Avaya today announced the findings of its “Tuning Into The Channel” survey conducted at its annual Avaya Asia Pacific Business Partner Conference in Beijing, China.
The survey was conducted by Avaya Asia Pacific by polling participants from 20 countries in Asia Pacific who attended the conference.
The survey highlights a positive sentiment within Avaya’s Asia Pacific channel network with 64.6 percent of the respondents expecting to see a demand surge in ICT before the end of 2010 as the economy continues to improve in 2010. Among respondents, 37.7 percent see the SME sector as the biggest driver for this increase over the next 12 months. This positive sentiment is supported by business momentum as 40.5 percent of the Avaya channel partners polled said their customers have identified ‘making selected investments in projects to drive productivity’ as a key strategy over the next 12 months.
Financial Services (27.3 percent) and Telecoms (19.5 percent) are other key sectors identified as driving growth in what in 2010. The survey identified Unified Communications as a big opportunity in 2010 with 36.3 percent of the respondents identifying it as”the best opportunity for 2010”. The survey indicates that as many as 85 percent of channel partner customers prefer to extend and invest in existing systems. As many as 61.5 percent of channel partners polled are considering new contact centre solutions to improve their own customer service capabilities this year..
“The positive sentiment shared by our channel partners is good news for Avaya,” said Chee Heng Loon, director, Channels, Avaya Asia Pacific. “We see a similar reaction from many of our customers following our merger with Nortel Enterprise Solutions in December 2009.Avaya is well-positioned to strengthen our leadership in Asia Pacific,”
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Altegrity Risk International Announces Acquisition of Corporate Risk International
Altegrity Risk International, Inc. (ARI), president and CEO Michael Beber today announced that ARI—an Altegrity, Inc., company providing high-quality due diligence, investigative, analytic, consulting, intelligence, and security solutions to organizations around the world—has acquired Corporate Risk International (CRI), a global, full-service business intelligence and risk management firm. CRI has provided due diligence, investigative, and crisis management services globally for almost 20 years. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“The marriage of CRI’s broad industry and process expertise and ARI’s investment in technology, databases, and analytics, creates a winning combination,” said Mr. Beber. “Together under the Altegrity Risk International brand, we will provide enhanced due diligence, investigative, analytic, consulting, and intelligence solutions to our growing U.S. and international customer base.”
CRI specializes in U.S. and international due diligence and investigative projects, white collar crime investigations, business intelligence gathering, undercover investigative operations, and anti-money laundering analyses. The company also conducts security and risk assessment surveys and provides crisis management and executive protection services.
Founded in 1991, CRI is headquartered in the Washington D.C. area and has offices in Houston (which serves customers in the U.S. and Latin America), Hong Kong, and London. The company has a network of analysts, investigators, consultants, and crisis response specialists around the globe with experience in more than 150 countries. Over the past five years, CRI has conducted more than 65,000 diligence reviews and investigations, over 60 percent of which had an international scope.
In addition, through a long-term relationship with Professional Indemnity Agency (PIA), CRI handles cases involving kidnapping, illegal detention, and extortion. Since 1993, CRI has successfully responded to more than 500 such crises in every major country around the globe. ARI will continue to provide these services under the CRI brand.
“This acquisition brings together many of the top professionals in the risk management, investigations, business intelligence, and due diligence fields,” said Lee Spirer, ARI chief operating officer. “Working closely with the CRI leadership team, I have gained tremendous respect for their capabilities and the quality of their professionals at all levels. Their wealth of global experience and significant
international customer base provides a strong platform upon which we will grow. Together, we have significant aspirations for what we can help our clients achieve.”
Sean McWeeney, CRI founder and chairman, will continue to provide advice and counsel to the ARI leadership team. Jim McWeeney, CRI president and CEO, will serve as senior managing director and leader of ARI’s Decision Intelligence practice area. Tom McWeeney, CRI chief operating officer, will serve as managing director and leader of the Washington, D.C., area office.
“This is a great opportunity for CRI, our employees, and our customers,” said Jim McWeeney. “The strategic combination provides additional resources to grow our business and expand our customer-focused solutions around the world. Together, this new team will extend our solutions that help clients anticipate, prevent, and resolve issues, reduce fraud and loss, and maximize business opportunities.”
Altegrity Risk International (ARI) provides high quality due diligence, investigative, analytic, consulting, intelligence, and security solutions to multinational corporations and other organizations around the world. The company’s multidisciplinary team of experts from the fields of investigations, forensics, data intelligence, and financial technology provides its clients with specialized solutions to identify, analyze, prevent, and remediate the entire range of financial,
legal/regulatory, and reputational risks. Headquartered in New York City, ARI provides global coverage through offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
Corporate Risk International (CRI) employs a domestic and international network of 400-plus highly experienced security consultants, investigators and specialists. CRI specializes in major domestic (USA) and international due diligence and investigative projects, white collar crime investigations, business intelligence gathering, undercover investigative operations and anti-money laundering analyses. CRI also conducts security and risk assessment surveys, executive protection, emergency evacuations, and responds to cases involving kidnapping, illegal detention and extortion.
