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Secured Services Releases Indentiprise Suite

Secured Services recently introduced the Indentiprise Suite. According to the company, the Indentiprise Suite is an interoperable user management software suite offering advanced integration with legacy, client server, and Web applications across the entire enterprise, which means that a large organization can provide users access to its business applications securely across the enterprise, from desktop to mainframe.

For more information, visit: http://www.secured-services.com

iAdminMobile.com Announces iAdmin Mobile 2004

iAdminMobile.com released iAdmin Mobile 2004, a mobile systems management solution. According to the company, iAdmin Mobile 2004 delivers capabilities to remotely manage servers and network infrastructure with devices such as Microsoft Pocket PC, Cell Phones, RIM Blackberry, and Palm handhelds. By employing new Mobile Management Pack technology, iAdmin Mobile 2004's functionality can grow to work with and enable mobile access to third-party network management software.

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

TeraCloud Announces io_profile v1.0

TeraCloud Corporation announced the availability of a free IO profiling utility, io_profile. According to the company, io_profile is a free and open-source tool that measures and monitors the performance characteristics of a given IO stack. The portable command-line utility actively measures the I/O stack in Windows and Unix environments from an applications perspective. io_profile measures the performance of a large number of open-seek-read/write-close cycles at random locations in a set of randomly selected files. io_profile can help IT professionals conduct comparative analysis and tune IO channels for I/O size characteristics.

For more information, visit: http://www.tcloud.com/utilities.html

Global Hauri and MailPort25 to Provide Email Protection

Global Hauri and MailPort25 announced their technology partnership to integrate Global Hauri's Anti-Virus engine in the form of a software developer's kit (SDK). According to the companies, Global Hauriís ViRobot isolates viruses and destroys them, and its engine performance matches MailPort25's anti-spam and enterprise email solutions.

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

Servergraph Releases Servergraph 3.5

Servergraph released the latest version of its agentless software that manages and automates complex backup environments. According to the company, Servergraph 3.5 expands its feature set by adding service level agreement (SLA)

reporting, role-based authentication for administrator, operator, and user roles, and client-level reporting for Veritas NetBackup. Servergraph 3.5 is available now on Linux, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows 2003 Server operating systems.

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

Globalstor Announces ExtremeStor-iNAS Server

Globalstor Data debuted the ExtremeStor-iNAS, NAS/iSCSI server. According to the company, ExtremeStor-iNAS incorporates as many as 24, 250GB hot-swappable SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drives, and provides IT managers with up to 6TB of scaleable storage and low-cost, high-performance iSCSI file access in a single, consolidated centralized storage management solution. Supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5 and 0+1, ExtremeStor-iNAS is an option for data-intensive enterprises offering storage pools for both workgroup and departmental configurations.

ExtremeStor-iNAS includes:

Linux Minimized OS
Web interface control, 128bit SSL, Mini SSL Web server
Error reporting -- Email notification, SNMP
Network Protocol Support -- CIFS/SMB, NFS, AppleTalk, network trunking, load balancing, failover, HTTP, FTP
XFS Journaling File System
Access Control List
Windows Active directory and Unix NIS Support
SNMP, NDMP
Dynamic volume resizing
SnapShot
Storage virtualization
Clustering/failover support
SCSI allows both Block I/O and File I/O
IP-Storage and IP-SAN
OS mirroring with automatic failover support

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

Altiris Releases Altiris Connector and HP Client Manager Software 6.0

Altiris, Inc. announced availability of the new Altiris Connector for HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and HP Client Manager Software (HP CMS) 6.0. According to the company, Altiris client lifecycle management software helps customers reduce the cost and time required to implement business and technology change.

HP CMS and additional Altiris solutions combine to provide PC hardware and software management from a single, Web-based console. HP Client Manager Software 6.0 and the Altiris Connector for HP Systems Insight Manager are available at http://www.hp.com/go/easydeploy.

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

Xandros Desktop OS Version 2.5 Now Shipping

Xandros announced the release of version 2.5 of the Xandros Desktop OS. According to the company, Xandros Desktop 2.5 offers an upgraded CrossOver Office 3.0.1, supporting Lotus Notes 6.5.1, Microsoft Project 2000/2002, and Microsoft Outlook XP. Current Xandros Desktop OS users can perform a single-click upgrade of CrossOver Office with Xandros Networks. The 2.5 Upgrade to the Deluxe and Business versions of the Xandros Desktop OS includes a special Xandros edition of CrossOver Office 3.0.1 to run Microsoft Office and other key Windows software. All versions of the Xandros Desktop OS now include Linux kernel 2.4.24 and version 1.6 of the Mozilla communications suite.

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

Sony Extends AIT Format to a Fourth Generation

Sony Electronics has extended its Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) format to a fourth-generation drive. With a compact 3.5-inch drive form-factor and a small 8mm media format, AIT-4 drives and media help double storage capacity and transfer rates from one AIT generation to the next. According to the company, the drives feature up to 200GB of native storage capacity (520GB with 2.6:1 compression) and a sustained native transfer rate of up to 24 MB/second.

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

Open Country Releases Linux Software Management Tool

Open Country launched its system management solution for Linux. According to the company, the product is designed to help small departments with as few as five Linux systems, and enterprises with up to 5,000 Linux installations, reduce the costs, time, and complexity of managing Linux IT operations.

The company says that its software management tool lowers the TCO of running Linux systems and provides key system management functions. OC-Manager performs bare-metal operating system provisioning, software and patch management, hardware and software asset management, backup and restore, remote systems administration, and remote desktop takeover functions.

Priced from $9 per system per month, OC-Manager manages RPM-based Linux distributions including SuSE, Sun JDS, Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake, and even legacy software from these same vendors, all running on the same network, according to the product's specifications. Open Country says its products adapt to an organization's existing infrastructure and offer companies a strategy to manage Linux without having to worry about retraining or investing in new IT administrators.

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

TransGaming Unveils WineX 4.0 (Cedega)

TransGaming released version 4.0 of its flagship product, WineX, which has been renamed to Cedega. According to the company, Cedega allows Windows games to seamlessly and transparently run under Linux, out-of-the-box, with outstanding performance and equivalent game-play. Cedega 4.0 includes support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0, significantly broadening the scope and availability of the latest triple "A" titles for avid Linux gamers.

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

HP Announced StorageWorks Scalable File Share

HP announced a file sharing product that uses new Linux clustering technology to deliver up to 100 times more bandwidth than typical clusters. According to the company, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS) is a self-contained file server that enables bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters of industry-standard server and storage components. The product is the second based on HP's "storage grid" architecture and the first commercial research product to use a new Linux clustering technology, called Lustre, which was developed through collaboration between HP, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE), and Cluster File Systems, Inc. HP SFS allows applications to see a single file system image regardless of the number of servers or storage devices connected to it. Built using industry-standard HP ProLiant servers and HP StorageWorks disk arrays, HP SFS provides protection from hardware failures through resilient, redundant hardware and built-in failover and recovery.

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