Endpoint Security and Network Admission Control -- We've had a lot of interest in our newest report topic -- Network Admission Control. A while back, Cisco launched down the path of Endpoint security as a good vehicle for describing part of its long term directions and, in doing so, raised everyone's awareness that endpoint security is probably a good idea. Since then, large companies like Microsoft and Juniper have chimed in as have startups like Sygate. Endpoint security is turning out to be one of the more interesting topics of 2005 so we've decided to make it the topic of our next report. By all means, we'd love to hear from you on the subject -- jkatsaros@irg-intl.com.

Saving the Internet: We had a chance to catch up with the current management team at Caspian Networks recently. If you remember Caspian was Larry (actually the father of the Internet) Roberts attempt to make the mother of all scalable backbone routers. Not surprisingly after the bubble burst they failed at that goal. More surprisingly perhaps, recently they got another $55M of funding (bringing the grand total -- and we mean GRAND -- to $316M). Along the way Caspian has found an intriguing new value proposition which one might say is saving the Internet from Communism. The Internet protocols were invented by some well meaning, bright graduate student, and it's fair to say that they quite accurately implemented the Marxian philosophy "to everyone according to their need; from everyone according to their ability." When you're in your 20's this seems like ultimate wisdom but when you're over 40 you realize it isn't the basis for an economically viable society. The anarchistic technical basis of the Internet was great for its birth and growth but perhaps not surprisingly hasn't turned out to be the basis for easily making money if you're a network service provider. Running an IP network means you have little control over the traffic you bear (that's what the routers determine by themselves) and all traffic is carried with Marxian "best-effort." Making money running an airline is hard enough but nothing compared to running a network under these ultimately commoditized conditions. Caspian has realized that their mother-of-all-router design is also very good for identifying each and every flow going through your network, and treating each "appropriately." Caspian has chosen the politically correct term "Fair Use" to talk about this idea, but "whatever the market will bear" probably captures the value proposition better. All of a sudden Vonage's VoIP traffic through some Asian PTT network takes on the aspect of NYC garbage collection: with the right kickback to the PTT (who has Caspian flow control equipment) everything works out ducky. Without the right "partnership" (read revenue sharing) it sort of doesn't work very well. If you're 20 this must all sound like what happens when evil commercial interest intrudes into a good network design. If you're over 40 it sort of sounds like someone finally discovering the key to free market networking. Only time (or "the revolution") will tell.

Saving The Internet or Controlling The Internet? -- With products like Caspian's, service providers may soon have the ability to decide which services you'll get to use. If, for instance, your service provider decided, for whatever reasons -- monitory or political -- to prevent you from connecting to the Vonage service, how would you feel? Or what if they charged you a surcharge for doing so? We're all pretty used to the fact that our cable providers get to decide which channels you get to see, often with disastrous results as evidenced by the big Yankee's blackout that occurred when Cablevision and the Yankees couldn't come to terms. Today you don't have these sorts of issues with your service providers because they don't have the equipment they need to actually block complex services. But that's all about to change. Since our readers have more than just a passing interest in this subject, we'd love to hear your opinion -- feedback.

Open Source Revival -- Back in the early days of the Internet boom a new marketing strategy arose which was loosely based on the notion of giving away basic software (like a browser) and then marketing a commercial enhanced version. After the bubble burst the popularity of doing this fell into disfavor as investors were concerned about the impact to the bottom line of giving away something valuable. Nevertheless, two networking software companies that have been plugging away at this basic open source marketing strategy are reporting tremendous success and record-breaking sales. Tripwire just introduced its latest product -- Tripwire Enterprise 5.1 -- targeting change management and building off Tripwire's co-founder Gene Kim's Open Source software. And SourceFire continues to build on the popular Snort Open Source intrusion detection technology developed by SourceFire's founder Marty Roesch. It's good to see that this basic Internet marketing strategy can produce solid companies with bright futures.

Keeping the Content Distribution Market Edgy: Netli announced the availability of NetliOffload -- their Akamai content-caching knockoff. Akamai took Speedera out of the market in part to diminish the price competition for services and apparently the market has taken notice and increasingly encouraged Netli to get in there and fill the void. Given that most of the commercial content distribution companies don't really look like the dot.com behemoths for which Akamai was originally designed, Netli thinks they can provide a good alternative without having to match Akamai's (or even Speedera's) capital investment and network build out. Isn't free market competition fun to watch!

