Disaster Recovery Journal

ASHTEAD, UK – BridgeHead Software today announced that its Healthcare Data Management (HDM) Solution successfully passed the European Connectathon for Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) in Bern, Switzerland.

 

During the course of the Connectathon, over 2,800 tests for the interoperability of 120 medical information systems were performed by 85 companies at the five-day, “marathon” testing environment. BridgeHead Software’s XDS repository and ancillary systems were tested alongside 24 other healthcare IT systems to demonstrate enterprise wide healthcare collaborative potential.

 

Niall Monaghan, IHE-UK SC Co-Chair commented: “Passing through the Connectathon has enabled BridgeHead to validate its integration statement. You can clearly see on our website that BridgeHead has completed the required tests to conform to a selection of IHE profiles. As a result, customers and potential customers can be confident in BridgeHead’s ability to provide interoperable data management solutions, using the IHE XDS profiles they tested against.”

 

“With the increase in the adoption of the XDS standard by hospitals in general (not just in radiology, as is often perceived), it is essential that software vendors step up to the mark and ensure their products are fully compatible so that all patient data can be shared,” said John McCann, Director of Marketing, BridgeHead Software. “BridgeHead continues to support IHE. Our research and development in XDS, and our successful completion of the Connectathon, proves our continued dedication and commitment to enabling interoperability across a hospital’s IT environment.”

 

BridgeHead Software’s HDM Solution enables hospitals to increase the quality of patient care by harnessing all clinical and administrative data, ensuring that it is: STORED,

efficiently, intelligently and at optimum cost; PROTECTED from misuse, corruption and loss; and can be SHARED between users, applications, departments or other hospitals, making vital patient information accessible to the people that need it.

 

Jamie Clifton, Director of Product Management at BridgeHead Software, commented: “We’re very happy to have had such a successful session at IHE this year and to have seen such positive results for our HDM solution at the Connectathon. Our customers need total trust in our products and their ability to integrate and collaborate with other healthcare systems. The rigor and depth of testing offered by the Connectathon provides another level of gravitas to our solutions and we’re fortunate to have taken part.”

 

Niall concluded, “Completing and passing the 2012 Connectathon definitely boosts BridgeHead’s credibility in this space especially as integration and collaboration are absolutely key to working in healthcare. Additionally, we’re excited that BridgeHead will be participating more actively in IHE as a vendor, contributing to meetings and our UK healthcare strategy. As a member, they can join the discussion as to where the future lies and help us shape it.”

 

PITTSBURGH – Avere Systems today introduced its latest FXT Series Edge filer, designed to bring the benefits of NAS Optimization to remote office environments by allowing companies to centralize resources and reduce the amount of infrastructure at remote locations while providing the ability to run mission-critical applications outside of the data center and across a WAN without performance degradation.

The Avere FXT 3100 Edge filer contains 48GB of DRAM and 1GB NVRAM to accelerate the read, write and metadata performance of most active data.  It contains 2.4TB of 10k SAS HDDs to store a large working set of recently active data.  FXT 3100's 2x 10GbE and 6x 1GbE ports allow connectivity to clients and servers for high performance access to active data and to Core filers for infrequently accessed data.  Each unit can be clustered to other FXT Edge filers with scaling of up to 50 nodes for linear performance and HA failover.

"Organizations have experienced numerous challenges in delivering corporate applications and/or IT services to remote locations—challenges related primarily to poor application performance, slow file transfer speeds, and WAN bandwidth costs. More than half of respondents in a recent ESG survey indicated that remote application access challenges have been the cause of dissatisfaction among end-users," said Terri McClure, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.  "Avere’s FXT 3100 Edge filer is an example of a product that can help solve this problem while also helping address the cost and manageability challenges tied to remote storage deployments."

Built on the latest Avere Operating System (AOS), the Avere FXT 3100 Edge filer enables automatic tiering of data for optimal performance, advanced monitoring to provide deep visibility into the entire NAS environment and a global namespace for managing all storage as a single pool.  Optional software enhancements include Avere FlashMove™ that takes the pain out of NAS data migrations and accelerates the performance of data; and FlashMirror™, heterogeneous NAS replication software that provides a flexible and high-performance solution for implementing comprehensive data protection across a NAS infrastructure.

