Geminare Redefines Global Email Archiving Landscape Through Microsoft's Windows Azure

 

Geminare Introduces an On-Demand, Feature-Rich, Email Archiving Solution Delivered From the Windows Azure(TM) Cloud -- an Instantly Branded Offering Immediately Available to all Microsoft Partners

 

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - July 9, 2012) - Geminare today announced, at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), the introduction of myVault Email Archive powered by Microsoft Windows Azure(tm) -- a revolutionary data archiving, search and retrieval service run completely from the Windows Azure(tm) Cloud. myVault Email Archive powered by Windows Azure is a fully partner-managed, self-serve offering that requires no on-site software or hardware and sets up in minutes. The service is compatible with both on-premises and Cloud-hosted email servers and services from virtually all email providers, and is now available globally through Microsoft's Windows Azure Marketplace.

 

myVault Email Archive allows Microsoft partners to instantly expand their Cloud data management portfolio without additional infrastructure investment. The service provides instant white-labeling allowing Resellers to brand and sell their offering immediately after registration.

 

Geminare CEO, Joshua Geist, said, "Partner response to myVault has been outstanding and the feedback is consistent: resellers love the rich feature set, the instant white-label capability, the customer self-serve deployment model and the ability to bill their customers directly, representing new opportunities to develop on-going customer relationships." Geist added, "And as equally enticing are the recurring-revenue model and industry-leading margins that are available in perpetuity."

 

In addition to encryption, flexible archiving, indexing and legal-hold capability, myVault offers industry-unique, advanced features such as high-speed nested searches and auditable, unique data storage keys. Built on Geminare's patented CORE Platform -- a multi-tiered billing and management enablement engine -- myVault delivers premium functionality that allows distributors, resellers and even end customers to brand the offering online within seconds.

 

Following the recent announcement of a Strategic Alliance with Microsoft, Geminare's myVault Email Archive powered by Windows Azure is the first product to leverage the sophisticated integration between Geminare's CORE Platform and the Microsoft Windows Azure Marketplace. This tightly integrated capability allows software vendors (ISVs) looking to migrate their traditional software products into advanced Cloud solutions to do so easily and swiftly through the Geminare CORE Platform. ISVs can manage their entire partner ecosystem in a true multi-tiered fashion, including advanced capabilities from sales, provisioning, management and reporting through to final billing processes. Through the CORE Platform, ISV's can leverage the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and its global customer reach.

 

Walid Abu-Hadba, Microsoft corporate vice president, developer and platform evangelist, confirmed, "Geminare delivered what they committed to, and we are delighted with the results. myVault Email Archive for Windows Azure is a high-value, sophisticated offering. It allows partners and customers alike to dispense with building hardware-driven, self-managed solutions." Mr. Abu-Hadba added, "We are very encouraged by the positive feedback we've seen so far from both partners and customers, and expect strong traction in the cloud-based archiving space."

 

"Customers are looking to solve IT challenges in more cost-effective, unobtrusive ways, while partners want to align with clients more strategically," said Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst, Jason Buffington, who focuses on data protection. "Cloud-based solutions enable both goals, without requiring lengthy implementations or complex delivery models. Add those business needs to the technical challenges of archiving, backup, and disaster recovery, and it's easy to see how a simple-to-deploy, easy-to-use managed service such as Geminare's myVault can spur rapid growth. By utilizing the Windows Azure Cloud, Geminare is acknowledging global resellers who need service offerings and infrastructure support -- on demand and affordably. We look forward to watching the momentum continue across the expanded Geminare RaaS suite this year."

 

myVault is the first of Geminare's Recovery as a Service (RaaS) offerings selected by Microsoft for inclusion in the Windows Azure cloud, with the balance of Geminare's BC/DR portfolio, including Cloud Recovery, Rapid Recovery and Online Backup, scheduled for availability in Windows Azure by year end.

 

Geminare's myVault Email Archive is a highlighted partner solution at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), July 9-12, 2012, in Toronto, Canada. Joshua Geist will be appearing onstage Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 2pm EDT with Yvonne Muench, Director of Market Insights, Microsoft Azure ISV Incubation, in the WPC panel session #ISV04p, titled, "SaaS Go To Market: Reaching Customers Through Partners." In addition, the myVault solution will be available for live demos and for immediate partner registration at both the main Windows Azure demo booth and the Geminare exhibit booth, #219.

