Iomega Teams Up With Juniper Networks and VeriSign Corporation for Global Managed Services Initiative
October 23 2006 - 7:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Worldwide Minimize Business
Downtime and Costs with Iomega's New Enterprise Class Managed
Services SAN DIEGO, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iomega
Corporation (NYSE:IOM), a global leader in data storage and
protection, today announced that it has developed fully managed
Internet security solutions for small and medium-sized businesses
(SMBs) that utilize best-in-class solutions from Juniper Networks,
Inc. and VeriSign, Inc. Iomega's OfficeScreen suite of SMB-focused
managed security solutions incorporates security appliances from
Juniper Networks. These offerings include Juniper Networks
firewall, IPSec site-to-site VPN, Unified Threat Management and SSL
VPN solutions with VeriSign two-factor authentication. "Iomega is
excited to work with two of the world leaders in security
solutions, Juniper Networks and VeriSign, and deliver these
enterprise offerings in an affordable manner to small and
medium-sized business customers worldwide," said Jonathan Huberman,
CEO of Iomega Corporation. "Today's SMBs face the same security
threats to their networks and their critical data as Fortune 100
corporations. Iomega is cutting through the confusion of a
fractured managed services market to provide SMBs with what they
need for network security." Currently small and medium-sized
businesses in the U.S. utilize OfficeScreen as a secure, reliable
outsourced network security and VPN service that is cost-effective,
doesn't require upfront hardware expenses, dedicated IT resources
or large IT budgets. OfficeScreen, which includes Juniper Networks
industry-leading firewall/VPN, SSL VPN and IPSec bundles, creates
secure wide area networks that connect remote offices and workers
to applications and data at a company's headquarters, while
countering security threats from hackers, worms and viruses across
a company's entire network. Iomega offers its OfficeScreen managed
security solutions to businesses through channel partners in North
America, and will market these services in Europe in the near
future. "We're excited about this opportunity to extend the reach
of our market leading solutions with Iomega," said David Helfer,
vice president of World-Wide Strategic Partners for Juniper
Networks. "By leveraging our industry leading security appliances
which are well aligned for small and medium-sized business, Iomega
is able to offer enterprise class managed security services to its
SMB customers." Souheil Badran, vice president of International
Channel Sales for VeriSign, said, "Small and medium businesses are
an important customer base for VeriSign, and the partnership with
Iomega allows us to expand our reach further into that market.
Iomega's OfficeScreen Managed Services coupled with VeriSign's
long-standing expertise in delivering strong authentication
solutions presents a compelling managed service offering to this
growing customer segment." Adding to Iomega's OfficeScreen Managed
Services, the Juniper Networks SSL VPN appliance enables
organizations to provide cost-effective remote access, partner
extranet services and intranet security. It utilizes SSL as a
secure transport mechanism and does not require a client to be
deployed on mobile and remote users' computing devices. Little or
no changes are required to internal servers. Based on the
award-winning Juniper Networks Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE)
technology, the Secure Access appliance also features rich access
privilege management functionality, performance scalability, and a
high availability design, meeting enterprise class needs. In
August, Iomega closed its acquisition of managed services provider
CSCI, the 2006 winner of the Juniper Networks, Inc. "Managed
Services Provider of the Year" award, and the creator of
OfficeScreen managed security services. According to independent
market analysis, the global market for managed security services is
expected to be $2.9 billion in 2006, growing to $3.7 billion in
2008. About Iomega Iomega Corporation provides easy-to-use, high
value storage solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and
share their valuable digital information. OfficeScreen, Iomega's
managed security services for SMBs, features industry-leading
firewall/VPN, SSL VPN and IPSec bundles that create secure wide
area networks that connect remote offices and workers to
applications and data at a company's headquarters, while countering
security threats from hackers, worms and viruses across a company's
entire network. Iomega's award-winning storage products include the
Iomega(R) REV(R) platform: the new Iomega REV 70GB Backup Drive,
available in various computer interface models for server
implementations; and the Iomega REV 35GB Backup Drive, available in
several computer interface models for desktop backup and archive
applications; as well as REV-based automation products such as new
REV Loader 560, which utilizes a REV 70GB Backup Drive and up to
eight REV disks. Iomega also offers its Zip(R) 100MB, 250MB and
750MB drives; high-performance Iomega external hard drives, network
hard drives and other HDD solutions; and other portable storage
products. For small and medium business networks, Iomega NAS
servers offer capacities of 160GB to 2TB. Iomega also offers
businesses and consumers a comprehensive data recovery services
solution for recovering lost data due to hardware failure, file
corruption or media damage. The Company can be reached at
1-888-4-IOMEGA (888-446-6342), or on the Web at
http://www.iomega.com/. Resellers can visit Iomega at
http://www.iomega.com/ipartner. NOTE: The statements contained in
this release regarding future plans or performance of OfficeScreen;
Iomega's global SMB partnership and entry into the managed services
market; growth in managed security services or estimated future
size of that market; Iomega's goals to grow the OfficeScreen
business and launch additional types of managed services;
references to Iomega offering security services worldwide;
expansion of managed services into international markets including
Europe; and all other statements that are not purely historical,
are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward-looking
statements are based upon information available to Iomega as of the
date hereof, and Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation to
update any such forward-looking statements. Actual results could
differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could
cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not
limited to, legal compliance issues that could arise as we expand
security services to different countries; successful integration of
CSCI into Iomega; retaining and recruiting key personnel; risks and
uncertainties of entering a new market; competition from other
larger service providers; technical difficulties with any product
or service; risks surrounding the development of a worldwide
channel to sell services; intellectual property rights; market
adoption of managed services; unfavorable IT spending trends; and
other risks and uncertainties identified in the reports filed from
time to time by Iomega with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, including Iomega's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2005, and its most recent Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q. Iomega, Zip, OfficeScreen, REV, Micro Mini, iStorage,
HotBurn and StorCenter are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Iomega Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks, trade names, service marks, and
logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. Media
please contact: Chris Romoser, Iomega Corporation, (858) 314-7148
Analyst/Investors, please contact: Preston Romm, Iomega
Corporation, (858) 314-7188 DATASOURCE: Iomega Corporation CONTACT:
Media: Chris Romoser, +1-858-314-7148, , or Analyst/Investors,
Preston Romm, +1-858-314-7188, both of Iomega Corporation Web site:
http://www.iomega.com/ http://www.iomega.com/ipartner
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