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What's in a Name? or The Medium is
the Message!
As many of you noticed, we changed our "look and feel" in the last
issue. For those of you who missed it, here's our story.
Five years
ago our Internet Acceleration newsletter started with a
distribution list of 200 of our unsuspecting friends. It evolved
over the years and today we're pleased to say that our
subscription list is just about 7,000 names and we think that
there are actually a few people that actually read some of it.
Proving one more time that you can teach old dogs new tricks, and
finally succumbing to the relentless whining from our true
digirati friends, we're going 21st century with a new format, new
name (Infrastructure 2.1) and a blog repository
www.infrastructure2-1.com. The price remains the same. Fetch
Spot! (tell us what you think).
 Virtualization
Gone Wild:
Peter had a chance to spend a couple of days at VMWorld, the VMWare users'
group. We've been following VMWare for about three years now and in fact
Peter has been to all three of these meetings watching the crowd grow from
1,200 to 3,000 and this year 7,000. This isn't quite up to what Microsoft
draws but a lot of geeks in one place at one time. VMWare has clearly tapped
an interesting vein with technology that gives geeks a strong reason to get
out of bed and get to work, like Java, but unlike Java also creates a large
software business (VMWare's current run rate is around $800M/year!). Virtual
appliances were the big news (see other story and new IRG report), there was
a vibrant analyst meeting held, and Peter had a chance to eat dinner with
Mendel Rosenblum, Chief Scientist, founder, Stanford CS Prof, and Diane
Greene's other half (Diane is the CEO and the speaker in the picture). Not
bad for a couple of non-virtual days in LA.
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New Service Offering:
Having perfected the notion of Advisory Services (our core product offering,
"that service that you need if you don't have it" to paraphrase Yogi) we
thought we would broaden the offering to "Consentory" Services. Peter
followed up the VMWare meeting by presiding over his younger sister's
wedding in La Jolla. We're told it was a great success so anyone out there
who needs to be married, just holler.
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Appliances Gone Virtual:
We've been tracking virtualization for almost all of the modern period
(it's important to remember that it was first used commercially 40 years
ago!) and it finally jumped directly in our bailiwick with the big bang
emergence of virtual appliances as a key topic at the VMWorld meeting. We've
finished a pretty comprehensive overview and analysis report for our clients
(sorry you hangers on…). In brief, virtualizing appliances are a natural
evolution in terms of providing system functionality with minimal hassle.
For an existing VMWare ESX customer virtual appliances make sense (for
example Zeus' load balancing virtual appliances) but VMWare's price
structure is really only suitable for expensive physical infrastructures and
wouldn't work as it stands for moving an image onto the kind of inexpensive
server typically used for appliances. Interested?
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com.
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"WAAS
Up?"
-- That's
the title of our recent report focusing on the WAN infrastructure market,
now that Cisco has introduced its WAAS (Wide-Area Application Services)
product line to the market. This report, WAAS Up? Cisco Fleshes out its
WAN Offering, contrasts the different WAN strategies of both Cisco and
Microsoft and the directions that customers may choose from.
Interested?--
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com.
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Exchange 2007 Draws First Blood --
Although Exchange 2007
hasn't yet been released its potential impact has already had an effect as
seen by Motorola's recent announcement of its plans to acquire Good
Technology. Exchange 2007 addresses and improves on much of the
functionality that previously was left to Exchange ecosystem vendors and
mobile messaging is high on the list. Early on when describing Exchange
2007 features Microsoft had one of those "read my lips" moments by declaring
"no need for third party mobile gateways" (because they don't scale well and
end up causing lots of operational problems). After receiving over $200M in
venture funding and despite it's operating a sort of Silicon Valley money
laundering business through its Palm handset business (two of Palm's board
of directors were VC's who also were on Good's board and whose firms owned
15% of Good when they inked their deal and became one of Palm's largest
distributors) it had to be clear that Good's differentiation lay mostly in
its advanced synchronization functionality provided through its gateways so
that when mobile device makers like Palm and Nokia became Activesync
licensees you could see that Good's differentiation didn't have much more
runway left. It's hard to imagine how this can be much help to Motorola
other than getting a customer list of Palm users to convert, but since they
didn't announce an acquisition price we're assuming that it didn't cost
much. We were somewhat skeptical when Good's CEO Danny Shader declared
"2005 will be the year of the wireless application" which never really
materialized the way he imagined. Looks like 2006 didn't either.
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Exchange 2007 Coming Soon --
We recently announced our recent
study covering the upcoming launch of Exchange 2007 and its potential impact
on the e-mail market. For those of you in the e-mail eco-system, this new
product launch can be good news, bad news or both. This is the first of
several reports that we'll be doing on Exchange 2007. Interested?--
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com. ^
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Cisco Kids: Pro
sports and new stadiums are usually as close as we can get to raw greed and
commercialism, and from this dismally low standard what Cisco and the
"Oakland" Athletics announced was quite remarkable. Oakland has been
understandably looking for a new stadium (the Coliseum isn't as bad as
Candlestick but it's not a nice ball park) and Cisco holds an option on a
nice piece of land in Fremont that they leased during the bubble when adding
3,000,000 square feet of office space sounded much better. We understand
that's how everything started but it has gone ever so much farther. Cisco
has agreed to make the land available for a new stadium and concluded a
substantial sponsorship arrangement but that's just the beginning.
