CA Technologies Named the Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software Market Share Leader by Market Research Firm

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CA Technologies Named the Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software Market Share Leader by Market Research Firm

ISLANDIA, N.Y.,  September 18, 2012 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced it has been named the market share leader in the worldwide cloud systems management software market by IDC, a leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC.

According to the Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2011 Vendor Shares: Market Moves Beyond Self Service* market analysis report, CA Technologies owns 18.2 percent of the market (based on 2011 estimated revenues), taking the lead in this growing segment. IDC estimates that the cloud systems management software market has grown 84.4 percent over 2010 total estimated revenues, with CA Technologies growing 128.3 percent.

“CA Technologies has solid cloud go-to-market programs reaching both enterprise and service provider customers, and continues to invest aggressively in its cloud management portfolio via acquisitions, partnerships, and organic development,” commented Mary Johnston Turner, research vice president, Enterprise System Management Software at IDC.

IDC’s definition of the cloud systems management software market reflects portions of revenue reported in the following functional areas: workload scheduling and automation, change and configuration management, performance management, event management and problem management. Systems management software capabilities delivered via the SaaS model are only included if they are used to enable cloud management environments.**

CA Technologies market share includes revenues from CA AppLogic® software, Nimsoft, CA Business Service Insight, CA Automation Suite for Clouds and multiple IT automation solutions implemented in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.

“Our cloud management solutions span public, private and hybrid cloud environments, helping our customers accelerate the pace of their innovation by enabling them to meet demands for new services faster and more cost effectively,” said Adam Famularo, senior vice president, Cloud Solutions and Service Providers, CA Technologies. “We are proud to be recognized as the market share leader in this rapidly growing and evolving segment. This third-party validation confirms that we are serious about helping our customers move beyond simply maintaining IT, to delivering business innovation and value by leveraging the full potential of the cloud.”

*IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2011 Vendor Shares: Market Moves Beyond Self-Service, Doc #236556 August 2012.

** For a full description of cloud systems management software included and excluded in this report please refer to IDC, Worldwide Cloud Systems Management Software 2011 Vendor Shares: Market Moves Beyond Self-Service, Doc #236556 August 2012.

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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IBM and Ameriprise Financial Sign Strategic Agreement, Deepen Business Relationship

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ARMONK, N.Y. - 18 Sep 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today a multi-year agreement with Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP) in which IBM will continue to support the company’s technology infrastructure with a clear focus on maintaining strong reliability and incorporating innovative new technologies.

Ameriprise Financial is a leading diversified financial services firm with $655 billion in assets under management and administration and top 10 positions of each of its core businesses of advisory, asset management, annuities and protection.

Delivered through IBM SmartCloud, IBM hosts Ameriprise PeopleSoft applications, managing both the application and infrastructure tiers for its human resource, financial management, supply chain, and customer relationship management functions. As a separate part of the agreement, IBM will ensure that the Ameriprise technology infrastructure keeps pace with evolving industry standards.

“We are focused on helping our clients achieve their goals while also providing our advisors with the tools and support to grow their practices," said Randy Kupper, chief information officer of Ameriprise Financial. “To that end, we have extended our relationship with IBM due to the world-class service experience and detailed knowledge they bring to our growing IT and business needs. We will work together to ensure all our constituents – clients, advisors, employees and shareholders – realize the full benefits of IBM’s broad product and service suite.”

“The new agreement further demonstrates IBM’s commitment to deliver high value services to Ameriprise and its clients and advisors to meet current and future business needs,” said Robert Zapfel, general manager, IBM Global Technology Services, North America. “We are partnering with Amerprise in our mutual focus on business outcomes by delivering industry-leading products and services including the IBM Cloud.”

IBM has been working with Ameriprise since 2006, and helped the company integrate its various IT systems supporting a broad portfolio of financial products. The new agreement builds on an existing relationship and includes significant enhancements to each of the core parts of the company’s technology infrastructure, including midrange, mainframe, storage and network.

Today's announcement with Ameriprise Financial is another example of how IBM teams with its clients to help them capitalize on new opportunities. By tightly weaving together business insights, and industry-leading software portfolio, world-class technology research and operations expertise, IBM is redefining what it means to design, deploy and deliver IT services on a global scale. As a result, IBM clients achieve faster return on investment while freeing up resources to focus on innovative projects.

About IBM
For more information about IBM, please visit: www.ibm.com

About Ameriprise Financial
For more information about Ameriprise Financial, or to find an Ameriprise financial advisor, visitameriprise.com.

GE Healthcare IT Showcases its Latest Innovations at HIMSS Singapore

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18 September 2012

GE Healthcare IT Showcases its Latest Innovations at HIMSS Singapore

• Integrated Products Give Comprehensive End to End Radiology Workflow Solution
• Accessibility is Key Theme of Innovations, with Access at the Touch of a Button
• Broad Portfolio Features Radiology, Cardiology, Perinatal, High Acuity Care and Service

SINGAPORE – 17 Sep 2012 – GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company, will be exhibiting regional firsts among its latest range of IT solutions at this year’s HIMSS AsiaPac12 Conference and Exhibition, from 17-19 September at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, on stand #527. Additionally, a full slate of Company experts will be featured as part of the AsiaPac12 conference speaker series.

At the expo, GE Healthcare IT will demonstrate how its broad portfolio is helping to fulfill the needs of its customers, in particular supporting the aim of providing patients with access to high quality healthcare in a cost effective and efficient way.

