New Products

MessageSolution Inc. Unveils 6-Month Free Trial Program

MessageSolution Inc. announced its "Six months Free Trial Program" for prospective clients. According to the company, MessageSolution's technology delivers a multi-platform solution for both Windows and Linux, providing enterprises with a secure, reliable, and cost-effective email archiving system. MessageSolution's Enterprise Email Archiving 3.0 (EEA) system requires no third-party commercial software.

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

Amax Information Technologies and Supermicro Deliver Serial Attached SCSI Solutions

Amax Information Technologies and Supermicro Computer, Inc. announced that they've partnered to deliver Serial Attached SCSI solutions for the server market. According to the companies, the availability of these Supermicro SAS solutions is an opportunity for white box server vendors to provide end-to-end, next-generation Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage solutions.

The SAS solutions support the new Intel Dual-Core Xeon CPU. SAS offers increased scalability because a single controller can support up to 128 SAS drives. The SAS technology is also backward compatible with existing SATA drives.

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

DataCore Announces Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Solutions for SANs and Multi-Terabyte Storage Sites

DataCore Software announced a new class of affordable, remote site disaster recovery (DR) and storage pool mirroring solutions. According to the company, these DR solutions are designed to protect terabyte-sized storage pools serving multiple application servers (e.g., Windows, Netware, VMware, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Unix, etc.) over LAN, SAN, or WAN networks. The DR package prices start at $7,998, which includes software to manage two separately located SANmelody disk servers, each capable of supporting terabyte storage pools, plus a choice of disaster recovery software (either asynchronous LAN/WAN-based replication software for disaster recovery over great distances, or simple and fast synchronous LAN or SAN failover mirroring software for storage pools supporting systems stretched across buildings, campuses, or cross-town distances).

DataCore protects storage pools serving multiple platforms or a mix of Windows, NetWare, VMware, Novell, Mac OS, Solaris, and Linux systems. For more information, visit: http://www.datacore.com.

Astaro Introduces Astaro Security Gateway 525

According to Astaro, the Astaro Security Gateway 525 uses a dual-processor architecture that is enhanced by an acceleration card, which increases virus-scanning performance to provide high throughput when running multiple simultaneous security applications. Additionally, it incorporates gigabit-Ethernet ports that allow for high-speed copper and fiber connections to servers and network components. Fully redundant hot-swappable hard disks and power supplies further enhance reliability.

Astaro's line of threat management appliances integrate nine forms of security to protect computer networks from a variety of threats including viruses, hackers, spam, spyware, phishing, and unauthorized content. The Astaro Security Gateway 525 can serve larger organizations of 1000-2000 employees, depending on how many security applications are deployed.

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

BlueCat Networks Launches DNS Best Practices Seminar Series

BlueCat Networks announced the launch of a seven-city seminar series that will focus on providing network administrators with best practices training to ensure the effective provisioning of domain name system (DNS), dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), and IP Address Management (IPAM) services. According to the company, the first seminar will take place in March 2006, followed by a series of regularly scheduled training sessions in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Washington, San Francisco, and Dallas. BlueCat customers may also arrange to have on-site training.

The seminar series is designed to ensure that organizations with complex networking environments have the depth of knowledge required to configure their networks for optimal performance. The seminars, which are limited to 20 registrants per course, will focus on best practices for DNS and DHCP using the Adonis line of purpose built appliances. Future courses will also focus on best practices for deploying IP address management (IPAM) using the Proteus Enterprise IPAM Appliance.

Scheduling and registration information is available at: http://www.bluecatnetworks.com.

Promise Technology Launches Promise FastTrak TX4310

Promise Technology, Inc. announced its first software RAID 5 controller for entry-level markets. According to the company, the new Promise FastTrak TX4310 4-port, Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gb per second (3Gb/s) RAID controller with PCI interface delivers cost-effective data protection with continuous availability for up to four hard disk drives. Supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5, and 10, the FastTrak TX4310 incorporates Promise's innovative new software RAID 5 solution that offers economic RAID 5 protection for SATA hard disk drives. With WebPAM management software, it offers a solution designed for workstation and entry-level server storage applications.

Compared to the previous generation FastTrak TX4200 and TX4300, the low-profile FastTrak TX4310 offers 64-bit platform support, variable stripe size, multiple logical drive support, media patrol, read check table, online capacity expansion, RAID level migration, and Web-based Promise Array Management (WebPAM) software. It also supports advanced SATA features, including 3Gb/s speed, Native Command Queuing (NCQ), and drive hot swap support.

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