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.