Bucharest, 31th March 2011 – Contact center at-home agent programmes are rapidly growing today due to their multiple benefits of reducing operational costs, increasing performance and improving the customer experience. However, using at-home or remote workers carries with it a much greater security risk.
International specialists expect that, by the end of 2011, contact center at home or remote practices will considerably increase.
For more than 10 years, DNA Solutions implements complex contact centers projects, recommending security solutions from international leaders and providers.

The best practices for securing at-home agents
1. Be sure that at-home agents or supervisors have on their PCs advanced firewall, anti-virus protection, security patches to work remote.
2. Remote workers should be forbidden form copying, moving and storing cardholder data onto hard drives or moveable electronic media when accesing cardholder data.
3. Ensuring remote agents and supervisors use a two-factor authentification process.
4. Use strong network encryption protocols such as Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) or Internet Protocol Security (IPSEC) to provide secure transmission of the VoIP voice stream and data over the customers’ network.
5.  Ensure each at home agent and supervisor is using a VPN connection into the corporate network with strong encryption protocols such as SSL/TLS.
6. Encrypt wireless networks of remote agents and supervisors by using strong cryptography. Since June 30th, 2010, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) protocol had no longer permission for any new wireless implementations. Specialists recommend the use of WPA2 protocol.
7. If not using an enterprise VoIP-based telephone solution, offer agents analogue telephone lines to talk with customers. At-home agents should not use consumer VoIP telephone system such as Vonage because their communication may not be encrypted.
8. Ensure that payment card information is never sent over an unencrypted medium scuh as chat, SMS/text or email or other non-encrypted communication channels.
9. Ensure that at-home agent and supervisor PCs have the latest approved operational softs such as firewall and security patches.
10. Ensure that remote workers use exclusively company-supplied systems.
11. Monitor at-home agents more often than in-house agents.
12. Annually review all security policies and procedures with all agents and especially remote agents so they acknowledge the security requirements as part of their daily sign-in process.
Source:VPI

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News Facts
* Gateway’s holistic, proactive approach to healthcare, called Prospective Care Management (PCM®), identifies the behavioral, environmental, economic, medical, social, and spiritual issues a member faces, and designs a health plan tailored to an individual’s needs. This both uses and creates vast amounts of data.
* Gateway estimates it has saved millions of dollars in hardware, space, power, and staffing while boosting productivity with NetApp efficient IT and server virtualization technologies.
* Gateway worked with NetApp Professional Services to replace its existing EMC systems, virtualize 95% of its servers, and keep data accessible even in the event of a major disaster.
* Gateway has been able to slash data recovery time objectives from 72 hours to less than 4 hours. Recovery point objectives have also dropped.
* Gateway has been able to quickly establish test and development environments that facilitate further PCM investments.

Solution Detail
* The NetApp® Unified Storage Architecture enabled Gateway to choose lower-cost iSCSI over Fibre Channel whenever it felt it was appropriate, saving an estimated $500,000 a year.

Supporting Quotes
* David B. Guilinger, director of Information Services, Gateway Health Plan
“Our NetApp storage environment has become not only a key piece of our infrastructure, but also the foundation of how we both rapidly and efficiently provide data-driven PCM solutions to our clients.”
* Chris Cummings, vice president of Product and Solution Marketing, NetApp
“Our flexible IT solutions help customers keep their businesses nimble and respond to changing requirements. Gateway’s example is a reminder that making your IT infrastructure fast and efficient is not just about business benefits, but sometimes about helping companies bring solutions to market that make a measurable difference in people’s lives.”

Sunnyvale, Calif.—NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) reported results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, which ended January 28, 2011. Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 totaled $1.268 billion compared to revenues of $1.012 billion for the same period a year ago, an increase of 25% year over year.

For the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, GAAP net income was $172 million, or $0.42 per share[1], compared to GAAP net income of $108 million, or $0.30 per share, for the same period a year ago. Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter of fiscal year 2011 was $211 million, or $0.52 per share[2], compared to non-GAAP net income of $144 million, or $0.40 per share for the same period a year ago.