Collectively Cisco and the A's seem intent on building an amazing technology
demonstration stadium (we've suggested it be named Grubb Field to honor
Cisco's Chief Demonstration Officer) and also to build something that will
really contribute to the local and regional community. This means being able
to buy tickets and hot dogs with your phone, putting your own pictures up on
the big display, as well as a residential and business development around
the park that fits in. Maybe the A's will blow their budget by hiring Bonds
as a DH but for now this looks like the most interesting new technology
venue we've seen by a long shot. The press conference (available on the A's
Website) is worth watching.
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Has Cisco Gone Soft?
If you watch TV at all you've probably seen some of Cisco's new, elegant and
touchy-feely ads that talk about the "Human Network." When this new
campaign was launched it was noted that Cisco would be spending of the order
of $100M including a new logo, a new Website and the Human Network to boot.
Our impression is that Cisco wouldn't change a bottled water supplier
without a quantified justification, so we wondered churlishly how the hell
Cisco was going to justify $100M of their hard won cash to support an
elementary school stare-down between the UK and Tibet (one of the TV ads).
Our request to Skip MacAskill, Cisco's charming King of all Analysts,
resulted in a wonderful discussion with Marilyn Mersereau, Cisco's VP of
Corporate Marketing (who took over from Keith Fox who ran the function
during the dot com boom days). It was great to finally meet Marilyn who came
to Cisco from Coke via IBM. She explained that they too had been surprised
by the scope of Cisco's brand and reputation ("Cisco customers really gave
Cisco permission to use this much broader kind of branding"). Marilyn
answered the specific question by saying that Cisco uses standard measures
of Brand Equity (the part of market cap that can be attributed to brand) and
that such a campaign can be evaluated from this perspective. She also added,
perhaps as a side note aimed more at Mr. Chambers, that $100M isn't a lot of
money for Cisco in absolute terms given how much cash they generate every
month and the money spent for acquisitions. It was really interesting to see
how Cisco ties this altogether into a coherent and well-managed whole. So
no, Cisco hasn't gone soft or even "jumped the shark" to use my favorite
recently discovered phrase.
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Funding News --
In the past few weeks, twenty two infrastructure startups received $212M
in new funding.
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Date |
Company |
Sector |
Detail |
Amount
($millions) |
Total
Investment
($millions) |
Investors |
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11/15 |
Liquid
Computing Inc. |
Scalable
Computing |
Series B |
$27.7 |
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Newbury
Ventures, Vengrowth, ATA Ventures, Business Development Bank of
Canada, Export Development Canada, Axis Investment Fund Inc. and
Dr. Adam Chowaniec |
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11/13 |
Netronome |
Hardware
Accelerated Open Appliances |
Series C |
$20.0 |
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3i, Tudor
Investment, Top Technology Ventures, Spinner Global Technology
Fund, business angels including Robert Sansom and Eric Cooper |
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11/7 |
Tejas
Networks |
Optical
Networking |
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$20.0 |
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Sandstone
Capital with Dr. Gururaj Deshpande, Battery Ventures & Intel
Capital and SUN Technologies |
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11/14 |
Attune
Systems Inc. |
Network File
Management |
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$14.0 |
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RWI
Ventures, GF Private Equity Group, LLC, Alloy Ventures, QTV
Capital, Rock Creek Capital and Shea Ventures |
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11/1 |
KnowNow Inc. |
Web 2.0
Solutions |
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$13.0 |
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RSS
Investors, Presidio, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Levensohn
Venture Partners, and Palomar Ventures |
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11/20 |
Optaros Inc. |
Open Source
Software Consulting |
Series B |
$13.0 |
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Globespan
Capital, Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst Partners |
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11/13 |
ClairMail |
Mobile Phone
Customer Interaction Solutions |
Series B |
$12.0 |
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JAFCO
Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) and Outlook Ventures |
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9/06 |
Promptu |
Voice Powered
Services |
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$11.6 |
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Steelpoint
Capital Partners, LP and Lauder Partners, LLC |
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11/21 |
Natural
Convergence Inc. |
VoIP Application
Software |
Series C |
$10.0 |
$29.0 |
Wesley Clover
and BDC Venture Capital, VIMAC, Desjardins Venture Capital Group,
Jefferson Partners, Primaxis Technology Ventures Inc., and Purple
Angel |
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11/13 |
A10 Networks |
Identity Aware
Network Solutions |
Series B |
$9.0 |
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Enspire
Capital, H&Q/Asian Pacific, Miven Ventures, Triton Ventures and
Harbinger Venture |
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10/19 |
NComputing |
Multiuser
Computing Solutions |
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$8.0 |
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BA Venture
Partners |
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11/8 |
AlterPoint |
Network Change
Management |
Series C |
$7.5 |
$37.3 |
Austin
Ventures, JK&B Capital and Palomar Ventures |
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11/14 |
RipCode Inc. |
Internet Video
Processing |
Series A |
$7.0 |
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Hunt
Ventures, Vesbridge Partners, El Dorado Ventures, ATA Ventures |
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10/23 |
NewStep
Networks |
Convergence
Solutions |
Series B |
$7.0 |
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VenGrowth
Capital Partners Inc., Newbury Ventures, BDC Venture Capital,
B.E.S.T. Fund, and Bell Canada |
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11/17 |
KoolSpan |
Network Security |
|
$6.5 |
|
Security
Growth Partners, TWJ Capital, the New York Angels, The Supper
Club, the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
(DBED) and the Maryland Technology Development Corporation |
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11/15 |
BinOptics
Corporation |
Microphotonic
Chips |
Series C |
$6.0 |
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STIC
International, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Cayuga Venture Fund, FA
Technology Ventures, and ArrowPath Venture Partners |
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11/14 |
LifeLock Inc. |
ID Theft |
Series A |
$6.0 |
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Bessemer
Venture Partners |
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10/23 |
Optiway Ltd. |
Optical
Broadband Access |
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$5.0 |
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11/8 |
Scali |
Clustering
Solutions |
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$3.5 |
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Atlas Venture
and Four Seasons Venture |
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11/7 |
Agiliance |
Security Risk
Management |
Series B |
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Intel
Capital, Walden International and Red Rock Ventures |
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11/6 |
IPolicy
Networks |
Network Security |
Series B-1 |
$3.0 |
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10/19 |
MVisible
Technologies Inc. |
Digital Media
Management |
Series A |
$3.0 |
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New World
Angels |
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TOP STORIES
Corporate News --
ProactiveNet,
Business Services Management (BSM), has been granted its fourth U.S. Patent, No.
