Cisco Introduces IP-Based Dispatch and Brings Mobile Video to First Responders
SAN JOSE, Calif. – March 10, 2010 – Further extending its Connected Physical Security portfolio, Cisco today announced the Cisco® IP Interoperability Collaboration System (IPICS) 4.0 to provide those on the front lines of safety and security with a new way to view, assess and coordinate action for an emergency situation. An intelligent network system that integrates disparate push-to-talk radio together with voice, video, and data networks, Cisco IPICS 4.0 now puts the power of live mobile video and multimedia-enhanced communications into the hands of public safety officials and security personnel from universities and schools, critical infrastructure agencies, businesses, and other first-responder organizations.
Featuring newly integrated IP-based dispatch console and mobile client applications, IPICS 4.0 allows multiple safety and security organizations to quickly share vital incident information, including live mobile video, across previously isolated radio networks. Cisco IPICS is tightly integrated with Cisco Connected Physical Security solutions with extensive built-in support for interoperability. Its Web services APIs can easily trigger or receive communications from Cisco Video Surveillance and Cisco Physical Access Control or third-party applications, further enhancing situational awareness, response time, operational efficiency and cross-agency collaboration during a critical event. Learn more...
03 / 10 / 2010 | Cisco, IPICS, IP-based dispatch, emergency response, public safety
Cisco Introduces Foundation for Next-Generation Internet
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 9, 2010 – Cisco today announced a major advancement in Internet networking - the Cisco® CRS-3 Carrier Routing System (CRS) - designed to serve as the foundation of the next-generation Internet and set the pace for the astonishing growth of video transmission, mobile devices and new online services through this decade and beyond.
With more than 12 times the traffic capacity of the nearest competing system, the Cisco CRS-3 is designed to transform the broadband communication and entertainment industry by accelerating the delivery of compelling new experiences for consumers, new revenue opportunities for service providers, and new ways to collaborate in the workplace. Learn more...
03 / 09 / 2010 | Cisco, 100G, Carrier Routing System, CRS-3
Cisco Delivers "Security Without Borders"
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and HANNOVER, GERMANY – March 2, 2010 – Cisco is tackling today's enterprise security challenges with a new architecture that will help enable business users to access information from any device and any location with a high degree of ease and security. The company announced the Cisco© Secure Borderless Network architecture, which evolves enterprise security by focusing on four critical anchors: enterprise endpoints (mobile or fixed), the Internet edge, the data center, and policy that is context- and location-aware.
As the first proof point of this architecture, Cisco is releasing the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility solution and expanding Cisco TrustSec™ to provide businesses with identity and granular control over policy to maximize persistent security and protection. This is especially important as workforces are increasingly mobile and are using new forms of Web-based collaboration and communication, making traditional security approaches insufficient. Learn more...
03 / 02 / 2010 | Cisco, ScanSafe, IronPort, VPN, AnyConnect, TrustSec, secure mobility, SaaS, security as a service
Atlantic Digital Expands Strategic Partnerships with Veeam
Atlantic Digital, Inc. is proud to announce that we have expanded our strategic partnerships to include Veeam Software. Atlantic Digital, Inc. is now a Veeam Silver ProPatner and can provide customers with a full range of Veeam products and the consulting expertise to implement them.
Veeam’s popular FastSCP freeware is used by more than 100,000 VMware professionals, making it the most widely used free tool to help manage VMware vSphere.
Veeam offers an award-winning suite of products to better manage VMware vSphere, including #1 for VMware backup: Veeam Backup and Replication; Veeam Reporter Enterprise, for VMware performance, storage, capacity reporting and chargeback; Veeam Monitor, for VMware performance monitoring and alerting across multiple vCenters; Veeam Configurator, offering complete host configuration management; and Veeam Business View, a free add-on that works with other Veeam products to provide business categorization for the VMware vSphere environment. With its acquisition of nworks, Veeam's products include the nworks Smart Plug-in and the nworks Management Pack that allow customers to monitor and manage their physical and virtual infrastructures from a single screen by incorporating VMware state and performance data into enterprise management consoles from HP and Microsoft.. Read more...
