Nortel* [OTC: NRTLQ] has recently won significant public sector deals in several countries across the Asia Pacific region that cover a range of emerging networking technologies including Unified Communications (UC), Ethernet Routing Switches, contact center deployments and virtual collaboration environments.

Governments are traditionally conservative in their technology buying patterns with intense scrutiny on technology decisions and long buying cycles. Nortel's continued growth in the government sector is a clear indicator of the industry's confidence in Nortel's technology and its long term ability to meet customer needs.

Nortel has seen recent success with public sector investments in Australia and New Zealand , Greater China, India , South East Asia and Japan . Central and local government departments, healthcare institutions, educational establishments, court systems, tax offices, energy and transport network providers have all upgraded or deployed new communications environments as the region's central services have dramatically improved the way in which they communicate both internally and with their external stakeholders such as citizens, suppliers and other government departments.

The government court systems in two of the region's most populous cities have invested in Nortel Unified Communications and Ethernet Routing Switch solutions. There are changing demands within modern courts, as court employees are required to be available to their clients and co-workers anytime, anywhere. This has created a high demand for end-to-end UC technologies, including full 10GE backbone support to the desktop, and leading edge UC applications. In one instance, the court was able to streamline its operations by deploying a powerful and secure data network from Nortel to support a centralized judicial system database.

In education, trials and deployments of Nortel's virtual world application known as web.alive are providing an immersive learning experience for students in both primary school and university environments. Web.alive is a virtual world software application that provides a network secured virtual world platform for collaboration, assisted virtual learning and training applications. The solution allows education providers to adapt teaching methods to the modern communications-rich world, enhancing student attention, engagement and retention. This v irtual world collaboration environment is helping learning centers deal with one of the major drawbacks of other communication technologies: the ability to give users a 'real-life' experience that is more interactive and intuitive. It is another example of how Nortel's technology is supporting the learning needs of students across the region – with other major educational deployments announced in recent times in Australia, India, Japan and South East Asia. And learning centers across the region are now looking to technology solutions as a way of safeguarding educational continuity in the face of the continued threat of a more severe swine flu pandemic.

With Nortel's unified communications solution in place, employees at Porirua City Council in New Zealand are now more accessible to their colleagues, suppliers and customers whether they are in the office or performing their duties off-site – meaning enhanced productivity and increased efficiency. The solution also allows Porirua City Council to address the unique needs of its mobile workforce, which forms over 30% of the organization and which has previously had to manage a variety of systems to stay in touch. The new multimedia contact center solution, which enables UC capabilities such as integrated voice, email, fax and instant messaging, will drive up customer service quality on offerings such as holiday programs and inspection bookings, with a focus on increased speed and an enhanced user experience.

In India , Nortel has supported the huge investment in new airport infrastructure across the country with significant voice and data solutions, together with ongoing managed service deals, in a number of the country's new international airports, including those in Mumbai, Bangalore , Delhi and Hyderabad .

And in the healthcare sector, Nortel's solutions are helping speed patient discharge procedures, improve staff efficiency, enable better communications for a mobile workforce, and improve the quality of patient care. Agile clinical communications use many of the voice and data networks components that already exist in a hospital to connect the disparate systems, people and processes in order to maximize return on investment in clinical systems and infrastructure. Healthcare providers and teaching hospitals from Singapore to Japan are relying on Nortel's solutions to support their critical communications needs.

EXAMPLES OF HOW NORTEL'S SOLUTIONS ARE SUPPORTING PUBIC SECTOR INITIATIVES

* New Zealand Public Service Association Gets Unified With Nortel and Gen-i - The New Zealand Public Service Association (PSA), New Zealand 's largest union with more than 57,000 registered members, expects to save up to 18 percent annually on call fees by migrating to a unified communications network from Nortel, Microsoft and implementation partner Gen-i. The solution gives PSA new functionality - such as unified messaging and presence - that allows operators to instantly 'see' the status of their colleagues and know exactly how to reach them, be it by phone or e-mail. The system also creates a single collection point for voicemails for all staff so no message goes unanswered.
* Taiwan Post Secures Business Continuity with Nortel Metro Ethernet Soluion - Taiwan Post, the largest postal, banking and insurance services provider in Taiwan , ensures customers will continue to be served and catastrophic failure to business operations averted in the event of disaster through a Nortel Metro Ethernet solution. Taiwan Post is ensuring business continuity with Metro Ethernet technology by enabling real-time information backup, access and recovery.
* Nortel Metro Ethernet Solution Helps Shanghai Metro Line 1 Trains Run on Time - With the Nortel Metro Ethernet solution in place, CBDTS will transmit information relating to wireless access systems, electronic monitoring, digital television and broadcasting, including comprehensive network monitoring and alerting tools. All operational and management information - voice, data and video - will be securely and accurately transmitted and monitored, ensuring seamless communications among train staff and access to the PIS (Passenger Information System) at all times.
* Nortel Provides Network Infrastructure for Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 - The Commonwealth Youth Games 2008, held in Pune , India from October 12 to 18, ran on a next-generation data network infrastructure set up by Nortel. The always-on, highly available network supporting 1,000 users, ran multimedia applications including real-time schedule updating, statistical analysis, resource coordination and media coverage helping ensure the Commonwealth Youth Games 2008 ran smoothly.
* Japan 's Kyushu University Hospital has improved patient care by fostering staff collaboration over a new medical information network based on Nortel's clinical-grade Healthcare Solutions portfolio. And in Taiwan , the wireless Taiwan Mobile Healthcare Services give Taipei-based doctors virtual access to patient medical records, high-quality diagnostic images and video, and other innovative connectivity services.
* The University of the East (UE) in the Philippines has selected Nortel to help upgrade its information technology infrastructure and to boost the performance of all its computerized and web applications systems. With this system, UE students, faculty and personnel can access UE's centralized database enabling quicker, easier, and more efficient academic, financial and administrative transactions.
* Australia 's renowned RMIT University has upgraded its Nortel data network to support new, high-bandwidth services such as media streaming, YouTube feeds and videoconferencing for staff and students across 220 campus locations. The data network allows the University to drive high-bandwidth media streaming applications across its 12,500 PCs without affecting the performance of business-critical communications and media-intense research applications.
* The Victorian Education and Research Network (VERNet) has deployed a Nortel Metro Ethernet Solution to significantly boost network capacity to provide member institutions with 'always on' high-speed broadband connectivity. This allows more than 100 research and education institutions in the state of Victoria to introduce services such as real-time, high-definition video broadcasts, offsite disaster recovery and connections to radio telescopes.
* National University of Malaysia Unleashes Student Learning With Nortel - Formed to deliver an innovative education with roots in traditional knowledge and culture, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(UKM) is expanding its online usage by introducing a range of online applications including e-learning, network-intensive research applications, VoIP, IPTV and more. These applications empower students and faculty to teach and learn in collaborative new ways, and their successful deployment provides an important competitive differentiator for universities.

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François Lançon, leader, enterprise, Nortel Asia/EMEA

'Government agencies and departments face their very own set of business, policy and network technology challenges. Nortel is working with governments and public sector institutions across the Asia Pacific region to improve communications and collaboration, helping governments in their quest to better serve citizens, businesses and their community, and protecting government information, critical infrastructure and key assets. '

Peter van der Burg, Manager, Information Systems, Porirua City Council

'The key driver in engaging Nortel through its partner Gen-i was that the time had come to update our existing Nortel PABX – which no longer had the capacity to serve the growing communication needs of some of our new sites. Nortel helped us analyze our current and future communications needs and provided us with a clear development roadmap. We now have a platform in place that will provide us with a fully unified communications solution to service the ever changing needs of the community.'

'As a first step, the new technology is already helping to provide a better workplace environment that we think will be instrumental in both retaining and attracting new staff. Providing a way of measuring and improving our customer service performance will allow us to develop a more proactive approach, bringing us closer to our customers and their needs. Future services such as federated instant messaging and the ability to link communications into our other business processes will enable us to meet and exceed the expectations of all those who interface with the Council.'

About Nortel

Nortel delivers communications capabilities that make the promise of Business Made Simple a reality for our customers. Our next-generation technologies, for both service provider and enterprise networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications. Nortel's technologies are designed to help eliminate today's barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people to the information they need, when they need it. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com . For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news .

Certain statements in this press release may contain words such as "could", "expects", "may", "anticipates", "believes", "intends", "estimates", "targets", "envisions", "seeks" and other similar language and are considered forward-looking statements or information under applicable securities legislation. These statements are based on Nortel's current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the operating environment, economies and markets in which Nortel operates. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties, which are difficult to predict and the actual outcome may be materially different from those contemplated in forward-looking statements. For additional information with respect to certain of these and other factors, see Nortel's Annual Report on Form10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, Nortel disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

*Nortel, the Nortel logo and the Globemark are trademarks of Nortel Networks.

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ORLANDO, Flor. – Partner Engage 2009 .– Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today reinforced its commitment to help partners succeed in 2010 and beyond, unveiling a variety of new resources at its annual partner conference, Symantec Partner Engage 2009. These new enhancements are part of Symantec's commitment to helping partners increase their revenue and relevance with their customers and to improve their readiness to support customers' changing needs. New program elements include:

* SymDemo – An online tool that allows partners to demonstrate Symantec's products anywhere, anytime with a laptop and an Internet connection.
* Enhanced Enterprise Authorized Renewals Program – A revised enterprise renewals program to help protect partners' investment with increased margins and incumbent protection.
* Enterprise Security Specialization – Partners who earn this specialization will receive advanced tools and incentives for selling Symantec Enterprise Security Solutions.
* Partner Community on Symantec Connect – An online community that connects partners with Symantec and each other, enabling collaboration and information exchange.

'The technology market is highly competitive and constantly evolving, so Symantec is focused on helping our partners solve their customers' IT challenges, differentiate themselves and grow their businesses,' said Randy Cochran, vice president, North American channel sales, Symantec Corp. 'We're giving our partners even more opportunities to drive revenue and maintain relevance with their customers and helping them be prepared with the skills, solutions and resources necessary to meet the needs of today's challenging IT environment.'

SymDemo

Currently available to members of Symantec's PartnerDemo Pilot, SymDemo, a virtualized, web-based demo and training platform, empowers partners with tools to perform product demos anytime, anywhere with a laptop and Internet connection. SymDemo gives partners remote accessibility by enabling them to give demonstrations without the need for a dedicated VPN connection. Like SymBrain, an online sales tool that helps partners quickly and easily determine the best Symantec solution for customers' IT projects, SymDemo started as an internal Symantec resource and has been extended to partners.

Enterprise Authorized Renewals Program

Symantec has enhanced its Enterprise Authorized Renewals Program based on valuable feedback received from its partner advisory council and the partner community. Available now, the updated program is designed to help partners protect their investment in Symantec and create a more efficient renewal process. The program honors the incumbent partner's investment and enables greater margin retention; it also ensures consistency and improves overall customer experience within the renewal process.

