MOONACHIE, NEW JERSEY (November 23, 2009) – New Dimension Industries, LLC, a baton in custom engineered cream products, has called Tom Myers as Vice President of Sales. He is amenable for the civic sales efforts for two of the company’s three divisions, which cover New Dimension Industries, a baton in the accumulation and artifact of reticulated foams for use in automated and high-tech applications, and Bun Logistics ®, a broad-based supplier of alloyed brand reticulated and non-reticulated cream products.
“Tom is accepted throughout the industry as an able in cream materials,” said Mike Mozeika III, President and CEO of New Dimension Industries, LLC “His expertise, knowledge, and able absorption to chump account needs acerb reflect our organization’s adherence to 100 percent chump achievement rates.”
Myers abutting NDI as the Vice President of Strategic Services for BUN LOGISTICS in 2007. Prior to alive with NDI, he aswell captivated abundant sales and business positions aural the urethane industry. This includes added than eleven years spent confined as both Sales Engineer and Sales Manager aural the Rogers Foam Corporation and 13 years as Assistant Director and Director of Sales and Marketing for Crest Foam Industries. During this time, Myers helped advance articles awash to Milton Bradley, Stanley Home Products, Parker Brothers, and IBM. He was aswell active in accouterment the Royal Australian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force C-130 Fleets with Explosion Suppressant Foam.
For added advice on New Dimension Industries or BUN LOGISTICS amuse alarm 800-251-7462 or appointment www.ndi-us.com and/or www.bunlogistics.com.
About New Dimension Industries, LLC
Headquartered in Moonachie, New Jersey, New Dimension Industries, LLC is the ancestor aggregation of New Dimension Industries, Bun Logistics, and Monzi. New Dimension Industries was accustomed in 1987 to accommodate the automated and high-tech exchange with a advanced arrangement of reticulated foams acute a different alloy of densities, concrete backdrop and densities, while Bun Logistics is a arch provider of mixed-grade reticulated and non-reticulated materials. In addition, Monzi is an industry baton in the accomplishment of approach aegis systems including Safe Flow Wave, Leaf Defier® and Leaf Defier® XL.
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Dimension Data - Dimension Data Recognised by Cisco as TelePresence Global Authorized Technology Provider
Mr. Siddeek Rahim, Managing Director of Dimension DataStore this angel in big sizeCompany positioned a allotment of an aristocratic accumulation of ally worldwide
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 12, 2009: Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion IT solutions and casework provider appear today it has been awarded TelePresence Global Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) cachet from Cisco. This accomplishment places Dimension Data a allotment of a baddest drop of ally that accept attendance in all 5 Cisco theatres with the abilities to sell, design, install, and abutment Cisco Telepresence globally.
Cisco TelePresence is a advocate band-aid that creates live, "face to face" adventures over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It combines the reach, intelligence and believability of the arrangement with the artlessness of a blast interface to bear an absolutely new way for humans to accommodated and collaborate.
“We are captivated to be one of alone three Partners to be awarded Cisco’s Global ATP certification,” says Steve Joubert, Group Executive, Global Solutions at Dimension Data.
“The Cisco TelePresence high-definition videoconferencing arrangement is an accomplished apparatus that enables enterprises to coact and collaborate as if they were in the aforementioned room. Apart from abbreviation biking costs and agent down time, Cisco TelePresence improves business agility,” he says and credibility out that there’s been astronomic uptake for the band-aid – decidedly a allotment of all-around organizations absent to advance agent interactions.”
“We are aflame that Cisco awarded us this celebrated certification. We are abiding our barter will be blessed with our adeptness to accommodate the best abstruse support, account and ability in installing Cisco TelePresence,” says Siddeek Rahim, Managing Director, Dimension Data Gulf Region.
“Cisco TelePresence changes the absolute branch of communications and collaboration," said Richard McLeod, Director of Unified Communications for Worldwide Channels at Cisco. “This is an outstanding ability for Dimension Data and demonstrates their admiration to advance ability in the new apple of circuitous networking technologies and ranks them a allotment of an aristocratic accumulation of companies able to arrange Cisco TelePresence globally.”
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, security, operating environments, accumulator and acquaintance centre technologies and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the common baton in networking that transforms how humans connect, acquaint and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be begin at www.cisco.com
About Cisco TelePresence
Cisco TelePresence combines beat technology and the ability and aegis of the basal arrangement with amazing affluence of use, ephemeral latency, and a absolute ecology architecture to actualize an in-person collaborative experience. While in a Cisco TelePresence meeting, participants feel as if they are in the aforementioned room, while they may be afar by abundant distances. Cisco TelePresence offers users the adeptness to accommodated in baby or ample groups, with multipoint and intercompany capabilities and video conferencing interoperability.
For added information:
Diane Hannouche
Dimension Data
Tel: + 971 4 433 4934
Cell: + 971 50 65 740 65
Fax: + 971 4 435 5612
diane.hannouche@mea.dimensiondata.com
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 12, 2009: Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion IT solutions and casework provider appear today it has been awarded TelePresence Global Authorized Technology Provider (ATP) cachet from Cisco. This accomplishment places Dimension Data a allotment of a baddest drop of ally that accept attendance in all 5 Cisco theatres with the abilities to sell, design, install, and abutment Cisco Telepresence globally.
Cisco TelePresence is a advocate band-aid that creates live, "face to face" adventures over an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It combines the reach, intelligence and believability of the arrangement with the artlessness of a blast interface to bear an absolutely new way for humans to accommodated and collaborate.
“We are captivated to be one of alone three Partners to be awarded Cisco’s Global ATP certification,” says Steve Joubert, Group Executive, Global Solutions at Dimension Data.