7,131,037, a unique event-to-data and data-to-data correlation technology for
automatically predicting and identifying the possible cause of performance
problems in a network system by analyzing and correlating abnormal behavior or a
specific alarm/event with related abnormal infrastructure performance data.
AirTight Networks, wireless intrusion prevention solutions, announced the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has allowed a second patent to AirTight which
is a continuation of AirTight's first patent No.7,002,943.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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Motorola and
Good Technology announced that the companies have signed a definitive
agreement under which Motorola will acquire privately held Good Technology,
enterprise mobile computing software and service. Terms of the transaction were
not disclosed. Akamai Technologies and Nine Systems Corp., robust
rich media management framework, have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai
to acquire Nine Systems in a merger transaction. Check Point Software
Technologies Ltd., Internet security, to acquire Protect Data AB, (Pointsec
Mobile Technologies AB), enterprise data security, for approximately US $586
million. Avaya, business communications applications, systems and
services, acquired Traverse Networks, enterprise mobility solutions for
unified communications for an estimated $15M. nCipher plc., enterprise
data security, acquired the trade and certain assets of Britestream Networks,
predominantly stock, fixed assets and intellectual property enabling nCipher to
take full ownership of its line of cryptographic accelerator solutions, nFast
and nForce. EMC Corp. acquired Avamar Technologies, corporate data
backup and de-duplication software firm, for $165 million in cash. DynTek,
professional technology services, completed the acquisition of the operating
assets of TekConnect Corporation, technology integration and consulting
firm for K-12 market.
Partnerships --
Gomez Inc., web application experience management, has partnered with
Netli, accelerating applications and content over the Internet. Gomez will
be Netli's preferred source of third-party performance data to validate the
performance improvements Netli is providing to its customers and Netli will use
and resell Gomez services,.
iConclude,
Run Book Automation solutions for IT operations, announced that Opsware,
data center automation software, will resell and market iConclude's OpsForce RBA
platform through its worldwide field sales and channel team. Bullguard Ltd.
and CATare licensing Outpost firewall technology from the computer
security experts at Agnitum Ltd. RedHat, open source solutions,
and VMware, virtual infrastructure software, expanded their relationship
to support customers and ISVs who are deploying virtualization. Vmware also
unveiled their marketplace and certification program for virtual appliances.
Converged Access Partners, application performance control for converged
VoIP, data and video applications, signed Pulse, Inc. to distribute its
wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions throughout North America to
customers that need to solve application performance problems. SteelEye
Technology, data protection and application availability solutions for Linux
and Windows, joined the XenSource Partner Program as a charter member and
Premier Partner. Foundry Networks, end-to-end switching and routing, and
Lockdown Networks, Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, announced that
Lockdown has joined the Foundry IronShield 360 Network Security Alliance.
Cisco announced a broad business, marketing and technology agreement in
principle with the Oakland Athletics (A's), as a part of the deal, the
A's intend to build the world's most technologically sophisticated baseball park
in Fremont, Calif. to serve as the new home of the A's. And, Akonix Systems,
instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products, announced strong
continued growth of its Certified Akonix Partner Program, with more than
70 new authorized resellers signed up in less than 12 months.
New Products --
Cisco delivers Cisco ServiceMesh, integrated, end-to-end outdoor wireless
solution designed for service providers who are deploying citywide municipal
Wi-Fi networks, building on the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network
(IP NGN) architecture. Xirrus, high capacity, long range Wi-Fi products,
introduced its advanced Wi-Fi Firewall that enhances the security of Wi-Fi
networks.
Clearswift,
content security, launched a new version of its email security appliance,
TRUSTmanager, the MIMEsweeper Email Appliance 2.5 can now check the 'reputation'
of all connecting SMTP hosts against a constantly updated database of reputation
scores provided by Clearswift. Azaleos Corporation, managed e-mail
appliances for Microsoft Exchange, announced availability of version 2.0 of its
managed e-mail solution that enhances OneServer and BladeMail e-mail appliances
by integrating e-mail archiving, reporting, monitoring, and new security
functionality into its managed e-mail appliances. TimeBridge previewed
the Personal Scheduling Manager, Outlook-integrated scheduling technology.
Sybase iAnywhere released OneBridge 5.5, which extends enterprise email and
applications to mobile workers and unveiled Afaria 5.5 with new capabilities to
initially provision devices over wireless networks, expanded device security
functionality, remote control for Windows Mobile devices, and expanded Patch
Manager capabilities.
