IT Solutions: Vol 1, Issue 3 - Zycon Newsletter

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Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center Selects Raritan's IT Infrastructure and Power Management Solutions		Finjan's Gateway Security Patent Receives Second Approval by US Patent Office
SOMERSET, NJ - Raritan announced that Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) has chosen a suite of Raritan IT infrastructure management solutions for monitoring servers and their energy consumption down to the outlet level. Located on the main Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, the state-of-the-art data center contains more than $125 million in hardware and networking equipment, and houses multiple labs for Microsoft's enterprise customers to collaborate with product teams to test and validate Microsoft software solutions in replicas of customer production environments. The EEC will use Raritan's remote access and control solutions - including Raritan's Dominion® KX II KVM-over-IP switches and CommandCenter® Secure Gateway - to configure and transform each lab into a scaled representation of a customer's infrastructure.		Jose CA., Finjan Inc., a leader in secure web gateway products and the provider of a unified web security solution for the enterprise market, announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has terminated the reexamination proceedings and issued a Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate (Notice) in the reexamination of its U.S. Patent No. 6,092,194 for a system and method for protecting a computer and network from hostile downloadables. The Notice indicates that all claims of this security patent have been confirmed as being patentable by the PTO. The Notice indicates that the PTO found that the art cited by the third party requestor and other art provided through information disclosure statements could not be combined to reject any of the 68 issued claims and thus upheld the patentability of all of the originally issued claims that were challenged in the reexamination proceeding.
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Lattice Technology Offers Free Trial of Automated Design Review Software Tools		Novell Delivers Compliance Management Solution that Integrates Identities Across SAP and non-SAP Environments
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., -- Lattice Technology, developers of digital manufacturing applications using the XVL® format, announced today that it is offering free trials of its XVL Studio Pro software. XVL Studio Pro is the company's industry-leading product for turning 3D design data into 3D manufacturing data. This application is the main XVL authoring tool for performing mathematically correct interference and clearance checks on 3D assembly data, manipulating parts lists, creating process designs, delivering 3D work and assembly instructions and illustrations direct from 3D design data. Lattice Technology is making its automated Design Review tools easily available for designers and engineers to quickly try out the software for design review activities. Sample data and tutorials also make it easy to discover how automated Design Review can change the way design-to-manufacture processes progress.		Waltham MA -- Novell announced the Novell® Compliance Management Platform extension for SAP® environments, a cost-effective solution for managing access and security challenges across both SAP solutions and non-SAP systems. With Novell provisioning capabilities, customers can integrate the identity and security information in their SAP solutions with other business applications to reduce the time spent on manual IT compliance. The Novell Compliance Management Platform version 1.0 has recently been certified by SAP for integration with the SAP BusinessObjects™ Access Control application. Together, Novell Compliance Management Platform and SAP BusinessObjects Access Control provide complete visibility throughout the enterprise, enabling control over network resources, ERP applications and other mission-critical business applications. The integrated solution helps organizations deploy an end-to-end compliant identity management solution and address and solve IT and compliance-related issues in the enterprise.
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Brocade Demonstrates Continued Momentum of End-to-End Storage Networking Solutions		Smith Micro Software Launches New CheckIt Netbook Utility Suite to Keep Netbooks Running at Peak Performance
SAN JOSE, Calif., - Brocade announced that it has achieved a major milestone in its data center strategy to develop the highest-performance, most cost - effective, and most reliable end-to-end networking solutions available on the market today. Adding to its rich portfolio of networking solutions, Brocade has now completed testing and interoperability qualification of its server connectivity solutions, or host bus adapters (HBAs), by all leading storage manufacturers, including HP, EMC, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI Corporation and Xiotech. Brocade HBAs deliver unique breakthrough performance and end-to-end networking capabilities for customers implementing server virtualization as part of their data center strategy. Augmenting the industry-leading performance of the Brocade DCX® Backbone family, Brocade HBAs utilize an industry-first integration of important adapter functions, such as virtual channels, into high-performance hardware.		LISO VIEJO, CA – Smith Micro Software, Inc. Productivity and Graphics Group, announced the availability of CheckIt® Netbook Utility Suite. CheckIt Netbook Utility Suite addresses the most common issues facing Netbook users, such as optimizing the registry for greater performance, backing up the hard drive to protect important files, recovering lost files, and sending and receiving large files by email. The suite consists of the industry-leading products CheckIt® Registry Cleaner, StuffIt® 2009, EMC Retrospect® Express HD and MediaRECOVER® to provide Netbook users with a comprehensive, yet easy-to-use and affordable solution for getting the most from their Netbooks. The CheckIt Netbook Utility Suite is specifically designed to run on the limited computing resources of Netbooks. For instance, StuffIt compresses and archives a user's resource-intensive data such as photos and music to optimize hard-drive space.
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Kingston Technology First to Market with 128GB USB Flash Drive		Largest Croatian Bank Deploys Aladdin eToken Devices
Fountain Valley, CA -- Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced the release of the DataTraveler 200 (DT200), the world's first 128GB USB Flash drive. The large capacity along with password protection gives users the flexibility to carry critical data with them at all times in a very small form factor. "The new DT200's robust storage capability lets consumers store complete libraries of music, photos and videos. It is also a great tool for business users who carry around large databases or files," said Andrew Ewing, USB business manager, Kingston®. "The password protection helps safeguard data and requires no admin rights, making the DT200 a terrific solution for the home or office."		BALTIMORE, – Aladdin Knowledge Systems, a global leader in information security now affiliated under common management with SafeNet, Inc., announced that Zagreba?ka bank, the largest bank in Croatia, has deployed Aladdin eToken NG-Flash to customers using its e-zaba online banking services. Aladdin eToken NG-Flash is the premiere USB-based PKI authentication solution, combining smartcard authentication with encrypted flash memory to provide strong user authentication, identity and access management tools and strong encryption to store and protect sensitive data and applications. Zagreba?ka bank, a member of the UniCredit Group, is the leading bank in Croatia in the quality of its products and services, technological innovation and the number of clients. It has approximately 1.2 million clients and accounts for one fourth of total bank loans, leading the market in providing housing loans and almost one third of overall bank deposits.