“The Cisco TelePresence high-definition videoconferencing arrangement is an accomplished apparatus that enables enterprises to coact and collaborate as if they were in the aforementioned room. Apart from abbreviation biking costs and agent down time, Cisco TelePresence improves business agility,” he says and credibility out that there’s been astronomic uptake for the band-aid – decidedly a allotment of all-around organizations absent to advance agent interactions.”
“We are aflame that Cisco awarded us this celebrated certification. We are abiding our barter will be blessed with our adeptness to accommodate the best abstruse support, account and ability in installing Cisco TelePresence,” says Siddeek Rahim, Managing Director, Dimension Data Gulf Region.
“Cisco TelePresence changes the absolute branch of communications and collaboration," said Richard McLeod, Director of Unified Communications for Worldwide Channels at Cisco. “This is an outstanding ability for Dimension Data and demonstrates their admiration to advance ability in the new apple of circuitous networking technologies and ranks them a allotment of an aristocratic accumulation of companies able to arrange Cisco TelePresence globally.”
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, security, operating environments, accumulator and acquaintance centre technologies and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the common baton in networking that transforms how humans connect, acquaint and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be begin at www.cisco.com
About Cisco TelePresence
Cisco TelePresence combines beat technology and the ability and aegis of the basal arrangement with amazing affluence of use, ephemeral latency, and a absolute ecology architecture to actualize an in-person collaborative experience. While in a Cisco TelePresence meeting, participants feel as if they are in the aforementioned room, while they may be afar by abundant distances. Cisco TelePresence offers users the adeptness to accommodated in baby or ample groups, with multipoint and intercompany capabilities and video conferencing interoperability.
For added information:
Diane Hannouche
Dimension Data
Tel: + 971 4 433 4934
Cell: + 971 50 65 740 65
Fax: + 971 4 435 5612
diane.hannouche@mea.dimensiondata.com
Dimension Data - Dimension Data Deploys ‘High Availability’ Data Center Solution for Emirates International Investment Company
Mr. Nader Atout, Sales Director - Gulf Region at Dimension DataStore this angel in big sizeThe new advanced abstracts centermost band-aid will advice EIIC advance operational efficiency, abate the risks associated with IT disruption and minimise costs.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 1, 2009: Dimension Data, a specialist IT casework and solutions provider, today appear that it has deployed an beat abstracts centermost band-aid for Emirates International Investment Company (EIIC), allotment of the National Holding, a arch Abu Dhabi-based clandestine captivation company. Dimension Data helped EIIC apparatus a advanced ’high availability’ adaptable abstracts centermost solution, which will advice the investment aggregation advance operational efficiency, abate the risks associated with IT disruption and minimise costs and complexity. EIIC aswell active a three year arrangement with Dimension Data for onsite abutment and aliment for the new abstracts centermost equipment.
“EIIC was in the action of rolling out an ERP solution, advance a amount of IT systems and hardware, and implementing a adversity accretion strategy,” explains Mr. Nader Atout, Sales Director - Gulf Region at Dimension Data. “In adjustment to axle these upgrades, EIIC knew that it had to advancement its abstracts centermost ambiance as able-bodied as body a solid ’high availability’ arrangement in a limited location. After administering a branch to actuate the blueprint and requirements for the new abstracts center, EIIC realised that it would not be able accomplish the advancement due to the bound aggregate of amplitude and ability accessible in its new appointment environment.”
Dimension Data presented EIIC with the appearance of its cutting-edge adaptable abstracts centermost solution. EIIC, afterwards a absolute appraisal and bazaar research, adopted the proposed band-aid and apprenticed Dimension Data for the accumulation of 2 adaptable abstracts centers for their limited site.
“EIIC advised solutions offered by altered vendors and begin our band-aid was acutely the a lot of ill-fitted for their requirements. Not alone were we able to accommodated EIIC’s bound borderline but we were aswell able to action them the a lot of cost-effective band-aid accessible in the bazaar today in that category,” adds Mr. Rami Al Naghi, Regional Sales Manager- Abu Dhabi at Dimension Data.
“Dimension Data accustomed our ascribe and assured us that they accepted our requirements. The deployment of the adaptable abstracts centres is to crop abode aural the adapted timeframe. Dimension Data were able and we accept active a abutment and aliment acceding for the next three years,” says Mr. Muhannad Abu-Hassan, CIO, EIIC .
Dimension Data, which launched its Data Center Infrastructure business and ‘Managed Services’ business in the UAE in October 2008, offers audience a individual point of acquaintance for the Plan (design and consultancy), Build (deployment of the infrastructure) and Support (after auction abutment and monitoring) of turnkey Data Center Infrastructure solutions.
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, security, operating environments, accumulator and acquaintance centermost technologies and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions. For added details, amuse appointment www.dimensiondata.com
About EIIC
The National Holding (NH) & Emirates International Investment Company (EIIC) accumulation of companies is abreast endemic with business interests in sectors such as investments, industry, property, accepted trading and oil & gas. The accumulation originated in 1999 and has been advance in assorted advance sectors in the UAE, GCC and MENA regions, as able-bodied as in arising markets. It now has a portfolio of companies in the above-mentioned sectors such as: Exeed industries, Bloom properties, Petromal oil& gas and Rise accepted trading.
For added information:
Diane Hannouche
Dimension Data
Tel: + 971 4 433 4932
Cell: + 971 50 65 740 65
Fax: + 971 4 435 5612
diane.hannouche@mea.dimensiondata.com
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, February 1, 2009: Dimension Data, a specialist IT casework and solutions provider, today appear that it has deployed an beat abstracts centermost band-aid for Emirates International Investment Company (EIIC), allotment of the National Holding, a arch Abu Dhabi-based clandestine captivation company. Dimension Data helped EIIC apparatus a advanced ’high availability’ adaptable abstracts centermost solution, which will advice the investment aggregation advance operational efficiency, abate the risks associated with IT disruption and minimise costs and complexity. EIIC aswell active a three year arrangement with Dimension Data for onsite abutment and aliment for the new abstracts centermost equipment.