EMC Corporation
released an embeddable enterprise content management (ECM) platform EMC
Documentum OEM Edition for the OEM market. Opsware Inc., Data Center
Automation software, introduced Opsware Orchestrator, which adds Run Book
Automation (RBA) capabilities, specifically workflow and orchestration, to its
Opsware System 6 suite.
Cabinet NG,
automated document management and workflow solution, released the latest version
of its Shared Access Filing Environment, CNG-SAFE 5.8, comprehensive document
management and workflow platform for small and medium sized businesses.
Keynote, Mobile and Internet Performance, announced Transaction Perspective
7.0, an enhanced suite of products centered on its Web site performance
measurement and monitoring offering, Transaction Perspective, including
Transaction Perspective Last Mile and Transaction Perspective High Frequency.
SSL VPN, Aventail
launched Aventail ST2+, release of its SSL VPN remote access platform that
includes end point checking and integrated professional reporting solution for
usage and user tracking. Breach Security, web application security,
released ModSecurity version 2.0 open source web application firewall on a
security appliance.
Zeus Technology
launched Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (ZXTM
VA), a new version of its flagship traffic management technology that
operates as a virtual appliance within virtualized datacenter environments.
Customer Wins
--
VitalStream will
deliver Flash video for the online ad campaign to promote Carmel-by-the-Sea,
California. Bharosa, real-time fraud detection and multifactor
authentication solutions, will provide Sterling Financial Corporation
with solutions to enable enhanced security for customer authentication.
SunCal Companies deployed Network Chemistry's RFprotect suite of
integrated wireless security solutions, including RFprotect Distributed,
RFprotect Mobile and RFprotect Endpoint, to secure its corporate wireless
networks and employee laptops. Telstra, Australian media-communications
company, selected InfoVista to play a key role in the transformation of
its IT environment. Force10 Networks announced that the TeraScale
E-Series family of switch/routers and the P-Series family of security appliances
are powering and securing SCinet, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet high
performance network at the Supercomputing 06 conference. Mount Pleasant
Independent School District of Mount Pleasant, Texas, is using the
ConSentry LANShield platforms to detect and stop unauthorized activity and
to prevent the spread of malware. Voxbone, international VoIP origination
services, announced that VozTelecom has selected it as its supplier of
worldwide direct inbound dial (DID) numbers.
Forval International,
IT services for SMBs, and Jungo Ltd., broadband gateway middleware,
announced that Forval's new ElipSwitch All-in-one Business gateway will be
powered by Jungo's OpenSMB software platform. TCF Financial Corporation (TCF)
selected the RSA Adaptive Authentication solution to provide enhanced
security to consumers banking online. Pacific Gas and Electric Company
announced the first-ever utility financial incentive program to support
virtualization projects in data centers, with industry support from VMware,
Intel Corporation and other high tech leaders. Critical Path, messaging
software and services, is teaming with Indonesia's new 3G operator, PT
Hutchison CP Telecommunications (‘Hutchison Telecom Indonesia'), to deliver
new mobile email and content services for consumers with Memova Mobile.
Dolphin Stadium debuts a new wireless network powered by BelAir Networks,
the mobile broadband wireless mesh network provides high speed internet access
to the stadium, dining areas, Executive Suites and parking areas. Department
of Justice Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) selected
Intellitactics Security Manager, Intellitactics SAM (security dashboard that
works with Security Manager), and Intellitactics Advanced Analytics as the
centerpiece of a security management program designed to automate security
operations, align real-time security operations with risk management strategies,
and address requirements for FISMA/FIPS compliance reporting. Norwich
University, University of Ballarat, and University of Ottawa, have selected
and deployed Aventail's SSL VPN solution to help provide secure remote
access to their campus-wide Wi-Fi networks. AirTight Networks, wireless
intrusion prevention solutions, has teamed with MaxWiFi to provide
wireless security to the hundreds of hotels and motels that employ MaxWiFi to
deliver Internet access, travel
information, and entertainment services. Prodigy MSN selects
VitalStream to deliver video to Latin America's online community.
Momentum Releases --
Lockdown Networks,
Network Access Control
(NAC) solutions, completed theQ3 2006 with record sales and revenue grew
30 percent over the previous quarter with strong sales in the United States,
Europe and Mexico and customer wins representing a variety of market segments,
including higher education, healthcare, government, finance and manufacturing.
New Edge Networks expanded and began marketing its MPLS, Multi Protocol
Label Switching, and received more than 100 new requests for network proposals
representing more than $60 million in total contract value with more than 75
percent of the requests for networks with fewer than 20 nodes or locations and
from businesses representing various industries. ConSentry Networks
announced the European availability of the LANShield Switch, an enterprise-class
switch that integrates the security features needed to secure every user and
every port on the LAN.
Executives On The Move --
HP announced that G. Kennedy Thompson, chairman, president and chief
executive officer of Wachovia Corp., has been elected to the company's board of
directors. Avinti Inc., virus detection software, appointed William
Kilmer as chief executive. SyncVoice Communications Inc., unified
management software for converged communications, selected Stephen Rizzone as
chief executive. Qumas Ltd., compliance software, appointed Roger Pilc as
chief executive. Jack Kay has joined Scali, high performance clustering
solutions for datacenters, as President and CEO. Above All Software,
business integration software, named Sanjay Sarathy as interim chief executive.
Sylantro Systems Corp., voice over IP software, selected Marco Limena as its
new president and chief executive. St. Bernard Software, security
solutions for SMEs, selected Vince Rossi as CEO and director of the company. Yosemite
Technologies, backup software solutions, appointed former EMC executive,
George Symons as CEO. Mobidia Inc., end-to-end service performance
management software, named Gary Tauss as president and chief executive.
