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Platform Computing Releases Platform Rocks SE for HP Cluster Platform 3000

Platform Computing Inc. announced that Platform Rocks Standard Edition (SE) will be available as a cluster management solution for the HP Cluster Platform 3000. According to the company, Platform Rocks SE is a commercially supported and enhanced implementation of the open source cluster management toolkit, NPACI Rocks. Platform Rocks SE is a standardized tool to simplify management and make it easier for users to rapidly deploy, configure, and monitor their cluster environment. HP Cluster Platform 3000 is based on Intel Xeon and provides a modular, standards-based platform designed to handle the high-performance computing needs for clusters between 5 and 1024 nodes.

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

Simena Unveils Traffic Generator TG1000

Simena announced Traffic Generator TG1000, test equipment for network testing. According to the company, its Capture+ACY-Replay feature can be used to capture high-speed real-time data packets without affecting quality. The TG1000 also provides high-speed controllable traffic generation and can saturate gigabit Ethernet connections with traffic characterized by Ethernet, IP addresses, and TCP/UDP port numbers. Source and destination addresses, as well as payload, can be modified for each packet to create more realistic load effects. TG1000 is a portable appliance with 10/100/1000BaseTX interfaces. It is managed by a Web GUI and provides detailed statistics.

For more information, visit: http://www.simena.net.

Aventail Adds Web Collaboration Solution to SSL VPN

Aventail Corp. announced that the company is adding a Web collaboration solution to its secure, remote access product. According to the company, Aventail Secure Collaboration is a full-featured collaboration solution that includes Web conferencing, instant messaging, secure VoIP chat, and other tools, all integrated with the Aventail SSL VPN.

The solution supports up to 500 concurrent users and multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, and PocketPC. For more information, visit: http://www.aventail.com.

CyberGuard Corporation Enhances Webwasher CSM Suite

CyberGuard Corporation announced the latest enhancements to its Webwasher CSM Suite. According to the company, the product allows large corporations to more effectively report on Web and email traffic, detailing security status and policy compliance across multiple time zones. Webwasher Content Reporter allows organizations to report on a wide variety of popular security gateway devices such as CyberGuard Firewalls, Network Appliance NetCache products, Cisco Content Engines, and others.

In addition to simplified reporting, Content Reporter Version 4.6 adds support for the most popular Linux distributions and allows Content Reporter deployments on Unix and Linux to use Microsoft SQL Server installations as back-end repositories for logging and reporting data. For more information, visit: http://www.CyberGuard.com.

BakBone Introduces Heterogeneous Data Replication Product Suite

BakBone Software unveiled its new data protection capabilities, including NetVault: Replicator; NetVault: Replicator Plugin Modules for Exchange, SQL, Oracle and MySQL; NetVault: Replicator Cluster Support Plugin; and NetVault: Replicator On-Demand. According to the company, these heterogeneous product offerings provide customers with real-time and scheduled replication functionality that can be integrated with existing BakBone backup, recovery, and reporting solutions.

BakBone's NetVault: Replicator product suite is available now. For more information, visit: http://www.bakbone.com/products/.

XenSource Introduces XenOptimizer

XenSource, Inc. announced XenOptimizer, a virtualization infrastructure management solution. According to the company, XenOptimizer provides Xen 3.0 new functionality to use Xen to "operationalize best-in-class virtualization" across the data center. Using XenOptimizer to operationalize Xen enables Linux-based data center environments to reduce costs by increasing server utilization and enabling server consolidation.

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

Objective Development Announces Sharity 3.0

Objective Development announced the availability of Sharity 3.0, a new major release of their SMB file system for Unix. According to the company, Windows domain integration (including Kerberos authentication and Active Directory browsing), distributed file system access, manipulation of Access Control Lists, a German localization, and other improvements are new in 3.0.

Sharity mounts shares exported by Windows, Samba, and other SMB/CIFS servers in the file system of Unix computers. Sharity implements resource browsing similar to the Windows Network Neighborhood (Netbios Workgroups and Active Directory), NTLM, NTLMv2, and Kerberos authentication, Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS), manipulation of Access Control Lists (ACLs). It is available for Sun Solaris, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, IBM AIX, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD operating systems.

Sharity 3 comes with a free, built-in evaluation license. Commercial use licenses are available. Licenses for students of public schools and universities are free. Discounts for upgrades from Sharity 2 and volume discounts are also available. For downloads and more information, visit: http://www.obdev.at/sharity/.