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements identify prospective information. Important factors could cause actual results to differ, possibly materially, from those stated in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by which, such performance or results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements are made. We assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions, or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking information except to the extent required by applicable securities laws.
“The marriage of CRI’s broad industry and process expertise and ARI’s investment in technology, databases, and analytics, creates a winning combination,” said Mr. Beber. “Together under the Altegrity Risk International brand, we will provide enhanced due diligence, investigative, analytic, consulting, and intelligence solutions to our growing U.S. and international customer base.”
CRI specializes in U.S. and international due diligence and investigative projects, white collar crime investigations, business intelligence gathering, undercover investigative operations, and anti-money laundering analyses. The company also conducts security and risk assessment surveys and provides crisis management and executive protection services.
Founded in 1991, CRI is headquartered in the Washington D.C. area and has offices in Houston (which serves customers in the U.S. and Latin America), Hong Kong, and London. The company has a network of analysts, investigators, consultants, and crisis response specialists around the globe with experience in more than 150 countries. Over the past five years, CRI has conducted more than 65,000 diligence reviews and investigations, over 60 percent of which had an international scope.
In addition, through a long-term relationship with Professional Indemnity Agency (PIA), CRI handles cases involving kidnapping, illegal detention, and extortion. Since 1993, CRI has successfully responded to more than 500 such crises in every major country around the globe. ARI will continue to provide these services under the CRI brand.
“This acquisition brings together many of the top professionals in the risk management, investigations, business intelligence, and due diligence fields,” said Lee Spirer, ARI chief operating officer. “Working closely with the CRI leadership team, I have gained tremendous respect for their capabilities and the quality of their professionals at all levels. Their wealth of global experience and significant
international customer base provides a strong platform upon which we will grow. Together, we have significant aspirations for what we can help our clients achieve.”
Sean McWeeney, CRI founder and chairman, will continue to provide advice and counsel to the ARI leadership team. Jim McWeeney, CRI president and CEO, will serve as senior managing director and leader of ARI’s Decision Intelligence practice area. Tom McWeeney, CRI chief operating officer, will serve as managing director and leader of the Washington, D.C., area office.
“This is a great opportunity for CRI, our employees, and our customers,” said Jim McWeeney. “The strategic combination provides additional resources to grow our business and expand our customer-focused solutions around the world. Together, this new team will extend our solutions that help clients anticipate, prevent, and resolve issues, reduce fraud and loss, and maximize business opportunities.”
Altegrity Risk International (ARI) provides high quality due diligence, investigative, analytic, consulting, intelligence, and security solutions to multinational corporations and other organizations around the world. The company’s multidisciplinary team of experts from the fields of investigations, forensics, data intelligence, and financial technology provides its clients with specialized solutions to identify, analyze, prevent, and remediate the entire range of financial,
legal/regulatory, and reputational risks. Headquartered in New York City, ARI provides global coverage through offices in Chicago, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.
Corporate Risk International (CRI) employs a domestic and international network of 400-plus highly experienced security consultants, investigators and specialists. CRI specializes in major domestic (USA) and international due diligence and investigative projects, white collar crime investigations, business intelligence gathering, undercover investigative operations and anti-money laundering analyses. CRI also conducts security and risk assessment surveys, executive protection, emergency evacuations, and responds to cases involving kidnapping, illegal detention and extortion.
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements identify prospective information. Important factors could cause actual results to differ, possibly materially, from those stated in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements should not be read as a guarantee of future performance or results, and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by which, such performance or results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements are made. We assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect actual results, changes in assumptions, or changes in other factors affecting forward-looking information except to the extent required by applicable securities laws.
Foundation of Advance Java Programming
This course provides all the necessary foundation in Java programming language to create and maintain a Web site. Attendees will study the sciences of Object-Oriented programming with extensive hand-on examples.
Course Audience
A working knowledge of Windows 95, HTML and some programming experience in C or Pascal.
Course Contents
Getting Started
- Introducing Java Development Kit using javac.exe, and java.exe.
- Class loading, standard classes, extension classes, and Classpath
- Java Applications and Java Archive Runtime (JAR)
- Introduction to Program Development using ANT, JUnit and Log4j.
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
- Object-oriented paradigm V.S. Imperative paradigm
- Class, Instances, Data members and Method Members and Constructors
- Scope rules, Symbol Tables, Lifetime of instances and Environments.
- Modifiers, Visibility Scope Rules, Packages.
- Shadowing, Overriding, Dynamic Binding, Inheritance and Polymorphism.
- Abstract Classes, Interfaces, Inner Classes, and Anonymous Classes.
Exception Handling
- Exception and Interrupt
- Throwable, Error, and Exception Class,
- Catching Scope of try and catch statement, and finally statement.
