Week of October 25, 2004

 

10/28/04 - Verio Chooses MX Logic
Verio, global IP solutions, selected MX Logic Email Defense Gateway Service Provider edition to deliver comprehensive email defense services to new shared hosting customers and its existing U.S.-shared hosting customer base...more>

10/28/04 - American Eagle Outfitters Selects Redline Networks to Enhance Web Site Performance
American Eagle Outfitters, lifestyle retailer, has selected Redline to enhance American Eagle Outfitters' Website, ae.com in managing increased traffic volume and eliminating dropped user connections...more>

10/28/04 - MessageLabs Signs Unisys as Global Reseller Partner
Unisys Corporation, global IT services company, and MessageLabs, provider of managed email security services, announced an alliance to reduce and minimize email threats to enterprises. Unisys is delivering solutions, powered by MessageLabs and driven by Unisys Managed Security Services...more>

10/27/04 - Clearswift's MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.0 Extends
Support for Compliance Initiatives
Clearswift, the MIMEsweeper Company, announced that MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.0 provides substantial support for compliance initiatives, easing the burden of observing regulation laws such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Basel II, HIPAA, SEC and NYSD regulations and the Data Protection Act as it relates to email content...more>

10/27/04 - Hitachi Capital Deploys 140 Expand Accelerators
Hitachi Capital has deployed Expand Accelerators in over 130 remote locations as part of a larger project involving the financial institution’s migration to a server based computing environment and an MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) network...more>

10/27/04 - Xten Delivers VoIP, Video, Instant Messaging and Presence over 3G UMTS
Xten, VoIP and Video over IP SIP softphones, demonstrated new features including Instant Messaging and Presence over a 3G UMTS network using the Vonage service...more>

10/27/04 - Sybase and iAnywhere Introduce New Solutions for Wireless Service
Sybase announced the launch of new technologies to drive increased adoption, operating margins and customer loyalty for wireless service providers, wireless ISV's and mobile device manufacturers...more>

10/27/04 - BlackSpider Technologies Signs Secon
Email security services company, Black Spider Technologies, signed a partnership agreement with network and Internet security company, Secon, to offer managed email security services to Secon's customers...more>

10/27/04 - IMlogic IM Detector Pro gains widespread momentum
IMlogic IM Detector Pro, which detects and blocks unwanted IM and peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic (such as KaZaA and Skype), has helped global enterprises and small offices fend off such recent attacks as the JPEG virus and the MSN-Worm.Funner worm...more>

10/26/04 - IMlogic enables hedge funds to meet new SEC regulations with instant messaging compliance Quickstart Package
IMlogic announced a new quick start package to help hedge fund advisors comply with the new mandates to secure and save instant messaging (IM) communications...more>

10/26/04 - Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 customers meet federal compliance and archiving requirements with IMlogic
IMlogic announced that IM Manager will provide instant messaging (IM) management and compliance for Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 deployments...more>

10/26/04 - Application Security, Inc. and Visa International Form Strategic Global Alliance
Application Security Inc., proactive database security solutions, has entered into a two-year, global strategic alliance with Visa International, payments leader. The partnership will provide Visa, financial institutions and merchants with access to the latest advancements in database security technology to protect the privacy of critical enterprise information...more>

10/26/04 - Akonix Warns Public Companies of Instant Messaging Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Risks
Akonix Systems, Inc., business solutions for secure, managed and integrated instant messaging (IM), is urging organizations to make sure they have included IM as part of their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance preparation...more>

10/26/04 - Blue Coat Delivers High-Performance Web Filtering Using ISS Proventia Web Filter Technology Internet Security Systems and Blue Coat Systems have partnered to deliver ISS’ Proventia Web Filter technology on the high-performance Blue Coat ProxySG appliances...more>

10/26/04 - MphasiS and Thor Technologies Deliver Employee Portal Provisioning Solution
Thor Technologies, secure enterprise provisioning, and MphasiS, IT and business process outsourcing, announced the availability of the MphasiS Portal User Provisioning Solution enabling automation and view of user access rights and privileges across the portal...more>

10/26/04 - Virgin Mobile USA Licenses Bridgewater Systems' Software 
Bridgewater Systems, policy management solutions for dynamic IP services, announced that Virgin Mobile USA has licensed and implemented its AAA Service Controller solution to support the roll out of high-speed data services to its subscribers for applications such as music and gaming...more>

10/26/04 - Stampede Technologies' WebRider Brings Bob Evans 75% Time Savings
Stampede Technologies announced its first customer installation of the new WebRider for Bob Evans Farms. Bob Evans Farms owns and operates 577 full-service, family-casual restaurants in 21 states...more>

