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Toronto, Canada – On the heels of the recent expansion of their managed services team that included the
addition of four new professionals, Primus Business Services has announced they are enhancing their managed
services portfolio by partnering with Juniper Networks, Inc., a leader in high-performance networking, and with
NetApp, a creator of innovative storage and data management solutions. These new partnerships will now make
two essential technologies available to the small and mid-sized business community.
Partnering with Juniper will enable Primus to offer Juniper’s SSG series product line which includes their
integrated set of best-in-class Unified Threat Management (UTM) firewall features. Among the features the
firewall offers are protection against inbound and outbound attacks at all levels, antivirus (anti-spyware,
anti-phishing, anti-adware), anti-spam, and Web filtering, integrated routing and a variety of LAN/WAN interface
options offering the ability to consolidate devices and reduce IT expenditures, rapid deployment to quickly
streamline widely distributed deployments while controlling OPEX, management through graphical Web UI, CLI,
or NSM central management system and policy-based management to allow centralized, end-to-end life-cycle
management.
"IT managers at companies of all sizes – small, mid-size or large – can't afford to leave their networks
vulnerable by focusing only on protection against a single type of attack," said Jeff Lorenz, VP Sales & Marketing
at Primus Telecommunications Canada. "Our partnership with Juniper enables smaller and mid-sized businesses
to outsource their firewall service and enjoy secure, 24/7 management and monitoring of their firewall devices at a
fraction of the cost of doing it themselves."
"Juniper’s relationship with Primus Telecommunications Canada is an excellent example of how we are
working with customers to provide them with innovative services that respond to their current and future needs,"
says Tim Lambie, Vice President, Americas International, Canada, Caribbean and Latin America, Juniper
Networks. "Primus is leveraging Juniper’s high-performance network infrastructure to drive security and threat
monitoring to one of Canada’s most important businesses markets - small and medium sized companies. Through
Juniper firewalls, Primus will ensure that its SMB customers conduct all mission critical transactions over the
Internet safely and securely."
With the increase in frequency and sophistication of Internet attacks, firewall protection is essential for all
businesses connecting their servers or office networks to the Internet. Primus recognizes that security needs
differ greatly from one organization to another and that the security requirements of small and mid-size business
environments vary greatly from large, multi-server or multi-office organizations. As such, Primus offers a number
of different Managed Firewall packages which meet the needs of all organizations. Primus’ security experts work
with companies to determine their security needs and configure and deploy a firewall tailored to those needs.
Primus monitors and maintains each firewall on an on-going basis and provides monthly reports summarizing the
intrusion attempts which were blocked by the firewall.
Primus’ partnership with NetApp will greatly improve business continuity for the SMB market. By
leveraging NetApp’s SnapVault and OSSV technology, Primus will be able to provide their clients with the most
up-to-date technology in data recovery services. SnapVault has been designed to safeguard data faster and
more cost effectively and to leverage disk-based backup and block-level incrementals for reliable, low-overhead
backup and recovery. With SnapVault, data protection occurs at the block level, copying only the data blocks that
have changed since the last backup, not entire files. This enables backups to run more frequently and utilize less
capacity because no redundant data must be moved or stored. This not only makes disk-based backup more
cost effective, it provides the option of backing up directly from remote facilities to a core data centre, centralizing
management and minimizing investment needs.
“Small and mid-sized businesses will now be able to reap the operational and financial benefits that come
as a result of Primus’ managed business continuity services,” said Jeff Lorenz. “Companies lose valuable time
and millions of dollars each year due to lost data and Primus is pleased that our partnership with NetApp will help
smaller and mid-sized businesses improve their backup and recovery speeds by up to 92%, enable more cost
effective backups and further simplify all aspects of their data protection with the SnapVault option.”
“As a long time NetApp customer, Primus is intimate with our technology and the value it brings to data
management,” said Jeff Goldstein, Canadian General Manager for NetApp. “They have chosen to partner with
NetApp to deliver differentiated solutions to the Canadian marketplace and to bring NetApp Data Protection
capabilities to small and medium size businesses with the same data protection requirements as larger
organizations but without the dedicated storage administration staff. Primus' managed data capability will provide
a valuable service to the SMB market looking to protect their valuable data assets and we are proud to be
partnering with Primus and delivering these solutions to the Canadian marketplace."
Primus’ managed business continuity services encompass retention of all data to meet a specific
business’ requirements, backups that can be restored to any server in any environment, offsite storage of
backups for disaster recovery purposes, private secure network for backup system, 24/7 access to a support
team for file restores and hardware and connectivity redundancy for 100% up-time.
About Primus Business Services
Primus Business Services is a leading national full service communications provider offering voice, data, hosting,
IP connectivity, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions to over 40,000 Canadian Companies. With 7
world-class, state-of-the-art Data Centres across Canada, Primus Business Services keeps companies’ websites,
servers, and mission critical applications connected for enhanced business continuity. Primus Business Services
is a division of Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. Visit www.primuspbs.ca for more information.
About Juniper Networks
Juniper Networks, Inc. is the leader in high-performance networking. Juniper offers a high-performance network
infrastructure that creates a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and
applications over a single network. This fuels high-performance businesses. Additional information can be found
at www.juniper.net.
About NetApp
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and
deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Discover NetApp's passion for helping companies around the world go further,
faster at www.netapp.com.
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