By addressing pervasive storage challenges facing midsize enterprises, Nimble has ramped revenue faster than the most successful storage start-ups of the past decade. Nimble helps organisations overcome the high costs and complexity of enterprise storage by providing an innovative storage architecture that accelerates performance and reduces the cost of primary storage; easily incorporates backup as part of an overall storage strategy; and provides a simplified, cost-effective approach to disaster recovery.

Nimble's widespread adoption has been driven by overwhelmingly positive customer response. "Our primary storage and backup processes were previously separate and siloed, and we lacked the systems necessary to make disaster recovery a reality," said Mike Brester, systems administrator for MulvannyG2, a Bellevue, Washington-based architecture firm. "And the costs for maintaining separate storage appliances and regimens were out of control. Nimble gave us the first practical alternative, with a converged storage and backup solution that also made offsite replication for disaster recovery a routine process."

"Nimble Storage has the right idea at the right time," said Robin Harris, founder and senior analyst, StorageMojo. "The Nimble solution combines storage, backup, and disaster recovery into a single process, simplifying IT's job. Combined with its CASLâ„¢ storage architecture, this positions Nimble to relieve a serious pain felt by IT administrators."

The company's breakthrough CASL architecture, incorporated in the CS-Series, allows organisations to reduce their capital expenditures for storage and backup by at least 60 percent, while eliminating the need for separate, disk-based backup.

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One of the problems with the speed of new technology introduction in IT is, the difficulty for the bulk of us “normal� people to keep up with it. Just as soon as you have learned something, there is a new solution being introduced. If you only have to worry about that specific area, that’s great, but if you are a typical IT generalist and have to worry about server, storage, applications, desktops, networks, users, WANs, security – it becomes impossible.

It is all too easy to come up with a “best of breed� solution that may solve the problem and may be OK today, but next time you come to touch it in 4 months time, while your mind has been elsewhere – “how on earth do I drive this?�, “how do I make this bigger/smaller/faster?�, “I’m sure it can do that but I can’t remember how�. So you waste the next several hours trying to remember what you did and how you did it. Great if that’s what you want to do, but if you want to just get it done and move to the next thing..... it’s a nightmare.

More and more we are trying to design solutions that work today and are easy to pick back up in a few months time without getting the manual out again, or spending time relearning what you forgot.

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Today, Microsoft released one of its largest monthly patch cycles to date, covering a total of 34 vulnerabilities in 14 advisories. Such patch cycles create a daunting task for enterprises, which must quickly deploy patches to individual systems before exploits emerge, allowing attackers to compromise machines.

This challenge is made even more difficult for companies with a mobile workforce where laptop computers may not be online at any given time to permit patches to be pushed to road warriors.

Zscaler has already deployed protections that enabled customers with immediate defence against the five web based, client-side vulnerabilities.

With Zscaler's cloud-delivered security service (SaaS), customers are transparently protected from numerous vulnerabilities, many of which are critical in nature. Zscaler's protections are in-line and, as such, do not require customers to take any action on their own. Such protections apply to both end-user systems on the enterprise network and laptops out in the field.

"Working with Microsoft through its MAPPs program is of great benefit to our mutual customer base as it ensures immediate vulnerability shielding for critical web-based vulnerabilities the day that they are released," said Michael Sutton, vice president of Security Research at Zscaler. The Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPPs) ensures that Microsoft's trusted security partners receive details of vulnerabilities ahead of public release in order to build appropriate protections.

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Virtual I/O allows for dynamic allocation and changing of bandwidth and networks to applications and servers without resorting to screwdrivers, card changes, cable moves or even rebooting.

Until now to run I/O virtualisation for servers you have had to use expensive CNA (Converged Network Adapter) cards or Infiniband cards. While that may be OK for new servers, for existing servers that would mean significant change (and perhaps cost - especially if CNA is your chosen route).

Now you can keep your existing Ethernet adapters and still benefit from I/.O virtualisation. Just connect the server to the I/O Director via Ethernet, load the driver, and you're ready to deploy virtual connections that will carry both Fibre Channel and Ethernet traffic, all over standard Ethernet. Get up to 64 virtual connections to a server without touching the hardware.

