Astaro auf dem Weg zur Common Criteria EAL4+ Zertifizierung

Das deutsche Bundesamt für Informationssicherheit zertifiziert IT-Produkte und IT-Systeme im Hinblick auf Datensicherheit.

11.08.2010
Karlsruhe - Astaro, Europas führender Anbieter für Unified Threat Management, hat sich beim Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) erfolgreich für eine Zertifizierung nach Common Criteria (CC) mit Sicherheitsstufe EAL4+ beworben. Das Astaro Security Gateway befindet sich derzeit im Evaluierungsprozess.

Da Informationstechnologien in der heutigen Gesellschaft eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle spielen und die Menschen davon abhängen, dass IT-Systeme fehlerfrei funktionieren, müssen diese besonders strikten Sicherheitsanforderungen unterliegen. Hersteller können ihre Produkte entsprechend der international gültigen Common Criteria (CC) beim BSI zertifizieren lassen. Bislang haben sich 25 Staaten, insbesondere EU-Staaten sowie die USA und Canada, dem Common Criteria Recognition Agreement verpflichtet. Dieses umfasst Kriterien für die gegenseitige Anerkennung von IT-Sicherheitszertifikaten.

"Die zunehmende Bedeutung von omnipräsenten Informationstechnologien in unserer Gesellschaft hat viele Vorteile, führt gleichzeitig aber auch zu unüberschaubaren Risiken", sagt Gert Hansen, Vice President Product Management bei Astaro. "Wenn wir den Menschen das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung zusprechen, müssen wir Maßnahmen ergreifen, die sicherstellen, dass die verarbeiteten Daten innerhalb von IT-Systemen nach strikten Sicherheitsstandards geschützt sind. Wir haben uns für das Common Criteria Zertifikat EAL4+ beworben, um unsere Lösungen auf internationale Sicherheitsstandards zu prüfen und unseren Kunden und Partnern damit die Qualität unserer Lösungen zu demonstrieren."

Mit der Annahme des Antrags zur Zertifizierung nach CC EAL4+ ist Astaro nun offiziell mit der Zertifizierungs-ID BSI-DSZ-CC-0696 auf der BSI Website gelistet:
https://www.bsi.bund.de/cln_174/ContentBSI/EN/Topics/Certification/newcertificates.html

Zeitgleich befindet sich das Produkt secunet wall 2 in Zertifizierung. Secunet wall wurde von secunet und Astaro im Rahmen einer technologischen Partnerschaft auf Basis des Astaro Security Gateways entwickelt.

Unternehmenshintergrund Astaro

Astaro verfügt über Hauptniederlassungen in Karlsruhe und Wilmington/MA, USA. Im wachstumsstarken Markt für Unified-Threat-Management schützt das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Astaro Security Gateway 100.000 Netzwerke in 60 Ländern. Astaro-Produkte stehen über ein internationales Netzwerk mit mehr als 2.500 Partnerunternehmen zur Verfügung, die lokale Support-Dienstleistungen anbieten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter der Webadresse www.astaro.de.
 

Pentaho Successfully Treats Complexity at Leading European Cancer Clinic

Open source BI wins out against Business Objects at London Oncology Clinic

London, – August 10, 2010 -- Pentaho Corporation open source Business Intelligence (BI) leader, today announced that London Oncology Clinic is using Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition for management reporting at one of Europe's top cancer treatment facilities.

The London Oncology Clinic (LOC), based in London's Harley Street, is a private practice of over 35 world-class consultants, specializing in the latest peer-reviewed treatments for cancer patients. The technologically advanced clinic operates on a totally electronic system.

LOC patients generate a lot of complex data during their treatments including diagnoses, stage of disease, demographic profiling, blood test results and chemotherapy regimens. All this information is uploaded and analyzed, resulting in a volume of data greater than most other medium-sized businesses.

Although LOC offers highly personalized care, with individual consultations and treatments plans based on cutting-edge research and evidence-based treatments, it also needs to run itself like a business. Aggregating business metrics though can be daunting, as they may be contained within complex medical data. This means straightforward analysis of LOC's financial and operational health can be more difficult, due to the extraction and data transformation processes required.

Steve Rumbles, who transitioned from his previous career in nursing, to using this expert knowledge to head up the IT function at LOC, explains, "To start with we were just looking for the basic monthly information needed to manage any modern business. Our data were well structured for operational use but not for business analysis. Prior to Pentaho, analysis was very difficult to do and extremely time-consuming, involving in-house Java programming."

Experimenting with Pentaho open source business intelligence, Rumbles quickly realized the wealth of insight it brought the organization. Using the Extract, Transformation and Loading (ETL) capabilities of Pentaho Data Integration, Rumbles was able to glean basic information on treatment types and diagnoses, which now helps inform the Senior Management and the Board.

In the future there is a plan to pull together comprehensive patient assessment data gathered by nursing staff from LOC's MOSAIQ oncology application. The results will be used to create monthly clinical outcome reports based on the standard International Classification of Diseases (ICD), using Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC) standards for disease staging and treatment plan scoring formats.

