Our experts are some of the most skilled andknowledgeable in the business with hundreds of certifications and degreesamong them. They know how to build and implement solutions acrossfunctions so that our clients’ IT investments are optimized.”"We are happy to recognize the great work that FusionStorm has donethroughout the year in growing their virtualization practice, and this isour time to show our appreciation for all that they do,” said Doug Smith,senior director of global channels, VMware. “FusionStorm has demonstratedexcellence in the past year in providing VMware virtualization solutionsto customers of all sizes, and we look forward to their continued successin bringing customers the benefits of VMware vSphere 4, the industry’sfirst operating system for building the internal cloud.”Brad Thompson, FusionStorm’s SVP of Marketing and Field Operations, said,”Many of our clients look to us as their primary IT consultants and thatgives us an edge when it comes to providing virtualization — or anysolution for that matter. They know that FusionStorm offers the wholepackage, from systems and storage to managed services.”One of the keys to FusionStorm’s success is client education.

They areconsistently holding educational events and seminars across the countryaimed at showing IT professionals how to virtualize their ITinfrastructure with the latest VMware technologies. Information on thelatest events can be found at is a Premier partner in the VMware Partner Network and aVMware Authorized Consultant.About FusionStormFusionStorm — “Making Technology Work” — is a national provider of ITproducts, professional services, support contract services and 24×7managed services for enterprises of all sizes. The company assistsorganizations by providing complete solutions for system infrastructure,storage, networking, voice-over-IP communications, security, database,disaster recovery, managed hosting and remote managed services, bothon-site and in the data center FusionStorm is The VARBusiness, VAR ofthe Year for 2006-7. FusionStorm offices include San Francisco (HQ),Santa Clara, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, San Diego, Seattle,Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Albuquerque, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas,Cincinnati, Bethesda, Boston, Tampa, Phoenix, New York City andShrewsbury, New Jersey. SUNNYVALE, CA, May 06 (MARKET WIRE) — Fortinet(R) — a market-leading network security provider and worldwideleader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announcedfindings from its April 2009 Threatscape Report, which shows new andpersistent malware faces contributing to the highest malware volumesdetected this year — online gaming and adware threats largely amongthem.

China received the brunt of this month’s malware attack, doublingits share from the last report. Fortinet’s FortiGuard(R) Global SecurityResearch team made the following observations in April:–Game-on for New Faces:Four new variants landed in April’s Top 10malware list, three of which were online gaming Trojans The fourthnarrowly missed the list at the eleventh position. But W32/Virut.A is stillking of the hill, claiming first position for two consecutive months andbuilding on a year-long run within the Top 10 list. Collectively, thesethreats formed a significant portion of April’s detected activity. Thelucrative marketplace created by online gaming has attracted cyber crimewith haste, predominantly in China China leap-frogged over Japan and theU.S.

with a 44.86 percent global malware share, nearly doubling its 24.17percent share from the last report.–Waledac’s Resilience:One of the most active malware families,Waledac launched a fifth campaign since the beginning of this year, servingup malicious variants disguised as SMS spying software. Waledac, like manyblended threats, is multi-functional with the ability to receive and spewcustom spam templates, launch denial of service attacks, and downloadfurther components. It was also spotted on Conficker’s network, which, inconcert with its own various campaigns, has further helped this family gainmomentum.–Conficker.C Peers:As we anticipated, no significant activityoccurred with Conficker.C on the much-hyped April 1st date; however, soonafter, Conficker.C’s newly established peer-to-peer network became active.Exploit activity with MS.DCERPC.NETAPI32.Buffer.Overflow (MS08-067) pickedup once again during the first week of April, returning to February levelsafter a significant drop in March. The drop was due to Conficker.C variantsceasing exploit activity, while the subsequent increase can be linked toseveral factors outside of Conficker. Over 31 percent of newvulnerabilities this period (96 in total) were reported to be activelyexploited: 36 of the new vulnerabilities were rated as critical, marking ayear high, up from 30 in last month’s report.”April was a busy month for cyber criminals who unleashed the mostaggressive malware attacks thus far this year,” said Derek Manky, projectmanager, cyber security and threat research, Fortinet. “We believe thisupward trend will endure with online gaming attacks continuing todominate, especially with Real Money Trading becoming a big business –now an estimated $2 billion annual market.”The FortiGuard research team compiled threat statistics and trends forApril based on data collected from FortiGate(R) network securityappliances and intelligence systems in production worldwide. These services help enable protection against threats onboth application and network layers.