Norfolk Southern News Release:

May 30, 2013

Norfolk Southern to honor military veterans as they ‘Ride 2 Recovery’

NORFOLK, VA. ��� Norfolk Southern will honor more than 200 wounded military veterans Saturday, June 1, when they stop in Norfolk, Va., as part of their week-long “Ride 2 Recovery” memorial challenge.

Ride 2 Recovery is a rehabilitation program of the Fitness Challenge Foundation that features cycling as its core activity. Bikes are specially designed to suit individual needs. The 325-mile bicycle journey conditions veterans while helping them overcome the physical and mental challenges they face after returning from service.

Participants began their ride on Memorial Day in Arlington, Va., and will finish June 1 in Virginia Beach, Va., with stops along the way in Manassas, Fredericksburg, Richmond, Williamsburg, and Norfolk.

Norfolk Southern employees will host a rally at Harbor Park near the Amtrak Station to support and welcome the veterans.

The NS Cycling Team will ride with the veterans for a portion of their trip. NS Thoroughbred Volunteers will break from their participation in Clean the Bay Day to join the veterans as well.

James A. Squires, NS executive vice president administration and an Army veteran himself, will address the attendees and introduce guests, including a number of mayors from the Hampton Roads area.

The NS Veterans Locomotive will be staged at the event for a photo op, after which its horn will announce the veterans’ departure on their home stretch from Norfolk to Virginia Beach.

Mark Courrier, East Coast SEAL and special warfare combatant-craft crewmen scout, said NS’ participation is a dream come true. “When the 200 cyclists arrive at the station to see an SD60E dressed in all its glory with the red, white, and blue colors, it will be a true testament that Norfolk Southern is making a difference in the lives of our wounded warriors,” he said.

The Veterans Locomotive was specially painted to honor the contributions of those who have served in the military and reserves. Over the past six years, Norfolk Southern has hired some 1,300 veterans, and today 14 percent of the total NS workforce-more than 4,200 employees-are veterans and members of the National Guard and Reserves.

Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC) is one of the nation’s premier transportation companies. Its Norfolk Southern Railway Company subsidiary operates approximately 20,000 route miles in 22 states and the District of Columbia, serves every major container port in the eastern United States, and provides efficient connections to other rail carriers. Norfolk Southern operates the most extensive intermodal network in the East and is a major transporter of coal, automotive, and industrial products.

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Cisco and VMware Expand Their Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

VMware News Releases

Cisco and VMware Expand Their Strategic Partnership to Deliver Next Generation Cloud Infrastructures

Integrated solutions to offer unprecedented scale, security and automation across physical and virtual cloud infrastructures

SAN FRANCISCO – VMworld® – August 27, 2012 – Today Cisco and VMware announced they plan to expand their strategic partnership to include integrated products and solutions aimed at delivering the software defined datacenter. This partnership expansion will be highlighted by an investment in dedicated engineering teams collaborating on deeper integrations across the VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks and Cisco’s Data Center Networking and Fabric Computing platforms. The companies’ investment in joint dedicated engineering teams will represent a new level of collaboration which will enable the software defined datacenter through unprecedented coupling of virtual and physical infrastructure.
 
Highlights:

• Cisco and VMware will make significant joint engineering investments to develop technology integration initiatives, which will launch a new set of solutions designed to provide customers unprecedented levels of agile compute and network services, workload and workspace mobility,  end-to-end visibility, and ease of troubleshooting across their physical and virtual infrastructures.
• To support customer demand and choice, VMware will integrate the Cisco Nexus 1000V SeriesSwitches with the new VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1, also announced today, and other VMware products.
• Cisco and VMware will develop Cisco Unified Computing System(UCS)-based cloud solutions, which will bundle Cisco virtual networking, virtual services and management such as the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, CSR
• 1000V cloud router, ASA 1000V cloud firewall, virtual WAAS for WAN optimization, and Intelligent Automation for Cloud with VMware vSphere® 5.1, VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and complementary management offerings.
• Furthering the commitment to mutual customers, Cisco will resell VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, which will feature enhanced interoperability with Cisco Nexus 1000V.
• As part of the companies’ joint vision for the transformation of the workspace in the post-PC era, VMware and Cisco are expanding their joint solutions with Cisco VXI and VMware View to introduce new integrated solutions for SMB and ROBO customers featuring Cisco e-Series UCS servers and VMware View®. 
• Cisco and VMware will also provide Cisco Validated Designs and reference architectures to simplify and accelerate customer implementation of these joint solutions.
• Cisco and VMware joint solutions will be made available for VCE, as well as ecosystem partners,  to help drive customer adoption of its industry-leading converged infrastructure platforms. Cisco and VMware remain strongly committed, along with EMC, to the VCE partnership.

