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Netbox Blue and Media Five announce strategic partnership for Japan
2010-11-11 10:00
Netbox Blue, Australia's leading internet management and security company has announced a strategic distribution partnership with one of Japan's leading providers of technology services and solutions to small and mid-sized companies, Media Five.

"We are delighted to be working with such a strong company as Media Five, which offers innovative managed services solutions to their customers in Japan. This further builds on our success in Japan with Canon IT Solutions. Media Five focuses on Tokyo as well as some of the regional cities such as Fukuoka", Netbox Blue Chairman, John Fison says.

Media Five will concentrate on providing enhanced managed services to companies with 10-100 employees by installing a Netbox Blue appliance as the gateway internet, email and social media filtering device. Through this solution Media Five will offer customers remote network and internet management services, together with a fully managed suite of internet, email and social media filtering solutions.
Media Five President Eriya Ueno says the company has worked closely with Netbox Blue to customise the solution for its customers and launched the solution in October 2010 to the Japanese market.

"We chose to partner with Netbox Blue as they are one of the world's most innovative internet management technology providers. They continually demonstrate thought leadership and products that are totally unique, such as SafeChat and we are very proud to work with them in Japan", Mr Ueno says.

Media Five expects high take up of the service and is planning further regional expansion across Japan.
Netbox Blue continues to build its international business with partnerships such as this and in offering unique technology to partners who are expanding rapidly in their local markets.

"One of the advantages of partnering with Netbox Blue is that their award-winning solution is presented to our customers as a localised Japanese solution with full support provided by us. It is refreshing to partner with a company that understands exactly what we need from a technology partner and that provides us with unique technology and a solution that is not over-distributed to our market ", Mr Ueno says.


About Netbox Blue

Netbox Blue is a leading provider of innovative internet management solutions. Netbox Blue provides businesses, schools and government organisations with the tools to protect their network from internal and external threats, control data leakage and ensure staff and students use the internet productively. The company offers a broad portfolio of products and services including Social Media Management Systems, Unified Threat Management appliances, email filtering appliances and web filtering appliances. The company was established in 1999, is privately held and is based in Australia. Netbox Blue has a presence in 19 countries and has partnerships and distribution agreements with some of the world's largest IT companies.

About Media Five

Media Five was established in 1996. The company has offices in Tokyo and Fukuoka and is listed on the Japanese Stock Exchange (Q-Board). Media Five has 3 divisions – Training, Network integration and support and Systems Integration.


For more information please contact John Fison, Chairman of Netbox Blue on john [dot] fison [at] netboxblue [dot] com or on +61 2 8090 7779. 

Global Marketing Manager, Peter Geale, joins IT thought leader - Netbox Blue
2011-10-18 14:12

October 2011

Global Marketing Manager Peter Geale is the latest to join the management team of award winning IT innovator and thought leader - Netbox Blue. Peter Geale will head the company’s marketing department with a focus on all marketing operations and continue to build and strengthen the Netbox Blue brand in the global IT security and social media management arena.

Peter Geale has more than 25 years’ experience in sales and marketing roles across the Information and Communications Technology industry in Brisbane, Sydney and Boston. His work has spanned varying sized businesses from start-up firms to large multinational firms including companies such as Hewlett Packard, CITEC, Stallion, Anixter and Pivit.

Peter joins Netbox Blue as Global Marketing Manager at a critical time in the company’s development. The Brisbane-based firm is poised to extend its market presence in the Australian and international marketplace to meet the growing internet security imperative for business, government and education.  Netbox Blue's innovative and patented technologies protect the reputation of its customers by ensuring they can leverage the power of the Internet in their organisation while ensuring their online safety.

Peter remarked that “Netbox Blue is an innovative Australian company with a growing suite of products and services that well and truly ‘punch above their weight’ in the global marketplace.  I’m looking forward to working with my new Netbox Blue colleagues and our customers to grow the company’s market presence”.

With the appointment of Peter Geale, the company is facilitating continued growth and expansion in domestic and international markets through increased international marketing activity, partner growth and greater brand exposure.


“It is fantastic to have Peter Geale on board to take Netbox Blue marketing to new heights. Peter will be tasked with management of our global brand, launching our new products and the rollout of our revitalised global partner programme”, Netbox Blue General Manager for Australia & NZ, Ross Hanson says.