“The face of healthcare is changing and we are entering a time of ‘collaborative care’ which is a patient-driven, outcomes-driven method of delivering healthcare,” said Mitchell Silong, General Manager, GE Healthcare IT, Asia Pacific. “IT helps make this possible by linking together information from across the healthcare delivery system (inpatient, ambulatory, and home-based) to generate new insights that contribute to improved patient outcomes.”

A key theme running through GE Healthcare IT’s latest innovations is accessibility. Clinicians want to access all types of patient data at the touch of a button from anywhere at any time. In particular, they want to improve work flow and be able to share information and collaborate with other specialists to make clinical decisions more quickly.

“Our IT solutions connect data from across departments, the hospital enterprise and the region to provide a comprehensive view of the patient, and have been developed to give clinicians access to the right, quality information precisely when they need it,” continued Mr. Silong. “This is particularly significant in ASEAN where we are addressing the need for care in remote areas through tele-radiology. We believe moving data, rather than moving the patent is the most efficient way to allow access to the best care available, specifically for rural areas.”

Highlights of the company’s broad portfolio of technologies on display on the GE Healthcare IT stand include:

Radiology
• The GE Centricity* Radiology Information System (RIS), offering the latest generation of community-wide radiology workflow sharing capabilities
• A Web based PACS viewer for global reading across enterprises which is deeply integrated with RIS through a single user interface
• A four-level Vendor Neutral Archive which allows patient records from across different hospitals, to be consolidated and stored using industry standards
• A Clinical Patient Information Viewer which provides access and viewing of patient histories to multi-disciplinary teams throughout the patient’s health community
• Centricity Radiology Mobile Access (CRMA) allows clinicians and radiologists to quickly find images and reports through the AccessNow app, on their mobile device - iPhone, iPod, Touch, android Touch.

High Acuity Care
• The Centricity Perioperative software is highly adaptable management software to streamline workflow and help enhance patient care before, during and after surgery

Cardiology
• Launching for the first time in Asia, Centricity Cardiology Enterprise is a tightly interfaced cardiovascular IT solution that includes both CVIS (Cardiovascular Information System) and CVPACS (Cardiovascular Picture Archiving and Communications System) functionality, providing clinicians full access to a single comprehensive, web-based patient record.

Centricity Perinatal
• A clinical information system that integrates documentation and fetal surveillance to help clinicians deliver the best care to every mother and baby. From labor & delivery to the nursery or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), the centricity perinatal software interfaces with multiple devices and systems to optimize ease of use and workflows.

GE Healthcare IT CMIO Mark Dente will participate in a panel discussion and presentation in the HIT X.O track. Dr. Dente’s presentation focuses on the shift in healthcare technologies and how the influx of Healthcare IT is impacting each person in a definite way. He’ll deliver his presentation on 18 September from 1400hr – 1430hr and twice on 19 September, from 1015 – 1045 and 1435 – 1520.

GE Healthcare IT Senior Engineer Chris Lindop is scheduled to present in the Interoperability Theater on Next Generation PACS and how it’s impacted by new and emerging global standards. Mr. Lindop is presenting twice on 18 September, 1130 – 1200 and 1630 – 1700, and again on 19 September from 1315-1345.

“In partnership with our Asia Pacific customers, GE Healthcare IT is constantly working to introduce workflow and connectivity solutions to meet their evolving requirements,” said Mr. Silong. “The range of solutions on display at HIMSS AsiaPac12 illustrates the breadth and depth of what we have to offer to help clinicians deliver better quality care for more patients at a lower cost.”

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*Registered trademark of General Electric Company

NOTES TO EDITORS

About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our broad expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies, performance improvement and performance solutions services help our customers to deliver better care to more people around the world at a lower cost. In addition, we partner with healthcare leaders, striving to leverage the global policy change necessary to implement a successful shift to sustainable healthcare systems.

Our “healthymagination” vision for the future invites the world to join us on our journey as we continuously develop innovations focused on reducing costs, increasing access and improving quality around the world. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employees are committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com

For our latest news, please visit http://newsroom.gehealthcare.com

CA Technologies Supports Windows Server 2012 with Data Classification

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CA Technologies Supports Windows Server 2012 with Data Classification

Company Extends Content Aware Identity and Access Management Helping Deliver More Precise Access Control for Windows Server

ISLANDIA, NY, September 4, 2012 – CA Technologies (CA: NASDAQ) today announced support for Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control. Integrating CA DataMinder™ Classification with Windows Server 2012 gives customers more precise access control of their data stored on Windows Server, helping to improve information security, reduce risk and meet compliance mandates.

Documents stored on a server that were once classified as non-sensitive can quickly change to contain sensitive or classified information throughout day-to-day operations. CA DataMinder Classification scans, locates and classifies sensitive content stored within Windows Server 2012, including intellectual property, financial information and personally identifiable information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers and other employee relevant data. When used with Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control, CA DataMinder Classification helps to deliver precise and fine-grained access control that enables business processes to continue while protecting the most critical information assets.

“Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control lets customers define central access policies at the organizational level and lets customers control access to data and achieve regulatory compliance,” said Andrew Conway, Director, Product Marketing, Enterprise Client, at Microsoft. “CA DataMinder Classification addresses the dynamic nature of data. By combining the content classification from CA DataMinder with the access policies set in Windows Server 2012, customers can better protect critical information from inappropriate use or disclosure.”

