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Support Good news for those affected by the US court’s decision to ban Reuters using some security technology (FaceTime) in their IM service. This seemingly left Reuters with the option of providing no service or a service without the security features. According to a FaceTime press release of July 29, 2008: “Many financial institutions rely on the Reuters Messaging Compliance Manager to ensure compliance with SEC and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations for logging, archiving and retrieval of electronic communications regarding financial transactions.”
Apparently in court Eran Barak, the head of Thomson Reuters' strategy and collaboration services, said “If Thomson Reuters were suddenly unable to make use of the Reuters Messaging compliance product, Thomson Reuters' customers would be crippled in their day-to-day business operations.…” and “There is no practical immediate substitute for the Reuters Messaging compliance product in the event of any disruption. Any development of a suitable replacement (and complete transition of existing customers to the new product) would take several months (and would involve tremendous expenditure of money and labor) for Thomson Reuters to convert to an alternative product …" (Decl.of Eran Barak, pp. 6-7; 1:08-cv-4730-CM Document 19)
Presence Networks is offering any Financial Services organisations not currently able to use Reuters Instant Messaging, or concerned about the security implications or disruption to service, an immediate solution of free transfer and network setup, plus the first 100 seats per company free for 90 days on its secure LiveWorker(TM) Software as a Service IM.
Presence Networks specialise in presence and IM, providing Software as a Service designed to meet security requirements and recording for compliance. They can extend and link individual networks to cover as many people as required both inside and outside corporate firewalls and as all users get their secure managed service with unlimited access from PCs, Blackberrys and Mobiles from around GBP 5.99 ($12.00) a month, we believe they will find it incredible value.
To address the fears many IT Professionals have about the security of Instant Messaging, LiveWorker(TM) is fully encrypted and records all chat and transactions. The service offer incorporates the latest real-time communications technology including encrypted file transfer between users. Secure, recorded Public IM gateways can be switched on at the discretion of the Administrators enabling users to see and communicate with contacts on different systems through a single interface.
Contact us if you want to know more.
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Presence Networks is offering up to 5,000 seats <strong>free</strong> for a year on its new global LiveWorker™ Service to help businesses with limited IT resources start using secure Instant Messaging and online collaboration tools.
They say that British Companies are falling some way behind others in using technology to collaborate online, despite research showing there significant business gains to be made including increasing productivity, cutting costs and extending market reach. Their offer will enable even the smallest company to harness the power of this technology in just a few minutes. They hope to encourage others to join them and jointly create inter-connected, business quality secure live networks with their customers, suppliers and partners. ’
To address the fears many IT Professionals have about the security of Instant Messaging, LiveWorker™ is fully encrypted and records all chat and transactions. The service offer incorporates the latest real-time communications technology with Chat, Web Meetings and encrypted file transfer between users included in the free package, with SMS on a pay per use basis and low cost teleconferencing charged on phone bill by User’s existing Service Provider.
For companies seeking to enhance security or to build larger communities, Presence Networks provides enhanced services or large-scale deployed system with sophisticated user admin management and security tools, Anti Virus and integration with Active Directory and other voice and data services.
Business Instant Messaging use is predicted to explode over the next 24 months as Companies seek ways to reduce their costs and improve their productivity and gain competitive edge. Some Analysts even claim that IM use will exceed e-mail by 2010 as email is overwhelmed by SPAM.
Companies can sign-up for free seats. The free offer is limited to 10 seats per company for the first 500 to register and on a first come basis*
Request your FREE ONE YEAR*, 10 User trial and start liveworking today, using the "Contact Me" link
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Netuitive have a great business service management (BSM) product, which now supports both physical and virtual environments. Its Netuitive Service Analyser product is a self-learning correlation software for managing performance of enterprise applications across mixed physical and virtual environments.
Netuitive Service Analyser has already earned acclaim for providing the only self-learning and continuously adaptive software for automating BSM. With new capabilities, customers can manage the performance of enterprise applications end-to-end, across distributed servers, databases and network systems – that are both physical and virtual.
