faster.”
For more information, please visit the below sites.
Dell OEM Solutions and Red Hat Embedded: here
Red Hat: www.redhat.com
Red Hat News site: here
About Dell
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. Dell OEM Solutions helps its customers find more balance between execution and innovation with dedicated OEM resources, industry-standard hardware and global services and support capabilities. Dell helps its OEM customers improve their time to profit and run their operations more efficiently for increased competitive edge. Learn more at www.dell.com/oem.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions and an S&P 500 company, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with more than 70 offices spanning the globe. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with cloud, virtualization, management, storage and service-oriented architecture (SOA) solutions, including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
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