Revenues for the first nine months of fiscal year 2011 totaled $3.613 billion compared to revenues of $2.760 billion for the first nine months of the prior fiscal year, an increase of 31% year over year.

GAAP net income for the first nine months of fiscal year 2011 totaled $479 million, or $1.23 per share, compared to GAAP net income of $255 million, or $0.73 per share for the first nine months of the prior fiscal year. Non-GAAP net income for the first nine months of fiscal year 2011 totaled $596 million, or $1.53 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $350 million, or $1.00 per share for the first nine months of the prior fiscal year.

“NetApp demonstrated momentum in the market again this quarter, with product revenue growth of 32% year over year, strong gross margins, and continued market share gains. As customers move toward the next generation IT infrastructure, NetApp’s innovation leadership is enabling compelling business outcomes for our customers and propelling our rapid growth,” said Tom Georgens, president and CEO. “Our recent product launch further enhanced our competitive position and significantly surpassed our expectations. We have experienced the fastest uptake for a new product in the history of the company and as a result, demand has exceeded the available supply of our new FAS3200 systems. We pride ourselves on our ability to execute this business with precision, even in the face of exceptionally rapid growth. We are committed to catching up to the demand as quickly as possible.”

Outlook
* NetApp estimates revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011 to be approximately $1.380 billion, plus or minus 2%, which equates to approximately 7% to 11% sequential revenue growth and approximately 15% to 20% year over year revenue growth.
* NetApp estimates that fourth quarter fiscal year 2011 GAAP earnings per share will be approximately $0.38 to $0.42 per share. NetApp estimates that the fourth quarter fiscal year 2011 non-GAAP earnings per share will be approximately $0.49 to $0.53 per share.
* NetApp estimates that share count for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011 will increase to approximately 414 million shares, including an estimated 18 million shares from the company’s outstanding convertible notes[3] and 12 million shares from outstanding warrants. Share count does not include the company’s outstanding note hedges that are expected to offset 80% of the dilution from the convertible notes at maturity or conversion, which would equate to an offset of approximately 14 million shares if the conversion or maturity occurred in the third quarter.

Business Highlights
In the third quarter of fiscal year 2011, NetApp announced its biggest product launch in the company’s history, aimed at enabling customers to address today’s evolving business requirements by moving to a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure. Additionally, NetApp and its executives received several noteworthy industry honors and the company once again was named one of the best places to work in the country. Key business highlights include the following:

NetApp Paves the Way for Customers to Make the Transition to a Shared IT Infrastructure and Capitalize on New Growth Opportunities
* NetApp delivers the foundation for flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructures. With the biggest product launch in its history, NetApp unveiled enhancements to the NetApp Data ONTAP® operating system that enable greater flexibility, efficiency, scalability, and performance. NetApp also introduced the NetApp FAS/V6200 series of high-end storage systems and FAS/V3200 series of midrange storage systems, both built on unified architectures and able to help customers respond to the rapid growth and pace of business. Additional launch components included the OnCommand™ Management Software Suite, a SAS disk shelf, and new solid-state drives.
* NetApp, Cisco, and VMware enable customer transformation to a virtualized, shared IT infrastructure. Highlighting their ongoing collaboration, NetApp, Cisco, and VMware unveiled FlexPod™ for VMware, a unified, pretested, and validated shared infrastructure that can scale easily, be optimized for a variety of mixed application workloads, or be configured for virtual desktop or server infrastructure, secure multi-tenancy, or cloud environments. The three companies are working closely with leading channel partners to help customers take advantage of FlexPod for VMware to transform to a more efficient and flexible data center infrastructure.
* NetApp acquired Akorri Networks, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in Littleton, Massachusetts. Akorri’s technology will enable NetApp to provide customers with comprehensive tools to automate and analyze their shared IT infrastructures, efficiently deliver on service levels, and respond to rapidly changing business needs.