The program is open to Gold and Platinum partners in the United States and Silver, Gold and Platinum partners in Canada who are enrolled in the Symantec Authorized products program in North America and have signed a Direct Reseller Addendum. It applies to enterprise renewals of NetBackup, Storage Foundation, Cluster Server and Enterprise Vault.

Enterprise Security Specialization for Partners

Symantec's newest specialization will give partners qualified to sell Symantec Enterprise Security solutions greater opportunity for improved profitability and differentiation. Partners who earn the Enterprise Security Specialization will have access to incentives, programs and specialized content, as well as recognition as a Specialized partner within Symantec's Partner Locator.

This Specialization requires that partners attain sales and technical accreditations in Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition, which ensures partners are highly competent in selling and deploying Symantec Enterprise Security solutions. With the specialization, partners can more effectively deliver solutions that solve their customer's most critical security challenges. The Enterprise Security Specialization will be available in late 2009 to Symantec Channel GSP, Platinum, Gold, Silver and Registered partners in North America.

New Partner Community on Symantec Connect

Symantec has added a new partner component to Symantec Connect, the company's online community for customers and partners. Available now, this new partner community connects partners with Symantec and each other, enabling them to collaborate and utilize technical and business information within one online community. It provides a forum for partners to engage with other partners, ask questions and make suggestions to Symantec channel leadership via forums, blogs and idea exchange. Visit Symantec's Partner Community now for the latest news from Partner Engage 2009.

Partner Quotes:

'Symantec understands the importance of having the right resources and information readily available to better support our customers,' said Gavin Hood, vice president, Ontario, ESI Technologies. 'Through these new programs and tools provided by Symantec, we have access to more options for customers, which in turn enables us to deploy solutions faster and simplify the budgetary process.'

'Symantec's Partner Program provides ITS with the tools and training needed to further engage our customers at a higher contact level,' said Chuck Hegarty, vice president, Business Development, ITS Partners. 'Thanks to Symantec, our sales team knows what questions to ask and they have done their homework before engaging with a potential customer. These new enhancements to the program will help us drive even greater success in 2010.'

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ORLANDO, Flor. – Partner Engage 2009 .– Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the 2009 North American Partner Award winners at Symantec Partner Engage 2009. The Symantec Partner Awards recognize partners who have invested in Symantec and successfully combined Symantec software with their own services to solve customers' most complex business challenges. The winners of the 2009 Symantec Partner Awards are Allen Informàtica, CDW, Forsythe Solutions Group, GTSI, Ingram Micro Canada, Lanworks, Inc., Precision Computer Service and SHI.

'Symantec's partners are vital to our success and we're focused on helping our partners continue to increase their revenue, grow their business and stay relevant with our joint customers,' said Randy Cochran, vice president, North American channel sales, Symantec. 'The 2009 Channel Partner Awards recognize the focus of our partners who have truly invested in themselves and Symantec to deliver solutions that help customers reduce costs and minimize risks to deliver a near-term return on investment.'

Partner Engage 2009 is being held at the JW Marriott in Orlando, FL from November 4-6, 2009. Symantec's annual partner conference addresses partners through various keynotes and breakout sessions on relevant topics including data protection, storage management and high availability, endpoint management and security, the Symantec partner program and sales and partnering strategies. For more information please visit the Partner Engage website.

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The CIO CEE conference (www.europecongress.com/index.php/events/ciocee) will focus on competitive intelligence, key input for successful budgetary and strategic business planning.

The CIO CEE offers the perfect platform and the opportunity to join and network with the CIO's from various verticals in the industry, experts in thought-provoking sessions to help develop and implement the company strategy for the upturn. The participants will learn how to optimize their process costs, how to add value into their business by identifying potential in the latest industry innovations, better customer understanding and to learn how to exploit latest competitive IT intelligence. The CIO CEE Conference will allow the participants to have the opportunity to meet with the CIO's from various industries who are actively seeking new solutions and expertise, benchmark best practices, walk away with qualified leads, and to discuss the hottest trends in the market.

The conference will have a cutting edge conference agenda with key speakers addressing topics such as: IT outsourcing in the financial crisis period or how it could improve core in the Business activities, process re-engineering, and how to save on procurement, the future in software, Agile vs Waterfall, IT security, cloud computing, green IT, and other.

The CIO CEE Conference is an international event which will gather the key speakers and experts from the Central and Eastern European countries.

CEEOA brings together the Associated bodies of the CEE region in a powerful, active and developing association to exchange thought leadership and network to position the Central and Eastern European region as competitive alternative to other global IT and business process outsourcing destinations. As one of the main objectives of CEEOA is to increase regional and international competitiveness through improving business viabilities and services delivery capabilities of the CEE Service providers and sharing of best practices, expert information and research findings, benefits and innovative solutions of outsourcing industry.

CEEOA supported the event with the aim to popularize IT Outsourcing services of the CEE providers. According to the research 'Central and Eastern Europe IT Outsourcing Review 2008' the value of the IT outsourcing market in the CEE region reached 3 bln US dollars. The research provides an evidence of the rapid development of IT outsourcing services market in the Central and Eastern Europe. As there has been a shift from simple cost savings as a motivation to valuing the experience of outsourcing services providers and efficiency of cooperation between the client and provider teams. The advantages of the CEE countries such as cultural compatibility with Europe and North America, technical and business experience are of great value for the clients.

CEEOA consider the support of the CIO CEE Conference to be a great opportunity to present the potential of the CEE providers and to show how IT outsourcing services could be used in successful budgetary and strategic business planning, and how outsourcing could help to optimize the business process costs.

Europe Congress

Europe Congress (www.europecongress.com) provides high level strategic business and deal flow information platforms around Europe, mainly in the Central and Eastern European countries with tailored practical conferences, events, seminars, trainings and sports hospitality. Europe Congress produces events in major cities: Prague, Paris, Amsterdam, Budapest, Brussels, Berlin and Vienna, just to name few. The main objective of Europe Congress is to offer the C-Level Executives the opportunities to network and most importantly to walk away with qualified leads and high level of satisfaction.

About CEEOA

Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association (CEEOA) (www.ceeoa.org) was founded in 2008. The members of the association are the leading national IT and Outsourcing associations from the Central and Eastern Europe, among them Baltic Outsourcing Association (BOA), Ukrainian HI-TECH Initiative, Hungarian Service Industry and Outsourcing Association (HOA), Employers' Association of the Software and Services Industry (ANIS) from Romania, Bulgarian Web Association (BWA) and ASPIRE - Association of IT & Business Process Services Companies (Poland). One of the main objectives of CEEOA is to promote the Central and Eastern European Region as competitive alternative to other Global offshoring destinations, and to increase services delivery quality and volume to the recognized standards.

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CHICAGO . – With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act underway, healthcare organizations face new challenges to maintain privacy and security of patient health data. However, data gathered from healthcare IT and security professionals indicate that many organizations may not be ready to meet some of the HITECH components of the ARRA legislation and other security challenges, according to the results of the 2009 HIMSS Security Survey, sponsored by Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC).

While healthcare organizations recognize that patient data must be protected, the survey results show that:

* Security budgets remain low
* Organizations often don't have a response plan for threats or a security breach
* A designated Chief Security Officer or Chief Information Security Officer is not in place

In addition, the survey reveals that healthcare organizations are not using the current security technologies available to keep patient data safe. Respondents to this survey widely use audit logs with data from firewalls, application logs and server logs as common information sources. Yet, when analyzing the log data, only 25 percent of respondents reported electronic analysis of that data. Respondents indicate they are using firewalls and user access controls, but are not implementing all available technologies to secure data. Only 67 percent of responding organizations use encryption to secure data in transmission, and fewer than half encrypt stored data.

'Healthcare organizations are continually looking for ways to save money,' said David Finn, health IT officer, Symantec Corp. 'One of the best ways to accomplish these goals is through investing in technologies that will automate and reduce the risks of a security incident and lower the chances of a compliance issue. Although awareness about these issues is high, many providers have not yet made significant moves to the address these concerns.'

Other key survey results include:

Security Budget: Approximately 60 percent of respondents reported that their organization spends three percent or less of their organization's IT budget on information security. This is consistent to the level of spending identified in the 2008 study.

Maturity of Environment: Respondents characterized their environment at a middle rate of maturity, with an average score of 4.27 on a scale of one to seven, where one is not at all mature and seven is a high level of maturity.

Formal Security Position: Fewer than half of respondents indicated that their organization has either a formally designated CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) or CSO (Chief Security Officer).

Patient Data Access: Surveyed organizations most widely implement user-based and role-based controls to secure electronic patient information. Approximately half of respondents reported that their organization allows patients/surrogates to access electronic patient information. Patients/surrogates are most likely to be granted access to high level clinical information, such as diagnosis or lab results.

Management of Security Environment: Nearly all respondents reported that their organization actively works to determine the cause/origin of security breaches. However, only half have a plan in place for responding to threats or incidents related to a security breach.

Security Controls: Most respondents reported that they use the information generated in their risk analysis to determine which security controls should be used at their organization. About 85 percent of respondents reported that they monitor the success of these controls and two-thirds of these respondents measure the success of these controls.

Risk Analysis: Three-quarters of surveyed organizations conduct a formal risk analysis (only half of these conduct this assessment on a yearly basis or more frequently), which has remained the same in the past year. Three-quarters of organizations that did conduct risk assessments found patient data at risk due to inadequate security controls, policies and processes. Conducting this analysis positions organizations to identify gaps in their security controls and/or policies and procedures.

Security in a Networked Environment: Nearly all respondents reported that their organizations share patient data in electronic format. Respondents are most likely to report that they share data with state government entities. Respondents also reported that the area in which they are most likely to share data in the future is with Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)/Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs). Approximately half of these organizations (41 percent) indicated that these sharing arrangements have resulted in the use of additional security controls beyond those that were already in place at their organization. This is consistent with the data reported in the 2008 survey.

Future Use of Security Technologies: E-mail encryption and single sign on and were most frequently identified by respondents as technologies that were not presently installed at their organization but were planned for future installation.

Medical Identity Theft: One-third of respondents reported that their organization has had at least one known case of medical identity theft at their organization. However, only a handful of these organizations experienced direct consequences from the breach.

'Healthcare organizations must approach all IT activities, including data security, with effective management and efficient use of their budgets, staff and technologies,' said Lisa Gallagher, HIMSS Senior Director, Privacy and Security. 'IT and security professionals must recognize the need for securing patient data by using available technologies and preparing for compliance with current ARRA laws and future regulations. This complex operating environment, as well as our national goals for health IT, demands such action to ensure quality, safety and improved healthcare delivery.'

