Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Less Than 60 Days

CUPERTINO, California—May 31, 2010—Apple® today announced that iPad™ sales have topped two million in less than 60 days since its launch on April 3. Apple began shipping iPad in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK this past weekend. iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year.

“Customers around the world are experiencing the magic of iPad, and seem to be loving it as much as we do,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We appreciate their patience, and are working hard to build enough iPads for everyone.”

iPad allows users to connect with their apps, content and the Internet in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before. Users can browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch HD videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more, all using iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ user interface. iPad is 0.5 inches thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds—thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook—and delivers up to 10 hours of battery life.*

Developers have created over 5,000 exciting new apps for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch user interface, large screen and high-quality graphics. iPad will run almost all of the more than 200,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.

*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Press Contacts:
Natalie Harrison
Apple
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(408) 862-0565

Simon Pope
Apple
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(408) 974-0457

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Apple Presents iPhone 4

All-New Design with FaceTime Video Calling, Retina Display, 5 Megapixel Camera & HD Video Recording

Thinnest Smartphone Ever

SAN FRANCISCO—June 7, 2010—Apple® today presented the new iPhone® 4 featuring FaceTime, which makes the dream of video calling a reality, and Apple’s stunning new Retina display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in super crisp text, images and video. In addition, iPhone 4 features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 percent longer talk time—in a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that is the thinnest smartphone in the world. iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, which includes over 100 new features and 1500 new APIs for developers. iOS 4 features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform. iPhone 4 will be available in the US, UK, France, Germany and Japan on June 24, starting in the US at just $199 for qualified buyers with a two year contract.*

“iPhone 4 is the biggest leap since the original iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “FaceTime video calling sets a new standard for mobile communication, and our new Retina display is the highest resolution display ever in a phone, with text looking like it does on a fine printed page. We have been dreaming about both of these breakthroughs for decades.”

FaceTime is as mobile as your phone, so you can see your loved ones and friends anywhere there is Wi-Fi. Using FaceTime is as easy as making a regular voice call, with no set-up required, and you can instantly switch to the rear camera to show others what you are seeing with just a tap.

Apple’s stunning 3.5 inch Retina display has 960 x 640 pixels—four times as many pixels as the iPhone 3GS and 78 percent of the pixels on an iPad™. The resulting 326 pixels per inch is so dense that the human eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels when the phone is held at a normal distance, making text, images and video look sharper, smoother and more realistic than ever before on an electronic display.

iPhone 4 is the thinnest smartphone ever—9.3 millimeters—with an all-new design and build quality like no other mobile device. The front and back are made of aluminosilcate glass, chemically strengthened to be 30 times harder than plastic, more scratch resistant and more durable than ever. The front and back glass have an oil-resistant coating that helps keep it clean, and encircling iPhone 4 is a highly finished stainless steel band made of a custom alloy that is forged to be five times stronger than standard steel.

iPhone 4 features a new 5 megapixel autofocus camera with a 5x digital zoom, a backside illuminated sensor and built-in LED flash that allows you to take amazing pictures even in low light and dark environments. iPhone 4 lets you record and edit incredible HD video and the popular tap to focus feature now works while recording video. You can use the iPhone 4‘s LED flash for both still photography and video recording. The new iMovie® app for iPhone lets you combine movie clips, add dynamic transitions and themes and include photos and music, and users can buy it for just $4.99 through the App Store right on their phone.

iPhone 4 is the best mobile device ever for games and entertainment, with access to tens of thousands of games and entertainment apps on the revolutionary App Store. Every iPhone 4 has a built-in 3-axis gyro that when combined with the accelerometer provides 6-axis motion sensing such as up and down, side to side, forward and backward and pitch and roll, making it perfect for gaming. Developers can access the gyro using the new CoreMotion API to make games and other apps that go well beyond what other mobile devices offer.

iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. With over 100 new features, it includes Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform. With Multitasking, users can now instantly switch between any of their apps while preserving battery life. With Folders, users can easily organize their apps into collections by simply dragging one app on top of another. A folder is automatically created and named based on the category of apps selected. Users can change the name of any folder at any time. In addition, users can now customize their lock and home screens with an array of supplied wallpapers or with any of the photos on their phone.