Sofinnova Partners
announced that Olivier Sichel, former Chairman and CEO of Wanadoo (France
Telecom group) has been named Partner. Netezza Corp., data management
appliances, named Justin Lindsey as chief technology officer. Acopia Networks
Inc., storage switch, hired Maurice Castonguay as chief financial officer.
Tidal Software, automation software for managing IT organizations, named
Jon Bode as chief financial officer.
Radware,
intelligent integrated solutions, selected Herbert Anderson as a new member of
its board of directors. Nortel announces Dr. Kristina M. Johnson
appointment to the Board of Directors.
McAfee
named Jeff Green as senior vice president of McAfee Avert Labs and Product
Development. ConSentry Networks, secure LAN solutions, hired Alex
Raistrick as Director for Northern Europe. Reconnex named Gary Taggart as
vice president of sales and support. FireEye Inc., security appliance,
appointed David Butler as vice president of sales and business development.
Expand Networks Inc., network acceleration, hired James Baker as vice
president of sales, Americas. Peak 10 Inc., data center solutions,
appointed Gregory A. Aaron as vice president and general manager.
See links below for the
complete text of those items mentioned above plus other news.
The
Infrastructure 2.1 newsletter and
www.infrastructure2-1.com
are produced by Internet Research Group. For more information or to keep us
updated, contact John Katsaros at
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com.
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Clearswift upgrades MIMEsweeper" Email Appliance
Clearswift, content security, launched a new version of its email security
appliance, TRUSTmanager, the MIMEsweeper Email Appliance 2.5 can now check the
'reputation' of all connecting SMTP hosts against a constantly updated database
of reputation scores provided by Clearswift...more>
EMC Launches "Embeddable" Documentum Platform
EMC Corporation
launched an embeddable enterprise content management (ECM) platform EMC
Documentum OEM Edition for the OEM market...more>
ConSentry Networks Expands to Europe
ConSentry Networks announced the European availability of the LANShield Switch,
an enterprise-class switch that integrates the security features needed to
secure every user and every port on the LAN...more>
Opsware Adds Orchestration and Process Automation Capabilities
Opsware Inc., Data Center Automation software, introduced Opsware
Orchestrator, which adds Run Book Automation (RBA) capabilities, specifically
workflow and orchestration, to its Opsware System 6 suite...more>
Xirrus
Announces Onboard Firewall Capability
Xirrus, high capacity, long range Wi-Fi products,
introduced its advanced Wi-Fi Firewall that enhances the security of Wi-Fi
networks...more>
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Aventail Launches Updated Version of Remote Access Controller
SSL VPN leader Aventail launched Aventail ST2+, the most recent release of its
SSL VPN remote access platform that includes end point checking and integrated
professional reporting solution for usage and user tracking...more>
Cisco ServiceMesh Delivers Industry's First End-to-End Outdoor Wireless Solution
Cisco delivers Cisco ServiceMesh, integrated, end-to-end outdoor wireless
solution designed for service providers who are deploying citywide municipal
Wi-Fi networks, building on the Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network
(IP NGN) architecture...more>
Breach Debuts New Security Appliance with ModSecurity 2.0
Breach Security, web application security, released ModSecurity version 2.0 open
source web application firewall on a security appliance...more>
Cabinet NG Ships CNG-SAFE 5.8 Document Management
Cabinet NG, automated document management and workflow solution, released the
latest version of its Shared Access Filing Environment, CNG-SAFE 5.8,
comprehensive document management and workflow platform for small and medium
sized businesses...more>
Azaleos Delivers Intelligently Managed E-Mail Solution for Microsoft Exchange
Azaleos Corporation, managed e-mail appliances for Microsoft Exchange, announced
availability of version 2.0 of its managed e-mail solution that enhances
OneServer and BladeMail e-mail appliances by integrating e-mail archiving,
reporting, monitoring, and new security functionality into its managed e-mail
appliances...more>
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Zeus announces ZXTM Virtual Appliance
Zeus Technology
launched Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager Virtual Appliance (ZXTM
VA), a new version of its flagship traffic management technology that
operates as a virtual appliance within virtualized datacenter environments...more>
Keynote Announces Transaction Perspective 7.0
Keynote, Mobile and Internet Performance, announced Transaction Perspective 7.0,
an enhanced suite of products centered on its Web site performance measurement
and monitoring offering, Transaction Perspective, including Transaction
Perspective Last Mile and Transaction Perspective High Frequency...more>
TimeBridge Previews the First Personal Scheduling Manager
TimeBridge previewed the Personal Scheduling Manager, Outlook-integrated
scheduling technology...more>
Sybase iAnywhere Launches OneBridge 5.5 for Secure Mobile Email and Applications
Sybase iAnywhere released OneBridge 5.5, which extends enterprise email and
applications to mobile workers...more>
Sybase iAnywhere Unveils Afaria 5.5 Management and Security Solution
Sybase iAnywhere unveiled Afaria 5.5 with new capabilities to initially
provision devices over wireless networks, expanded device security
functionality, remote control for Windows Mobile devices, and expanded Patch
Manager capabilities...more>
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ProactiveNet Granted Fourth Patent
ProactiveNet, Business Services Management (BSM), has been granted its fourth
U.S. Patent, No. 7,131,037, a unique event-to-data and data-to-data correlation
technology for automatically predicting and identifying the possible cause of
performance problems in a network system by analyzing and correlating abnormal
behavior or a specific alarm/event with related abnormal infrastructure
performance data...more>
United States Patent Office Allows Second AirTight Patent
AirTight Networks, wireless intrusion prevention solutions, announced the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office has allowed a second patent to AirTight which is a
continuation of AirTight's first patent No.7,002,943, that refines and expands
several of the techniques described in the first patent.
