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Starting April 1st 2013 Microsoft will be offering 3 new Online Services as part of the eCAL suite offerings. These services will be made available for current and new customers of the eCAL Suite. These online services are EOA (Exchange Online Archiving), EOP (Exchange Online Protection) and DLP (Data Loss Prevention).

EOA = Exchange Online Archiving: Is a cloud-based, enterprise-class online archiving solution for your Exchange Server 2010 or later on-premises deployment.
EOP = Exchange Online Protection: Is an online email filtering service providing protection for your Exchange Server on-premises deployment. EOP has replaced FOPE (Forefront Online Protection for Exchange).
DLP = Data Loss Prevention: DLP helps keep your organization safe from users mistakenly sending sensitive information to unauthorized people. DLP helps you identify, monitor, and protect sensitive data through deep content analysis

If you want to learn more about the new Online Service offerings, please contact 
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With your people constantly on the go, you need reliable, secure tools that work out-of-the-box and keep everyone up-to-date and productive anywhere, anytime. As an organization, you also need a solution with predictable costs that requires minimal IT management. Does such a solution even exist?
Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based productivity service hosted by Microsoft. It provides highly secure, anywhere access to your familiar Office applications, email, calendars and video conferencing, and the most up-to-date documents across your devices, including laptops, tablets and smartphones.
With Office 365 you can take advantage of the latest Office applications and enterprise-ready services, without having to upgrade your servers. Easy to set up, simple to use, and requiring little IT management, Office 365 lets your hard-earned money work more smartly for you. And with always-up-to-date spam and malware protection and business continuity features such as continuous data backup, remote data wipe and a 99.9% uptime guarantee, you can protect your information and get more work done. Let us help you take full advantage of the cloud!
On the 27th of February Microsoft announced the availability of Office 365 through Open Volume Licensing and Fully Packaged Products (FPP). This provides even more options to any organization that may like to avail of ad-hoc online service options.  Office 365 is now available to purchase through Enterprise Agreements, Open Volume & FPP.  There is also the option to purchase directly from Microsoft and engage your partner of record to assist you in your transition to the cloud.
If you want to learn more about the features and benefits of Office 365, please contact
slmscloudlicensing@hp.com or contact your Local SLMS Sales Specialist for support.
For more information about SLMS access the following link. www.hp.com/go/slms

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Adobe Volume Licensing

Value Incentive Plan (VIP) NEW
The VIP is designed to allow customers to immediately download and deploy available Adobe products under a subscription-type purchase plan. There are no minimum purchase requirements, discount levels, or large, up-front purchase requirements to avail of the VIP plan.

VIP Consoles
VIP introduces an Admin Console component that enables customers to easily manage their licenses across their organization, and a Reseller Console that enables resellers to manage their customers’ purchasing requirements.

CREATIVE CLOUD FOR TEAMS: ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH VIP

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What is it?
Adobe Creative Cloud for teams is an on-going membership that allows your organization access to the Adobe Creative Suite 6 applications, as well as:
– Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4
– Adobe Acrobat XI software
– Adobe Muse
– Adobe Edge Tools & Services
– And more…

What does this mean?
As a member, you are entitled to download and use new features as they are released; you get the best tools straightaway. Membership also includes online services for storage and file sharing, tools for collaboration for workgroups, and a new publishing service that will help your organization stay innovative and competitive.

The benefits?
– Get the world’s best tools at a more affordable price
– Enable team collaboration in your organization
– Publish apps and websites
– Stay up to date
– Simplified license management
– Gold support (direct from Adobe) (which covers 24/7 phone support, knowledge base, customer support portal and remote access with a 1hr target response time.)

ADOBE VALUE INCENTIVE PLAN (VIP) PROGRAM GUIDE

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New Office 365 through FPP and Open

February 2013

Microsoft has announced the expansion of their Office 365 cloud offering by introducing Office 365 Small Business Premium and Office 365 Midsize Business, available respectively through the FPP (Full Packaged Product) and Open program channels.
The expected date for the launch is February 27th, 2013.