Targeting Chief Information Officers and Chief Security Officers and other Information Technology (IT) executives, the 2009 HIMSS Security Survey focused on an assessment of 196 information technology (IT) and security professionals in the healthcare field of their own readiness for today's risks and security challenges.

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RICH COMMUNICATION 2009, PARIS, FRANCE - Acme Packet®, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, today announced a series of new capabilities for its Net-Net® Session Director (SD) session border controller (SBC) in support of the GSMA Rich Communication Suite (RCS) and SIP-based interactive communication services for 3G mobile access networks. In addition, Acme Packet has proven interoperability with five RCS client and server solution partners, helping ensure rapid deployment of RCS services. Acme Packet SBCs will be used in seven RCS or related SIP messaging and presence service trials by tier 1 mobile service providers in multiple countries in Europe and Africa during the fourth quarter of 2009.

The RCS initiative is a GSMA-led program driven by service providers and communications equipment vendors that is defining the basis for an interoperable, rich communication experience. RCS services are a new set of SIP interactive services that can be offered over 3G radio access networks and across mobile service provider IP network borders. RCS aims to seamlessly unify the communications experience by integrating traditional mobile circuit-switched telephony with new interactive services such as presence, instant messaging and content sharing enabled by an enhanced address book of the mobile phone. RCS leverages the 3GPP IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture and uses SIP signaling to establish sessions and exchange instant messages, presence information, files and video. Acme Packet is an Associate member of the GSMA and joined the RCS initiative in December 2008.

'Rich Communication Suite is an important foundation for mobile service providers to deliver differentiated services,' commented Diane Myers, directing analyst, with Infonetics Research. 'Acme Packet's newly introduced features illustrate the company's commitment to making RCS successful by enabling the delivery of SIP-based interactive communication services and the interconnection of mobile networks.'

SIP session control leadership strengthened with new RCS features and functions

Acme Packet's RCS solution features its Net-Net SD deployed at the access and interconnect borders of the SIP or IMS service network. Acme Packet SBCs provide critical control functions to deliver high-quality interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—over the 3G IP RAN. For RCS 2.0 services extended to Internet-connected laptops and PCs, the Net-Net Security Gateway provides authentication and IPsec encryption termination to connect these devices to the service core. Acme Packet's control functions satisfy requirements in five major areas—security, service reach maximization, service level agreement (SLA) assurance, revenue and cost optimization, and regulatory compliance. In IMS networks, Acme Packet SBCs perform the role of the P-CSCF and IMS-AGW for signaling and media control at the access border and the I-BCF and TrGW at the interconnect border.

As a result of the growing interest in RCS—including completed and pending lab and service trials in 2009—Acme Packet is enhancing its Net-Net Operating System (OS) with additional capabilities. Acme Packet Net-Net SBCs will be used at the access or interconnect border of seven RCS or RCS-like trials by tier 1 mobile service providers in Europe and Africa during the fourth quarter of 2009.

The new features significantly enhance the security and control functions for RCS service delivery and increase the capacity of both RCS application servers and Acme Packet SBCs. The specific enhancements to the Net-Net OS include:

* Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) support
Acme Packet SBCs support MSRP for instant messaging and file sharing services as defined by the latest Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) specifications. This includes media support for MSRP server-based and MSRP peer-to-peer deployment models. The peer-to-peer model off-loads application servers, increasing their capacity.
* Denial-of-service attack protection and overload control for IM and presence
Acme Packet SBCs protect RCS and IMS server infrastructure from denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, misconfigured or misbehaving clients, and non-malicious overloads. This control includes per-SIP method throttling, SIP Method whitelists and signaling screening. This granular security capability ensures that both the SBC and RCS servers can continue to support legitimate subscribers in the presence of attack or overload.
* Differentiated, service-based routing policies for presence, IM, video and voice
Acme Packet SBCs enable service providers to route traffic differently for each RCS service—presence, IM, video and voice—to reduce capital and operational costs for deploying RCS services. This capability includes fine-grained control over the routing of each SIP method type including INVITE, REGISTER, PRACK, OPTIONS, INFO, SUBSCRIBE, NOTIFY, REFER, UPDATE, MESSAGE and PUBLISH.
* Session replication for lawful intercept of multimedia communication
Acme Packet SBCs will enable lawful intercept (LI) for all RCS services, helping service providers comply with relevant government regulations for these communication services. This support will include SIP-based presence information and video, and MSRP-based instant messaging using TCP transport. Acme Packet Net-Net SDs act as an intercept access point, replicating the session data and content for specific target subscribers. Acme Packet has proven interoperability with many leading LI Mediation Function vendors for provisioning and forwarding of relevant session data.
* Support for millions of subscribers and IM sessions
Acme Packet SBC solutions will scale to support millions of subscribers and their IM sessions. As each entry in a subscriber's 'buddy list' creates a SIP SUBSCRIBE-NOTIFY dialog, presence information can create significant SIP messaging traffic. Acme Packet has uniquely optimized the ability of its SBC to process these messages efficiently to cost-effectively scale the access and interconnect border for sharing presence information between RCS subscribers.

Solution partner interoperability expands

Acme Packet has expanded its Pinnacle Partner Program with tested solutions with five new RCS client and server partners. The Pinnacle Partner Program is an alliance program that formalizes Acme Packet's relationships with both complementary product partners and solution integration partners. It fosters technical and business collaboration to assure interoperability among best-of breed products and the delivery of seamless, best-of breed network solutions. Acme Packet has tested interoperability with these partners in vendor or customer labs in IMS and pre-IMS environments. The new RCS solution partner products include:

* Aylus Networks' MediaShare
This platform provides real-time multimedia session management for video and content sharing to RCS-enabled phones and broadband endpoints. Live and recorded content can be shared to RCS clients as well as web portals and social media hubs such as Facebook using Aylus' RCS-compliant Application Server and Video MRF. Aylus' MediaShare and MediaCast solutions will be demonstrated at Acme Packet's Interconnect 2009 customer conference taking place November 8-11.
* Colibria's SIP/SIMPLE portfolio of SIP IM server, SIP Presence server and supporting XDMS server
These products are deployed in fixed, mobile and converged networks and can operate in pre-IMS and IMS environments to provide Rich Communication Suite, Enhanced Voice Solutions, and Push to Talk. Acme Packet SBCs and Colibria's SIP/SIMPLE servers are deployed or being trialed in multiple customer environments.
* eyeP Media eyeP Communicator
eyeP Media SA, a leading provider of SIP-based Telecommunications over IP (ToIP) software clients, develops and markets the eyeP Communicator softphone for Windows PC and mobile devices. Acme Packet and the eyeP Communicator are already deployed in a tier 1 European mobile operator for ToIP services and the two companies have successfully tested RCS interoperability.
* Mavenir mOne IM/presence server
The modular functional architecture of mOne provides presence, IM, media sharing and legacy messaging interworking services and core IMS components including I/S-CSCF functions. The joint Acme Packet-Mavenir solution is deployed in a tier 1 pan-European mobile service provider for a SIP messaging and presence application. Additionally, an Acme Packet SBC will provide access security and routing for Mavenir's RCS demonstration at Rich Communication 2009, November 4-5, in Paris.
* Movial Communicator
Movial Communicator PC for RCS provides a compelling and fully integrated end-user experience enabled with presence technology, including 1-to-1 chat, group chat, video calling, instant sharing of images or video during a voice call, and file transfer. Movial Communicator PC embodies the first extension of a complete solution for synchronized rich multimedia communication across handsets and computers. Movial Communicator Mobile is an RCS-ready suite of mobile applications with the same power as its PC counterpart. Six leading European operators have selected Movial Communicator solutions for their RCS trials. Acme Packet has proven interoperability with Movial in multiple VoIP and IMS commercial deployments.

'RCS is critical to enabling new services in today's increasingly competitive 3G mobile communications environment,' stated Seamus Hourihan, Acme Packet's vice president of marketing and product management. 'Given our proven solutions for delivering secure, high-quality and seamlessly interoperable IP interactive voice and video services, Acme Packet is well-positioned to help mobile service providers transform their 3G broadband networks into versatile platforms for delivering even richer communication services in terms of both functional and monetary value.'

About Acme Packet
Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT), the leader in session border control solutions, enables the delivery of trusted, first-class interactive communications—voice, video and multimedia sessions—and data services across IP network borders. Our Net-Net family of session border controllers, multiservice security gateways and session routing proxies supports multiple applications in service provider, enterprise and contact center networks—from VoIP trunking to hosted enterprise and residential services to fixed-mobile convergence. They satisfy critical security, service assurance and regulatory requirements in wireline, cable and wireless networks; and support multiple protocols—SIP, H.323, MGCP/NCS, H.248 and RTSP—and multiple border points—service provider access and interconnect, and enterprise access and trunking. Our products have been selected by 910 customers in 100 countries. They include 48 of the top 50, and 90 of the top 100 service providers in the world; and 8 of the Fortune 25. For more information, contact us at +1 781.328.4400, or visit www.acmepacket.com.

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SAN JOSE, California - Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, today introduced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, an unprecedented collaboration of three information technology (IT) industry leaders. The coalition has been created to accelerate customers' ability to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data center virtualization and a transition to private cloud infrastructures.

Cisco, EMC and VMware have worked closely over the past year on a shared vision for the future of enterprise IT infrastructure – private cloud computing. A private cloud is a virtual IT infrastructure that is securely controlled and operated solely for one organization. It can be managed either by that organization or a third party, and it can exist on or off premises or in combination. Private cloud computing offers the controls and security of today's data center with the agility required for business innovation at substantially lower costs.

Worldwide spending on data center technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion1 annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates, with half of that spent on capital expenses (products) and half on operating expenses (services and labor). Further, an estimated 70 percent2 or more of those costs are expended to maintain existing infrastructures, leaving 30 percent or less for new technology initiatives and applications that can provide breakthrough differentiation for businesses. It is also estimated that approximately $85 billion3, or 20% of this total market, can be addressed with data center virtualization and private cloud technology by 2015.

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition offers organizations of all sizes an accelerated approach to data center transformation with dramatic efficiencies that promise significant reductions in both capital and operating expenses. As a result, organizations will no longer have to choose between best-of-breed technologies and end-to-end vendor accountability.

With the introduction of Vblock TM Infrastructure Packages, the Virtual Computing Environment coalition will provide customers with a fundamentally better approach to streamlining and optimizing IT strategies around private clouds. Vblock Infrastructure Packages are fully integrated, tested, validated, and ready-to-go/ready-to-grow infrastructure packages that combine best-in-class virtualization, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware with end-to-end vendor accountability.

The coalition will scale customer adoption of Vblock systems by enabling a global community of systems integrators, service providers, channel partners, and independent software vendors (ISVs). The coalition has also established unified presales, professional services and support capabilities to simplify customer engagement.

