Hydra and our Partners
Hydra vendor partner relations are close, committed and mutually beneficial. Vendor partners supply products and solutions whilst the Hydra team work at the 'coal-face' with customers and understand business issues and limitations.
Vendor product research and development is complemented by Hydra's own solutions, research and development. This means the customer benefits by getting the right technology in the right location at the right time.
Our vendor partner list is extensive and continually evolving.
1E was formed back in 1997 by Sumir Karayi, Mark Blackburn and Phil Wilcock who got together whilst working at Microsoft. Highly technical and many years of experience with blue chip organizations, they saw a need to reduce the cost of managing Windows PCs and Servers. Starting with £1500 capital, 1E was built upon a strong belief in technical excellence and team spirit, a tradition that successfully continues today.
Our early projects proved to be very successful. NPI, for instance, reported a 5-fold saving in the cost of running Windows PCs with the RTM version of Microsoft SMS 2.0. Through word of mouth and sheer hard work, 1E gained a reputation as the leading Microsoft Systems Management specialist.
Our first software solutions automated waking-up PCs for patching and saving energy when they were not being used. We were pioneers in PC Power Management and Green IT even though the environment was not a hot topic in those days. We knew we were doing the right thing in helping companies reduce their waste at the same time as saving them money. Since then we have added further solutions that are focussed on cost savings; solutions that reduce branch office based servers, reduce helpdesk calls through automation and reduce software licence waste.
Our first conference was back in 2000 at what is now the Microsoft Management Summit and it was a lot of fun. We realized how important it was to get to know our customers and the community and for them to feel part of our extended 1E family. We hosted our first 1E party to say thank you to our supporters and have continued this tradition ever since.
Now more than 10 years later, Sumir remains at the helm as CEO with Mark and Phil still actively involved. Our solutions are market leading and we continue to help our customers save significant amounts of money every day.
Green IT
BakBone is committed to making data protection a simple, straightforward process while delivering its Universal Data Management (UDM) strategy through an award-winning product suite. This suite provides unprecedented capabilities not only to protect critical data but more importantly, to ensure the availability of that data as well. BakBones products offer a single point of control for managing resources across all platforms, providing improved operational efficiency, reduced system downtime, improved availability and enhanced security to support the business growth of enterprise environments.
Thousands of users worldwide leverage BakBones UDM approach to simplify the management of multi-platform environments with a portfolio of backup, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting solutions for Linux, Windows, UNIX and Mac OS environments. These scalable data protection solutions address the demands of Global 5000 organizations and are distributed through a worldwide network of select OEM partners, strategic partners, resellers and solution providers. BakBone is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Business Continuity
Founded in 1996, Blue Coat provides the ADN infrastructure to more than 15,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune® Global 500. They maintain support centers in Sunnyvale, London, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Waterloo and Dubai. Our combined experience, backed by Blue Coat's worldwide support team, means we can provide the application-level availability, security and acceleration with comprehensive visibility and user control our customers need.
Security
WAN Op
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a worldwide leader in securing the Internet, and is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management framework. Check Point provides customers uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to innovate with the development of the Software Blade architecture. The dynamic Software Blade architecture delivers secure, flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization or environment. Check Point customers include tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes including all Fortune 100 companies. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft
At Cisco customers come first and an integral part of their DNA is creating long-lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. The concept of solutions being driven to address specific customer challenges has been with Cisco since its inception. Husband and wife Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, both working for Stanford University, wanted to email each other from their respective offices located in different buildings but were unable to due to technological shortcomings. A technology had to be invented to deal with disparate local area protocols; and as a result of solving their challenge - the multi-protocol router was born. Since then Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking - transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate.
Infrastructure
Centralization, optimization and virtualization have been the focus of Citrix product innovation, strategic acquisitions, go-to-market partnerships, and talent development for over twenty years. And they remain fundamentally committed to their vision - a world where anyone can work and play from anywhere.
To turn this vision into reality, IT must evolve from the traditional distributed computing model that is collapsing under the weight of its own complexity and adopt a dramatically simpler, service-oriented model that is flexible and supports user choice, agility and growth.
The Citrix family of products and services centralize, virtualize and minimize the complexity of traditional computing significantly reducing costs, improving information security, mobilizing people, and delivering enterprise agility. The Citrix belief in the power of simplicity becomes more market -relevant every day and is the basis for how Citrix will continue to drive long-term value for shareholders, employees, customers and partners.
Citrix desktop virtualization, application virtualization, server virtualization, application networking, cloud computing and Software as a Service offerings radically simplify computing for millions of users, delivering applications as an on-demand service to any user, in any location on any device.
