News Briefs: August 1, 2008

By Systems Management News Team

August 1, 2008 —  (Page 1 of 2)
PDF Becomes ISO Standard
The PDF electronic document format has been made available as an ISO International Standard. Adobe Systems relinquished control of PDF, and it has now been formally adopted as a global standard for electronic documents. PDF has become ISO 32000-1, allowing ISO to assume the responsibility for publishing the specifications for PDF version 1.7 and updating future versions of the format. ISO Secretary-General Alan Bryden said the standard will benefit users by encouraging the propagation and dissemination of the widely popular format. Several subsets of the PDF format had already been approved by ISO as standards, including PDF for Archive and PDF for Engineering.

Siber Systems Releases RoboForm
Siber Systems, a Fairfax, Va. company that specializes in password and identity products, launched RoboForm Enterprise, a password management program. The company said RoboForm can be customized by IT managers within 15 minutes and can log into Web applications automatically. The main benefit of the product is that passwords don’t have to be stored in a Web browser or on a computer file, which aren’t secure, according to Siber Systems. RoboForm can be deployed onto every employee’s computer and customized to the company’s password and security policy.

StackSafe Brings Knowledge Center
Software infrastructure testing and impact analysis company StackSafe made available its Change Impact Analysis Knowledge Center, which provides resources and best practices for organizations wanting to improve change and release management processes, the company said. The product includes a Webinar with StackSafe executives and Gartner analyst Donna Scott, along with information from blog posts and research. According to Scott, change management can improve an IT team’s availability levels by 40 percent, and it is important to test operational changes just as thoroughly as application changes.

Message Partners Takes on Spam
E-mail security product provider Message Partners has released MPPxpress, a managed e-mail filtering and compliance service that offers spam filtering, content controls and regulatory compliance. The service is for small and medium businesses. According to Message Partners, MPPxpress uses connection controls, e-mail content analysis and pattern analysis for spam and malware protection. It has a control panel that allows administrators to manage spam. MPPxpress has full text searching of e-mail archives, and can import and export e-mail from different sources, the company said.

Idera Releases SQL Management Product
Database management product provider Idera has created a set of 24 desktop tools for monitoring and administering the Microsoft SQL server. Idera executives said the new product suite gives database administrators the ability to check passwords, conduct multiple queries, edit and move jobs, and gather server statistics with one desktop management console. The product also has analytical capabilities, with patch and index analyzers and an inventory reporter that lists important information about SQL servers. Prior to the product’s release, the company had a public beta with more than 8,000 downloads.  

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