In unveiling the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, Cisco and EMC also introduced Acadia, a joint venture focused on accelerating customer build-outs of private cloud infrastructures through an end-to-end enablement of service providers and large enterprise customers. Acadia's unique 'build, operate, transfer' model for delivering the Vblock architecture, addressing people, process and technology, will offer customers further choice, flexibility and cost advantages as they seek to virtualize their IT infrastructures and evolve to private cloud environments. In addition to Cisco and EMC as the lead investors, the build-out of Acadia's expanded capabilities in 2010 has also been capitalized by investments from VMware and Intel. Because the Vblock architecture relies heavily on Intel Xeon® processors and other Intel data center technology, Intel will join the Acadia effort as a minority investor to facilitate and accelerate customer adoption of the latest Intel technology for servers, storage, and networking.

ANNOUNCEMENT DETAILS:

1. First Offering: Vblock Infrastructure Packages

* The Virtual Computing Environment coalition today introduced Vblock Infrastructure Packages to accelerate the virtualization of IT infrastructures by minimizing risk, complexity and time to benefit.
* Vblock Infrastructure Packages are validated platforms of engineered, integrated IT infrastructure from Cisco, EMC and VMware, that deliver a breakthrough total cost of ownership and pervasive virtualization at a scale to meet today's most demanding use cases.
* Vblock Infrastructure Packages can be easily scaled with additional compute and storage capability after purchase, a key differentiator versus today's monolithic IT systems.
* Vblock Infrastructure Packages can be extended by complementary systems integrators, service providers, channel partners, and ISVs.
* Early customer trials of Vblock Infrastructure Packages have delivered up to 40 percent reductions in the cost of operating and managing virtualized data center infrastructures.
* The following family of Vblock Infrastructure Packages is being offered by the Virtual Computing Environment coalition:
o Vblock 2 is a high-end configuration supporting up to 3,000-6,000 virtual machines that is completely extensible to meet the most demanding IT needs of large enterprises and service providers. Designed for large-scale and 'green field' virtualization, Vblock 2 takes advantage of Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus 1000v and Multilayer Directional Switches (MDS), EMC's Symmetrix V-Max storage (secured by RSA), and the VMware vSphere platform.
o Vblock 1 is a mid-sized configuration supporting 800 up to 3,000 virtual machines to deliver a broad range of IT capabilities to organizations of all sizes. Designed for consolidation and optimization initiatives, Vblock 1 is comprised of a repeatable model leveraging Cisco's UCS, Nexus 1000v and MDS, EMC's CLARiiON storage (secured by RSA), and the VMware vSphere platform.
o Vblock 0 will be an entry-level configuration available in 2010, supporting 300 up to 800 virtual machines, for the first time bringing the benefits of private clouds within reach of medium-sized businesses, small data centers or organizations, and for test and development by channel partners, systems integrators, service providers, ISVs, and customers. Vblock 0 is also comprised of a repeatable model leveraging Cisco's UCS and Nexus 1000v, EMC's Unified Storage (secured by RSA), and the VMware vSphere platform.

Also today, EMC is introducing IonixTM Unified Infrastructure Manager as an integrated, unified element manager for Vblock. Unified management is a central factor in helping customers reduce operating expenses. As an element manager, Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager is designed to support a wide range of enterprise management consoles.

A comprehensive security framework based on EMC RSA security products, including RSA enVision, has been validated with Vblock Infrastructure Packages. RSA security solutions are layered onto the Vblock architecture to deliver security policy management and security at three levels: identity, information and infrastructure. Vblock is designed to extend a customer's existing enterprise security controls to the virtual infrastructure and does not require the customer to replace security software already in place.

* Further Vblock Infrastructure Packages will be developed to serve business needs across three categories: shared services, applications and vertical industry solutions. For example, the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure on Vblock solutions will enhance the provisioning, scale-out and back-end management of enterprise applications and users. To help ensure solutions are de-risked and highly secure, Vblocks will be ISO 27001 compliant.
* Vblock Infrastructure Packages are scheduled to be available this quarter direct from authorized systems integrators and channel partners. EMC, Cisco and VMware components can be purchased directly from the respective companies or their authorized partners.

2. Integrated Presales, Professional Services and Support

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition has committed to unify customer engagement with investments spanning dedicated pre-sales, professional services and single support experience to provide a seamless, end-to-end customer and partner experience.

* The Virtual Computing Environment coalition Solution Support Team is a cross-company presales team, fully trained in all elements of Vblock architecture and go-to-market resources to work with customers and partners and to facilitate engagements.
* Virtual Computing Environment coalition professional services, jointly developed and delivered, will help customers to understand how to maximize value and speed time to solution. These offers include: the Cloud-based Business Advisory Service, Private Cloud Strategic Impact Advisory Service, Private Cloud Architecture Impact Advisory Service, Virtual Desktop Advisory Service, Cloud Computing Strategy Service, and Vblock Design and Implementation Service.
* Virtual Computing Environment seamless support offers customers unmatched technical support and rapid problem resolution for virtualization and private cloud solutions. The coalition companies will leverage in-depth cross training and investments in joint problem re-creation labs as well as integrated processes and best practices with a single point of accountability.

3. Acadia Solutions Joint Venture and Investment

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition today also introduced Acadia — a Cisco and EMC solutions joint venture to build, operate, and transfer Vblock infrastructure to organizations that want to accelerate their journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud computing while reducing their operating expenses. Acadia expects to begin customer operations in the first calendar quarter of calendar year 2010.

* Founded on a Vblock architecture that incorporates Cisco, EMC and VMware technologies, Acadia will train and help customers and an ecosystem of service providers and other partners to build, operate and transfer Vblock Infrastructure Packages to customers or their partner of choice.
* In addition to Cisco and EMC as the majority investors, the build-out of Acadia's global capabilities in 2010 also has been capitalized by investments from VMware and Intel.

'We have been pleased to contribute industry leading data center building blocks to server and storage solutions from EMC and Cisco. We look forward to extending these relationships by supporting their Virtual Computing Environment coalition in a similar fashion,' said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and General Manager of Intel's Data Center Group. 'Our investment in Acadia will provide a deployment option for customers looking to take advantage of Intel's latest data center innovations.'

4. Vblock Partner Ecosystem

The Virtual Computing Environment coalition has established a robust set of partners committed to the coalition. This includes representation from the entire partner ecosystem, including systems integrators, value added resellers, service providers, and independent software vendors. There are six system integrators at launch: Accenture, Capgemini, CSC, Lockheed Martin, Tata Consulting Services, and Wipro.

* The entire community of partners will augment, sell and deliver Vblock solutions to accelerate the journey to pervasive virtualization and private cloud for organizations of all sizes.
* The Vblock partner ecosystem will offer systems integrators and channel partners a business and technical solution on-ramp to private cloud infrastructures. Click here (Insert hyperlink) to read commentary from systems integrators and channel partners participating in this ecosystem.
* Vblock Infrastructure Packages support a broad range of operating systems and applications, enabling partners and customers to rapidly migrate existing applications to Vblock, accelerating broad-scale virtualization and time to results.

Read perspectives from Vblock Partner Ecosystem members here: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2009/prod_110309.html

'Today's announcement addresses our customers' greatest challenges and opportunities in the data center.' said John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco. 'This coalition is about more than technology and partnership. It is about an entirely new and unique approach to the data center that improves utilization, power consumption and security of information, all in a way that lowers the total cost to the customer, not via a box, but with a network-based architectural approach for optimizing virtual resources.'

Joseph Tucci, EMC chairman and CEO, said 'Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, are coming together in an unprecedented way to help our customers. They need to be able to shift more of their IT budgets to the development and rapid implementation of new technologies that help their organizations create differentiated business advantages. Many of them understand the vast potential of the private cloud. With shared roadmaps and a long-term commitment, the Virtual Computing Environment coalition will bring true accountability, along with the best-of-breed technologies our respective customers have come to expect, to help enable their success.'

'Customers are increasingly looking to virtualization to dramatically improve the performance and flexibility of their existing IT systems,' said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. 'Today's announcement provides a compelling vision and set of roadmaps valuable to any company looking to harness cloud computing in a fundamentally more pragmatic and nondisruptive way.'

Watch John Chambers, Joe Tucci and Paul Maritz discuss the Virtual Computing Environment coalition here.

Customer Quote
'Purdue is a research university and the majority of our IT needs are spent on high-performance computing, which requires strong computing, massive amounts of storage, and high-speed networking fabric,' said Steven Tally, CTO of Purdue University. 'The Vblock solution offers these elements in a single pre-tested, pre-integrated solution which will be easier to deploy. VMware, Cisco, and EMC are ideal partners to respond to this problem because they offer complementary tool sets and have a history of delivering good products in the market space. When these solutions are tied together in a coherent and systematic way, it is very good news for an environment like Purdue.'

Watch Purdue's Steven Tally discuss the Virtual Computing Environment Coalition here: http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/videos/purdue_110209.html

News Webcast

John Chambers, chairman and CEO of Cisco, Joe Tucci, chairman, president and CEO of EMC Corp, and Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware will discuss the new Virtual Computing Environment coalition and how it will help organizations simplify and accelerate pervasive virtualization and the transition to private cloud infrastructures.

When: Nov. 3, 2009 at 8:30 a.m. PST/ 11.30 a.m. EST
Where: http://event.ciscowebseminars.com/clients/cisco/coalition

Twitter

EMC and Cisco will be taking questions from the Twitter community.
Please submit questions to @CiscoSystems ((hyperlink to www.twitter.com/ciscosystems)) or @EMCCorp. ((hyperlink to www.twitter.com/emccorp))

Additional Resources

Cisco
Landing page www.cisco.com/govce
Learn more about the Cisco Unified Computing System
Learn more about Cisco Data Center Services
Read "Cisco Data Center" blog
Follow Cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior on Twitter.
Follow the Cisco Data Center team on Twitter.

EMC
Launch landing page www.emc.com/powerof3
Twitter www.twitter.com/emccorp
Facebook www.facebook.com/emccorp
YouTube www.youtube.com/user/emccorp
Chuck Hollis's Blog www.chucksblog.emc.com
IT Management 2.0 Blog www.itmanagement2.com
Chad Sakac's Blog www.virtualgeek.typepad.com

VMware
Launch landing page(s) = www.vmware.com/cisco and www.vmware.com/emc
Twitter = http://www.twitter.com/vmware
Facebook = http://www.facebook.com/pages/VMware/6975960973
YouTube = http://www.youtube.com/vmwaretv
VMware Blogs = http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/planet/vmware/
VMware vSphere Blog = http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere

About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information on Cisco can be found at http://www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com.

About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 150,000 customers and 22,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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Note 1: Worldwide spending by businesses and other organizations on technology infrastructure and services exceeds $350 billion annually, according to McKinsey and Company estimates, with half of that spent on capital expenses (products) and half on operating expenses (services and labor).