Cloud Computing
Cyber-Ark Software is an Information Security company that develops and markets digital vaults for securing and managing privileged identities and highly-sensitive information within and across global enterprise networks. Based on its patented Vaulting Technology®, Cyber-Ark's Digital Vault products include: Inter-Business Vault®, a secure infrastructure for cross-enterprise data exchange of highly-sensitive information; Sensitive Document Vault™, for secure storage and management of highly-sensitive documents, and Enterprise Password Vault®, for the secure management of administrative, emergency and privileged user passwords. Cyber-Ark's Vaulting platform has been tested by ICSA Labs, an independent division of Cybertrust. ICSA is the security industry's central authority for research, intelligence, and certification testing of security products.
DataCore Software is a leading independent software vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management, and storage networking. Founded in 1998, the privately-held firm operates global sales, support and service from headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and through worldwide subsidiaries and distribution partners.
Global 2000 data centers, enterprises of all sizes, storage OEM's, and system builders rely on DataCore solutions to virtualize storage, easily expand capacity, protect and enhance access to data, and centralize and automate storage administration for Windows, UNIX, Linux, MacOS, and Netware systems. DataCore has thousands of customers worldwide and, through its network, of authorized and trained solution providers, offers its rich set of core competencies to solve some of the biggest challenges facing businesses today.
•Core Storage Solutions and Storage Network Management
•Storage Infrastructure Software Fibre Channel & iSCSI SANs
•Network Storage Virtualization
•Volume Management and Storage Provisioning
•Data Replication and Disaster Recovery
•Storage Resource Management (SRM)
•Virtual Storage Infrastructure to complement Virtual Servers
Every day, thousands of Dell engineers and product development groups are hard at work around the globe aggressively pursuing new and better answers to customer technology challenges. The result of their work is often first-to-market products that guide innovation industry-wide.
Dells global presence gives the company an innovation edge in some important ways:
Brings a widely diverse range of ideas and employee skills.
Offers a broad understanding of global customer needs.
Dells global reach also offers significant advantages to customers:
A global supply network improves overall product quality and lowers costs.
Global development teams bring affordable technology to new and emerging markets, offering tremendous potential social and economic benefits.
While its principal headquarters and design centers remain in Austin, Texas, Dell has expanded its operations over recent years. The company has established innovation facilities throughout the world, each with its own areas of specialization.
Enterasys network switching, routing and security solutions are used by thousands of customers in more than 70 countries worldwide to deliver business-oriented, identity-based visibility and control for voice, video, and data applications. Our open-architecture solutions enable easy to deploy role-based access controls and prioritization for wired and wireless environments with integrated management and security that deliver investment protection, operational efficiency, and significantly reduced total cost of ownership. We believe security should be built-in rather than bolted-on to intelligently sense and automatically respond to security threats on every wired and wireless connection.
Exinda is a global provider of WAN optimization and application acceleration products. The company has helped over 2,000 organizations worldwide reduce network operating costs and ensure consistent application performance over the WAN. The Exinda Unified Performance Management (UPM) solution encompasses application visibility, control, optimization and intelligent acceleration all within a single network appliance that is affordable and easy to manage.
Founded in 2002, Exinda is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts with regional offices in Canada and the United Kingdom. Research and Development is centralized in Melbourne, Australia.
Aligning business strategy and the IT infrastructure
The IT infrastructure is key to the success of virtually any major business initiative, from quickly integrating a strategic acquisition to bringing products to market cost-effectively.
Yet traditional IT architectures are static and inflexible. Any sudden change in business requirements forces IT staff to respond with manual, one-off technology fixes that consume time and resources.
F5 provides strategic points of control throughout the IT infrastructure, enabling organizations to scale, adapt, and align with changing business demands and drive business forward on a solid foundation of IT agility.
Why is F5 different?
F5 is the only vendor that provides an open architectural framework, offering IT organizations new ways to deliver services that generate true business value. This unique framework includes:
•F5 TMOS ®
The universal, shared product platform that adds intelligence and complete control to application delivery.
•F5 iRules™
The event-driving scripting language that customizes how application traffic is intercepted, inspected, transformed, and directed.
•F5 iControl®
The open API that helps automate communications and eliminates the need for costly manual intervention.
•F5 Data Management Operating System
The core of F5's scalable and intelligent file virtualization solutions that simplifies and automates data delivery.
And only F5 has DevCentral, a business-driven social networking site where a community of more than 35,000 users share innovations in creating scalable, dynamic networks.
From the start, Juniper saw the opportunity to help customers build and accelerate business value from their IT infrastructures. Since then they have helped our customers stay ahead of the demands posed by the exponential growth in network users and end-points, while meeting the business imperatives for high performance, reliability and absolute security.
Juniper remains uniquely positioned to maintain industry leadership based on their core competencies in architecture, silicon design, and the industrys only carrier-class, purpose-built "pure IP" modular network operating system JUNOS®. Juniper offers a broad product portfolio, spanning routing, switching, security, application acceleration, identity policy and control, and management designed to give customers unmatched performance, greater choice and flexibility while reducing overall total cost of ownership.