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Nortel Rolls Out New Solutions for Business Process and Application Integration		Curam Software and IBM Team on Integrated Software Solution to Improve Delivery of Social Services By Agencies
TORONTO - Nortel continues to drive the integration of communications and business processes with advanced services and software-based solutions that expand the array of applications and capabilities available to enterprises, while supporting more multi-vendor environments. Today the company is announcing enhancements to its Agile Communication Environment and Media Processing Server , in addition to the upcoming global availability of Contact Center 7.0 . Nortel's Agile Communication Environment (ACE) is a next-generation software platform aimed at fueling business agility and productivity. With ACE, communications functionality like instant messaging, voice, video, location, and presence can be quickly accessed via open Web Service interfaces. These capabilities can then be easily blended with business processes and tools such as customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, GPS or WiFi asset tracking, and video monitoring to create powerful new applications.		HERNDON, Va. - Curam Software and IBM announced the integration of the Curam Business Application Suite with the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) software portfolio to help social services agencies share information, reduce duplication and improve delivery of services to individuals and families. Over the last 30 years, human services, workforce services, and social security agencies have made major IT investments to meet the growing demand for services and respond to changing regulatory requirements. While these investments have yielded some improvements, many agencies continue to have a poorly integrated mix of disparate IT systems which cannot easily share citizen or case information with other agencies, leading to duplicate efforts and stymieing the effectiveness of caseworkers looking to improve service to citizens.
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EMC Provides Robust Business Continuity for VMware Environments		HP Helps Customers Boost Productivity with New Video Collaboration Offerings
Hopkinton MA -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced a full range of new consulting, implementation, education and managed services that leverage EMC's deep expertise in virtualization and business continuity. EMC® Global Services can effectively integrate VMware® vCenter Site Recovery Manager into customers' EMC business continuity environments to automate recovery of virtual environments. With a broad range of services and solutions, EMC helps customers quickly realize the benefits of VMware by enabling enterprise level business continuity. "We plan to use virtual machines for important applications, and for that we need to have a good DR recovery plan in place. EMC Global Services helped us to reduce the complexity and time involved in our DR plan for our virtual environments and most important – to test our DR plans without affecting the production" said Lea Kronenberg, storage manager of Haifa datacenter in Israel Electric Corporation.		HP today announced a service enabling HP Halo customers to use their telepresence endpoints to reach thousands of people, including employees, partners and suppliers, at one time. HP Halo Webcasting expands the HP Unified Communications and Collaboration portfolio, giving customers greater choice in implementing solutions that meet their global communication needs. HP also announced the realignment of the HP Halo business within the HP ProCurve Networking business, which is part of the company's enterprise-focused Technology Solutions Group responsible for servers, storage, software, networking and services. This move provides customers with "one-stop shopping" in choosing the right video endpoints, services and network solutions that will propel collaboration within their organizations.
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Avaya Launches New "Zero to Sixty" Financing Program to Help Businesses Jumpstart Unified Communications Projects		SonicWALL Delivers Secure Remote Access for ABHOW Retirement Community Organization
BASKING RIDGE, N.J. - Avaya, a global leader in business communications applications, software and services, announced a new financing program to help companies jumpstart their unified communications strategies. The "Zero to Sixty" financing program marks the general availability of Avaya Aura™, the next-generation of enterprise communications, and includes core communications solutions for small, medium and large enterprises. The "Zero to Sixty" program offers zero percent financing, for both a 36 month finance lease and for a 60 month fair market value true lease, to businesses based in North America. The zero percent financing offer is valid for purchases of unified communication solutions including Avaya Aura Enterprise, Standard and Branch Editions, Avaya Modular Messaging and Avaya Meeting Exchange for medium to large enterprises, and for Avaya IP Office 412 and 500 with VoiceMailPro and Partner® systems for businesses up to 100 employees.		SUNNYVALE, Calif (PRNewswire-FirstCall) -- SonicWALL, Inc, a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced American Baptist Homes of the West (ABHOW), a leader in continuing care retirement communities, has deployed two SonicWALL SSL-VPN 2000 appliances to provide clientless secure remote access as a part of their disaster recovery strategy. "SonicWALL made it very easy to scale remote access to meet our needs," said Brett Ortega, Network Engineer at ABHOW. "As a not-for-profit, we certainly value price as well as what we're getting for our money. SonicWALL simply offers a superior product for an affordable price." Servicing nearly 4,500 residents living in 30 communities across four Western states, ABHOW has over 2,300 employees, including network users who work out of their homes in various cities nationwide, and road warriors who are in and out of the office.
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St Bernard Software Delivering Simple, High Performance Solutions

St. Bernard Software develops and markets Internet security appliances and services that empower IT professionals to effectively, efficiently and intelligently manage their enterprise's Internet-based resources. Originally founded in 1995 as a market-leader in data security with its flagship product, Open File Manager™, the company is now recognized for delivering today's #1 Web filtering and security appliance, iPrism®. With millions of end users worldwide in more than 5,000 enterprises, educational institutions, SMB, and government agencies, St. Bernard strives to deliver simple, high performance solutions that offer excellent value to our customers. Based in San Diego, California, St. Bernard (OTCBB: SBSW) markets its solutions through a network of value added resellers, distributors, system integrators, OEM partners and directly to end users.

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