 

End Users looking to sign up for a free trial of the service offering can do so directly at Microsoft's Windows Azure Marketplace:https://datamarket.azure.com/browse/Applications

 

Partners can register directly at http://learnmore.launchmyvault.com

 

About Geminare

Geminare enables ISVs to transition their products into cloud-based offerings. Geminare's award-winning, patented Cloud CORE Platform, a proven, mature, multi-tiered service delivery vehicle that is the foundation of Geminare's entire Recovery as a Service (RaaS) data protection suite, has allowed leading and innovative companies such as Microsoft, CA Technologies, OpSource, Arrow, Iron Mountain, CenturyLink, Hosting.com, Bell, Allstream, Ingram Micro, LexisNexis, Long View Systems and many others, to enter the RaaS market with their own suite of data protection cloud offerings. Geminare is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with additional operations in Toronto, Canada.

 

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Contact Information

For media inquiries, please contact:

Susan Bantin
Geminare
1-650-319-8577 x238
sbantin@geminare.com

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dmexco Agency Lounge 2012: The Business Hotspot for the Top Agency Networks

 

Expanded Agency Lounge Also Completely Fully-Booked in 2012; All Important National and International Agency Networks of the Media and Creative Industry Are on Board; Business First: Room Concept for Customer Dialogues and Successful Business Deals

 

COLOGNE, GERMANY--(Marketwire - July 9, 2012) - This year the term "fully-booked" also applies for the biggest Agency Lounge since the start of the dmexco, as well as for the Expo: The exclusive lounge area for media and creative agencies has been completely sold-out for months. All of the major agency networks of the global media and creative industry, including among others Aegis Media, Initiative, MediaCom, Pilot, UniversalMcCann, VivaKi, Wunderman and AKQA, have booked space. To make sure that a large number of marketing decision-makers from big advertising brands are selectively invited to the dmexco by the agencies, so that they can inform themselves about the latest trends. The business-related background discussions in the lounge offices, at the exhibitor stands and in the dmexco Conference offer ideal conditions here. Furthermore, important business deals will be concluded on-site. The dmexco is thus underlining its high international business relevance for the entire digital industry.

 

Christian Muche, Director Business Development, Strategy & International dmexco: "The ROI of the dmexco is absolutely convincing for all parties involved: More and more companies use the expo as an effective platform for earning money and expanding their business. In the meantime, the dmexco represents the Who's Who of both the national and global industry. The diverse and individual services offered to the suppliers, customers and visitors make the show unique in Europe, indeed in the world. Our specially developed agency concept offers the ideal setting for receiving brand-name customers at the dmexco and for the sustainable promotion of one's own business directly on-site. It is already foreseeable that the concept will be revised for 2013 and adapted in line with the increasing demand. The current international run on the Agency Lounge 2012 plays a significant role here too."

 

About dmexco

dmexco is the international leading expo & conference for the digital industry. Comprising of a unique combination between an exposition and a conference it stands for innovative and future-oriented marketing in the midst of a global growth market. Placing a clear focus on advertising, media and technology the dmexco in Cologne is the global no. 1 industry meeting platform for valuable knowledge transfer and direct business transactions. The dmexco, which is organised by the Koelnmesse, offers trade visitors the broadest range of business trends, growth strategies, product innovations and creative excellence in diverse forms and is furthermore free of charge. As the central hub for all thought leaders and minds from digital brands, advertisers and marketers, all types of agencies and media owners the dmexco is leading the global digital industry.

 

All further information on the dmexco 2012 (12 & 13 September in Cologne) as well as photos, videos and statements on the dmexco 2011 are posted at www.dmexco.com,www.facebook.com/dmexco, http://twitter.com/dmexco and www.youtube.com/dmexcovideo.

 

Contact Information

Contact:

Andre Hoffmann

Telephone

+49 40 679 446 53

Fax

+49 40 679 446 11

E-Mail

dmexco2012@faktor3.de

 

Koelnmesse GmbH

Messeplatz 1

50679 Cologne

Germany

www.koelnmesse.de

 

Management:

Gerald Bose (Chief Executive Officer)

Katharina C. Hamma

Herbert Marner

 

Chairman of the Supervisory Board:

Mayor of the City of Cologne

Jurgen Roters

 

Headquarter and place of jurisdiction: Cologne

District Court Cologne, HRB 952

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Arbor Networks Partners With Ingram Micro in India to Help Enterprises Mitigate DDoS Threats to Their Businesses