The team's ambitions do not end here. The next phase will be to extend the use of Pentaho further and provide clinical staff on the front line with up-to-the minute reports. This will involve developing advanced user dashboards and yet more data to provide insight into the recovery prospects of patients. LOC had originally considered a Business Objects solution from SAP, but saw no benefit for its considerable future outlay.

"We entered negotiations with Business Objects, but the price-level limited our options. While fine to begin with, in the future every additional user required a large uplift. With Pentaho this is not the case. We ask our clinical staff to enter a lot of assessment data and we want them to see the results of their work. We believe our staff should benefit from BI and Pentaho will make this happen."

About The London Oncology Clinic

The clinic was started by four founding partners who have been joined by an outstanding team of consultant colleagues. Now over 35 oncologists with a wide range of specialist expertise, which means patients are sure of being seen by a leading consultant specialising in their type of cancer. For more information, visit www.londononcology.com.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company’s Agile BI initiative, which enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

SugarCRM Continues Strong Channel Momentum

The Sugar Open+ Partner Program continues to attract top tier VARs and other resellers; strengthens SugarCRM's position as the most flexible, open and channel-friendly CRM on the market.

CUPERTINO, CA - August 5, 2010 - SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management software, announced unprecedented success of its Open+ Partner Program in the first half of 2010. The company added 50 new partners across the globe during the period, and existing partners have grown their businesses to focus on SugarCRM's flexible, intuitive and open product offerings. In addition, channel partners continue to account for approximately 70 percent of new SugarCRM billings.

New additions to the SugarCRM partner network include Castle CRM, based in New York City and the number one Sage SalesLogix reseller in the United States. "Partnering with SugarCRM complements our customer and prospect base, and we look forward to providing value-based, CRM business solutions and professional services to our customers," said Tony Castle, CEO of Castle CRM. "We've gained recognition for our innovative approach to solving clients' business problems and provide the 'bridge' between business strategy and business solution."

"In our company's pursuit to provide the best solutions for our clients, SugarCRM impressed us as a simple, flexible and dynamic offering," said Tim Priestley, executive director at Accent Gold, the largest selling Act! reseller in North America. "Partnering with their team has been an absolute joy-in a short time, they have worked hard to make us successful. We have evaluated many CRM packages over the past few years and felt that adding SugarCRM to our short list of solution sets now-especially in view of the version 6 release-was a compelling choice."

SugarCRM has also added Faye Business Systems Group Inc., a CRM and ERP consultancy in Los Angeles as a new Open+ Partner. "It's clear that the world is moving towards cloud based solutions as the standard for business applications. The challenge for resellers and consulting firms is in finding the right products and working with the right companies in this space," said David Faye, CEO of Faye Business Systems Group. "We've found Sugar to be an incredibly aggressive, responsive, and forward thinking company, and the product is powerful, flexible, easy to use, and affordable. I'm not sure if there's a better combination out there in either the CRM or Accounting and ERP Software market for us or our clients. We couldn't be happier or more excited by our partnership with Sugar."

SugarCRM has also added Emerge Business Consulting as a new channel partner. Emerge Business Consulting is dedicated to serving small and mid-sized businesses by representing world class business management software. "In our experience, the price point and functionality of SugarCRM far exceeds competing products such as Salesforce.com. Going with SugarCRM is a no brainer," said Greg Giachino, president at Emerge Business Consulting.

"Our partners play a critical role selling and deploying SugarCRM's commercial products," said Delbert Ross, vice president of channel sales at SugarCRM. "As a result, we are laser focused on working with and enabling our new and existing partners to insure their success working with SugarCRM. Our consistent quarter-over-quarter revenue growth proves our indirect model is the future and that we will continually gain momentum adding top notch partners such as Castle CRM and Accent Gold."

For more information about the SugarCRM Open+ Partner Program visit http://www.sugarcrm.com/partners

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

SugarCRM Continues Record Growth and Channel Expansion

Record Revenue Growth Fueled by Strong Customer Momentum Complements Impressive Channel Network Growth and Industry Accolades

CUPERTINO, Calif.-August 3, 2010-SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management software, announced yet another quarter of record growth, fueled by impressive customer wins, as well as continued expansion of its global partner network. Highlights include a 50 percent year-over-year growth in billings, and the addition of more than 540 new customers in the second quarter of 2010, including leading organizations such as Budget Rent-A-Car, H. D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, ACE Asia Pacific, Robbins & Myers and Hunter Industries.

"SugarCRM was an easy choice based on its attractive price point, intuitive features and the proficiency of the consultants at SugarCRM partner Levementum," says Jeff Falk, director of marketing at Hunter Industries. "With all of these clear benefits, and the flexibility Sugar Professional offers as an open solution, SugarCRM has already exceeded our expectations."

SugarCRM's Free and Open Source AGPL-licensed Community Edition was downloaded more than 200,000 times in the quarter. In addition, many customers upgraded to Sugar Professional Edition from Community Edition in the period, including leading companies like a division of H. D. Smith, a customer-focused national supplier of healthcare products.

"Sugar Professional provides us with the tools to build upon the strong CRM foundation we started with Sugar Community Edition," says Keith Schoonover, director of IT at H.D. Smith. "We are eager to capture and implement more insight with Sugar Reports for our customers, and our business will benefit from enhanced team management and security features as well."

