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Indexsoft Releases Site-UP v.2.0

Indexsoft recently released Site-UP 2.0, a Web-based tool for supporting Web sites. According to the company, advantages of the software include a built-in WYSIWYG editor for HTML documents with opportunity to edit any documents containing HTML fragments in the WYSIWYG mode (SSI, Perl, PHP, etc. documents). The software can replace any FTP client and telnet or ssh access. The software has a two-window interface, and simplifies saving, copying, moving, packing and unpacking files, and creating the symbolic links with the target directory indicated. Indexsoft Site-UP contains the built-in FTP client and supports the sending of files via email. Also are supported the search for files, the selection of files on the mask, the creation of several files and directories by one operation, downloading and uploading of files, the executing of the files, and the use of templates for the newly created files.

For more information, visit: http://www.indexsoft.com.

HP Unveils Server Console Switch

HP announced the analog HP Server Console Switch family of products -- a scalable and integrated keyboard, video monitor, and mouse (KVM) system for managing multiple servers from one console. According to the company, the analog HP Server Console Switches are available in 8- and 16-port versions and can be connected in a tiered fashion to increase server access from 8 to as many as 128 servers (and to 256 servers when tiering to an HP IP Console Switch). Users can manage attached computers, including those running different operating systems, via a single, integrated On-Screen Display (OSD) interface. The OSD also provides intuitive menus for system-related information such as status, test and diagnostic data, and configuration menus.

For more information, visit: http://www.hp.com/products/racks.

Projektfarm Releases SQLiteWebAdmin 0.1

Projektfarm GmbH announced the release of SQLiteWebAdmin 0.1. According to the company, SQLiteWebAdmin is a tool for the Web-based administration of SQLite databases, which may gain importance because the upcoming version 5 of PHP will have native support for SQLite. SQLiteWebAdmin is an open source project released under the Artistic License.

To download the software and to get more information, visit: http://www.sqlitewebadmin.org.

Guardian Digital Launches Internet Productivity Suite

Guardian Digital announced the release of the Internet Productivity Suite. According to the company, the Internet Productivity Suite includes features such as network and host intrusion detection, virtual private networking, an email messaging system, virus and spam protection, proxy caching and authentication, and an open source design.

For more information, visit: http://www.guardiandigital.com.

IntraDyn Adds to RocketVault Appliances

IntraDyn Inc. announced two new additions to its RocketVault line of standalone appliances -- standalone archive, backup, compliance, and disaster-recovery appliances for small to mid-sized businesses. According to the company, the new rack-mountable RocketVault 1U and 2U models use serial ATA (SATA) "disk-to disk" (D2D) RAID 5 backup and archiving technology. These models range from 640 gigabytes up to 4 terabytes of hot-swap, serial ATA (SATA) local archive storage. The RocketVault will back up desktops, laptops, servers, databases, mail servers, and open files on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X environments.

Prices start at $1,495 for the RocketVault Mini 240, which has 240 gigabytes of local archive capacity. Pricing for the 1U and 2U units starts at $4,995 and $10,995 each, respectively. For more information, visit: http://www.intradyn.com/.

Symark Introduces PowerBroker 3.2

Symark announced PowerBroker 3.2, with enhanced encryption and faster performance in large enterprise environments. According to the company, PowerBroker provides granular delegation of root and other administrative privileges including third party applications such as Oracle and SAP. PowerBroker 3.2 allows inter-program connections on any valid port, and provides additional encryption to secure its own internal product communications. New encryption support includes AES (Advanced Encryption Standard -- the new Federal Government 256-bit encryption standard), tripledes, blowfish, cast128, gost, loki97, saferplus, serpent, threeway, tiny, and twofish.

For more information, visit: http://www.symark.com.

Avocent Announces EVR1500 Environmental Monitoring Appliance

Avocent Corporation announced the EVR1500 environmental monitoring appliance, the newest addition to its IP-based DS Series for server and data center management. According to the company, the EVR1500 alerts systems administrators to environmental conditions that can adversely affect operation of servers and other network devices. The EVR1500 comes with four pre-set internal sensors (temperature, humidity, airflow, and audio) and has eight external configurable analog sensors. Priced at $1,195, the unit integrates into an Avocent DS system for remote access, monitoring, and control of environmental conditions.

For more information, visit: http://www.avocent.com.

NetIQ Releases New Linux-based Modules

NetIQ Corp. announced two new Linux-based modules for NetIQ AppManager Suite. According to the company, the AppManager for Oracle RDBMS and AppManager for Oracle Application Server modules are now available for Red Hat Linux environments. AppManager is a systems management solution that provides monitoring, diagnostics and resolution, reporting and analysis, and automation for mission-critical Windows, Linux, and Unix distributed systems. All AppManager modules for Linux are shipping now with prices starting at $750 per server.