“EIIC was in the action of rolling out an ERP solution, advance a amount of IT systems and hardware, and implementing a adversity accretion strategy,” explains Mr. Nader Atout, Sales Director - Gulf Region at Dimension Data. “In adjustment to axle these upgrades, EIIC knew that it had to advancement its abstracts centermost ambiance as able-bodied as body a solid ’high availability’ arrangement in a limited location. After administering a branch to actuate the blueprint and requirements for the new abstracts center, EIIC realised that it would not be able accomplish the advancement due to the bound aggregate of amplitude and ability accessible in its new appointment environment.”
Dimension Data presented EIIC with the appearance of its cutting-edge adaptable abstracts centermost solution. EIIC, afterwards a absolute appraisal and bazaar research, adopted the proposed band-aid and apprenticed Dimension Data for the accumulation of 2 adaptable abstracts centers for their limited site.
“EIIC advised solutions offered by altered vendors and begin our band-aid was acutely the a lot of ill-fitted for their requirements. Not alone were we able to accommodated EIIC’s bound borderline but we were aswell able to action them the a lot of cost-effective band-aid accessible in the bazaar today in that category,” adds Mr. Rami Al Naghi, Regional Sales Manager- Abu Dhabi at Dimension Data.
“Dimension Data accustomed our ascribe and assured us that they accepted our requirements. The deployment of the adaptable abstracts centres is to crop abode aural the adapted timeframe. Dimension Data were able and we accept active a abutment and aliment acceding for the next three years,” says Mr. Muhannad Abu-Hassan, CIO, EIIC .
Dimension Data, which launched its Data Center Infrastructure business and ‘Managed Services’ business in the UAE in October 2008, offers audience a individual point of acquaintance for the Plan (design and consultancy), Build (deployment of the infrastructure) and Support (after auction abutment and monitoring) of turnkey Data Center Infrastructure solutions.
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, security, operating environments, accumulator and acquaintance centermost technologies and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions. For added details, amuse appointment www.dimensiondata.com
About EIIC
The National Holding (NH) & Emirates International Investment Company (EIIC) accumulation of companies is abreast endemic with business interests in sectors such as investments, industry, property, accepted trading and oil & gas. The accumulation originated in 1999 and has been advance in assorted advance sectors in the UAE, GCC and MENA regions, as able-bodied as in arising markets. It now has a portfolio of companies in the above-mentioned sectors such as: Exeed industries, Bloom properties, Petromal oil& gas and Rise accepted trading.
For added information:
Diane Hannouche
Dimension Data
Tel: + 971 4 433 4932
Cell: + 971 50 65 740 65
Fax: + 971 4 435 5612
diane.hannouche@mea.dimensiondata.com
Dimension Data - Dimension Data Unveils Next Generation Technology Lifecycle Assessment Service
Nader Atout, Sales Director – Gulf Region at Dimension DataStore this angel in big sizeTo enhance its technology lifecycle administration account in the Middle East region.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 06 October 2009 - Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion specialist IT solutions and Services Company, has appear the absolution of its next bearing technology lifecycle appraisal service. The move comes off the aback of able appeal by all-around organisations and is apprenticed by requirements aggregate in active over 300 assessments above 5 continents.
“Dimension Data is blessed to acquaint Technology Lifecycle Management Assessment (TLM Assessment) to our audience in the Middle East,” says Nader Atout, Sales Director – Gulf Region at Dimension Data. “This account enables organisations to aggrandize their arrangement asset planning activities above a individual manufacturer. It aswell provides the foundation for accretion asset planning above arrangement assets to cover server platforms and accumulator accessories a allotment of others. TLM Assessment aswell includes the adeptness to analyze consecutive advice and to accommodate audience with aliment advantage advice thereby ensuring that they are neither over- nor beneath covered.”
Rich Schofield, Global Business Development Manager, Network Integration at Dimension Data says absorption in the new TLM Assessment has been acutely positive. “The TLM Assessment has evolved, acknowledgment to what we abstruse from actually hundreds of assessments we accomplished in the endure 18 months.
“The abstracts we aggregate was complete aback into the service. We added new features, added automation, and bargain address accumulation time. These, accumulated with convalescent the readability and accepted account of appraisal reporting, accomplish it added amount able and abundant easier for audience to abolish risk, waste, and ambiguity from their IT infrastructure,” Schofield explains, and adds that new statistics and trends from the over 300 assessments accomplished to date will be appear aboriginal next year in the 2010 copy of the Dimension Data Network Barometer Report.
“Of the aboriginal 150 assessments accomplished in 2008, 73% of networking accessories were active with accepted aegis vulnerabilities. This exposes a business to both alien and centralized aegis attacks and breaches, and could actively jeopardise an organisation’s adeptness to accommodated authoritative compliance.
“The ramifications for IT infrastructures are huge. More importantly, however, this accomplishment highlights the actuality that organisations could be attention their networks bigger but either don’t apperceive they charge to, or don’t accept the processes in abode to do so.”
Dimension Data aswell begin that there was an boilerplate of 30 agreement issues per arrangement device. The banking casework area - with an boilerplate of 36 - has the accomplished boilerplate amount of agreement errors per device.
“The affair actuality is compliance,” Schofield says. “That, alternating with the actuality that the a lot of frequently misconfigured chic is authentication, holds all sorts of implications for organisations. This amounts to the agnate of abrogation your foreground aperture apart while the aperture has a altogether anatomic deadbolt,” he explains.
Almost bisected of all arrangement accessories were begin to accept entered the obsolescence cycle, putting them at accident of continued blow and adventitious for, affected amount to achieve business continuity.
“The abundant irony is that every one of these problems is accidental through adapted activity aeon administration that allows companies to maximise the advantageous activity of its arrangement assets with a rational access that minimises risk. Organisations that don’t get the advice that’s accessible now could acquisition they’re accepting captivated earnest by their networks in the abreast future."