You can use either 10Gbps or 1Gbps ports. So when 10Gbps adapters become standard on commodity servers next year, you could get better functionality and the same performance as FCoE, without any extra costs.

If you need more bandwidth than 10Gbps you can of course still get 40Gbps with their infiniband cards.

Unlike some solutions, this is universally applicable, across all makes of server and formats - blades, 1u, 4u, or whatever.

Of course, with an Ethernet based solution, there is no need to change cables.

This is serious game changing technology!

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Zscaler, Inc., the market leader in cloud security, today announced the worldwide availability of the industry's first fully integrated email and web security service. With the addition of email security to its existing web security portfolio, Zscaler now offers enterprises with the most comprehensive cloud-delivered service that protects against most Internet-based risks. It also consolidates multiple point products, simplifies IT administration, increases security, while reducing costs and risk to the business.

"Web and messaging security are no longer mutually exclusive," says Christian Christiansen, Program Vice President for IDC's Security Products and Services group. "Malicious URLs appear in emails, phishing attacks, and sophisticated blended threats that target multiple protocols. The use of web-based malware forces organizations to adopt security technologies that can address both web and messaging threat vectors to an equal degree. Offering potential solutions, Zscaler's security SaaS offerings provide integrated web and email security that reduces cost and complexity while improving security."

Extending Cloud Security from Web to Email Gateway
Zscaler launched its game-changing cloud-delivered web security service in 2008 and is now protecting millions of users in 140 countries. Customers range from G2000 enterprises to governments to SMBs. To complement the web security offering, Zscaler has now extended its infrastructure to also provide a deep and comprehensive email security service that provides protection against spam and malware.
Key features include:

• Accurate filtering to block spam and phishing
• Deep protection against viruses and spyware before they enter the enterprise perimeter
• Flexible policies to define granular mail flow and encryption
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for SMTP and webmail
• Rich, interactive and correlated real-time reporting

"We have been a happy Zscaler web security customer," said Bob Fairclough, Manager of Technology Services at Raritan Bay Medical Center (RBMC), a leading healthcare institution in New Jersey. "Replacing our email security appliances with Zscaler's email service was almost effortless. Integrated email and web security has provided us holistic reporting and common security policies as well as saved us time and money."

Defining a New Standard for Integration
While many vendors talk about web and email integration, offerings are limited to a common dashboard. Beyond that lie two disparate user interfaces as well as multiple policy managers and reporting systems. Truly integrated web and email security is a key factor setting Zscaler apart from the competition.

Service highlights include:

• Single Policy: Truly one policy manager for email and web security
• Integrated Security: Cross-leveraging threat intelligence with full inline real-time content inspection of email and web traffic for better detection of advanced threats and data loss, as well as dynamic classification of web pages to proactively stop suspicious and malicious code. For example, detection of transaction by botnets sending spam is leveraged by the web security service in real-time.
• Integrated Reporting: Holistic visibility for email and web, with unified real-time reporting down to the transaction level at incredibly fast response speeds, powered by Zscaler's patented NanoLog technology
• Common DLP: A single, common user interface and policy manager for Data Loss Prevention (DLP), eliminating the need to maintain separate sets of policies and dictionaries for email and web

"Driven by cost, complexity and growing security risks, enterprises of all sizes are looking for integrated cloud security services," said Patrick Foxhoven, CIO of CentraComm, a managed security and network services company based in Ohio servicing Fortune 50 to mid-market customers. "Unlike other offerings, Zscaler email and web are truly integrated, enabling us to serve our customers better by addressing all threat vectors they face with a single unified platform."

In addition, the Zscaler services offer policy-based protection for mobile users anywhere and at any time. With 40+ data centers globally, re-routing latency is minimum and 100% reliability and availability is ensured.

"The new version of Zscaler gives new meaning to, and defines a new standard for, integrated web and email security services," said Jay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler. "It also provides us unrivalled visibility into evolving threats across mail and Web globally."

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