The new iBooks® app will be available for iPhone 4 as a free download from the App Store and includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile product. The iBooks app will sync your current place in a book, along with any bookmarks, highlights and notes you have created, between copies of the same book on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch®. iBooks users can also now read and store PDFs right in iBooks. There are now over 60,000 books available in the iBookstore, and users have downloaded over five million books in the first two months.

More than five billion apps have been downloaded from the revolutionary App Store and more than 225,000 apps are available to consumers in 90 countries. Almost 100 million iPhone and iPod touch users around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.

iPhone 4 delivers an amazing seven hours of talk time on 3G networks, up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi and up to six hours on 3G, and up to 10 hours of video playback and up to 40 hours of audio playback.** iPhone 4 is powered by Apple’s new A4 processor that provides exceptional processor and graphic performance along with long battery life. iPhone 4 features a second microphone and advanced software to suppress unwanted background noise for improved call quality when in loud places. iPhone 4 also offers 802.11n Wi-Fi networking and adds quad-band HSUPA to provide 7.2Mbps downlink and 5.8Mbps uplink capability.***

Pricing & Availability
iPhone 4 comes in either black or white and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model in both Apple and AT&T’s retail and online stores, Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores. iPhone 4 will be available in the US, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on June 24 and customers can pre-order their iPhone 4 beginning Tuesday, June 15 from the Apple Online Store or reserve an iPhone 4 to pick up at an Apple Retail Store. iMovie for iPhone will be available on the App Store for just $4.99 (US).

Also on June 24, a new iPhone 3GS 8GB model will be available for just $99 (US). iOS 4 software will be available on June 21 as a free software update via iTunes® 9.2 or later for iPhone and iPod touch customers.****

iPhone 4 will roll out worldwide to 88 countries by the end of September. iPhone 4 will be available by the end of July in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

*Qualified customers only. Requires a new two year AT&T rate plan, sold separately.

**Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.

***Speed is dependent on cellular network capability.

****iOS 4 is compatible with iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, second and third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB or 64GB). Some features may not be available on all products. For example, Multitasking requires iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or third generation iPod touch (late 2009 models with 32GB or 64GB).

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Press Contacts:
Natalie Harrison
Apple
harri@apple.com
(408) 862-0565

Teresa Brewer
Apple
tbrewer@apple.com
(408) 974-6851

Source : www.apple.com

Akorri Named to The Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies List

Littleton, MA, March 15, 2010 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced today that it has been ranked 43rd in The Wall Street Journal’s list of theTop 50 Venture-Backed Companies with the most potential to become “the next big thing,” published in the March 9, 2010 edition. In addition, Akorri was among the companies featured in an accompanying WSJ article titled Tech Start-ups Cope With Data Flood.

According to The Wall Street Journal’s Top 50 Venture-Backed Companies article, the publication leveraged research firm VentureSource, a unit of The Wall Street Journal owner News Corp., to select 50 out of 10,000 privately held, venture-backed companies in the US with the greatest potential. VentureSource’s strict set of standards for eligibility included only companies that are valued at less than $1 billion (to identify lesser-known companies) that had raised an equity round of financing in the past three years. VentureSource then analyzed the remaining 5,194 candidates with the following four criteria: 1) the track record of success for the venture-capital investors who sit on the company’s board; 2) the amount of capital raised by the company over the last three years in comparison to its peers; 3) the track record of success for the company’s founders and chief executive; and 4) the recent growth in the value of the company. In addition, Dow Jones venture capital reporters and editors reviewed and ranked the companies. The overall rank is based on a weighted combination of all five components.

“We are delighted to be recognized by such a prestigious media outlet as The Wall Street Journal,” said Rich Corley, Founder and CTO for Akorri. “I founded Akorri with the idea to change how IT managers optimize virtualized infrastructure performance. We’re well on our way to delivering on that vision and The Wall Street Journal’s recognition is another example reinforcing Akorri’s market acceptance.”