Milestones and Awards
* NetApp named one of the Best Places to Work. NetApp was ranked #5 on FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 2011, marking its third consecutive year in the top 10 and the fifth consecutive year in the top 15. NetApp also ranked #2 on Crain’s New York Business’s annual “Best Places to Work in New York City” list for 2010. Both honors are a testament to NetApp’s model company approach, strong culture, and talented employees.
* NetApp executives among most influential. Tom Georgens, president and CEO, and Julie Parrish, vice president of Global Partner Sales, were named two of the Top 100 Most Influential Executives in the industry by Everything Channel’s CRN magazine. Georgens was included on the 25 Most Innovative Executives list for his leadership and focus on storage technology innovation and unparalleled channel commitment. Parrish was included on the Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders list for her role in increasing NetApp’s global sales through its partner ecosystem.
* NetApp positioned in Leaders quadrant. Gartner, Inc., placed NetApp in the Leaders quadrant for midrange and high-end modular disk arrays. Gartner asserted that vendors in the Leaders quadrant “have the highest scores in their ability to execute and completeness of vision.”[4]

Webcast and Conference Call Information
The NetApp third quarter fiscal year 2011 results conference call will be broadcast live on the Internet at investors.netapp.com on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. Pacific time. This press release and any other information related to the call will also be posted on the Web site at that location. An audio replay Webcast will also be available after 4:00 p.m. Pacific time on our Web site.

NetApp uses a hybrid format for disclosing key financial information associated with our quarterly results. Concurrent with the press release, NetApp posts a separate document with financial commentary and statistics. This supplemental commentary is available prior to the conference call in order to provide the investment community with additional time to analyze our results. The supplemental commentary will be posted to our Web site at investors.netapp.com and will not be read during the earnings call.

News Facts

* NetApp Innovation Award categories:
o One winner will be recognized in each of the following categories: Efficiency Innovation, Flexibility Innovation, and Visionary Leadership.
o One winner will be selected in each category by a third-party panel of judges consisting of distinguished representatives from global business and technology media.
o In addition to these categories, the top nominations from all categories will be judged in a special Innovator of the Year category, which will recognize one winner from the U.S. public sector and one winner from each of the following three global geographies: Americas, APAC, and EMEA.
* Nomination period: Companies can nominate themselves or be nominated by NetApp employees, channel, or technology partners; other companies; or colleagues through an online submission form. All nominations must be received by midnight Pacific Time on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, to be eligible for consideration.
* NetApp Innovation Award winners will receive the following:
o Two round-trip tickets to San Jose, California, and accommodations for two nights’ stay to attend the awards events at NetApp, May 31, 2011–June 2, 2011
o A hand-crafted, prestigious award presented during an awards ceremony in San Jose
o An exclusive Innovation Awards Winner dinner with NetApp executives and other distinguished guests
o Public recognition and visibility in the industry.

FRISCO, TX – iWave Software, an independent provider of Data Center Orchestration, Automation and Cloud Management software,  announced a new alliance to simplify the automation of Cloud Service Management processes for private cloud and on-demand environments. iWave Software is collaborating with NetApp to help customers reduce cloud implementation and ongoing management costs by providing enterprise orchestration on NetApp® unified storage solutions. Customers can now orchestrate an end-to end virtual environment with storage service management processes, which include self-service provisioning, disaster recovery, fault remediation and workload management.

iWave Orchestrator provides Global 1000 organizations, IT Outsourcers (ITOs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) a proven, enterprise orchestration platform and management fabric for automating cloud service management functions. Masking workflow complexity and linking embedded application-based process automation, iWave Orchestrator supports heterogeneous vendor environments and offers a layer of abstraction between user interaction and infrastructure components. This approach helps reduce ongoing maintenance costs and provides flexibility in upgrading hardware and software applications to meet changing business needs.