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Natural Convergence announces US$10M in series ‘C' funding
Natural Convergence Inc., VoIP application software, secured US$10M in series
‘C' financing led by Wesley Clover and BDC Venture Capital with VIMAC,
Desjardins Venture Capital Group, Jefferson Partners, Primaxis Technology
Ventures Inc., and Purple Angel. This round brings the total investment to
US$29M...more>
Optaros Closes $13 Million in Series B Financing
Optaros Inc., open source software consulting and integration firm, closed $13
million in Series B funding led by Globespan Capital with participation from
existing investors, Charles River Ventures and General Catalyst Partners...more>
KoolSpan Raises $6.5 Million in Equity Financing
KoolSpan, embeddable network security devices, received $6.5 million in equity
financing led by Security Growth Partners, TWJ Capital, the New York Angels, The
Supper Club, the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED)
and the Maryland Technology Development Corporation...more>
BinOptics Secures $6M in Series C Funding
BinOptics Corporation, integrated microphotonic chips, closed its Series C round
of funding totaling $6 million from STIC International, Draper Fisher Jurvetson,
Cayuga Venture Fund, FA Technology Ventures, and ArrowPath Venture Partners...more>
Liquid Computing Raises US $27.7M in Series B Financing
Liquid Computing Inc., scalable computing system, completed its Series B
financing of US $27.7 million led by Newbury Ventures with Vengrowth, ATA
Ventures, Business Development Bank of Canada, Export Development Canada, Axis
Investment Fund Inc. and Dr. Adam Chowaniec...more>
Attune Systems Secures $14 Million
Attune Systems, Inc., enterprise-class network file management solutions,
received $14 million in a new venture funding round led by RWI Ventures, GF
Private Equity Group, LLC as a new investor, and existing investors Alloy
Ventures, QTV Capital, Rock Creek Capital and Shea Ventures...more>
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Ripcode Secures $7 Million
RipCode Inc., high-performance technologies for processing Internet
video content, raised $7 million in first-round venture capital financing from
Hunt Ventures, Vesbridge Partners and El Dorado Ventures co-led the financing
round, with participation by ATA Ventures...more>
LIfeLock Receives $6M in First Round
LifeLock Inc., identity-theft protection, received $6 million in first round
funding from Bessemer Venture Partners...more>
Netronome Closes $20M
Series C Funding Round
Netronome closed a $20M funding round led by 3i and also included Tudor
Investment Corporation, Top Technology Ventures, Spinner Global Technology Fund
and a group of business angels including FORE Systems founders Robert Sansom and
Eric Cooper...more>
ClairMail Secures $12 Million in Series B Financing
ClairMail, mobile phone-based customer interaction solutions, secured $12
million in Series B financing led by JAFCO Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP)
and Outlook Ventures...more>
A10 Networks Secures $9M in Financing
A10 Networks secured $9 million in Series B funding from Enspire Capital,
H&Q/Asian Pacific, Miven Ventures, Triton Ventures and Harbinger Venture...more>
AlterPoint Receives $7.5M in Series C Funding
AlterPoint, network change and configuration management, completed a $7.5M
Series C financing round from Austin Ventures, JK&B Capital and Palomar
Ventures, bringing the total equity investment to $37.3M...more>
Scali Raises $3.5 Million
Scali, high performance clustering solutions for datacenters, closed on $3.5
million in funding from investors Atlas Venture and Four Seasons Venture...more>
Tejas Networks Raises US$ 20 Million in Equity Funding
Tejas Networks, next-generation optical networking products, acquired US$20
million in new equity financing led by Sandstone Capital with Dr. Gururaj
Deshpande, Battery Ventures & Intel Capital and SUN Technologies...more>
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Agiliance Secures Investment from Intel Capital
Agiliance, security risk and compliance management solutions, announced that
Intel Capital invested in its recently concluded and oversubscribed Series B
round. Intel Capital joins recently announced investors Walden International and
Red Rock Ventures...more>
iPolicy Networks Closes
$3M in B-1 Funding Round
iPolicy Networks Inc., network security, secured $3 million in Series B-1
capital...more>
KnowNow Leads Enterprise 2.0 Momentum with $13 Million in Funding
KnowNow Inc., enterprise-class Web 2.0 solutions, closed $13 million in new
funding led by RSS Investors, Presidio STX -- the early-stage investment vehicle
of Sumitomo Corp, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Levensohn Venture Partners,
and Palomar Ventures...more>
NewStep Networks raises $7M
NewStep Networks, convergence solutions for carriers and enterprises, raised $7M
as part of its Series B round of financing from VenGrowth Capital Partners Inc.,
Newbury Ventures, BDC Venture Capital, B.E.S.T. Fund, and Bell Canada...more>
Optiway Raises $5M
Israeli optical broadband access technology company, Optiway Ltd., raised $5
million in funding...more>
NComputing Gets $8M
NComputing, multiuser computing, has raised $8 million from BA Venture
Partners...more>
mVisible Technologies, Inc. Completes Series A Round of Funding
mVisible Technologies, technology, products, services and programs to
intelligently manage and deliver digital media, secured $3 million in Series A
financingNew World Angels...more>
Promptu Closes Additional $11.6 Million in Funding
Promptu, voice-powered search and navigation services, closed an additional
$11.6 million round of funding from Steelpoint Capital Partners, LP and Lauder
Partners, LLC...more>
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Akamai enters into
agreement to acquire Nine Systems
Akamai Technologies and Nine Systems Corp., robust rich media management
framework, have signed a definitive agreement for Akamai to acquire Nine
Systems in a merger transaction...more>
Check Point Announces a
Cash Tender Offer to Acquire Protect Data
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Internet security, to acquire
Protect Data AB, 100 percent owner of Pointsec Mobile Technologies AB,
enterprise data security, for approximately US $586 million...more>
EMC Acquired Avamar
EMC Corp. acquired Avamar Technologies, corporate data backup and
de-duplication software firm, for $165 million in cash....more>
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Avaya Acquires Traverse
Networks
Avaya, business communications applications, systems and services, acquired
Traverse Networks, enterprise mobility solutions for unified communications
for an estimated $15M...more>
nCipher plc. acquires
the assests of Britestream Networks
nCipher plc, enterprise data security, acquired the trade and certain assets
of Britestream Networks, predominantly stock, fixed assets and intellectual
property enabling nCipher to take full ownership of its line of
cryptographic accelerator solutions, nFast and nForce...more>
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Motorola to Acquire
Good Technology
Motorola and Good Technology announced that the companies have signed a
definitive agreement under which Motorola will acquire privately held Good
Technology, a leader in enterprise mobile computing software and service.