About Akorri BalancePoint
BalancePoint allows IT organizations to optimize virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure to reduce costs and assure service levels as companies advance through the stages of virtualization adoption and into private cloud computing. BalancePoint provides an infrastructure-wide analytical systems management solution that offers visibility and control to troubleshoot and assure performance, plan server and storage capacity, and manage service levels. BalancePoint is available as a virtual appliance, supports VMware vSphere, plugs into VMware vCenter and plans to support Microsoft Hyper-V and all other major hypervisor technologies. It interoperates with all the major storage vendors including EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM, Dell EqualLogic, Hitachi Data Systems, and 3PAR.

To view a short overview of BalancePoint click here
To watch a BalancePoint demo click here

About Akorri
Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.

Source : www.akorri.com

E-Safe Technologies Joins Akorri’s PartnerPoint Program as an Authorized Reseller

Littleton, MA, March 8, 2010 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced today that end-to-end consulting company, E-Safe Technologies, has become an authorized reseller within Akorri’s PartnerPoint program. Under the agreement, E-Safe Technologies now offers Akorri’s BalancePoint software to its customers to provide data center performance analysis and optimization across both virtual and physical, server and storage infrastructure.

E-Safe Technologies is a data center integrator with competencies in virtualization, consolidation and optimization. E-Safe is the only VMware partner in Western Pennsylvania authorized to have VMware sub-contract service. E-Safe’s customers can now use Akorri BalancePoint agentless software to help gain control over their virtualized IT environments by managing performance and utilization across the server and storage domains.

“As more and more of our customers have realized the benefits of virtualization to help cut their IT costs by 50%, they are now moving toward the second wave of virtualization. They require a solution that helps them holistically manage their virtualized data center applications across their different environments. Akorri BalancePoint enables them to virtualize more tier 1 applications and get a better ROI from their virtualization investment,” said Gary Sharp, VP Sales & Marketing from E-Safe Technologies. “By partnering with Akorri we are able to provide our customers with a solution that allows them to realize their initial virtualization investment, as well as virtualize more and virtualize faster.”

“Our PartnerPoint program provides E-Safe Technologies with the resources they need to help their customers move into their next phase of virtualization. Our channel partners receive quality education, marketing and sales enablement, so they can best help their customers optimize their virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure resources,” said Bill Simpson, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Akorri. “We are pleased to welcome E-Safe Technologies into our PartnerPoint program, a company with a strong virtualization and storage practice, and who is committed to helping their customers optimize their business while managing their virtual and physical infrastructure.”

About E-Safe Technologies
E-Safe Technologies, a division of Premier Technologies, is an end-to-end IT partner that provides strategic, forward-thinking information management solutions to companies seeking consolidation, virtualization and business continuity. Its clients represent a host of industries and professions, including finance, banking, health care, manufacturing and professional services. Comprised of industry-leading IT infrastructure, E-Safe Technologies secures total solutions for its clients by conducting comprehensive assessments and remediation of a company’s IT infrastructure and human capital. Its solutions architects identify critical needs and the best ways to meet those needs – from security, compliance, business continuity, risk assessment and disaster recovery to crucial applications and hardware/software needs.

About Akorri
Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.

Source : www.akorri.com

Akorri Receives “VeriStor Certified Technology” Distinction

LITTLETON, Mass. and ATLANTA – March 16, 2010 - Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performanceand capacity management for the dynamic data center and VeriStor Systems, the Southeast region’s leading enterprise data storage and virtualization solution provider, today announced that Akorri’s BalancePoint software has been validated by VeriStor as a “VeriStor Certified Product.” Solutions validated by VeriStor demonstrate exceptional characteristics in terms of technology differentiation, company stability and customer support along with low acquisition and operating costs for a rapid return on investment.

