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IT Weekly Roundup, October 1
From the business wires this week: a security appliance for SMBs, e-mail storage upgrades and a security data management tool.
McAfee is extending its IntruShield product
line to protect small and midsize businesses and enterprise branch
offices with the release of the
McAfee IntruShield
1400 IPS sensor. The appliance supports performance up to
200 Mbps, four 10/100 fast Ethernet detection ports, fail-over capability
for high availability network deployments, remote-based management,
and detection and blocking of unwanted peer-to-peer traffic.
http://www.mcafee.com
Mail2World announced broad e-mail storage
increases at no cost for its business and consumer users. Pangia
Enterprise, Small Business and
Professional customers received 1GB upgrades,
while free e-mail users saw their inboxes grow to 250MB and Platinum
Email paid subscribers benefited from a 2GB increase. http://www.mail2world.net
Laplink released FileMover
for the North American market, following its debut in Europe. The
standalone file transfer program allows users to securely and quickly
transfer files between PCs via a network, USB or serial cable. http://www.laplink.com
FileNet P8 3.0 from FileNet
Corporation now supports Microsoft Web Services Enhancements
(WSE) 2.0, a part of Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, which facilitates
development and deployment of secure XML Web Services. http://www.filenet.com
ArcSight has introduced ArcSight
SmartStorage, a software product that efficiently manages
volumes of security data required by compliance, audit and governance
regulations, outlined in such acts as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
ArcSight SmartStorage utilizes the native capabilities of enterprise-class
databases, multiple compression techniques that can deliver up to
20-to-1 compression, and retrieval tools that are easy to use. http://www.arcsight.com