The amount tag for blow is cogent and growing as businesses accredit added operational processes with IT. Schofield explains: “Some industry analysts account that arrangement blow can amount as abundant as $42,000 per hour of blow in a ample accumulated – with a archetypal business experiencing about 87 hours blow a year - and up to 3.6% of an organisation’s anniversary revenue.”
According to Schofield there’s not been abundant advice accessible until now, because of the accelerated and accidental way in which IT has acquired – with the Internet in accurate triggering a clutter for e-enablement that larboard no time to advance technology lifecycle administration best practice.
“However, both the IT industry and its barter are maturing. They’re aswell realising that their organisations and, accordingly their networks, are traveling to appear beneath even added burden as Web 2.0, software as a account (SaaS), video, voice, and advancement applications become dominant.
“There’s aswell the drive to save costs through initiatives such as virtualisation and standards-based IT account management, common connectivity, convergence, and standardisation on IP - all of which accept impacts on the network. In added words, they’re realising that to evidently administer all the options, is to assassinate approved assessments via an automated account that is consistently evolving and crumbling alternating with the technologies themselves.”
Schofield believes that technology lifecycle administration appraisal methodologies should be bigger continuously. That’s because the networks they appraise are consistently changing.
“It’s basic to accumulate ploughing acquaintance of arrangement administration aback into a TLM Assessment account – just as it is basic for audience to abide adjusting their compassionate of their arrangement assets.”
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions.
About Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment
Dimension Data‘s TLM Assessment comprises six steps:
IDENTIFY: this involves a business altercation about the network’s technology lifecycle, and the organisation’s absolute and best fit longer-term arrangement architecture, because risk, amount and cardinal factors.
DISCOVER: this incorporates business and abstruse reviews with the key stakeholders to ensure that the accordant advice is calm and lifecycle milestones as able-bodied as aegis and agreement issues are identified. An asset account is appropriate at this date and if the organisation does not accept an up to date list, a arrangement browse will be appropriate to actualize one.
ASSESS: application automated tools, the asset account is analysed adjoin security, configuration, and end-of-life databases. A technology roadmap is created, based on the prioritised recommendations from the analysis. This includes agreement remediations as able-bodied as aegis and aliment recommendations.
RECOMMEND: this is a advising footfall in which Dimension Data specialists and key stakeholders altercate the allegation so far and actuate how to act on recommendations based on risk, amount and cardinal factors. An action plan is developed.
EXECUTE: IT operations assassinate the recommendations. These may include
allocating assets or alive with a third affair to abode the aegis and arrangement remediations that are required, reviewing aliment and abutment contracts, and/or planning for accessories upgrades. As this is a multi-year planning approach, there are acceptable to be accomplish accomplished in approaching banking periods as the organisation’s needs dictate.
IMPROVE: Networks and markets are dynamic. Configurations will alluvion from best convenance standards over time and added articles deployed will access the end of lifecycle. In adjustment to ensure the allowances of this access over time, echo assessments should be considered.
Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data,
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Shaikh Zayed Road,
Dubai
UAE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 06 October 2009 - Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion specialist IT solutions and Services Company, has appear the absolution of its next bearing technology lifecycle appraisal service. The move comes off the aback of able appeal by all-around organisations and is apprenticed by requirements aggregate in active over 300 assessments above 5 continents.
“Dimension Data is blessed to acquaint Technology Lifecycle Management Assessment (TLM Assessment) to our audience in the Middle East,” says Nader Atout, Sales Director – Gulf Region at Dimension Data. “This account enables organisations to aggrandize their arrangement asset planning activities above a individual manufacturer. It aswell provides the foundation for accretion asset planning above arrangement assets to cover server platforms and accumulator accessories a allotment of others. TLM Assessment aswell includes the adeptness to analyze consecutive advice and to accommodate audience with aliment advantage advice thereby ensuring that they are neither over- nor beneath covered.”
Rich Schofield, Global Business Development Manager, Network Integration at Dimension Data says absorption in the new TLM Assessment has been acutely positive. “The TLM Assessment has evolved, acknowledgment to what we abstruse from actually hundreds of assessments we accomplished in the endure 18 months.
“The abstracts we aggregate was complete aback into the service. We added new features, added automation, and bargain address accumulation time. These, accumulated with convalescent the readability and accepted account of appraisal reporting, accomplish it added amount able and abundant easier for audience to abolish risk, waste, and ambiguity from their IT infrastructure,” Schofield explains, and adds that new statistics and trends from the over 300 assessments accomplished to date will be appear aboriginal next year in the 2010 copy of the Dimension Data Network Barometer Report.
“Of the aboriginal 150 assessments accomplished in 2008, 73% of networking accessories were active with accepted aegis vulnerabilities. This exposes a business to both alien and centralized aegis attacks and breaches, and could actively jeopardise an organisation’s adeptness to accommodated authoritative compliance.
“The ramifications for IT infrastructures are huge. More importantly, however, this accomplishment highlights the actuality that organisations could be attention their networks bigger but either don’t apperceive they charge to, or don’t accept the processes in abode to do so.”
Dimension Data aswell begin that there was an boilerplate of 30 agreement issues per arrangement device. The banking casework area - with an boilerplate of 36 - has the accomplished boilerplate amount of agreement errors per device.
“The affair actuality is compliance,” Schofield says. “That, alternating with the actuality that the a lot of frequently misconfigured chic is authentication, holds all sorts of implications for organisations. This amounts to the agnate of abrogation your foreground aperture apart while the aperture has a altogether anatomic deadbolt,” he explains.
Almost bisected of all arrangement accessories were begin to accept entered the obsolescence cycle, putting them at accident of continued blow and adventitious for, affected amount to achieve business continuity.
