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Advanced Systems Concepts Updates ActiveBatch
Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. announced ActiveBatch Version
5, the new release of the company's job scheduling and management
system. According to the company, ActiveBatch Version 5 supports
job execution on the most popular platforms including Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT,
Linux (Red Hat & SUSE), IBM AIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, HP Tru64
Unix, and OpenVMS. The solution also supports interoperability with
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 databases as well as other OLE/DB compliant
alternatives including Oracle, WMI, Active Directory (including
ADAM), and Microsoft clusters. In addition to providing four standard
client interfaces (GUI, CLI, MMC, and COM), ActiveBatch offers optional
Web server (Internet Explorer/Netscape) and wireless (BlackBerry
handheld) capability to control job scheduling tasks as needed from
nearly any access point.
ActiveBatch Version 5 is available for purchase from Advanced
Systems Concepts. The release is also available as an automatic
update to companies participating in ASCI's ActiveBatch Annual Version
Upgrade program. For more information, visit: http://www.advsyscon.com.
Solinus Debuts MailFoundry 4100 Anti-Spam Appliance
Solinus announced the debut of its Linux-powered MailFoundry 4100
anti-spam appliance. According to the company, the MailFoundry 4100
offers a $3,499 price point, no per-user fees, and the ability to
process more than ten million messages per day. All of MailFoundry's
anti-spam appliances are powered by Solinus' MessageIQT email scanning
engine, a human-intelligence driven technology that blocks up to
99% of spam and 100% of all known viruses with a near zero false-positive
rate. Solinus has a team of human editors who review spam attacks
in real-time and create spam profiles designed to block specific
spam without creating false positives. These updates are automatically
distributed to MailFoundry appliances worldwide every five minutes.
For more information, visit: http://www.solinus.com.
Virtual Iron Software Unveils Virtual Iron VFe
Virtual Iron Software, Inc. unveiled Virtual Iron VFe, a software-based
virtual computing platform. According to the company, Virtual Iron
VFe is the only solution that separates the physical computing hardware
from the operating systems and applications, allowing transparent
virtualization of a collection of interconnected physical servers.
It does this by transforming physical systems in an enterprise datacenter
into a set of computing building blocks processors, memory, and
storage, and then uses those blocks to create virtual servers. These
virtual servers, which can range from a fraction of a processor
to large-scale multi-processors that actually span physical systems,
can be dynamically reconfigured without interruptions.
For more information, visit: http://www.virtualiron.com.
Monarch Computer Systems Introduces Monarch Empro Workstation
Monarch Computer Systems, Inc. announced a new line of custom
workstations based on the new AMD Opteron processor Model 252 with
Direct Connect Architecture. According to the company, the Monarch
Empro Workstation with SLI is based on a Tyan K8WE S2895A2NRF motherboard,
making it Monarch Computer's first custom AMD Opteron processor-based
workstation offering with PCI Express support and the new NVIDIA
SLI (Scalable Link Interface) technology. SLI allows a system to
use two video cards together to render a single scene, increasing
performance.
Standard on every Monarch Empro Workstation with SLI are two x16
PCIe slots that support SLI mode, two PCI-X 100 MHz slots, one PCI-X
133 MHz slot, one standard 33MHz PCI slot, and eight DIMM sockets
supporting up to 16GB of PC3200 DDR registered ECC memory. The Tyan
motherboard also gives the Monarch Empro Workstation with SLI standard
IEEE 1394a Firewire; USB 2.0; Serial ATA-II with NVidia NVRAID technology;
six-channel audio; and two IEEE 802.3, full-duplex GbE Secure Network
Processors.
For more information, visit: http://www.monarchcomputer.com.
Naturetech Announces MesoStation 999
Naturetech Corporation introduced a 64-bit, UltraSPARC IIIi notebook.
According to the company, the MesoStation 999 is built for server-class
64-bit performance and capitalizes on advanced mobility with Sun
Microsystems SPARC technology. The notebook is driven by Sun's 100%
binary compatible 1.28GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor and cooled by
Naturetech's patented cooling system. The MesoStation 999 is suited
as a portable server replacement or mobile workstation deployable
in commercial, academic, scientific, and or mil-aerospace applications.
The MesoStation features high-end graphics and a streamlined 17-inch
widescreen display.
The 64-bit notebooks come pre-installed with standard Sun Microsystems
distribution media Solaris 9 and StarOffice, and offer secure session
access and identification via Java smart card, as well as full session
wireless mobility.
For more information, visit: http://www.naturetechws.com.
SlickEdit Inc. Releases of SlickEdit v10
SlickEdit Inc. announced the release of SlickEdit v10 for Windows,
Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X platforms. According to the company, the
latest version builds on the company's 17-year tradition of enabling
developers and development teams to create, navigate, modify, build,
and debug code faster and more accurately. SlickEdit provides a
wide range of features for analyzing, working with, and improving
the readability of code. SlickEdit has also added Subversion support
and a method for systems administrators to perform unattended install
of SlickEdit across the enterprise.
Pricing starts at $299 for new licenses and $139 for upgrades.
Also available from SlickEdit is the SlickEdit Plug-in for Eclipse.