- Throwing Exceptions, and User Defined Exception
Threads
- Thread Class , Runnable Interface
- Thread Properties, Priorities, and Lifetime of Threads
- Sleep(), suspend(), resume(), wait(), join(), stop(), yield()
- Daemon Threads, and ThreadGroup
- Mutually Exclusive, Synchronization, and Dead Lock
- Using interrupt() for stop(), using wait() and notify() for suspend() and resume()
Streams
- Byte Streams, and Character Streams
- Input/Output Streams, and Reader/Writer Streams
- Filter Input/Output Stream Data Input/Output, Print. Buffered, CharArray, String, Piped, LineNumber, Pushback Streams
- File, FileStream, Random Access Files, and Zip Streams
Serialization
- Object Streams, and Persistent
- Serializable Interface
- Transient Members
- Class ID and Object versioning
Internationalization
- Locale Class
- MessagesBundle, ResourceBundle, and ListResourceBundle
- NumberFormat, Percentages, Currency, Decimal, Date, and Time
- Message, Text, Collation, Non-unicode Text
Applets
- Applet Life Cycle. and Event-Driven Programming
- HTML Applet TAG, Codebase and AppletClassLoader
- Applet Container: Applet Context, Applet Stub and SecurityManager
GUI (AWT and Swing Set)
- Component, Container, Window, Frame, Dialog, and Applet.
- Adding Components in a Container and Layout Management
- Jcomponent Class and Lightweight Components
- Top-level Components: JFrame, Japplet, JWindow, and JDialog
- Look-and-Feel, Model-View-Controller Architecture, Non-Opaque Components, Action, and Box
Event Handling
- Old Event Model and Delegation Event Model.
- Low level Event and Semantics Event.
- Delegation Event Model: Event Classes, Listener, and Adapters
- processEvent(), dispatchEvent(), Modify and Consuming Events.
- User Define Events
Course Benefits
In order to create stable and reliable information system, an organization, especially one that deals with E-Commerce, needs to carefully consider a programming language that is practical and flexible for further development in the long run. Java programming language has shown that it is a very useful programming language and can be applied to create the entire software system for a large-scale organization.
Course Audience
A working knowledge of Windows 95, HTML and some programming experience in C or Pascal.
Course Contents
Getting Started
- Introducing Java Development Kit using javac.exe, and java.exe.
- Class loading, standard classes, extension classes, and Classpath
- Java Applications and Java Archive Runtime (JAR)
- Introduction to Program Development using ANT, JUnit and Log4j.
Object-Oriented Programming in Java
- Object-oriented paradigm V.S. Imperative paradigm
- Class, Instances, Data members and Method Members and Constructors
- Scope rules, Symbol Tables, Lifetime of instances and Environments.
- Modifiers, Visibility Scope Rules, Packages.
- Shadowing, Overriding, Dynamic Binding, Inheritance and Polymorphism.
- Abstract Classes, Interfaces, Inner Classes, and Anonymous Classes.
Exception Handling
- Exception and Interrupt
- Throwable, Error, and Exception Class,
- Catching Scope of try and catch statement, and finally statement.
- Throwing Exceptions, and User Defined Exception
Threads
- Thread Class , Runnable Interface
- Thread Properties, Priorities, and Lifetime of Threads
- Sleep(), suspend(), resume(), wait(), join(), stop(), yield()
- Daemon Threads, and ThreadGroup
- Mutually Exclusive, Synchronization, and Dead Lock
- Using interrupt() for stop(), using wait() and notify() for suspend() and resume()
Streams
- Byte Streams, and Character Streams
- Input/Output Streams, and Reader/Writer Streams
- Filter Input/Output Stream Data Input/Output, Print. Buffered, CharArray, String, Piped, LineNumber, Pushback Streams
- File, FileStream, Random Access Files, and Zip Streams
Serialization
- Object Streams, and Persistent
- Serializable Interface
- Transient Members
- Class ID and Object versioning
Internationalization
- Locale Class
- MessagesBundle, ResourceBundle, and ListResourceBundle
- NumberFormat, Percentages, Currency, Decimal, Date, and Time
- Message, Text, Collation, Non-unicode Text
Applets
- Applet Life Cycle. and Event-Driven Programming
- HTML Applet TAG, Codebase and AppletClassLoader
- Applet Container: Applet Context, Applet Stub and SecurityManager
GUI (AWT and Swing Set)
- Component, Container, Window, Frame, Dialog, and Applet.
- Adding Components in a Container and Layout Management
- Jcomponent Class and Lightweight Components
- Top-level Components: JFrame, Japplet, JWindow, and JDialog
- Look-and-Feel, Model-View-Controller Architecture, Non-Opaque Components, Action, and Box
Event Handling
- Old Event Model and Delegation Event Model.
- Low level Event and Semantics Event.
- Delegation Event Model: Event Classes, Listener, and Adapters
- processEvent(), dispatchEvent(), Modify and Consuming Events.