10/26/04 - Smartronix, Decru, and NetApp Unveil Secure Storage for Battlefield Data
Smartronix, Decru, Inc., and Network Appliance announced a secure storage solution designed for forward-deployed military environments. The Expeditionary Encrypted Data Store (EEDS) combines NetApp storage systems with Decru DataFort storage security appliances in a ruggedized, portable case...more>

10/25/04 - Xaffire Broadens Content Capture Options with 'Accelerating Interceptor'
 HyperSpace Communications, Internet and wide area network acceleration technology, and Xaffire, live Web session capture and playback technology, announced an OEM agreement enabling Xaffire to sell and distribute a new, integrated version of HyperSpace's
HyperWeb software with its Xfire Web application management tools...more>

10/25/04 - Crossbeam Announces Availability of the Most Scalable, High Performance Internal Security Gateway
Crossbeam Systems, security solutions, announced the availability of InterSpect from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. on its X-Series security services switches...more>

10/25/04 - Compuware Delivers Vantage Solution for Preproduction Service Assurance
The enhanced Compuware Vantage solution includes predictive analysis and comprehensive performance assessment capabilities that enable IT organizations to assess the impact of application and infrastructure projects prior to deployment to reduce deployment risks and assure predictable service levels...more>

10/25/04 - Operax and Caspian Networks Partner
Operax and Caspian Networks are working together to allow service providers to enforce end-to-end service guarantees when migrating to multi-service IP networks...more>

10/04 - Actional Corporation and Westbridge Technology Merge
Actional Corporation,  Web services management software provider, and Westbridge Technology, security infrastructure solutions, announced the merger of the two companies and the completion of a C round of funding for $12.9 million. Investors included: Arrowpath Venture Capital, August Capital, Granite Ventures, International Capital Group, NEA, NeoCarta, SAIC Venture Capital and Sevin Rosen...more>

10/04 - Mpower Communications to Acquire ICG Communications’
Mpower Communications, broadband Internet access and telephone services to business customers, announced a definitive agreement to acquire ICG Communications' customer base and certain network assets in California Mpower will purchase these assets for $13.5 million in the form of 10,740,030 shares of Mpower Holding Corporation common stock...more>

10/04 - Citadel Security Software Announces Hercules 3.5 and New AssetGuard Component
Citadel Security Software, vulnerability management and policy enforcement solutions, announced Hercules 3.5 and the new AssetGuard component. Hercules 3.5 delivers an enterprise vulnerability management solution that includes expanded security configuration policy templates, improved workflow and monitoring capabilities and comprehensive device discovery...more>

10/04 - WatchMark-Comnitel to Purchase Metrica Service Assurance Group
WatchMark-Comnitel, performance and service management solutions, signed an agreement to purchase the Metrica Service Assurance group from ADC Telecommunications for $35M in cash and 3.2M shares...more>

10/04 - BlackSpider Launches Email Security Service in Germany
Email security services company, BlackSpider Technologies, continues its expansion into Europe with the launch of MailControl service in Germany...more>

10/04 - Secured Services Debuts Identiprise 6.0
Secured Services, identity and access management security software, announced the availability of Identiprise 6.0 with expanded compliance reporting, federated identity and user account provisioning functionality...more>

10/04 - Nexaweb and Edgewater Technology Join Forces to Deliver Rich Internet Solutions
Nexaweb Technologies, software platform for building and deploying Enterprise Internet Applications, and Edgewater Technology, consulting and systems integration firm, are joining forces to deliver rich Internet technology solutions to the marketplace...more>

10/29/04 - Interlink Networks Closed $2.85M
Interlink Networks, network security and access control software, closed the first of its Series C round of $2.85M...more>
 

10/29/04 - Metreos closes Series A financing
Metreos Corporation, productivity enhancing software applications, secured $3.8M led by Hunt Ventures, Gefinor Ventures, with STARTech Early Ventures...more>
 

10/29/04 - VISA INTERNATIONAL CHOOSES VERICEPT TO JOIN ITS STRATEGIC ALLIANCES & INVESTMENTS PROGRAM
Vericept Corporation, intelligent content monitoring services,  entered a two-year global strategic alliance with Visa International. Visa International has also made an equity investment in Vericept as part of its Series C funding round, which raised a total of $16.3 million...more>
 

10/27/04 - Akamai Reports Record Revenues and Profits
Akamai Technologies, distributed computing solutions and services, reported revenue for Q3 2004 was $53.3M, a 5% increase over Q2 2004 revenue of $50.8M and a 28% increase over Q3 2003 revenue of $41.8M
...more>
 

10/26/04 - IronPort Raises $45M Series D
IronPort Systems raised $45 million in series D funding led by New Enterprise Associates with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, General Motors Asset Management and ChevronTexaco Technology Ventures LLC. Including the most recent funding, the company has raised over $90 million in capital...more>
 

