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Archive for May, 2009

APC company has announced about joint project with Microsoft – 2 platforms integration: a pack of development tools by APC to manage data handling center and Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 pack. This union allows to rise a quality of monitoring, apply new technologies and services and to otimize engineering infrastructure. Specialists of data handling centers can extend monitoring functions and the whole engineering infrastructure including energy components, cooling, security etc.

APC offers a complete pack of development tools including InfraStruXure Central server with Change Manager and Capacity Manager modules which can support all project functions, control and monitoring for power supply, cooling and security.

Microsoft System Center Operation Manager pack – multi-purpose solution doing all function of network monitoring in corporative sphere. A Complex network monitoring for environment is a key factor of uninterrupted running of business applications.

It is expected that integrated solution (APC and Microsoft) will be involved in worldwide businesses in the first quarter of 2009.

AllVoIP presented new solution which allows to control all your cell phone costs abroad and to decrease your costs on roaming. The principle of work based on using VoIP GSM Gates of AllVoIP. You need 2 gates: one for home use, and the second for remote use.

The home gate you may leave at home or office and connect it to the Internet. The remote gate you have to take abroad (its weight is 200 grams) and connetc to the Internet too. Also you need 2 sim-carts of the local cell phone provider: one for VoIP gate, the second – for your cell phone.

The home and remote VoIP GSM gates will connect each other transmitting calls via the Internet for free. Such your costs will reduce and you will pay only for local GSM connection. This way is much cheaper than roaming offered by GSM providers. It is optimal for those people who spend lots of time calling to another contries for hours.

Rainbow Technologies annonced that WatchGuard Technologies company released new OS – WatchGuard Fireware XTM which essentially extends possibilities of UTM-tasks thanks to new security functions, network compatibility and managment. WatchGuard Fireware XTM includes: deep HTTPS scan, VoIP safety and etc.

This OS supports transparent mode of routing, HTTP redirection for chaching on proxy-servers’ side. It supports a possibility to transmit broadcasting packs using NAT, VPN channels. There is an option for mobile users to protect their vpn connections.