“While all organizations can benefit from the improvements in performance and reduction in footprint that our FXT Series Edge filers offer, enterprises with remote or branch offices face a unique situation with sprawling NAS environments that require additional capital and operation investments,” said Ron Bianchini, President and CEO of Avere Systems. “Our new FXT 3100 Edge filer helps take the sting out of these deployments by providing global data access and visibility of data as part of a single logical pool, alleviating the need for duplicate storage infrastructure in remote offices and provides a form factor suitable for branch offices.”

Pricing and Availability
The FXT 3100 Edge filer starts at $42,500.  It is expected to be generally available within the 30 days. Additional information about the FXT series is available at http://www.averesystems.com/Products_FXT.aspx

About Avere Systems
Avere Systems brings to the market NAS Optimization solutions designed specifically to scale performance and capacity separately and take advantage of new storage media using real-time tiering. Avere’s FXT Series Edge filers allow organizations to achieve unlimited application performance scaling, free applications from the confines of the data center by eliminating latency and cut storage costs by more than half. Learn more at www.averesystems.com, and you can follow the company on Twitter.com/averesystems.

Boston, Mass. – Zerto, the industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution provider, today announced that the Philadelphia Contributionship has chosen Zerto Virtual Replication for disaster recovery to support the company’s data center virtualization efforts.  Established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752, the Philadelphia Contributionship is America’s oldest insurance company, providing personalized home, fire, and flood insurance to over 400 insurance agencies across several mid-Atlantic states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

The Contributionship implemented Zerto Virtual Replication to protect essential servers and applications dedicated to the company’s daily business functions, including accounting, document management and IT support systems as well as Microsoft SharePoint.  The company began evaluating and upgrading their BC/DR capabilities following Hurricane Irene, when they realized that their existing strategies and solutions provided minimal protection against a major systems failure.

“Our old recovery and testing strategy was a complex ordeal at best, as it put intensive strains on our network and made it impossible to meet the recovery objectives our business demands” said Mark Montagna, IT Infrastructure Manager, Philadelphia Contributionship.  “Zerto delivered comprehensive data and application protection without any updates or upgrades to our current network or storage infrastructure, simply and affordably.”

Zerto offers a virtual-aware business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) solution, which replicates data within the virtual infrastructure instead of in physical storage.  By moving replication to the hypervisor, companies extend the benefits of virtualization, including flexibility, mobility and scalability to their disaster recovery solutions.  Zerto’s hypervisor-based replication combines the enterprise-class features of physical replication with the flexibility, ease- of-management and control, and scalability of virtual environments.

“We are proud to have been selected by the Philadelphia Contributionship as they modernize their data center,” said Ziv Kedem, CEO of Zerto.  “Zerto Virtual Replication provides insurance for business critical data and applications’, offering enterprise-class data recovery and protection for today’s virtualized environments.”

About Zerto

Zerto provides enterprise-class business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for virtualized infrastructure and cloud. Zerto won a 2011 Product of the Year Gold award as well as Best of Show at VMworld 2011. Zerto Virtual Replication is the industry’s first hypervisor-based replication solution for tier-one applications and replaces traditional array-based BC/DR solutions that were not built to deal with the virtual paradigm. For more information, please visit: www.zerto.com

Waltham, MA – Sanbolic®, the market leader in data management, today announced that its Sanbolic Melio software for Microsoft SQL Server Clustering is featured in a new Intel® Enabled Solution Acceleration Alliance (ESAA) recipe. The recipe, or solution guide, outlines how to get the most out of clustering Microsoft SQL Server on Intel® Server platforms.

Intel ESAA gives resellers and direct Intel OEMs access to a wide range of pre-validated configuration guides ("recipes") jointly developed by Intel and independent hardware and software vendors (IxVs).  Intel resellers, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Intermediate eXperimental Vehicles, as well as end users for whom the solutions are intended, will find the new recipe, the Sanbolic Melio and Microsoft SQL 2008R2 Guide, well-timed as organizations continue to struggle with the high cost and complexity of configuring, managing and protecting large SQL Server implementations. With its unique and extensive capabilities, Sanbolic’s Melio data management platform helps organizations overcome these challenges, which are so often rooted in traditional storage architectures that require multiple volumes in order to achieve granular failover in clustered SQL Server deployments.  By enabling optimal storage utilization, simplified database management (i.e., eliminating database sprawl), live storage/data migration, and quality of service (QoS) that ensures high performance of critical SQL Server workloads, Melio delivers a cost-effective solution for SQL Server consolidation and high availability in physical, virtual and mixed environments.