10/25/04 - Openwave Achieves Profitability Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2005 Results
Openwave Systems, open software products and services for the communications industry, announced revenues for its first fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2004 were $83.6 million, an increase of 9% from $76.8 million during the preceding quarter ended June 30, 2004 and an increase of 23% from $68.0 million during the September quarter in the preceding year...more>
 

10/25/04 - Motricity Secures $27 Million in Funding
Motricity (formerly PowerByHand), mobile content distribution solutions, closed $27 million in venture funding led by Silicon Valley-based Technology Crossover Ventures with  New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Intel Capital, Massey Burch Capital, Noro-Moseley Partners and Wakefield Group...more>
 

10/25/04 - Argelcom Raises $457K Seed Round
Argelcom Ltd., a provider of services and products for the authentication and protection of digital information, raised GBP250,000 ($456,907) in a seed round from London-based venture capital firm Quester...more>

10/25/04 - LiveVault Experiences More Than 100% Revenue Growth in Q3 2004
LiveVault Corporation, disk-based online backup and recovery solutions for business servers, announced that it experienced another record quarter in Q3 2004, with revenues totaling 226% of Q3 2003 revenues...more>

Oct 29, 2004 - GeoTrust, identity verification and e-security solutions, selected Jeffrey Weber as chief financial officer...more>
 

Oct 29, 2004 - Neogent, enterprise security identity solutions, appointed Dennis Faggioni as CEO...more>
 

Oct 27, 2004 - IP Infusion, intelligent network software for enhanced IP services platforms, promoted Stephen Mock to vice president marketing and business development, Donald Adams to vice president of North American Sales and selected Len Eisenstein as vice president of worldwide sales ...more>
 

Oct 26, 2004 - LVL7 Systems, production-ready networking software,  taps Cisco executive, David King as its vice president of marketing and strategy ...more>
 

Oct 26, 2004 - Virsa Systems, real-time, 24/7 security and controls software, appointed David Cassady as senior vice president of worldwide field operations...more>
 

Oct 2004 - Bill Cadogan has been named chairman of the board and interim CEO at Mahi Networks, multi-service metro transport and switching platforms...more>
 

 

Week of October 18, 2004

 

10/21/04 - Cisco Systems Announces Intent to Acquire Perfigo
Cisco Systems, announced its intent to acquire privately-held Perfigo, Inc., a developer of packaged network access control solutions that provide endpoint policy analysis, compliance, and access enforcement capabilities. Cisco will pay approximately $74 million in cash for Perfigo...more>

10/19/04 - Entrust Announces New Authentication Offering to Combat Identity Theft
Entrust, Identity and Access Management solutions, announced Entrust IdentityGuard, a new authentication product designed to help address identity theft that is currently damaging confidence in on-line transactions...more>

10/19/04 - Inflow Acquires Managed Services Provider i-bridge
Inflow Inc., IT outsourcing services, acquired the assets of  i-bridge, a managed services provider...more>

10/19/04 - MessageOne Acquires Evergreen Assurance Technology
MessageOne, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, acquired assets and technologies of Evergreen Assurance, provider of high availability failover solutions for Microsoft Windows applications. Evergreen Assurance's largest investor, Venrock Associates, made an undisclosed cash investment in MessageOne...more>

10/19/04 - Openwave Launches Edge Gx 2.0
Openwave Systems Inc., open software products and services for the communications industry, released Openwave Edge Gx 2.0 to help protect end-users against spam, viruses and other malicious attacks...more>

10/19/04 - BroadSoft and Microsoft To Integrate Hosted VoIP Services
BroadSoft, provider of network communications platforms, is working with Microsoft to integrate Microsoft's Live Communications Server 2005 and the forthcoming next generation live communications client, which supports instant messaging (IM) and presence capabilities for enterprises, with BroadSoft's BroadWorks platform...more>

10/19/04 - BorderWare MXtreme Mail Firewall Gains Approval from Canadian Government
The Communications Security Establishment, the Canadian Government's IT security watchdog, has approved BorderWare's MXtreme Mail Firewall for use by the Government of Canada...more>

10/19/04 - Coyote Point announces new VAR program and partnership with Ingram Micro
Coyote Point Systems, application traffic management and server
load-balancing technology, announced the company's new partner program for Value Added Resellers and systems integrators.  The new program will incorporate Coyote Point's Equalizer solutions into their portfolio of offerings...more>

10/19/04 - Microsoft MapPoint Business Unit Chooses Keynote for Service Level Compliance
Microsoft's MapPoint Business Unit has chosen Keynote Performance Scoreboard and Keynote Diagnostic Services to track service level compliance in the MapPoint Web service operations center...more>

10/19/04 - Keynote Announces New Credit Card Web Transaction Performance Index
Keynote announced it's latest Web transaction performance index designed to serve the credit card industry. Diners Club tops the inaugural rankings in both Web transaction speed and reliability...more>

