Newsletter -- Week Ending October 22, 2004

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Symantec Moves Up -- What do you do if you're John Thompson and you succeeded over 5 years in turning Symantec into a highly profitable security software company with strong growth? The answer is apparently not to rest on your laurels. Last week Symantec rolled out its new corporate positioning based on "Information Integrity." Their goal is to move up the stack and capture a lot more of the security value proposition beyond the anti-virus software that fuels the majority of Symantec revenues today. Not surprisingly the announcement was thin on concrete details about the future, but Symantec clearly has enough bright people and unencumbered cash flow to make this very interesting to watch in coming quarters. As they say in TV -- "Film at 11." We definitely like the idea of moving the target from "network security" to "information security." That makes sense because it basically points out how customers can look at their security investment as providing increased value since it ultimately is protecting information. It's the integrity part that we're looking to understand what Symantec has in store.

Peter Does ISPCon This Week: Having survived the threat of a tar-and-feathering at the VMWare User Conference last week, Peter shows his head again this week at ISPCon in Santa Clara. On Wednesday at 11:30 he'll speak on P2P and zombie control within ISP subscriber networks and then at 4:15 on Thursday moderate (or provide provocation as the case might be) a panel on Web mail.

Our New Security Research Advisory Service -- Forgive our little commercial message insert here, but we've had a lot of really positive feedback about our focus on the security sector of infrastructure. We think we've found a hotbed of disruption in the area of security (where we've been rummaging about for the last six months) and it will be the basis of our newest advisory service including a security focused series of reports. The first report The Evolving Landscape of Network Security will paint the overview and then we will publish follow on reports that focus on some of the most interesting specific markets. Contact john@netsedgeonline.com.

A Virtual Celebration -- Having recently published a techo-snotty note here declaring that virtualization was the next great VC sucker play, it was with some understandable trepidation that we visited the first VMWare User Group conference in San Diego last week. The worry increased when it became clear that about 2,000 enthusiasts had shown up. Why all the enthusiasm? VMWare has elegant infrastructure technology at just the right time. If you need to consolidate servers, they have one of the best solutions. And partners like IBM are enthusiastic because they end up selling high-end MP servers to the customer to function as the consolidation basis. VMWare also provides elegant technology for business resilience since they make it possible to run apps on backup servers that aren't exactly what the production server was. All of this has led to a rapidly growing $60M/quarter run rate and lots of enthusiasm. At the meeting, VMWare announced an interesting new desktop offering -- ACE -- that provides a clever way of running sensitive business applications (for example) on an employee's uncertain home machine. They also announced a bunch of software aimed at scaling "out" to a LAN integrated set of computers rather than scaling "up" to a high end server. Somehow we weren't tarred feathered and run out of town on a rail. The day ended with lengthy conversations with most of the senior management team. So after that, do we withdraw our earlier comment? Nope! But that's a longer discussion.

And the Market Leader Is ... Last week IronPort led the news with their announcement of its new $45M venture funding bringing their total raised to a category leading $90M. Included with this announcement were some references to their sales volume, something that startups too often keep us in the dark on. IronPort claimed $16.5M in gross bookings which, while not exactly a statement of their quarterly revenues, gives us some idea of how they're doing. As importantly, IronPort claims to be the market share leader in their category for both revenue and units shipped. If that's true, and we assume it is, then there's a remarkable story underneath this -- a year ago that wasn't the case. So IronPort hasn't just had a good year, they've gained substantial ground on their competitors (pretty substantial in fact). If you do the math, this means that the market for anti-spam/virus e-mail appliance products is somewhere in the $150M to $200M range for 2004. Couple that with the $100M in revenues from the Managed Services anti-e-mail abuse market and a similar amount on the software side (although we might be doing some double counting here) it looks like the e-mail anti-abuse market is knocking on the half billion dollar range for 2004. That's a pretty good reason for all this fuss. What's not clear is how investors will get to make any money on these investments. Brightmail and Corvigo got out early and paid back handsomely. But with IronPort raising the investment ante to $90M, it will take a much larger run rate (and probably a much broader product offering) on the parts of the anti-abuse appliance makers before they'll get to some sort of exit velocity. But in the meantime, it's sure fun watching all of this happening and, thanks in large part to all this venture money, the analyst dinners that these companies will be holding are sure to be at the finest restaurants. So keep inviting us!!!

Our Gartner Comments -- Each time we shine the light on a Gartner flub we get lots of feedback from readers telling us their own versions of being "Gartnerized." It's probably worth us saying this -- we'd really like the folks at Gartner to be successful and accurate. Here's the thing. If Gartner, as the industry leader, improves and actually does a better job of advising IT customers on what their choices are and how best to improve their businesses by deploying information technology then presumably enterprises and government agencies will increase their strategic use of IT and we all win because this stuff that we all work so hard at ultimately becomes more valuable (people buy more and they're willing to pay for more features and functionality). So instead of saying things like "IDS is dead" which is really just a journalistic way to attract attention and is a "research finding" that doesn't seem to be supported with very much actual research, we'd prefer seeing Gartner do a lot more on the thought leadership front so that IT shops end up doing a better job of solving security problems instead of reacting to events. Here's what we recommend to those chaps from Connecticut: 1) Do what big research companies used to do in the "old days" when senior industry executives actually went to work at big research companies (probably because they were paying better back then) after having established themselves in senior positions in IT shops; 2) Conduct (and publish) more primary research (real disciplined research, not journalistic interviews); and 3) If you're going to do those magic quadrants, put many many more research hours into them and provide transparency so that we can all understand the scoring elements involved with placing the winners and losers -- writing a five page summary report covering twenty companies in a category and putting up a quadrant without the supporting scoring matrix doesn't do justice to the category players nor the potential users. We're all better off if Gartner (and its peers) were to turn a new leaf.