“We included Sanbolic’s Melio data management software as a key component in the ‘Sanbolic Melio and Microsoft SQL 2008R2 Guide’ guide because its industry-unique features and functionality help users overcome the numerous challenges associated with SQL Server clustering while delivering enhanced storage performance and availability, as well as providing the ability to scale out, not just up,” said Rick Cecil, Intel® ESAA Architect at Intel.

“Providing active-active access to storage eliminates the need for individual server/storage silos, thereby enhancing both server and storage utilization while reducing the management burden customers face when supporting clustered SQL Server environments. Cluster-wide data protection, granular performance management and the ability to scale deployments seamlessly offers organizations additional capabilities for protecting, managing and scaling their SQL Server environments,” stated Andy Melmed, Director of Enterprise Solutions at Sanbolic.  “Sanbolic is delighted to have once again worked with Intel® to develop another ESAA recipe.  It is a seal of approval for which we are understandably proud.”

Additional Sanbolic recipes featured under the Intel® ESAA program include:

• Building Virtual Datacenters with Sanbolic Melio and Microsoft Hyper-V R2
• Implementing VDI with Sanbolic Melio and Citrix XenDesktop 5.0
• Creating Scalable File-serving Clusters with Sanbolic Melio and Microsoft Server 2008 R2
• Clustering SQL Server with Sanbolic Melio and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

To request a copy of any Sanbolic Intel® ESAA guide, please email info@sanbolic.com.

For more information about Intel ESAA, please visit: http://www.esaa-members.com/pages/home.

About Sanbolic, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Sanbolic® is a global leader in centralized data management.  Its Melio™ software suite delivers dramatically increased levels of application availability, scalability, protection and performance while decreasing cost and management complexity across enterprise data centerapplications such as Microsoft SQL, Microsoft SharePoint and Windows file-/web-serving, Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop (VDI), and Microsoft Hyper-V private cloudenvironments.  For further information please visit the Sanbolic website at: www.sanbolic.com or email: info@sanbolic.com.

New York, USA. July 12, 2012. ADVA Optical Networking announced today that NYSE Euronext, a leading global provider of financial markets and innovative trading technologies, has deployed the ADVA FSP 3000 in its new Secure Financial Trading Infrastructure (SFTI) access center. SFTI, owned and operated by NYSE Euronext, is a dedicated backbone for the securities markets and is used by the financial community for trading, market data and colocation access. Already deployed in some of the world's largest financial networks, the ADVA FSP 3000 was specifically chosen because of its extensive certifications, proven low-latency capabilities and small footprint.

To successfully qualify as one of NYSE Euronext's technology partners, the ADVA FSP 3000 was rigorously tested at the company's lab facilities. In these locations, a global team of ADVA Optical Networking's engineers and support staff collaborated with technicians from NYSE Euronext to ensure that every aspect of the ADVA FSP 3000 met the most robust standards. During this time, ADVA Optical Networking's team also provided NYSE Euronext with in-depth training on the ADVA FSP 3000 to ensure seamless operation.

"The financial industry has some of the most demanding requirements of any in the network," commented Christoph Glingener, CTO at ADVA Optical Networking. "In this environment, customers need to know their mission-critical data is always safe, always accessible. There's no room for error. But success here isn't just about leading-edge technology, it's about collaboration, it's about developing a strong working relationship. This is something we've developed with NYSE Euronext and we're looking forward to seeing the relationship grow."

The ADVA FSP 3000 is a scalable Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) system specifically designed for large enterprises and service providers that require a flexible, cost-effective system that will multiplex, transport and protect high-speed data, storage, voice and video applications over fiber optic networks.

Westborough, Mass. – ExaGrid Systems, Inc. (http://www.exagrid.com) the leader in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, today announced record bookings and revenue in Q2 2012, further strengthening its leadership position for GRID-scalable disk backup with deduplication systems in the mid-market and small enterprise.