“NetApp has a broad ecosystem of partners that help us deliver on our mission to help customers to a flexible and efficient shared IT infrastructure,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions and Alliances at NetApp. “iWave Software’s participation in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program will enable customers to simplify how they manage cloud services and reduce the ongoing administrative costs of managing storage provisioning within the cloud.”

The new NetApp storage adapter adds to the over 50 prebuilt, available for third-party data center applications including service desk, event, configuration and change management, storage, provisioning, virtualization, CMDBs and line of business applications including SAPTM.

“Storage is the central component that binds the core cloud service management processes,” said Ron Smith, Vice President of Marketing & Strategic Alliances at iWave Software. “iWave offers customers an alternative to purchasing expensive “turnkey” cloud stacks by allowing organizations to leverage their existing infrastructure (servers, storage, network), service management tools, and internal staff expertise. With our membership in the NetApp Alliance Partner Program, customers will benefit immediately from prebuilt workflows that automatically orchestrate the provisioning of NetApp storage infrastructure to fulfill self-service IT requests or meet peek demands of end-user activity.”

For more information on iWave Orchestrator CSM solutions and the NetApp adapter, please visit www.iwavesoftware.com or call iWave Software at (866) 92-iWave.

About NetApp Alliance Partner Program
The NetApp Alliance Partner Program provides qualified infrastructure and application providers with access to NetApp solutions, software development kits, technical support, training, certification, product information, and marketing and sales assistance. Customers benefit by having access to best-of-breed partner solutions that are tested to work with NetApp storage. Additional information on the NetApp Alliance Partner Program is available at www.netapp.com/alliances.

EMC Corporation and IBM Corporation announced the extension of a technology licensing agreement that enables customers to install and utilize EMC and IBM products in heterogeneous IBM zEnterprise mainframe server environments.

The multi-year agreement facilitates interoperability of EMC(R) Symmetrix(R) DMX and VMAX™ storage systems with IBM Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy and Extended Remote Copy (XRC) functions. The licensing agreement also covers additional IBM interfaces, including FlashCopy, Multiple Allegiance, Parallel Access Volumes (PAV), Dynamic PAV, and HyperPAV, which are supported on EMC Symmetrix systems.

As part of the agreement, IBM will provide EMC with technical specifications that will continue to enable compatibility between EMC Symmetrix DMX and VMAX storage systems and the IBM zEnterprise System running the current and future versions of the IBM z operating systems. Financial terms are not being disclosed.

Mark Anzani, IBM Vice President,  Chief Technology Officer, System z said, “This extension agreement underscores IBM’s commitment to industry interoperability, by sharing information about IBM innovations that bring value to clients who choose to deploy technologies from multiple sources. By enabling choices in storage infrastructure from vendors such as IBM and EMC, clients can confidently grow applications and data onto the system z platform.”

Peter Conway, EMC Vice President, Symmetrix and Virtualization Product Group, added, “This extension of our relationship with IBM will assure the continuation of access to the benefits of EMC’s information infrastructure solutions by IBM zEnterprise customers. Through efforts such as this, EMC is furthering its commitment to providing zEnterprise customers with industry leading storage systems, software and services.”

This is the latest in a series of licensing agreements and extensions between IBM and EMC covering various technologies from both companies.  In October 2003, EMC and IBM first announced a licensing agreement that provided EMC with access to a range of mainframe storage interfaces and functionality for other IBM systems lines and also  a mutual exchange of open-standards based interfaces for improved manageability and interoperability.  This agreement was extended in June of 2007. In June 2005, the two companies extended a cooperative support agreement which remains in place today.  It facilitates mutual response to joint customer issues across various IBM Systems lines.

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EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions,  announced that Forrester Research Inc. has recognized EMC for “solid execution and continued innovation” and “strong scale-out parallelism, coupled with its steady innovation and strong cloud focus (that) gives it a competitive advantage in the hypercompetitive EDW segment.”