Office 365 Small Business Premium includes a 1-year subscription for the Office client, as well as Exchange, SharePoint and Lync services.
It is designed for businesses with 10 or fewer users, and it has a technical limit of 25 users.

Office 365 Midsize Business will include all O365 SBP features, with more advanced IT admin, Active Directory and enhanced phone support. A subscription version of Office Professional Plus is also included in Office 365 Midsize Business.
The target customer for Office 365 Midsize Business is a company with between 25 and 250 users, and the technical limit is set at 300 users.

For more information, read the relevant Newsletter Article.

If you have any questions, please email:
hpslmssabenefits@hp.com
Or contact your Local SLMS Sales Specialist for support:
https://h40095.www4.hp.com/Phoenix/GetSLMSSalesContacts.do

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Adobe has introduced the new Acrobat XI family, consisting of Acrobat XI Standard, Acrobat XI Pro and the free Acrobat XI Reader.
Acrobat XI is the complete solution to enhancing your productivity! This powerful new version makes it easier and faster to create, convert and edit PDF forms. It now integrates cloud services and web contracting.
Acrobat XI Standard is designed for Office workers of any skill level.
Microsoft integration – Take advantage of support for Microsoft Windows 7 and 8, get direct access to Acrobat functionality from the Microsoft Office ribbon, and work more efficiently with SharePoint and Office 365.

• Streamlined software management – Simplify deployment and updates with cumulative patches on a more predictable schedule that can be deployed and managed using Microsoft SCCM/SCUP
• Unmatched security – Help mitigate PDF- based attacks with multiple built in defences and advanced security techniques.

Acrobat XI Pro Standard is designed for business and creative professionals and is the complete solution.
Streamlined deployment – Simplify deployment and updates with support for Microsoft SCCM/SCUP and Apple Remote Desktop, and get free Adobe tools.

• Document protection – Help safeguard company information by setting default document security properties.
• Simplified workflow – Work smarter by enabling end users to create forms, assemble PDF portfolios, and standardize tasks.

With the launch of Acrobat XI, Adobe are changing its upgrade policy:
Effective from 1st October 2012, the upgrade eligibility goes back two versions only.

• Customers on Acrobat 7 will not be eligible to upgrade from 15th October 2012.After this date all Acrobat 7 customer will need to buy the full version of the product.
• Customers on Acrobat 8 will be eligible to upgrade until 31st May 2013.From this date onwards they will need to buy the full version of the product.
• Customers on Acrobat 9 and Acrobat X will be able to continue to purchase upgrade products past this date.

If you have any questions email hpslms.adobe@hp.com or contact your SLMS Sales Specialist

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Leading research firm Gartner has placed McAfee in the leader’s quadrant in its “Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways”. Gartner’s research examined leading vendors who offer solutions in the email security marketplace.

Gartner identifies leaders as companies that perform well, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership positions in the market. The analyst firm focuses its selection criteria on strategic vendors, data loss prevention capability, encryption and better protection from targeted phishing attacks.

Pat Calhoun, senior vice president and general manager of network security at McAfee said: “Being placed in the leader’s quadrant highlights McAfee’s comprehensive range of email security functionality, as well as superior vision and execution for current and anticipated customer requirements. We believe that our position in the leader’s quadrant demonstrates the strength, stability, flexibility and effectiveness of McAfee Email Protection Solutions.”

McAfee Email Protection provides the ability to deploy email security in multiple form factors, including hardware appliances, virtual appliances, cloud-based and blade servers. McAfee provides holistic enterprise-class features and flexibility to increase messaging security while reducing the costs associated with spam, bandwidth consumption, malware clean-up, and data loss. Customers have complete flexibility to use a combination or switch between the solutions without any additional charge.