- User Define Events
Course Benefits
In order to create stable and reliable information system, an organization, especially one that deals with E-Commerce, needs to carefully consider a programming language that is practical and flexible for further development in the long run. Java programming language has shown that it is a very useful programming language and can be applied to create the entire software system for a large-scale organization.
CIOs in Asia Pacific Bullish on Upturn in Economy, Reveals Hitachi Data Systems Poll Report
Reducing costs will continue to lead the agenda of IT leadership going into 2010
Though grave uncertainties shrouded the world economy in the last year, a majority of CIOs in Asia Pacific believe that economic recovery will set in by 2010. This was revealed in a recently-unveiled poll report that outlines the CIOs’ mindset for recovery based on a survey conducted by Hitachi Data Systems—a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT)—at their annual CIO Summit late last year. An overwhelming majority (86%) of the CIOs believe that recovery will be in place by 2010.
Titled ‘The CIO Roadmap to Recovery’, the report summarizes the key CIO challenges in 2010 and the need for businesses to transform into leaner, greener, yet more flexible and business centered units. The report provides a detailed analysis and action plan of how CIOs and IT professionals can use limited funds in targeted, specific areas to derive the greatest possible strategic business value from IT in the most cost effective way.
“CIOs are challenged with flat IT budgets while managing the surge of data. As businesses gradually move towards recovery, CIOs need to take a hard and in-depth look at the areas that contribute towards building a resilient IT framework that will deliver results and help organizations to succeed during an upturn. Hitachi Data Systems is focused on helping companies to drive redundant costs out of their storage implementation by utilizing existing assets. Strategic use of technologies such as virtualization and dynamic provisioning automate performance and increase utilization, helping enterprises to align IT and business goals most effectively,” said Watcharasit Santisuknirun, Thailand Country Manager of Hitachi Data Systems.
The survey shed light on key CIO priorities for 2010 and cost management remains a perennial concern. With a growing expectation that IT organizations will shift from being a cost center to a profit center, a storage strategy that reduces OPEX is a top priority for APAC CIOs.
Reducing costs was highlighted again when the CIOs were asked on what they value most in their organization’s IT strategy and reducing operating costs headed the list (50%) beating technology implementation.
Mindset towards adopting new technology in Asia Pacific is high, as 73% of the CIOs expresses interest in pursuing new technology and be one of the first to use them. However in the same vein, almost 50% of the CIOs were of the opinion that the inability to calculate the financial benefits (Return on Investment) of an improved information infrastructure presents the highest barrier to investing in new information infrastructure.
The report provides valuable insights into how IT can be leveraged as a business enabler, sustainable IT strategies, and upcoming technologies on the block like cloud computing.
The survey was conducted when CIOs and senior IT representatives of top enterprises across Asia Pacific attended the Hitachi Data Systems Asia Pacific CIO Summit at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, in early November. The Summit served as an opportunity for senior IT management from across the region to meet and share insights with each other on the upturn in the economy.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over 4,100 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60 percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) consolidated revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
Though grave uncertainties shrouded the world economy in the last year, a majority of CIOs in Asia Pacific believe that economic recovery will set in by 2010. This was revealed in a recently-unveiled poll report that outlines the CIOs’ mindset for recovery based on a survey conducted by Hitachi Data Systems—a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT)—at their annual CIO Summit late last year. An overwhelming majority (86%) of the CIOs believe that recovery will be in place by 2010.
Titled ‘The CIO Roadmap to Recovery’, the report summarizes the key CIO challenges in 2010 and the need for businesses to transform into leaner, greener, yet more flexible and business centered units. The report provides a detailed analysis and action plan of how CIOs and IT professionals can use limited funds in targeted, specific areas to derive the greatest possible strategic business value from IT in the most cost effective way.
“CIOs are challenged with flat IT budgets while managing the surge of data. As businesses gradually move towards recovery, CIOs need to take a hard and in-depth look at the areas that contribute towards building a resilient IT framework that will deliver results and help organizations to succeed during an upturn. Hitachi Data Systems is focused on helping companies to drive redundant costs out of their storage implementation by utilizing existing assets. Strategic use of technologies such as virtualization and dynamic provisioning automate performance and increase utilization, helping enterprises to align IT and business goals most effectively,” said Watcharasit Santisuknirun, Thailand Country Manager of Hitachi Data Systems.
The survey shed light on key CIO priorities for 2010 and cost management remains a perennial concern. With a growing expectation that IT organizations will shift from being a cost center to a profit center, a storage strategy that reduces OPEX is a top priority for APAC CIOs.
Reducing costs was highlighted again when the CIOs were asked on what they value most in their organization’s IT strategy and reducing operating costs headed the list (50%) beating technology implementation.
Mindset towards adopting new technology in Asia Pacific is high, as 73% of the CIOs expresses interest in pursuing new technology and be one of the first to use them. However in the same vein, almost 50% of the CIOs were of the opinion that the inability to calculate the financial benefits (Return on Investment) of an improved information infrastructure presents the highest barrier to investing in new information infrastructure.