Along with strong sales growth, the company continued to execute in a variety of important areas during the quarter. Key achievements in Q2 2012 include the following:

Expanding Global Customer Base: ExaGrid further gained worldwide market share.
With more than 4,500 systems installed worldwide, ExaGrid has grown its customer base to more than 1,400 customers in North America, EMEA, and the Asia-Pacific region.
ExaGrid further extended its position as the vendor with the largest installed base of GRID-scalable disk backup with data deduplication appliances in the mid-market and small enterprise.
Over 50 percent of ExaGrid’s new customers have eliminated tape and are replicating their data to an ExaGrid appliance at an offsite location for disaster recovery.
An industry record 300 ExaGrid Customer Success Stories and video testimonials describing customer experiences with ExaGrid are published on the company’s website, including new case studies from leaders such as Aeroflex, Bollinger Insurance, Maine State Legislature, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Tanger Factory Outlets.
Growth in Small Enterprise: ExaGrid has continued to grow its base of customers that require the backup of large amounts of primary data.
ExaGrid grew its base of small enterprise customers with large amounts of backup data in industries including healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications and local government. The company continues to increase the number of customers that require over 100TB of primary data to be backed up.
The GRID architecture of ExaGrid’s disk backup with deduplication solution allows the system to scale up to 130TB for a full backup in a single system without forklift upgrades or product obsolescence. Customers can easily expand capacity by adding full servers to the grid, maintaining consistently short backup windows with no backup window expansion as data grows. The largest ExaGrid configuration supports a total backup data capacity of up to 2 petabytes of data.
New Product Capabilities: In Q2, ExaGrid announced that it has extended its world-class security capabilities by introducing a new SecureErase feature.
The new SecureErase feature permanently and safely deletes confidential data from disk following the backup process. Fully compliant with Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220-22-M) and National Institute of Standards and Technology standard (NIST SP800-88), the new feature ensures that organizations with the most demanding security requirements can comply when required to remove backup data from ExaGrid’s disk-based backup appliance.
Global Channel Growth: ExaGrid delivered 95 percent of the company’s business through channel partners and continues to add new partnerships to the company’s network of nearly 500 VARS around the world.
As a result of strong international channel sales efforts, ExaGrid has continued to expand its customer base in the EMEA region and has also seen growing sales in the Asia Pacific market. ExaGrid’s EMEA position was strengthened with the announcement of Paramount Computer Systems as a partner for the Middle East market.
Industry Recognition and Leadership: ExaGrid was recognized by Storage Magazine for the third consecutive year at the Storage Awards in London.
ExaGrid’s received the ‘Value for Money’ product of the year award for industry-leading price/performance at the annual ceremony and also was shortlisted for the ‘Lab Tested’ product of the year. Winners were determined by a public vote.
Strengthened Industry Partnerships: ExaGrid announced major customer wins with Veeam Software and further expanded the company’s partnership with Veeam to improve the recoverability of virtual machines (VMs). The integrated solution, which pairs Veeam’s industry-leading Backup & Replication™ and ExaGrid′s unique landing zone architecture, provides fast backups, efficient data storage and retrieval, and the ability to instantly recover and run a VM directly from the ExaGrid appliance.

Supporting Quote:

Bill Andrews, president and CEO for ExaGrid Systems: “Our record quarter, product advancements, channel expansion and industry recognition helped further establish ExaGrid’s leadership for GRID-scalable systems in the mid-market to small enterprise,” said Bill Andrews, president and CEO of ExaGrid Systems. “We continue to see a substantial number of customers choosing ExaGrid based on superior backup and restore performance, cost-effective scalability as data grows and customer support. More and more customers with larger data size backups and high data growth rates are seeing the compelling value of our disk-based systems that deliver the fastest backups and restores, avoid backup window explosion as data grows and protect the IT budget with the lowest total system cost over time.”



About ExaGrid’s Technology:
The ExaGrid system is a plug-and-play disk backup appliance that works with existing backup applications and enables faster and more reliable backups and restores. Customers report that backup time is reduced by 30 to 90 percent over traditional tape backup. ExaGrid’s patented byte-level data deduplication technology and most recent backup compression reduces the amount of disk space needed by a range of 10:1 to as high as 50:1 or more, resulting in a cost comparable to traditional tape-based backup.