Cisco Development Reorganizes: The rumors we had been hearing for some time turned out to the true. Mario Mazzola, Chief Development Officer, retired and Cisco development necessarily reorganized. What was perhaps surprising was the departure of Luca Cafiero, one of Mario's close associates and mentioned by many as a contender to succeed him. Instead Charlie Giancarlo got the job. Sometimes reorganizations don't have much impact. Sometimes they determine the future of the company. Long ago, HP delayed its ultimate entry into the computer business for years because the microwave mafia kept winning the senior management battles. Cisco is at a critical junction point as they have to decide the best way to implement the intelligent network and grab more of the IT spend. Time will tell.

War of the Worlds (Geek Edition): AMD filed anti-trust charges against Intel. The proceedings have already given an interesting view into the competitive world of microprocessors and there must be much more to come. The painful part is going to be having to watch lawyers grapple with technology issues (never a pretty picture) and it will be especially painful to listen to the press comment on anti-trust. Being big, efficient and aggressive isn't illegal and Intel is all of these. More confusing still, anti-trust depends on the consumer's best interests being impaired. On the occasion of the 25^th anniversary of the microprocessor Peter had some one-on-one time with Gordon Moore and asked him if he thought that Intel could maintain the amazing Pentium franchise over time. Gordon answered "Probably not, but you would have to be an idiot not to try" and Intel isn't an idiot. Intel doesn't have to break the law to break a competitor. When you consider manufacturing and market strength Intel's advantage over AMD is comparable to that of the US Army over the Iraq army. I'll be watching closely and trying not to get too disgusted by ignorant commentary.

Crime Without Penalty -- The more you look at phishing scams, the more you realize how fragile e-Commerce can be. Last month David Jevans spoke at the Inbox Conference and pointed out that most phishing attacks are conducted by perpetrators outside of the US, many time zones away while the attacker's own service providers might be on night shift and from countries that have no interest in pursing the culprits even when presented with evidence of their activities. In other words, your bank account gets compromised and no one gets caught.

Storage is Cheap: If you missed Peter Christy's discussion on the XOSoft Webinar "Storage is cheap, bandwidth is not: Some ways to leverage inexpensive storage" here's the link for a replay: Storage is Cheap

Funding News -- In June, nearly $300M was invested in 29 infrastructure startups.

Date	Company	Sector	Detail	Amount ($millions)	Total Investment ($millions)	Investors
6/13	SOMA Networks	Broadband Wireless Access		$50.0		Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. and Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, including participation from NeoCarta Ventures, Inc., and Endeavour Investments Limited
6/23	Teledvance Communications	Broadband Solutions		$15.0
6/20	Softricity	Application Virtualization		$15.0		Meritech Capital Partners with FA Technology Ventures, Hunt Ventures, Longworth Venture Partners, Prism Venture Partners, TD Capital Ventures and Technology Link Capital
5/26	Good Technology	Mobile Communications	Series E	`$15.0	$65.0
5/26	Quorum Systems	Wireless Chips	Series B	$15.0
6/7	Hatteras Networks	Ethernet over Copper	Series D	$15.0
6/20	Starent Networks	Wireless Networking Equipment	Series E	$15.0
6/3	BlueArc Corporation	Network Storage		$15.0	$175.0	Meritech Capital Partners and Crosslink Capital
	Panta Systems	Computing Systems	Series A	$15.0
6/15	SWSoft	Server Automation	Series A	$12.4		Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Intel Capital
6/20	Akonix Systems	Security	Series C	$12.0		General Motors Asset Management (GMAM) and Menlo Ventures, Mission Ventures, Palomar Ventures and Windward Ventures
6/15	Meru Networks	VoIP Mobility Infrastructure	Series C	$12.0	$42.7	BlueStream Ventures, Clearstone Venture Partners and NeoCarta Ventures
6/20	Elemental Security	Security	Series C	$11.0		Lehman Brothers Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Mayfield and Sequoia Capital
6/8	Clovis Solutions	System Infrastructure Software	Series B	$11.0		American River Ventures, Intel Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Walden International
6/14	Clarus Systems	Automated Testing	Series B	$10.0		Trident Capital Trinity Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital and others
6/13	Covergence	Time Services	Series B	$10.0		Highland Capital Partners and North Bridge Venture Partners
6/5	Sentito Networks	Distributed VoIP	Series D	$10.0	$61.0	Kodiak Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners, Technology Venture Partners, Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds, Inflection Point Ventures, Columbus Nova and TELUS Ventures
5/25	Tectura	Microsoft Integrated Solutions		$10.0		Private equity financing from Ritchie Capital Management
6/6	PC Guardian Technologies	Encryption Software	Series A	$6.0		Altos Ventures and Cardinal Venture Capital, with equal participation by SVB Alliant
6/15	TimeSys Corporation	Linux Solutions		$6.0		Adams Capital Management with The Hillman Company and Philips Electronics
6/8	Metconnex Inc.	Optical Network Components	Series A	$5.8
6/29	Airimba Wireless Inc	Wireless Internet Service Provider	Series C	$5.0
6/28	GridApp Systems	Database Infrastructure Management	Series A	$5.0		Ascend Venture Group and Advantage Capital Partners
6/7	Tehuti Networks	Semiconductors	Series A	$4.2		Alice Ventures with ProSeed Venture Capital Fund
6/23	Austin-Tetra	Global Data Management	Series B	$3.5		Southwest Mezzanine Investments
5/26	Wave7 Optics	Network Equipment	Series C	$3.0
6/28	Netcordia	Network Analysis	Series A	$3.0		Novak Biddle Venture Partners
6/6	Optosecurity Inc.		Series A	$1.9		Business Development Bank of Canada and Innovatech Quebec
6/28	IPLogic	Network Systems Integrator		$1.5		DeltaPoint Capital Management LLC and the Common Retirement Fund
6/23	DATAllegro	Data Warehouse Appliance	Series B			Adams Capital Management, Palomar Ventures, Venrock Associates and Intel Capital

