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Xandros Announces OEM Editions

Xandros announced the release of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) editions of the Xandros Desktop Operating System. According to the company, these OEM editions allow the manufacturer to customize desktop wallpaper and icons, browser homepage and bookmarks, and other aspects to meet the specific business objectives and regional needs of customers. Systems builders can also configure regional settings for language, units of measure, paper size, and keyboard. For more information, visit: http://www.xandros.com.

CGIScripter 2.08 Enterprise Edition Updated

CGIScripter 2.08 Enterprise Edition from .com Solutions Inc. has been updated to generate Perl CGI scripts for PostgreSQL databases. According to the company, CGIScripter 2.08 fully supports inserting, updating, deleting, and replacing images within the PostgreSQL database via a Web-based interface on Linux/Unix/MacOS X Web servers. CGIScripter is available for MacOS X, Windows, Solaris, and Linux. For more information, visit: http://www.cgiscripter.net.

Zeus Web Server 4.3 Released

Zeus Technology announced the release of Zeus Web Server 4.3, a scaleable, high-performance Web server. According to the company, Zeus Web Server 4.3 features user enhancements including: closer integration with PHP, making it easier to create and configure Web applications; more flexible CGI management; updated mod_perl support; improved directory listings; automatic MIME type detection; and additional reporting and analysis capabilities. Zeus Web Server Software is available as a download for free evaluation at http://www.zeus.com.

Mocana Unveils Embedded Security Suite

Mocana Corporation announced its Embedded Security Suite for securing communications to, from, and between networked devices. According to the company, the Suite consists of Mocana SSH Server, Mocana SSL/TLS Server, and Mocana SSL/TLS Client. Mocana Embedded Security Suite includes support for a range of encryption protocols, including TLS1.0, SSLv3, SSHv2, SFTP, DH, RSA-2048, DSS, AES, Triple-DES, Blowfish, SHA-1, and MD5. The Suite is platform- and architecture-independent, with built-in support for VxWorks, Linux, Solaris, and Windows. An evaluation version of the software can be downloaded at http://www.mocana.com/evaluate.html.

Guardian Digital Introduces Secure Mail Suite 3.0

Guardian Digital announced Secure Mail Suite 3.0. According to the company, improvements include enhanced spam and virus protection with user and system controls, resource management functions to identify and prevent unlawful system usage, protection from the latest forms of email threats including mail bombs, a comprehensive mailing list manager, and more. For more information, visit: http://www.guardiandigital.com.

Aptitune Announces SarCheck 6.0 for Solaris SPARC

Aptitune Corporation announced the general release of SarCheck version 6.0 for Solaris SPARC. According to the company, SarCheck is a performance-management tool designed to assist systems administrators in the analysis of system performance by translating the output of several monitoring utilities into a plain English or HTML-formatted report. SarCheck identifies performance bottlenecks, finds runaway processes and memory leaks, recommends changes to various tunable parameters and hardware configurations, and quantifies remaining system capacity. Features in SarCheck Version 6.0 include collecting and analyzing vmstat, lsattr, and rmss statistics, analyzing multiple days of ps -elf output, better detection of memory shortages, and more flexibility in formatting its output.

SarCheck runs on many Unix platforms, as well as Linux, and support for other languages is planned. More information, visit: http://www.sarcheck.com.

ClearPath Networks Introduces SNAP VPN SM

ClearPath Networks introduced SNAP VPN SM, a line of enterprise-class network security appliances designed for the small and medium business (SMB) market. According to the company, the new line of appliances provides network security services including site-to-site and remote access VPN, firewall, content filtering, antivirus scanning, intrusion detection and prevention, as well as network management, reporting, and device monitoring in a plug-and-play device. For more information, visit: http://www.clearpathnetworks.com/SNAPVPN.