About ExaGrid Systems, Inc.:
ExaGrid offers the only disk-based backup appliance with data deduplication purpose-built for backup that leverages a unique architecture optimized for performance, scalability and price. The combination of post-process deduplication, most recent backup cache, and GRID scalability enables IT departments to achieve the shortest backup window and the fastest, most reliable restores, tape copy, and disaster recovery without backup window expansion or forklift upgrades as data grows. With offices and distribution worldwide, ExaGrid has more than 4,500 systems installed at more than 1,400 customers, and more than 300 published customer success stories.

For more information, contact ExaGrid at 800-868-6985 or visit www.exagrid.com.  Visit “ExaGrid’s Eye on Deduplication” blog: http://blog.exagrid.com/.

Award-winning eBRP Solutions and MHA Consulting have entered into a partnership to mutually enhance their capabilities to deploy leading-edge Business Continuity software and services to their clients.

This agreement represents the first working partnership for both companies.  Going forward, MHA will leverage eBRP Business Continuity Management software tools to enhance its ability to deliver services to its customers.  eBRP will rely on MHA’s experience and market presence  to enhance its ability to assist its software customers in enhancing and expanding their Business Continuity Management programs.

“We see this as a win-win-win”, stated eBRP Director David Gray, “in which eBRP, MHA and our Customers all gain opportunity and benefits.  With their experience and highly regarded reputation, we believe that partnering with MHA and CEO Michael Herrera perfectly aligns with eBRP’s commitment to its Customers.”

About eBRP: eBRP Solutions Network, Inc., founded in 2002, offers an award-winning, web-based and fully integrated set of Business Continuity Management software tools that address the entire BCM lifecycle.  eBRP’s flagship product – eBRP Suite- serves the Fortune 500 and other large organizations , while eZ-Planner – its rapidly-growing SaaS-based toolset - addresses the immediate needs of medium and smaller business organizations.  For more information, visit www.eBRP.net , or www.eZ-PLANNER.com , or contact them at info@eBRP.net

About MHA: Founded in 1999, MHA Consulting is a Business Continuity consultancy to leading public and private businesses throughout the United States. A privately held company located in Phoenix, Arizona, MHA is recognized for its experience and results across many industries. A proven leader in Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning, IT best practices and data center moves, MHA helps protect trillions of dollars of global-market assets for leading companies across many industries.  For more information visit www.mha-it.com, or contact them at info@mha-it.com

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For additional information contact:

Jim Mitchell, Director, eBRP Solutions

Jim.Mitchell@eBRP.net

(905) 677-0404

BCM 5000: Auditing BCM Programs for PS Prep Certification & ISO 22301 Lead Auditor Training is the only Auditor Course that prepares both internal and 3rd party auditors as well as BCM professionals to audit BCM programs against all 5 DHS accepted standards.  Also NEW!  Introduction to ISO 22301 - the new international standard for Business Continuity Management Systems.  Auditors who will be responsible for certifying private sector companies under PS-Prep in the USA must have completed a training course that includes examination of the auditor's competence in ASIS SPC.1, ISO 22301, NFPA 1600:2010., ISO 19011, and ISO 17022. Lead Auditors who wish to certify companies to ISO 22301 will also need to add to their competencies. BCM 5000 provides students with the skills and knowledge to conduct and lead effective business continuity management system audits in accordance with the requirements of the BCMS standards, ISO 19011: 2012 and ISO 17022: 2012. Outside of the US, BCM 5000 teaches ISO 22301 Lead Auditor Training only. 2012 Course Schedule August 20-24, 2012: Chicago, IL      Summit Executive Center November 5-9, 2012: Tampa, FL      Marriott, Tampa Waterside Class meets 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Daily Register Now!   Course Description  (Download the Brochure) Attendees will gain a solid understanding of business continuity management programs and practices along with an in-depth study of the appropriate standards and audit requirements.   The course includes the following process for instruction: Essential BCM Program Components are introduced and explained (the How) The appropriate standard component is identified (the Why) The appropriate audit requirement is determined (the What) To assist with the understanding of the overall process, the class is constructed around a case study and each activity will be applied to the case study as we move through the course and practice applying the standards to auditing practices.   Also included in the course are small 'quizzes" taken after each section and an exam review "Jeopardy" game to prepare for the exam.   Course materials include the following: Student Guide - Over 300 pages of text and pictures (not ppts!) to be used as a future reference Case study Sample plans and supporting documentation to evaluate the case study against the standards and audit requirements Copy of each of the following standards: ASIS SPC.1 (student must download from ASIS website and provide) BS 25999 Part 2 (through 2012) NFPA 1600: 2010 ISO 22301 ISO 31000 review guide:  Structured Approach to ERM and ISO 31000 BCI's Good Practice Guidelines 2008 Compliance Scorecard for meeting requirements of each standard and all standards NEW!  Includes ISO 22301 - the New International Standard for BCMS Course Outline and Learning Objectives Part 1:  Requirements of a Business Continuity Management System Part 2:  Developing Strategies to Mitigate Risk Part 3:  BCM Program Implementation - the elements of a BCM program and keeping it up to date Part 4:  Embedding BCM into the Culture of the Organization Part 5:  Program Improvement, exam review and exam   As a result of successfully completing BCM 5000, students should show competence in and an understanding of the following areas: The key practices of a business continuity program for organizations of all sizes The requirements for auditing business continuity programs under the 3 PS-Prep standards The essential elements of the standards: Course Audience: Internal auditors, 3rd party auditors (certifying bodies for PS-Prep), and BCM professionals.   Attendees should have some auditing experience, but can have only minimal expertise with business continuity management systems.  Attendees with expertise and experience with BCMS will gain the necessary knowledge to prepare for an external audit and to develop a standards-based program.   Accreditation and Certification BCM 5000: Auditing BCM Programs for PS Prep Certification & ISO 22301 Lead Auditor Training is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).  ANSI is the only US accreditation body.  ICOR's BCM 5000 is the only ANSI accredited PS-Prep course .   Upon completion of BCM 5000 and passing the exam with a rate of 75% or higher, attendees will earn a certificate as a BCMS Auditor.   Register NOW!   Course Fee: $2,895.00 USD includes all course materials, breakfast, lunch, and refreshments.   Questions?  Contact Lynnda Nelson at 866-765-8321 or Lynnda@theicor.org

