SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, the sole distributor of Network Engines in Sub-Saharan Africa, today announced that the latter has been named Microsoft's Partner of the Year in Security Solutions Sales and Marketing.
The Microsoft Partner of the Year Award recognises Microsoft Registered, Certified and Gold Certified partners that delivered exemplary solutions for their customers during the past year. Award winners were chosen from a group of finalists from around the world. Winners were announced at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference 2006, the company's premier annual event for industry partners, held this year in Boston.
"We are honoured to have received Microsoft's Partner of the Year award in security solutions sales and marketing," commented Greg Shortell, CEO of Network Engines. "The Security Solutions Awards recognise exceptional partners that have demonstrated expertise in providing the most advanced security solutions and services to protect their customers' information assets and that is our goal here at Network Engines."
More than 2 400 entries were submitted by partners worldwide; the award winners were selected from a group of finalists based on their dedicated use of Microsoft technologies to provide solutions for their customers' needs. Finalists for each category were chosen from defined regions of the world: Asia-Pacific, Canada, China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Latin America, Japan and the United States.
The NS Series Security Appliances are a family of multifunction security platforms providing advanced application-layer firewall, VPN and Web cache functionality to maximise protection for core Microsoft infrastructure applications including Exchange Server, SharePoint Portal Server and Internet Information Services (IIS). Integrated with Websense Web Security Suite, the appliances are exceptional Web proxies, accelerating access to frequently requested Web content while blocking spyware, viruses, worms, and Trojan horses from infected Web sites.
For further information, please contact Willem Barnard at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail willemb@securedata.co.za.
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Network Engines' appliances are designed to ease the deployment, enhance manageability and increase security of mission-critical software applications.
Its heritage of providing technology products and services tailored supporting to the entire lifecycle of our customers appliances has made them the appliance partner of choice for leaders in the software market.
Founded in 1997, Network Engines is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts and trades on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol NENG. For more information about the company's products and services, visit www.networkengines.com.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, endpoint security, network security, intrusion prevention and authentication and identity management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, out sourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies as well as for AirDefense, Application Security, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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