OpenLogic Releases BlueGlue Version 3.5

OpenLogic, Inc. released version 3.5 of its BlueGlue Open Source Infrastructure Management Suite. According to the company, the new version adds features making it easier for the enterprise to integrate open source, commercial, and proprietary software in mixed Windows and Linux environments. Additionally, BlueGlue now offers more than 150 "best of breed" open source projects that have been integrated, tested, and validated for interoperability and certified for multiple platforms used in development and production environments.

The company says the BlueGlue 3.5 release includes the ability to add user-selected open source software and proprietary software or third party commercial packages along with documentation and test suites. Custom documentation or test cases may be added to any existing open source software in BlueGlue. Users of the 3.5 release can also modify or add notations to supported open source software descriptions that are relevant to specific projects or policies established by the development team.

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

LaCie Introduces GlobeTrotter 2.0

LaCie announced the release of a mobile USB hard drive pre-loaded with a specially tuned version of Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 operating system, the GlobeTrotter 2.0 in 40GB or 80GB. According to the company, GlobeTrotter 2.0 allows users to turn any PC into their personal Linux desktop.

GlobeTrotter 2.0 offers a complete work environment in one lightweight package. Users can plug GlobeTrotter 2.0 into the USB port of a host PC and turn it on. Hardware on the host computer is automatically detected but is not modified in any way. When the job is done, GlobeTrotter 2.0 can be taken to a different workstation with up to 80 GB of a user's data, including applications and personal settings.

Among the included software is the productivity suite OpenOffice.org, integrated personal information management software such as Kontact and Evolution, as well as full-featured development tools. LaCie GlobeTrotter 2.0 comes with 30 days of Web support from Mandriva and membership to Mandriva Club and Mandriva Online for a month.

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

Sun Announces Sun Fire T1000/T2000 Servers and OpenSPARC Project

Sun announced today the release of the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, featuring patented CoolThreads technology. According to the company, the new servers are based on the UltraSPARC T1 processor and offer exceptional performance for Web, database, and application processing. The new system is designed to save customers in power, cooling, and space costs.

Sun also announced its intent to open source its UltraSPARC processor technology and publish certain specifications for the UltraSPARC-based chip including the source of the design expressed in Verilog, a verification suite and simulation models, instruction set architecture specification (UltraSPARC Architecture 2005), and a Solaris OS port.

For more information, visit: http://sun.com.

CDW Unveils Pre-configured Services for Oracle

CDW Corporation announced new CDW pre-configuration services for Oracle Database 10g software. According to the company, technicians will now ship pre-configured and tested solutions that include Oracle Database 10g software on leading hardware platforms and operating systems from the company's distribution center. The Oracle pre-configured systems are available immediately. These customized services streamline implementation and delivery of software solutions to growing companies and organizations with small IT departments.

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

nCircle Announces nCircle IP360

nCircle announced an alternative to Nessus 3.0. According to the company, nCircle is a comprehensive solution that can preserve enterprises' existing investment in Nessus and provide a smooth transition from departmental assessments to an enterprise-wide vulnerability and risk management program. nCircle IP360's agentless discovery technology provides detailed intelligence about all IP network devices, including network topology, operating systems, applications and their versions, vulnerabilities, and more. This asset intelligence is the foundation for a network-wide, comprehensive risk management, security policy, and regulatory compliance program. nCircle can now also integrate vulnerability data from Nessus deployments. nCircle IP360 provides comprehensive risk management, the company says it's easier to deploy, manage, and scale than Nessus or other solutions.

For more information, visit: http://www.ncircle.com/nessus.

HP Unveils Halo Collaboration Studios

Hewlett-Packard announced the HP Halo Collaboration Studio, which enables people in different locations to communicate in a face-to-face environment in real time. According to the company, whether across a country or across the world, users are able to see and hear one another's physical and emotional reactions to conversation and information as it is being shared.

To connect via Halo, organizations purchase at least two Halo rooms set up for six people each. There are three plasma displays in each room that enable participants to see those they are collaborating with in life-size images. The rooms come equipped with studio-quality audio and lighting and participants use an on-screen user interface to begin collaborating with a few mouse clicks. To ensure a 24x7 connection and eliminate the need for enterprises to manage the operation and maintenance of a Halo room, services offered include network operations and management, remote diagnostics and calibration, concierge, equipment warranty, and ongoing service and repair.

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