10/19/04 - Xten Celebrates the Launch of VoIPmobility.com
Xten, VoIP (Voice over IP) and Video over IP SIP softphones,
announced a new mobile IP communications effort www.voipmobility.com in concert with the release of their new Windows Mobile Pocket PC SIP softphone...more>

10/18/04 - Blue Coat Introduces First Preventive Gateway Anti-Spyware Solution
Blue Coat Systems, proxy appliances, introduced a preventive gateway anti-spyware solution that blocks access to known spyware Web sites and scans Web content for known spyware signatures, as well as identifies and reports infected computers to IT administrators, while end-users are notified that a spyware clean-up is required...more>

10/18/04 - Aeris Acquires New Digital Business Lines
Aeris.net, network provider for wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) communications services, announced an agreement to acquire t-Connect and t-Data from WirelessCar North America, a leading provider of data services for the telematics and M2M industries...more>

10/18/04 - Addamark Changes Name to SenSage
Addamark Technologies announced its name change to SenSage Inc., provider of next generation security information management products and launched a new version of its product, SenSage 3.0...more>

10/18/04 - MARSYS Integrates Adlex ITvisibility with Global Utility-Based IT Platform
Adlex, service delivery management, announced that MARSYS, provider of IT managed services and technologies, has deployed Adlex ITvisibility to monitor and measure the service levels delivered to customers as part of the company's global utility-based IT network...more>

10/18/04 - SecureMedia Adds Authentication Extension to Ecryptonite System DRM Solution
SecureMedia released an authentication extension to its leading Encryptonite System digital rights management solution. The Encryptonite System Access Manager ("ESAM") version 1.0...more>

10/18/04 - Telchemy and Opticom form strategic alliance
Telchemy, real-time VoIP Performance management software, and OPTICOM GmbH, perceptual voice quality testing technology, announced a strategic partnership to advance IP call quality and performance management across real-time multimedia services worldwide...more>

10/18/04 - BEA Ships Service Oriented Architecture-Based Mobile Solution
BEA Systems, enterprise infrastructure software, announced the
availability of MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition, an integrated, mobile platform designed to help customers mobilize online data and business processes...more>

10/04 - Tumbleweed Announces Results for Third Quarter of 2004
Tumbleweed, email and data security products, reported Q3-04 revenue of $11.2 million, up 30% from $8.6 million in Q3-03; a net loss of $2.7 million, compared to a net loss of $1.8 million in Q3-03...more>

10/04 - ServiceFactory completes $7.1M (EUR 5.5 million) financing round
ServiceFactory, European vendor of broadband Internet access and service management systems, closed an additional round of funding at EUR 5.5 million led by POD Holding. Existing investors BrainHeart Capital and TeliaSonera also participated...more>
 

10/04 - Seanodes raises a first round of funding
Seanodes, the publisher of edge storage software solutions specifically designed for Linux clusters, raised a first round of funding of $1.9M (EUR 1.5M) from Elaia Ventures and IRDI...more>
 

10/04 - Anagran Receives $8M in Funding
Anagran, developing a next generation Customer Premises Equipment IP Router, received $8M in its first round financing from ArrowPath Venture Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Argon Capital
...more>
 

10/21/04 - Network Inference Announces $8.1 Million in New Funding
Network Inference, standards-based adaptive software infrastructure,  closed $8.1 million dollars as part of its Series B venture capital funding round co-led by Palomar Ventures and Nokia Venture Partners...more>
 

10/19/04 - Infinera Raises $52M Additional Capital to Expand Market Coverage
Infinera, Digital Optical Networking, completed a new $52M round of funding, bringing total capital invested in Infinera to $205M. Venture backers include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, JAFCO Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mobius Venture Capital, Sprout Group, Sutter Hill Ventures, Venrock Associates, and Worldview Technology Partners. Infinera’s strategic investors include UTStarcom and CTC as well as Agilent, Applied Materials Ventures, Cypress Semiconductor, and Juniper Networks...more>
 

10/18/04 - Scentric Secures $5.6M Funding
Scentric Inc., storage infrastructure solutions, raised $5.6M in financing led by HIG Ventures and Valhalla Partners with Angel Investors, Imlay Investments and ATDC's Seed Capital Fund...more>
 

10/18/04 - TeraGo Networks Secures New Round of Funding and Launches in Edmonton, Alberta
TeraGo Networks Inc., Canada's fixed wireless broadband company, has secured its second round of financing this year, $2.5 million in equity financing from First Ontario Fund...more>
 

Oct 2004 - SimTel Technologies, network quality and performance optimization systems for digital mobile networks, appointed Ali Pourtaheri as CEO...more>
 

Oct 2004 - Rivermine Software, enterprise telecommunications management solutions, has hired Robert King as vice president of customer solutions...more>
 