The report provides valuable insights into how IT can be leveraged as a business enabler, sustainable IT strategies, and upcoming technologies on the block like cloud computing.
The survey was conducted when CIOs and senior IT representatives of top enterprises across Asia Pacific attended the Hitachi Data Systems Asia Pacific CIO Summit at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, in early November. The Summit served as an opportunity for senior IT management from across the region to meet and share insights with each other on the upturn in the economy.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. With over 4,100 employees, and as an integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60 percent of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500®. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT/TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 400,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2008 (ended March 31, 2009) consolidated revenues totaled 10,000 billion yen ($102.0 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials, logistics and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
Friday, February 5, 2010
HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems Family
HP led by (from left to right) Mr. Ong Swee Lye, Regional Sales Manager, StorageWorks Division, HP Enterprise Business, Mr. Humprey Sy, South East Asia Business Manager StorageWorks Division, HP Enterprise Business, Mr. Wu Wen Yong, Technology Consultant – NAS, StorageWorks Division, HP Enterprise Business and Mr. Wongviwat Siritasanakul, Product Manager, StorageWorks Division, HP Enterprise Business, Hewlett-Packard (Thailand) Ltd. recently held the seminar on “HP StorageWorks 2010” to update Thai business executives and IT professionals on today’s enterprise storage trends and to introduce the new HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems for enterprise customers.
HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems scale-out beyond traditional network attached storage systems in both capacity and performance. Designed to be extremely scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient, HP X9000 Network Storage Systems deliver excellent performance and a modular storage infrastructure to accommodate the unprecedented amount of data today’s enterprises need to cope with. Central management allows the administrator to manage not just terabytes but multi-petabyte environments at the highest density available from HP. The pay-as-you-grow architecture and an all-inclusive feature set eliminate storage over-provisioning or expensive add-ons. The X9000 increases capacity utilization and simplifies management with a single namespace that can scale to 16 petabytes. The X9000 is the right platform for customers designing a next generation data center.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
HP StorageWorks X9000 Network Storage Systems scale-out beyond traditional network attached storage systems in both capacity and performance. Designed to be extremely scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient, HP X9000 Network Storage Systems deliver excellent performance and a modular storage infrastructure to accommodate the unprecedented amount of data today’s enterprises need to cope with. Central management allows the administrator to manage not just terabytes but multi-petabyte environments at the highest density available from HP. The pay-as-you-grow architecture and an all-inclusive feature set eliminate storage over-provisioning or expensive add-ons. The X9000 increases capacity utilization and simplifies management with a single namespace that can scale to 16 petabytes. The X9000 is the right platform for customers designing a next generation data center.
About HP
HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Juniper Networks, Polycom Partner to Improve Experience and Economics of Visual Communication Networks
Alliance to maximize converged and intelligent network capabilities to deliver telepresence and video conferencing services with assured quality
Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) and Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) today announced a strategic alliance focused on improving the reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality of the customer experience for telepresence and video conferencing services. Anchored by dynamic signaling between the Juniper network resource control platform and the Polycom video call control system, the integrated managed video services solution significantly reduces the total capital expense and ongoing operating and maintenance costs and requirements, while improving the delivery and manageability of visual communications.
Scheduled for release in mid 2010, the partnership will deliver an intelligent service provider solution that enables assured-quality managed video services over a converged network. As the industry’s first “conferencing-aware” network solution, it will help drive costs out of the delivery of high-value telepresence and comprehensive video conferencing managed services by allowing service providers to maximize the capabilities of their existing network. Implementing a single-network solution is a significantly more scalable and profitable model for service providers compared to the current overlay network model for supporting telepresence and video conferencing services.
In addition to the benefits for service providers, enterprise customers will also have more control over how services are delivered, while increasing the business value of those services by enabling telepresence and video conferencing traffic to run over the same networking equipment as other applications with assured quality. By providing enterprise customers with highly reliable and cost-effective managed service options to support enterprise-wide telepresence and HD video conferencing deployments (telepresence, room and desktop), the solution can drive collaboration, increase productivity, and reduce costs. This is because the managed service model can deliver a faster return on investment for customers through lower upfront costs and predictable on-going operational costs for video services, while it also provides capabilities for secure business-to-business collaboration.
“The exploding interest in visual communication has created an urgent need for a more reliable and cost-effective model for delivering assured quality video services,” said Gerri Elliott, executive vice president for strategic alliances, Juniper Networks. “Leveraging Junos Space, an open platform for ecosystem partners, Juniper and Polycom are jointly developing a unique solution that will enable carriers to maximize the value of their existing networks to deliver scalable, high quality video services. This will allow carriers to move away from siloed networks toward more intelligent and efficient converged networks that are more sustainable and profitable in the long-term.”
