Partnerships

• Cisco Systems, Inc.  

  is a multinational corporation with more than 65,000 employees and annual revenue of US$36.10 billion as of 2009. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it designs and sells networking and communications technology and services. Cisco Systems is one of Real Life Technologies’ strategic vendor partners. Resulting from a close business relationship, our depth of expertise across a broad range of solution areas including unified communications, security, contact centres and video is unique in our region. Our focus on Cisco Systems’ Advanced Technology solutions has put our customers at the forefront of many of the most innovative technology and service deployments. For more information about Cisco Systems, visit their web site at www.cisco.com

• Microsoft Corporation  

  is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. The Microsoft Unified Communications suite simplify infrastructure, lower costs, and increase security. Companies can replace conflicting systems with a single, unified communications platform that leverages their existing data and telecommunications infrastructure. IT departments can deliver more flexible, more secure communications, with simplified infrastructure that streamlines management and reduces total cost of ownership.

• Trend Micro  

  is a taiwanese computer company that develops software and services to protect against computer viruses, malware, spam, and Web-based threats. It is headquartered in Tokyo. In addition to its corporate product range, Trend Micro is known for producing the Internet Security family of desktop internet security software, and is the creator of the free online browser-based malware scanner, HouseCall. TrendLabs, Trend Micro's global security threat research, development and support organization, operates in 6 centers worldwide. Trend Micro has over 4000 employees in over 30 countries.

• Allot Communications  

  , is a provider of intelligent IP service optimization solutions for service providers, carriers and enterprises. Allot solutions use deep packet inspection (DPI) technology to change broadband pipes into smart networks offering complete network visibility, application control and subscriber management. Allot’s products aim to provide companies with an easy solution to track and manage subscribers, and throttle application usage.

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.  

  (www.checkpoint.com) is a leader in securing the Internet. It is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, consumer Internet security and VPN markets. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets.
  
  The company's ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and additional consumer security solutions are among the highest rated in the industry today, proactively protecting millions of people from hackers, spyware, viruses and identity theft. Extending the power of the Check Point solution is its Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from hundreds of leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of thousands of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100 percent of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes.

• Crossbeam Systems®, Inc.  

  transforms the way enterprises, service providers, and government agencies architect and deliver security services. The basis of their solution is the Next Generation Security Platform, a highly scalable hardware platform that facilitates the consolidation, virtualization, and simplification of security services delivery, while preserving customers’ choice of best-of-breed security applications. Customers choose Crossbeam to intelligently manage risk, accelerate and maintain compliance, and protect their businesses from evolving threats. Crossbeam is headquartered in Boxborough, MA, and has offices in Europe and Asia Pacific.

• F5 Networks, Inc.  

  is a networking appliances company. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and has development and marketing offices worldwide. It originally manufactured and sold some of the first load balancing products. F5 Networks' flagship product, the BIG-IP network appliance, originally a network load balancer, today also offers other functionality such as access control and application security. Add-on modules to F5's BIG-IP family of products offer email filtering and intelligent compression to allow for lower bandwidth and faster downloads in addition to load balancing and local traffic management capabilities. F5 also offers other products in various segments of the Application Delivery Controller market.

• EMC Corporation  

  is a provider of information infrastructure systems, software and services. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. Its flagship product, the Symmetrix, is the foundation of storage networks in many large data centers. A series of acquisitions and partnerships helped grow EMC to the largest provider of data storage platforms in the world. On November 12, 2007, EMC partnered with NetQoS to deliver the first integrated infrastructure discovery and performance monitoring solutions.

• NetApp  

  creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help customers accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency. NetApp’s dedication to principles of simplicity, innovation and customer success have made them one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today.
  Customers around the world choose NetApp for their “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. NetApp’s solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so companies can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before.

• VMware, Inc.  

  is the marketshare leader specializing in virtualization software. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Palo Alto, California. The Company is majority owned by EMC Corporation. VMware delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 150,000 customers and 22,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware's desktop software runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. VMware's enterprise software, VMware ESX Server, runs directly on server hardware without requiring an additional underlying operating system.

• Schneider Electric's Critical Power  

  and Cooling Services Business Unit, formerly known as American Power Conversion Corporation, is a manufacturer of uninterruptible power supplies, electronics peripherals and data center products. In today's "always on, always available" world where businesses can't stop and downtime is measured in dollars, American Power Conversion (APC) provides protection against some of the leading causes of downtime, data loss and hardware damage: power problems and temperature. As a global leader in network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI) solutions, APC sets the standard in its industry for quality, innovation and support. Its comprehensive solutions, which are designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the manageability, availability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communications and industrial equipment of all sizes.

• Blue Coat Systems  

  , founded in 1996, is a publicly-held company based in Sunnyvale, California. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organizations to optimize security and accelerate performance for all users and applications. Blue Coat has installed more than 8,000 customers worldwide and is ranked number one by IDC in the Secure Content and Application Delivery market. Blue Coat appliances and software technology help IT organizations secure Web communications and accelerate delivery of business applications for users across the distributed enterprise.

• RSA, The Security Division of EMC  

  is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's technology, business and industry solutions - coupled with professional services and dozens of strategic third-party partnerships - help organizations bring trust to millions of user identities, the activities that they perform and the data that is generated. RSA offers industry-leading solutions in authentication and access control, data loss prevention, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management, and fraud prevention.

• Juniper Networks, Inc.  

  is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells high-performance Internet Protocol network products and services. Juniper's products include T-series, M-series, E-series, MX-series, and J-series families of routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, WX-series WAN optimization devices, and SRC Session and Resource Control appliances. JUNOS , Juniper's network operating system runs on most of the Juniper products. Juniper Networks offers a high-performance network infrastructure that helps service providers, enterprises, and public sector organizations create value and accelerate business success within the new, changing global marketplace.

• Sun Microsystems, Inc.  

  is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies of note include the Java platform, MySQL and NFS. Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun shares technology in order to grow its communities, increase participation and build new markets and maintains partnerships with some of the most innovative technology companies in the world including AMD, Dell, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat.

• CA, Inc.  

  formerly, Computer Associates, Inc., is a multinational computer software corporation headquartered in Islandia, New York. More specifically, it develops and markets information technology (IT) management software. Although the company sells anti-virus and internet security programs for consumer personal computers, it is primarily known for its mainframe computer and distributed computing applications and solutions used by businesses. The company articulates its vision of how enterprises can harness the power of IT through what CA calls Enterprise IT Management (EITM). EITM divides into three broad categories across distributed or mainframe environments: • Govern – Help make better decisions by giving enterprises insight into their IT investments and risk from a single place. • Manage – Make it easier to manage technology so that high-quality IT services can be delivered at a competitive cost. • Secure – Ensure secure access to the information, applications, systems and services needed to conduct business.

• Palo Alto Networks  

  produces hardware firewall products which take an application-centric approach to traffic classification to enable application visibility and policy control. Founded by security visionary Nir Zuk, Palo Alto Networks offers real innovation in the firewall by enabling unprecedented visibility and control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation. Based on patent-pending App-ID™ technology, Palo Altos’s next generation firewalls accurately identify applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or SSL encryption – and scan content to stop threats and prevent data leakage. Enterprises can for the first time embrace Web 2.0 and maintain complete visibility and control, while significantly reducing total cost of ownership through device consolidation.