User talk:Mickyounger/NetBox Blue

First comments

1) This still reads like an advertisement or brochure. Purge it of marketing phrasing like "a simple, holistic solution for many common business problems," "achieved Premier level business partnership alliance with IBM" and "is said to be unique ", as well as the use of the word "solution" anywhere in the article. 2) Only one external link to the subject's own website(s) 3) You need to create real footnotes, not just dump a bunch of stuff at the bottom of the page. See WP:CITE for guidance on how to create footnotes for citations. 3a) A reproduction of a press release is never a reliable source, nor is it evidence of notability. 4) The draft language is in the sandbox, User:Mickyounger/NetBox Blue; it's a waste of space to reproduce it on your talk page. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:56, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Below is the new proposed content for this article Mickyounger (talk) 04:23, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

NetBox Blue

NetBox Blue Pty Ltd.

File:NetBox Blue.jpg
Company type	Privately held company
Industry	Network security
Founded	1999
Headquarters	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Key people	Chairman: John Fison CTO: Trent Davis
Products	Unified threat management (UTM), Firewalls, Antivirus, Intrusion-prevention system, Antispyware, Antispam, VPN, Web filtering
Number of employees	43 (2009)
Website	http://www.netboxblue.com

NetBox Blue Pty Ltd is an Australian-owned provider of internet and email security, filtering and management appliances. The company currently has over 54,000 clients in 18 countries around the world. NetBox Blue was founded in Brisbane by Trent Davis in 1999. It is currently a privately owned company with its head office in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia, and branch offices in Sydney , London and Taipei.

The NetBox Blue appliance provides organizations with the tools to protect their network from internal and external threats, control data leakage and ensure staff use the internet productively. The company’s offerings include Unified Threat Management appliances, email filtering appliances, soft appliances (for virtual environments) and OEM-ready devices.

NetBox Blue focuses on supplying appliances to small and mid-sized organisations (5-2000 staff) and has customers in all sectors. Corporate customers include Telstra, Qantas, Westpac, Woolworths and National Australia Bank. The company sells its products through a global network of authorized Business Partners. These Business Partners offer complementary services and support. The company’s most successful product is the Unified Threat Management device, which runs on a hardened Linux kernel, and can be deployed as an Xseries rack-mounted server, a VMware instance, or a small form-factor tower.

Features of the UTM NetBox include :

• Anti-spam
• Anti-virus software
• Stateful Firewall
• Detailed email & network reporting
• Secure Virtual Private Network
• Traffic shaping Quality of Service QoS
• category & URL filtering
• Quota enforcement
• Bandwidth Link aggregation

Shareholders

Chairman – John Fison

John Fison became chairman of NetBox Blue in 2006 and is a director and major shareholder of the company. Fison won several prestigious awards in the UK for growth and entrepreneurship and was an Ernst and Young "Young Entrepreneur of the Year" winner in 2001 . He was subsequently selected as a judge for this program in the UK and more recently in Australia. Fison is one of the first UK Chartered Directors and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Chief Technical Officer – Trent Davis

Trent Davis is the founder of NetBox Blue and is now the chief architect and head of development. In 2005 Davis was a winner of the Ernst & Young “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” award and was recognized as one of FHM's Most Influential Australians under the age of 30.

Strategic Alliances

IBM

In late 2006, NetBox Blue formed an alliance with IT giant IBM, and subsequently became one of the first IBM Express Advantage Partners in Australasia. The partnership enables NetBox Blue to offer customers world class hardware platforms with global, on-site support.

Canon ITS Japan

In April 2008 Global IT vendor Canon IT Solutions (ITS) Japan signed a multi-million dollar master distribution agreement with NetBox Blue. NetBox Blue agreed to provide its SpamChecker appliance - as it is known in Japan - to Canon ITS Japan’s customers for email filtering and content control. The drop-in appliance was the result of nine months of co-development between NetBox Blue and Canon Japan and is specifically designed for the SME market in Japan.

ESET

NetBox Blue further expanded its security offerings with a strategic partnership with anti-virus software provider ESET. The partnership offered customers ESET NOD32 Antivirus as an option in NetBox Blue’s line of UTM and virtualised security products. As a result of the union, small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) also have access to NetBox Blue’s integrated security and management suite and full line of localised security appliances through ESET’s network of partners.

Education specific Appliance

In 2008 NetBox Blue launched an internet and email filtering appliance specifically for the education sector. The SecurEd product offers cyber bullying protection, patented category web filtering, spam filtering, virus protection, internet quota management and a firewall. The product is used by independent schools across Australia.

Mobile filtering

NetBox Blue also offers a patented filtering product for mobile devices through its subsidiary Leopard Labs. The mozone product filters unwanted and inappropriate internet content and is said to be unique because it sits on the handset, avoiding the need for a server-side appliance. It can be used to block SMS and MMS from unknown and unwanted senders. It also protects mobile devices from spam and blocks damaging viruses.

External Links

NetBox Blue homepage
ENEX Testlab independent review
Computerworld news article - Luxury car retailer eliminates spam burn out
Business Strategy Australasia interview with Trent Davis
ARN news article - Security appliance battles porn in Brisbane

References

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