This integration extends CA Technologies Content-Aware Identity and Access Management (IAM) product strategy, which helps protect critical data from inappropriate use or disclosure by controlling users, their access and how they handle information. CA Technologies first delivered capability for Content-Aware IAM by associating content and data policies with identities and roles managed by CA IdentityMinder™ (formerly CA Identity Manager). It continued its Content-Aware direction earlier this year with a security solution for Microsoft SharePoint that enabled CA SiteMinder® to use content classification information for more precise Web access control.

“A core focus for a security professional is to ensure the right people have the right access to the right information. But information changes more quickly than access rights, which can leave organizations vulnerable to sensitive data leaks,” said Mike Denning, general manager, Security, CA Technologies. “Organizations need a layered security approach where information about the data is used as input for access policies to more precisely determine whether a user should be granted access to information.”

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

Cisco to Help Deliver the Most Connected Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Ever

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Cisco to Help Deliver the Most Connected Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Ever

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TORONTO, August 29, 2012 – The Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee (TO2015) today announced a comprehensive partnership agreement with Cisco that will help make the TORONTO 2015 Games the most connected Pan Am/Parapan Am Games ever.

As a Premier Partner, Cisco is the exclusive official information and communications technology provider delivering voice, video and data technologies, including collaboration and HD video conferencing solutions such as Cisco TelePresence®.  Cisco will be involved in all stages of the Games, supporting their planning, delivery and legacy aspects related to productivity, efficiency, collaboration, technology and innovation. Cisco will also customize the design of fan engagement solutions to deliver an unprecedented experience.

"The addition of Cisco significantly strengthens our sponsorship portfolio," said Ian Troop, TO2015 Chief Executive Officer. "Cisco's innovative technology and wealth of global sport and entertainment experience—most recently at the Olympic Games in London—will play an  integral key role in helping us connect venues in communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe during the Games, and help to bring the ‘People's Games' directly to the people."

A market leader, Cisco's superior network connectivity and borderless approach will connect venues, communities and people across the Games footprint and beyond. Cisco will build an end-to-end network infrastructure for the Games including wireless, network security, collaboration, video, TelePresence, unified compute and cloud services, and will offer customized Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi and StadiumVision™ solutions to fully engage fans in experiencing the Games. In addition, Cisco's video and collaboration technologies will enable TO2015 to quickly and easily engage with sponsors, partners, suppliers and volunteers.

"At Cisco we see the opportunity to partner with the TORONTO 2015 Games as twofold," said Nitin Kawale, President, Cisco Canada. "First, to use network technologies to create the most connected, most fan-friendly Pan Am Games ever. Secondly, beyond supporting the sporting event itself, it's about building a future and investing in the community by leaving a technology legacy that will serve the region long after the Games are over. Cisco will bring our Smart+Connected Communities suite of solutions and expertise on board to deliver the ultimate TORONTO 2015 experience and leave a long-lasting legacy for Ontario. We are looking forward to being part of the Pan Am excitement, before, during and after the Games."

Cisco's broad portfolio of products and services, particularly its Smart+Connected Communities business architecture solutions, will play a vital role in the development of the Games. Cisco and TO2015 will endeavour to leave a technology legacy which will continue to serve educational institutions and communities, and promote innovation, productivity and economic sustainability long after the Games. To further the technology legacy vision, Cisco will create a partner ecosystem to support the technology planning and deployment for the Games, providing increased opportunities for solutions providers, system integrators and application developers.

"Cisco is delighted to team with TO2015," said Blair Christie, Senior Vice-President, Government Affairs and Chief Marketing Officer for Cisco. "With Cisco's experience as the networking supplier of choice for many of the world's premier sports and entertainment venues, we look forward to helping TO2015 deliver the best connected fan experience to date. Together we will reimagine the fan experience, bringing fans and the Games together, across an intelligent network, from next door or half a world away."

"The Harper Government is pleased to recognize Cisco's support for the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games," said Ted Opitz, Member of Parliament (Etobicoke Centre). "As the single largest contributor to sport in Canada, our Government continues to encourage the private sector to step up in support of the Canadian sport system. By becoming a Premier Partner, Cisco has set a positive example of corporate Canada's belief in these Games."

"The McGuinty government is proud of Cisco's involvement in the Pan and Parapan American Games," said Charles Sousa, Minister responsible for the Pan/Parapan Am Games.  "Cisco will connect us to the "People's Games" and help make them affordable and accessible for all Ontarians."

"Our government has a strong partnership with Cisco which is helping us build a strong Ontario and make the province an innovation leader," said Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development and Innovation. "Cisco's technology expertise will be critical to the success of the 2015 Pan and Parapan American Games."

About the TORONTO 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games

The Pan American Games are one of the world's largest international multi-sport events, held every four years for athletes of the 41 member nations of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO). The Games comprise all Olympic Summer Games sports, as well as traditional Pan American sports. The TORONTO 2015 Pan American/Parapan American Games will draw 10,000 athletes and officials and feature 48 sports in municipalities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe area. The TORONTO 2015 Pan American Games will take place July 10–26 and the Parapan American Games August 7–14. For more information about the Games, please visit toronto2015.org.

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. For ongoing news, visit http://newsroom.cisco.com and http://newsroom.cisco.com/canada.