Lockdown Networks Introduces Lockdown AuditPoint

Lockdown Networks, Inc. announced the availability of Lockdown AuditPoint, an appliance-based branch office product for vulnerability management. According to the company, AuditPoint, which retails for $995, delivers heightened security to remote locations by integrating its results with Lockdown Networks' centralized management console and industry standard vulnerability management appliance, the Lockdown Auditor. Vulnerability data resides remotely on the Lockdown Auditor and all vulnerability scans are performed through an SSL tunnel to AuditPoint. Lockdown Web Interface provides centralized management across all AuditPoint appliances. The AuditPoint can be used to audit remote networks either from the external perimeter or behind the firewall and is capable of monitoring up to 512 separate IP addresses. For more information, visit: http://www.lockdownnetworks.com/.

AMCC Announces New SATA RAID Controllers

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation announced its fastest Serial ATA (SATA) RAID controllers. According to the company, the 3ware 9000 Series, based on the company's StorSwitch switched RAID architecture, provides scaleable capacity up to 4.8 TB per controller, using 400 GB drives, and total system capacity limited only to available PCI slots. AMCC's hardware RAID architecture features an on-board processor and an integrated RAID ASIC that offloads RAID controller functions from the host CPU, dedicating the server processing to its core applications and enhancing overall system performance. The 3ware 9000 Series of RAID controllers ship with a 3-year warranty and are compatible with Microsoft Windows 2003/XP/2000, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. For more information, visit: http://www.3ware.com.

Wyse Enhances Linux-Based Thin Clients

Wyse Technology announced Linux thin clients with the new version 3.2 of the Wyse-enhanced Linux operating system. According to the company, Wyse's low-cost, flexible devices provide enhanced remote management, secure communications, and support features for companies using Linux-based solutions. The new operating system also supports a full-featured local Mozilla browser (Winterm 5455XL only), as well as latest ICA and RDP protocols. For more information, visit: http://www.wyse.com.

StorCase Launches InfoStation 16-Bay 3U SATA RAID Enclosure

StorCase Technology announced InfoStation 16-bay 3U RAID enclosure, supporting the newest Serial ATA (SATA) drive technology and SCSI Ultra320 host connections. According to the company, the new InfoStation 16-bay 3U, with its additional drive density per rack space, can be purchased for approximately a third the price of a traditional SCSI (SCSI drives) system. The InfoStation is downward compatible with earlier SCSI technologies. Future 16-bay models will also support Fibre Channel host interfaces and include an integrated Fibre-to-SATA RAID controller. For more information, visit: http://www.storcase.com.

Fujitsu Enhances SPARC64 V

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation announced enhancements to its fifth-generation SPARC64 processor. According to the company, the Fujitsu SPARC64 V processor is fabricated using 90-nanometer (nm) process technology, a first for Unix- based servers, and operates at 1.89 GHz. The enhancements perform 35 percent faster than previous generations.

The new SPARC64 V processor also will incorporate 3 MB on-chip second-level cache. The new 90-nm processor can also be mixed and matched with previous generations of the SPARC64 processor in the same system for the PRIMEPOWER 900, 1500, and 2500 models. For more information, visit: http://www.fujitsu.com.

BigFix Unveils Mobile Security Manager

BigFix announced BigFix Mobile Security Manager, a new solution built on the BigFix Enterprise Suite (BES) platform and designed to protect enterprise networks by ensuring that mobile endpoints are securely configured regardless of physical location or network connectivity. According to the company, BigFix Mobile Security Manager provides deep visibility into the hardware, software, and configuration of mobile endpoints. Mobile Security Manager can help large enterprises to maintain endpoint compliance with corporate policies and deliver security updates for configuration, anti-virus, and patching -- even when mobile computers are in the field and disconnected from the corporate network. For more information, visit: http://www.bigfix.com.

Nexsan and Luminex Provide Mainframe Disk Storage Solutions

Nexsan Technologies and Luminex Software, Inc. partnered to market a storage platform that allows mainframe computers to effectively become a server on a Fibre Channel SAN through the combination of Luminex's Virtual|BLUE 3990 DASD Control Unit or Virtual|BLUE VTS Tape Control Unit and Nexsan's disk storage arrays. According to the companies, Virtual|BLUE 3990 and VTS allow IBM and plug-compatible mainframes to connect directly to Nexsan's open system RAID arrays via native ESCON I/O channels. With the announcement, Luminex becomes a member of Nexsan's Strategic Solutions (S2) Program. For more information, visit: http://www.nexsan.com.