“We are excited to add Akorri to our VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program. Akorri has demonstrated a high value-add solution set that brings critical visibility and management capabilities to our customers’ complex mixed virtual and physical environments,” said Ashby Lincoln, CEO, VeriStor. “BalancePoint met our stringent criteria for high functionality and value in enterprise-class implementations and we are pleased to name it among our list of VeriStor Certified Products.”

BalancePoint allows IT organizations to optimize virtual and physical server and storage infrastructure to reduce costs and assure service levels as companies advance through the stages of virtualization adoption and into private cloud computing. BalancePoint provides an infrastructure-wide analytical systems management solution that offers visibility and control to troubleshoot and assure performance, plan server and storage capacity, and manage service levels. BalancePoint is available as a virtual appliance, supports VMware vSphere, plugs into VMware vCenter and plans to support Microsoft Hyper-V and all other major hypervisor technologies. It interoperates with all the major storage vendors including EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM, Dell EqualLogic, Hitachi Data Systems, and 3PAR.

“Akorri is fully committed to supporting partners, like VeriStor, in their efforts to provide industry leading solutions,” said Bill Simpson Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Akorri. “The certification of BalancePoint by VeriStor is just another proof point of how Akorri’s virtual infrastructure performance management software can deliver unique value to our partners.”

About the VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program
The VeriStor Certified Technology Partner Program is designed to validate solutions from multiple storage and virtualization hardware and software vendors for optimal use in an enterprise-class implementation. A VeriStor Certified Product demonstrates exceptional characteristics in terms of technology differentiation, company stability, and customer support. In specific, a VeriStor Certified Product exhibits strong scalability, performance, availability and ease of use, along with low acquisition and operating costs. As a result, customers can have confidence in VeriStor Certified Products because they measure up to VeriStor’s stringent criteria for true enterprise-class operation and exceptional value.

Learn more about the VeriStor Certified vendor certification program on the VeriStor Certified Technology Partner webpage.

About VeriStor Systems, Inc.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., VeriStor Systems is a Solutions Architecture firm specializing exclusively in enterprise data storage and virtual infrastructure. VeriStor’s integrated solutions include Storage, Server and Desktop Virtualization, Virtual IO & Consolidated Fabric, Fibre Channel and iSCSI Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), De-Duplication, Backup and Recovery, Data Replication, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) and Compliance Archiving. With more than 300 customers, VeriStor specializes in enterprise and mid-market companies in all industries throughout the Southeast including financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, education and federal, state and local government. More information can be found athttp://www.veristor.com/.

About Akorri
Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.

Source ; www.akorri.com

Akorri Enhances Award-Winning BalancePoint Virtual Infrastructure Performance Management Software

Littleton, MA, March 22, 2010 – Akorri, Inc., the leader in virtual infrastructure performance and capacity management for the dynamic data center, announced today that it has added several enhancements to its award-winning BalancePoint software. This new version of BalancePoint offers increased interoperability, new storage performance reporting capabilities, and ease of use enhancements.

BalancePoint is the only virtual infrastructure management software solution on the market designed to optimize virtual infrastructures, physical servers and storage resources. IT organizations use BalancePoint to quickly isolate performance problems, reduce infrastructure costs and ultimately enable service level management of their data center infrastructure.

The new version of BalancePoint includes:

Broader Interoperability

• IBM XIV Storage, Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and LPAR support
• Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) support

Expanded Storage Performance Analysis

• Platform specific reports to quickly troubleshoot performance issues and plan capacity

Improved Ease of Use

• Simplified installation, quicker navigation and streamlined reporting

“By using BalancePoint, we have been able to reduce troubleshooting by more than 50% and limit downtime of critical clinical applications. And the new reporting feature for NetApp storage allows us to improve the capacity planning of our storage environment,” said David Maldonado, Systems Engineering Manager, for Palo Alto Medical Foundation.

“It’s great to see Akorri continue to enhance BalancePoint’s value by expanding vendor support and interoperability,” said Bernd Harzog, Sr. Analyst at The Virtualization Practice. “BalancePoint’s strong support of IBM’s storage products and AIX Operating System creates a compelling solution for all IBM customers and partners looking to manage their virtualized environments.”