For more information, visit: http://www.slickedit.com.
ONStor Releases ONStor/Nexsan NAS Solution
ONStor, Inc. announced the release of a one-touch NAS solution
that includes the company's Bobcat NAS Gateway and high-performance
Nexsan SATABlade storage. According to the company, the ONStor/Nexsan
solution delivers a way for companies to buy, deploy, and scale
NAS infrastructures that save cost by consolidating storage from
multiple file servers to a single storage environment. ONStor's
integrated processor and storage virtualization technologies allow
performance and capacity to grow non-disruptively, enabling enterprise-wide
Windows, Unix, and Linux PCs and servers to share data in a single,
highly scalable environment. The product's virtual server feature
enables load balancing and performance scaling, while the automated
capacity provisioning feature allows administrators to add capacity
and increase storage utilization. The Bobcat NAS Gateway also includes
DataSnap, a management tool that delivers enhanced data protection
by creating point-in-time snapshot images, allowing administrators
to roll back in time to restore corrupted or deleted files.
For more information, visit: http://www.onstor.com.
Luminex Software Unveils Virtual|BLUE 3490
Luminex Software, Inc. announced its Virtual|BLUE 3490 mainframe
tape library storage solution. According to the company, Virtual|BLUE
3490 allows mainframe customers to directly use tape drives and
libraries from major industry vendors and to include industry-standard
products, including the latest LTO and DLT technologies, in their
mainframe tape operations.
Virtual|BLUE 3490 is a mainframe virtual tape control unit that
enables virtually any open systems tape device or tape library to
be used by mainframe tape devices. The Virtual|BLUE 3490 utilizes
Luminex's proven 6964 ESCON channel interface board, a modern 64-bit,
PCI-X protocol processor, currently installed worldwide, providing
seamless ESCON connectivity between mainframes and open systems
servers. The Virtual|BLUE 3490 is capable of managing virtually
unlimited tape volumes and features comprehensive and easy-to-use
GUI management tools enabling online status monitoring and management
of the entire tape library system.
For more information, visit: http://www.luminex.com.
Codehaus Releases ActiveCluster 1.0
Codehaus has announced the release of ActiveCluster 1.0, an open
source cluster. ActiveCluster is a framework for writing cluster-based
applications, monitoring the available nodes in a cluster and communicating
with them. It consists of an API together with a default implementation.
This API enables developers to create high-availability clustered
applications, similar in concept to the clustering capabilities
used by commercial products such as WebSphere or Oracle.
This release includes a complete core API and reference implementation,
including the following features:
- View the current nodes in the cluster and their state.
- Listen to nodes arrive, update their state, shut down, or fail.
- Communicate with the cluster as a whole or with any specific
node in the cluster.
- Elect a leader of the cluster to make decisions on behalf of
the cluster.
Future versions will include more complex, higher level protocols
like buddy-group arrangement protocols and high-availability features.
For more information, please see: http://activecluster.codehaus.org/.
Coraid's EtherDrive Storage Blades Available with Redundant
Power Supply
Coraid Inc. announced that their EtherDrive Storage Blade shelf
is now available with a redundant power supply feature. According
to the company, customers will now have the option of choosing Coraid's
standard 3U shelf with single power supply, or a shelf with redundant
power supply.
Coraid's EtherDrive Storage Blades provide a low-cost networked
storage solution using Ethernet connections between the server and
a shared storage array (pool). Multiple servers can access a common
disk storage system, eliminating wasted captive storage. With EtherDrive
Storage Blades, the storage pool can be expanded with Ethernet connections.
Storage array performance is limited only by the number of disks
configured for RAID striping and the speed of the Ethernet connection
at the server. EtherDrive Storage Blades are Direct Network Attached
(DNA) block storage. DNA provides an Ethernet interface for hard
disk drives. Each blade is hot swappable for easy maintenance. EtherDrive
storage blades are available in a 3U rack-mounted shelf with power
supply or a 4U shelf with redundant, hot-pluggable power supplies.
Coraid offers an optional EtherDrive RAIDBlade/20 Controller for
users who don't want to use Linux software RAID.
For more information, visit: http://www.coraid.com.
SANRAD Introduces IP SAN Builder
SANRAD Incorporated announced a new Web-based tool to help storage
managers build a topology of their IP SAN and budget the cost of
attaching different classes of servers. According to the company,
the IP SAN Builder, available at SANRAD's Web site, helps midrange
to large enterprise users design a reliable, cost-effective and
highly scalable centralized storage solution based on their own
IP SAN preferences.
For more information, visit: http://www.sanrad.com.
SSH Unveils SSH Tectia
SSH Communications Security Corp. announced new versions of its
SSH Tectia solution. According to the company, SSH Tectia now supports
Linux running on a wide range of IBM eServer platforms, including
the zSeries, iSeries, pSeries, OpenPower, and BladeCenter JS20 servers.
SSH now provides an easy-to-deploy, secure, end-to-end communications
solution across all major internal and external enterprise network
communications IT platforms, including major Unix versions, Linux,
Windows, and IBM mainframes.
For more information, visit: http://www.ssh.com. | 
