Networking Blog

Google Inc. is in talks with the Chinese authorities. Recall that after the recent cyber attacks on the mail service Gmail which is suspected of organizing the PRC government, the U.S. Internet giant refused to follow instructions of the censors and promised to withdraw business from the country.

Obviously bringing the threat of execution disadvantage of either side. Companies need talents of Chinese engineers working in the Research Center of Google and proceeds from the sale of advertising in Chinese sector of Internet and googlephones. Celestial Empire is in dire need of such rich IT firms like Google without which the ambitious country can not achieve leadership in the global market of high technologies. Even if you have to close the service Google.cn, the company will retain the possibility of the Beijing Research Center and sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. An estimated 700 people work here (the global state of Google is 20 thousand).

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EMC has demonstrated the concept of fully automated management of tiered storage, FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering), and announced the availability of technology opening new possibilities in the field of storage management. EMC provides a high level of automation of all its core storage platforms allowing organizations with limited resources to competently manage volumes of information, the annual percentage growth in double-digit. New technology EMC FAST is available now and allows you to automate the transfer of information in data storage and save an enormous amount of time that is spent in the performance of routine operations on the storage management manually and calculated for hours or even days. As a result of the middle class equipped with the technology EMC FAST, Corporate Disk Flash (EFD) and SATA drives will surpass its predecessors in performance, while allowing to save up to 20% on the cost of storage devices and up to 40% in operating costs related to storage data.

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Trend Micro released new defence system of terminal points for Windows and Macintosh platforms.  Trend Micro Security for Mac 1.5 defends your computer from adware, spyware, viruses and internet attacks.  It integrates with Trend Micro OfficeScan Client/Server.

The unique moduled architecture of OfficeScan allows to manage Mac computers from internet console.  This product has internal system to analyze websites’ reputation Trend Micro Smart Protection Network to preven your computer from internet attacks.

1. The main characteristics of Trend Micro Security for Mac:
2. Group management of politics up to 1 000 terminals.
3. New interface Cocoa with automatic registration on server.
4. Website reputation analysis tool.
5. Quick Scan for manually scanning.

Mototelecom presented new technology on the software development market – VoIP Gateway Mototelecom. This software allows to convert analogue signals to digital. VoIP Gateway Mototelecom allows to pool remote offices so it can help to reduce networking costs and to create the unique single whole space.

Specification:

1) Termination in IP up to 256 simultaneous analogue FXO/FXS connections or up to 8 ISDN PRI E1/T1 streams.
2) Secured and comfortable web interface allows to get an access to the system from any remote computer.
3) Type of Service function allows to set priorities for different IP packs.
4) VoIP Gateway Mototelecom has IP АТС functions such as IVR-menue, subscriber registration, voice recording, voice mail and Call Back.
5) Detailed analytics allows to get and analyze different parametres.

This product is adviced for companies which use IP telephony. Wide functional allows to creat remote offices and reduce telephony costs.

Check Point Software Technologies company announced new line of IP devices, based on Nokia platform. With preinstalled security lock Check Point R70, these new devices represent a compex solution with about 29Gb/s productivity. New IP-devices are supplied with IPS Check Point blades which allows to reduce the final cost of devices.

In April 2009 Check Point bought Nokia’s security business. In new IP devices Nokia platform is integrated which is well known for its scalability and modularity. New IPS blade inculdes one year subscription and has a standard configuration. IPS provides a high level defence of lock and capacity.

Check Point IP devices features:

1. Leading devices with Check Point R70 programmes and one year support service included in the price.
2. Standard pack of blades: internetwork screen, VPN, IPS, Advanced Networking, Acceleration and Clustering.
3. New record of capacity – 29Gb/sec.
4. VRRP technology.
5. Additional Accelerated Data Path madules to speedup productivity.

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia declared that the development team of Wikia Search has been stoped ther work on Wikia Searh project.

Wikia Search was started in January 2008 but didn’t get popularity. This service combines algorithms to select search results from any spam-garbage. It is manually edited search engine. Jimmy Wales thinks that economic situation is the main reason to stop that project. Also he added that all resourced would be transfered to another project like Wikianswers.

A german student Nils broke open the new Internet Explorer 8 in 5 minutes and got 5.000 USD at the conference CanSecWest. It is happened before some hours before the final release of IE 8, so Nils worked with release candidate.

Nevertheless hi got a full control on windows system “Windows 7″. Lately he broke Safari and Firefox and got more 10.000 USD and Sony Vaio notebook as a present.