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Proving one more time that you can teach old dogs new tricks, and
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name (Infrastructure 2.1) and a blog repository
www.infrastructure2-1.com. The price remains the same. Fetch
Spot! (tell us what you think).
Christmas Gifts --
It's that time of year when company PR departments want to
send out gifts like bottles of wine and Harry and David's
Christmas Tower of Treat (see Web site for details) to their
favorite analysts. Many analyst firms have strict restrictions
that prohibit analysts from accepting these sorts of treats as
this may be considered a type of bride. We want to remind you
that we don't have any such restrictions, so if you're having
trouble distributing your excess analyst graft you can find
detailed shipping instructions on our website. But act quickly so
that it can still get here by the holidays.
Dinner Anyone?
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Well, it's getting close to that time of the year when we invite
all of our readers to join us for our N-Square (Networking
Networking) dinner. This will be our fourth or fifth annual
dinner and all readers are invited (we generally run out of room
and can't accept RSVPs at about 75 people). The dinner will be in
the Palo Alto area on Tuesday evening, March 6th. The
topic will be Virtualization -- Peter will be leading a discussion
with a couple of vendors squarely in the virtualization space.
We're told that these are fun "schmoozing" evenings thanks mostly
to you all for showing up. RSVP --
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com
 Chambers's
Victory Lap
-- Coming off the heels of its recent $8.2B revenue quarter with its stock
price finally moving upward (currently it's above $27/share) for the first
time in several years, Cisco's John Chambers kicked off the C-Scape analyst
conference with a victory lap. Who can blame him for feeling so good?
Chambers loves to focus the Cisco teams on market share and the numbers
certainly are impressive. Cisco is number one in each of these sectors
--
Switching -- 73%, Routing 70%, Wireless 65%, Networked Home 51%, Enterprise
Voice 23% and Security 38%. The way that Cisco constantly enters and often
dominates new markets is a phenomenal story of modern company management.
Cisco is the new GE. When the bubble burst in 2000 and Cisco had its
inventory fiasco, lots of people wondered if they'd ever return to as strong
of a position as they had. It looks like that question has been answered.
Since their analyst conference C-Scape was last week, we've decided to make
it the topic of this week's newsletter. The picture shows Jim Grubb,
Cisco's Chief Demo Officer, on stage with Chambers during the kickoff
keynote. Chambers and Grubb have this Penn and Teller type routine that
they perform at each of Chamber's keynotes that's quite entertaining. If
you need a closing act at your company Christmas party you might try booking
them.
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Who Took the Money?
One
of the (many) amazing things about John Chambers is that he's so
nice and so demanding at the same time. Nothing is good enough at
Cisco if it could be better, and that includes the Analyst
Conference. In search of a better format, Cisco chose to hold a
separate Financial Analysts Conference and diminish the financial
content of the big Analyst Conference and aim it more at the
Industry Analyst. For the Financial Analysts this makes sense
because the meeting was held in NYC where most of them are
anywhere, and I believe that many of that crowd aren't really
interested in the technology. In my (not so humble) opinion the
impact on C-Scape (the Analyst Meeting) was pretty negative. Cisco
is a very quantitative company and in the past there has always
been significant discussion of the business analysis and how that
informs and drives product and channel strategies. With the
exception of one slide in Chambers' presentation there was
essentially no business discussion on the first day (no
presentation by the CFO for example). I'm told that many of the
industry analysts also like the change. Personally I have no idea
how to dissect interesting technology devoid of the business.
Apparently those other analysts do. Another good reason not to ask
them for strategic advice if you ask me.
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SONA Unwound / Cisco's
Software Strategy:
At the last moment, Cisco added a software strategy breakout to the Analyst
Meeting and Senior VP Cliff Meltzer had a lot to say. Cisco has painted an
Intelligent Information Network vision for years, and a year ago introduced
SONA (Service-Oriented Network Architecture). IIN or SONA -- whatever you
choose to call it -- talks about a lot of real value that Cisco can inject
into networks if they can just understand where to put the software that
implements it (running applications on top of IOS router applications isn't
a viable idea). Unfortunately they never explained how Cisco might actually
implement such a vision in an interesting timeframe (it's only software so
given enough time and money anything is "possible"). In the last year, Cliff
inherited SONA and AON to add to the large software organization he already
had doing network management (all of which is good for Cisco since Cliff
really understands software and most of Cisco doesn't). Cliff's insight is
that virtualization of Cisco's appliance infrastructure (all those x86
servers embedded in a complex Cisco-powered network) all of a sudden makes
that infrastructure a remarkable distributed computer platform on which to
build a real service platform, and that's exactly what Cliff plans to do.