Oct 2004 - Database software company, Metapa, appointed Steve Millard vice president of worldwide sales and Gary Butler vice president worldwide systems engineering...more>
 

Oct 2004 - MonoSphere, storage capacity management software solutions, named William Fuller to vice president of engineering...more>
 

Oct 18, 2004 - Rob Krol, former Packeteer EMEA sales executive, joins APconnections, supplier of plug-and-play bandwidth shaping products, as vice president of EMEA sales and Wim Timmer joins as director, sales support, EMEA...more>
 

Oct 18, 2004 - Authentica, Enterprise Digital Rights Management software, appointed Norman Meisner as vice president of business development...more>
 

 

Week of October 11, 2004

 

10/14/04 - CyberGuard Introduces WebWasher CSM Appliance
CyberGuard Corporation, network security, announced availability of the CyberGuard WW1000 Content Security Appliance, integrating Webwasher's Content Security Managment Suite into full content security management device utilizing CG Linux...more>

10/13/04 - BlackSpider Launches MailControl in France
Email security company, BlackSpider Technologies, has begun expanding into Europe with the launch of its MailControl service in France...more>

10/13/04 - Ipsum's RouteDynamics Enhances Network Security
Ipsum Networks, end-to-end IP-layer management solutions, enhanced its flagship product, RouteDynamics, providing service path security to eliminate potential gaps in existing network security strategies...more>

10/13/04 - Vodafone Spain Turns to Atos Origin/Stratus for
Next-Generation Intelligent Network Services
Stratus Technologies, fault-tolerant computer servers, technologies and services, announced that Atos Origin, IT solutions provider for advanced telecommunications solutions, has been selected by Vodafone Spain to deploy an advanced call routing application on Stratus' server technology...more>

10/13/04 - NetIQ Founders Launch Symphoniq Corporation
Symphoniq Corporation led by NetIQ founders, Hon Wong, Ching-Fa Hwang and Her-daw Che, launched a new company to manage the user experience of both customer facing and enterprise Web applications...more>

10/13/04 - Ingrian Networks Unveils Support for Oracle Database 10g
Ingrian Networks, data privacy solutions and partner in the Oracle PartnerNetwork, released software that lets organizations securely and efficiently manage the encryption of sensitive information in an Oracle Database—without disrupting the applications tied to that database...more>

10/12/04 - Iron Mountain to Acquire Connected Corporation
Iron Mountain Incorporated signed a definitive agreement to acquire Connected Corporation in a cash transaction valued at approximately $117 million. The acquisition builds on Iron Mountain’s mission to protect its customers’ information and to protect its customers through compliant information management...more>

10/12/04 - QUALCOMM Acquires UK-Based, Mobile User Interface Leader Trigenix
QUALCOMM Incorporated, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, has acquired Trigenix, a mobile user interface company. The acquisition provides QUALCOMM with Trigenix’s User Interface (UI) development technologies, products and tools, and extends QUALCOMM’s commitment to the European wireless community...more>

10/12/04 - Wavelink Acquires AirPrism
Wavelink Corporation, mobile infrastructure management software for the enterprise, announced a definitive agreement to acquire AirPrism, a provider of advanced mobile device management and security software...more>

10/12/04 - Forum Systems and F5 Form Technology Alliance
Forum Systems, provider of trust management and threat protection Web services security solutions, has joined F5 Networks' Technology
Alliance Program. The partnership with F5, Application Traffic Management solutions, brings IP-based networking infrastructures and XML Web services security together...more>

10/12/04 - Juniper Networks Enables Secure Deployment of VoIP, P2P and IM Applications
Juniper Networks announced enhancements to its NetScreen ScreenOS operating system,  to help enterprises and service providers securely deploy new services and applications, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), peer-to-peer (P2P) and instant messaging (IM) also additional security enhancements were added...more>

10/12/04 - TippingPoint Unveils UnityOne-100E Intrusion Prevention System
TippingPoint Technologies,
intrusion prevention, introduced the UnityOne-100E Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), that includes Advanced Denial of Service (DoS) Protection and performs at 100 megabits per second, and will be available this month...more>

10/12/04 - IBM announces agreement to acquire Systemcorp
IBM signed an agreement to acquire Canadian project portfolio management software company, Systemcorp ALG Ltd., providing organizations with a comprehensive view of IT projects across the enterprise...more>

10/12/04 - EMC Acquires Dantz Development Corporation
EMC Corporation announced the acquisition of Dantz Development Corporation, a privately held supplier of backup and recovery software for small and midsize businesses...more>

10/12/04 - MIMEsweeper for SMTP 5.0 Sets New Standards for Content Security Market
Clearswift released the latest version of its flagship product—MIMEsweeper for SMTP version 5.0, providing an enterprise-class solution that scales...more>