This expanded partnership will leverage Cisco’s history of innovative leadership in networking and systems with VMware’s industry leadership in software-based virtualization and cloud infrastructure.  To date, the partnership has delivered groundbreaking products and solutions including:

• Nexus 1000V – In 2009, VMware and Cisco delivered a distributed virtual switch from Cisco enabling network administrators to simplify network management between their physical and virtual environments. Since its inception, more than 6,000 customers have licensed this joint solution. \
• Cisco UCS – In 2009, Cisco introduced the Unified Computing System (UCS), a new x86 platform that radically simplified the management of compute, storage access, networking and virtualization and is tightly integrated with the VMware vSphere platform, enabling customers to reduce their CAPEX and OPEX as they expand their virtual and cloud infrastructures.
• Converged Infrastructure – Cisco and EMC, together with VMware and with investments from Intel, established the VCE coalition in 2009, spearheading the movement toward converged infrastructure. Customers globally have recognized the value of Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms in accelerating the migration of enterprise workloads to private and public clouds.   
• Cisco VXI and VMware View – In 2012, Cisco and VMware cooperated to deliver a unified collaboration solution leveraging VMware cloud infrastructure, VMware View and Cisco UCS, Cisco Wide Area Application Services and Unified Communications platforms to enable customers to migrate to a more open, mobile and immersive workspace environment in the post-PC era.

Supporting Quotes:

Rob Lloyd, Executive Vice President, Cisco
“Cisco and VMware have delivered incredible value to customers seeking to accelerate the deployment of private and public clouds. The next-generation datacenter will enable customers to capture the value of VMware cloud infrastructure and management stacks along with the next wave of Cisco innovations in hardware, ASICs, systems and network programmability to deliver unprecedented scalability, security, diagnostics and policy management. As the leader in networking, Cisco looks forward to continuing to lead the industry in partnership with VMware.”

Pat Gelsinger, Incoming Chief Executive Officer, VMware
“The software-defined datacenter will deliver the next leap in software-based datacenter automation across server, storage and networking, but it requires equal hardware and systems-based innovation. We are very excited to further our partnership with Cisco, the industry-leading innovator in networking, as we believe it will bring significant value to our joint customers through the integration of the VMware cloud infrastructure platform with Cisco’s intelligent network fabric.”

Related Links

• Learn more about the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches
• Learn more about Cisco Unified Computing System
• Learn more about the VMware vCloud Suite

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PRESS RELEASE

Serbian Postal Savings Bank Deploys Cisco Connected Physical Security Solutions

In Addition to Physical Security, Several of the Bank's Key Functions, Including Call Center, Data Center and Stock Trading System Run on Cisco Intelligent Network and Cisco Unified Computing System

Related Information

Serbian Postal Savings Bank headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia

Serbian Postal Bank deploys video surveillance from Cisco

BELGRADE, Serbia, March 19, 2012 – Cisco today announced that Serbia's biggest retail bank, Banka Postanska Stedionica (Serbian Postal Savings Bank), has implemented a Cisco® Connected Physical Security Solution at its headquarters in Belgrade and across a network of over 40 branches in Serbia.

With the Internet Protocol (IP) network, video streams from any branch can be monitored from a PC in the central office or any other branch on the network. In addition to physical security, the bank is using the Cisco Borderless Network Architecture and Cisco Unified Computing System^TM to integrate data and voice communication, customer relationship management and data center on a single, intelligent and highly secure network platform.

Key Facts, Highlights:

• With more than 2 million customers and 1,500 employees, Banka Postanska Stedionica is a state-owned financial services group that has successfully completed several acquisitions over the past years. This, however, has meant that physical security systems, including video surveillance, had little standardization and were based on a variety of traditional closed-circuit TV (CCTV) solutions from different vendors, with only a small proportion attached to networked video recorders. Monitoring and maintenance had to be done at a branch level, which was far from efficient and, with little automation, relied on people being able to recognize and respond to events. It also made it virtually impossible to support a coordinated incident response.