One of the problems with IT environments is that it ends up being a bunch of silos – storage, servers, network, desktops, etc, usually with different people managing. The push to virtualisation is in danger of creating yet another silo. Mission critical, enterprise applications run across the whole environment, so that end to end performance measurement is fundamental. Being able to get a single pane visibility across both physical and virtual environments is now a necessity.
There are lots of monitoring products on the market, but they tend to look at each variable as an entity, rather that in relation to any other. This becomes even more significant in virtualised environments when the ability to monitor the huge range of variables is well beyond most of us humans. The outcome is that people turn off monitors so they don’t get annoyed by false alarms. The problem with that is you then lose visibility of what is really happening in the environment and without visibility, the system becomes a free-for-all and management largely becomes reactive responses to end user complaints, rather than pro-active management before the event.
Netuitive’s platform is completely self-learning and continuously adaptive, performing sophisticated statistical trends analysis and multi-variable correlation to automatically determine normal system behaviour, measure and forecast deviations from the norm, and interpret symptoms for proper alerting and diagnosis. When the software detects or forecasts behaviour outside that range, Trusted Alarms® are issued—up to 2 hours ahead of the deviation becoming a problem, giving time for pro-active action, rather than scrabbling after the event.
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There has been a lot in the press recently about the problems (particularly) Riverbed has been having with the new AutoCAD file formats for 2007 and 2008 http://esgblogs.typepad.com/brians_blog ... ns-co.html is an example of what’s out there.
The problem manifests itself when you save files, where the new file format means there is negligible acceleration achieved (Riverbed quote 1.3x) and users make references to bricks. Riverbed claim 7.64x improvement with AutoCAD 2004 using the old file format.
Packeteer have been doing some work to look at the performance of their iShared and iShaper WAFS system and say the remote user will see no difference with their system whichever file format they use.
“With Packeteer’s iShaper and iShared solution the transition from earlier versions of AutoCAD to AutoCAD 2008 was seamless and trouble-free,” said Vaughn Silar, president & CEO of Paragon Engineering Services, Inc. “In optimizing our AutoCAD 2008 files across the WAN between multiple offices, Packeteer was able to deliver the same high performance application visibility, acceleration and intelligent service assurance for which we have come to depend on them.”
In tests using 80ms round trip latency over T1 lines, Packeteer found that an 8MB AutoCAD 2008 file took 140 seconds to save across the native WAN while that same file took only seven seconds to save with the iShaper solution, a performance improvement of 20x. Packeteer’s iShaper solution performance was also not affected by ISP (Increment Save Percentage) changes that Autodesk 2008 utilises to optimise the size of the AutoCAD files upon file saves and which negatively impact the performance of other WAN Optimisation solutions.
These results can be attributed to Packeteer’s CIFS acceleration which employs a superior WAFS architecture that ensures local file server-like performance and is future-proofed against any protocol or file format changes for CIFS applications. With a combination of streaming, file object caching and byte data reduction technologies, the WAFS technology built into Packeteer’s iShared and iShaper solutions always deliver the fastest user response times on file opens and saves.
By way of confirmation of the performance of the Packeteer solution, in an April 3, 2008 review by InfoWorld Magazine’s Test Center, reviewer Keith Schultz said, “Packeteer’s iShaper is at its best optimizing CIFS traffic and shaping traffic on the WAN. Its overall optimization and acceleration is right there with the best of them; its CIFS performance is the best I’ve tested. Reporting too is top notch, and the single point of administration makes it easy to manage the appliance.”
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InMage have released the latest version of their DR-Scout, business protection software, which provides CDP (Continuous Data Protection), replication and automated application failover.
A host of new features and configuration options are included in the new release, with application support now including:
- BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES)
- Oracle
- SAP
- SharePoint
- Exchange
- SQL
- Virtual Servers
- VMware
- Virtual Server
- Oracle VM
...Read more - Product Information
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