Narus CTO Antonio Nucci Named to InfoWorld's CTO Top 25 List
InfoWorld Profile Highlights Nucci's Career Achievements, Cited as CTO Equivalent of Tiger Woods
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—June 5, 2007—Narus, Inc. announced today that IDG’s InfoWorld, the leading media brand for IT solutions management, has named Narus’ CTO Dr. Antonio Nucci a winner of the 2007 CTO 25 awards. This prestigious award recognizes senior IT executives who have demonstrated leadership within their companies and the IT community. Nucci was selected by the editors of InfoWorld based on industry leadership both inside and outside of Narus.
In a release announcing the winners, Steve Fox, InfoWorld editor-in-chief said, “This year’s CTO 25 award winners are true visionaries who believe that leading-edge technology equals leading-edge business. Their constant invention and reinvention of strategic tools, coupled with an eagle eye for business opportunity, provide a blueprint for IT success.”
Nucci’s “information entropy” security algorithms are the heart of Narus’ NarusInsight Secure Suite, which provides core IP network security and traffic monitoring to Tier 1 telecom carriers and governments around the world. Narus’ customers include AT&T, Telecom Egypt, Saudi Telecom, KDDI, US Cellular, Vodafone and Korea Telecom, along with global partners such as IBM who have developed their core carrier security offerings with Narus. In his career, Nucci has published more than 30 papers, applied for 22 patents in optical and IP networking technology, filed nine strategic technology patents on behalf of Narus, and recently written what InfoWorld Contributing Editor Dan Tynan called, “the definitive textbook on managing large IP networks.”
“It is an honor to be included in such an elite group,” said Nucci. “Narus has earned a tremendous reputation among the world’s largest carriers and governments as the leader in scalable, carrier-class IP security solutions. This award is a huge achievement and a clear demonstration of the great work we are doing at Narus.”
The complete list of the InfoWorld CTO 25 can be found at: http://www.infoworld.com/archives/t.jsp?N=s&V=89005.
About Narus, Inc.
Narus is the global leader in real-time traffic intelligence for the protection and management of large IP networks. Narus is the only software company that provides security, intercept and traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system. With Narus, service providers, governments and large enterprises around the world can immediately detect, analyze, mitigate and target any unwanted, unwarranted or malicious traffic. Narus solutions provide its customers with complete, real-time insight into all of their IP traffic from the network to the applications, enabling customers to take the most appropriate actions quickly.
Narus’ system protects and manages the largest IP networks in the U. S. and around the world, some of which include: KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Raytheon, Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India), Saudi Telecom, U.S. Cellular, Pakistan Telecom Authority and many more.
