[nflug] April 2007 SysAdmin Magazine New Items

[Robert Wolfe]

Arkeia Software Announces Advanced Disaster Recovery

Arkeia Software has announced Advanced Disaster Recovery, a Linux disaster recovery module with enhanced features for Arkeia Network Backup version 6.0. Version 6.0 of Advanced Disaster Recovery uses a 2.6.17.11 Linux kernel and a GUI-based disaster recovery screen. Pricing starts at $600 per server. More information can be found at: http://www.arkeia.com/options.

Levanta Launches Intrepid X Linux Management Appliance

Levanta announced the release of the Intrepid X Linux management appliance. The Intrepid X caters to large Linux departments and datacenters with high scalability and mission-critical requirements. The Intrepid X features include on-demand functionality, disaster recovery, system portability, complete change control, unattended active/passive failover, and interoperability with iSCSI or Fibre Channel SANs for RPM-based Linux environments.

According to the company, with the Intrepid X, systems administrators can ensure maximum uptime and easily and securely manage their mission-critical Linux environments -- both physical and virtual. The Intrepid X supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI-over-Ethernet storage devices. For more information, please see: http://www.levanta.com.

< Aptitune Releases ZoneHound for Solaris SPARC

Aptitune Corporation has released ZoneHound for Solaris SPARC. The purpose of ZoneHound is to monitor the resource utilization of each Solaris Zone on a system with multiple zones.

The output of ZoneHound includes statistics for each zone based on data that is collected by the ps utility's -Z and -y options. A summary-based, user-specified sampling is then produced identifying the zones and memory usage. ZoneHound may be run as a standalone utility or together with Aptitune's SarCheck performance analysis tool. For more information, visit: http://www.zonehound.com.

Connect, Inc. Announces PowerNet Proxy Server

Connect, Inc. announced PowerNet Proxy Server, a proxy for wireless systems. According to the company, PowerNet Proxy Server raises the reliability and performance of any wireless network, preventing lost time and user frustration. Installation is easily accomplished and requires no training or ongoing maintenance. Network populations ranging from just a few mobile devices, up to thousands, realize productivity gains from time savings and user satisfaction. For more information about PowerNet Proxy Server, see: http://www.connectrf.com/.

Unisys Enhances OASIS Open Source Suite

Unisys Corporation announced four major enhancements to its Unisys Open and Secure Integrated Solutions (OASIS), the company's portfolio of integrated, certified open source software suites. The four new offerings are: Unisys OASIS Suites 2.0, Unisys OASIS Oracle Grid Accelerator, OASIS Enterprise Asset Modernization, and OASIS UNIX to Linux Migration. These new offerings provide clients with a range of tools to monitor application infrastructure performance against defined service requirements, modernize existing enterprise IT assets, enable rapid migration of applications to Oracle 10g on Linux, and facilitate migration from UNIX to Linux environments. For more information, visit: http://www.unisys.com.

Tripwire Unveils Tripwire Enterprise 6.0

Tripwire has announced version 6.0 of Tripwire Enterprise, featuring a variety of advanced reconciliation capabilities that provide greater control over unauthorized configuration changes, thereby increasing operational efficiency and mitigating risk.

Tripwire Enterprise 6.0 detects all configuration changes across the IT infrastructure and automatically identifies unauthorized change, policy exceptions, and security violations. Tripwire Enterprise 6.0 gives customers confidence that all unauthorized configuration changes will be quickly discovered, investigated and minimized, or eliminated as process maturity improves.

To ensure system integrity, Tripwire provides visibility to all change in the enterprise. It is the only solution to provide a single source for detecting all change across servers, network devices, databases, and directory services. By giving customers real-time visibility, Tripwire enables operational efficiency through reduced outages, faster recovery times and less unplanned work.

A free trial of Tripwire Enterprise can be downloaded directly from: http://www.tripwire.com/downloads/enterprise/request.cfm. For more information, visit: http://www.tripwire.com/. 

-- 
Robert Wolfe (MCP/Linux+) <rwolfe at shatterit.com>
http://www.shatterit.com
Linux:  Improvise! Adapt! Overcome!
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