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OPNET Technologies, Inc. and Riverbed Technology announced that OPNET’s ACE Live(tm) will be offered on the Riverbed(r) Services Platform (RSP) by the end of 2008. OPNET’s industry-leading software for end-user experience monitoring and real-time network analytics will run on the RSP in Riverbed Steelhead(r) appliances. By running ACE Live on Riverbed Services Platform (ACE Live on RSP), organizations can achieve enhanced application performance management in WAN-optimized environments. The RSP is an enterprise-class platform that enables a drastic reduction in the branch office IT footprint by running up to five remote office third-party software modules, without separate dedicated servers.
Key Revolution believes that its latest product – the Mobiu portable office – can offer security for people who use multiple machines, with secure online storage and a USB with a SIM card. The Mobiu portable office – which should be available to consumers in September, is a plug and play device with a SIMAssured chip and PIN – ensuring that if you lose the stick you can ring Key Revolution to wipe the data and send a free replacement. This product should support remote working without the tension of personal information getting breached while working in public places.
Stonesoft has introduced its StoneGate UTM (Unified Threat Management) solution for remote office locations. The latest offering enhances the company’s solution suite for physical as well as virtual environments. Available as a part of the StoneGate FW-310 firewall appliance, the StoneGate UTM gives protection to corporate networks, providing for a safe flow of information. Remote offices need direct internet connections. As such connections, generally, do not undergo corporate anti-virus checks, they are a security threat. The StoneGate UTM offers protection from inbound and outbound threats. It assures anti-virus and intrusion prevention for web traffic, e-mail and VoIP.
In TechRepublic, Rick Vanover says that provisioning a highly functional yet inexpensive remote network solution for remote sites is a continually evolving challenge. Vanover says that he has started an endeavor that will be considering the ClarkConnect Internet gateway distribution of Linux. The ClarkConnect gateway is based on Red Hat Linux and the 2.6 kernel. ClarkConnect is a full-featured distribution that includes most features that would be needed to facilitate access from a remote site. The open source version of ClarkConnect does not include the full inventory of features included in the commercial editions, but it does provide a comprehensive inventory of features as built.
KnowledgeLake Inc., which makes document imaging and capture technologies for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Content Management (ECM ), has integrated its KnowledgeLake Connect product with the award-winning Fujitsu ScanSnap S300. The ScanSnap S300 allows remote office users to easily save and index documents to SharePoint from any desktop application. The integration provides quick and easy imaging, capture, storage and indexing for ECM with Microsoft SharePoint.
Aruba Networks Inc., a global leader in wireless LANs and secure unified mobility solutions, has been awarded the Wireless Security Product of the Year Award for 2008 by Techworld for its Remote Access Point (RAP) technology. Targeted at organizations with teleworkers, traveling executives, branch offices, first responder or disaster recovery requirements, RAP offers a truly instant-on, no set-up remote connectivity solution. Once loaded on an Aruba access point, many of which can easily fit in a purse or valise, RAP establishes an encrypted tunnel to the data center and uses a built-in stateful firewall and split-tunneling router to securely deliver the enterprise network to mobile users.
01 Communique Laboratory Inc. has released I’m InTouch Premium, a remote access solution that builds on the award winning I’m InTouch with new features designed for business users. I’m InTouch Premium enables organizations to provide employees with cost effective remote access to their workstations from anywhere, without the need to leave their computers on all the time. The ability to remotely wake-up your computer is especially important to businesses that want to provide employees with remote access to workstations. Instead of leaving their computer on when leaving at night, for the weekend or for vacation, employees can shut their PCs down and still be confident that they can access their important files at anytime. Not only does this save on electricity; but also enhances security since there can be no unauthorized access to a shut down PC.
Juniper Networks Inc. has stepped up its expansion efforts in wide area network (WAN) optimization with a series of three new platforms that are more scaleable, speed up application performance and offer mix-and-match hardware components. The WXC 1800, WXC 2600 and WXC 3400 platforms are at once smaller and quieter and have parts that can be popped out of the structure (for example hard drives and power supplies) without dismounting it. The WXC WAN optimization platforms aim to improve application performance in order to make a remote office function as if it were on the local area network (LAN). The new appliances can accelerate WAN traffic up to 2 Mbps for the WXC 1800 used in small offices, up to 8 Mbps for the WXC 2600 used in medium-sized to large branch offices and small data centers, and up to 45 Mbps for the WXC 3400, which is deployed at higher-speed remote locations, head offices or data centers.
Cypress Communications has been awarded its fifth award for product innovation this year - Product of the Year – by the editors at Communications Solutions, a publication of Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC). Named for its ability to enable enterprises to connect, communicate, collaborate and continue™, C4 IP comes complete with integrated voice and data access, desktop phones, soft phones, advanced unified communications functionality, remote office capabilities and a host of PBX features. And, with a fully hosted delivery model, C4 IP delivers users all the benefits of advanced communications with no capital expense, no worries of technological obsolescence, and no need for companies to hire and sustain additional staff to manage it.
IBM Inc. has announced a new suite of integrated data protection solutions designed to help customers of all sizes deal with ever-increasing volumes of information and increased pressure to retain and rapidly recover data to meet legal and regulatory requirements. The company’s new Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack software can provide customers with improved business continuity and comprehensive recovery of data and applications, as well as the ability to address compliance across customer data centers and remote offices. The new software, which is the part of IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager line, expands IBM’s existing enterprise data protection solutions with new capabilities to help protect data that resides outside managed servers, on remote networks.