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From Network Computing Vol 18 No 05- September/October 2009

IN A REGULAR LOOK AT RESULTS AND KEY BUSINESS ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SUPPLIERS INTO THE NETWORKING AND IT MARKET, NETWORK COMPUTING SUMMARISES THE EDITORS SELECTIONS.

NetApp, convinced with the storage efficiency of its products, has promised up to £1 million in storage hardware, software and services to a qualifying new customer to help reduce their storage usage by 50% in a virtualised environment. "We're confident that customers will use 50% less storage with NetApp, so we're willing to put our money where our mouth is," said Nick Thurlow of NetApp. To nominate visit www.netapp.com/uk/1million. Bournemouth University is empowering rural communities in Zambia by donating over 500 PCs to Computer Aid International. They are being used to build the largest rural mesh network in Africa. The donated, working PCs were professionally refurbished, extending their life by up to four years. Asset tracking means that Bournemouth University knows which projects it is assisting, including theLinknet Wi-Fi project in Zambia.

WatchGuard Technologies has announced that it is acquiring BorderWare Technologies. Both companies are privately held and terms of the acquisition are withheld. Joe Wang of WatchGuard said, "By acquiring BorderWare's best in class messaging, content security and innovative 'in-the-cloud' security offerings, customers now have a single source forcomprehensive and complete security."

Founded in 1999 by three students, Derdack - mobile messaging and notification solutions - is completing its tenth year. From its origins as a start-up selling desktop SMS products, company milestones include the licensing of SMS technology to Symantec in 1999, and the nomination for the German Innovation Award in 2004. Clients include BMW, Caterpillar, Daimler, Microsoft, Roche,Siemens, and Steria.

IronKey, maker of secure flash drives, says over 1,000 companies and government agencies have adopted IronKey secure and intelligent USB flash drives and manage them remotely using their cloud-based Internet security remote management online service. They claim this makes them one of the largest online security SaaS companies in the world. Following the announcement that NAC pioneer ConSentry has gone out of business, ForeScout Technologies is offering a buyback program to give ConSentry customers continued NAC access. ForeScout president, Gord Boyce says, "…ConSentry customers need a plan B. Our escape plan, for customers who bought into an expensive, switch-dependant NAC solution and have lived to regret it, is to give them a second chance to switch over to our powerful, easyto-deploy CounterACT NAC..."

Extreme Networks expects to report revenue between $79 million and $81 million for the quarter ended June 28 and a cash and investments balance as of approximately $127 million. In addition, Extreme has announced that it is broadening its reach into the data centre by working with Scale Computing, an emerging company specialising in enterprise-class scalable and clustered storage solutions, using commoditybased hardware, to drive down the costs of enterprise storage. NC

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