Terms of the transaction were not disclosed...more>
DynTek Acquires
TekConnect Corporation
DynTek, professional technology services, completed the acquisition of the
operating assets of TekConnect Corporation, technology integration and
consulting firm for K-12 market...more>
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Netli Teams with Gomez
Gomez Inc., web
application experience management, has partnered with Netli, accelerating
applications and content over the Internet. Gomez will be Netli's preferred
source of third-party performance data to validate the performance improvements
Netli is providing to its customers and Netli will use and resell Gomez
services...more>
iConclude Forms Strategic Alliance with Opsware
iConclude, Run Book Automation solutions for IT operations, announced that
Opsware, data center automation software, will resell and market iConclude's
OpsForce RBA platform through its worldwide field sales and channel team...more>
Agnitum licenses Outpost firewall technology
Bullguard Ltd. and CATare licensing Outpost firewall technology from the
computer security experts at Agnitum Ltd...more>
Akonix continues partner growth
Akonix Systems,
instant messaging (IM) security and compliance products, announced strong
continued growth of its Certified Akonix Partner Program, with more than 70 new
authorized resellers signed up in less than 12 months...more>
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RedHat and VMware Expand Relationship
Red Hat, open source solutions to the enterprise, and VMware, virtual
infrastructure software, expanded their relationship to support customers and
ISVs who are deploying virtualization...more>
Converged Access Partners with Pulse Inc.
Converged Access Inc., application performance control for converged VoIP, data
and video applications, signed Pulse, Inc. to distribute its wide area network
(WAN) optimization solutions throughout North America to customers that need to
solve application performance problems...more>
SteelEye Joins XenSource Partner Program
SteelEye Technology, data protection and application availability solutions for
Linux and Windows, joined the XenSource Partner Program as a charter member and
Premier Partner...more>
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Lockdown Networks Joins Foundry Networks IronShield 360 Security Alliance
Foundry Networks, end-to-end switching and routing, and Lockdown Networks,
Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, announced that Lockdown has joined the
Foundry IronShield 360 Network Security Alliance...more>
VMware Unveils Virtual Appliance Marketplace and Certification Program
VMware, software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers,
launched a marketplace and certification program for virtual appliances,
customers can evaluate or in some cases purchase from a collection of more than
300 virtual appliances available in the Virtual Appliance Marketplace...more>
Cisco and Athletics Announce Cisco Field
Cisco announced a broad business, marketing and technology agreement in
principle with the Oakland Athletics (A's), as a part of the deal, the A's
intend to build the world's most technologically sophisticated baseball park in
Fremont, Calif. to serve as the new home of the A's...more>
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VitalStream delivers video for Carmel-by-the-Sea
VitalStream will deliver Flash video for the online ad campaign to promote
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California...more>
Sterling Financial selects Bharosa
Bharosa, real-time fraud detection and multifactor authentication solutions,
will provide Sterling Financial Corporation with solutions to enable enhanced
security for customer authentication...more>
SunCal Companies Deploys Network Chemistry Solution
SunCal Companies deployed Network Chemistry's RFprotect suite of integrated
wireless security solutions, including RFprotect Distributed, RFprotect Mobile
and RFprotect Endpoint, to secure its corporate wireless networks and employee
laptops...more>
Telstra Selects InfoVista for IT Transformation Project
Telstra, Australian media-communications company, selected InfoVista to play a
key role in the transformation of its IT environment...more>
Force10 Networks Powers And Protects High Performance Network
Force10 Networks announced that the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers
and the P-Series family of security appliances are powering and securing SCinet,
the 10 Gigabit Ethernet high performance network at the Supercomputing 06
conference...more>
ConSentry Networks Enables Identity-Based Control
Mount Pleasant Independent School District of Mount Pleasant, Texas, is using
the ConSentry LANShield platforms to detect and stop unauthorized activity and
to prevent the spread of malware...more>
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VozTelecom Selects Voxbone
Voxbone, international VoIP origination services, announced that VozTelecom has
selected it as its supplier of worldwide direct inbound dial (DID) numbers...more>
Forval Selects Jungo's OpenSMB Software Platform
Forval International, IT services for SMBs, and Jungo Ltd., broadband gateway
middleware, announced that Forval's new ElipSwitch All-in-one Business gateway
will be powered by Jungo's OpenSMB software platform...more>
TCF Strengthens Online Banking Security with RSA Adaptive Authentication
TCF Financial Corporation (TCF) selected the RSA Adaptive Authentication
solution to provide enhanced security to consumers banking online...more>
PG&E Collaborates with Silicon Valley Companies
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced the first-ever utility financial
incentive program to support virtualization projects in data centers, with