Adding to the strong customer momentum, SugarCRM has also seen significant expansion of its global partner network. Since the beginning of 2010, SugarCRM has added dozens of new global channel partners. Recent partner additions include Accent Gold, the number one selling Act! Reseller in North America, as well as Castle CRM, the number one selling SalesLogix reseller in North America.

"Our continued channel partner momentum is a testament to the fact that SugarCRM offers the most upside and value for not only our partners, but also their customers," said Jeff Campbell, vice president of worldwide sales at SugarCRM. "Whether it is providing powerful, open solutions or the need to run in multiple cloud environments, no other CRM solution offers this degree of flexibility for partners and users."

SugarCRM's strong channel momentum has recently garnered several industry accolades. The company was ranked number four in the "Open Source Top 50" report issued by The VAR Guy. In addition, SugarCRM director of channel marketing Dana Testa was as one of CRN Magazine's Women of the Channel, due to Testa's professional achievements and influence within the technology channel.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

Astaro’s Regina Grieco Recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine

Director of Channel Renewals named one of the top "Women of the Channel".

2010/07/27
WILMINGTON, MA - Astaro Corporation, a leading Unified Threat Management vendor today announced that Regina Grieco, Director of Channel Renewals has been recognized by Everything Channel’s CRN Magazine as one of the top Women of the Channel. CRN’s annual list recognizes female executives across vendors’ channel organizations, distributors and solution providers for their accomplishments over the past year and the far-reaching impact they are having on the technology industry going forward. This year’s Women of the Channel were chosen by the editors of CRN magazine based on their achievements as executives and the amount of influence they wield over the technology channel.

Over the last year, Regina has helped Astaro’s partner community by developing new business opportunities. Additionally, her contributions in Astaro’s renewal process, partner training and her general leadership skills have made it possible for Astaro, and many of her partners to increase their revenue despite the ailing economy.

“Women hold many prominent executive positions at vendor organizations, distributors and solution provider organizations, providing critical insight and influence when it comes to technology and the channel. We want to honor and congratulate these women for their contributions to the industry and their respective organizations,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel.

“We are very proud of Regina here at Astaro. Since joining Astaro over five years ago, Regina has quickly moved up the ranks in large part due to her ability to develop relationships with partners that are mutually beneficial” said Bob Darabant, Vice President of Americas, Astaro. “Astaro has always respected Regina and her talents as well as her leadership skills. However, this recognition demonstrates to the world what we’ve known all along.”

A special feature of the Women of the Channel is in the July issue of CRN Magazine and expanded coverage will be featured online at www.crn.com.

About Astaro

Astaro offers the most complete and easy to use internet security appliances available. Combining best breed applications and enterprise level performance. Astaro´s award-winning products provide the latest protection with the best total cost of ownership. Software, hardware and virtual appliance offerings provide users the flexibility to meet a wide variety of deployment scenarios. Distributed by a growing worldwide network of more than 2,500 partners, Astaro products protect over 100,000 networks for 47,000 customers across 60 countries. Astaro, headquatered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany, offers free downloads of its products at www.astaro.com.

Scholarship America Expands Business Intelligence Use with Pentaho

Leading Education Services Organization Extends Reporting and Dashboards to More Users

Orlando, Fla. – June 22, 2010 -- Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced that Scholarship America has deployed Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition to update its operational management system and make standardized and custom reports and dashboards available to its clients.

Scholarship America, one of the nation's most fiscally responsible nonprofit organizations according to Charity Navigator, makes postsecondary education possible for all students through scholarships and educational support. Its Scholarship Management Services (SMS) division is responsible for designing, administering and managing the scholarship programs for more than 1,200 clients nationwide. SMS sought to enhance value for its clients through greater visibility into program status and operations and turned to Pentaho for a modern, flexible reporting solution.

"We wanted to leverage our already excellent customer experience by giving clients real-time access to information on scholarship programs," said Terrance Kraling, chief operating officer at Scholarship America. " Pentaho BI Suite gives us, and our users, the capabilities we need in a cost-effective, financially responsible package."

"We're thrilled that Scholarship America selected Pentaho BI Suite to deliver services to scholarship sponsors," said Richard Daley, founder and CEO of Pentaho. "Customer focused organizations like Scholarship America are discovering how Pentaho BI Suite delivers comprehensive and affordable solutions that help organizations and individuals make faster, more informed decisions."

About Scholarship America^®^

Scholarship America^®^ is a national education service organization that mobilizes support for students getting into and graduating from college. Since 1958, Scholarship America has awarded more than $2 billion in scholarship assistance to more than 1.7 million students through our three core programs: Dollars for Scholars^®^{, Scholarship Management Services}®^, and Dreamkeepers Emergency Financial Assistance program. More information is available at www.scholarshipamerica.org.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company’s Agile BI initiative, which enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

Astaro’s Jack Daniel to Present at Security BSides Las Vegas

Daniel will moderate security speed debate while offering his opinion and insight into the security industry.

2010/07/21
WILMINGTON, MA - Astaro Corporation, a leading Unified Threat Management vendor, today announced that Astaro’s Community Development Manager, Jack Daniel, will speak at the upcoming Security BSides conference in Las Vegas on July 28-29. Daniel is an active participant in the organization, planning and promoting the BSides events throughout the United States.