The February 2011 report, “The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Warehousing Platforms, Q1 2011,” states, “EMC Greenplum demonstrates strong growth, geographic diversification, vertical momentum, and partnerships in the EDW market.” The analysis goes on to say that by establishing a new Data Computing Division soon after acquiring Greenplum and by rapidly rolling out a new high-performance appliance, EMC has demonstrated a “serious commitment” to this marketplace.

“Forrester provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to leading global leaders in business and technology,” noted Bill Cook, general manager and senior vice president of EMC’s Data Computing Division. “Their comprehensive analysis factors in customer adoption and installed base, and thus we believe that this latest new Forrester report validates the growing demand for and market-leading excellence of EMC Greenplum technology.”

Forrester also reported that “business process and information management professionals regularly make substantial investments in EDW software, hardware, services, and personnel that consume millions of dollars.”

EMC Greenplum is addressing these pressing enterprise needs with purpose-built, highly scalable, parallel data warehousing solutions that architecturally integrate database, compute, storage and networks into a single, easy-to-manage enterprise-class system.

To obtain a free copy of the full Forrester Q1 2011 report on Enterprise Data Warehousing, please visit http://www.greenplum.com/wave.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions,  announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.

“We believe this recognition from Gartner, positioning EMC in the Leaders Quadrant, aligns with the growing acceptance that EMC’s data computing solutions are achieving in the marketplace,” said Bill Cook, general manager and senior vice president of EMC’s Data Computing Division. “EMC’s approach for data warehousing in the era of ‘big data’ is striking a loud chord, and our delivery of solutions that offer greater data insight, performance, flexibility and reliability are gaining strong traction with important customers.”

The EMC® Greenplum® Data Computing Appliance is an integrated data warehouse system with a breakthrough Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics that allow organizations to store, manage and closely analyze terabytes of detailed data for faster business insight, conclusions and revelations. The EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance also enables organizations to make sense of massive amounts of data generated from various sources such as always-on networks, the Web, consumers, surveillance systems and sensors. With twice the data loading speed of its nearest competitor and the industry’s best performance, this innovative new EMC appliance permits more data to be analyzed faster and at lower cost.

Interested parties can request a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems report at http://www.greenplum.com/magicquadrant/.

EMC Corporation’s (NYSE: EMC) recently introduced EMC® VNX™ series unified storage system is the new industry performance leader based on new independent benchmark testing. According to the latest Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 testing data—measuring networked file performance and overall response times—the EMC VNX series storage system shattered previous performance records, further demonstrating EMC midrange storage leadership.

Benchmark Highlights

* The test highlights that the EMC® VNX Series is 49% faster than the previous leader, an HP system (BL860c i2 4-node HA-NFS Cluster)1, 23% faster than an IBM system (IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage 16-node cluster, Version 1.2)2, and 160% faster than the NetApp FAS 6240 Series system 3. The EMC VNX Series performed at 497,623 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 operations per second. Faster throughput enables a storage system to support more virtual servers and intense workloads, a key requirement in a cloud infrastructure and enterprise deployments.
* The EMC VNX Series also had the lowest overall response time (ORT) of systems tested, taking the top spot with a response time of .96 milliseconds. Faster response times enable end-users to access information quicker and more efficiently.
* The new performance records were achieved as a result of the EMC VNX Series’ modular unified storage architecture optimized to exploit the performance benefits of SSDs (Solid State Disks). EMC is the industry leader in the use of SSDs, which store and transfer data at much faster speeds than traditional disk drives.
* The EMC VNX Series also demonstrated unprecedented levels of storage efficiency during the testing. Traditional storage systems typically utilize 60% of raw capacity while the EMC VNX Series was able to utilize a remarkable 98% of its raw capacity, which in a real-world environment translates into significant cost savings.

The recently introduced EMC® VNX™ family—designed for virtual data centers—converges the award-winning EMC CLARiiON® storage area network (SAN) and EMC Celerra® network attached storage (NAS) systems into a single, unified family of solutions. The VNX series delivers leadership simplicity, efficiency, and performance for demanding virtual application and enterprise environments.