McAfee email security solutions include:

• McAfee Email Protection
• McAfee SaaS Email Encryption, McAfee SaaS Email Archiving
• McAfee Email Security for Servers

About McAfee
McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers. http://www.mcafee.com

If you have any questions please email HP-SLMS-Microsoft-PSM@hp.com or contact your Local SLMS Sales Specialist for support:
https://h40095.www4.hp.com/Phoenix/GetSLMSSalesContacts.do

For more information about SLMS access the following link: http://www.hp.com/go/slms

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Red Hat introduces its virtualization portfolio with HP.

Red Hat has built the base for its impressive virtualization portfolio, together with partners like HP, in the Open Virtual Alliance. This alliance promotes the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).
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The virtualization market has matured in recent years. Many industry leaders now focus on a multi-vendor approach to virtualization, looking to improve on cost per performance and virtualizing workloads not possible to virtualize before.

Most of the workloads running on top of existing virtualization solutions are Windows based. Many enterprises merely introduced virtualization off their Linux workloads. There is high leverage in now attacking Linux server consolidation.

KVM includes virtualization in the Linux Kernel, leveraging the broad certification of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System on top, for example: ISV-Software. For instance, SAP will automatically run both the virtualization on the Linux Kernel and the aforementioned Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS on bare metal—and also be certified on RHEV. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is the management framework for KVM and ensures both security and scalability.

Red Hat’s subscription-based business model allows for unprecedented flexibility and spares customers’ license costs, offering fast-growing virtualization environments and efficient economics.

For more information, see
http://h30458.www3.hp.com/uk/en/ent/1242775.html

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The Home Use Program is a Software Assurance benefit, available as part of Microsoft’s Volume Licensing programs. Through this offering, you can provide licensed employees access to a copy of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013 and other applications for your employees to install and use on a home computer during the term of your Software Assurance coverage.

Which products are available through HUP?

• - Office Professional Plus 2013
• - Office for Mac 2011
• - Office Language Pack 2013
• - Visio Premium 2013
• - Project Professional 2013

Eligibility

For each Office Application License covered by Software Assurance, the user of the licensed software is entitled to one copy of the corresponding program for use at home. The following Volume Licensing programs are eligible for this benefit:

• - Enterprise Agreement
• - Enterprise Subscription Agreement
• - EES
• - School Agreement
• - Open Value
• - Open Value Subscription
• - Select License
• - Select Plus

How to get started

1. Make sure the Home Use Program benefit is activated in VLSC.
   
   a) Obtain the program code
   b) Confirm the proper email domains are listed
   
2. Use the HUP Marketing Portal to create any message to notify employees.
3. Provide employees their program code.
4. Send them to the HUP store to purchase!

Points to note

Any employee who has previously purchased earlier versions of Office or Mac through HUP is eligible to return to the HUP site and upgrade to Office 2013. Pricing will vary by country.

An employee upgrade does not count as consumption against the account’s HUP Licenses since the system is able to recognize the employee as eligible for an upgrade. During an upgrade, employees are allowed to switch platforms. Eligible employees are allowed to purchase Office or Mac, not both. However, this launch is for OFFICE ONLY so Mac will not be available at the time of the Office 2013 launch. Mac users or those switching platforms will need to wait for the Mac release to update.

If you have any questions, please email:
hpslmssabenefits@hp.com
Or contact your Local SLMS Sales Specialist for support:
https://h40095.www4.hp.com/Phoenix/GetSLMSSalesContacts.do

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Citrix Premier Support provides 24×7×365 unlimited worldwide support and unlimited support with incidents on software products.

Supported Products:

• XenApp
• XenDesktop
• XenServer
• NetScaler VPX
• Branch Repeater VPX
• Access Gateway VPX and Universal Licenses
• EdgeSight
• Provisioning Server
• Application Streaming for Desktops
• XenClient

Detailed Features

For a quote for this support option or support that meets your need then please contact your local SLMS representative