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Media please contact: Chris Romoser, Iomega Corporation, (858) 314-7148 romoser@iomega.com
Analyst/Investors,
please contact: Preston Romm, Iomega Corporation, (858) 314-7188
For Immediate Release
Iomega Teams Up With Juniper Networks and VeriSign Corporation
For Global Managed Services Initiative
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Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Worldwide Minimize Business Downtime and Costs with Iomega's New Enterprise Class Managed Services
SAN DIEGO,
October 23, 2006 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage and protection, today announced that it has developed fully managed Internet security solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that utilize best-in-class solutions from Juniper Networks, Inc. and VeriSign, Inc.
Iomega's OfficeScreen suite of SMB-focused managed security solutions incorporates security appliances from Juniper Networks. These offerings include Juniper Networks firewall, IPSec site-to-site VPN, Unified Threat Management and SSL VPN solutions with VeriSign two-factor authentication.
"Iomega is excited to work with two of the world leaders in security solutions, Juniper Networks and VeriSign, and deliver these enterprise offerings in an affordable manner to small and medium-sized business customers worldwide," said Jonathan Huberman, CEO of Iomega Corporation. "Today's SMBs face the same security threats to their networks and their critical data as Fortune 100 corporations. Iomega is cutting through the confusion of a fractured managed services market to provide SMBs with what they need for network security."
Currently small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. utilize OfficeScreen as a secure, reliable outsourced network security and VPN service that is cost-effective, doesn't require upfront hardware expenses, dedicated IT resources or large IT budgets. OfficeScreen, which includes Juniper Networks industry-leading firewall/VPN, SSL VPN and IPSec bundles, creates secure wide area networks that connect remote offices and workers to applications and data at a company's headquarters, while countering security threats from hackers, worms and viruses across a company's entire network.
Iomega offers its OfficeScreen managed security solutions to businesses through channel partners in North America, and will market these services in Europe in the near future.
"We're excited about this opportunity to extend the reach of our market leading solutions with Iomega," said David Helfer, vice president of World-Wide Strategic Partners for Juniper Networks. "By leveraging our industry leading security appliances which are well aligned for small and medium-sized business, Iomega is able to offer enterprise class managed security services to its SMB customers."
Souheil Badran, vice president of International Channel Sales for VeriSign, said, "Small and medium businesses are an important customer base for VeriSign, and the partnership with Iomega allows us to expand our reach further into that market. Iomega's OfficeScreen Managed Services coupled with VeriSign's long-standing expertise in delivering strong authentication solutions presents a compelling managed service offering to this growing customer segment."
Adding to Iomega's OfficeScreen Managed Services, the Juniper Networks SSL VPN appliance enables organizations to provide cost-effective remote access, partner extranet services and intranet security. It utilizes SSL as a secure transport mechanism and does not require a client to be deployed on mobile and remote users' computing devices. Little or no changes are required to internal servers. Based on the award-winning Juniper Networks Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) technology, the Secure Access appliance also features rich access privilege management functionality, performance scalability, and a high availability design, meeting enterprise class needs.
In August, Iomega closed its acquisition of managed services provider CSCI, the 2006 winner of the Juniper Networks, Inc. "Managed Services Provider of the Year" award, and the creator of OfficeScreen managed security services.
According to independent market analysis, the global market for managed security services is expected to be $2.9 billion in 2006, growing to $3.7 billion in 2008.
About Iomega Iomega
Corporation provides easy-to-use, high value storage
solutions to help people protect, secure, capture and
share their valuable digital information. OfficeScreen, Iomega's managed security services for SMBs, features industry-leading firewall/VPN, SSL VPN and IPSec bundles that create secure wide area networks that connect remote offices and workers to applications and data at a company's headquarters, while countering security threats from hackers, worms and viruses across a company's entire network. Iomega's
award-winning storage products include the Iomega® REV® platform: the new Iomega REV 70GB Backup Drive, available in USB 2.0 and ATAPI computer interface models for server implementations; Iomega
REV 35GB Drive, available in several computer interface models for desktop backup and archive applications: and two REV automation solutions: the rack mount REV 1000 Autoloader and new desktop form factor REV Loader 280 and the new Iomega REV Loader 560. Iomega also offers its Zip® 100MB,
250MB and 750MB drives; high-performance Iomega external hard drives and HDD solutions such as the new Iomega UltraMax 640GB Desktop Hard Drive and the Iomega StorCenter™ Network Hard Drive, available in mutliple capacity sizes, including a new 1TB wireless model; Iomega
Mini USB Flash drives, Micro Mini™ USB Flash drives; Iomega
external CD-RW Drives; Iomega
Super DVD Drives
and Iomega
floppy USB-powered Drives. Iomega simplifies data
sharing at home and in the workplace
with HotBurn® CD-recording
software. For small and medium business networks, Iomega
StorCenter Pro NAS servers offer capacities of 160GB to 2TB.
For unlimited capacity and anytime, anywhere access,
Iomega offers iStorage™ secure
online storage in various capacity amounts for personal and professional use. Iomega
also offers businesses and consumers a comprehensive data
recovery services solution for recovering lost
data due to hardware failure, file corruption or media
damage. Coming soon: Iomega managed security services for small and medium-sized businesses. The Company can be reached at 1-888-4-IOMEGA
(888-446-6342), or on the Web at www.iomega.com. Resellers can visit Iomega at www.iomega.com/ipartner.
NOTE: The statements contained in this release regarding future plans or performance of OfficeScreen; Iomega's global SMB partnership and entry into the managed services market; growth in managed security services or estimated future size of that market; Iomega's goals to grow the OfficeScreen business and launch additional types of managed services; references to Iomega offering security services worldwide; expansion of managed services into international markets including Europe; and all other statements that are not purely historical, are forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All such forward looking statements are based upon information available to Iomega as of the date hereof, and Iomega disclaims any intention or obligation to update any such forward looking statements. Actual results could differ materially from current expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, legal compliance issues that could arise as we expand security services to different countries; successful integration of CSCI into Iomega; retaining and recruiting key personnel; risks and uncertainties of entering a new market; competition from other larger service providers; technical difficulties with any product or service; risks surrounding the development of a worldwide channel to sell services; intellectual property rights; market adoption of managed services; unfavorable IT spending trends; and other risks and uncertainties identified in the reports filed from time to time by Iomega with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Iomega's Annual Report on Form 10 K for the year ended December 31, 2005, and its most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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