Mergers & Acquisitions -- Network Appliance, networked storage solutions, to acquire Decru, storage security, offering data protection solutions to address a range of needs for enterprises and governments, including regulatory compliance, privacy, secure consolidation, and outsourcing, for approximately $272 million in cash and stock. IBM acquired Meiosys, software technologies that enable applications to be dynamically moved from one server or set of servers to others without disruption. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cisco to acquire NetSift which provides Cisco with a solution to deep packet processing challenges, intellectual property, and a core team with a history of algorithmic innovations supporting high-speed packet processing. Cisco will pay approximately $30 million in cash and options for NetSift. Oracle and TimesTen, supplier of real-time data management software, announced that Oracle will acquire TimesTen. FaceTime Communications has acquired anti-spyware company XBlock Systems, LLC, and the SpywareGuide.com community and information resource. Sonim Technologies, enabling wireless data networks to deliver high margin Voice Over IP (VoIP) applications, to acquire Synergy Infotech Private Limited, a Bangalore-based software development company that provides high-end solutions to global customers. HyperSpace Communications proposed acquisition of GTG PC Holdings. Secured Services, identity and access management security software and services, completed the acquisition of Chameleon Communications Technology, Inc., maker of multi-service platform for provisioning, managing and securing mobile communications, end-to-end, across any broadband network, wired or wireless. Trend Micro, network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, acquired Kelkea Inc., IP filtering and reputation services. Juniper Networks has completed its acquisition of Peribit Networks. Symantec and Veritas Software completed the merger of their two companies. Akamai Technologies, Inc. today announced it has completed its acquisition of Speedera Networks. Equinix, network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, acquired a fourth Silicon Valley center.