“Visual communication is becoming an increasingly strategic tool in today’s dynamic, global business environment as organizations across industries are adopting it to work more effectively across distances and reduce costs,” said Bob Hagerty, CEO, Polycom. “Teaming with Juniper, our goal is to help improve the quality and efficiency of visual communications on the network, so customers have deployment options and can confidently incorporate the technology into their core business processes and as a key component of their unified communications initiatives.”
The global market for visual communication managed services is projected to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 162 percent between 2008 and 2015, rising from nearly $83 million to reach approximately $940 million.1 Total demand for visual communication solutions and services is projected to reach $8.6B, with a CAGR of 17.8% between 2008 and 2013.2
"TELUS sees the value of network and resource aware applications as the way of the future. The demonstration in 2009 within a global multi-service provider IPSphere field trial for enabling assured telepresence and video conferencing services via the Juniper SRC and Polycom equipment demonstrates the new ways and opportunities for monetizing intelligent IP connectivity,” said Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of TELUS. “Carriers can benefit from dynamic application-network signalling to not only cost-effectively manage their resources, but also create more value for their business customers by delivering assured video and other application service experiences.”
“Juniper and Polycom are leveraging their respective strengths in carrier-class network architectures and enterprise telepresence and video conferencing to change how video traffic runs on the network among other applications,” said name, title of Wainhouse Research, which has published a whitepaper about the solution. “This is the first example of a solution where the video communication platform dynamically interacts with the network, enabling assured quality for video among other applications and allowing service providers to intelligently utilize the full potential of their infrastructure as needed.”
The solution will combine high-performance network infrastructure systems from Juniper with industry-leading telepresence and video conferencing systems from Polycom. Specifically, it includes the Junos Space network application platform and its subscriber suite that includes policy and identity services, the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers, and SRX Series Services Gateways with integrated routing and security for streamlined enterprise connectivity. Key Polycom components include Polycom telepresence systems and visual communication infrastructure products, including the Polycom Distributed Media Application (DMA) that centralizes call control and provides further failover redundancy.
The combination of the Junos Space network resource orchestration, real-time interactions between its policy and identity services and the Junos® operating system, with the Polycom DMA call control server enables a dynamic coordinated allocation of video and network resources, driven by user video session needs. This allows service providers to more accurately control and deliver video quality of service on a converged network shared with other applications. By maximizing their network capabilities and value, carriers can scale their networks more cost-effectively and realize higher margins for services.
Availability:
The Juniper Networks, Polycom service provider solution is planned for availability in mid-year 2010.
About Juniper Networks From devices to data centers, from consumers to the cloud, Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. Visit www.polycom.com for more information and follow us on Twitter @AllAboutPolycom.
1 - Frost and Sullivan, “World Visual Communication Managed Services Market,” Nov. 2009
2 - Gartner, “Video Conference Products and Services Market Forecast, Worldwide 2007 to 2013,” Sept. 28, 2009.
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Juniper Networks(R) (NYSE: JNPR) and Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) today announced a strategic alliance focused on improving the reliability, cost-effectiveness and quality of the customer experience for telepresence and video conferencing services. Anchored by dynamic signaling between the Juniper network resource control platform and the Polycom video call control system, the integrated managed video services solution significantly reduces the total capital expense and ongoing operating and maintenance costs and requirements, while improving the delivery and manageability of visual communications.
Scheduled for release in mid 2010, the partnership will deliver an intelligent service provider solution that enables assured-quality managed video services over a converged network. As the industry’s first “conferencing-aware” network solution, it will help drive costs out of the delivery of high-value telepresence and comprehensive video conferencing managed services by allowing service providers to maximize the capabilities of their existing network. Implementing a single-network solution is a significantly more scalable and profitable model for service providers compared to the current overlay network model for supporting telepresence and video conferencing services.
In addition to the benefits for service providers, enterprise customers will also have more control over how services are delivered, while increasing the business value of those services by enabling telepresence and video conferencing traffic to run over the same networking equipment as other applications with assured quality. By providing enterprise customers with highly reliable and cost-effective managed service options to support enterprise-wide telepresence and HD video conferencing deployments (telepresence, room and desktop), the solution can drive collaboration, increase productivity, and reduce costs. This is because the managed service model can deliver a faster return on investment for customers through lower upfront costs and predictable on-going operational costs for video services, while it also provides capabilities for secure business-to-business collaboration.
“The exploding interest in visual communication has created an urgent need for a more reliable and cost-effective model for delivering assured quality video services,” said Gerri Elliott, executive vice president for strategic alliances, Juniper Networks. “Leveraging Junos Space, an open platform for ecosystem partners, Juniper and Polycom are jointly developing a unique solution that will enable carriers to maximize the value of their existing networks to deliver scalable, high quality video services. This will allow carriers to move away from siloed networks toward more intelligent and efficient converged networks that are more sustainable and profitable in the long-term.”