Note 2: VMware Fortune 1000 Customers Study

Note 3: Based on Cisco internal estimates.

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EMC, Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Ionix, and V-Max are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. RSA and RSA envision are registered trademarks of RSA Security Inc.

VMware and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word 'partner' or 'partnership' does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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NEW YORK and BOSTON — CashEdge, Inc. (www.cashedge.com ), the leading provider of Intelligent Money Movement™ services, and mobile commerce enabler Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company (Nasdaq: QCOM), announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic relationship to bring to market an integrated mobile person-to-person (P2P) payments solution integrating CashEdge's POPmoney P2P payments service and Firethorn's Mobile Wallet solution.

The integrated mobile P2P solution will enable financial institutions to offer their customers the ability to send electronic payments using CashEdge's POPmoney from within their Firethorn mobile banking application, by simply using the email address or mobile phone number of the recipient. This comprehensive mobile P2P banking solution will give consumers greater control over their finances, enabling them to pay other people whenever and wherever they want.

The convenience and security of using a service offered by one's existing financial institution is compelling for consumers. According to CashEdge's 2009 consumer survey, 77 percent of consumers would prefer to use a P2P payments service offered through their financial institution compared to an independent service.

'Consumers are demanding new payment solutions, particularly the ability to conveniently and securely send payments while on the go,' said Ben Ackerman, Vice President of product strategy for Firethorn. 'This Firethorn and CashEdge relationship is an excellent fit, both in terms of business and technical capabilities. We already have many common customers and prospects who have been asking for a holistic P2P solution, and now we can put those customers on the path to mobile commerce.'

"Firethorn's Mobile Wallet application is an innovative service that successfully helps meet the demands of today's consumers for easy and convenient mobile banking solutions," stated Neil Platt, Senior Vice President and General Manager, US Banking, CashEdge Inc. "CashEdge is always looking for opportunities to broaden the scope of our services and deliver cutting-edge services to financial institutions, and working with Firethorn further enables us to meet those goals."

POPmoney is the first email and mobile person-to-person payments (P2P) service for financial institutions that allows customers to send an electronic payment, from within the online or mobile banking site, by simply using the email address or mobile phone number of the recipient. Likewise, the recipients of the payment can receive the funds directly into their account. Firethorn's Mobile Wallet solution enables bank customers to use their mobile devices to view account balances, check credit card balances, transfer funds between accounts, view and pay bills, and access other services such as loyalty programs and targeted offers.

CashEdge will showcase POPmoney at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference on November 3 - 5, 2009 in Boston, at booth #725.

Firethorn can also be found in the exhibit hall at the BAI Retail Delivery Conference on November 3 - 5, 2009 in Boston, at booth #232.

About Firethorn
Firethorn Holdings, LLC, a Qualcomm company (Nasdaq: QCOM), is providing an important link in the emerging mobile commerce ecosystem. As a pioneer in mobile banking, Firethorn is transforming the traditional wallet into a streamlined, efficient and protected mobile revenue channel that will bridge relationships among financial institutions, retailers, wireless operators and consumers. Firethorn's innovative technology creates easily accessible, branded and personalized mobile commerce channels that give consumers access to their accounts, offers and transactions while on the go. For more information about Firethorn, visit www.firethornmobile.com

About CashEdge
CashEdge is the leader in Intelligent Money Movement™ services providing innovative payment solutions to financial institutions for their retail and small business banking customers. CashEdge's services include mobile and online person-to-person (P2P) payments and small business payments. CashEdge currently serves hundreds of leading financial institutions, including seven of the ten largest banks in the country.

CashEdge's industry leading products include POPmoney™ for person-to-person payments; OpenNow®/FundNow® for new account opening and funding; TransferNow® for Consumers, which includes Me-to-Me Transfers and Third Party Transfers; and TransferNow® for Small Businesses, which includes Invoicing, Me-to-Me Transfers, Employee Payments and Vendor Payments. All CashEdge products are supported by industry-leading risk management capabilities that leverage proprietary technology to help financial institutions mitigate risk and decrease fraud exposure.

The Company is headquartered in New York with offices in Silicon Valley and India. For more information, visit www.cashedge.com

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London, Interoute, owner operator of one of Europe's largest next generation voice and data network, and Juniper Networks Inc, (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high performance networking, today announced that an extra 9.5 Terabits of capacity has been added to Interoute's pan European IP network. The upgrade is in response to increased Internet traffic from ISPs, content providers and enterprise customers, which led to Interoute experiencing IP traffic doubling every 12 months.

This escalation in demand is being led by broadband growth in emerging markets where Interoute serves customers including Slovak Telecom, ATM in Poland and Magyar Telecom in Hungary, combined with increasingly rich multimedia content from mobile providers, such as Vodafone, and the growth in enterprise VPNs. All these factors have contributed to Interoute's 32 percent growth rate since 2008.

Interoute's next generation network is part of the digital backbone of the European Internet, and also provides IP transit and content delivery services to enterprise and media owners.

Matthew Finnie, CTO at Interoute, commented, "Interoute, with this upgrade, has added over 9.5 Terabits of capacity to Europe's Internet, improving the quality, experience and availability of Europe's Internet whilst maintaining the sophisticated mix of security, predictability and scale required by enterprises for critical IT infrastructure services, including computing, communication and connectivity."

Interoute has deployed the Juniper Networks MX Series Ethernet Services Routers in its core pan European IP network. Gert-Jan Schenk, senior vice president EMEA, Juniper Networks, said: "Demand for bandwidth continues to grow, and providers need to expand their networks to keep pace, while also increasing the value their networks can deliver to customers. Interoute is a highly-innovative company, always focused on delivering excellent value to its customers via new services and quality of service to maintain traction."

Interoute will continue to invest in capacity ahead of network demand and in anticipation of customer requirements. The IP layer is one of five network platforms that form part of Interoute's next-generation European network. The current network infrastructure has the capacity to be upgraded a further 50 times, giving Interoute's customers a deep reserve from which to draw as their demands increase.

The upgrade project involved Juniper Networks MX960 Ethernet Services Router platform being deployed across 12 cities within the Interoute network including Amsterdam, Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague and Stockholm.

Juniper Networks MX960 platform is one of the industry's largest capacity Carrier Ethernet platforms with up to 960 gigabits per second (Gbps) of switching and routing capacity, reducing costs and increasing revenue per platform while delivering the scale to ensure investment protection. Offering efficient support of high-density interfaces and high-capacity switching throughput, the MX960 enables a wide range of business and residential applications and services, including high-speed transport and VPN services and next-generation network aggregation. The MX Series is based on the industry-leading Junos® software which simplifies networks operations and reduces the costs and complexity of deploying, provisioning and managing scalable Ethernet services.
About Interoute

Interoute is the owner operator of Europe's most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 57,000 km of lit fibre and 59 data centres. Its full-service next generation network serves thousands of customers across a broad range of sectors from finance to retail and every major European incumbent, as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organisations find Interoute the ideal partner for hosting content, providing wholesale bandwidth and transit services, corporate connectivity or creating new services. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, North America and Dubai Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe's major business centres. More than €1 billion in e-commerce transactions flows through its data centres each day, making Interoute a key part of Europe's Digital Supply Chain. www.interoute.com
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 earned more than $3 billion in revenue over the last year. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net.

Juniper Networks and Junos are registered trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The Juniper Networks and Junos logos are trademarks of Juniper Networks, Inc. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks are the property of their respective owners.

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The inSync product is laptop backup software designed for remote enterprise users and mobile workforce. The product uses advanced file-fingerprint and data deduplication technology to save only a single copy of content (documents/emails/attachments) duplicated across users. Within an enterprise where over 80-90% data is duplicate on PCs, inSync saves over 90% backup time, bandwidth and storage.

With several other truly unique features and highly usable interface inSync has a very good customer following which includes names like NASA, Emerson, Brunswick, MetLife , ESET and many others.

New features and highlights include –
1. Managed Client Updates
2. Dynamic Bandwidth and CPU Scheduling
3. 2X Performance Improvements for Full PC Backup
4. Synchronize on Log-off and Shutdown

The new managed client update feature enables the backup administrator to selectively push client updates remotely to the backup users. Another important addition is the new 'Dynamic bandwidth and CPU scheduling', which enables the administrator set a percentage or absolute value based limit on client for bandwidth and CPU utilization. The bandwidth limit can be selectively set based on whether the user is synchronizing data using a WAN/VPN based connection or over the local LAN network. InSync is first of its kind of products to introduce these features for enterprise backups.

Although the new release brings about 2X performance enhancement for full-PC backup and bare-metal restore, it does not include the planned and much anticipated 'blackbird' data deduplication and storage engine. The new blackbird storage engine targets application aware deduplication compared to current chunk based approach for significantly better bandwidth and storage utilization.

Key Product highlights and Useful Links

Some of the key highlights of the product include –
1. Source based Data Deduplication – 90% better bandwidth and storage utilization
2. Continuous Data Protection - Time based, from-the-past restores
3. WAN Optimization – Better protection for remote and mobile workforce
4. Search Based Recovery – Faster search based file restores
5. Bare Metal Restore – Backup and restore complete PC

Some useful links -
Product Page – www.druvaa.com/insync/laptop-backup
Free Download – www.druvaa.com/download/insync
Quick Overview Demo – www.druvaa.com/insync/virtual-tour

Druvaa on an Exponential Growth Curve -
Earlier this year Druvaa reported a 300% quarter on quarter growth in sales, purely based on online sales model. The products sell because if their simplicity, rich features and robustness.
Key customers include – NASA, Emerson, Brunswick, Metlife, ESET, Serco etc.

What's Next -
Druvaa recently announced beta for its new network backup product for remote and local servers – Phoenix. 'Remote backup is a widely spread and but very underserved problem. With our unique application aware data deduplication approach and WAN Optimization, we believe Phoenix would be a killer proposition' says Milind Borate, CTO, Druvaa. Phoenix is already learnt to have received an unprecedented response for beta program and the company had to close the beta program for more users. 'The beta program may again open sometime soon', adds Milind.

About Druvaa
Founded in 2007, Druvaa Software is a leading provider of Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery solutions. Since inception Druvaa has released two award winning products - Druvaa inSync and Druvaa Phoenix. Druvaa is privately held and backed by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and Accord International (HK).

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DULUTH, Ga. – NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR ) announced today that it has purchased the assets of Netkey, Inc., a market-leading provider of kiosk and digital signage software applications used by leading companies to deliver a growing range of multi-industry self-service applications such as gift registry, guided selling, endless aisle and human resources functions. Terms were not disclosed.

ABI Research predicts that companies will spend more than $1 billion globally on digital signage solutions next year, growing at an average of 20 percent per year for the next five years, while kiosk deployments will grow an average of 19 percent per year during the same period.