12 / 23 / 2009 | Veeam, Partner, FastSCP, Veeam Monitor, Veeam Configurator, Veeam Business View
Cisco Introduces Unified Communications System Release 8.0
SAN JOSE, Calif., November 9, 2009 – As part of today's portfolio announcement at Cisco's Collaboration Summit, the company introduced a ground-breaking version of its industry-leading unified communications platform, featuring innovations and enhancements designed to reduce costs and increase operating efficiencies between and within global enterprises. Cisco Unified Communications System Release 8.0 enables organizations to collaborate in new ways that remove barriers to communications with partners, suppliers and customers through integrated voice, video, presence, instant messaging and Web sessions.
Cisco Unified Communications System 8.0 includes advanced integrated Internet Protocol (IP) applications that allow businesses to extract more value from their communications through federated presence across devices and platforms, and through instant messaging, customer care, conferencing, video and mobility capabilities. These help enable:
• Rich, highly secure business-to-business communications.
• Innovative and interoperable communications, including enterprise instant messaging, Cisco Unified IP Phones as collaborative endpoints, and advanced mobile solutions.
• Flexible deployment models, including virtualized environments that allow customers to use Cisco Unified Communications solutions in a hybrid deployment on-premises and in the cloud as-a-service.
• Compelling integrated user experiences that incorporate video throughout the solution and that recognize the importance of simple and efficient collaborations with customers.
11 / 09 / 2009 | Cisco, collaboration, unified communications, video conferencing, IP phones, Cisco IP telephony
VMware Gives Desktop Virtualization a New View
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced VMware View 4, enabling rapid adoption of virtualized desktops and establishing a desktop as a managed service model. VMware View 4 is the industry’s only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution, setting a new quality, cost and scale standard for desktop virtualization environments. Built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware View 4 is a complete desktop virtualization solution featuring a rich, flexible desktop user experience while delivering dramatic efficiency, security, performance, scalability and management improvements – all while reducing desktop total cost of ownership by as much as 50 percent.
Desktop virtualization has long remained a top IT goal because of the added security, manageability and compliance capabilities delivered. Adoption, however, has been limited due to high acquisition costs, insufficient user experience, scalability issues and limitations on the use cases that could benefit from virtualized desktops. With VMware View 4, VMware eliminate these barriers, enabling broader, mainstream enterprise adoption of desktop virtualization.
VMware View ™ 4 provides:
• Simplified desktop provisioning and management
• User flexibility and rich user experience
• Differentiated desktop SLAs
• Improved security and compliance
VMware View 4 will be generally available on November 19, 2009. Learn more...
11 / 09 / 2009 | Desktop Virtualization, Managed Service, PCoIP, VMware View 4, SRM
VMware Expands Enterprise Class Automated Disaster Recovery
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the availability of VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 4, enabling automated, reliable and affordable disaster recovery. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides automated disaster recovery for virtual environments. Now, with added support for Network File System (NFS) based storage replication, compatibility with VMware vSphere™ 4, and simplified “many-to-one” failover using shared recovery sites, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager makes it even easier for customers to confidently protect all of their virtual environments.
Disaster recovery is critical for companies to protect corporate data, but has typically been difficult to achieve due to costs and complexity. Disasters in the datacenter–whether they are caused by hurricanes, earthquakes, power outages, or other unexpected events–can result in downtime for business critical applications. Extended downtime significantly impacts revenues, service level agreements (SLAs) and business operations. Traditional solutions for disaster recovery require complex, manual recovery processes, and can be very difficult to set up, test and keep up-to-date. Regulatory requirements can also present challenges to disaster recovery solutions. As a result, organizations only provide disaster recovery plans for the most critical applications.
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager addresses these challenges by centralizing management of recovery plans and automating the testing and recovery process, resulting in rapid, reliable, affordable disaster recovery. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager, originally released in 2008, has become the defacto standard for automating disaster recovery, with more than 2,000 customers and support from 12 leading storage vendors. Learn more...
10 / 05 / 2009 | Business Continuity, COOP, Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM
Disaster Recovery - Are You Prepared?
Whether your organization refers to it as Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) or Continuity of Operations Planning (COOP), most organizations are ill-prepared for a data center/data/network destroying disaster. Even organizations that have a documented plan, have not exercised and/or validated the plan. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides a cost effective, readily manageable means of implementing, administering and effectively testing your true DR capabilities; a capability you can bet your business on. Read more...
09 / 30 / 2009 | Business Continuity, COOP, Disaster Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager, SRM
Atlantic Digital - Salesforce.com Referral Partner
Atlantic Digital is now an Authorized Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) Referral Partner. As a Referral Partner, Atlantic Digital is able to offer its customers the opportunity to purchase salesforce.com's web-based software as a service (SaaS). Salesforce.com's portfolio of CRM applications has revolutionized the ways that companies collaborate and communicate with their customers. The company's Force.com Platform enables customers, partners and developers to quickly build powerful business tools to run every part of the enterprise in the cloud. Salesforce CRM and Force.com offer the fastest path to customer success with cloud computing.