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New Survey: Likely U.S. Voters Strongly Back Open Video Calling, Want Technologies to Work Together for Job Creation, Social Benefits and Key Services

77 Percent of Likely Voters Believe Video Calling Should be as Easy as Making a Phone Call

Washington, D.C.  –  August 28, 2012 – Nearly four in five likely U.S. voters believe it is important for technologies such as video calling to work together to help create jobs, promote innovation and deliver critical benefits in remote health care, education, business and other services, according to a newly-released survey. In fact, at least two-thirds of Democrats and Republicans alike believe that more jobs will result from open video calling – for instance, dialing a certain number to reach someone on any video system – than if consumers and businesses are forced to  rely on closed systems that can only talk to one another.

In a survey of more than 1,000 likely U.S. voters conducted on behalf of Cisco by Purple Insights, a division of Purple Strategies, 89 percent felt that the ability of two devices or programs made by different companies to communicate with one another – known as interoperability -- was personally important to them, with almost half indicating such communication is extremely important to their use of devices at home or at work. Of respondents, 77 percent want video calling to be as easy as making a phone call is today.

The use of video by consumers, government and business is growing at a staggering rate.  According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, in just three years, one million video minutes (the equivalent of 674 days) will traverse the Internet every second.  Use of video calling services is also increasing.  For instance, on February 27th of this year,Skype reported that 34 million people were using the service at one time. 

As video collaboration becomes increasingly mainstream, multiple vendors will have to work together to enable global scale and broad customer choice like consumers have today with phone, Internet and email. Currently, not all video calling technologies work together.  Cisco's TelePresence® and many other video communications products connect using the same standards-based "language." Unfortunately, one of the most popular consumer video calling services, Microsoft's Skype, relies on proprietary standards, which hinders Skype's more than 600 million users from calling non-Skype users, and prevents businesses from reaching them via systems that offer services such as health care and job training by remote video. 

Cisco is a strong advocate of video communications using underlying technologies based on open standards agreed upon by credible standards bodies open to all interested industry participants, a framework that has been used successfully to create the standards that underlie the Internet, email and voice calling. With this approach, anyone who adopts an open standard is assured of basic interoperability that is not controlled by any single commercial vendor. 

Key Highlights of Survey

• 87 percent of respondents want companies to agree to a common standard for video calling so that programs will work together
• 77 percent believe that video calling should be as easy as making a phone call
• Two-thirds, regardless of party affiliation,believe more jobs and innovation will be created with open and interoperable video
• 83 percent (67 percent strongly) want Skype to be interoperable with other video technologies
• 63 percent agree that innovation is how companies grow, how new companies start and how prices are kept down. If one company, such as Skype, controls a majority of the video calling market and does not make its product interoperable, respondents believe that will cut off innovation, slowing the growth of technology jobs and increasing prices.
• Purple Insights, a division of Purple Strategies, conducted 1008 telephone interviews nationwide of likely voters in the 2012 general election for president from August 8 – 15, 2012.  755 interviews were conducted with respondents via landlines; 253 interviews were conducted with respondents on their cell phones. Margin of error for this study is +/- 3.1%

Supporting Quotes

Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President, Cisco Video & Collaboration Group

"Video is the most engaging medium and its use in every aspect of our lives is growing exponentially. Consumers and business users alike today are demanding that video communications solutions work together and that making a video call be as seamless and easy as making a phone call.  This is about freedom of choice, and we the technology industry must rally around open standards, as we did so effectively with telephone service, the Internet and email. Only with a truly open video community will we fully reap the economic and social benefits of this transformational technology."

Purple Strategies partners, Alex Castellanos and Steve McMahon, jointly noted:

"As a Republican and as a Democrat, we each believe – and it is clear from Purple's data – that all ends of the political spectrum want to be able to communicate as freely as possible. Whether they use video at home or at work, they understand that's where the world is headed and they don't want to be scheduled for a video-to-video job interview and have everything go wrong. We think it's clear to people that video communication is or will soon be a ‘must have,' not a ‘nice to have'. "

Supporting Resources:  

• Watch a video on why interoperability is important
• Share your support for an open video community
• Learn more about Cisco's vision for open standards in video
• Read a blog on standards-based interoperability
• View an infographic on business leaders' thoughts on in-person / video meetings

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Cisco, video, video calling, interoperability, industry standards, TelePresence, Skype

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About Cisco

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

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Alstom and Cisco to Develop Secure Digital Substation Automation Solution

CIGRE 2012, Paris, France – August 28, 2012 – Alstom Grid and Cisco today announced the signing of a commercial and technology agreement to develop the next generation of digital substation solutions for electrical grids. This collaboration utilizes Alstom's smart grid expertise in digital substation solutions with Cisco's leadership in connected grid solutions and Internet Protocol (IP) communication technologies; together providing a solution that further supports the industry's grid modernization efforts. 

The solution, which integrates Cisco's ruggedized substation-grade Connected Grid™ routers and switches with communications and cyber-security functions along with Alstom's cutting edge DS Agile™ control system for substation automation, will create a new level of IP-based communication performance for integrated cyber security, distributed monitoring and controls.  This will provide key energy and information transfer hubs within modern grid architectures.

The benefits for electric utilities and substation operators include:

1. Enhanced security in smart grid-enabled digital substations: The Alstom-Cisco solution can enable utility operators to provide comprehensive protection to address security policies, manage user access to critical resources, and the ability to detect and mitigate possible cyber attacks across the entire grid infrastructure. The digital substation architecture incorporates comprehensive security controls based on NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) recommendations.

