New Products

Peregrine Systems Unveils Enterprise Discovery 2.0

Peregrine Systems, Inc. released Enterprise Discovery 2.0, a product suite that enables IT to automatically discover, inventory, and manage all hardware, enterprise software, open source and network devices. According to the company, Enterprise Discovery 2.0 captures detailed, cross-platform configuration information that populates Peregrine's Active CMDB. With out-of-box integration to Peregrine's IT asset and service management solutions, Enterprise Discovery 2.0 provides critical configuration item status validation required for ITIL-based processes.

According to the company, Enterprise Discovery 2.0 is a highly scalable solution capable of discovering more than 50,000 devices per server and supporting up to 500,000 devices per server group. Enterprise Discovery 2.0 provides software inventory scanners for AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, Windows, and legacy platforms. Discovered files are reconciled against a library of more than 12,000 known software titles. Enterprise Discovery 2.0 is a core component of Peregrine's Asset Tracking, Expense Control, and Service Establishment solutions.

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

ControlTower Console Manager for Linux Platforms Available

Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions released ControlTower Console Management System, Version 3.L for Linux platforms. According to the company, ControlTower 3.L is solution for monitoring and controlling multiple devices through an RJ-45 or DB-25 interface from a central location or by remote access. It enables a single Linux-based system to function as a common console (monitor and keyboard) for managed devices. ControlTower 3.L is integrated into the distributions of Mandriva, Red Hat, and SUSE.

The company says ControlTower 3.L offers security options, error handling, and logging features for greater customization and flexibility. ControlTower 3.L uses Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) to authenticate users. ControlTower 3.L allows systems administrators to configure security at the level of the individual user. To ensure that sensitive data is not accessible over the network, ControlTower 3.L allows remote users to exchange data with the server using 128-bit Twofish encryption. System access also can be restricted by IP address, password, or Unix account. Systems administrators can create and maintain managed device configuration files in a group.

Pricing for the ControlTower 3.L software starts at $800. For more information, visit: http://www.gavazzi-computing.com.

Sybase Introduces ASE 15

Sybase, Inc. announced the latest version of its enterprise-class relational database management system, Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15. According to the company, Sybase ASE is a cost-effective data management platform for business-critical computing. Sybase ASE 15 extends management of unstructured and semi-structured data with advanced XML capabilities, and improved ease of XML document generation and schema validation. ASE 15 also includes extended services for directly accessing unstructured data in operating system files, and is now bundled with the core server.

The new features in ASE 15 include:

Computed columns for easier application design
Function indexes for increased query and field-handling performance
Messaging services that allow application developers to build event-driven applications
Large server support (VLSS) to manage large data sets
Advanced XML technology to natively store and process XML documents
Scrollable cursors
Auto update statistics
Job wizards that are helpful for novice administrators
Advanced system metrics

ASE 15 editions range from a free Express Edition to the Enterprise Family of products. The Express Edition is available for Linux users and supports up to 5GB of data supported by 2GB of memory and 1CPU. The Small Business Edition starts at $1,495. Adaptive Server Enterprise 15 runs on Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX operating systems.

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

Cyclades Unveils AlterPath OnBoard

Cyclades Corporation announced the AlterPath OnBoard, a service processor manager for out-of-band management of servers. According to the company, the AlterPath OnBoard with Secure Rack Management consolidates and securely manages service processor technologies available in today's next-generation servers. The AlterPath OnBoard delivers SRM by isolating and protecting the connected servers from the production network to provide secure, efficient rack-level management with seamless integration into the Out-of-Band Infrastructure (OOBI).

According to the company, the AlterPath OnBoard combines hardware and software into an appliance designed to act as a protocol gateway and enable the secure integration of servers so they can be operated in a consistent manner, regardless of protocol type. The AlterPath OnBoard physically consolidates and logically secures the Ethernet connections needed for access to service processors embedded in servers and blade servers offered by all major system vendors, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. With the AlterPath OnBoard, systems administrators can locally or remotely perform operations such as power cycle, remote console access, hardware monitoring and management, and event management across servers using one simplified user interface.

The AlterPath OnBoard will be available in December 2005 with pricing starting at approximately $3,000. For more information, visit: http://www.cyclades.com.