Netbox Blue is a leading provider of innovative internet compliance, management and security solutions. Netbox Blue provides organisations with unique, real-time social media management technology to enable organisations to manage the risks of social media use in business. The company owns granted patents around this unique technology and has other patents in the process of being granted. The company was established in 1999, is privately held and is based in Australia. It has a presence in over 19 countries and has partnerships and distribution agreements with some of the world’s largest IT companies.


For more information contact: Gita Raikar, Promotions Coordinator, Netbox Blue gita [dot] raikar [at] netboxblue [dot] com

Available for interview:
Peter Geale, Global Marketing Manager, Netbox Blue peter [dot] geale [at] netboxblue [dot] com
Ross Hanson, General Manager- Australia and New Zealand, Netbox Blue ross [dot] hanson [at] netboxblue [dot] com
 


Grace Christian School Safe with SecurED
2011-11-17 11:27

November 2011

Grace Christian School is providing its students and staff with a safe and secure IT environment with a SecurED solution from Netbox Blue. The solution features highly advanced Category Web Filtering and Zero Day Anonymous Proxy Prevention to ensure complete internet compliance. The solution delivers total protection against today’s challenges as well as unique social networking safeguards that will continue to protect the school into the future. 

 
“It’s an excellent product,” IT Manager, Garry Hewett says. “It has solved our IT issues and has a much more user-friendly interface than other products we looked at.”


The school needed to replace several outdated devices. It decided to consolidate its solutions to provide complete security against the current threats as well as the challenges that the school might face in the future with laptops, MacBooks and social media. The school was also looking for a solution that would be cost effective and easy to use and manage.

Grace Christian School decided to trial Netbox Blue’s SecurED solution because it was an all-in-one solution with advanced features that promised to efficiently deal with anonymous proxies and encrypted websites and was able to filter access to social networking sites.


“It covered our needs and came with good product reviews and recommendations,” Mr Hewett says.


The SecurED solution delivers a complete suite of security and management features that include a firewall, email and URL filtering, reporting, as well as social network monitoring and controls. The solution has the added bonus of LAN segregation. Students and teachers are effectively on separate networks for external access bringing massive security and management advantages. It is also planned for staff members to have secure access to the school’s resources while outside the network with an easy-to-use VPN capability.


“The solution appears to be very stable with excellent reporting of the state of the interfaces,” Mr Hewett says. “We never knew our ADSL fluctuated so much before the Netbox!”
 
“The filtering products are quite sophisticated,” Mr Hewett says. “And the solution is relatively easy to learn and use.”


Grace Christian School now has a consolidated internet and email security and management solution that covers all of their current needs and is able to grow with the school as it moves towards a 1:1 student to laptop ratio. The SecurED solution provides total control over the network at school and will also eventually be rolled out on mobile devices. It can also deliver complete control over social networking with SafeChat® if the school decides to make use of this growing area of the internet.


 “The product does everything we expected of it,” Mr Hewett says. “The Netbox Blue staff are helpful and the solution is excellent.”


About Grace Christian School
Grace Christian School is located at Bunbury in Western Australia, and is a member of the Christian Schools Australia network. It provides a Christ-centred education to students from Kindergarten to Year 12. The school has a strong academic focus, while aiming to develop and nurture a Christian worldview. Grace has a progressive attitude towards IT deployment, but maintains strict policies on internet use and the security of students online is an absolute priority.

About Netbox Blue
Netbox Blue is a leading provider of innovative internet compliance, management and security solutions. Netbox Blue provides organisations with unique, real-time social media analysis and controls with predictive outcomes and benefits. The company owns granted patents around this unique technology and has other patents in the process of being granted. The company was established in 1999, is privately held and is based in Australia. It has a presence in over 19 countries and has partnerships and distribution agreements with some of the world's largest IT companies.

   
For more information please contact: Gita Raikar, Promotions Coordinator, Netbox Blue gita [dot] raikar [at] netboxblue [dot] com

Available for interview:
Garry Hewett, IT Manager, Grace Christian School ghewett [at] grace [dot] wa [dot] edu [dot] au
Pippa Burns, Regional Manager, Netbox Blue pippa [dot] burns [at] netboxblue [dot] com