It's another example of how virtualization enables much larger solutions
(rather than being magic technology by itself). We wrote about Virtual
Appliances in a recent report, and we'll talk more about Cisco's plans in
one that we're just wrapping up as a special Christmas present for our
clients -- Cisco's SONA Unwound -- Virtualization Intersects Appliances
(again). With virtualization we can now see a path by which Cisco can
really add powerful network-based services without redoing all their
existing software. Interested?
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com
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Cisco Gets Physical:
One of the most interesting breakouts at the Analyst Meeting was the
security session that ended up being about physical security. Can you
imagine a VC getting interested in a business plan that was all about
putting video security, door locks and card readers onto an IP network? But
that's exactly what Cisco was talking about. It's interesting because Cisco
has really dived into this space with deep knowledge and because Cisco says
the available market is over $6B/year. As the late senator Dirkson used to
say "a billion here, a billion there … after a while it starts to add up to
real money."
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The 16 Year Old Myth --
One of the reasons why the Cisco analyst conference is so interesting is
that each year the Cisco team does its best to present a clear picture of
the big pockets of enterprise and service provider demand which ultimately
drives the Cisco engine. As Cisco grows stronger in each of its markets,
painting the demand picture becomes harder of course. For instance, Cisco's VoIP story of a few years ago held out the traditional PBX world as being a
gazillion dollar business. Now, with their market dominance in this space,
the growth forecast slows. With Google's recent buyout of YouTube on
everyone's mind, there was a lot of talk about "what 16 year olds will do
next" and how what 16 year olds do, will be the next big demand to hit US
service providers (and, by inference, the group whose Internet usage will
ultimately drive SP infrastructure investment). Well, maybe that will
happen (in which case there will be a lot of frustrated parents having to
fork over more money for faster connect times so that their kids can chill
out on the net). Strangely, this is sounding a bit like the bubble service
provider economics of the late 90's -- "the Internet is growing faster than
Moore's law; build it and they will come." It's not that service providers
won't be rethinking their strategies and looking to see where bandwidth
hungry apps may be important. What's worrisome is that we're counting on a
bunch of 16 year olds to start "doing things that we don't know about yet."
Yes, YouTube does consume a lot of bandwidth from their Website servers to
the Internet (those who know say in the months before Google acquired them
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they were paying a million a month to distribute their content). But
rewiring the last mile wasn't necessary.
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Citrix Goes Streaming:
Hold the presses! Citrix just announced the acquisition of Ardence, a
software company in Waltham Massachusetts. Ardence "streams" the operating
system to a PC which is a fancy way of saying Ardence has designed a
flexible means by which PC's can be booted from the LAN. Network boot isn't
particularly new. What Ardence does goes much further and allows a single
boot "image" to serve a diverse population of machines by the ability to
fold in configuration specific drivers. My bold prediction is that this
will confuse the crap out of most of the press and other analysts although
it actually makes a lot of sense. The value in this offering is in the
leverage it provides for configuration management and the fact that every
reboot gets an up-to-date and mal-ware cleansed image -- interestingly this
is the problem that start-up mōka5 is solving with quite different
technology (virtual images). The offering certainly fits square in the
overall Citrix value proposition and should expand the Citrix footprint if
Citrix and their customers can differentiate what technology to use when
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Websense Makes Another Move --
Today Websense
announced its plans to acquire information leak prevention vendor Port
Authority, a few months after having announced an OEM partnership with the
company. We've previously discussed Websense's desires to increase its
portfolio of security product offerings so its move into the content
inspection market isn't surprising. In 2006 we produced several reports
covering the content inspection market. So far, this market has proved to
be a disappointment to investors as the products in this space haven't been
barnburners as, for instance, were the spam appliances when that market was
taking off. It's been our view that the first generation of content
analysis products didn't provide enough value and, to do so, would require
much more comprehensive capabilities and integration within the
infrastructure. Plus, the expansion of existing product functionality such
as what's happening with Exchange 2007 and its feature packed content
inspection capabilities would reshape customer content inspection demands.