2. Enhanced operational efficiency through optimized automation architecture: This layered architectural approach can provide optimal deployment for substation automation and the design phase of technology implementation. It also allows easy design and integration of communication infrastructure with the critical protection and control, asset monitoring and grid management equipment. The intelligence within the validated digital substation schemes can allow close monitoring of the load capacity of plant equipment and permits operation of grid equipment closer to their limits. Additionally, the substation network supports existing and new communication standards such as IEC 61850, as well as the prioritization of control data traffic over non-operations data traffic.

3. Reduced operations and maintenance costs: The digital substation solution, based on Cisco's multi-service network and Alstom's next generation IEDs, will provide utilities the flexibility to deploy multiple applications over a common network infrastructure. The solution uses a layered architecture approach, enabling it to support both wired and wireless communications over the same converged network. The solution allows asset managers to implement preventive maintenance programs resulting in longer asset life and lower maintenance costs.   The solution also provides intelligent systems for substation operators to monitor and control all substation assets for optimizing operations costs.

Patrick Plas, Senior Vice-President Grid Power and Automation, Alstom Grid said, "this collaboration between Alstom and Cisco brings our digital substation offering to yet another level of performance and reliability for our customers. We very much look forward to implementing its next steps and move towards the commercial roll-out of the solutions."

"Cisco has always recognized the need to develop sustainable agreements in the effort to achieve a smarter grid. Cisco's collaboration with Alstom makes available two sets of complementary technologies that will help our customers to secure their operations, achieve cost savings and extract greater value from existing technology infrastructure. We look forward to our continued collaboration with Alstom in developing the most effective substation solutions for the industry," declared Lionel Chocron, Vice-President and General Manager, Connected Energy Networks, Cisco.

About Alstom

Alstom is a global leader in the world of power generation, power transmission and rail infrastructure and sets the benchmark for innovative and environmentally friendly technologies. Alstom builds the fastest train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 92,000 people in around 100 countries. It had sales of €20 billion and booked close to €22 billion in orders in 2011/12.

Alstom Grid has over 100 years of expertise in electrical grids. Whether for utilities or electro-intensive industries or facilitating the trading of energy, Alstom Grid brings power to its customers' projects. Alstom Grid ranks among the top 3 in electrical transmission sector with an annual sales turnover of more than €4 billion. It has 20,000 employees and over 90 manufacturing and engineering sites worldwide. At the heart of the development of Smart Grid, Alstom Grid offers products, services and integrated energy management solutions across the full energy value chain—from power generation, through transmission and distribution grids and to the large end user.

Websites www.alstom.com, www.alstom.com/grid

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking, is helping the energy industry modernize the electrical grid from generation to distribution to consumption - with highly secure, reliable and scalable communications solutions. The Cisco Connected Grid solutions include: Transmission and Substation, Field Area Network, Grid Security, Data Center and Grid Operations. To learn more, please visit www.cisco.com/go/utilities.

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BroadCloud Delivers Flexible and Scalable Disaster Recovery Services Built on CA ARCserve

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BroadCloud Delivers Flexible and Scalable Disaster Recovery Services Built on CA ARCserve

CA Technologies Solution Helps Managed IT Infrastructure Provider Meet SLAs, Maximize Efficiency and Reduce Costs

ISLANDIA, N.Y., August 27, 2102 – CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA)  today announced that BroadCloud, a leading managed IT infrastructure provider, is using CA ARCserve® to provide comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) services to help customers ensure that data is secure and highly available.

BroadCloud provides managed hosting, managed services, co-location and high-value data management solutions that help customers address four key challenges: data resilience, business and technology alignment, transformation risks and compliance.

BroadCloud’s business is increasingly focused on public, hybrid and private cloud services, which are delivered from more than 60 data centers worldwide. The company provides specially designed private cloud services from high-security facilities that help customers comply with HIPAA, SOX, FISMAN and data protection regulations.

By building its disaster recovery services on CA ARCserve, BroadCloud has been able to:

• Meet service level agreements, which are critical to its reputation and customer satisfaction;
• Maximize efficiency, which enables the company to manage disaster recovery processes for hundreds of customers with just 40 engineers; and
• Meet customer needs around costs and compliance.

BroadCloud was using a range of tools from a number of suppliers to support its recovery management services, due to the diversity of the systems being protected and customer preferences. This time-consuming approach added to the company’s service management burden.

“With CA ARCserve, our disaster recovery processes are now fully automated and require minimal manual intervention,” said Brent Eubanks, executive vice president of Strategic Services at BroadCloud. “We can provision new customers with the level of recovery management they need very quickly. The ability to provide cost-effective and compliant recovery management services enhances our competitive advantage and helps us retain and attract customers from a range of industries.”

BroadCloud is using CA ARCserve to underpin its multi-tier recovery management and data resiliency services. The company protects several petabytes of data using the solutions, which enable simple centralized recovery management across its client base.

“CA ARCserve solutions enable us to back up and restore data from the cloud very easily,” said Eubanks. “They are ideal for those customer systems that need to be recovered within a few hours.”

To support more demanding customer workloads, such as email, ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) systems, BroadCloud uses CA ARCserve® Replication and CA ARCserve® High Availability.

“With real-time replication and high availability clusters, we can fail over between data centers in minutes to ensure that customer systems suffer negligible downtime in the event of an incident,” said Eubanks.

“Service providers face especially challenging objectives when it comes to scalably, reliably and resource-efficiently protecting large volumes of distributed data,” said Steve Fairbanks, vice president, Data Management, CA Technologies.  “BroadCloud's success highlights just how well-suited CA ARCserve is for these highly challenging environments—and how broadly applicable it is for all kinds of data protection needs.”