07 / 28 / 2009 | salesforce.com, Authorized Referral Partner, Force.com
Go Green - Green IT and Energy Efficiency
Rising energy costs and consumption in data centers are climbing the list of corporate priorities. Atlantic Digital can provide your organization with tailored “Green IT” solutions, whether you care about saving money, deploying new services, keeping the data center running or helping the environment. Read more...
07 / 27 / 2009 | Green, Energy, Efficiency, Environment
Transform your Data Center
Transforming your data center through the implementation of today's highly capable technologies will enhance your business' performance. Getting the fundamentals right is critical. Atlantic Digital provides your business with the expertise, product portfolios and industry partners to ensure your business is prepared for the future now. Read More...
07 / 20 / 2009 | Data Center Transformation, Future Computing
Atlantic Digital joins the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic Digital has recently joined the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, one of Tampa's oldest and largest business organizations. Established in 1885 and representing over 2,000 businesses, the Chamber is a not-for-profit business membership organization that helps promote the businesses and interests of its members with the goal of contributing to the success of its members and the economic growth of our community.
Atlantic Digital is an enterprise-class IT services and solutions consulting firm in Tampa, Florida and is a proud member of the Chamber. We hope to facilitate growth and prosperity of local businesses by helping them take control of enterprise computing with solutions that encompass business and technical consultancy, design, project management, and implementation.
Our services include:
• Virtualization and cloud computing including VMware solutions
• Unified communications solutions utilizing Cisco VoIP technologies
• Core infrastructure and network transport design and integration
• Data & network security consulting and solutions
• Enterprise application/CRM consulting services utilizing salesforce.com
07 / 06 / 2009 | Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, Business, Community
Atlantic Digital joins the Tampa Bay Technology Forum
Atlantic Digital has joined the Tampa Bay Technology Forum (TBTF). Founded in 2000, the Tampa Bay Technology Forum (TBTF) is a professional association whose members work together to make the Bay area a place where technology and innovation thrive. TBTF’s 450+ member organizations represent more than 45,000 employees include technology entrepreneurs, business and community leaders, investors, government representatives, researchers and educators.
06 / 30 / 2009 | Tampa, TBTF, Tampa Bay Technology Forum, Community
VMware Delivers VMware vSphere™ 4
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the data center and to the cloud, today announced the general availability of VMware vSphere™ 4, delivered ahead of schedule and with the support of an extensive partner ecosystem and customers around the globe.
“With VMware vSphere 4, we are once again raising the bar significantly for businesses that desire to dramatically improve IT performance,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president and general manager, server business unit, VMware. “The cost savings associated with virtualization are undeniable, and as more customers standardize on VMware to drive 100 percent virtualization, they are realizing the additional benefits that our solutions deliver, including increased flexibility and agility.”
VMware vSphere 4 extends the previous generation VMware platform – VMware Infrastructure 3 – along three dimensions: it delivers the efficiency and performance required to run business critical applications in large scale environments, it provides uncompromised control over application security and service levels, and it preserves customer choice of hardware, OS, application architecture and on-premise vs. off-premise application hosting.
VMware vSphere 4 enables transformative capital and operational expenditure cost savings over and above what was previously achievable, including 30 percent increase in consolidation ratios, 50 percent storage savings, and 20 percent additional power savings. With VMware vSphere 4, even the most resource intensive business critical applications will benefit from the built-in service level assurance capabilities for availability, security and scalability.
Customers are already harnessing VMware vSphere 4 to bring the benefits of cloud computing to their data centers, creating a practical approach to their own private clouds – cloud computing infrastructures that span internal IT with external cloud service providers.
“VMware vSphere 4 is the core of our cloud computing initiative because it gives us the cost savings and scalability benefits of cloud computing, with the choice to deploy any application or OS without getting locked into any particular architecture,” said Christopher Rence, CIO, FICO.
For more information on how customers such as Alstom, Campbell Clinic, Defense Contract Management Agency, FICO, Harley Davidson Motor Company and Melbourne IT are using the VMware vSphere 4 platform, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vsphere-customers.html.
05 / 20 / 2009 | VMware, vSphere, New Release