• What: The Security BSides events arean ad-hoc gathering of information security enthusiasts born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. These community driven events include discussions, demos and interaction from participants. BSides employs an open platform that gives security experts and industry professionals the opportunity to share ideas, insights and develop longstanding relationships with others in the community.
• Where: Las Vegas, Nevada. 2810 Private Resort · When: July 28th – 29th, 2010.
• Who: Jack Daniel will moderate the security speed debate portion of the BSides agenda, interjecting with his opinion and insights on various topics.
• How: To register for the Las Vegas Security BSides events visit: http://www.securitybsides.com/BSidesLVParticipants.

Astaro, a global BSides sponsor, is a consistent supporter of Security BSides and was the first corporate sponsor of these events. Astaro is committed to the development of the security community through the support initiatives like Security BSides events and through the creation of a community development position within the organization. Jack Daniel is the community development manager for Astaro Corporation. As one of the technology community’s leading activists, he supports several information security and technology organizations including NAISG (National Information Security Group), where he serves on the Board of Directors. Jack co-founded and organizes the Security B-Sides events, an ad-hoc gathering of information security enthusiasts born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment.

These community driven events include discussions, demos and interaction from participants. He currently sits on the Boston Area Windows Server User Group Steering Committee where his official title is Consiglieri. Jack is a frequent speaker at user and security group events and is CISSP and MCSE certified. In 2010 he was recognized by Microsoft as a MVP (http://mvp.support.microsoft.com). Other recent honors include being named one of the “Top 10 Sexy Infosec Geeks of 2009”. He currently shares his views on information security, compliance and technology on his personal blog Uncommon Sense Security http://blog.uncommonsensesecurity.com and on the Astaro Security Perspectives blog http://astarosecurity.blogspot.com.

About Astaro

Astaro offers the most complete and easy to use internet security appliances available. Combining best breed applications and enterprise level performance. Astaro´s award-winning products provide the latest protection with the best total cost of ownership. Software, hardware and virtual appliance offerings provide users the flexibility to meet a wide variety of deployment scenarios. Distributed by a growing worldwide network of more than 2,500 partners, Astaro products protect over 100,000 networks for 47,000 customers across 60 countries. Astaro, headquatered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany, offers free downloads of its products at www.astaro.com.

SugarCRM to Announce Open Source Testing Tools at OSCON 2010; Senior Engineer John Mertic and Chief Marketing Officer Nick Halsey to Speak at OSCON

New tools support SugarCRM developers, partners and customers in building enhancements and customizations.

PORTLAND, Ore. - July 21 - SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced it will release several functional and performance testing tools under open source licenses for use with web-enabled applications, including all versions of SugarCRM's award winning applications. The announcement made today at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), better enables SugarCRM developers, partners, and customers to create custom enhancements and build solutions on SugarCRM's products.

"We empower our partners and customers to control their own destiny through an open development process," said SugarCRM CEO Larry Augustin. "Earlier this year we opened up access to our source code repository. This is the next step in opening up more of our development process. By making our testing tools available, we are helping our partners and customers to assure that the development they do meets the highest standards for quality, stability and performance."

"SugarCRM's unique open, shared development model specifically empowers our reseller and VAR partner channel," added Jeff Campbell, vice president of worldwide sales at SugarCRM. "With access to source code and an ever-expanding array of tools such as these, partners can develop and build highly custom solutions without incurring unnecessary costs."

In addition to the announcement, SugarCRM leaders will also be taking part in two sessions during the OSCON event. SugarCRM chief marketing officer and EVP of corporate development Nick Halsey will take part in a panel discussion on Thursday at 4:30PM titled "Customer Driven, Vendor Supported Interoperability" which will include executives from Novell and Microsoft on the panel. SugarCRM engineer John Mertic will be presenting on the topic of "Deploying Easily Deployable PHP Applications" on Thursday at 5:20PM.

The new testing tools build upon SugarCRM's announcement earlier this year that it has created a public source code tree for Sugar developers. Now, partners and developers have access not just to a public source code tree, but also powerful testing tools to develop and insure top performance of their custom code.

The new open source projects include:

• SODA - an XML based testing framework leveraging Watir. Watir is an open source Ruby library for automating web browser interactions. SODA simplifies the process of creating browser test automation, allowing non-programmers to successfully develop and execute in-depth test suites against web based applications. SODA will be released under the BSD license.
• SodaMachine - a graphical user interface (GUI) tool for creating, editing, and debugging SODA tests. SodaMachine will be available initially for Windows and Linux. Mac OS support is under development. SodaMachine will be released under the BSD license.
• MeterMaid - a light weight XML language that simplifies the process of writing Apache JMeter tests for the HTTP protocol. Apache JMeter is an open-source Java application that allows for testing web applications under high load. MeterMaid will be released under the Apache License v2.0.
• SugarMMM (MeterMaid Maker) - a utility for automatically generating MeterMaid XML for load testing against a given SugarCRM instance. This includes the ability to generate load testing scripts for custom modules built utilize. SugarMMM will be released under the Apache License v2.0.
• TidBit - a data generator for SugarCRM that is capable of generating massive amounts of data in a SugarCRM instance for use in scalability and performance testing. TidBit will be issued under the AGPL v3 license.