10/12/04 - First National Bank Gets T1 Performance Over 56 Kbps Links with Expand Accelerators
First National Bank of Iowa, has deployed Expand Networks' Accelerator 1800 Series to deliver high bandwidth core-banking applications to branch offices...more>

10/12/04 - IC INTRACOM Introduces Multifunction SOHO Server
First National Ba
rorks' Accelerator 1800 Series to deliver high bandwidth core-banking applications to branch offices...more>

10/12/04 - MX Logic's Extensive Partner Program Achieves 213 Percent Growth
MX Logic, email defense solutions, achieved 213 percent growth in its partner program during 2004 (more than 250 partners), helping to boost corporate revenue 900 percent in the past 12 months...more>

10/12/04 - Akonix Extends IM Management Market Leadership With Record Revenues and New Customers
Akonix Systems, business solutions for secure, managed and integrated multi-network enterprise instant messaging (IM), announces record revenues in Q3 2004 and added 190,000 new seat licenses ending the third quarter with over 400 customers and more than 500,000 seats deployed...more>

10/11/04 - Fortress Acquires Legra Systems Technology
Fortress Technologies, security for wireless networks, acquired technology and assets from Legra Systems, security processing architecture and wireless switch technology from Legra Systems will be integrated with Fortress' secure policy-based capabilities...more>

10/11/04 - SpikeSources Out of Stealth
Venture Wire reports that
SpikeSource, an open source IT services company, has come out of stealth after 16 months in incubation at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers...more>

10/11/04 - Caymas Systems Announces First Identity-Driven Access Gateways
Caymas Systems unveiled the first Identity-Driven Access Gateways, with the Caymas 220, 318, and 525 enterprises to enable, control, secure, and audit internal and external access to enterprise data and applications by using the unique identity of users, devices, and resources...more>

10/11/04 - Mitratech Chooses NaviSite as Application Service Partner
Mitratech, business process automation, has selected NaviSite as its ASP (Application Service Provider) hosting partner.  Mitratech will leverage NaviSite's expertise to provide its TeamConnect software as a hosted service...more>

10/11/04 - Tasman Networks Adds New Entry-Level Multiservice Router
Tasman Networks, intelligent, multi-service access routers for the service provider, OEM, and enterprise markets, announced the Tasman 1001 entry-level WAN access router and security device with new features including multicast routing, IPSec VPN, stateful firewall, and an integrated easy-to-use Web-based graphical user interface (GUI)...more>

10/11/04 - HyperSpace Announces Enhancements For HyperTunnel Client Software
HyperSpace Communications, application acceleration products, added Deterministic Networks', specialized “Deterministic Network Enhancer” driver to the company’s HyperTunnel product...more>

10/11/04 - Euclid Introduces New QuickStart Services
Euclid Inc., business service management (BSM) solutions, announced the availability of three new QuickStart Business Service Consulting packages: Blueprinting, Storyboarding, and Management Automation...more>

10/11/04 - Akonix Protects Organizations From Latest Instant Messaging Security Vulnerability
Akonix Systems, business solutions for secure, managed and integrated multi-network enterprise instant messaging (IM), warns corporations about a new tool that would allow denial-of-service (DoS) attacks to occur using IM bots. Akonix has updated its solution to automatically protect enterprises using Akonix L7 Enterprise from this flaw...more>

10/11/04 - Juniper Networks Extends Innovation at the Broadband Network Edge
Juniper Networks announced new hardware and software features for its E-series edge routing platform that enable providers to deploy more sophisticated broadband services...more>

10/13/04 - Laszlo Systems Secures $5 Million in Venture Funding
Laszlo Systems, Laszlo open source platform and provider of rich client applications and services,  announced the first installment of the company's Series B funding with $5 million secured. New investor Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners (MCVP) led the round, with General Catalyst Partners and Sofinnova Ventures...more>
 

10/13/04 - Fiberlink Secures $20 Million
Fiberlink Communications Corp., managed remote access and security services, signed an agreement securing a credit facility in the amount of $20 million. The revolving credit facility is extended by Wachovia Bank, as agent, and Comerica, as participant, and will be made available to the company for two years...more>

10/12/04 - Meiosys Secures $7.5 Million Investment in Series D Financing
Meiosys, transparent application virtualization and stateful application relocation solutions, has secured approximately $7.5 million in an institutional round of private equity financing led by outside investor Crédit Lyonnais Private Equity and included Alven Capital, Baytech Venture Capital, Partech International, Wellington Partners, Cisco Systems and Siparex. This additional financing brings Meiosys' total funding to approximately $16 million...more>

Oct 13, 2004 - NetScaler, application delivery systems, has added Don LeBeau, president and chief executive officer at Aruba Wireless Networks, to its Board of Directors and also named Zane Taylor as vice president of worldwide operations...more>
 