“Visual communication is becoming an increasingly strategic tool in today’s dynamic, global business environment as organizations across industries are adopting it to work more effectively across distances and reduce costs,” said Bob Hagerty, CEO, Polycom. “Teaming with Juniper, our goal is to help improve the quality and efficiency of visual communications on the network, so customers have deployment options and can confidently incorporate the technology into their core business processes and as a key component of their unified communications initiatives.”
The global market for visual communication managed services is projected to experience a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 162 percent between 2008 and 2015, rising from nearly $83 million to reach approximately $940 million.1 Total demand for visual communication solutions and services is projected to reach $8.6B, with a CAGR of 17.8% between 2008 and 2013.2
"TELUS sees the value of network and resource aware applications as the way of the future. The demonstration in 2009 within a global multi-service provider IPSphere field trial for enabling assured telepresence and video conferencing services via the Juniper SRC and Polycom equipment demonstrates the new ways and opportunities for monetizing intelligent IP connectivity,” said Ibrahim Gedeon, CTO of TELUS. “Carriers can benefit from dynamic application-network signalling to not only cost-effectively manage their resources, but also create more value for their business customers by delivering assured video and other application service experiences.”
“Juniper and Polycom are leveraging their respective strengths in carrier-class network architectures and enterprise telepresence and video conferencing to change how video traffic runs on the network among other applications,” said name, title of Wainhouse Research, which has published a whitepaper about the solution. “This is the first example of a solution where the video communication platform dynamically interacts with the network, enabling assured quality for video among other applications and allowing service providers to intelligently utilize the full potential of their infrastructure as needed.”
The solution will combine high-performance network infrastructure systems from Juniper with industry-leading telepresence and video conferencing systems from Polycom. Specifically, it includes the Junos Space network application platform and its subscriber suite that includes policy and identity services, the MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers, and SRX Series Services Gateways with integrated routing and security for streamlined enterprise connectivity. Key Polycom components include Polycom telepresence systems and visual communication infrastructure products, including the Polycom Distributed Media Application (DMA) that centralizes call control and provides further failover redundancy.
The combination of the Junos Space network resource orchestration, real-time interactions between its policy and identity services and the Junos® operating system, with the Polycom DMA call control server enables a dynamic coordinated allocation of video and network resources, driven by user video session needs. This allows service providers to more accurately control and deliver video quality of service on a converged network shared with other applications. By maximizing their network capabilities and value, carriers can scale their networks more cost-effectively and realize higher margins for services.
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The Juniper Networks, Polycom service provider solution is planned for availability in mid-year 2010.
About Juniper Networks From devices to data centers, from consumers to the cloud, Juniper Networks delivers innovative software, silicon and systems that transform the experience and economics of networking. The company serves more than 30,000 customers and partners worldwide, and generated more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.
About Polycom
Polycom, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCM) is the global leader in telepresence, video, and voice solutions and a visionary in communications that empower people to connect and collaborate everywhere. Visit www.polycom.com for more information and follow us on Twitter @AllAboutPolycom.
1 - Frost and Sullivan, “World Visual Communication Managed Services Market,” Nov. 2009
2 - Gartner, “Video Conference Products and Services Market Forecast, Worldwide 2007 to 2013,” Sept. 28, 2009.
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Acer targets 30 per cent growth, “express. your. excellence” concept key to maintain leadership
Acer Computer Co., Ltd., Thailand's No. 1 computer maker, sets 30 per cent sales growth this year -- maintaining its championship position with its remarkable successful multibrand strategy that responds to every end-user groups and a call for the spirit of achievement with the concept: “express. your. excellence.”
Mr. Harry Yang, Managing Director, Acer Computer Co., Ltd., said Acer Thailand prides itself on its success in 2009 as a leading and No. 1 brand in overall PC market quantity with 18 per cent growth. Notebook computer sales alone soared 22 per cent. At the global level, Acer reached second spot in worldwide PC market ranking in the 3rd quarter last year, with market share of 15.4 per cent, up five percentage points from the previous year, according to Gartner report. . Acer also enjoyed record sales of 10.96 million notebook computers, or growth of 25.6 per cent, in the past year. This year at the global level Acer aims to be number one Notebook in term of product shipment.
Mr. Yang added that he is confident that IT market will rebound because we have passed the economic crisis. There are number of satisfaction factors point to a better economic condition. Bank of Thailand, Thai Chamber of Commerce and The Federation of Thai Industries forecast
3.5 -4 percent GDP for this year. A research from Kasikorn Research predicts the market value for computer around 53, 290 – 57,290 million baht or an increase of 8.1 – 16.3 percent. With these pointers I am confident that Acer will capture market share of 1.1 million units sale: Notebook = 800,000 units or more than 40 percent market share and Desktop = 300,000 units or 25 percent market share.”