"We are excited to leverage these powerful new open source testing tools for the SugarCRM," said Doug Guilbeau, managing director at Levementum, a SugarCRM Gold Partner. "These testing tools are yet another weapon in the arsenal that SugarCRM provides partners like Levementum to build and manage differentiated value-added solutions to our customers."

These tools will be made available within 30 days at SugarCRM's SugarForge developer site. Learn more at http://developers.sugarcrm.com/opensource.

For more information about SugarCRM's open source projects and community, visit http://sugarforge.org

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

Agile BI Saves Customers Billions

Pentaho Wraps Third Consecutive Record Quarter and Surpasses Key Customer Cost Savings Milestone

Orlando, FL, – July 20, 2010 -- Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced it surpassed the $2 billion mark during Q2 in terms of cumulative customer savings on business intelligence and data integration license and maintenance costs. Companies are taking notice of Pentaho’s Agile BI Initiative making applications quicker to build, easier to adapt and faster time to value resulting in Q2 being Pentaho’s strongest quarter in company history for the third straight quarter. This momentum is driven by several first-to-market product announcements, delivery on Pentaho’s Agile BI initiative and global growth.

NEWS SUMMARY

Customer and Partner Adoption
Pentaho more than doubled new Enterprise Edition Subscriptions from Q2 2009 to Q2 2010. These figures represent customers that have purchased an annual subscription to Pentaho Enterprise Edition products, not simply product downloads or the purchase of documentation, training or per-incident support. A sampling of new Enterprise Edition customers signed in Q2 include: Digium, TV2, Gemeente Winterswijk, Banelco, Central Tanshi FX and New Brunswick Community College.
Pentaho also welcomed several cloud, SaaS and OEM Partners in Q2 including ESRG, PhenotypeIT, MindLeaders and Bayes Forecast.

Industry Recognition
Pentaho was recognized by influential industry groups, receiving acclaim this quarter: 

• Pentaho was named by CRN as an Emerging Vendor, chosen for delivering high margins for solution providers via innovative and easy-to-use technology.
• In Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence with Open Source, Mark Madsen, president of Third Nature, found Pentaho to save firms up to 90% on large BI projects and reveals how firms are saving hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars with open source BI.
• The Dresner Advisory Services, The Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study™, showed that Pentaho is the clear leader in OSBI ranking above other OSBI vendors in every category and #1 in the emerging vendors for value and consulting.
• Pentaho was ranked in the top 10 of the VAR Guy Open Source 50, listed for the second year in a row.

Product Innovation
Pentaho led the industry with a series of market firsts that added to Pentaho’s commanding lead in the race to deliver Agile BI. During the quarter, Pentaho:

• Delivered a major milestone in Pentaho’s Agile BI initiative with the general availability of Pentaho Data Integration Enterprise Edition 4.0 and Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition 3.6. 
• Announced the industry’s first complete, end-to-end data integration and business intelligence platform to support Apache Hadoop, creating a single visual development environment that dramatically simplifies the creation of applications for analyzing massive volumes of information.
• Became the first vendor to deliver an on-demand BI suite, providing secure, flexible subscription options that give customers complete control over how the solution is deployed and managed---by Pentaho, by the customer, or by both.
• Announced the availability of an on-demand evaluation environment and the 72-Hour Challenge, allowing enterprises to easily test drive the Pentaho BI Suite with their own data but without requiring any of their own hardware and personnel assets and receive results within three days.

Global Growth
During the quarter, Pentaho expanded its global presence. Pentaho:

• Launched a German-language website to service its growing customer base in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
• Launched a series of 16 webcast on Agile BI in five local languages across Europe and held multiple live events in Rome, Munich, Frankfurt, Madrid, UK and Oslo.
• Dominated the Nordic media industry announcing customer success with TV2, Norway’s largest commercial television channel and Asprio, the largest media group in the Nordics.

Strong Management Bench
Pentaho added more stars to its executive bench, bringing on seasoned veterans in open source, BI and DI. In addition, the company continued to grow its industry staff depth and expertise, adding a number of personnel from competitors.
Pentaho named:

• Tom Leonard, previously of JBoss, as executive vice president of business development.
• Joe Nicholson, previously with Informatica, as vice president of product marketing.
• Vinay Joosery, previously with Oracle, as the vice president of sales for the EMEA region.

QUOTES AND MULTIMEDIA

“Achieving a record quarter for the third quarter in a row, along with our momentum in every other area of the company, sends a very clear signal that we are delivering the right BI capabilities using the right technologies with the right cost structure for a growing number of enterprises around the world,” said Richard Daley, founder and CEO of Pentaho. “We set out to commoditize the BI market and we are achieving great success. This is good news for us but great news for customers.”

“We are seeing an increasing number of wins against the proprietary giants because of our technology, value and services,” said Lars Nordwall, vice president, Worldwide Sales at Pentaho. “We have also experienced tremendous interest from our competitors’ sales personnel wanting to come to work for us. They have been impressed with our sales process, professionalism and high customer satisfaction level.”