Netkey's enterprise software platform uses a proven scalable architecture that enables fast and flexible development of applications for kiosk and digital signage-based solutions. NCR will combine Netkey's software platform with its own technologies to provide a best-in-class enterprise solution, which includes software applications, one of the broadest hardware portfolios in the industry, and a suite of services. NCR will continue to provide multivendor hardware support with the Netkey solution.

Headquartered in East Haven, Conn., Netkey has over 75,000 kiosks and digital signs installed by more than 400 clients in the retail, finance, transportation, and government sectors. Many of these customers also use NCR 's kiosk, self-checkout or point-of-sale solutions.

'This acquisition makes perfect sense from a customer perspective,' said Jenny Hinsman, vice president of kiosk solutions for Pitney Bowes. 'We use Netkey's application on NCR 's hardware for our Mail & Go Shipping kiosk. We now have one point of contact and, more importantly, are dealing with one company that is now even better positioned to lead the advance and growth of the self-service industry.'

Netkey will provide NCR with a robust digital signage application that is built on the same platform as Netkey's kiosk applications, making NCR's solutions faster to deploy and easier to support.

'Consumers increasingly expect to interact with companies when and how they wish, and businesses are responding by offering their customers a seamless experience across the channel of their choice,' said Mike Webster, vice president and general manager for NCR 's retail line of business. 'This acquisition will enable NCR to help its customers across multiple industries with kiosk and digital signage solutions that deliver more effective transactions, promotions and information as part of a merged channel strategy.

'In doing so, NCR will take a best-in-class solution, combine it with best-in-class hardware and services, and deliver compelling competitive advantage, ultimately on a global basis. Our approach is an example of NCR executing its software-driven, hardware-enabled and services-led corporate strategy.'

About NCR Corporation
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR ) is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCR 's assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming and public sector organizations in more than 100 countries. NCR (www.ncr.com) is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.

NCR is a trademark of NCR Corporation in the United States and other countries.

Note to investors - This news release contains forward-looking statements, including statements as to anticipated or expected results, beliefs, opinions and future financial performance, within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements include projections of revenue, profit growth and other financial items, future economic performance and statements concerning analysts' earnings estimates, among other things. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause NCR's actual results to differ materially.

In addition to the factors discussed in this release, other risks and uncertainties include those relating to: the uncertain economic climate, in particular the current global credit crisis, could impact the ability of our customers to make capital expenditures, thereby affecting their ability to purchase our products, and consolidation in the financial services sector could impact our business by reducing our customer base; the timely development, production or acquisition and market acceptance of new and existing products and services (such as self-service technologies), including our ability to accelerate market acceptance of new products and services; shifts in market demands, continued competitive factors and pricing pressures and their impact on our ability to improve gross margins and profitability, especially in our more mature offerings; the effect of currency translation; short product cycles, rapidly changing technologies and maintaining a competitive leadership position with respect to our solution offerings; tax rates; ability to execute our business and reengineering plans, including potential impact from our recent transition from a business unit to functional organizational model; turnover of workforce and the ability to attract and retain skilled employees, especially in light of continued cost-control measures being taken by the company; availability and successful exploitation of new acquisition and alliance opportunities; changes in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the resulting impact, if any, on the company's accounting policies; continued efforts to establish and maintain best-in-class internal information technology and control systems; and other factors detailed from time to time in the company's U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reports and the company's annual reports to stockholders. The company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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ISLANDIA, N.Y., CA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that three executives in the company's Infrastructure Management and Automation business unit will participate in four panel discussions at Interop. The business technology conference will be held in New York November 16-20, 2009.

Stephen Elliot, vice president of strategy, will participate in a discussion entitled 'Is Automation a Killer Idea or a Career Killer?' on Wednesday, November 18 at 4 p.m. ET. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler, vice president, Ashton, Metzler & Associates.

The ticking time bomb for IT organizations is that today roughly 75 percent of IT resources are consumed maintaining the status quo, and that percentage creeps up every year. If IT organizations don't make some fundamental changes they will soon not be able to provide any new value-added functionality. Automation holds the promise to both improve quality and free up resources. Most IT organizations have made only modest attempts to automate as they are fearful of losing control over IT. The members of this panel will discuss what explicit functionality IT organizations can safely automate.

Elliot will also participate in a panel entitled 'The People, Process And Technology Of Next Generation Data Centers' on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. ET. Following is summary of the session, which will be moderated by Doug Washburn, analyst, Infrastructure & Operations, Forrester Research.

Technologies like virtualization and automation tools are cornerstone to the next-generation data center (NGDC)—but without the proper processes and staff skills to manage them, tomorrow's data center will be no better off than today's. Likewise, even the right people and process fall short without sufficient technology investment that can minimize labor-intensive tasks. With that in mind, the NGDC is a collection of people, process and technology that support one another. This panel discussion will identify the key people, process and technology considerations to help data center managers plan for the NGDC today.

Derick Wong, senior director of product marketing, will participate in a discussion entitled 'The Language of the Cloud: Scripting and Automation' on Thursday, November 19 at 9 a.m. Following is a description of the session, which will be moderated by Alistair Croll, principal analyst, Bitcurrent.

In a cloud environment, you don't rack and stack servers anymore; instead, you click and drag them. This relieves IT operators of many physical chores, but it creates a new one: server sprawl. To deal with this, most cloud operations teams rely heavily on scripts that automate common functions such as setting up servers or migrating configurations. Those scripts, however, are often tailored to a particular cloud platform—so the same tools that were supposed to liberate IT have inadvertently locked it into a particular cloud environment. If scripting and automation are keys to the success of cloud models, they're not getting the attention they deserve. This panel looks at scripting best practices, automation, and standardization.

Tanvir Hussain, senior vice president of product management, will participate in a panel entitled 'The Impact of Cloud Computing on Network Management' on Thursday, November 19 at 10:15 a.m. Following is a summary of the session, which will be moderated by Jim Metzler.

Cloud computing has the potential to be a management nightmare. IT organizations that implement private clouds need to ensure that when they migrate a virtual machine (VM) to another server that the VM retains the same security, storage access and QoS configurations and policies it had previously. In the case of public cloud services there are at least three separate management domains: the enterprise, the WAN service provider and the various cloud computing service providers. Effective management requires that detailed, consistent management data be gathered from each of the management domains. This panel will outline what IT organizations must do to effectively manage cloud computing.

CA will showcase solutions for business-driven automation, virtualization management and cloud computing, among others, in booth 228.

About CA

CA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT—empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. For more information, visit www.ca.com.

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Through this extended partnership, E2E Infotech, a subsidiary of AurionPro Solutions Ltd, and a longtime global integration partner of Orc Software, will extend its services to provide custom developed trading strategies and professional services to joint customers based on the Orc Liquidator algorithmic trading solution. E2E has recently been involved with customers in the Americas region, for developing, testing and implementing high frequency, low latency algorithmic trading strategies.

'The Orc Liquidator algorithmic trading platform combined with custom low latency trading strategies developed for us by E2E is very well suited for our business requirements,' said George Kapotas, senior trader with the Gelber Group, a joint customer of Orc Software and E2E. 'We are very pleased with this solution, which gives us the edge over our competitors in the algorithmic trading space.'

"Orc Trading provides one of the most sophisticated algorithmic trading solutions currently available in the market,' said Nirav Shah, Head of Operations, AurionPro. 'We are very pleased to continue working closely with Orc to deliver solutions and services required by our customers, now with the addition of custom developed trading strategies. Our successful and strategic partnership with Orc Software since 2001, along with our skills in algorithmic trading and a decade of experience from capital markets systems development, makes E2E ideally placed to assist Orc in its expansion in the algorithmic trading space."

'Working together with E2E Infotech has proved very fruitful over the years, and we are convinced that their skills and experience will also be a great asset for our customers when it comes to optimizing and expanding their use of our algorithmic trading solutions,' said Anders Henriksson, Vice President Business Development, Orc Software. 'We now look forward to continue and expand this successful partnership.'

About E2E Infotech
E2E Infotech is a subsidiary of Mumbai, India-based AurionPro (BSE:AURIONPRO, BSE: 532668), a capital markets solution provider catering to the IT requirements of financial institutions, more specifically, traders, brokers and banks. AurionPro was recently named to the Forbes magazine '200 Best Under a Billion' rankings of Asian small- to medium-sized companies throughout Asia-Pacific. Earlier this year, AurionPro announced that it was named sixth on the list of India's Fast 50 and 74th in the ratings for Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu's Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group.

E2E Infotech is an Orc business partner, providing integration around Trading Systems and consulting services for the capital markets domain and FIX Compliant Systems along with value added components for front, middle and back office integration for market making, proprietary trading and brokerage areas dealing with equity and equity derivatives trading. E2E Infotech also inherits from AurionPro a strong niche presence in Cash Management solutions and well established presence in Treasury, Risk Management and payment processing systems.

www.aurionpro.com

About Orc Software
Orc Software (SSE: ORC) is the leading global provider of powerful solutions for the worldwide financial industry in the critical areas of advanced trading and low latency connectivity. Orc's competitive edge lies in its depth of knowledge of the derivatives trading world gained by deploying advanced solutions for sophisticated traders for over 20 years.

Orc Trading and Orc Connect provide the tools for making the best trading and connectivity decisions with strong analytics, unmatched market access, powerful automated trading functionality, high performance futures and options trading capabilities, ultra-low latency and risk management.

Orc's customers include leading banks, trading and market-making firms, exchanges, brokerage houses, institutional investors and hedge funds.

Orc provides sales and support services from its offices across EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific.

www.orcsoftware.com

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SANTA CLARA, Ca. – Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) today announced the latest in a series of aggressive moves to expand the full spectrum of secure cloud computing options available to enterprise CIOs.

The company announced Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, an innovative solution for organizations to realize the operational and economic benefits of cloud computing in their internal data centers. Unisys also announced significant enhancements – including a disaster recovery service – to Unisys Secure Cloud Solution, the company's managed public cloud offering. Unisys is showcasing new and forthcoming solutions at the SYS-CON Cloud Computing Conference & Expo here.

'Unisys is committed to giving clients highly flexible computing services that enable them to move more of their business workload to the cloud,' said Rich Marcello, president, Unisys Technology, Consulting and Integration Solutions. 'We have found that some organizations prefer a private cloud solution for mission-critical applications that use sensitive data so they can retain greater control over their own and their customers' information. Unisys meets that need with the Secure Private Cloud Solution.'

Recent Unisys research has consistently shown that security concerns are the leading cause of enterprise and individual users' hesitancy in adopting cloud computing. The most recent findings of the Unisys Security Index, a bi-annual global study of consumer opinion on security-related issues, showed that a significant percentage of respondents worldwide were uncomfortable about having their personal data controlled by a third party without assurance that the data could be kept secure.