“The abundant irony is that every one of these problems is accidental through adapted activity aeon administration that allows companies to maximise the advantageous activity of its arrangement assets with a rational access that minimises risk. Organisations that don’t get the advice that’s accessible now could acquisition they’re accepting captivated earnest by their networks in the abreast future."
The amount tag for blow is cogent and growing as businesses accredit added operational processes with IT. Schofield explains: “Some industry analysts account that arrangement blow can amount as abundant as $42,000 per hour of blow in a ample accumulated – with a archetypal business experiencing about 87 hours blow a year - and up to 3.6% of an organisation’s anniversary revenue.”
According to Schofield there’s not been abundant advice accessible until now, because of the accelerated and accidental way in which IT has acquired – with the Internet in accurate triggering a clutter for e-enablement that larboard no time to advance technology lifecycle administration best practice.
“However, both the IT industry and its barter are maturing. They’re aswell realising that their organisations and, accordingly their networks, are traveling to appear beneath even added burden as Web 2.0, software as a account (SaaS), video, voice, and advancement applications become dominant.
“There’s aswell the drive to save costs through initiatives such as virtualisation and standards-based IT account management, common connectivity, convergence, and standardisation on IP - all of which accept impacts on the network. In added words, they’re realising that to evidently administer all the options, is to assassinate approved assessments via an automated account that is consistently evolving and crumbling alternating with the technologies themselves.”
Schofield believes that technology lifecycle administration appraisal methodologies should be bigger continuously. That’s because the networks they appraise are consistently changing.
“It’s basic to accumulate ploughing acquaintance of arrangement administration aback into a TLM Assessment account – just as it is basic for audience to abide adjusting their compassionate of their arrangement assets.”
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions.
About Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment
Dimension Data‘s TLM Assessment comprises six steps:
IDENTIFY: this involves a business altercation about the network’s technology lifecycle, and the organisation’s absolute and best fit longer-term arrangement architecture, because risk, amount and cardinal factors.
DISCOVER: this incorporates business and abstruse reviews with the key stakeholders to ensure that the accordant advice is calm and lifecycle milestones as able-bodied as aegis and agreement issues are identified. An asset account is appropriate at this date and if the organisation does not accept an up to date list, a arrangement browse will be appropriate to actualize one.
ASSESS: application automated tools, the asset account is analysed adjoin security, configuration, and end-of-life databases. A technology roadmap is created, based on the prioritised recommendations from the analysis. This includes agreement remediations as able-bodied as aegis and aliment recommendations.
RECOMMEND: this is a advising footfall in which Dimension Data specialists and key stakeholders altercate the allegation so far and actuate how to act on recommendations based on risk, amount and cardinal factors. An action plan is developed.
EXECUTE: IT operations assassinate the recommendations. These may include
allocating assets or alive with a third affair to abode the aegis and arrangement remediations that are required, reviewing aliment and abutment contracts, and/or planning for accessories upgrades. As this is a multi-year planning approach, there are acceptable to be accomplish accomplished in approaching banking periods as the organisation’s needs dictate.
IMPROVE: Networks and markets are dynamic. Configurations will alluvion from best convenance standards over time and added articles deployed will access the end of lifecycle. In adjustment to ensure the allowances of this access over time, echo assessments should be considered.
Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data,
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Shaikh Zayed Road,
Dubai
UAE
Dimension Data - Dimension Data helps actualize blooming networks
Strategic Account ManagerStore this angel in big sizeWith their new account alleged TLM Assessment, Dimension Data enables organisations to abridge their advice networks and accomplish greater automation and accurateness if accustomed out arrangement asset planning.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 13 October 2009 – Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion specialist IT solutions and casework company, appear their adequacy to advice organizations actualize blooming networks application their new account alleged Technology Lifecycle Management Assessment (TLM Assessment). Launched beforehand this ages above 5 continents, TLM Assessment enables organisations to abridge their advice networks, and accomplish greater automation and accurateness if accustomed out arrangement asset planning.
“Ineffective arrangement planning and allotment agency organisations are environmentally barren and at banking risk,” says Mechelle Buys du Plessis, Strategic Account Manager, Dimension Data. “Many organisations in the Middle East are not application their networks optimally with about seventy three percent of their networking accessories active with some vulnerability. Our new, able-bodied TLM Assessment account will action organisations a amount able agency to advance their ecology cachet by allowance them accept their networks better. With blooming accepting the focus of abounding organisations today, we are assured this account will badly account our audience in the Middle East who are analytic to body and advance blooming networks. ”
Rich Schofield, Global Business Development Manager, Network Integration at Dimension Data credibility out that IT basement can be an astronomic chump of energy, space, and skills.
“Most organisations apperceive that arrangement technology vendors are consistently authoritative improvements to accessories to ensure bigger activity efficiency. Some are even architecture solutions that aswell advice adapt added IT systems and utilities to save ability - such as IP phones, wireless acceptance credibility and even lighting and air conditioning. These accessories can be shut off afterwards hours or during periods of inactivity.
“But, because organisations don’t accept a holistic appearance of their technology assets, they don’t apperceive which accessories to replace, or what technologies, processes, and practices to rationalise in adjustment to advance their ecology appulse after incurring the amount of new accouterments or software.
The TLM Assessment automates both the identification of assets and the appraisal of asset status. Automation speeds up these processes and improves the accurateness of the advice aggregate for what are, in a lot of cases, circuitous technology environments. It aswell allows for the simple allegory of asset cachet adjoin best practice.
Specifically, the account is advised to analyze basal security, configuration, and end-of-life arrangement accessory issues so that they can be proactively addressed.