• Tweet this: Epic Q2 results from @Pentaho: $2B+ in Agile BI Savings, product innovation & global growth http://bit.ly/cI7StD. 
• Read the “Top 10 reasons behind Pentaho’s success” by Richard Daley, founder and CEO of Pentaho on the BI from the Swamp Blog http://blog.pentaho.com/.

• Multimedia elements such as headshots, screenshots and demonstrations can be found in Pentaho’s digital newsroom.

About Pentaho Corporation

Pentaho Corporation is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company’s Agile BI initiative, which enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.

New Application From Astaro Protects Web Servers and Applications

Astaro Web Application Security safeguards from attacks and exploits without requiring in-depth knowledge of attack techniques or protection measures.

2010/07/19
WILMINGTON, MA - Astaro Corporation, a leading Unified Threat Management vendor, today announced the release of Astaro Web Application Security, which protects Outlook Web Access and other applications as well as servers against sophisticated attacks like SQL Injections and Cross Site Scripting. Unlike other solutions, Astaro Web Application Security does not require in-depth knowledge of hackers’ methods.

"Many people who can benefit from web application security are unaware of it. They are convinced that having measures like web security or intrusion protection are enough," said Gert Hansen, Vice President Product Management at Astaro. "They think even if their website gets tampered with, they’ll just revert to a backup. But what if their website starts giving out viruses or malware to their customers? Not every bad guy is after credit card numbers. By the time you notice it, it can be too late and your reputation has suffered."

Astaro Web Application Security adds new functionalities to the Astaro Security Gateway:

• Web Application Firewall: Keeps web servers and their applications like Outlook Web Access from being exploited by hackers from using SQL injection or Cross Site Scripting.
• URL Hardening: Forces visitors to interact with your servers in a way that is correct and expected, using a digital URL signing architecture.
• Cookie Signing: Ensures that cookies given out to visitors by your web servers have not been tampered with.
• Dual AntiVirus Scanning: Two separate scanning engines operate in parallel to scan and block content before it is allowed to enter or leave the network.

To repel these types of sophisticated attacks, IT administrators usually need to have in-depth knowledge about their systems and the hackers’ methods. Web application firewalls are an alternative for specialized web server hardening experience, but they are usually expensive and difficult to setup. Astaro Web Application Security allows IT administrators to protect their web servers against nine of the OWASP Top 10 Risks without training in this area.

"A website is not a flat piece of paper, but is composed of up to hundreds of objects served on each visit, giving hackers many places to attack," explains Hansen. "Astaro URL Hardening registers which valid objects are given to a visitor by the web server, signs them, and examines their subsequent requests, rejecting them if they are not expected and correct. The administrator does not have to waste time creating and checking rules, as the Astaro Security Gateway works directly with how the web server interacts with visitors."

About Astaro

Astaro offers the most complete and easy to use internet security appliances available. Combining best breed applications and enterprise level performance. Astaro´s award-winning products provide the latest protection with the best total cost of ownership. Software, hardware and virtual appliance offerings provide users the flexibility to meet a wide variety of deployment scenarios. Distributed by a growing worldwide network of more than 2,500 partners, Astaro products protect over 100,000 networks for 47,000 customers across 60 countries. Astaro, headquatered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany, offers free downloads of its products at www.astaro.com.

Parallels and SugarCRM Announces Parallels APS Certification for Sugar 6: CRM Made Simple

ISPs, Partners and customers alike now have even greater choice when delivering CRM to the Open Cloud™

HostingCon 2010, AUSTIN, Texas - July 19 - SugarCRM, the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, and Parallels, the leader in Cloud enablement and automation software, announced that Sugar 6 has been certified to run in the Parallels Application Packaging Standard (APS) format. This development gives Parallels' expansive partner network the opportunity to bring cloud-enabled CRM to their customers around the world.

"Sugar 6 will be a valuable addition to our wide range of applications available through APS to our cloud service providers who have adopted the APS standard," said Nick Lallas, Vice President of Cloud Services at Parallels. "We are committed to providing our service providers with the latest software-as-a-service offerings to help them differentiate their offerings and deepen their relationships with their customers. SugarCRM's commitment to 'run anywhere' open cloud deployments is a perfect fit for the Parallels Automation community."

APS is fast becoming a global standard platform for the cloud enablement of web applications. Partner companies, including hosting and other service providers, can work with Parallels to leverage robust cloud applications such as SugarCRM, to provide a seamless purchase, deployment and maintenance experience for their end user customers. Today, Parallels helps hundreds of independent software vendors and thousands of service providers profit from the benefits of cloud computing.

"The certification of Sugar 6 on APS is a testament to the power of flexible, open solutions on the Open Cloud," says Chuck Coulson, Vice President of Business Development at SugarCRM. "Now any Parallels partner utilizing the APS standard can offer intuitive, flexible and open CRM solutions as an additional value added service to their customers and realize a higher average revenue per user."

Hosting providers interested in learning more about the SugarCRM partnership opportunities can contact SugarCRM by visiting http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/partners/partner-programs.html.

About Parallels

Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and cloud services providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with more than 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.parallels.com.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

Neue Subscription von Astaro schützt Webserver und -anwendungen

Astaro Web Application Security schützt vor Angriffen und Exploits, ohne dass fundierte Kenntnisse über Angriffstechniken oder Schutzmaßnahmen erforderlich sind.

