News
IT Weekly Roundup, October 15
From the business wires this week: storage and backup solutions, e-mail security, network management, more.
Emulex Corporation announced that its
LightPulse
Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and
SAN Storage Switches
will now support
Microsoft Data Protection Server (DPS).
Support for the disk-based backup and recovery system includes storage protection
technologies such as Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO), Volume Shadow Copy Service
(VSS), Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Storport.
http://www.emulex.com
Firetrust Encrypt 1.0 from Firetrust
Limited offers consumers and businesses the ability to encrypt outgoing
e-mail to protect sensitive information. A key feature is the ability for recipients
of the encrypted e-mail to open, decrypt and read it with just their Web browser.
The program uses a 256-bit AES encryption standard and sells at an MSRP of $29.99.
http://www.firetrust.com
From Quest Software comes the newest version of Quest
MessageStats, a software solution for Microsoft Exchange usage reporting
and analysis. Version 5.0 offers new features, including Executive Summary reports,
customizable “At a Glance” dashboards, total e-mail storage and
traffic reports across business units, and the ability to audit subject lines,
delivery times, mailboxes and Internet SMTP domains. MessageStats costs $7.50
per mailbox, with volume discounts available. http://www.quest.com
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| Quest MessageStats 5.0 can give simple, but
also detailed, summaries of Exchange traffic. |
Group Logic’s upgraded, standalone version
of ExtremeZ-IP Print Server 4.0 allows Mac and Windows
users to print via TCP/IP to printers other PostScript devices. The new version
offers support for Apple Remote Desktop, multiple print queue management, and
compatibility with Mac OS 9 and OS X. http://www.grouplogic.com
Sybase, Inc. announced that its relational database
management system, Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise
(ASE), will be integrated with SAP Business One 2004,
a comprehensive business management solution to process data and transactions
for SMBs, from SAP AG. Sybase will offer support for migration for SAP Business
One apps to Sybase ASE, and make available SAP Business One on Sybase ASE in
25 languages and 37 countries. http://www.sybase.com
Hummingbird Ltd. released Hummingbird
Enterprise Content Integration, which allows enterprise data to be shared
across each of the components of Hummingbird Enterprise 2004. The enterprise
content management (ECM) solution can consolidate, migrate, centralize and standardize
both structured and unstructured data, making business content traceable, secure
and auditable to meet corporate governance regulations. http://www.hummingbird.com
StorageTek launched its new line of FlexLine
online storage systems, designed to provide enterprises with adaptable, disk-based
storage infrastructure. The FlexLine FLA300 disk array
operates at 2GB/sec and supports up to 14 Fibre Channel drives. The FlexLine
FLA210 is suited for smaller environments with support for up to 14 SATA
disk drives internally and scales to 112 SATA disk drives in total. Both lines
support a broad range of capacity-centric disk arrays, including SATA and Blade
architectures. http://www.storagetek.com
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| User Manager 5.0 makes it easy for admins
to change user and security settings across a network. |
User Manager 5.0 from Lieberman
Software enables system administrators to report on and make global changes
to security settings on machines throughout a network in a single operation.
New features include consolidated management and reporting on all shared folders
and their permissions; integrated support for Remote Desktop management via
Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and Terminal Server; and the ability to create,
delete and update thousands of user accounts using data from text files and
databases. http://www.liebsoft.com
SurfControl’s e-mail filtering software for
enterprises has just been upgraded to SurfControl E-Mail
Filter 5.0. The new version offers URL Category Protection—a
database of URLs that link to web threats; enhanced filtering to block junk
and user-specified mail, as well as spam; LexiRules, which uses Boolean language
analysis to protect against new kinds of spam; and neural network techniques
that recognize spamming patterns, particularly adult and gambling spam. Pricing
starts at $19 per user, based on an installation of 500 users. http://www.surfcontrol.com
Iomega unveiled its disk-to-disk autoloader, the
REV Autoloader 1000, at the Storage Expo in London,
which will ship later this quarter. The backup device, targeted for the SMB
market, is a 2U single-drive desktop device that provides 10 slots for a native
capacity of 350GB (700GB with 2:1 compression), a transfer rate of 25MB/sec,
and is bundled with the enterprise-level BrightStor ARCserve Backup software
from CA. Dual SCSI interfaces allow it to connect to a server and a NAS device,
and Web-based configuration tools and a front operator panel provide simple
access to key settings. http://www.iomega.com