'Unisys cloud computing strategy is based on providing industrial-strength security and data protection,' said Marcello. 'Like our public cloud offering, Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution goes a long way toward allaying the security concerns of enterprises and their customers. Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution presents CIOs with a way to realize the full operational and economic advantages of public cloud computing on their own terms, in their own data centers, with extra measures of security for their organizations' and their customers' sensitive information.'

Automation and Consulting Services Make Secure Private Cloud Solution Easy to Deploy, Operate and Use

Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, scheduled for availability in December 2009, leverages the technology and expertise behind Unisys Secure Cloud Solution. Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution enables clients to reduce IT costs through server and storage virtualization; remove troublesome IT bottlenecks through automated operations and immediate, as-needed self-service provisioning of resources; and align the supply of IT resources to fluctuating business demand.

For ease of deployment, this pre-loaded, ready-to-go solution allows a full range of virtualization, including scale-up and scale-out, and supports physical as well as virtual machines. Clients can typically run existing Microsoft Windows applications without alteration, reducing migration costs and realizing the business benefits of cloud deployment more quickly.

Extreme automation makes Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution easy to operate and manage. The solution enables automated virtual provisioning and repurposing of IT resources on the fly and provides automated resource tracking to facilitate allocation of IT usage costs to specific groups.

Clients can either monitor the infrastructure themselves or have Unisys do it through the Unisys Converged Remote Infrastructure Management Solution. Announced in March 2009, that solution correlates events across all managed infrastructure segments to orchestrate pre-emptive action against potential IT faults. Unisys also plans to include enhanced capabilities in this solution, such as live chats to resolve service issues more quickly at a lower operational cost.

Provisioning through a self-service portal makes Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution easy to use. From anywhere on the network, at any time, users can select the configuration and length of time needed to address a specific IT resource requirement and typically move existing applications to a Unisys cloud without modification.

This self-service capability can reduce provisioning time from days to minutes. For example, deploying thetechnology that underpins Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution for its engineering development and testing lab, Unisys cut virtual server provisioning time from 10 days to five minutes while avoiding the cost of hiring extra staff to manage the lab.

Organizations using Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution can optionally choose to implement Unisys Stealth solution for additional data protection. Using patent-pending data protection technology, the Stealth solution cloaks data from detection as it moves through the network. As a result, different departments and applications in a multi-tenant environment can share the same IT infrastructure without fear of compromising the security of their data moving across the corporate network.

To make it easier for users to decide on and deploy Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, Unisys has augmented its portfolio of Cloud Transformation Services with Current State Assessment, Design and Planning, Installation and Configuration, Implementation and Application Migration Services specifically for private cloud deployment. The Cloud Transformation Services are delivered by a workforce of 3,000 Unisys consultants worldwide.

Disaster Recovery, Additional Services Boost Unisys Public Cloud Capabilities

'To give clients wider choice in cloud services, Unisys continues to enhance the capabilities of the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution,' said Marcello. 'We are enriching a public cloud environment that already offers industrial-strength security so enterprise clients and their customers can have greater confidence that their sensitive business and personal information is protected in the cloud.'

Unisys has added Secure Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) to the Secure Cloud Solution. This new service provides comprehensive business continuity and disaster recovery services on a subscription basis, typically lowering clients' cost of entry compared to in-house implementation. The service also makes it easier for clients to comply with laws and standards requiring storage and recovery of sensitive business data and applications.

With the DRaaS service, the Unisys Secure Cloud Solution is configured as a disaster recovery backup facility, with copies of critical applications and data stored in Unisys data centers worldwide. The automated provisioning, replication and failover capabilities of the Secure Cloud Solution permit applications to be recovered within minutes.

Unisys has also added new capabilities to key 'as a service' offerings delivered through the Secure Cloud Solution:

* At the end of November 2009, Unisys plans to support Microsoft stacks, including IIS Web Server, .NET Application Server and SQL Server, along with custom stacks such as IBM Websphere and Oracle, in Unisys Secure Platform as a Service (PaaS). This service makes it easier for clients to move their applications to the cloud without changes; and
* Unisys Secure Virtual Office as a Service (VOaaS), which provides access to standard office suites through hosted desktop services, will support qualified client-supplied devices, such as PCs used as thin clients. This addition enables IT organizations to give workers access to applications and support through the technologies they want to use so they can stay continually productive no matter where they are.

For further information on Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, click on the following link: http://unisys.com/unisys/theme/index.jsp?id=16000032&pid=1036300010000010000
About Unisys

Unisys is a worldwide information technology company. We provide a portfolio of IT services, software, and technology that solves critical problems for clients. We specialize in helping clients secure their operations, increase the efficiency and utilization of their data centers, enhance support to their end users and constituents, and modernize their enterprise applications. To provide these services and solutions, we bring together offerings and capabilities in outsourcing services, systems integration and consulting services, infrastructure services, maintenance services, and high-end server technology. With more than 26,000 employees, Unisys serves commercial organizations and government agencies throughout the world. For more information, visit www.unisys.com.

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'Our judges, which include stalwarts such as our resident expert Joe Huber and the staff of Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy, put dozens of entries through their paces. To come out with their seal of approval is a testament to the product,' said Kevin Hogan, Editorial Director for NewBay Media's Tech & Learning Group.

Tech & Learning's Excellence Award recognizes both the "best of the best" and creative new offerings that help educators in the business of teaching, training and managing with technology. All entries are given a rigorous test-driving by qualified educators in several rounds of judging. Products are also carefully screened by the T&L editorial team. Evaluation criteria include the following: quality and effectiveness, ease-of-use, creative use of technology, and suitability for use in an educational environment.

'We are honored to be recognized as one of the best education offerings by Tech & Learning, which has an impressive reputation and long-standing history within education,' said Shawn Eldridge, vice president of marketing and products, DeepNines. 'We feel this award continues to validate our innovative and comprehensive approach to security and furthers our desire to push the envelope and set new standards.'

Detailed descriptions and judges' comments will be showcased in the Tech & Learning December Awards Issue and will be featured online at www.techlearning.com.

For more information on DeepNines and its solutions, please visit: www.deepnines.com.
About Tech & Learning
For nearly 30 years, Tech & Learning has been -- and continues to be -- the leading resource for K-12 leaders. Its publications, websites and events provide factual and evaluative information on trends, products, and strategies to educators who purchase technology products in their districts and schools. Tech & Learning delivers the highest quality content and essential resources to manage, train, and teach technology. For more information, visit www.TechLearning.com.

About DeepNines
DeepNines Technologies is a leader in network security, providing real-time, identity-based network defense for content and applications. Since 1999, DeepNines has provided business, education, health care and government customers with innovative network security that is affordable and easy-to-use. By inventing and patenting unified threat management technology, DeepNines' products enable unparalleled protection and control of ports, protocols, users, applications and content at firewall speed. DeepNines' gateway products leverage the power to protect, control and manage inbound and outbound Internet traffic, empowering enterprises and institutions to secure their networks deep-into-the-nines. To learn more about DeepNines, please visit www.deepnines.com. DeepNines products are protected by one or more U.S. Patents Nos. 6,930978, 7,380,272, 7,058,976; Foreign Patent Nos. 95182 (W002/100039), 106027 (W02003/073724), 1282954; Patents Pending.

©2009 Deep Nines, Inc., all rights reserved. DeepNines Technologies, Security Edge Platform, Security Edge System, Sleuth9 Security System, Sleuth9, ForensiX Capture System, Holistic Management Console, and Zero Footprint Technology are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Deep Nines Inc. All other brands and products are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Allen, Texas, October 30, 2009 -- ApexCCTV Has launched a page on its website containing free CCTV and surveillance related press releases. These videos cover a broad range of topics related to the industry, and are intended to help ApexCCTV's customers and partners with various installation, sales, marketing, and product selection tasks.

ApexCCTV's video tutorials provide real value to anyone in the CCTV or Surveillance industry by covering in depth how to accomplish some of the more daunting tasks faced by their customers and business partners. These videos can be broken into several categories:

Product Specific Videos – These videos are specific to individual products in the CCTV industry, and include advanced topics on installation and configuration of these products. GeoVision and VivoTek products are covered in depth, for example, as are many others.

General Installation Videos – These videos cover topics that are regularly encountered on job sites. Selected topics include things like crimping connectors properly, selecting materials, penetrating building surfaces, camera and housing installation, making proper cable connections, determining video frame rates, proper selection and use of power supplies, as well as many others.

Networking Videos – These videos handle the trickier networking related topics facing more and more CCTV installers and business owners as the lines continue to blur between CCTV and information technology. These videos cover the networking gamut, including basic network configuration, dealing with router's, IP addressing, DHCP servers, avoiding conflicts with customers existing NAT settings, DNS and dynamic DNS configuration, and many other topics. These topics all address networking best practices and pitfalls to look out for.

ApexCCTV has also made a public commitment to continue producing these videos and making them available to the industry at no charge whatsoever. There is even a link on the videos page that allows individuals to request a video tutorial covering a topic of their choice, and many such videos have already been produced.
About ApexCCTV:

ApexCCTV is a distributor and installer of fine security camera systems, surveillance digital video recorder systems, general surveillance equipment, and all related accessories.

On the Web:
http://www.apexcctv.com

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Duluth, Georgia – NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) today opens its new ATM manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ga., rolling out its first NCR SelfServ™ ATMs and bringing innovative manufacturing back to North America. In less than five months after announcing plans to build a domestic manufacturing facility, NCR was able to open the 350,000 square-foot facility and begin production of ATM machines for its North American customers.

The company celebrated the opening at its Corporate Ridge Business Park plant with key officials and elected representatives from the City of Columbus and the State of Georgia, who participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony, a tour of the manufacturing plant and an opportunity to see the production of some of the first NCR ATM machines being built at the new site.

NCR has filed for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification—the Green Building Rating System that is the recognized standard for measuring building sustainability. The company has also reused and recycled materials throughout the building, from the initial demolition, such as cinder blocks and carpet.

'Our decision to bring our North American ATM manufacturing in-house was driven by our belief that as self-service ATM technology becomes more innovative and strategic to financial institutions, the ability to control manufacturing in key markets becomes a core and competitive advantage to our growth strategy,' said Peter Dorsman, senior vice president of Global Operations at NCR. 'By in-sourcing the production of our SelfServ ATMs, we will decrease time-to-market, improve our internal collaboration, and lower our current operating costs.'

Approximately 870 jobs will be created at a new Columbus, Ga., site over the next three years. With the help of the state and local government, NCR has already hired and trained nearly 120 employees through Georgia 's Quick Start Program – a customized workforce-training program for businesses across the state. Quick Start has been instrumental in supporting NCR to drive comprehensive employee training plans, create assessment programs and establish a mindset in each employee to strive for continuous improvement efforts.