Partnerships -- Diversinet Corp., mobile device security and authentication solutions for the mobile data ecosystem, announced an OEM licensing agreement with VeriSign, Inc. to deliver its OATH-compliant suite of mobile tokens and mobile authentication services for distribution by VeriSign. Cyota, anti-fraud and online security solutions for financial institutions, is working with EarthLink to provide data to enhance ScamBlocker, EarthLink's consumer application designed to help protect Internet users from insidious "phisher" site scams. The soon-to-be released motion picture "Ultraviolet" uses Sony's e-VTR and Orbital Data's TotalTransport technology to streamline the production workflow. EMC Corporation and Sun Microsystems reached an agreement on a number of hardware, software and support initiatives designed to help customers more easily deploy their technologies together. Medical Information Technology, health care information system vendor, and BridgeHead Software released Integrated Serverless Backup and Integrated Disaster Recovery for MEDITECH's Client/Server environment. LTI DataComm, data communications solutions to the federal government and Expand Networks, Application Traffic Management solutions for the branch office, announced that both companies delivered outstanding WAN optimization performance during Combined Endeavor '05, Communications and Information Systems (CIS) military exercise. Mobile software, Extended Systems and Pointsec, de facto standard for enterprise security software for laptop and desktop PCs, PDAs and smartphones, announced a collaboration to bring the most wide-ranging secure mobile solutions to market. NETGEAR, networking products, has expanded its partnership with AutoCell Laboratories (founded as Propagage Networks) and will be delivering a wireless LAN switch with Radio Frequency management technology to complement the existing line of NETGEAR ProSafe Wireless Access Points with AutoCell. Toshiba announced an agreement with McAfee to include McAfee SecurityCenter and McAfee VirusScan on the current libretto U105, libretto U100 and Tecra M4 models, and on future Toshiba notebook PCs offered by Toshiba America Information Systems. Radware, Intelligent Application Switching solutions, unveiled its new Channel Partnership Program which offers additional technology and marketing benefits to channel partners, while rewarding ongoing commitments and performance.

Corporate News -- Sourcefire, intrusion prevention, announced a comprehensive online training and certification program to support the demand from its growing customer base and the Snort community worldwide.

Product News -- Trust Digital, enterprise mobile security software solutions, released the latest version of its software, Trust Digital 2005. iAnywhere Solutions announced the general availability of Afaria 5.3, frontline management and security solution includes enhanced support for wireless device platforms, adds significant security features for handhelds and converged devices, and improves the usability of the product's patch management capabilities. Application Security announced availability of the most comprehensive set of database-specific best-practice policies to help organizations meet the requirements of the Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standard. Diversinet Corp., mobile device security and authentication solutions for the mobile data ecosystem, announced its line of MobiSecure PC Tokens. NetScaler, accelerated application delivery systems integrated dynamic compression technology into an application delivery system that can help Global 2000 customers speed the performance of both custom and packaged enterprise applications. Nexaweb, software platform for building and deploying Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), released Nexaweb 4.0, the latest version of its RIA software platform. Kerio Technologies, Internet messaging and firewall solutions for small to medium-sized organizations, announce Kerio WinRoute Firewall 6.1, its flagship network security product, has added robust Clientless SSL-based VPN and transparent Active Directory support. Trend Micro announced the availability of its InterScan Web Security Suite 2.5, designed to block spyware and grayware from entering corporate networks and announced three new solutions that detect and remove evasive spyware and grayware for the home, small-to-medium business, and the enterprise. EMC Corporation announced the immediate availability of an EMC Dantz Retrospect 7 update for Windows software that drives increased levels of sophistication into EMC's data protection offerings for small and medium businesses, distributed enterprises, as well as home and home offices. NetDevices, Inc., services gateway products for enterprise branch networks, introduced its SG-8 Unified Services Gateway (USG), purpose-built solution for next-generation IP networks, the SG-8 simplifies networking at large branch and regional offices by unifying multiple services.

Network Appliance unveiled two new midrange NetCache systems -- the NetApp C2300 and C3300 -- to strengthen the company's Internet access and security solution for enterprise data centers. Avantry Ltd. completed a trial-testing series for its newest proprietary microwave MIMO technology. This new technology will be implemented within Avantry's Advent, a new generation microwave radio system that will be the first gigabit Ethernet microwave packet radio. Trapeze Networks, wireless LAN Mobility System, had its products certified under the new SpectraLink Voice Interoperability for Enterprise Wireless Certification Program. Cisco Systems, announced Cisco Application-Oriented Networking (AON), new technology that adds intelligence to the network, enabling the network to better understand business-application communications to support more effective and efficient business decisions and announced new security, scalability and desktop application enhancements for its customer contact center solutions aimed at helping companies of all sizes improve customer service. Sygate Technologies, Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, launched Sygate Network Access Control (SNAC) and the availability of the industry's first Universal NAC System, designed to protect the entire enterprise network including managed (corporate desktops, laptops, servers) and unmanaged (guests, partners, customers) endpoints. Ingrian Networks, data privacy solutions, announced the availability of the next generation of their flagship Ingrian DataSecure Platforms featuring granular, field-level encryption capabilities and that can be integrated at the Web server, application server, or database layer. Openwave Systems, open software products and services for the communications industry, announced availability of a version of its Openwave Mobile Browser for the KDDI Common Platform�used in the mobile handsets of KDDI Corporation. Entrust, securing digital identities and information, announced that Entrust IdentityGuard solution now offers strong authentication for remote access applications. DISUK launched SafeTape, a backup tape encryption �solution-in-a-box', aimed in particular at securing the data of small and medium-sized businesses whose tape security is typically more ad hoc than in larger organizations. netForensics, Inc., Security Information Management (SIM), announced availability of its newest nFX Open Security (nFX OSP) SIM solution allowing organizations to get more comprehensive compliance reporting information, obtain deeper insight into risk by enhancing the industry's most robust correlation technology.