• The objective of the bank was to replace its legacy analog systems with an end-to-end, branchwide surveillance system, thus improving the protection of clients and employees, making operation more efficient, and reducing costs.

• Banka Postanska Stedionica is using its Cisco Borderless Network Architecture with Cisco Integrated Services Routers as the foundation for physical security. The network connects 400 cameras, most of them high-resolution digital Cisco IP video surveillance cameras placed both indoors and outdoors.
• Cisco Video Surveillance Media Servers are used at the bank's headquarters and all branches to collect and route video from the cameras and encoders over the IP network. They also offer video archive capabilities, event tagging and bandwidth management for both live distribution and historical recording. Both live and recorded video content is virtually available to all authorized security personnel. Also, certain alarm and sensor systems are integrated so that events that trigger alarms can be matched with the video content.

• Com-4T doo, a Cisco Premier Certified Partner in Serbia, designed and installed a video surveillance management platform, including servers, archiving, and monitoring software. Com-4T also provided training for users.

Supporting Quotes:

• Dragisa Lojanica, head of IT, Banka Postanska Stedionica

"The value of the solution became evident soon after it was switched on. In one of our branches, a cashier accidentally gave a customer an overpayment of 20,000 Serbian dinars (about $275) and the video recording helped identify where the transaction had been made and to efficiently rectify it. Cisco and Com-4T doo experts had an in-depth understanding of our need to create a modern and efficient security surveillance infrastructure, while reducing our total costs by reusing equipment where appropriate. We now have a sound and flexible foundation for the future. As a next step, we are considering the integration of access control based on the network foundation."

• Geetha Dabir, vice president, Physical Security Business Unit, Cisco

"The need to protect critical assets is driving the demand for a more efficient use of physical security technologies powered by next-generation services. With the deployment of Cisco connected physical security solutions including Cisco Video Surveillance Media Servers, Banka Postanska Stedionica is helping to ensure that its customers and employees are protected, while streamlining operations, improving business efficiency and cutting costs."

Tags, Keywords: Cisco, Banka Postanska Stedionica, physical security, video surveillance, borderless network

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Supporting resources:

• To learn more, visit Cisco Physical Security: www.cisco.com/go/physec
• Cisco Video Surveillance Media Server
• Cisco Safety and Security Solutions
• Medianet-enabled IP Video Surveillance
• Cisco IP Interoperability & Collaboration System (IPICS)
• Cisco Video Surveillance Manager Suite

Video:

• Serbian Postal Bank deploys video surveillance from Cisco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_uiABWrcdo

News Release from EMC

EMC ProSphere Transforms Storage Management Across Physical and VMware Virtualized Environments

ProSphere Enables Customers to Visualize, Analyze and Optimize Storage in Just 2-Clicks

HOPKINTON, Mass. - March 13, 2012

News Summary:

• Today EMC announced enhancements to EMC® ProSphere™ storage resource management software. Now—in just 2-clicks—EMC ProSphere enables IT organizations to understand capacity usage and trends, identify issues and assess impact, and analyze performance across physical and VMware virtualized environments.
• EMC ProSphere now supports EMC FAST VP™ (Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools), enabling customers to improve storage utilization through intuitive capacity dashboards and reporting, while proactively monitoring capacity consumption and service levels.
• EMC ProSphere has extended its monitoring and alerting capabilities, which now aggregates alerts from EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VMAXe and EMC VNX unified storage arrays, and displays the context required to quickly assess the impact tomeet storage service levels.
• EMC ProSphere enables administrators to visualize, analyze and optimize the storage environment to easily transform storage management and ensure consistent, timely, and cost-effective access to information.

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced enhancements to EMC ProSphere storage resource management software, enabling customers to understand how capacity is being used, track consumption trends to know when more storage will be required, and receive automated alerts across the storage environment to identify issues and quickly assess their impact—in just 2 clicks. The new capacity dashboards and reporting capabilities also feature new integration with EMC FAST VP. As enterprises remain focused on controling the cost of rapid data growth, technologies like EMC ProSphere and EMC FAST VP help increase utilization, reduce storage costs, improve performance levels, and create a more agile IT environment.