 

Peakflow(R) SP Platform Delivers Integrated Threat Detection and Mitigation for Large Network Operators; Pravail(TM) APS Delivers On-Premise Protection From Application-Layer Attacks on Network Availability

 

CHELMSFORD, MA--(Marketwire - July 9, 2012) - Arbor Networks, Inc., a leading provider of security and network management solutions for enterprise and carrier networks, today extended their distribution agreement with Ingram Micro to include India. Ingram Micro is distributing Arbor's Pravail(tm) Availability Protection System (Pravail APS) for enterprise network availability and the Peakflow^® SP platform for large enterprise and service provider networks.

 

"Arbor Networks is addressing a major concern for enterprises of all sizes -- ensuring the availability of critical applications and services. Arbor's Pravail APS provides tremendous value to the enterprise. From the partner perspective, Arbor offers a very comprehensive support and incentive program for our Reseller Partners," said Mr. Jaishankar Krishnan, managing director of Ingram Micro India Ltd.

 

Global Leader in DDoS Protection

According to a recent report from Infonetics Research titled, DDoS Prevention Appliance Market Outlook, Arbor Networks was cited as "the dominant leader for DDoS prevention" overall as well as in the Carrier Transport and Wired Broadband, Enterprise Data Center and Mobile market segments. 

 

Integrated Threat Detection & Mitigation for Global Enterprise and ISP Networks

The vast majority of the world's leading service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in operation today rely on Arbor's Peakflow SP platform to proactively fend off malicious threats such as botnets and volumetric and application-layer DDoS attacks, while strengthening the availability and quality of their services. Arbor's Peakflow SP platform includes two main components, Peakflow SP and the Threat Management System (TMS). Peakflow SP combines network-wide anomaly detection and traffic engineering with TMS's carrier-class threat management that automatically detects and surgically removes only attack traffic while maintaining legitimate business traffic. The Peakflow SP platform powers many of the world's leading cloud-based DDoS managed security services.

 

Availability & Investment Protection for the Enterprise

What makes Arbor's Pravail APS such an important product for the enterprise is that it not only protects against availability threats such as application-layer DDoS attacks, it provides investment protection to existing security infrastructure. For example, firewalls and IPS are designed for important security problems other than DDoS. They were built to stop unauthorized access to critical resources, enforce corporate security policies and prevent data loss. These all remain critical security problems. What's changed is that availability itself is now under assault and it requires a solution designed specifically for today's complex DDoS problem.

 

 

 

Pravail APS Highlights:

 

 

• Out-of-the-Box Protection
   
• Rapidly deployable with little configuration, even during an attack.
   
• A single, easy-to-manage platform with extensive reporting capabilities.
   
• Cloud Signaling^(SM) Functionality
   
• Facilitates both enterprise data center-edge mitigation of application-layer attacks and upstream service provider mitigation of volumetric attacks in an automated, coordinated and real-time manner.
   
•  The only mechanism available today that provides complete protection against both application and volumetric DDoS attacks.
   
• ATLAS^® Intelligence Feed
   
• Automates the identification of botnet-borne attacks against data center infrastructures.
   
• Monitors for new threats, delivers updates automatically and includes geo-location data.

 

 

"Arbor Networks^® DDoS mitigation solutions are pervasively deployed in global service provider networks. To reach the enterprise market, we required the reach and resources and relationships of a partner like Ingram Micro," said Attley Ng, Arbor Networks vice president and general manager for APAC. "Ingram Micro is the market leader in Asia and we are excited about leveraging their vast resources with a very compelling product for data center operators at a time when network security threats are evolving and presenting acute challenges."

 

For more information on Arbor Networks^® DDoS detection and mitigation solutions, please visit www.youtube.com/user/ArborNetworks.

 

 

About Ingram Micro

As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 150 countries on six continents with the world's most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services. 
For more information visit www.ingrammicro.com

 

 

About Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of network security and management solutions for next-generation data centers and carrier networks, including the vast majority of the world's Internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. Arbor's proven network security and management solutions help grow and protect customer networks, businesses and brands. Through its unparalleled, privileged relationships with worldwide service providers and global network operators, Arbor provides unequalled insight into and perspective on Internet security and traffic trends via the ATLAS^® Active Threat Level Analysis System. Representing a unique collaborative effort with 100+ network operators across the globe, ATLAS enables the sharing of real-time security, traffic and routing information that informs numerous business decisions.