IP Fabrics, advanced software for network processors, announced that its PPL (Packet Processing Language) software will support the Intel NetStructure IXB28504xGbEFS AdvancedTCA board based on the Intel IXP2850 network processor. BEA Systems unveiled BEA AquaLogic, a new family of products to address an emerging category of enterprise software -- Service Infrastructure. Internap Network Services Corporation, performance-based routing solutions over the Internet, launched its new BusinessNet Service. Using GlobalRoute Xcelerator (GRX) technology, BusinessNet improves network performance and delivers "LAN-like" performance for TCP-based applications over the Internet. Spirent Communications announced the availability of its Converged Network Impairment Emulator, a test system for carriers developing triple play service bundles for residential and enterprise customers. Allot Communications, traffic management, announced the availability of Version 6.1.1, delivering a series of software enhancements to its NetEnforcer AC-1000 carrier-grade family that help service providers stay ahead of the rapidly evolving demands of their customers. EMC announces its intent to support Microsoft's Simple SAN for Windows Server Initiative and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 as well as new integrations and enhancements to help customers reduce risk, and improve service levels. Webmetrics, website testing, monitoring and analytics services, monitored the availability and performance of leading e-greeting card sites to measure the performance affects of Father's Day-related Internet traffic. Hallmark.com was the best performing site, while Americangreetings.com experienced the slowest average page loads at 5.14 seconds and 86.4 percent uptime for the day.

Customer Wins -- SBC's' PremierSERV Managed IPS utilizes a leading-edge network security solution from Mirage Networks that actively monitors and defends a network's interior, stopping network threats before they cause widespread damage. PostX, trusted electronic communications, has earned the exclusive endorsement of the American Hospital Association (AHA) for secure messaging services. Stealth Communications, owner and operator of the Voice Peering Fabric, has deployed the Force10 E-Series in its new Big Apple Peering Exchange (Big APE), an IPv4 peering fabric that is carrying traffic from eircom, Net2Phone, PPL Telecom, Progress Telecom and WV Fiber. Tyco International selected McAfee Active Virus Defense as its company-wide anti-virus standard for workstations and servers. Sabre Holdings, travel reservations, has deployed a Secure Information Access Solution using Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from Nortel. University Of Washington selected SSH Tectia Client and SSH Tectia Manager to ensure authenticated access and secure data transmission for students, faculty, and staff using its campus computer network. Webwasher AG, subsidiary of CyberGuard providing security solutions, and Blue Coat Systems, proxy appliances, announced a partnership to deliver CyberGuard's Webwasher URL Filter on the high-performance Blue Coat Proxy SG appliances. The Ministry of Economic Development of New Zealand will deploy Entrust's IdentityGuard to all the department's employees to secure remote access to their network and applications via Citrix Metaframe. Equinix, provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, announced that MySpace.com, the leading social networking Web site,has moved into Equinix's Los Angeles Internet Business Exchange (IBXR) center.

Momentum Releases -- MX Logic increased its customer base has increased 188 percent. The company now processes billions of messages each month for more than 4,300 companies worldwide. In addition, MX Logic's revenue has increased 454 percent during the same time period. The company celebrates its 3rd anniversary. And, Mirapoint reported eight consecutive quarters of growth and secured more than 100 million mailboxes including customers such as Fujitsu Services, Ford Motor Co. and RSA Security.