About BroadCloud

BroadCloud is a provider of managed hosting, private IT cloud solutions, colocation and managed security solutions that extend and enhance your company's technology infrastructure. BroadCloud answers customers' infrastructure needs and employs best-of-breed technologies and expert IT personnel to deliver reliable, cost-effective services for on-premise, private cloud, public cloud and hybrid deployments. BroadCloud delivers the technology, expertise and experience that companies ranging from new start-up to Fortune 500 require from our strategically located datacenters. BroadCloud is headquartered in Carson City, Nevada and can be found online at www.broadcloud.com. 

About CA Technologies

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at www.ca.com.

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The Pennsylvania State University Transforms Technology Education and Enhances Infrastructure Through NetApp’s Education Donation Program

University’s Center for Enterprise Architecture Creates New Program for the Next Generation of CIOs, CTOs

University Park, PA. – August 24, 2012 –The Pennsylvania State University is known internationally as one of the best public research universities in the United States, with total enrollment approaching 100,000 students. It ranks no. 1 in the United States among universities with information technology degrees. The Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology has created a unique interdisciplinary program in enterprise architecture that integrates computer science, information technology, and business. The Center for Enterprise Architecture (CEA) needed storage capacity to support this important technology-intensive research agenda and the degree programs. The CEA is in the process of creating an innovative lab environment and was thrilled to be approached by NetApp to participate in NetApp’s Education Donation Program. NetApp’s program has already awarded over 100 systems in the past 6 months to universities and K–12 institutions that demonstrated an innovative approach to education. Penn State received a $250,000 Storage System and Software award for the Center for Enterprise Architecture.

As one of the most well-known learning institutions globally, Penn State holds nurturing and creating progress in professional practices as a critical element of its mission. Through its donation to Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology and its Center for Enterprise Architecture, NetApp has enabled the university to better support this mission. Prior to NetApp’s engagement with Penn State, the CEA had limited resources for data storage, preventing the center from leveraging its full academic and research potential. By deploying NetApp® solutions with a consolidated enterprise approach to storage, the Center for Enterprise Architecture will have the capabilities to support the future storage needs of its students and faculty and its new Professional Masters in Enterprise Architecture Program. 

In recognition of NetApp’s donation to the Center for Enterprise Architecture, Dean David Hall of the College of Information Sciences and Technology met with NetApp executives earlier this summer. NetApp’s equipment will be deployed as part of a new educational laboratory environment in which students will be able to perform research and participate in hands-on learning experiences. The NetApp system offers Penn State the flexibility, performance, availability, and responsiveness to growth needed to provide ample capacity to address both research and infrastructure demands.

"With the equipment we received through NetApp’s Education Donation Program, we will have cutting-edge technologies available to our researchers and advanced educational programs, including the new Professional Masters in Enterprise Architecture Program," said Dr. Brian Cameron, executive director, Center for Enterprise Architecture. "We are very excited to be working with NetApp, and with their technologies we can quickly start to engage our students in hands-on, practical research and educational scenarios to expose them to a real-world storage and information architecture environment."

In today’s challenging economic and competitive environment, the need for greater efficiency, effectiveness, and agility is crucial for organizations of all types and sizes.  Enterprise architecture professionals are at the forefront of this movement, striving to correctly and effectively leverage technology to meet the business goals of an organization. These professionals need to integrate strategic, business, and technology planning methods with an ability to understand, analyze, justify, and communicate the solution of enterprise architecture problems. To meet the increased demand for enterprise architecture professionals, Penn State has developed the Master of Professional Studies Program in Enterprise Architecture through the College of Information Sciences and Technology.

"Penn State’s Center for Enterprise Architecture is among the most innovative and unique information technology degree programs being offered by universities today. Its curriculum aligns closely with NetApp’s vision for the future of high-performance, data-driven information technologies," said Regina Kunkle, vice president of State and Local Government and Higher Education, NetApp. "Creative innovation in education and technology will be vitally important as we increasingly rely on storage technologies to provide the backbone of critical government and business infrastructure. Penn State is leading the charge to educate future CIOs and CTOs with this in mind. We hope that, through NetApp’s Education Donation Program, students will have unprecedented access to our technology to support their education goals and facilitate continued advancement in storage and IT performance."

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VMware Announces VMware Fusion® 5

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VMware Announces VMware Fusion® 5

Optimized for the latest technologies found in OS X® Mountain Lion, Windows 8 and the latest Macs®, VMware Fusion 5 returns with more than 70 new features for a Windows on Mac experience never seen before

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 —VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware Fusion® 5 with 70 new features that deliver an unparalleled Windows on Mac experience. In addition, VMware is introducing VMware Fusion 5 Professional with new capabilities designed to dramatically improve the way businesses deliver applications to users on Macs and PCs.

“While the number of users adopting Macs continue to rise, the business environment is still dominated by Windows,” said Jason Joel, director, personal products, VMware. “VMware Fusion 5 and Fusion 5 Professional build upon our award-winning platform, adding new capabilities that are in demand among both individual and professional users. Leveraging our experience with consumer and enterprise end-users, we believe this new version of the product is the best solution on the market for users who want to run Windows on Mac simultaneously.”