Oct 13, 2004 - Sheer Networks, service management solutions, appointed Miki Zevadi as vice president of marketing and business development...more>
 

Oct 12, 2004 - Former Logitech CFO, Tim Zier, joins Wavelink Corporation, mobile infrastructure management software, as CFO...more>
 

Oct 12, 2004 - SANRAD Inc., intelligent iSCSI IP SAN solutions, promoted Dave Stoner to vice president of US sales...more>
 

Oct 12, 2004 - Service delivery management company, Centrata, named Martin Doettling as senior vice president of marketing and products and Michael Meehan as vice president of sales...more>
 

Oct 12, 2004 - Vormetric, security solutions, appointed Reed Taussig as president and CEO...more>
 

 

Week of October 4, 2004

 

10/8/04 - MX Logic Announces Sept CAN-SPAM compliance
MX Logic, email defense solutions, reported that in September 4 percent of unsolicited commercial email complied with The Controlling the Assault of Unsolicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act.  Up from 2 percent compliance in August...more>

10/7/04 - InfoExpress and BigFix in Alliance to Protect Enterprise Networks
InfoExpress, enterprise network security solutions, entered into a technology alliance with BigFix, vulnerability and security configuration management solutions, to integrate its flagship CyberGatekeeper solution with the BigFix Enterprise Suite...more>

10/6/04 - HyperSpace Publishes Patent Applications
HyperSpace Communications, a software provider of application acceleration products, announced that patent applications 10/383,992 and 10/430,997 were published on September 9, 2004 covering technology used in HyperTunnel, encrypted, bi-directional acceleration for wide area networks...more>

10/6/04 - NetApp Storage Helps TTI-North America's Hardware Group Simplify Data Management
North America's Hardware Group, manufacturer of power tools and outdoor products, selected Network Appliance's NetApp enterprise storage to manage and protect application data for its SAP solutions environment...more>

10/6/04 - Avinti iSolation Server is the First Product to Use Virtual Machines to View and Quarantine Threat-bearing E-mail Messages
Avinti is eliminating the e-mail security threat from corporate e-mail systems with the launch of the Avinti iSolation Server.  Avinti's iSolation Server is an e-mail security product to use virtual-machine technology to test messages in a secure environment prior to end-user delivery...more>

10/6/04 - Healthcare Organization Custs Security Patching Time by 75%
Healthcare organization, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, implemented an automated patch management solution from Shavlik Technologies ...more>

10/5/04 - Blue Coat Helps Launch Industry Initiative to Establish Common Architecture for Deploying Web Applications
Blue Coat Systems, proxy appliances, has teamed with APM Advisors and nine leading application performance management companies to launch the Business Policy Initiative, a coordinated effort to develop and define a common structure for deploying Web applications and underlying Web services...more>

10/5/04 - European Community's Financial Institution Implements SSL VPN Access Security Solution from Juniper Networks
European Investment Bank has deployed its Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) solution to enable secure access to the bank's corporate network...more>

10/5/04 - Vignette Document and Records Management Offers Support for Leading Storage Platforms
Vignette has added support for Network Appliance products to existing support for enterprise storage platforms from EMC, HP and Sun Microsystems...more>

10/5/04 - Network Appliance Announces New Security Capabilities
Network Appliance announced NetApp NetCache 6.0 software to enhance and strengthen Internet access and security solutions - NetCache 6.0 software guards against security threats...more>

10/5/04 - Network Appliance and Websense Now Offer Integrated Security Solution
Network Appliance, Internet access and security solutions, and Websense, employee Internet management solutions, announced the availability of a new security and web filtering solution...more>

10/5/04 - DataPower First to Demonstrate Real-World Deployments of Hardware-Based Federated Identity Management Enforcement Point Using WS-Security and SAML
DataPower, intelligent XML-aware Networking (XAN) infrastructure, announced it is the first XML Web services security provider to demonstrate real-world Web service deployments with customers utilizing WS-Security and SAML for federated authentication and authorization across domains to partners and customers...more>

10/4/04 - Cyota FraudAction helps fight fraud at Barclays and Barclaycard
Cyota’s FraudAction service has been selected and successfully deployed by Barclays Bank Plc and Barclaycard, one of the largest retail banks and the largest card issuer in Europe, to pro-actively battle the growing problem of email fraud, also known as “phishing”...more>

10/4/04 - IBM Adds Web Acceleration from ActivNetworks
IBM and ActivNetworks, acceleration for web-enabled applications, have signed a software development and co-marketing agreement. This partnership introduces 'BoostEdge for IBM' models built on the IBM xSeries platform...more>

10/4/04 - EMC Redefines Enterprise Replication and Data Mobility
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today introduced innovative new enterprise replication and data mobility software that allows customers to better protect and migrate their most important information...more>

