Array Networks announced it has appointed M/s. Redington India Ltd., (Redington), a vendor-authorised end-to-end Supply Chain Management of IT and non-IT products and support services, as its national Value Added Distributor. Redington is a focused distribution player with a significant reach across India, Middle East and Africa. The company has successfully transformed itself from a pure IT products distribution firm with traditional cash and carry model to a leading integrated Supply Chain Solution Provider

Array Networks expects that there will be a positive impact from the tie-up to its growth, footprint and financial performance in India. Redington sees this as valuable addition in its portfolio and offerings to the market. Today's move enables both Array and Redington to better meet the needs of a broader set of customers by combining the two companies' complementary strengths—reach and technology respectively.

Array Networks already has an impressive list of resellers and customers in India, and has posted higher-than-industry-average growth in India even during the economic slowdown. The association with Redington is expected to give Array a reach in key markets and a wider footprint. The next phase of growth will be fuelled further after this tie-up.

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eScan celebrates the onset of Year 2010 with the launch of its new website http://www.escanav.com. This new website with its world class look and feel is in line with the global outlook of the eScan brand.

This change in domain name from earlier www.mwti.net to www.escanav.com is in keeping with the positioning the eScan brand and increase our brand connect with customers. The new website brings an easy and friendly user interface to its visitors. The website is targeted to address the needs of both the channel partners and the end users. Through unique functions like RSS feeds for ‘eScan Hotfix Alerts’ and ‘eScan Virus Alerts’ the website provides visitors with not just product information but also updates them with critical information that helps to keep them safe online.

Besides these, there are many special features which give the website a boost. One can subscribe to the eScan RSS Feeds to get real time update on security. The new website also offers better navigation through the different pages and layers making it easier to search for information and help. With the new social media connections, one can now easily keep up to date with the latest in the world of online security by following eScan’s updates on popular social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and others with just a click. Also the enhanced support option on the website provides a hassle-free approach to a customer to reach out to eScan for support.

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Huawei Symantec Technologies announced signing iValue InfoSolutions as its National Value Added Distributor. Huawei Symantec is a joint venture between Huawei Technologies—world leader in telecom solutions and Symantec Corporation—world’s leading Software Company focused on security, storage & system management solutions.

Huawei Symantec inherits the excellent genes of the parent companies—highly reliable and scalable system capability from Huawei & years of experience and knowledge in information security & storage from Symantec. Huawei Symantec is focused on network storage, security & software solutions and has over 1000+ key customers in 40 countries across 100+ partners covering 7 regions including customers of India top telecom carriers. Huawei Symantec with head quarters at Chengdu, China and four R&D centers world-wide, employs over 4000 with 55% of them in R&D with over 500+ patents.

Storage offerings include SAN—IP/FC, NAS, VTL, storage server, Virtualization gateway, cloud storage node. Security offerings include Firewall, IDS/IPS, UTM, SSL/IPSEC VPN, unified Security gateways. Huawei Symantec can also resell Huawei switches and server product to industry customers.

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ZyXEL India organised ZyConnect Channel meet to connect with the channel community. The channel meet addressing a gathering of more than 200 partners at hotel Richie Rich, Wajirpur, New Delhi underlines the action plan of the principal on connecting channel community for North and East Delhi.

The Executive Director, Channel, ZyXEL India, Rishi Samadhia said, “The idea of this channel meet is to empower our partners with better technology, sales and support mechanism. This helps the partners to get clarity about ZyXEL India plan along with its product roadmap.”

The programme ended up with an exciting Q&A session where partners had received a lot of prizes including wireless routers, switches, access points, etc. Micronik Infosolutions which is catering in East Delhi market and Amcan Technologies which caters to North Delhi for ZyXEL were also introduced to rest of the partners as regional ZyPartner would be working along with Regional Distributor USHA Infotech.

Apart from the emphasis on improving the technology skills of its partners, the programme also showcased ZyXEL products and solutions in the venue addressing various applications including Broadband, VoIP, Wi-Fi, network storage, Internet Security, etc.

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Kaspersky Lab has announced its partnership with Pune-based Sakri IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Under a 3 year agreement that will be signed very shortly, the Indian company will begin retailing Kaspersky Lab’s products right across the North & West of India. Sakri IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. will be 100% dedicated to developing sales of Kaspersky Lab’s products across the area and will also be providing a round-the-clock freephone customer support line with effect from 01 Jan 2010.