So it's not surprising that after many years of being in startup mode and
$23M of venture investment, Port Authority's investors would choose the
acquisition route - $90M in cash makes a pretty good return on this
investment. We've counted over 30 startups in this arena, most with a
combination of interesting technology and disappointing market performance.
It's likely that this acquisition may kick off a series of actions by other
big security players to go shopping for content inspection functionality
which they can infuse into their product lines and investors, having learned
the long term difficulties in this space, will be pleased to get out.
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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…) -- Virtualization Intersects Appliances (and more).
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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Funding News --
Twelve
new investments raised more than $80M for infrastructure startups in the
past couple of weeks.
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Date |
Company |
Sector |
Detail |
Amount
($millions) |
Total
Investment
($millions) |
Investors |
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12/5 |
Monta Vista
Software |
Embedded Linux
Operating Systems and Tools |
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$21.0 |
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Siemens Venture
Capital with NEC, Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, Aplix and
others |
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12/1 |
BitTorrent |
Digital Content
Delivey Platform |
Series B |
$20.0 |
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Accel Partners
and DCM |
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12/4 |
Crescendo
Networks |
Application
Acceleration Devices |
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$10.0 |
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Evergreen
Venture Partners and includes Apax, StageOne, Magnum and
Convergent Venture Capital Funds |
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11/30 |
OpenSpan |
Surface
Integration |
Series A |
$8.0 |
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Sigma Partners
and Matrix Partners |
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11/28 |
NetWitness
Corp. |
Network
Monitoring |
Series A |
$7.5 |
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12/4 |
ISkoot Inc. |
Mobile Phone
Solutions |
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$6.2 |
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Khosla Ventures |
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12/4 |
Solace Systems |
Routing Systems |
Series C |
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Genuity Capital
Partners, Teachers' Private Capital and international state,
hedge, and private equity investment funds |
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11/30 |
NextHop
Technologies |
Network
Software |
Series C |
$4.8 |
$41.8 |
New Enterprise
Associates, Duchossois Technology Partners, Labrador Ventures, and
Parker Price Venture Capital |
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12/4 |
Quickcomm
Software Solutions Inc. |
Telecom Expense
Management Software |
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$4.1 |
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11/30 |
Meraki Networks |
Wireless Mesk
Networking |
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Google |
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11/29 |
Empower RF
Systems |
Ultra-Broadband
RF Amplifiers |
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Summit Partners |
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11/29 |
SEQUANS
Communications |
Fixed and
Mobile WiMAX Semiconductor Solutions |
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Motorola |
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TOP STORIES
IPO News --
Isilon Systems,
clustered storage systems and software set the terms of its IPO and plans to
sell 8.35 million common shares at a price range of $8.50 to $9.50 each.
Corporate News --
Mirage
Networks
reported that U.S. patent number 7,124,197 was issued for Mirage's Network
Access Control (NAC) technology, covering methods and apparatuses to track
and manipulate address resolution traffic to enforce authentication checks
prior to allowing access to a local network segment, and to quarantine
endpoints that fail the checks. Protegrity Corporation, data security
management solutions, has been awarded United States Patent 7,120,933, a
method for detecting intrusion in a database managed by an access control
system. BridgeHead Software expanded its operations into the
Asia-Pacific region with appointment of local sales teams and opening of its
Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore and regional office in Beijing,
China.
Mergers & Acquisitions
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QUALCOMM,
advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, will acquire for cash
WLAN technology provider Airgo Networks Inc. and the majority of
RF Micro Devices' (RFMD's) Bluetooth assets. IBM has agreed to
acquire Vallent Corporation, supplier of network performance
monitoring and service management software for wireless service providers
worldwide. Informatica Corporation, data integration software, will
acquire Itemfield, data transformation technology that enables
near-universal access to unstructured and semi-structured data. NeuStar,
communications services to the global communications and Internet
industry, acquired Followap, UK-based mobile instant messaging (IM)
products in Europe and Asia, for approximately $139 million in cash. LGC
Wireless Inc., wireless networking technology for high-speed
communications in urban areas, acquired mobile assets from Alvarion Ltd.