For more information, visit: http://www.netiq.com

TOLIS Group Unveils BRU for Mac OS X

TOLIS Group announced the availability of BRU for Mac OS X. According to the company, the primary market for BRU for Mac OS X is commercial Xserve, G4 and G5 users. BRU for Mac OS X is also fully scriptable from the command line to customize operation by using Unix scripting tools (sh, cron, at, etc.). BRU for Mac OS X provides full backup and recovery of Mac OS X filesystems. On those OS X systems that also contain old style, single file binary files, BRU for Mac OS X will also transparently back up and restore these files. Additionally, BRU for Mac OS X supports 64-bit filesystems and will accurately back up and recover files of any size in full compatibility with Apple's HFS+ filesystem. BRU for Mac OS X can create single archives greater than 1 TB, and there is no catalog size limitation.

BRU for Mac OS X is available immediately, and is priced at $499. For more information, visit: http://www.tolisgroup.com.

Net Integration Technologies Introduces Net Integrator OS

Net Integration Technologies Inc. (NITI) announced Linux-based Net Integrator Operating System (NIOS). According to the company, NITI's Linux-based, NIOS-powered servers are self-aware, self-maintaining, self-tuning, and self-healing.

For more information, visit: http://www.net-itech.com.

SUSE and Epcom Announce Linux Training Partnership

Epcom Corporation and SUSE Linux announced that Epcom added the SUSE LINUX curriculum to its suite of software and systems development courses. According to the companies, the SUSE Linux curriculum provides paths leading to Linux Professional Institute and United Linux certifications. Courses are scheduled for the Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Detroit metropolitan areas this year. Other metropolitan regions will be added throughout 2004.

Course schedules, outlines, and more information are available at: http://www.epcom.com/sched.html.

SGI Unveils Serial ATA Storage Solution

SGI introduced two new disk storage systems under the SGI InfiniteStorage brand -- the SGI TP9300S and SGI TP9500S -- that employ the next generation disk-interface technology. According to the company, the new storage systems combine Serial ATA's lower drive unit costs with the availability, manageability, data integrity, and functionality of fibre channel-based storage systems.

For more information, visit: http://www.sgi.com/storage.

Cyclades Introduces Cyclades-nQuirer

Cyclades Corporation introduced a network management probe for more affordable and accessible traffic analysis and measurement. According to the company, the $495 Cyclades-nQuirer probe gathers traffic data and converts it via free open source ntop software into NetFlow protocol (which was developed by Cisco and is the standard used by many companies to monitor network traffic). Data from Cyclades NetFlow-compliant probes is consolidated and analyzed by a collector and analyzer system to yield status reports. The ntop collector system is provided by Cyclades at no additional cost and can be installed on any server within a company. The free ntop software can be downloaded from the Cyclades Web site and can be installed in many server platforms, including Linux and Solaris.

For more information, visit: http://www.cyclades.com.

StorageTek Introduces StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System

StorageTek recently announced the StorageTek StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System. According to the company, the system is designed to make enterprise tape easy to manage, share, and grow by providing mixed media and interfaces to consolidate enterprise and midrange computing infrastructures and allow for dynamic upgrades of capacity and throughput. The SL8500 will provide approximately 1,500 cartridge slots with the capability to grow to more than 200,000 slots via pass-through-port capabilities. The SL8500 will attach into mainframe, supercomputing, Unix, Linux, and Windows environments providing support for mixed media including the StorageTek T9X40 family of tape drives, LTO Gen2 and SDLT 600. To handle unpredictable peak workloads experienced when sharing a library across many servers, the SL8500 robotics can provide more than 1000 mounts per hour. The SL8500 will also have more than 50 cartridges per square foot.

For more information, visit: http://www.storagetek.com.

PostgreSQL Version 7.4 Released

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group (PGDG) is pleased to announce the availability of version 7.4 of the PostgreSQL Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS). According to the group's Web site, this major release provides commercial-grade enterprise database functionality and performance with the flexibility and low total cost of ownership widely associated with Open Source software.

Version 7.4 includes a host of new features, which make PostgreSQL a more powerful and scalable database for large enterprises. These include AMD Opteron optimization, improved index maintenance tools, and enhanced support of full text indexing which adds ranked result sets. Combined with the recent contribution of the eRServer replication solution by PostgreSQL Inc., these advances fulfill PostgreSQL's potential to run high-availability, large-scale data centers. For more information, visit: http://www.postgresql.org/.