ProSphere enables IT Transformation in both physical and virtual worlds, allowing customers to manage IT-as-aService by monitoring and analyzing service levels from end-to-end. ProSphere enables customers to:

• Visualize relationhips and application dependencies across physical and virtual environment: ProSphere enables users to understand the complex relationships and dependencies between applications and storage services. This includes the ability to quickly spot performance, availability and configuration issues to identify situations that could impact service levels. ProSphere's federated architecture consolidates the view to a single pane of glass across data center sites.
• Analyze storage services to improve services levels: ProSphere helps customers quickly analyze and troubleshoot performance issues from the virtual guest down through the storage layers. It automatically tracks changes and analyzes compliance with configuration best practices and interoperability guidelines to ensure the environment is always configured to meet service level expectations. It also enables users to analyze alerts to quickly assess impact and take action.
• Optimize the storage infrastructure: ProSphere provides customers with the tools to optimize their storage infrastructure to better control storage costs. It tracks where and how capacity is consumed by service level, location and array. It helps administrators find available and reclaimable capacity to increase utilization. Trending analysis improves planning processes to ensure the right tier of capacity, at the right time, in the right location to meet business objectives. Tight integration with FAST VP allows customers to expand their use of this technology to further optimize their investments in EMC storage.

New Integration with FAST VP

EMC FAST VP allows IT to take a policy-based approach toward delivering IT as a service. With data growing rapidly, FAST VP is being adopted (see related news release) by EMC customers because of its ability to improve performance and efficiency. New integration between ProSphere and FAST VP automatically tracks the consumption of virtual pools to identify when new capacity will be required. This facilitates just-in-time purchasing to lower storage acquisition costs. It also displays performance trends from the virtual or physical host to virtual storage devices to identify the impact of FAST VP at the application level enabling organizations to make more effective storage tiering decisions. This significantly enhances IT's ability to lower costs while meeting and or exceeding service level objectives.

ProSphere's federated and scalable architecture—with the ability to manage more than 1.1 million volumes, 36,000 SAN ports, and 18,000 hosts—is designed to scale to meet the needs of small enterprises to the world's largest data centers. ProSphere's intuitive user interface is optimized to improve productivity in growing environments that are rapidly adopting virtualization. Extensive end-to-end visualization in physical and virtual environments helps storage teams understand application to storage dependencies across their data center.

Customer Quotes

Sarel Theron, Storage Administrator, Internet Solutions

"ProSphere's user interface is clean, simple to navigate and relevant. You experience this at first logon with a dashboard that presents you with a Storage Administrator's most important information at his finger tips."

George Nye, Storage & Data Protection Services Engineer III, Hospital of Saint Raphael

"The capacity views are extensive, they let me know exactly what I have, how it's used, and with the trending analysis clearly shows when I need to make the next storage purchase."

Partner Quote

Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Alliances, VMware

"ProSphere's integration with VMware vSphere® provides storage administrators with a holistic view of their storage infrastructure. Being able to quickly understand application dependencies, resource utilization and service levels—and take action in just a few clicks—is important. ProSphere in a VMware environment will enable customers to control the cost of storage while improving storage levels."

Industry Analyst Quote

Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

"As enterprise customers' virtual environments flourish, they need an SRM solution—like EMC ProSphere--that assures storage service levels across the virtual infrastructure, controls the cost of capacity growth, and optimizes storage services to align with business objectives."

EMC Executive Quote

Jay Mastaj, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMC Infrastructure Management Group

"Our customers' biggest challenge today is controling the costs of rapid data growth, while ensuring consistent service levels in both physical and virtual environments. EMC is committed to helping customers transform their IT infrastructures, and a huge piece of this is managing growth while reducing complexity. The new capacity dashboards and reporting in ProSphere will enhance customers' ability to control the costs of rapid data growth. Integration with VMware and FAST VP will help organizations get the most of their investments in EMC storage as they expand their use of virtualization. And, the new monitoring capabilities will allow organizations understand the health and performance of their storage infrastructure."

Additional Resources:

• Read the ProSphere data sheet
• Hear the EMC video
• Read the Enterprise Strategy Group paper
• Read the Managed View blog
• Watch the Enterprise Strategy Group video