 

For technical insight into the latest security threats and Internet traffic trends, please visit our website at arbornetworks.com and our blog at http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/.

 

Trademark Notice: Arbor Networks, Peakflow, ArbOS, How Networks Grow, ATLAS, Pravail, Arbor Optima, Cloud Signaling, the Arbor Networks logo and Arbor Networks: Smart. Available. Secure. are all trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. All other brand names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

 

Kevin Whalen
Director, Corporate Communications
Arbor Networks
kwhalen@arbor.net 
978-703-6663

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Americas Petrogas Successfully Sets Production Casing on First Vaca Muerta Shale Well on Totoral Block

 

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - July 9, 2012) - Americas Petrogas (TSX VENTURE:BOE) ("Americas Petrogas" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the La Hoya.x-1 (LHo.x-1) well, which is the first Vaca Muerta Shale vertical exploration well drilled in the Totoral block, has been cased and cemented. A full suite of logs and both conventional cores as well as sidewall cores have been acquired. Production casing has been successfully set to a total depth of approximately 6,463 feet. The well penetrated 666 feet of the primary target Vaca Muerta Formation with oil and gas shows through the whole shale column. Hydrocarbon shows were also encountered and data acquired in the Mulichinco (299 feet thick), Quintuco (2,172 feet thick), and Quebrada del Sapo (190 feet thick) formations.

 

The Company has begun detailed analysis of the cores and cuttings at international service company laboratories in Argentina. This is expected to significantly reduce the time required to identify fracing and testing options for shale oil or shale gas reservoirs, as well as other identified targets.

 

The Totoral block, of which Americas Petrogas is the Operator and holds a 90% working interest, is approximately 264,240 net acres (1,069 square kilometers or 413 sections net) and is adjacent to two other Americas Petrogas Operated blocks, Yerba Buena (311,310 acres or 1,259 square kilometers or 486 sections net) and Bajada Colorada (438,390 acres or 1,774 square kilometers or 685 sections net), which are also held 90% by the Company. All three blocks are located in the southern region of the Neuquen Basin of Argentina. Gas y Petroleo del Neuquen holds the remaining 10% interest in the three blocks.

 

Mr. Barclay Hambrook, President and CEO of Americas Petrogas said, "We are very excited about the oil and gas shows on this new play in the southern region of the Neuquen Basin. This well represents a major step towards de-risking a large area and adds significant value to our shale block portfolio. The drilling, casing and cementing of this well were conducted in a very efficient and timely basis. This is a result of our experienced and expanding technical team in Argentina whom we congratulate."

 

About Americas Petrogas Inc.

 

Americas Petrogas Inc. is a Canadian company whose shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "BOE". Americas Petrogas has conventional and unconventional (shale and tight sands) oil and gas interests in numerous blocks in the Neuquen Basin of Argentina. Americas Petrogas has joint venture partners, including ExxonMobil, Apache and Gran Tierra Energy, on various blocks in Argentina. For more information about Americas Petrogas, please visit www.americaspetrogas.com.

 

Certain statements contained in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" as such term is used in applicable Canadian and US securities laws. Any statements that express or involve discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions or future events or are not statements of historical fact and should be viewed as "forward-looking statements". These statements relate to analyses and other information that are based upon forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determinable and assumptions of management. Such forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  

 

In particular, statements (express or implied) regarding the ability of the Company to successfully analyze the formations and intervals within formation or to successfully frac, complete, test and commercially produce or sell oil, gas or other hydrocarbons from the LHo.x-1 well (or any one of the formations contained therein), including the timing of such activities, should all be viewed as forward-looking statements. The presence of hydrocarbon shows is not necessarily indicative that hydrocarbons are capable of being successfully produced in commercial quantities. There is no assurance reserves will be assigned to such hydrocarbon bearing formations. There is no assurance that future wells will be drilled on the Totoral, Yerba Buena and/or Bajada Colorada blocks or that if drilled, such wells will be successful.

 

There can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could vary or differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements contained in this news release. The forward-looking statements contained herein are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.

 

Forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date the statements are made and the Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements and if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as required by applicable law.

 

 

Americas Petrogas Inc.
Barclay Hambrook, P. Eng., MBA
President and CEO
(403) 685-1888
inquiries@americaspetrogas.com
www.americaspetrogas.com

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