VMware Fusion 5
The VMware Fusion 5 product family offers the easiest, fastest and most reliable way to run Windows on a Mac for individual or business use. VMware Fusion 5 has been revamped to take advantage of new technologies only available in Mountain Lion, Windows 8 and the latest Macs to deliver a Windows on Mac experience never seen before. New features include:

• Designed for Mountain Lion – Run Windows on Mountain Lion and search Windows programs in Launchpad, use “AirPlay Mirroring” to stream Mac and Windows applications on an HDTV and get VMware Fusion notifications in Mountain Lion’s notification center.
• Windows 8 Optimization –VMware Fusion 5 supports Windows 8 standard, pro and enterprise editions so consumers can optimize the new Windows 8 “Metro” environment directly on a Mac.
• Enhanced Mac Support – Support for the latest Mac technologies include compatibility with Mountain Lion, retina display optimization, USB 3 connectivity, and improved support for large memory Macs.
• Next Generation Performance –Performance enhancements include up to 40% faster general performance speeds compared to the previous version of the product, improved power management for longer battery life and faster 3D graphics.
• Additional Functionalities – New, powerful ways to experience Windows on a Mac are available through an updated virtual machine library that enables seamless transitions between multiple operating systems, one click snapshots with improved graphical appearance, a brand new graphics driver for Linux 3D desktops, and a new embedded learning center for immediate support.

VMware Fusion 5 Professional
VMware Fusion 5 Professional includes all the features of Fusion 5 plus new capabilities that will improve the way professionals deliver business applications to Mac users. Key benefits include:

• Open the Doors to Macs –Whether business applications run on Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 or one of more than 200 other operating systems, VMware Fusion 5 is designed to ensure maximum compatibility with the applications users need.
• Create Restricted Virtual Machines –Create an encrypted corporate image that meets the needs of employees and enables productivity from their first power-on. To avoid tampering of the corporate image, restrictions can prevent users from changing virtual machine settings or attaching USB devices to Windows.
• Easy Deployment Across Multiple Platforms – VMware Fusion 5 Professional includes a commercial license of VMware Player™ 5 to deploy and run restricted virtual machines on Macs, Windows and Linux systems. So regardless of the underlying platform, VMware Fusion 5 Professional gives users the business applications they need.
• Reduce Support Costs – Reduce support costs by directing end-users to customized Web resources directly from VMware Fusion 5 Professional’s Help menu.
• Easy Management – VMware Fusion 5 Professional is a full perpetual license which activates both VMware Fusion 5 Professional and VMware Player 5.

Availability and Pricing
VMware Fusion® 5 and VMware Fusion 5 Professional are available immediately for download and purchase from vmware.com for $49.99 and $99.99 respectively. Customers who have purchased VMware Fusion 4 on or after July 25, 2012 are eligible for an electronic upgrade to VMware Fusion 5 at no additional cost. Learn more about the VMware Fusion electronic upgrade program here. Volume pricing for corporate users is available from select resellers and the VMware Store.

VMware Fusion 3 and 4 customers as well as Parallels Desktop customers can upgrade to VMware Fusion 5 Professional for only $49.99 here.

VMware Fusion is available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

Additional Resources

• Learn more about VMware Fusion® on the VMware Fusion Blog
• Read more about the new features of VMware Fusion® 5
• View and download screen shots of VMware Fusion® 5
• Follow the VMware Fusion team on Twitter and Facebook

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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Customers Transform IT with VMware vCloud®

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Customers Transform IT with VMware vCloud®

VMware and Service Providers Enable Customers Across Industries to Successfully Accelerate Delivery of Reliable, High-Performance Secure Clouds

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 22, 2012 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced continued momentum of its customers deploying public and hybrid clouds based on VMware cloud solutions. VMware vCloud® technologies and cloud services enable customers to achieve a wide range of business benefits such as reduced IT costs, improved security and increased flexibility.

"VMware customers are looking to deploy reliable, high-performance, secure clouds that are compatible with their existing applications and datacenter operations. VMware and its partners are uniquely positioned to deliver this,” said Mathew Lodge, vice president, cloud services, VMware. “Today VMware has the broadest cloud ecosystem and the rapid adoption of vCloud services  by customers – triple digit growth in year-over-year VSPP bookings in 2011 and 2012 to date -- is a true testament to the value that the vCloud ecosystem delivers.”

VMware and its service providers cater to a variety of use cases ranging from compute resources for pre-production environments to seasonal and transient workloads to disaster recovery in the cloud. VMware customers who have recently adopted cloud computing to transform their IT environments include Columbia Sportswear Company, eMix (Electronic Medical Information Exchange), Star Alliance and Subaru of America, Inc.

Columbia Sportswear Company
Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear is the worldwide leader in outerwear, sportswear apparel and accessories and has over 4,000 employees and 50 locations. Nearly 100 percent virtualized, Columbia Sportswear first looked to the public cloud to have the option of moving workloads outside the facility to prevent downtime during disasters or datacenter moves. They wanted the flexibility to move workloads seamlessly from their private cloud to their vCloud-based ecosystem provider. 

Two real-life scenarios that Columbia experienced reinforced the need for a cloud model centered on the Japanese tsunami in 2011, which caused continuous power outages to their Tokyo-based facility. First, had a cloud model been in place, the ability to move the data out of the region temporarily would have improved operations and allowed for local staff to access their data remotely. Second, office and datacenter moves shouldn’t necessarily affect access to data and therefore, the need to temporarily park workloads somewhere else without disruption would have allowed for greater productivity. Columbia Sportswear now moves workloads seamlessly from their private cloud to their vCloud provider, having control of where workloads live.

