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NFR Security Releases NFR NID V3.0

NFR Security, Inc. announced the availability of NFR NID V3.0, the company's network intrusion detection system. According to the company, the primary focus of this release is to improve data presentation and manipulation. New features relate to providing additional information such as host name for IP addresses, as well as increased flexibility of information presentation and handling, such as the ability to sort alerts by IP address.

For more information, visit: http://www.nfr.com/products/NID/.

ActiveState Updates Perl Development Portfolio

ActiveState announced new releases of its Perl tools and language distribution: Perl Dev Kit (PDK) 5.0, Visual Perl 1.7, and ActivePerl 5.8. According to the company, the Perl Dev Kit features essential tools for building and deploying Perl applications. Visual Perl is the Perl plug-in for Visual Studio .NET. ActivePerl is ActiveState's distribution of Perl, available for Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

ActiveState also announced PerlASPX 1.0, a new Perl resource that makes Perl available as an ASP.NET programming language. PerlASPX utilizes the ASP.NET caching features, and enables the creation of .NET Web services written in Perl. ActiveState's Perl productivity tools are available individually or as part of a bundle in ASPN Perl.

For more information, visit: http://www.ActiveState.com/Perl.

InfoExpress Updates CyberGatekeeper

InfoExpress announced that the latest version of the CyberGatekeeper Suite offers policy enforcement for Web-based applications. According to the company, CyberGatekeeper lets administrators enforce security policies for remote computers accessing the corporate network over remote connections, such as VPN, wireless, dial-up, and extranet. It audits systems before allowing access to the corporate network. Systems failing to adhere to customer-designed policies and security requirements are denied access to the company network.

A complete CyberGatekeeper system consists of the CyberGatekeeper appliance, an agent running on remote systems, and a policy manager to specify the requirements for remote desktop configurations. The agent reports details back to the appliance, which decides whether to allow or deny access. The policy manager supports multiple policies, servers, and central management. For more information, visit: http://www.infoexpress.com.

Arco Announces DupliDisk3 Mirroring Device

Arco Data Protection Systems announced the DupliDisk3. With the DupliDisk3, according to the company, PC and Macintosh users now have an affordable, easy-to-use way to maintain up-to-the-minute backups of their data and software.

The DupliDisk3 supports the Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and DOS operating systems and works by creating an exact bootable replica of your hard drive. Once installed, the DupliDisk3 works automatically in background. For more information, visit: http://www.duplidisk.com.

ClusterVision Delivers Linux Clusters

ClusterVision recently entered the market for supercomputers. According to the company, ClusterVision specializes in the design, implementation, and support of computer clusters for large-scale computational, storage, and database applications. ClusterVision's clustering technology provides an alternative to traditional supercomputing by connecting multiple computers to form a unified computing system. The computer clusters are built from high-quality commodity computer components and proven open source software technology, and, according to the company, can match the performance and stability of traditional supercomputers for a fraction of the cost.

Every ClusterVision cluster is delivered as a fully functional turnkey system with all hardware and software integrated and configured for immediate deployment. The clusters come pre-configured with the ClusterVisionOS, a Linux-based operating system and software environment developed to ease the usage and systems administration of clusters. ClusterVision will also deliver software and systems for grid computing through its GridVision division. For more information, visit: http://www.clustervision.com and http://www.gridvision.com.

NRG Global Announces New Features in Sysload 4.5

NRG Global's Sysload Enterprise Resource Manager module (ERM) underwent a redesign for release 4.5 and now enables easy navigation through different levels of information from enterprise resource to system data. Users can quickly pinpoint drops in service levels and facilitate immediate reaction. According to the company, Sysload's new Agent Delivery module enables remote agent installation and configuration, reducing installations on a large number of servers from one day to a few hours.

The Sysload DataCenter module (SDC) extracts and consolidates data collected by Sysload agents into a centralized Oracle or SQL server database. SDC interfaces with popular reporting solutions to produce personalized reports and advanced statistical analysis. The information can be used for accounting projects or capacity planning. Sysload's new SNMP interface enables other SNMP administration software applications to poll Sysload data collection agents.

Sysload 4.5 covers all the latest OS and databases releases, and Sysload's console now features a fresh design and user-friendly dashboard options. For more information, visit: http://www.NRGglobal.com.