Executives On The Move -- CEOs: SensorLogic, M2M application, communication and business services, names Ray Hood Chief Executive. CreekPath Systems names Mark Davis President and Chief Executive Officer. Kineto Wireless, Unlicensed Mobile Access technology, announced Rick Gilbert has joined the company as president and CEO... Flash Networks, mobile data optimization solutions for mobile carriers worldwide, appointed Liam Galin, as President and CEO. Envox Worldwide, voice solutions, appointed Mark D. Flanagan as chief executive officer. The Board of Directors of Sipera Systems, security systems for protection of session based real-time IP applications such as VoIP, Video & Multimedia, appointed Seshu Madhavapeddy as President and Chief Executive Officer. Covergence, real time services and applications management solution, named networking industry veteran, Bob O'Neil, president and CEO. Virtela, a global network solutions company, appointed Larry Morgan as president and CEO and also becomes a member of the company's board of directors. Vab Goel, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners who also served as Virtela's CEO, continues as chairman of the board. Conformative Systems, a developer of high-performance computer systems, named former Sun executive, Paul Rochester as the company's new chief executive officer. Whale Communications, SSL VPN vendor, appointed Roger J. Pilc to Chief Executive Officer. Linux Networx board of directors appointed Robert H. "Bo" Ewald as chief executive officer. Roger J. Pilc hired as CEO at Whale Communications, SSL VPN vendor. Tom Ivaskiv will be the interim CEO at ITF Optical Technologies. Covelight Systems, solutions for privacy protection and fraud management, formed an elite advisory board made up of the following industry experts: Anton Chuvakin; David Motsinger; Benjamin Robinson; Jeff Williams and Ira Winkler. Ido Sarig, former Mercury Interactive Vice President of technology strategy has joined the Optimyz Advisory Board.

Other Execs: Securify, network security management, named David Mullin as Chief Financial Officer. Sypherlink, a data-management software company, appointed William McCormick as chief operating officer. Riverbed Technology, application acceleration on wide area networks, announced that former Cisco executive Keith Zubchevich has joined Riverbed as vice president of business development. Aarohi Communications, Inc., intelligent SAN components and software, selected Bill Huber as senior vice president of software and systems engineering. Kerio Technologies, Internet security and messaging solutions for small to medium sized enterprises, appointed Scott Schreiman as vice president of Operations. Active Reasoning selects Charles Price to vice president of engineering.

Antoine Blondeau has been named senior vice president and general manager of the Asia-Pacific region at Visto Corporation, software and services for "pushing" email to mobile devices. Kathy Jaques has joined SecureWorks, Managed Security Services Provider, to oversee its marketing and product management teams. Vericept Corporation, Intelligent Compliance and Content Protection Solutions, promoted Joseph Cortale to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Netcell Corporation, storage processing, appointed Sanjay Adkar as vice president of Engineering and Don Clegg joins the company as vice president of Marketing.. New Edge Networks, provider of private multi-location broadband networks, has named Catherine Grace vice president of people. Tenebril, anti-spyware and privacy solutions, named Allan Thompson to senior vice president of Enterprise Sales and Business Development. WholeSecurity, behavioral, on-demand endpoint security solutions, named Wayne Periman as Vice President of Threat Content. Rob Levy joins BEA as executive vice president, new products strategy, Peter Stanley is now senior vice president, EMEA sales and operations, Alan Button joins as senior vice president of the Worldwide Partner Program and Kelly Collins joins BEA as vice president and general manager, Federal Sales. Ivan O'Sullivan Joins StreamBase Systems, systems software, as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. WideRay Corp., end-to-end retail and on-location solution for wireless distribution of digital media and promotional content to mobile devices, named Alan Cohen as vice president of marketing and Paul Gacek as vice president of engineering. Breach Security, security appliances, appointed Joe Eskew as the vice president of worldwide sales and promoted Lee Patenaude to vice president of worldwide customer service. Dilithium Networks, wireless mulitmedia solutions, hired Gerard Delaney as vice president and general manager Europe, Middle East and Africa. SiteScape, secure Web-based workflow and collaboration solutions, appointed of Philip Andrews as Managing Director for European Operations. PathScale, innovative software and hardware solutions to accelerate the performance and efficiency of Linux clusters, announced the appointment of Michael P. McPherson as Vice President of Sales. Habeas Inc., defeats spam by enabling trust in legitimate email, has appointed Nigel Marrion to the newly created position of VP of customer service. Five9, hosted contact center solutions, appointed Cary F. Fulbright as Vice President of Marketing.

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