Microsoft® Hyper-V™ Server 2008 R2 is a stand-alone product that provides a reliable and optimized virtualization solution enabling organizations to improve server utilization and reduce costs. Since Hyper-V Server is a dedicated stand-alone product, which contains only the Windows Hypervisor, Windows Server driver model and virtualization components, it provides a small footprint and minimal overhead. It easily plugs into customers existing IT environments, leveraging their existing patching, provisioning, management, support tools, processes, and skills. Some of the new key new features that are available in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 are live migration, cluster shared volume support and expanded processor and memory support for host systems.
Simply a Better Way to Manage.
Netcordia is the leading solution provider for Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM). Their award-winning NetMRI software enables you to automate network change, manage network configurations, and meet compliance. What makes them unique is their ability to show the impact of network changes on the health, policy, and compliance of your network. NetMRI acts as a network analyzer to audit multi-vendor infrastructures, analyze and identify anomalies early, speed resolution, and automate network changes. The result: a network that is more compliant and secure, and cost-effectively meets short and long-term business requirements. Netcordia helps leading organizations in healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, academic, service and government improve service quality, reduce total cost of ownership, and mitigate the risk of poor performance.
Netcordia's NCCM solutions are complementary to legacy network management systems such as HP Openview, CiscoWorks and others. Easy to use, fully automated, but highly sophisticated behind the scenes, NetMRI provides its many high-profile customers exceptional results, ROI, and visibility into their networks.
Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), the global leader in integrated application delivery solutions and a member of the RAD Group, assures the full availability, maximum performance, and complete security of business-critical applications for nearly 10,000 enterprises and carriers worldwide. With APSolute™, Radware's comprehensive and award-winning suite of application delivery and network security products, companies in every industry can drive business productivity, improve profitability, and reduce IT operating and infrastructure costs by making their networks "business smart."
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 700 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.
SonicWALL is a recognized leader in comprehensive information security solutions. SonicWALL solutions integrate dynamically intelligent services, software and hardware that engineer the risk, cost and complexity out of running a high performance business network. For nearly 20 years SonicWALL solutions and service providers have given millions of business users the competitive edge of deep protection with uncompromised performance. SonicWALL solutions are successfully deployed across small, medium and distributed enterprise environments around the world, including government, healthcare and retail point-of-sale installations.
Teneros mission is to end email downtime. To achieve this mission, Teneros has developed a Software-as-a-Service(SaaS) oering that assures application and data continuity for the Microsoft Exchange messaging infrastructure. The service is delivered through on-site appliances which assure continuous, transparent, end-user email operation during unplanned or planned down time of the corporate email servers.
Corporate Email communication is essential for business operations. According to Meta Group research, 80% of corporate executives believe that email is far more valuable than the telephone for business communications. Gartner Group claims
that 60% of all corporate communication is via email and 80% of all corporate knowledge and data resides in email.
Current high availability and disaster recovery email solutions are costly to purchase,complex to administer, and intrusive to the existing infrastructure. Teneros Software-as-a-Service addresses these issues and provides a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and a faster Return-on-Investment with no burden on the in-house IT team.
More than ever, we rely on the Internet for global commerce, data exchange, and communication. But as Web usage increases, so to does criminal activity. Motivated by massive profits, criminals with extraordinary technical skill can infiltrate PCs and mine confidential data, track business transactions, or host illicit Web pages and malicious code on servers or personal computers undetected.
One breach in security cangrant access to a goldmine of confidential data. A stolen bank or social security number, or leaked customer, partner, and sales information can allow criminals to wreak financial havoc and damage personal or business reputations. Effective security solutions must be able to protect against a wide range of insidious threats and combined attacks including viruses, spam, phishing, pharming, spyware, rootkits, botnets, targeted Web attacks, and other emerging types of malware. Traditional pattern file-based detection can no longer keep up.
With the introduction of the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, a next-generation cloud-client content security infrastructure, Trend Micro can now stop threats before they reach users. By utilizing our extensive global network of data centers and a combination of automated and manual systems, Trend Micro Smart Protection Network provides a real-time and continuous feedback loop of threat intelligence. The more products, services, and users access the network, the stronger our threat knowledge and protection becomes.
VMware is the global leader in Business Infrastructure Virtualization, delivering proven virtualization solutionsfrom the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloudthat energize business, while saving energy. IT organizations in companies of all sizes rely on VMware and its industry-leading platform, VMware vSphere™, to achieve a more efficient, controlled and flexible IT environment. With more than 150,000 customers and 22,000 partners, VMware delivers the worlds most trusted solutions for virtualization, a strategic initiative that consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs.
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