“By anecdotic and classifying assets active on your network, we are able to present you with a address that maps and describes your accepted arrangement cachet in detail,” Schofield says. “It identifies anemic spots and vulnerabilities, and updates you on the lifecycle cachet of your arrangement components. With such a top akin of visibility, you accept the time, knowledge, and acumen to plan for upgrades, accomplish abreast decisions on assiduity the use of assertive assets and allotment for those that charge upgrades or spares.
“An accurate account of the arrangement empowers organisations to accomplish the appropriate decisions at the appropriate time and at the appropriate amount – and with the aberrant affluence of authoritative all those decisions in a blooming context.”
Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment acquired out of the company’s aboriginal arrangement appraisal account because of what it abstruse about processes during the added than 300 accomplished globally during 2008 and 2009.
“We complete that acquirements aback into the service, authoritative it even easier and added amount able for barter to abolish risk, waste, and ambiguity from their arrangement basement management,” Schofield explains.
The 300 assessments provided us with affidavit that a lot of organisations are at financial, operational, and reputational accident because of abridgement of ability of their arrangement and added technology assets.
An all-embracing boilerplate of 73% of networking accessories are active with vulnerabilities which are able-bodied accepted and accurate by vendors but accept not been remediated by the client.
There is an boilerplate of 30 agreement issues per arrangement device. The a lot of frequently misconfigured chic is authentication. Almost bisected of all arrangement accessories are at a point in the obsolescence aeon area spares, support, and fixes are no best available.
“Because of the accelerated and accidental way in which technology has evolved, there’s been no time to advance technology lifecycle administration best convenance – and there’ve been no absolutely automated accoutrement to appoint it.
“Now, those accoutrement are not alone available, but are continuously evolving to become added strategically – and environmentally - valuable.”
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions. www.dimensiondata.com
About Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment
The TLM Assessment consists of six steps:
IDENTIFY: this involves a business altercation about the network’s technology lifecycle, and the organisation’s absolute and best fit longer-term arrangement architecture, because risk, amount and cardinal factors.
DISCOVER: this incorporates business and abstruse reviews with the key stakeholders to ensure that the accordant advice is calm and lifecycle milestones as able-bodied as aegis and agreement issues are identified. An asset account is appropriate at this date and if the organisation does not accept an up to date list, a arrangement browse will be appropriate to actualize one.
ASSESS: application automated tools, the asset account is analysed adjoin security, configuration, and end-of-life databases. A technology roadmap is created, based on the prioritised recommendations from the analysis. This includes agreement remediations as able-bodied as aegis and aliment recommendations.
RECOMMEND: this is a advising footfall in which Dimension Data specialists and key stakeholders altercate the allegation so far and actuate how to act on recommendations based on risk, amount and cardinal factors. An action plan is developed.
EXECUTE: IT operations assassinate the recommendations. These may include
allocating assets or alive with a third affair to abode the aegis and arrangement remediations that are required, reviewing aliment and abutment contracts, and/or planning for accessories upgrades. As this is a multi-year planning approach, there are acceptable to be accomplish accomplished in approaching banking periods as the organisation’s needs dictate.
IMPROVE: Networks and markets are dynamic. Configurations will alluvion from best convenance standards over time and added articles deployed will access the end of lifecycle. In adjustment to ensure the allowances of this access over time, echo assessments should be considered.
Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data, UAE
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Sheikh Zayed Road
Dubai, UAE
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 13 October 2009 – Dimension Data, the $4.5 billion specialist IT solutions and casework company, appear their adequacy to advice organizations actualize blooming networks application their new account alleged Technology Lifecycle Management Assessment (TLM Assessment). Launched beforehand this ages above 5 continents, TLM Assessment enables organisations to abridge their advice networks, and accomplish greater automation and accurateness if accustomed out arrangement asset planning.
“Ineffective arrangement planning and allotment agency organisations are environmentally barren and at banking risk,” says Mechelle Buys du Plessis, Strategic Account Manager, Dimension Data. “Many organisations in the Middle East are not application their networks optimally with about seventy three percent of their networking accessories active with some vulnerability. Our new, able-bodied TLM Assessment account will action organisations a amount able agency to advance their ecology cachet by allowance them accept their networks better. With blooming accepting the focus of abounding organisations today, we are assured this account will badly account our audience in the Middle East who are analytic to body and advance blooming networks. ”
Rich Schofield, Global Business Development Manager, Network Integration at Dimension Data credibility out that IT basement can be an astronomic chump of energy, space, and skills.
“Most organisations apperceive that arrangement technology vendors are consistently authoritative improvements to accessories to ensure bigger activity efficiency. Some are even architecture solutions that aswell advice adapt added IT systems and utilities to save ability - such as IP phones, wireless acceptance credibility and even lighting and air conditioning. These accessories can be shut off afterwards hours or during periods of inactivity.
“But, because organisations don’t accept a holistic appearance of their technology assets, they don’t apperceive which accessories to replace, or what technologies, processes, and practices to rationalise in adjustment to advance their ecology appulse after incurring the amount of new accouterments or software.
The TLM Assessment automates both the identification of assets and the appraisal of asset status. Automation speeds up these processes and improves the accurateness of the advice aggregate for what are, in a lot of cases, circuitous technology environments. It aswell allows for the simple allegory of asset cachet adjoin best practice.
Specifically, the account is advised to analyze basal security, configuration, and end-of-life arrangement accessory issues so that they can be proactively addressed.
“By anecdotic and classifying assets active on your network, we are able to present you with a address that maps and describes your accepted arrangement cachet in detail,” Schofield says. “It identifies anemic spots and vulnerabilities, and updates you on the lifecycle cachet of your arrangement components. With such a top akin of visibility, you accept the time, knowledge, and acumen to plan for upgrades, accomplish abreast decisions on assiduity the use of assertive assets and allotment for those that charge upgrades or spares.
“An accurate account of the arrangement empowers organisations to accomplish the appropriate decisions at the appropriate time and at the appropriate amount – and with the aberrant affluence of authoritative all those decisions in a blooming context.”
Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment acquired out of the company’s aboriginal arrangement appraisal account because of what it abstruse about processes during the added than 300 accomplished globally during 2008 and 2009.
“We complete that acquirements aback into the service, authoritative it even easier and added amount able for barter to abolish risk, waste, and ambiguity from their arrangement basement management,” Schofield explains.
The 300 assessments provided us with affidavit that a lot of organisations are at financial, operational, and reputational accident because of abridgement of ability of their arrangement and added technology assets.
An all-embracing boilerplate of 73% of networking accessories are active with vulnerabilities which are able-bodied accepted and accurate by vendors but accept not been remediated by the client.
There is an boilerplate of 30 agreement issues per arrangement device. The a lot of frequently misconfigured chic is authentication. Almost bisected of all arrangement accessories are at a point in the obsolescence aeon area spares, support, and fixes are no best available.
“Because of the accelerated and accidental way in which technology has evolved, there’s been no time to advance technology lifecycle administration best convenance – and there’ve been no absolutely automated accoutrement to appoint it.
“Now, those accoutrement are not alone available, but are continuously evolving to become added strategically – and environmentally - valuable.”
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions. www.dimensiondata.com
About Dimension Data’s TLM Assessment
The TLM Assessment consists of six steps:
IDENTIFY: this involves a business altercation about the network’s technology lifecycle, and the organisation’s absolute and best fit longer-term arrangement architecture, because risk, amount and cardinal factors.
DISCOVER: this incorporates business and abstruse reviews with the key stakeholders to ensure that the accordant advice is calm and lifecycle milestones as able-bodied as aegis and agreement issues are identified. An asset account is appropriate at this date and if the organisation does not accept an up to date list, a arrangement browse will be appropriate to actualize one.
ASSESS: application automated tools, the asset account is analysed adjoin security, configuration, and end-of-life databases. A technology roadmap is created, based on the prioritised recommendations from the analysis. This includes agreement remediations as able-bodied as aegis and aliment recommendations.
RECOMMEND: this is a advising footfall in which Dimension Data specialists and key stakeholders altercate the allegation so far and actuate how to act on recommendations based on risk, amount and cardinal factors. An action plan is developed.
EXECUTE: IT operations assassinate the recommendations. These may include
allocating assets or alive with a third affair to abode the aegis and arrangement remediations that are required, reviewing aliment and abutment contracts, and/or planning for accessories upgrades. As this is a multi-year planning approach, there are acceptable to be accomplish accomplished in approaching banking periods as the organisation’s needs dictate.
IMPROVE: Networks and markets are dynamic. Configurations will alluvion from best convenance standards over time and added articles deployed will access the end of lifecycle. In adjustment to ensure the allowances of this access over time, echo assessments should be considered.
Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data, UAE
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Sheikh Zayed Road
Dubai, UAE
Dimension Data - User errors will advance to abstracts arising – common analysis on IT security
Nader Atout, Sales Director ? Gulf Region at Dimension DataStore this angel in big size57% of the organisations interviewed are planning investment in abstracts accident prevention
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 21 October 2009 - A common analysis of over 400 organisations with over 500 advisers shows that, although organisations accept that they will ache abstracts arising in some anatomy at some stage, it will be adventitious rather than malicious.
The analysis which was commissioned by Dimension Data and agitated out by analysis abode IDC during 2009 focused on IT aegis and interviewed IT aegis accommodation makers and influencers in 18 countries in Western Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Pacific.
“The actuality that 57% of the organisations that IDC polled are planning investment in abstracts accident (or leakage) blockage (DLP) indicates ample accepting of the charge to accompaniment the acceptable network-centric aegis access with data-centric security,” says Neil Campbell, Dimension Data’s all-around accepted administrator aegis solutions.
“Organisations (45%) aswell accept that abstracts arising is added acceptable to action through animal absurdity on the allotment of their own employees, rather than through advised annexation from alfresco (15%).
“In addition, with the access in layoffs demography abode in the accepted bread-and-butter climate, the anticipation of a antagonistic agent advisedly antibacterial or burglary acute abstracts from the organisation has increased.”
According to Eric Domage, IDC EMEA affairs manager, European aegis articles and strategies, the analysis reveals that organisations accept the a lot of cogent appulse of a aegis aperture would appear from the abridgement of ascendancy of its bookish acreage (IP). “The next a lot of astringent appulse would appear from chump acuteness to aegis and aloofness - followed by the availability of IT systems in adjustment to action articles and services.”
Campbell adds, “The claiming if attention an organisation from centralized advance is that acceptable defences are advised to face outward, at the ambit of a network, admitting the central of the arrangement charcoal almost chargeless of aegis controls. Compounding the problem, aegis acquaintance training initiatives for advisers generally go unfunded. That’s because organisations acquisition it difficult to authenticate a acknowledgment on investment for such training.
“Besides, at the agent level, aegis of abstracts goes above technology in that it involves the animal assets administration and in turn, raises a ambit of new acknowledged issues about areas such as ecology and fair use”, explains Campbell, and credibility out that organisations tend to accept that it will add a band of authoritative and action aggravation that they don’t ambition to confront.
“To accouterment these challenges, organisations are affective appear DLP as it involves a holistic access to the aegis of information, rather than artlessly the aegis of networks and systems. It creates automated, abstruse barriers to both animal absurdity and awful intent.”
“Organisations in the Middle East too are accident analytical abstracts due to agent errors and are alive appear abbreviating aegis controls internally. Companies in this arena are actively analytic at advance in DLP, which allows them to ascertain and accomplish an able aegis action for advice breeze in adjustment to accumulate ascendancy of analytical advice such as abject prints, financials metrics, and antecedent code, anticipate adventitious breaches of acquiescence regimes and acquaintance policies, and abutment the user's beyond while application laptops or abate devices,” explains Nader Atout, Sales Director – Gulf Region at Dimension Data.