industry support from VMware, Intel Corporation and other high tech leaders...more>
Indonesian consumers get mobile email
Critical Path, messaging software and services, is teaming with Indonesia's new
3G operator, PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications (‘Hutchison Telecom Indonesia'),
to deliver new mobile email and content services for consumers with Memova
Mobile...more>
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BelAir Networks unwires Dolphin Stadium
Dolphin Stadium debuts a new wireless network powered by BelAir Networks, the
mobile broadband wireless mesh network provides high speed internet access to
the stadium, dining areas, Executive Suites and parking areas...more>
DOJ Executive Office for US Attorneys Select Intellitactics
Department of Justice Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA)
selected Intellitactics Security Manager, Intellitactics SAM (security dashboard
that works with Security Manager), and Intellitactics Advanced Analytics as the
centerpiece of a security management program designed to automate security
operations, align real-time security operations with risk management strategies,
and address requirements for FISMA/FIPS compliance reporting...more>
Aventail's SSL VPN Becoming the De Facto Standard for Secure Wi-Fi Access
Norwich University, University of Ballarat, and University of Ottawa, have
selected and deployed Aventail's SSL VPN solution to help provide secure remote
access to their campus-wide Wi-Fi networks...more>
MaxWiFi Provides Hotels and Motels with AirTight Solutions
AirTight Networks, wireless intrusion prevention solutions, has teamed with
MaxWiFi to provide wireless security to the hundreds of hotels and motels that
employ MaxWiFi to deliver Internet access, travel information, and entertainment
services...more>
VitalStream delivers video to Prodigy MSN
Prodigy MSN
selects VitalStream to deliver video to Latin America's online community...more>
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New Edge Networks Says MPLS Hitting Mainstream Businesses
New Edge Networks expanded and began marketing its MPLS, Multi Protocol Label
Switching, and received more than 100 new requests for network proposals
representing more than $60 million in total contract value with more than 75
percent of the requests for networks with fewer than 20 nodes or locations and
from businesses representing various industries...more>
Lockdown Networks Ends Third Quarter with Record Sales
Lockdown Networks, Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, completed
theQ3 2006 with record sales and revenue grew 30 percent over the previous
quarter with strong sales in the United States, Europe and Mexico and customer
wins representing a variety of market segments, including higher education,
healthcare, government, finance and manufacturing...more>
ConSentry Networks
announced the European
availability of the LANShield Switch, an enterprise-class switch that integrates
the security features needed to secure every user and every port on the LAN.
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Qumas Ltd.,
compliance software, appointed Roger Pilc as chief executive...more>
McAfee
named Jeff Green as senior vice president of McAfee Avert Labs and Product
Development...more>
ConSentry Networks,
secure LAN solutions, hires Alex Raistrick as Director for Northern Europe...more>
HP
announced that G. Kennedy Thompson, chairman, president and chief executive
officer of Wachovia Corp., has been elected to the company's board of
directors...more>
Avinti Inc.,
virus detection software, appointed William Kilmer as chief executive...more>
SyncVoice Communications Inc.,
unified management software for converged communications, selected Stephen
Rizzone as chief executive...more>
Netezza Corp.,
data management appliances, named Justin Lindsey as chief technology officer...more>
Radware,
intelligent integrated solutions, selected Herbert Anderson as a new member of
its board of directors...more>
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Acopia Networks Inc.,
storage switch, hired Maurice Castonguay as chief financial officer...more>
Jack Kay has joined
Scali, high performance clustering solutions
for datacenters, as President and CEO...more>
Above All Software,
business integration software, named Sanjay Sarathy as interim chief
executive...more>
Nortel
announces Dr. Kristina M. Johnson appointment to the Board of Directors...more>
Sylantro Systems Corp.,
voice over IP software, selected Marco Limena as its new president and chief
executive...more>
Sofinnova Partners
announced that Olivier Sichel, former Chairman and CEO of Wanadoo (France
Telecom group) has been named Partner...more>
Reconnex
names Gary Taggart as vice president of sales and support...more>
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FireEye Inc.,
security appliance, appointed David Butler as vice president of sales and
business development...more>
Expand Networks Inc.,
network acceleration, hired James Baker as vice president of sales, Americas...more>
St. Bernard Software,
security solutions for SMEs, selected Vince Rossi as CEO and director of the
company...more>
Tidal Software, automation
software for managing IT organizations, named Jon Bode as chief financial
officer...more>
Yosemite Technologies,
backup software solutions, appointed former EMC executive, George Symons as
CEO...more>
Peak 10 Inc.,
data center solutions, appointed Gregory A. Aaron as vice president and general
manager...more>
Mobidia Inc.,
end-to-end service performance management software, named Gary Tauss as
president and chief executive...more>
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