Partnerships --
Riverbed
Technology
announced a cooperative support agreement with Network Appliance to
help customers protect their distributed data. Iperia, unified
communications solutions, is participating in Level 3 Communications'
Technology Alliance Program. AXS-One, high-performance Records
Compliance Management (RCM) software solutions, and MessageGate,
e-mail governance solutions, announced an agreement to offer an enhanced
electronic records life cycle management. AirTight Networks, wireless
intrusion prevention solutions, partnered with FireScope, IT
Operations software offering a real-time view of the health and security of
enterprise networks, to provide integrated wired and wireless security
solutions to businesses of any size. Covelight Systems, online
management solutions, partnered with Quova, IP Intelligence and
Internet geolocation data and services, to deliver online user transaction
data and enhanced authentication capabilities for financial services
enterprises, integrating Quova's GeoPoint service with Covelight's Inflight
Intelligence Engine.
New Products --
Open source
developer and Snort creator, Sourcefire, network intrusion
prevention, released OfficeCat, a free security tool that enables users to
easily identify potentially threatening Microsoft Office files. Entrust
Entelligence Group Share helps organizations protect data stored on
corporate networks in a manner that is automatic, transparent to the end
user and persistent. Websense, Web security and Web filtering,
announced software to help solution providers deliver Web security for their
customers' Internet access via virtualized applications delivered by Citrix
Presentation Server. Webroot Software, anti-spyware software for
consumer, enterprise and SME markets, announced Webroot SME Security,
Internet threat solution designed specifically to protect small and
medium-sized enterprises from spyware and viruses. Breach Security,
web application security, released its BreachGate WebDefend Enterprise
version 2.0 web application firewall. AEP Networks, policy-based
networking, shipped its latest Secure Sockets Layer Virtual Private Network
(SSL VPN) platform, AEP Netilla Security Platform Release 5.4. Entrust
will offer Extended Validation (EV) SSL Server Certificates for use
with the next-generation of EV-aware browsers.
ArcSight.
Network and Security
Information Management solutions, introduced a new log management appliance,
ArcSight Logger, to provide customers with an easily searchable, high
performance and cost effective log data repository that can be leveraged
across networking, security and IT operations teams. Netcordia,
network analysis tools, introduced new firewall analysis features for NetMRI,
which automatically monitors and analyzes firewall system usage, device
system parameters, and firewall rule-sets.
Microsoft
announced the Exchange Server 2007. EMC Corporation, information
management and storage, unveiled the EMC Energy Efficiency Services, a set
of assessment and planning services designed to help customers maximize
energy efficiency in the data center. The company also introduced the EMC
Power Calculator. Nortel launched new capabilities for its SIP
Contact Center 6.0 solution, adding to customer service through a range of
communication choices. Opalis Software, Run Book Automation (RBA)
software that orchestrates, integrates, and automates IT operational
processes, announced availability of the latest version of Opalis
Integration Server. The Infoblox Network Services for Authentication
(NSA) package delivers distributed Remote Access Dial-in User Services
(RADIUS) across a collection of Infoblox appliances that can be deployed at
multiple remote sites.
Customer Wins
--
Akonix
was selected to supply
instant messaging security and compliance appliances to O2, mobile
services to consumers and businesses in the UK. And Tenet
Healthcare and Susquehanna International Group also selected
Akonix solutions. Galaxy Internet Services has selected Strix
Systems to provide its Access/One Outdoor Wireless System high-capacity,
multi-radio mesh network for the city-wide Wi-Fi network in Brookline,
Massachusetts. China Education and Research Network (CERNET) selected
Motorola's HotZone Duo solution to provide public access for three
campuses Wi-Fi initiative. SINA Corporation, Chinese online media
company and value-added information provider, has deployed Allot
NetEnforcer bandwidth management technology to monitor and analyze traffic
on the SINA network. Zen Internet, UK ISP, upgraded its network
infrastructure installing two FastIron SuperX convergence-ready PoE
switches at its headquarters. Indiana University has deployed the
TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers to build a distributed,
flexible high performance cyberinfrastructure. Carlson Wagonlit Travel,
travel management company, has implemented Expand Networks technology
in the Asia-Pacific region to increase its network's speed and application
delivery and improve Quality of Service (QoS)
while consolidating distributed IT services to a single data center.