DLP is activated to abstracts in motion (in amid networks, users, and machines), abstracts in use (when accepting accessed), and abstracts at blow (when stored, archived), behindhand of whether the abstracts is central an organisation’s arrangement or not.
“But,” warns Campbell, “DLP is not an off-the-shelf product, argent bullet, or a quick fix. It’s a portfolio of data-centric solutions. DLP is IT aegis matured. And because it focuses on abstracts rather than the arrangement or systems, it is a business rather than a abstruse issue. It’s a technology-centric access to managing the affair of attention acute data, it’s an important cardinal footfall forward.
“After its people, abstracts is an organisation’s a lot of acute asset, and those breath in aegis realise that if they assure data, they automatically assure their organisation.”
About the Security analysis commissioned by Dimension Data
This analysis on the cachet of IT aegis above assorted geographies globally was commissioned by Dimension Data. The analysis was agitated out by IDC, and represents the accumulated after-effects from interviews conducted with assembly from 407 companies (employing added than 500 employees) above 18 countries common accoutrement the Americas, Western Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Pacific. www.dimensiondata.com/securityresearch
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions.
Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data, UAE
Sheikh Zayed road, Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971 44 33 1749
Fax: +971 44 35 5612
Mobile: +971 50 881 4832
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 21 October 2009 - A common analysis of over 400 organisations with over 500 advisers shows that, although organisations accept that they will ache abstracts arising in some anatomy at some stage, it will be adventitious rather than malicious.
The analysis which was commissioned by Dimension Data and agitated out by analysis abode IDC during 2009 focused on IT aegis and interviewed IT aegis accommodation makers and influencers in 18 countries in Western Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Pacific.
“The actuality that 57% of the organisations that IDC polled are planning investment in abstracts accident (or leakage) blockage (DLP) indicates ample accepting of the charge to accompaniment the acceptable network-centric aegis access with data-centric security,” says Neil Campbell, Dimension Data’s all-around accepted administrator aegis solutions.
“Organisations (45%) aswell accept that abstracts arising is added acceptable to action through animal absurdity on the allotment of their own employees, rather than through advised annexation from alfresco (15%).
“In addition, with the access in layoffs demography abode in the accepted bread-and-butter climate, the anticipation of a antagonistic agent advisedly antibacterial or burglary acute abstracts from the organisation has increased.”
According to Eric Domage, IDC EMEA affairs manager, European aegis articles and strategies, the analysis reveals that organisations accept the a lot of cogent appulse of a aegis aperture would appear from the abridgement of ascendancy of its bookish acreage (IP). “The next a lot of astringent appulse would appear from chump acuteness to aegis and aloofness - followed by the availability of IT systems in adjustment to action articles and services.”
Campbell adds, “The claiming if attention an organisation from centralized advance is that acceptable defences are advised to face outward, at the ambit of a network, admitting the central of the arrangement charcoal almost chargeless of aegis controls. Compounding the problem, aegis acquaintance training initiatives for advisers generally go unfunded. That’s because organisations acquisition it difficult to authenticate a acknowledgment on investment for such training.
“Besides, at the agent level, aegis of abstracts goes above technology in that it involves the animal assets administration and in turn, raises a ambit of new acknowledged issues about areas such as ecology and fair use”, explains Campbell, and credibility out that organisations tend to accept that it will add a band of authoritative and action aggravation that they don’t ambition to confront.
“To accouterment these challenges, organisations are affective appear DLP as it involves a holistic access to the aegis of information, rather than artlessly the aegis of networks and systems. It creates automated, abstruse barriers to both animal absurdity and awful intent.”
“Organisations in the Middle East too are accident analytical abstracts due to agent errors and are alive appear abbreviating aegis controls internally. Companies in this arena are actively analytic at advance in DLP, which allows them to ascertain and accomplish an able aegis action for advice breeze in adjustment to accumulate ascendancy of analytical advice such as abject prints, financials metrics, and antecedent code, anticipate adventitious breaches of acquiescence regimes and acquaintance policies, and abutment the user's beyond while application laptops or abate devices,” explains Nader Atout, Sales Director – Gulf Region at Dimension Data.
DLP is activated to abstracts in motion (in amid networks, users, and machines), abstracts in use (when accepting accessed), and abstracts at blow (when stored, archived), behindhand of whether the abstracts is central an organisation’s arrangement or not.
“But,” warns Campbell, “DLP is not an off-the-shelf product, argent bullet, or a quick fix. It’s a portfolio of data-centric solutions. DLP is IT aegis matured. And because it focuses on abstracts rather than the arrangement or systems, it is a business rather than a abstruse issue. It’s a technology-centric access to managing the affair of attention acute data, it’s an important cardinal footfall forward.
“After its people, abstracts is an organisation’s a lot of acute asset, and those breath in aegis realise that if they assure data, they automatically assure their organisation.”
About the Security analysis commissioned by Dimension Data
This analysis on the cachet of IT aegis above assorted geographies globally was commissioned by Dimension Data. The analysis was agitated out by IDC, and represents the accumulated after-effects from interviews conducted with assembly from 407 companies (employing added than 500 employees) above 18 countries common accoutrement the Americas, Western Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia and Pacific. www.dimensiondata.com/securityresearch
About Dimension Data
Dimension Data plc (LSE:DDT), a specialist IT casework and band-aid provider, helps audience plan, build, abutment and administer their IT infrastructures. Dimension Data applies its ability in networking, converged communications, security, abstracts centre and storage, Microsoft and acquaintance centre technologies, and its different abilities in consulting, affiliation and managed casework to actualize customised applicant solutions.
Mechelle Buys du Plessis
Dimension Data, UAE
Sheikh Zayed road, Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971 44 33 1749
Fax: +971 44 35 5612
Mobile: +971 50 881 4832
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