Hyderabad-based Zoom Technologies Pvt. Ltd. will remain as the exclusive business solutions partner and retail partner for the Southern and Eastern regions of India. Zoom Technologies will provide the same level of round-the-clock freephone customer support within their own region as that offered by Sakri IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Expansion of Kaspersky Lab’s partner network in India is part of the Company’s plans to increase its presence in the country’s market generally. Registration of the Kaspersky Lab India local office in December of this year was the first step in this direction.

In addition to the standard benefits of being a Kaspersky Lab partner, the Company’s Indian partners will also benefit from some of the best training available in the world, as well as pan-Indian support. Kaspersky Lab’s trainers will be visiting Kaspersky Lab’s Indian office and providing a number of training sessions for new, local staff and also for Kaspersky Lab’s channel partners. Kaspersky Lab firmly believes that providing a strong system of support is the only effective way to achieve good levels of understanding among their customers and future clients.

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Tata Communications announced the launch of its managed two-factor authentication service that adds to its portfolio of Managed Security Services (MSS). The new service helps all enterprises to further secure their networks and comply with security-specific certifications and regulations.

The new service from Tata Communications is hosted and authenticates users before they are granted access to their organization’s applications, data, services, and network devices. Users enter a personal identification number (PIN) and a six digit one-time passcode displayed on a token. Depending on their security policies and end users’ preferences, customers can choose to use software or hardware tokens. Software tokens provide increased convenience as users no longer need to carry a separate device. Instead, they can leverage everyday mobile devices that they already own and carry such as smart phones and PDAs, or their own desktop.

With managed authentication, firms will be able to eliminate the learning curve associated with new technologies while saving on operational costs. Managed authentication incorporates best practices regarding secure authentication design, implementation, and change management of security systems to protect critical business assets. With a wholly managed authentication solution, no upfront investment is required to install and deploy infrastructure and servers. Tata Communications also handles all the details and time-consuming tasks related to token life-cycle management. In addition, staffing, administrative and logistics overhead, user management, and personnel requirements are greatly reduced, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

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Quick Heal Technologies has launched a premium promotional scheme for its channel partners and resellers. The promotion promises assured attractive gifts from watches to luxury travel to reward the efforts of its channel members in India. The Dhamaka 2010 Offer will be from 10th January 2010 to 31st March 2010 covering the last quarter with an aim to capture major market share. Quick Heal has always been a channel friendly company and keeping this tradition alive it has created a history by rewarding its performing partners handsomely in the past.

The offer, specially designed to reward all partners and resellers, whether big or small in their contribution, has interesting gifts ranging from Digital Photo Frames to Handy cams and I-Pod with video. The highlight of the promotion is an all expense paid luxury trip to Thailand which will surely interest everyone and raise the curiosity levels across the channel members. Any partner doing a business of as low as approximately 10 licenses per month during the scheme period will take away an assured gift. “Under this scheme we are looking at about 400 plus partners to join us in the exclusive luxury trip to Thailand”, says Mr. Abhijit Jorvekar, Country Head- Sales, Quick Heal Technologies.

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Radware announced the formal opening of a new research and development center at Bangalore in India, making it one of the Company’s three major worldwide R & D Centers. With more than 100 staff in India, Radware now has offices located in 5 cities including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. The Company has been present in India since 2002 and has become a leading provider of application delivery solutions to various industries such as government, banks, financial institutions, manufacturing companies and other large enterprise customers in the country.

“Even from a sales perspective, India is one of the great success stories in the entire Asia Pacific region,” Nikhil Taneja, Country Manager Radware, India & SAARC said. “We are very pleased to be increasing the number of employees and investments in the local market. It is a very positive sign for Radware as well as the application delivery market in general. We are seeing increased demand for Radware solutions in India as carriers, private companies and individuals start to take advantage of the strength of application delivery.”

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Symantec announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Gideon Technologies, Inc., a provider of standards-based information security solutions that automate and orchestrate IT security and risk management. Symantec is acquiring Gideon Technologies to extend Symantec’s security portfolio with a leading Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) validated configuration and vulnerability assessment solution and to enhance its ability to serve the needs of public sector customers. The transaction is expected to close by the end of the March quarter and is subject to customary closing conditions. The financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.