It's the Weather, Stupid -- While most pundits on election eve are telling you that it's a toss up, we're of course breaking from the pack with our pick on who is going to win tomorrow. As we've mentioned in the past, the polling data that you're seeing is fundamentally flawed due to the fact that pollsters were caught off guard by the number of new registrants (and the lack of ability to first poll these newcomers and then to accurately determine the likelihood that they'll actually vote), the high hang up rates from urban respondents and their lack of ability to track voters who primarily use cell phones. We think the biggest determining factor will be the weather in the showdown states. If the weather is good, look for the Democrats to fare better and if the weather is bad enough to deter voters from fighting snarled traffic and waiting in long lines then the Republicans will win the edge.

Funding News -- $100M of new money went into seven infrastructure companies in mid-October.

Mergers & Acquisitions -- 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. MessageOne, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, acquired assets and technologies of Evergreen Assurance, provider of high availability failover solutions for Microsoft Windows applications. Iron Mountain signed a definitive agreement to acquire Connected Corporation in a cash transaction valued at approximately $117 million. QUALCOMM 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. 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. 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. EMC announced the acquisition of Dantz Development Corporation, a privately held supplier of backup and recovery software for small and midsize businesses. Inflow, IT outsourcing services, acquired the assets of i-bridge, a managed services provider. 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.

Partnerships -- 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. 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. 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. Preventsys, Inc., enterprise network security management, announced the debut of the Preventsys Partner Program. The first members include Application Security Inc., Citadel Security Software, eEye Digital Security and Qualys. 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. Forum Systems, provider of trust management and threat protection Web services security solutions, has joined F5 Networks' Technology Alliance Program. 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. 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.

In Product News -- 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. 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. 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. 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. Clearswift released the latest version of its flagship product—MIMEsweeper for SMTP version 5.0, providing an enterprise-class solution that scales. 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. 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. Preventsys Inc., enterprise security management solutions, introduced the latest version of its Enterprise Security Management system, featuring the new Preventsys Preemptive Threat Defense module, offering threat prevention by enabling enterprises to effectively create an efficient exposure mitigation and elimination process. 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. 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.

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. IC Intracom introduces multifunction SOHO server combining a router with auto-sensing Ethernet switch, built-in firewall...more> 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. 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). HyperSpace Communications, application acceleration products, added Deterministic Networks', specialized "Deterministic Network Enhancer" driver to the company's HyperTunnel product. Euclid Inc., business service management (BSM) solutions, announced the availability of three new QuickStart Business Service Consulting packages: Blueprinting, Storyboarding, and Management Automation. 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. Juniper Networks announced new hardware and software features for its E-series edge routing platform that enable providers to deploy more sophisticated broadband services. UDcast, standards-based IP solutions over satellite, introduced an enhanced UDgateway-VPN, enabling high performance any-to-any IPsec-based VPN for enterprise networks containing satellite connections.

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. SecureMedia released an authentication extension to its leading Encryptonite System digital rights management solution. The Encryptonite System Access Manager ("ESAM") version 1.0. 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. 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.

Corporate News -- 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. Email security company, BlackSpider Technologies, has begun expanding into Europe with the launch of its MailControl service in France.

Customer Wins -- First National Bank of Iowa, has deployed Expand Networks' Accelerator 1800 Series to deliver high bandwidth core-banking applications to branch offices. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Executives on the move -- 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. Vormetric, security solutions, appointed Reed Taussig as president and CEO. Former Logitech CFO, Tim Zier, joins Wavelink Corporation, mobile infrastructure management software, as CFO. 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. Authentica, Enterprise Digital Rights Management software, appointed Norman Meisner as vice president of business development. Sheer Networks, service management solutions, appointed Miki Zevadi as vice president of marketing and business development. SANRAD Inc., intelligent iSCSI IP SAN solutions, promoted Dave Stoner to vice president of US sales. Service delivery management company, Centrata, named Martin Doettling as senior vice president of marketing and products and Michael Meehan as vice president of sales.

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Product News

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

Preventsys Unveils the Latest Version of Its Enterprise Security Management System
Preventsys Inc., enterprise security management solutions, introduced the latest version of its Enterprise Security Management system, featuring the new Preventsys Preemptive Threat Defense module, offering threat prevention by enabling enterprises to effectively create an efficient exposure mitigation and elimination process...more>

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>

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>

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>

IC INTRACOM Introduces Multifunction SOHO Server
IC Intracom introduces multifunction SOHO server combining a router with auto-sensing Ethernet switch, built-in firewall...more>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

UDcast Launches Enhanced UDgateway-VPN
UDcast, standards-based IP solutions over satellite, introduced an enhanced UDgateway-VPN, enabling high performance any-to-any IPsec-based VPN for enterprise networks containing satellite connections...more>

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>

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>

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>

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>

Corporate News -- Mergers & Acquisitions

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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

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>

Corporate News -- Partnership

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>

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>

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>

Preventsys Announces Four Technology Partnerships
Preventsys, Inc., enterprise network security management, announced the debut of the Preventsys Partner Program. The first members include Application Security Inc., Citadel Security Software, eEye Digital Security and Qualys...more>

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>

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>

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>

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>

Corporate News

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>

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>

Corporate News -- Funding News

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

Corporate News -- Executives on the Move

Customer Wins

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>

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>

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>

IC INTRACOM Introduces Multifunction SOHO Server
First National Barorks' Accelerator 1800 Series to deliver high bandwidth core-banking applications to branch offices...more>

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>

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>

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>

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