'Georgia 's strategic strengths in advanced manufacturing will help drive the success of NCR's new facility in Columbus,' said Governor Sonny Perdue. 'We have an innovative edge here in Georgia that has enabled companies to thrive, and NCR is a perfect fit as it manufactures its next-generation ATMs and self-serve devices for the North American market.'

The City of Columbus offered a location with a talented workforce, close proximity to major transportation hubs such as Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and many of Georgia 's highly esteemed academic institutions. The new facility is also close to NCR's innovation center in Duluth, Ga., and the company's global customer service organization in Peachtree City, Ga.

In addition, NCR's campus-like ecosystem between its partners, suppliers and Georgia 's academic institutions will help drive and improve cross-functional collaboration, training and innovation -- ensuring that NCR's manufacturing process is cutting edge.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10, the industry's first open data loss prevention (DLP) platform, giving customers more options to find and fix data loss problems. As organizations strive to center their security strategies around information, DLP becomes essential.

To help customers better protect sensitive data , Symantec's open DLP platform will help organizations effectively leverage content-awareness across security deployments enterprise-wide and take actions that secure data and prevent its loss. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will allow companies to apply encryption and enterprise rights management (ERM) based on content and will integrate with additional Symantec solutions.

Apply Encryption and ERM Based on Content

* The new FlexResponse feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will help security teams apply policy-based protection to files containing confidential data, including encryption or ERM. Until now, integration of DLP with other IT solutions has required manual processes.
* By partnering with leading third-party providers, including GigaTrust, Liquid Machines, Oracle and PGP Corporation, Symantec will offer customers the broadest range of integrated remediation options.
* For example, a company that is restricting access to a merger agreement to a small group of people will easily be able to instruct their DLP policy to classify data and use Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (ADRMS) to apply ERM to copies of this content providing granular protection.

Extend Usage of DLP Intelligence

* New support for XML and Web Services will enable Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 to send rich DLP data to any application or reporting system, including enterprise security dashboards and compliance solutions, such as Symantec Control Compliance Suite.
* For example, an e-commerce site might begin by using DLP to identify servers with data that falls under PCI DSS regulations. By sending this information to Symantec's Control Compliance Suite, the DLP incident data can be used to prioritize these servers for more frequent auditing to provide additional scrutiny to places where valuable data is housed.
* New import/export capabilities will allow organizations to keep policies current with new regulations as well as collaborate and exchange policies to share best practices with other users.

Integrate with Additional Symantec Solutions

* New integration with Symantec Workflow will enable users of Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 to trigger policy-based actions such as automatic encryption and endpoint lock-down by Symantec Endpoint Encryption, Symantec Endpoint Protection, and other security solutions from Symantec as well as third-party providers.
* For example, if an employee is trying to download confidential information to a USB drive, Symantec Data Loss Prevention can trigger Symantec Endpoint Protection to disable USB usage through a simple workflow.
* Users of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email security solutions, such as MessageLabs Hosted Email Encryption (a Symantec Hosted Service), will be able to monitor, protect and securely deliver confidential information in outbound email without requiring on-site email gateway infrastructure.

Services, Language & Availability

* Symantec Data Loss Prevention Services enable customers to achieve measureable success from DLP deployments and gain the knowledge and experience needed to continually optimize the solution over time. By combining industry-leading advisory consulting services and data loss prevention technologies, Symantec provides customers with a detailed analysis of their exposure to internal and external data breaches, and a quantitative assessment of actual data loss across networks, web applications storage and endpoints.
* Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will have policy and detection support for 25 languages and will add full product localization for Japanese, Simplified Chinese and French languages so that native speakers can create policies, manage and respond to incidents, and perform full system management.
* Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 is expected to be available in December 2009.

Supporting Quotes

* 'Gaining flexibility in our enterprise security environment is immensely valuable,' said Fabio Recine, senior security engineer, Computershare. 'We will now be able to seamlessly use Symantec Data Loss Prevention with other security technologies of our choosing, which allows us to capitalize on investments already made and extend the usefulness of each security solution. It's a case of 1+1=3.'
* 'By opening our DLP platform, we give customers more choices and flexibility to better protect the sensitive information in their unique IT environments,' said Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec. 'We're a step closer to realizing the vision of true information-centric security by extending content-awareness into many layers of security.'

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will help companies better protect their data by applying encryption and enterprise rights management (ERM) to sensitive content. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10's new, open remediation platform will seamlessly integrate with leading solutions from GigaTrust, Liquid Machines, Oracle and PGP Corporation.

Growing threats and regulations are paving the way for increased adoption of these technologies by organizations looking to secure their data and simplify compliance. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will make it easier for companies to leverage encryption and ERM with content-aware accuracy to protect sensitive information.

By allowing organizations to take action on sensitive data they find with DLP, organizations gain flexibility in their options for safe handling of sensitive data. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will allow organizations to leverage existing investments in the PGP Encryption Platform, Oracle Information Rights Management and Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) to extend the protection of sensitive data.

'While some have viewed DLP and ERM as rival technologies, they are now viewed as complementary technologies and thus coming together,' said Jon Oltsik, principal analyst, Enterprise Security Group. 'The combination of DLP and ERM provides heightened visibility into data assets, data movement and user behavior which lowers the risk of data loss and eases compliance efforts.'

Supporting Quotes

* 'Having integrated into the Symantec Data Loss Prevention v10 product, GigaTrust continues to exclusively extend Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) for Windows Server 2008,' said Darryl Worsham, vice president of business development at GigaTrust. 'We are excited about this partnership because it facilitates companies to better protect sensitive information at rest, in transit, and in use across the infrastructure and share it in a secure manner - providing persistent information protection throughout its lifecycle.'
* 'Liquid Machines is enabling Symantec's customers to automatically protect sensitive data with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (ADRMS) and Liquid Machines,' said Ed Gaudet, senior vice president of corporate development and marketing for Liquid Machines, Inc. 'Our mutual customers demand layered security that persistently protects information across the lifecycle. The combination of Liquid Machines and Symantec DLP provide customers with a seamlessly integrated information protection solution that enables a number of enterprise and regulatory compliance scenarios while reducing operational costs.'
* 'Oracle is committed to protecting the confidential data of our customers,' said Ryan Carroll, vice president IRM development Oracle. 'Through our collaboration on Information Rights Management solutions with industry leaders such as Symantec, we are able to extend that protection, add more options and layers of security, and reduce the risk of data breaches for global enterprises operating complex computing environments.'
* 'Confidential customer data and intellectual property is just a keystroke away from falling in the wrong hands and every organization today is at risk; integrated data loss prevention solutions like those from Symantec and PGP Corporation can help,' said Tim Matthews, senior director of product marketing at PGP Corporation. 'Combining encryption solutions from PGP Corporation with Symantec DLP enables customers to find and protect their data whether it is at rest, in use or in motion.'

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - ProSecure™, the specialist network security brand by NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced the superior position of their products in the preliminary findings of an in-depth, independent industry assessment of spam filtering products conducted by Miercom. The ProSecure™ STM family of Web/Email Threat Management Appliances for medium-sized businesses proved in testing to stop over 50 percent more threats than competitive products tested. Testing focused on the ability of the solution to stop a variety of threats, including spam, email threats, URL filtering, and Miercom's Offensive Security Testing Suite. Preliminary testing is complete considering products from Cisco, NETGEAR and Barracuda Networks. Complete test findings for all products submitted for testing will publish on the Miercom website, http://www.miercom.com, in November 2009.

"This Spam Filtering Industry Assessment allows each vendor to submit best-of-breed products to compete in this independent test review. The test results provide customers with honest, objective and meaningful data by way of a competitive comparison matrix. We are impressed with the NETGEAR ProSecure product and its ability to thwart over 50 percent more threats than products tested to date. This superior security effectiveness score is a testament to the relative security the appliance provides compared to products from well established security vendors," said Robert Smithers, CEO of Miercom.

The preliminary findings by Miercom compared the ProSecure STM600 against the Cisco Spam & Virus Blocker, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall, and the Barracuda Web Filter, and reveal that:

* Miercom's Security Testing Suite, which measured Barracuda and ProSecure resistance against viruses, worms, trojans, vulnerability exploits and malware attacks over web protocols, showed ProSecure STM to outperform Barracuda in the assessment by a margin of at least 50 percent.
* Miercom's Email Threat Test, which measured Barracuda and ProSecure resistance against email threats, showed ProSecure STM successfully thwarted 99.4 percent of threats over email, including threats in the wild, outperforming Barracuda by a margin of 20 percent.
* Miercom's Anti-Spam Test, which measured Barracuda, Cisco, and ProSecure in resistance to spam, showed ProSecure to stop 99.8 percent of all spam, which was on par with both Cisco and Barracuda.

Detailed results of the Miercom testing are forthcoming in November 2009 and will be published on the Miercom website at http://www.miercom.com.

ProSecure customers fully appreciate the effectiveness with which STM appliances stop threats. "Implementing the ProSecure STM security appliance at the network's gateway has allowed us to establish a multi-layered IT security model. We found this to be an exceptionally easy security upgrade to implement," says John Pompay, CFO of Financial Services Volunteer Corps. "Since its deployment, the ProSecure STM Web/Email Threat Management Appliance has significantly reduced the number of malware and spyware infestations in our network. We are no longer spending hours every day troubleshooting malware-related issues on our systems. This has allowed Financial Services Volunteer Corps to focus on doing what it does best: building strong financial systems in emerging market countries, not mitigating IT security threats."

The STM300 and the STM600 are designed for networks hosting up to 300 and 600 users respectively. The STM appliance family is designed to sit in-line and filter all potential threats via email and the Web, as well as give administrators control over which sites can be visited. In addition to a wide range of security functions - including an enterprise-class anti-malware engine, zero-hour threat protection, the industry-leading anti-spam engine and an enterprise-class URL filter - the STM series now incorporates the following features:

Active Directory Integration – This feature enables network administrators to use active directory groups and users to create levels of URL filtering. In some cases, administrators may wish to deny access to particular websites for some employees, while enabling others to view them for specific purposes.

Email Quarantine – This feature enables administrators to store emails identified by the STM as spam on the appliance. Users may then retrieve these emails from the appliance when it is convenient to do so.

"Mid-sized businesses are an enormous opportunity for our channel partners and the STM solves a pressing need for their customers' networks," said Jason Leung, NETGEAR's senior product line manager for SMB Security. "The test results speak for themselves. ProSecure is serious about security. The fact that we can beat the established players at their own game shows that we bring performance, effectiveness, and value to the medium business space."

Pricing and Availability
With full 24/7 technical support that connects SMBs directly with experienced security experts, the ProSecure STM Series of Security Appliances are changing the face of business security. The STM300 and STM600 are available now through CDW and ProSecure authorized value added resellers with a street price starting at $2,599. More information on the STM product line can be found at http://prosecure.netgear.com.

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