 “We are very pleased with how easy it has been to deploy VMware vCloud to meet our rapidly growing business requirements, allowing us to scale instantly and reduce infrastructure costs,” said Michael Leeper, senior manager, global IT engineering, Columbia Sportswear Company.

eMix
Tasked with providing a highly available, secure platform for hospital providers to share medical information, eMix is replacing the need for CDs, DVDs and VPN connections, bringing healthcare communications into the 21st century on the foundation of VMware vCloud.  eMix collaborated with iLand, 2012 “Global Service Provider Partner of the Year,” to build a public cloud solution that provides massive scalability as well as a holistic approach to security when exchanging medical imaging data between proprietary IT systems. One eMix customer reported an average savings of $14,000- $18,000 per emergency room visit as a result of the cloud.

“The importance of having VMware compatibility and the need to partner with a service provider that can address HIPAA compliancy was a priority when considering a cloud solution,” said Florent Saint-Clair, vice president, corporate development, DR Systems and general manager, eMix (division of DR Systems). “With VMware’s vCloud solution the adoption curve has been accelerating tremendously, and we expect that the growth over the past two years, which was from zero to five hundred customers, will accelerate even further.”

VMware customers to share their cloud stories at VMworld
IT executives from Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies using VMware vCloud will gather on stage at VMworld in San Francisco, Calif. on Aug. 27, 2012 at 2:30 PM to discuss why they chose a hybrid cloud solution and share their use cases and deployment outcomes, including infrastructure, security, provider selection, and results. The session, “Industry Leaders Share the Impact of Their Cloud Deployments (session CSM2258),” will be moderated by Paul Strong, CTO, global customer and field initiatives, VMware and will be open to audience questions. Register here to attend this session at VMworld San Francisco.

VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) and vCloud Services
The VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) is for partners offering cloud computing and hosted IT services built on VMware cloud infrastructure. There are over 8,500 partners in the program to date.

VMware vCloud Services offer a broad array of VMware-compatible infrastructure clouds built on a secure platform and delivered by vCloud service providers, enabling customers to easily extend, manage and scale their datacenter workloads to a public cloud. With more than 150 certified VMware vCloud Services in 29 countries, VMware and VSPP partners together form the number two public cloud ecosystem in the world. 
 
Additional Resources

• Learn more about how customers are using VMware vCloud on Another VMware Cloud
• Learn more about the vCloud ecosystem
• Read the VMware vCloud Blogfor the latest information on VMware vCloud
• Follow VMware vCloud on Twitter @vCloud

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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Brocade Convenes Federal Agencies, Partners and Luminaries to Discuss the Most Critical IT Challenges

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Brocade Convenes Federal Agencies, Partners and Luminaries to Discuss the Most Critical IT Challenges

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Cloud Computing, Data Center Consolidation and Alternative Acquisition Models Top Discussion Topics at the First Brocade Federal Forum

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwire - Aug 21, 2012) - Today marks the first day of the 2012 Brocade Federal Forum, which will provide an opportunity for Federal IT professionals, technology partners, systems integrators and industry luminaries to further explore and discuss key IT challenges and opportunities for the US Federal government. The two-day event is being hosted by Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD), a leading provider of innovative solutions for the world's most demanding service provider, data center and campus networks. 

The forum is designed to help Federal agencies that are facing significant IT challenges and opportunities, including new mandates to increase efficiencies, maximize existing resources, modernize infrastructure and adopt cloud computing while simultaneously eliminating redundant technologies and processes.

In response to these challenges top-level Brocade executives will share their perspectives on how the government can navigate this new era in networking and leverage the many benefits that result from the changing IT infrastructure.

Specific topics of discussion will include:

• Network transformation
• Cloud mandates
• Data center consolidation
• Evolving acquisition models

"With uncertain budgets, a CIO office focused on modernization and unfunded mandates, US Federal IT professionals are facing one of the most complex IT environments ever," said Anthony Robbins, vice president of federal sales, Brocade. "They need as much support as possible to help make the best decisions for their agency."

The objective of the 2012 Brocade Federal Forum is to extend the discussion from stated challenges to specific implementation examples, complete with common pitfalls and projected cost models. During the forum, speakers will outline state-of-the-art solutions and how they complement the legacy environments in which most Federal IT professionals currently work.

immixGroup is the Platinum Sponsor of the 2012 Brocade Federal Forum. Since 1997, immixGroup has helped hundreds of large and emerging companies grow and manage their public sector business while providing its government customers with reliable access to leading commercial technologies through the contract vehicles and partners they prefer.

Other sponsors include: Arrow, Avnet, Tech Data, Westcon, HDS, NetApp, PacStar and CDW-G.

Speakers at this forum will include:

• Ron Broersma, Chief Engineer, Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
• Shawn McCarthy, Government Insights Research Director, IDC
• Charles McClam, Deputy CIO, USDA
• Jason Miller, Executive Editor, WFED Federal News Radio
• Tim Schmidt, CIO, Department of Transportation
• Rick Howard, Research Director, Gartner
• Simon Szykman, CIO, Department of Commerce

Additional Resources and Forum Content

• http://brocadefederalforum.com
• Visit the Agenda page for a full list of sessions.
• Follow Brocade on Twitter at @BRCDcomm or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/brocade or join the LinkedIn Group: Brocade Federal.
• Follow the conversation at #BrocadeFederal

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