Data Center Briefs: September 29, 2008

By Systems Management News Team

September 29, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 3)
New Products
SIP Print announced the general availability of a new line of call recording appliances aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The SIP Print appliances work with a variety of VoIP phone systems; the list of supported suppliers includes Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, NEC, Nortel, ShoreTel, 3Com, Toshiba and Zultys. The user interface offers extension and name lookup features, archive control and audit trailing, on-the-fly column sorting, and e-mail-ready call file formats. The appliances are designed to support environments of up to 200 seats per physical location and, according to the company, are compliant with both CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) and the SIP 2.0 specification.

IBM announced a new tool for its Virtual Infrastructure Access platform that aims to reduce the complexity of storage management in virtualized environments. The Virtual Storage Organizer (VSO) is based on work done by IBM Research and is said to dramatically reduce the physical storage requirements of virtual images. The company also claims that by using VSO to create new images, customers could reduce the time for that task to a quarter the time previously needed.

Proginet announced that its Slingshot Vault e-mail attachment management appliance would be generally available this fall. The appliance is designed to offer integrated archiving and works with a number of corporate e-mail systems. It secures attachments by encrypting them while they are in transit between sender and recipient, and keeps track of its own activity at each step with logging and time-stamping features.

Updates
Aqua Connect released a new version of its namesake terminal server for Mac OS X, adding compatibility with the 10.5 (Leopard) release of the OS and an implementation of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol. Aqua Connect Terminal Server 3.0 is claimed by the company to be the first licensed implementation of an RDP server on the Apple platform. The update also has new administration features, including CPU prioritization, session shadowing, and user session auditing. Aqua Connect says it offers “tighter” interaction between Active Directory and both Mac OS X’s Open Directory and Workgroup Manager. The company plans to add other functionality to the 3.0 release, including user- and group-based blacklisting and whitelisting of applications, an iTunes-like “Cover Flow” view of user sessions, and user-level monitoring of application licenses.

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