10/4/04 - EMC Delivers Information Lifecycle Management for Network Attached Storage  
New EMC Celerra FileMover delivers policy-based file movement and new open API allows for easy ISV integration...more>

10/4/04 - EMC Advances Information Lifecycle Management Capabilities
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced a series of innovative new products and made significant enhancements to its information management software to help customers plan, build and implement an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy...more>

10/7/04 - Astoria Software Receives $3.4M
Astoria Software, software for managing structured content, secured $3.4 million in new funding and the addition of Prism Venture Partners as its largest investor, with Blueprint Ventures, Goldman Sachs, APV Technology Partners, Ticonderoga Capital, Crystal Ventures and Solstice Capital bringing recent funding to $14.8 million...more>

10/7/04 - Speakanet A/S receives investment
Speakanet A/S, a Danish developer of virtual PBX systems for mobile and VoIP telephony, secured $5M (EUR4M) in the first round investment from Eqvitec Partners and Northzone Ventures...more>

10/6/04 - Nordic Trio Invests in TFS Technology
Northzone Ventures, IT Provider and Eqvitec have signed an agreement to invest $5.3M in Swedish firm, TFS Technology, identity and access management...more>

10/6/04 - Expway Raises $4.3M in Third Round
Expway, technology that compresses and transmits large XML data files, raised $4.3M (EUR3.5M) in third round financing
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10/4/04 - Diligent Technologies Closes $22M Funding
Diligent Technologies, data protection software for mainframe and open systems environments, completed a $22M follow-on round of financing. The oversubscribed investment was co-led by Accel Partners, Matrix Partners with Gemini Israel Funds. Total funding to date $37M...more>

10/4/04 - Solsoft Raises $7 Million in Venture Funding
Solsoft, network security policy management solutions, announced an additional $7 million in venture capital funding from The Carlyle Group, Credit Lyonnais (CLAM) Private Equity, Rothschild Management, and Logispring. This round of funding brings the total investment in the company to $42 million since the company’s founding in 1998...more>

10/4/04 - Six Apart receives series B funding from August Capital
Six Apart, software used by webloggers, received $10 million in Series B funding from August Capital...more>

10/4/04 - AptSoft Secures $6M in Second Round Funding
AptSoft, business process alignment technology, closed $6M in second round financing led by Egan-Managed Capital with Lazard Technology partners and Portage Venture Partners...more>

10/4/04 - CenterBoard Completes Second Round of Funding
CenterBoard, the Virtual ODS company, secured $6 million in a second round of financing from Bay Partners, Woodside Fund and Siemens Venture Capital...more>

10/1/04 - HyperSpace Announcing Closing of its Initial Public Offering
HyperSpace Communications, Internet, wide area network and remote access acceleration and optimization software products, announced the closing of its initial public offering in which 1,800,000 Units were sold at a price of $5.50 per Unit. All Units were sold by HyperSpace, there are no selling shareholders...more>

10/1/04 - AccessLine Announces $6M in Additional Financing
AccessLine Communications, hosted and managed voice services for the business market, announced $6 million in debt financing from ORIX Venture Finance LLC, Mellon Ventures, Venrock Associates, Gabriel Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs and Alexander Hutton Venture Partners...more>

10/04 - Metapa Secures $8M in Venture Funding
Metapa, database software for data warehousing, completed $8M in funding led by Mission Ventures, EDF Ventures and Dawntreader ventures...more>

Oct 8, 2004 - Citadon, Web-based collaboration, appointed Michael Wallach as executive vice president of sales...more>
 

Oct 6, 2004 - Instant802 Networks, wireless software, appointed David Fraser CEO...more>
 

Oct 5, 2004 - Asante Technologies, networking solutions for the small-medium business (SMB) market, hired Craig Johnson as vice president of marketing and David Kichar as vice president of operations...more>
 

Oct 5, 2004 - LightSand Communications, storage area network connectivity, named Richard Czech as CEO...more>
 

Oct 4, 2004 - Propagate Networks selects Frank Howley as executive vice president of worldwide sales, promoted Dahai Ding to managing direcotr of Asian Operations and Laura Bridge to vice president of engineering...more>
 

Oct 2004 - Rackable Systems, storage servers, hired Tom Gallivan a vice president of worldwide sales...more>
 

Oct 2004 - Mark Elliott joins Permeo Technologies, remote access VPN solutions, as vice president of product management...more>
 

Oct 2004 - MetaInfo, network and Internet Protocol (IP) address management software, has expanded its business development outreach through the appointment of Steve Moscarelli and Jim Reiley as regional sales directors...more>
 

Oct 2004 - Simpler Networks, automation of copper distribution frames, appointed Michel SansChagrin as vice president product management, Richard Breault as vice president engineering and Edward Schloeman as vice president strategic accounts...more>
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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