With features such as the EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) Suite, including FAST VP (Virtual Pools) and FAST Cache, the VNX Series provides real-world customer environments with superior performance, capacity optimization, and comprehensive storage management functionality, while exploiting the benefits of Solid State Drives (SSD).

“Midtier storage customers are at a crossroads, with heterogeneous IT infrastructures that include both SAN and NAS storage. So deciding how to best leverage and optimize information assets becomes tricky,” said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT, Inc. “EMC’s VNX simply, seamlessly and cost-effectively supports both SAN and NAS. It’s optimized for virtualized server environments and armed with FAST technologies that balance and optimize data automatically and efficiently. Plus, VNX’s highly scalable, modular components—complete with Intel Xeon multi-core processors—make it a powerful and flexible solution. Overall, the SPEC results for EMC’s VNX illustrate how the company’s dedication to innovation helps mid-tier customers solve common storage problems.”

“VNX brings together all of the leading functionality, benefits and the latest in processor and disk technologies into one comprehensive storage system,” said, Rich Napolitano, President, Unified Storage Division at EMC. “EMC’s strategy of helping customers accelerate their journey to the cloud includes automated management to properly tier data in virtualized environments. These benchmark results illustrate how our unique and efficient use of SSDs can help customers better manage and run mixed virtualized application and enterprise workloads.”

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions,  announced that the Arizona State University School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) has deployed EMC Isilon® scale-out NAS to power the processing and analysis of tens of thousands of lunar images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), with the aim of identifying ideal landing sites and areas of permanent shadow and illumination on the Moon’s surface. Using Isilon’s NL-Series, powered by the OneFS® operating system, SESE has consolidated its entire image processing, analysis and archiving workflow onto a single file system, simplifying big data management to reduce operating costs and increase research productivity. Additionally, using Isilon’s SyncIQ® asynchronous replication application, SESE can replicate its massive collection of lunar imagery to a second Isilon NL cluster to ensure maximum data reliability and availability.

“We’re only in the second year of the LRO project and already the storage requirements are unlike anything we’ve seen. With this effort expected to last until at least 2014, there’s just no way our previous NAS system could have handled the workload,” said Ernest Bowman-Cisneros, LROC Science Operations Center Manager, SESE. “By switching to Isilon, we’ve created a single, easily scalable and manageable share for all our lunar imagery. Now we’re not only staying ahead of our deadlines, but doing so with significantly less storage management or risk of data loss.”

Launched in Spring 2009 and equipped with seven instruments including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), the LRO is currently orbiting the Moon, beaming images back to Goddard Space Flight Center, which manages the LRO spacecraft. Goddard then distributes the images to LROC Science Operations Center (SOC) at SESE, for processing and analysis. Once the SOC processes the images, it archives copies to NASA, and makes them publicly available through the Planetary Data System archive, as well as its own website.

Prior to deploying Isilon, SESE’s traditional NAS system couldn’t scale in-line with its data growth requirements, segregating data into disparate silos and increasing the risk of data loss, while complicating management. Working with Isilon channel partner Transource, the LROC SOC deployed more than 600 terabytes of Isilon’s NL-Series to create two separate clusters; one for primary processing and analysis, and one for backup and archiving. With Isilon, LROC’s entire imaging workflow is consolidated on a single, shared pool of storage, simplifying data management to improve data reliability and image processing performance. Additionally, Isilon’s unique scale-out architecture enables LROC to add or remove nodes in minutes without any downtime or interruption, eliminating the need for disruptive system upgrades and ensuring image processing and analysis continues unabated.

“LROC and NASA are not only advancing our understanding of the Moon at a faster pace than ever before, but with the Planetary Data System, they’re giving us a front row seat to each new discovery,” said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, Isilon. “This is a great example of big data at work in our lives, as these massive lunar image repositories are providing insights into our solar system that were impossible just a decade ago. By using Isilon to simplify data management and improve reliability for its lunar imaging workflow, LROC is demonstrating that for big data, Isilon is the ideal solution.”