Long Branch, N.J. – On the heels of a rare and extremely dangerous storm in our National Capital Region (NCR), Cooper Notification, the leading supplier of Life Safety and Mass Notification System (MNS) solutions, is helping to keep those affected informed. Utilizing Cooper Notification’s Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN), emergency management officials are able to send those in the NCR a wide range of alerts to both stay informed and help aid recovery efforts.

 

Covering 18 total jurisdictions in the NCR, Cooper Notification is reporting that nearly 500,000 users have taken advantage of the system and more than 4 million alert messages were sent between June 29 and July 2. These messages included all user emergency and severe weather alerts; updated traffic patterns and road closures; school and government closings; and information regarding cooling centers, food, water and ice distribution locations.

 

"Although somewhat rare, summer storms, like the recent derecho that wreaked havoc on the National Capital Region, have the potential to cripple communications for millions of residents," said Scott Hearn, President, Cooper Notification. "By utilizing our RSAN solutions, those affected can receive the latest updates to stay informed, learn where vital support stations are located and avoid certain areas to speed up recovery efforts.”

 

Through RSAN, emergency management personnel are able to send geographically targeted alerts, even during power outages, to communities across the region. During this crisis, alerts were sent simultaneously via e-mail, text and voice to cell phones, landlines, smart phones, pagers and other devices. Utilizing multiple delivery channels increases the likelihood each population will receive the message no matter where they are located or evacuated.

 

Cooper Notification: Delivering Critical Alerts when it Matters Most

Cooper Notification, the industry’s most comprehensive, multi-layered Mass Notification System (MNS) provider, provides critical, emergency communications for cities and counties across the U.S. With 500 MNS systems around the globe, other installations include U.S. military sites; university and college campuses; state and federal agencies; airports; and hospitals.  Integrated with one simple-to-use interface, Cooper Notifications reliable and effective MNS solutions allow emergency officials to send event-specific instructions to multiple communication channels, including voice-sirens, indoor and outdoor speakers, digital signage, text messaging/SMS alerting, automated dialing systems, desktop alerts, and email notifications. These systems play an important role in emergency alerting and information sharing among government leadership, first responders, critical infrastructure providers, businesses and citizens.