15.07.2010
Karlsruhe – Astaro, Europas führender Anbieter für Unified Threat Management, hat Astaro Web Application Security veröffentlicht, eine neue Subscription, die Outlook Web Access und andere Anwendungen sowie Webserver gegen ausgeklügelte Angriffe wie SQL Injections und Cross Site Scripting schützt. Im Gegensatz zu anderen Lösungen erfordert Astaro Web Application Security keine fundierte Kenntnisse über die Methoden der Hacker.

Astaro Web Application Security mit neuen Funktionen für das Astaro Security Gateway:

• Web Application Firewall: Verhindert Exploits von Webservern und -anwendungen wie Outlook Web Access durch Hacker-Angriffe wie SQL-Injections oder Cross Site Scripting.
• URL Hardening: Erzwingt eine "korrekte" Interaktion zwischen Benutzer und Webserver und verhindert so, dass Hacker unerwartete Vorgänge durchführen.
• Cookie Signing: Stellt sicher, dass von einem Webserver an Besucher ausgegebene Cookies nicht manipuliert wurden.
• Dual AntiVirus Scanning: Zwei separate Scanning Engines arbeiten parallel und scannen und blockieren Inhalte, bevor sie in das Netzwerk gelangen oder es verlassen.

"Viele Unternehmen, die von Web Application Security profitieren könnten, sind sich nicht bewusst, dass es solche Schutzmechanismen gibt. Sie sind davon überzeugt, dass Gegenmaßnahmen wie Web Security oder Intrusion Protection ausreichen", sagt Gert Hansen, Vice President Product Management bei Astaro. "Sie glauben, wenn ihre Website manipuliert wurde, müssen Sie einfach nur das Backup wiederherstellen. Aber was, wenn die Website damit beginnt, Viren oder Malware an ihre Kunden auszugeben? Nicht jeder Hacker ist auf Kreditkartennummern aus. Bis sie es bemerken, kann es zu spät sein und ihr Ruf gelitten haben."

Um diese raffinierten Angriffe abzuwehren, müssen IT-Administratoren in der Regel tiefgehende Kenntnisse über ihre Systeme und die Methoden der Hacker mitbringen. Web Application Firewalls sind eine Alternative zu spezialisiertem Wissen über das Härten von Webservern, aber sie sind teuer und schwierig aufzusetzen. Astaro Web Application Security ermöglicht es IT-Administratoren, ihre Webserver ohne weiteres Training gegen neun der OWASP Top 10 Risiken zu schützen.

"Eine Website ist nicht wie ein flaches Stück Papier, sondern wird aus bis zu Hunderten von Objekten bei jedem Besuch neu zusammengesetzt, Hackern finden hier viele Angriffspunkte", erklärt Hansen. "Astaro URL Hardening beispielsweise registriert die gültige Objekte, die der Webserver an einen Besucher gibt, untersucht darauf folgende Aktionen des Besuchers und lehnt sie ab, wenn sie nicht korrekt und zu erwarten sind. Der Administrator muss keine Zeit darauf verwenden, Regeln zu erstellen und zu prüfen, denn das Astaro Security Gateway arbeitet direkt mit der Interaktion von Webserver und Besucher."

Unternehmenshintergrund Astaro

Astaro verfügt über Hauptniederlassungen in Karlsruhe und Wilmington/MA, USA. Im wachstumsstarken Markt für Unified-Threat-Management schützt das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Astaro Security Gateway 100.000 Netzwerke in 60 Ländern. Astaro-Produkte stehen über ein internationales Netzwerk mit mehr als 2.500 Partnerunternehmen zur Verfügung, die lokale Support-Dienstleistungen anbieten. Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter der Webadresse www.astaro.de .
 

Sugar 6 and Box.net Power Collaboration in the Cloud

Combined Services Allow Businesses to Share, Manage and Collaborate on Content Within CRM Solution

Palo Alto and Cupertino, Calif. - July 14 - SugarCRM, the leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, and Box.net, the leading cloud content management provider, today announced the general availability of Box.net's content management and collaboration solution from within Sugar 6, the world's most intuitive, flexible and open CRM system.

"Box.net for Sugar 6 empowers businesses of all sizes to access, collaborate and share content within the same system they use to manage customer relationships," says Karen Appleton, vice president of business development at Box.net. "Thanks to this integration, users can now extend collaboration beyond the walls of the system, using Box.net to engage partners and customers in sales and support processes without requiring additional seat licenses."

Leveraging the open cloud, users of this seamless integration can now instantly access and share documents, multi-media files and other relevant content from Box.net when logged in to Sugar 6 via the innovative new Shortcut Bar. They'll also have the ability to create and access shared workspaces within SugarCRM to collaborate with key contacts, as well as contractors and customers outside of their SugarCRM deployment.

"Seamless yet powerful integrations such as Box.net deliver on the basic premise of Sugar 6: CRM made simple," says Clint Oram, SugarCRM co-founder and vice president of products. "Now, users of Sugar 6 can easily leverage relevant content right inside their CRM system-driving productivity and improved processes inside the organization."

To learn more about the power of Box.net for Sugar 6, take part in a free webinar being held on July 28 entitled "Focus on Deals, Not Dealing With Documents," sponsored by Box.net and SugarCRM. Register for this informative session here.