United Nations Federal Credit Union, a financial services cooperative
serving members in 210 countries and territories worldwide, has purchased
PortAuthority's Information Leak Prevention (ILP) solution to protect
its confidential information and members' personal data. RADVISION,
voice and video network infrastructure and developer tools for unified
visual communications, announced that CESTEL, Spanish system
integrator for the media and call center industry, has chosen RADVISION's
Interactive Video Platform to incorporate advanced video capabilities to its
contact center and IVR solutions...more>
Momentum Releases --
Marshal,
content security, has experienced robust expansion, opening operations in
the UK, France, the USA, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia and, has
launched its global Internet security monitoring panel, the TRACE (Threat
Research & Content Engineering) Center website, providing up-to-date
statistics and information on spam, phishing, viruses and other Internet
security threats.
Executives On The Move --
Mirage Networks has named Greg Stock CEO and president. Peter
Cellarius is responsible for business development, corporate development and
M&A activities at Aruba Networks. TriCipher
has hired Vatsal Sonecha, former Vice President of Market Development at
McAfee to its executive team as Vice President of Strategy and Business
Development. Intellitactics named Kevin T. Carr Vice President,
Sales. And Dr. Joachim Hammer has joined EpicTide's Solutions
Advisory Board.
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updated, contact John Katsaros at
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Sourcefire Launches OfficeCat
Open source developer and Snort creator, Sourcefire, network intrusion
prevention, released OfficeCat, a free security tool that enables users to
easily identify potentially threatening Microsoft Office files...more>
Entrust launches NEW Network Folder Encryption Product
Entrust Entelligence Group Share helps organizations protect data stored on
corporate networks in a manner that is automatic, transparent to the end user
and persistent...more>
Exchange Server 2007 Announced
Microsoft announced the Exchange Server 2007...more>
Websense Combats Security Threats
Websense, Web security
and Web filtering, announced software to help solution providers deliver Web
security for their customers' Internet access via virtualized applications
delivered by Citrix Presentation Server...more>
Webroot Announces New Product
Webroot Software, anti-spyware software for consumer, enterprise and SME
markets, announced Webroot SME Security, Internet threat solution designed
specifically to protect small and medium-sized enterprises from spyware and
viruses...more>
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EMC Introduces New Services
and Tools
EMC Corporation, information management and storage, unveiled the EMC Energy
Efficiency Services, a set of assessment and planning services designed to help
customers maximize energy efficiency in the data center. The company also
introduced the EMC Power Calculator...more>
ArcSight Announces Logger and
Network Configuration Manager
ArcSight, Network and Security Information Management solutions, introduced a
new log management appliance, ArcSight Logger, to provide customers with an
easily searchable, high performance and cost effective log data repository that
can be leveraged across networking, security and IT operations teams...more>
Netcordia Ensures Network
Security
Netcordia, network analysis tools, introduced new firewall analysis features for
NetMRI, which automatically monitors and analyzes firewall system usage, device
system parameters, and firewall rule-sets...more>
Breach launches WebDefend
Enterprise
Breach Security, web application security, released its BreachGate WebDefend
Enterprise version 2.0 web application firewall...more>
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Nortel Launches New SIP Contact Center Capabilities
Nortel launched new capabilities for its SIP Contact Center 6.0 solution, adding
new dimensions to customer service through a range of communication choices...more>
Opalis Achieves ‘Fully Aware' Automated IT Operations
Opalis Software, Run Book Automation (RBA) software that orchestrates,
integrates, and automates IT operational processes, announced availability of
the latest version of Opalis Integration Server...more>
Infoblox Enhances Security and Availability of Wireless Networks
The Infoblox Network Services for Authentication (NSA) package delivers
distributed Remote Access Dial-in User Services (RADIUS) across a collection of
Infoblox appliances that can be deployed at multiple remote sites...more>
AEP
Netilla Security Platform Release 5.4 SSL VPN
AEP Networks, policy-based networking, shipped its latest Secure Sockets Layer
Virtual Private Network (SSL VPN) platform...more>
Entrust announces Extended Validation SSL Certificates
Entrust will offer Extended Validation (EV) SSL Server Certificates for use
with the next-generation of EV-aware browsers...more>
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Mirage Networks Announces
Issuance of U.S. Patent