 

About Cooper Notification

Cooper Notification, a solution platform of Cooper Industries, is comprised of several businesses with decades of experience and innovation in the development of high quality products and solutions. With the ever present need to protect, alert and inform, Cooper Notification is focused on meeting the growing demand for personnel and property safety. We are the source for notification solutions supporting Fire, Security, Hazardous area, Mass Notification, Voice evacuation and Industrial Signaling applications and operating under the powerful global brands of Fulleon, MEDC, Roam Secure, SAFEPATH, WAVES and Wheelock. For more information, visit the web site at www.coopernotification.com.

 

About Cooper Industries

Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of $5.4 billion.  Founded in 1833 Cooper's sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation and evolving business practices, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting customer needs.  The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and world-class products and brands, including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products.  With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety.  In 2011 sixty-two percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States.  Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2011.  For more information, visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.

Waltham, MA – Sanbolic®, the market leader in data management, and Zadara Storage™, the leading provider of enterprise-class storage-as-a-service for public clouds, today announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic agreement under which they will join together to deliver enterprise-class storage with high availability application clustering, via the world’s leading public cloud providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Rackspace Hosting.  The new Sanbolic and Zadara offering will enable customers to leverage Zadara’s Virtual Private Storage Array™ (VPSA™) service and Sanbolic’s Melio™ data management software together with the products/services provided by the world’s foremost public cloud providers, in order to extend the availability, scalability, performance, protection and management efficiency of business critical applications and data, while dramatically increasing flexibility and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO).

“Zadara's innovative VPSA service provides customers with the same capabilities, performance and availability of on-premise, enterprise SAN/NAS arrays, without the necessity of expensive upfront capital or long-term commitment,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO and Co-Founder, Zadara Storage.  “By combining Zadara storage with Sanbolic data management software, together with the products and services provided by the biggest names in public cloud, customers can now confidently move their business critical applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Windows file-/web-serving, analytics and VDI into the public cloud and enjoy unmatched scalability, availability, performance and ease-of-management, as well as unmatched data protection, privacy and security – at an absolutely unbeatable entry price.”

“The advantages of being able to span business critical applications from on-premise data centers to a public cloud are impossible to ignore, starting with huge efficiency increases and significant cost decreases – to dramatic enhancements in scalability, availability, performance, and disaster recoverability/data protection,” said Momchil “Memo” Michailov, CEO and Co-Founder, Sanbolic.  “Now, business organizations can easily and confidently ‘plug into’ these benefits when they leverage the combined Sanbolic and Zadara offering, and in doing so completely level the playing field and then, re-dedicate the valuable expertise of their IT professionals to activities that directly contribute to the bottom-line, speed time-to-market and increase competitive advantage.”

In related news, Sanbolic recently announced Sanbolic Melio AppCluster™ support for public clouds.  Sanbolic AppCluster, a Microsoft SQL Server specific module within its Melio™ software, extends the agility, high availability (HA), and scalability of SQL Server workloads across physical, virtualized, and now – both private and public cloud environments.  With the addition of public cloud support, customers are now able to further minimize the cost and complexity of managing SQL Server clusters, while extending the economics of public cloud to one of the most widely deployed database server and information platforms in the world.

For further information on the joint Sanbolic and Zadara Public Cloud Service, available today to customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Rackspace, please visit: http://www.sanbolic.com/melio-cloud.htm or http://www.zadarastorage.com/solutions/meliosqlcluster.

About Zadara Storage, Inc.

Zadara Storage, Inc., based in Irvine, California, revolutionizes the Cloud by offering a high-performance, high availability, primary block storage service at major Public Cloud providers (including Amazon Web Services as an AWS Solution Provider, Rackspace as a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner and OpSource as an OpSource Cloud Solution Provider). With Zadara's Virtual Private Storage Array™ (VPSA™) service, subscribers are able to run databases and other demanding applications in the public cloud, easily, effectively and consistently. Zadara VPSAs combine the privacy, control and consistent performance of on-premise enterprise storage systems with cloud economics, flexibility and ease of use.  For further information, please visit: www.zadarastorage.com.

About Sanbolic, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Sanbolic® is a global leader in data management.  Its Melio™ software suite delivers dramatically increased levels of application availability, scalability, protection and performance while decreasing cost and management complexity across enterprise data center applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Windows file-/web-serving, Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktop (VDI), and Microsoft Hyper-V private cloud environments.  For further information please visit the Sanbolic website at: www.sanbolic.com or email: info@sanbolic.com.