About Box.net

Founded in 2005, Box.net provides Cloud Content Management for over 4 million users and companies ranging from small businesses to the Fortune 500. Box.net's dynamic, flexible content management and collaboration solution empowers users to access and share content online, and gives IT professionals unprecedented visibility into how content moves within their organizations and beyond. Content on Box.net can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone and BlackBerry applications, and extended to OpenBox partner applications such as Google Apps and SAP StreamWork. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., Box.net is a privately held company and is backed by venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ScaleVP and U.S. Venture Partners.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.

Astaro Expands Americas Division with Addition of Vice President of Strategic Alliances

Organization also adds new Vice President of Americas to focus on partner community and revenue growth.

2010/07/13
WILMINGTON, MA - Astaro Corporation (http://www.astaro.com), a leading Unified Threat Management vendor today announced that as a demonstration to Astaro’s commitment towards growth and partner development the company has added the position of Vice President of Strategic Alliances to their Americas management team.

David Rogers will transition from the office of Vice President of the Americas to this new role. Additionally, Astaro welcomes the new Vice President of Americas, Bob Darabant to focus on partner growth and development. Collectively, Rogers and Darabant will work to define the overall go-to-market partnership strategy in the Americas Region.

Adding a dedicated Vice President of Strategic Alliances to Astaro’s Americas team will help Astaro identify and act on opportunities for strategic growth that originate from outside the organization. This will help Astaro to proactively create new business opportunities for its current partner community.

“During my time at Astaro the company grow from a small UTM vendor to a large player in the Internet Security market,” said David Rogers. “Expanding our presence through a focused effort and fostering relationships with larger organizations will ensure our continued growth and success in this dynamically changing market.”

Working together Darabant and Rogers will help strengthen Astaro’s partner community and create new opportunities for partners to grow their businesses.

"Astaro has tremendous growth opportunity in the Americas. With the help of our partner community I am confident Astaro will continue to grow and expand," said Bob Darabant. "But in order for us to continuing growing we need to empower our partner community and invest in their development. I look forward to working with our partners and being a part of their and Astaro’s success."

About Astaro

Astaro offers the most complete and easy to use internet security appliances available. Combining best breed applications and enterprise level performance. Astaro´s award-winning products provide the latest protection with the best total cost of ownership. Software, hardware and virtual appliance offerings provide users the flexibility to meet a wide variety of deployment scenarios. Distributed by a growing worldwide network of more than 2,500 partners, Astaro products protect over 100,000 networks for 47,000 customers across 60 countries. Astaro, headquatered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, USA and Karlsruhe, Germany, offers free downloads of its products at www.astaro.com.

SugarCRM Makes CRM Simple with the General Availability of Sugar 6

Sugar 6 Sets New Standard for Ease of Use, Flexibility and Openness

Cupertino, Calif. - July 13 - SugarCRM, the leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced the general availability of Sugar 6, a landmark release that sets a new bar for ease of use, flexibility and openness. Sugar 6 was developed with the idea that CRM does not have to be complex to deploy or use, nor too expensive for growing companies.

Sign up for a 7-day free trial today: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/ondemand_eval.html.

"Sugar 6 closes the gap between robust CRM and applications that employees actually want to use," says Larry Augustin, chief executive officer of SugarCRM. "With Sugar 6, organizations of all sizes can improve their business processes and empower their customers - with no limits or compromises."

"Sugar 6 has been a huge hit with every user at BNSF Logistics," says Shannon Boyd, director of marketing for BNSF Logistics, L.L.C., a leading provider of logistics solutions. "In addition to the incredible look and feel of the application, we love how tools like the enhanced global search save time and increase user productivity."

Highlights of Sugar 6 include:

Intuitive User Experience

Sugar 6 delivers a clean, bold look with new buttons and icons that allow users to perform tasks more easily while increasing the information density of each screen. Simplified default views, inline filtering and one-click actions conform to the multitasking environment common to busy sales people. For example, users can use the Shortcut Bar to quickly log an incoming call or assign a task without ever leaving the existing screen. The Sugar 6 menus take fewer clicks to access and users can quickly find previously viewed pages from anywhere in the application. With the updated Sugar Global Search, Sugar 6 takes into account where users are in the application and quickly presents the most meaningful search results.

Flexible Design

Building upon its reputation as the most flexible CRM on the market, Sugar 6 empowers users with the ability to view and consume data and applications from nearly any source, thanks to the ultra-flexible Sugar 6 platform. Users can quickly and easily leverage information from social networks and data services-such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Hoover's-right inside the user interface. In addition, updates to the powerful customization utility Sugar Studio now allow administrators to alter the attributes of default fields and customize more views such as the lead conversion and popup views.

Open Architecture

As a leader in open source, SugarCRM sets the bar in the business applications industry for offering users freedom and choice in deploying and managing their CRM. Sugar 6 is designed to run on any cloud service platform or on-premise operating system.

For more information about Sugar 6 visit: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/products/new-in-sugar.html.

About SugarCRM

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

For more information, call (408) 454-6900 or 1 87 SUGARCRM toll-free in the US, email contact@sugarcrm.com, or visit http://www.sugarcrm.com.