Mirage Networks reported that U.S. patent number 7,124,197 was issued for
Mirage's Network Access Control (NAC) technology, covering methods and
apparatuses to track and manipulate address resolution traffic to enforce
authentication checks prior to allowing access to a local network segment, and
to quarantine endpoints that fail the checks...more>
Protegrity Awarded Patent
Protegrity Corporation, data security management solutions, has been awarded
United States Patent 7,120,933, a method for detecting intrusion in a database
managed by an access control system...more>
BridgeHead Software expands
into Asia-Pacific region
BridgeHead Software expanded its operations into the Asia-Pacific region with
appointment of local sales teams and opening of its Asia-Pacific headquarters in
Singapore and regional office in Beijing, China...more>
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MontaVista Software Secures $21 Million in Private Funding
MontaVista Software, Inc., production-quality embedded Linux operating systems
and development tools, received $21 million in funding led by Siemens Venture
Capital with NEC, Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, Aplix and others...more>
Crescendo Networks Raises $10 million
Crescendo Networks secured $10 million in its recent round of financing led by
Evergreen Venture Partners and includes Apax, StageOne, Magnum and Convergent
Venture Capital Funds...more>
iSkoot Raises $6.2M
iSkoot Inc., technology to connect mobile phones to IP-based phone services,
raised $6.2M from Khosla Ventures...more>
Solace Systems Secures Series C Investment
Solace Systems, value-added services (VAS) routing systems, announced its latest
round of funding of an undisclosed amount from Genuity Capital Partners,
Teachers' Private Capital and international state, hedge, and private equity
investment funds...more>
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Quickcomm Secures $4.1M
Quickcomm Software Solutions Inc., Telecommunications expense management
software, has raised $4.1 million...more>
BitTorrent Secures $20 Million in Venture Capital
BitTorrent, peer-assisted digital content delivery platform, closed $20 million
in Series B financing from Accel Partners and DCM...more>
OpenSpan Secures $8 MM of Funding
OpenSpan, Surface Integration, closed its first round of VC funding of $8M from
Sigma Partners and Matrix Partners...more>
Meraki Receives Funding from Google
Meraki Networks, wireless mesh networking equipment developer, received
considerable funding from Google Inc...more>
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NextHop Technologies Closes $4.8 Million Series C
NextHop Technologies, network software solutions, received a Series C funding
round of $4.8 million from New Enterprise Associates, Duchossois Technology
Partners, Labrador Ventures, and Parker Price Venture Capital. This brings total
funding in the company to $41.8 million...more>
Empower RF Systems Receives Investment
Empower RF Systems, high-power ultra-broadband radio frequency (RF) amplifiers,
received a minority investment from Summit Partners...more>
Motorola Invests in Sequans
SEQUANS Communications, fixed and mobile WiMAX semiconductor solutions, received
strategic investment from Motorola. Financial terms of the agreement were not
disclosed...more>
NetWitness Raises $7.5M Series A
NetWitness Corp., network monitoring, has raised a $7.5 million Series A
round...more>
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Isilon Systems Sets IPO
Isilon Systems, clustered storage systems and software set the terms of its
IPO and plans to sell 8.35 million common shares at a price range of $8.50
to $9.50 each...more>
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QUALCOMM to Acquire Airgo and Bluetooth Assets of RFMD
QUALCOMM, advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, will acquire
for cash WLAN technology provider Airgo Networks Inc. and the majority of RF
Micro Devices' (RFMD's) Bluetooth assets...more>
IBM to Acquire Vallent
IBM has agreed to acquire Vallent Corporation, supplier of network
performance monitoring and service management software for wireless service
providers worldwide...more>
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Informatica to Acquire Itemfield
Informatica Corporation, data integration software, to acquire Itemfield,
data transformation technology that enables near-universal access to
unstructured and semi-structured data...more>
NeuStar Acquires Followap
NeuStar, communications services to the global communications and Internet
industry, acquired Followap, a UK-based mobile instant messaging (IM)
products in Europe and Asia, for approximately $139 million in cash...more>
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LGC Wireless Acquires Alvarion Tech
LGC Wireless Inc., wireless networking technology for high-speed
communications in urban areas, acquired mobile assets from Alvarion Ltd., in
a deal worth $15 million, according to VentureWire...more>
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Network Appliance
enterprise-class storage supports Riverbed
Riverbed Technology announced a cooperative support agreement with Network
Appliance to help customers protect their distributed data and take full