“Our revenue target this year is to grow 30 percent. We will continue driving our multibrand products and strategies to offer more choices to the market. Innovation will be Acer branding while Fashion IT is Gateway position and eMachine is for user who are looking for performance. As the leading PC maker, Acer is committed to a fresh, innovative and functionality products and technology. You can expect to see more excitement from Acer this year. Our channel and business partners is also our key to success. We will help empower them to expand their business. As for the service, Acer will continue to improve our services in order to assist our customers.” Added Mr.Yang.
“Last but not least, in the year of Tiger, Acer will drive market under the 'express. your. excellence' concept as part of aspiring for achievement. Acer is proud to be a Worldwide TOP Partner of the Olympic Movement in the official computing equipment product category for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In Thailand, we are the official partner of the Royal Thai Army Football Club (RTAFC) this year. As a global company we thrive to motivate local talent. Together with the RTAFC we will motivate and encourage local support for Thai League games and at the same time build up more football player in the consumer arena and better access to football for Thai youth.”
About Acer
Since its founding in 1976, Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe, Acer ranks as the world's No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks, with the fastest growth among the top-five players. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to Acer’s continued growth, while the successful mergers of Gateway and Packard Bell complete the company’s global footprint by strengthening its presence in the U.S., and enhancing its strong position in Europe. Acer Inc. employs 6,000 people worldwide. 2008 revenues reached US$16.65 billion. See www.acer.com for more information.
Acer first penetrated the market in Thailand 1984, establishing an office in 1993. Acer Computer Co., Ltd. has been growing rapidly and is now widely recognized in Thailand. A major sponsor of the 13th Asian Games held in Bangkok in 1998, the company has been the recipient of The Reader’s Digest “Outstanding Brand Performance” for eight years. Moreover we have been ranking no. 1 notebook selling for 13 consecutive quarters (Y2003-present). For more information, please visit the Acer website at www.acer.co.th.
Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Incorporated. Other trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the properties of their respective owners.
Mr. Harry Yang, Managing Director, Acer Computer Co., Ltd., said Acer Thailand prides itself on its success in 2009 as a leading and No. 1 brand in overall PC market quantity with 18 per cent growth. Notebook computer sales alone soared 22 per cent. At the global level, Acer reached second spot in worldwide PC market ranking in the 3rd quarter last year, with market share of 15.4 per cent, up five percentage points from the previous year, according to Gartner report. . Acer also enjoyed record sales of 10.96 million notebook computers, or growth of 25.6 per cent, in the past year. This year at the global level Acer aims to be number one Notebook in term of product shipment.
Mr. Yang added that he is confident that IT market will rebound because we have passed the economic crisis. There are number of satisfaction factors point to a better economic condition. Bank of Thailand, Thai Chamber of Commerce and The Federation of Thai Industries forecast
3.5 -4 percent GDP for this year. A research from Kasikorn Research predicts the market value for computer around 53, 290 – 57,290 million baht or an increase of 8.1 – 16.3 percent. With these pointers I am confident that Acer will capture market share of 1.1 million units sale: Notebook = 800,000 units or more than 40 percent market share and Desktop = 300,000 units or 25 percent market share.”
“Our revenue target this year is to grow 30 percent. We will continue driving our multibrand products and strategies to offer more choices to the market. Innovation will be Acer branding while Fashion IT is Gateway position and eMachine is for user who are looking for performance. As the leading PC maker, Acer is committed to a fresh, innovative and functionality products and technology. You can expect to see more excitement from Acer this year. Our channel and business partners is also our key to success. We will help empower them to expand their business. As for the service, Acer will continue to improve our services in order to assist our customers.” Added Mr.Yang.
“Last but not least, in the year of Tiger, Acer will drive market under the 'express. your. excellence' concept as part of aspiring for achievement. Acer is proud to be a Worldwide TOP Partner of the Olympic Movement in the official computing equipment product category for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. In Thailand, we are the official partner of the Royal Thai Army Football Club (RTAFC) this year. As a global company we thrive to motivate local talent. Together with the RTAFC we will motivate and encourage local support for Thai League games and at the same time build up more football player in the consumer arena and better access to football for Thai youth.”
About Acer
Since its founding in 1976, Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe, Acer ranks as the world's No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks, with the fastest growth among the top-five players. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to Acer’s continued growth, while the successful mergers of Gateway and Packard Bell complete the company’s global footprint by strengthening its presence in the U.S., and enhancing its strong position in Europe. Acer Inc. employs 6,000 people worldwide. 2008 revenues reached US$16.65 billion. See www.acer.com for more information.
Acer first penetrated the market in Thailand 1984, establishing an office in 1993. Acer Computer Co., Ltd. has been growing rapidly and is now widely recognized in Thailand. A major sponsor of the 13th Asian Games held in Bangkok in 1998, the company has been the recipient of The Reader’s Digest “Outstanding Brand Performance” for eight years. Moreover we have been ranking no. 1 notebook selling for 13 consecutive quarters (Y2003-present). For more information, please visit the Acer website at www.acer.co.th.
Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Incorporated. Other trademarks, registered trademarks and/or service marks, indicated or otherwise, are the properties of their respective owners.
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