Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Symantec Suit Against Microsoft Symbolizes Security Shift
- … Tape Offerings for SMBs.(Hewlett-Packard Co. small and…
- Keep It Simple: Moving for Seniors Can Go Smooth.
- Isilon Systems Boosts Web Self Service by deploying Talisma’s…
- Salesforce.com Recruits ISVs with AppExchange OEM Edition.(Independent…
- Ciena Corporation at JPMorgan 34th Annual Technology Conference -…
- Hewlett-Packard at UBS Enterprise Technology Conference – Final.

Symantec Suit Against Microsoft Symbolizes Security Shift
InformationWeek – May 24, 2006
” The sticking point is that Microsoft and Symantec now see one another as competitors more so than they have in the past. There’s no question that Microsoft will soon butt heads with a significant portion of the IT security software market as Vista includes new anti-virus anti-spyware and other security features. “Microsoft is thinking hard about moving aggressively into the security space” says Martin Roesch chief technology officer of. He adds that companies like Symantec can’t afford to give away large portions of market share to Microsoft which is why he’s not surprised Symantec has turned to the courts to resolve their dispute… Microsoft’s ties to Veritas mirror the company’s emerging success over the past decade in selling to large businesses. In the early 1990s Microsoft’s bid to sell more of its products to businesses required Windows to include more sophisticated storage management capabilities than could be found in Windows NT which debuted in 1993. Meanwhile Veritas’ Volume Manager software allowed data to be stored and retrieved across a number of disparate types of storage devices a trick that came in handy for companies that built their storage systems using a variety of platforms and operating systems. Symantec’s suit alleges that in 1996 Microsoft approached Veritas about licensing certain capabilities of Volume Manager technology–what the suit refers to as “a simplified version” containing a “subset of features”–for use in Windows NT and subsequent versions of Windows. Symantec claims Microsoft licensed certain features of Volume Manager to replace and improve upon Windows FT Disk technology which didn’t scale as well as Volume Manager. The agreement between Veritas and Microsoft stipulated that Veritas would provide Microsoft with the full version of Volume Manager source code with certain features disabled as well as a specific list of Volume Manager features that could be included in Windows. Microsoft was prohibited by the agreement from developing products that competed with Veritas products and for a period of time from using Microsoft engineers who had access to Volume Manager source code to develop competing products Symantec says.

… Tape Offerings for SMBs.(Hewlett-Packard Co. small and…
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2006
This is the Palo Alto Calif. company’s third structured storage offering for the SMB market. “Virtual tape storage has long been used in mainframe systems” said HP marketing manager Adam Thew. “It’s now moving into data centers of all sizes.

Keep It Simple: Moving for Seniors Can Go Smooth.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2006
Children and families of this “Baby Boomer” generation – people born between 1946 and 1960 – will soon find themselves helping their loved ones move. And that can seem like a complicated job. When looking to hire a moving company it is important to fully understand the services the moving company offers and the rate at which those services can be.

Isilon Systems Boosts Web Self Service by deploying Talisma’s…
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2006
The announcement was made today at Appforce salesforce. com’s first annual AppExchange partner user and developer conference. Isilon helps companies such as NBC MySpace Pratt & Whitney Kodak EasyShare Gallery GlobeXplorer Technicolor Movielink and E! Networks meet the demands of their rapidly growing storage environments and accelerate workflows. Talisma’s Knowledgebase for AppExchange ensures Isilon customers can find fast accurate answers to their questions directly from the customer support section of the Isilon.

Salesforce.com Recruits ISVs with AppExchange OEM Edition.(Independent…
Free with registration – eWeek – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2006
com launched AppExchange early in 2006 for ISVs who wanted to build and deploy applications that were linked to the company’s CRM functionality. The company reports that currently there are 250 applications on AppExchange including.

Ciena Corporation at JPMorgan 34th Annual Technology Conference -…
Free with registration – Fair Disclosure Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2006
We’ve also go development centers in North America and we recently opened a development center in Gurgoan in India just outside Delhi. And then we have obviously service and support operations pretty much globally. Let me start with a little historical context on the company. From when we started up until the bubble we focused most of our attention on Layer 1 optical transporting switching and for those of you who are familiar with the company that’s our core stream and core director product lines. As the market began to turn down one of the things we focused on was looking at other areas we could participate in that were adjacent and that’s really what caused us to expand our portfolio really over the course of the next four years. We did a number of acquisitions and we moved the company from strictly being in the telco space to also participating in enterprise government and cable and we moved the markets that we participate in from just being optical transport to moving into Layer 2 switching to moving into access and moving into converged metro networks. Now while a lot of that was about bringing new products into the mix what the power for us in the longer term really is bringing a number of key technologies into the mix that we think are very important moving forward… We did a number of acquisitions and we moved the company from strictly being in the telco space to also participating in enterprise government and cable and we moved the markets that we participate in from just being optical transport to moving into Layer 2 switching to moving into access and moving into converged metro networks. Now while a lot of that was about bringing new products into the mix what the power for us in the longer term really is bringing a number of key technologies into the mix that we think are very important moving forward. Things like Ethernet capability things like control plane capability to automate the operation of the network things like XDSL and other access technologies and then finally storage technologies to allow us to better address the enterprise market. Also as part of that we also developed a stronger and broader customer base. I’ll come back to that in a moment but that’s been one of the things that’s given us a better position of strength in some of our smaller competitors. And that’s also one of the things that’s positioned us to be able to offer solutions like the Flex Select architecture that we started talking about probably about nine months ago which is really about converging a lot of services onto a common Ethernet-based infrastructure. All of this was also part of a strategy in how we wanted to position the company.

Hewlett-Packard at UBS Enterprise Technology Conference – Final.
Free with registration – Fair Disclosure Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2006
And if you look at the three segments that I am responsible for ESS or the servers and storage the software segment and the services segment year-over-year we are particularly pleased with the margin expansion and also the really disciplined expense management. And you really saw that show up in the year-to-year operating profit improvements. If you just look at the server and storage business we went from being at 4. 5% operating profit this year. And then similarly in the services from 7… We’re also focused on growth but you want to have growth that delivers good shareholder value. And so there has been some order to the things we’ve gone about. I think 8% constant currency growth is pretty darn good for a company our size in the tech industry. And that’s what we delivered if you look at constant currency this last quarter and then our Q1 — 5% this last quarter in dollars 8% in constant currency.