advantage of heterogeneous data centers...more>
MessageGate Partners with AXS
AXS-One, high-performance Records Compliance Management (RCM) software
solutions, and MessageGate, e-mail governance solutions, announced an agreement
to offer an enhanced electronic records life cycle management...more>
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AirTight Partners With Firescope
AirTight Networks, wireless intrusion prevention solutions, partnered with
FireScope, IT Operations software offering a real-time view of the health and
security of enterprise networks, to provide integrated wired and wireless
security solutions to businesses of any size...more>
Iperia Announces Participation in Level 3 Technology Alliance Program
Iperia, unified communications solutions, is participating in Level 3
Communications' Technology Alliance Program...more>
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Covelight To Provide Quova Geopoint
Covelight Systems, online management solutions, partnered with Quova, IP
Intelligence and Internet geolocation data and services, to deliver a seamless
platform for online user transaction data and enhanced authentication
capabilities for financial services enterprises, integrating Quova's GeoPoint
service with Covelight's Inflight Intelligence Engine...more>
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Akonix selected by O2
Akonix was selected to supply instant messaging security and compliance
appliances to O2, mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK...more>
Galaxy Internet Services Selects Strix Systems
Galaxy Internet Services (Galaxy) has selected Strix Systems to provide its
Access/One Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) high-capacity, multi-radio mesh network
for the city-wide Wi-Fi network in Brookline, Massachusetts...more>
CERNET has Selected Motorola's HotZone Duo
China Education and Research Network (CERNET) selected Motorola's HotZone Duo
solution to provide public access for three campuses Wi-Fi initiative...more>
SINA
Uses Deep Packet Inspection from Allot
SINA Corporation, Chinese online media company and value-added information
provider, has deployed Allot NetEnforcer bandwidth management technology to
monitor and analyze traffic on the SINA network...more>
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Zen
Internet Upgrades Network With Foundry's High-Performance Convergence-Ready
FastIron SuperX Switches
Zen Internet, UK ISP, upgraded its network infrastructure installing two
FastIron SuperX convergence-ready PoE switches at its headquarters...more>
Akonix selected by Tenet Healthcare
Tenet Healthcare selected Akonix A6000 appliances and Susquehanna International
Group also selected Akonix solutions...more>
Indiana University Powers High Performance Distributed Cyberinfrastructure With
Force10 Networks
Indiana University has deployed the TeraScale E-Series family of switch/routers
to build a distributed, flexible high performance cyberinfrastructure...more>
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Carlson Wagonlit Travel Turns to Expand Networks
Carlson Wagonlit Travel, travel management company, has implemented Expand
Networks technology in the Asia-Pacific region to increase its network's speed
and application delivery and improve Quality of Service (QoS)
while consolidating distributed IT services to a single data center...more>
United Nations Federal Credit Union Selects PortAuthority
United Nations Federal Credit Union (UNFCU), a financial services cooperative
serving members in 210 countries and territories worldwide, has purchased
PortAuthority's Information Leak Prevention (ILP) solution to protect its
confidential information and members' personal data...more>
RADVISION Selected By CESTEL
RADVISION, voice and video network infrastructure and developer tools for
unified visual communications, announced that CESTEL, Spanish system integrator
for the media and call center industry, has chosen RADVISION's Interactive Video
Platform to incorporate advanced video capabilities to its contact center and
IVR solutions...more>
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Marshal
Expands
Marshal, content security, has experienced robust expansion, opening
operations in the UK, France, the USA, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
And, has launched its global Internet security monitoring panel, the TRACE
(Threat Research & Content Engineering) Center website, providing up-to-date
statistics and information on spam, phishing, viruses and other Internet
security threats...more>
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Intellitactics
named Kevin T. Carr Vice President, Sales...more>
TriCipher
has hired Vatsal Sonecha, former Vice President of Market Development at McAfee
to its executive team as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development...more>
Mirage Networks
has named Greg Stock CEO and president...more>
Dr.
Joachim Hammer has joined EpicTide's
Solutions Advisory Board...more>
Peter
Cellarius is responsible for business development, corporate development and M&A
activities at Aruba Networks...more>
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