Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today reasserted its commitment to its growing list of channel partners by unveiling a multitude of innovative programs designed to maximise profitability. Addressing evolving networking requirements, the first initiative is a 10 GbE migration rebate program to help channel partners provide end-user customers with a high performance, cost-effective solution to future-proof their networks. The Brocade FCX Series Switches, as well as all current Brocade 10 GbE products, are included in this migration program.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) and Dell™ today announced that the new range of open, standards-based networking solutions under Dell’s PowerConnect B-Series is now ready to ship and immediately available in Asia, enabling organisations of all sizes to build efficient data centres and drive down costs, while preserving choice of architectures.
The Australian online advertising market continues to record strong growth with online advertising expenditure for the March quarter 2010 growing by an impressive 17 per cent year on year, according to data released today by IAB Australia in its Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER) compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Online expenditure for the first three months of 2010 totalled $512.5 million, unchanged from the fourth quarter 2009.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released for comment three draft papers addressing the National Broadband Network’s rollout to End User Premises and greenfields estates.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that its best-in-class 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been successfully qualified and are available from EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM and NetApp. This distinction serves to further validate Brocade’s market position as a leader in high-performance CNA solutions that help enable network convergence.
Strong brands prove their resilience to economic downturn in the fifth annual Millward Brown Optimor BrandZ Top100 Most Valuable Global Brands ranking released today. When most key financial indicators plummeted, the value of the top 100 brands rose by four percent in the last year to more than US$2 trillion. The BrandZ Top 100, commissioned by WPP, is the only valuation in the world that takes into account customers’ opinions on brands and demonstrates this with a dollar value.
Australian mobile solutions provider, MIA International has been selected to provide technology and content solutions for Motorola’s new Android devices in Australia & New Zealand. Motorola’s range of 3G Android-powered devices include the Motorola DEXT™ and Motorola BACKFLIP™, which have been launched exclusively to Optus customers.
AD2ONE’s recently opened New Zealand office has won a raft of new business deals and will now be providing exclusive advertising access to Sporting Pulse, Shopping.com and Holidayhomes.co.nz. The global digital group has seen extremely strong demand for its digital advertising sales services in New Zealand since opening its office in Auckland this January. AD2ONE New Zealand already works with premium sites like Lonely Planet, LinkedIn and Expedia.
IPL Communications today announced that NETGEAR® has joined its impressive portfolio of vendor partners. NETGEAR’s high-performance business-class products will complement IPL’s existing product suite and help it deliver total Unified Communications solutions to resellers.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that its leading-edge storage networking solutions support and optimise Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 to provide customers with comprehensive solutions for reliable access to mission-critical data. As a powerful and cost-effective database solution, SQL Server is deployed by enterprise customers to meet a variety of organisational and departmental needs. The latest iteration - SQL Server 2008 R2 - builds upon this momentum to deliver new features and functionalities, including more efficient IT capabilities and expanded reporting and analytics.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today reported financial results for the quarter ended April 2, 2010 of 50.3 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $3.05 billion, gross margin of 29.6%, net income of $518 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.00. The financial results for the quarter include $9 million of purchased intangibles amortisation expense and $4 million of restructuring charges. The aggregate impact of these expense items is $13 million or approximately $0.03 per diluted share.
Responding to this morning’s announcement by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that it will conduct an inquiry into customer service and complaints handling in the telecommunications industry, Mr Ravi Bhatia, CEO of Primus Telecom, expressed his support for the ACMA led inquiry.
Communications Alliance today committed to work closely with the Federal Government and ACMA to ensure that telecommunications customers enjoy adequate protection in the evolving and converging service environment.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released a draft paper defining the passive optical infrastructure for the National Broadband Network.
IPL Communications is pleased to announce the addition of new vendor partner, Sennheiser Communications. Specialising in headsets for PCs, offices and call centres, Sennheiser Communications is a joint venture between the highly successful electro-acoustics specialist Sennheiser and internationally renowned hearing health care company, the William Demant Holding Group.
AD2ONE, the global digital group that provides exclusive advertising access to the world’s largest online entertainment destination for young women, Stardoll.com, is thrilled that top brands including Disney are using Stardoll to target teen girls in Australia. Stardoll has recently surpassed an incredible 50 million members worldwide; with nearly one million of those dedicated followers in Australia, mostly girls between the ages of seven and seventeen. Disney is currently using the Stardoll tween girl site to promote Miley Cyrus’ latest movie, The Last Song, which just came out in cinemas across Australia.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced it will bring stakeholders together to prepare for the upcoming review of the Telecommunications Consumer Protection (TCP) Code.
Agencies and marketers only have three weeks left to enter the 2010 IAB Australia Awards, with submissions closing Wednesday 5th May 2010. Entries for all award categories are being accepted online at www.iabawards.com.au.
Holler’s UBERSELEKTOR campaign for Lion Nathan has been declared the winner of Creative Showcase 4.3, Australia’s best free online award for creativity in digital advertising. The UBERSELEKTOR campaign which was praised for its innovation with fully integrated online offline branded entertainment and content, was designed to bring Beck's positioning of "Different by choice" to life across its sponsorship of the Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festival.