“As virtualization implementations continue to mature, IT organizations are realizing the importance of having best of breed performance management tools,” said Allan Wallack, CEO of Akorri. “BalancePoint’s analytics based performance management is critical in providing these organizations the confidence necessary to virtualization more of their mission critical applications.”

To view a short overview of BalancePoint click here.
To watch a BalancePoint demo click here

About Akorri
Akorri develops cross-domain analytical software solutions that optimize performance and utilization in the dynamic data center. BalancePoint virtual infrastructure management software provides automated, infrastructure-wide visibility and analysis to help enterprises fix problems, optimize utilization and improve performance for both virtual and physical servers and storage. IT organizations use BalancePoint to reduce IT infrastructure total cost of ownership and ultimately enable a service oriented infrastructure. Follow Akorri at http://twitter.com/Akorri. For more information, visit www.akorri.com.

Source : www.akorri.com

Ariane systems group awarded government funding to develop mobile self-service platform for the hospitality industry

PARIS / August 3rd, 2009 – Ariane Systems VIKI project was selected by the ERDF among eight projects, involving 18 SMB and a dozen European research laboratories. The ERDF will finance 40% of the project.

By removing all hardware associated with the check-in and check-out processes, VIKI will revolutionize the hospitality industry by enabling customers to check-in/check-out where and when they want using their desktop, their laptop, their smartphone and even their cell phone.

« Often a source of frustration for business guests, the check-in/check-out procedures have not changed in 15 years. A guest still needs to go to the front desk, stand in line and wait their turn” explains Laurent Cardot, Managing Director and co-founder of Ariane Systems.

« For 10 years, Ariane Systems has been deploying self-service check-in/check-out kiosks in the lobby areas. VIKI anticipates the needs of our clients who are at the cutting edge of technology and want to offer to their guests, for example, the ability to check-in online from their computer before arriving at their hotel, or perform their check-out from their cell phone, comfortably sitting in the taxi that is already driving them to the airport” continues Laurent Cardot.

The features that this software platform will be able to offer are countless as it will integrate online mobile payment solutions and will enable the user to modify their bill, address or even client profile.

For VIKI, Ariane Systems partnered with LIP6 (a research center specialized in the realm of telecommunications and information technology), Lemon Way (a start-up company specializing in mobile applications and leader in mobile banking technologies), as well as Hotel Performance (a major hospitality group) that will contribute their hotel know-how.

« With our mobile platforms, the security layers brought by LIP6 and the unique feature application of Ariane Systems, we will offer early 2010 a solution which will be able to adapt to most of today’s existing hotel technical environments” confirms Sebastien Burlet, founder of Lemon Way.

Frequent travelers’ dream to go directly to their hotel room after receiving a SMS that features their room number and software room key card is not so far…

About Ariane Systems

Ariane Systems is the worldwide leading provider of self check-in / check-out technology solutions for the hospitality industry. Founded in 1998 by Michel Lavandier and Laurent Cardot, Ariane has deployed over 1,500 kiosks installed at hotel properties in 15 countries. Currently, numerous hotel chains utilize Ariane’s self-service solutions to streamline their check-in / out process, including Pullman, Radisson, Golden Tulip, Holiday Inn, Campanile, B&B, Ibis and Novotel, among others.
Based in Paris-France, Ariane Systems operates subsidiaries in the UK, Germany, Spain, Scandinavia, Middle-East and North America, via its recent joint-venture with Taos IT.

For more information, please visit www.ariane-systems.com.

About the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

The ERDF aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union.
After having received projects submitted from three innovation European centers and after a long selection phase, eight research and development projects were selected by the jury.
The ERDF will finance these projects up to €3 million for a total project budget of €8 million.
Local government funds made it known that they would finance a certain number of these projects alongside the ERDF up to €1,5 million.

Press contact: Laurent Cardot, Ariane Systems – lcardot@ariane-systems.com

Source : www.ariane-systems.com