SCAP is a suite of specifications that standardize the format and nomenclature by which security software products communicate software flaw and security configuration information. It is used to automate vulnerability and patch checking, technical control compliance activities and security measurement. This standard is a requirement of the U.S. federal government which represents the largest and most diverse computing environment in the world. Interoperability and sharing data within this environment is essential to address the evolving threat landscape.

The acquisition of Gideon Technologies’ SecureFusion product will complement Symantec’s compliance offerings and integrate with the Symantec Management Platform (formerly the Altiris platform). The addition of SecureFusion will help Symantec provide customers with one of the industry’s most comprehensive automated situational awareness, continuous compliance and remediation management capabilities in the marketplace. As the security market leader, Symantec is dedicated to making security data available in standards-based formats and leveraging its entire technology portfolio for automating the delivery of this data across systems to perform timely proactive and defensive measures.

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Cisco announced it has completed its purchase of ScanSafe, Inc. Based in London and San Francisco, ScanSafe is a market leader of software-as- a-service (SaaS) Web security solutions for organizations ranging from global enterprises to small businesses. By acquiring ScanSafe, Cisco is building on its successful acquisition of leading on-premise content security provider IronPort. The acquisition brings together the Cisco IronPort high-performance Web Security

Appliance and ScanSafe's leading SaaS Web security service to offer superior on-premise, hosted, and hybrid-hosted Web security solutions. The combination is expected to provide better protection from threats, while flexible delivery options will enhance Cisco's ability to protect the borderless network as organizations increasingly depend on Web 2.0 and mobility technologies to collaborate and conduct business.

ScanSafe's service will be integrated with Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client, the newest virtual private network (VPN) product from Cisco, to provide the industry's leading secure mobility solution. In addition, ScanSafe's global network of carrier-grade data centers and multi-tenant architecture will further enhance Cisco's ability to provide new cloud-security services for customers anywhere in the world. With the close of the acquisition, the ScanSafe team becomes part of Cisco's Security Technology Business Unit (STBU), reporting to Tom Gillis, vice president and general manager.

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McAfee and Facebook announced an unprecedented collaboration that will provide additional security protection to a significant portion of the Internet population. Through this partnership, the two companies have jointly created security solutions that include McAfee security software, a custom scanning and repair tool, and consumer friendly education materials that Facebook will make available to its more than 350 million users. In total, this is a first-of-its-kind security offering that represents a major milestone in the fight to secure the Internet and reduce global cybercrime.

Under the terms of the partnership, McAfee is Facebook’s exclusive provider of consumer security software, and Facebook users will be eligible for a complimentary six-month subscription of the McAfee Internet Security Suite software. Following the six-month period, Facebook users will be eligible for special discount subscription pricing. Facebook is applying all financial incentives from this partnership to the benefit of its users and will not be taking a share of any revenue from user subscriptions. McAfee Internet Security Suite software protects users’ PCs from online threats, viruses, spyware, hackers, online scammers, identity thieves and other cybercriminals, and includes award-winning McAfee SiteAdvisor site rating technology.

To keep users educated about the latest threats, Facebook and McAfee will work together to develop educational content for the Facebook Security Page (http://www.facebook.com/security), Facebook’s principal resource for security-related information with more than one million fans. McAfee will also continuously update its own Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/mcafee), which features the offer on the “Protect Your PC” tab as well as security information on “Protect Your Kids” and “Security Notes” tabs.

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EMC Corporation announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kansas-based Archer Technologies—a privately-held, fast-growing provider of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) software. The acquisition will build upon EMC's expertise and leadership in helping customers better visualize and manage risk throughout their IT infrastructure. EMC's acquisition of Archer is expected to close in Q1 2010, subject to customary closing conditions. The transaction is not expected to have a material impact to revenue or EPS for the full 2010 fiscal year.

The combination of Archer with industry-leading technologies for information risk management and information security from EMC's RSA Security Division will significantly extend EMC's powerful solutions portfolio for visualizing and managing risk, enabling customers to automate GRC visibility and policy enforcement across both physical and virtualized IT environments. Archer will remain in Overland Park, Kansas upon completion of the acquisition and operate as a part of RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

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