November 13, 2000
Web Content Delivery Clearway Technologies FireSite New. No one likes a slow-loading Web site. Clearway Technologies' FireSite, billed by the company as a next-generation-content-delivery network, is designed to speed delivery of Web site content. Clearway Technologies runs a network of servers that use push technology to replicate a customer's site content. Web service providers and ISPs using the service then install the company's FireSite agent software on their Web servers. The agent software observes a site's Web traffic, selects content that could be accelerated, and automatically rewrites tags on HTML and JavaScript to direct browsers to a Clearway server. The company says the agent software takes minutes to install. Because it requires no manual intervention, the solution is appropriate for delivery of rich content on dynamically generated pages. The result, according to company officials, is reduced packet loss and traffic delays that speed delivery of content by two to 10 times.
November 13, 2000
Network Management Entuity Eye of the Storm 2.5 Improved. Avoiding disasters before they happen is crucial to keeping a corporate network humming. Entuity's Eye of the Storm 2.5 offers drill-down capabilities so the NOC (network operating center) can get a fine-grained view of the Layer 2 network. This update provides a detailed inventory down to the port level, compiles usage statistics and provides real-time control over degradation. Enhancements include Autodiscovery Inventory Manager, which lets the NOC discover/maintain an account of devices to the component inventory. Business Service ID detects events and tags them based on severity, source and service affected. Also included is the Report Center, which lets you track network assets.
Available: Now. Licensing, based on the number of components being managed, starts at $25,000.
Entuity,
(800) 926-5889; www.entuity.com
November 13, 2000
Application Monitoring Mercury Interactive Corp. Topaz 3.0 Improved. The process of monitoring your Web applications has become easier and more complete with Mercury Interactive's Topaz 3.0. The Web application performance management suite now includes Prism, which provides a noninvasive mechanism for monitoring Web traffic. Prism captures all Web traffic to and from your Web servers, delivers real-time reports, and identifies and quantifies performance problems. Along with Prism, the Topaz suite features agents that monitor transaction, server and Web page performance. Topaz is also available as a hosted solution, called Topaz ActiveWatch.
Available: Now. Topaz active agents start at $2,495 per month. Topaz Prism starts at $2,995 per month.
Mercury Interactive Corp.,
(800) TEST-911;
fax (408) 822-5300 www.mercuryinteractive.com
November 13, 2000
Data Management White Sands Technology ProActive DBA 5.0 Improved. White Sands Technology's ProActive DBA 5.0 is a database tuning and maintenance tool for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise and Microsoft Corp. SQL Server databases. It helps to optimize a database's performance by conducting maintenance and administration tasks on a scheduled basis, as well as performing diagnostics to identify problems. Improvements in the latest version of ProActive DBA include new reports that forecast future maintenance tasks, which can reduce system downtime; the addition of capacity-planning reports so administrators can predict database growth rates and future hardware and space requirements; and a new disaster recovery/data verification option that lets users perform verification of data chains and locate and correct data corruption. The tool is available in four editions: Automated Maintenance Edition, Visual Space Management Edition, Performance and Tuning Edition, and Performance and Tuning Plus Edition.
Available: Now. Starts at $1,495 per database system.
White Sands Technology,
(818) 349-8900; www.whitesands.com
November 13, 2000
PC Card SystemSoft Corp. CardWizard 5.2 for Windows NT 4.0 Improved. SystemSoft's latest release of its PC Card plug-and-play product adds enhancements for the mobile PC user. CardWizard 5.2 supports Microsoft Windows NT hardware profiles, which means two or more PC Cards can remain in their slots and the system will load only the drivers of the location profile being used. Users won't receive error messages about removing cards not configured for that location. CardWizard 5.2 also adds support for 16-bit multifunction cards, which enables support of network/modem, modem/modem and dual serial cards. Error messages can be disabled, and the user interface now supports IRQ sharing values. Other improvements include a modified launch function to handle multifunction cards and the ability to clear cards listed on the Card Management dialogs for mass storage and modem cards. Like earlier releases, CardWizard 5.2 provides power management functionality when used with SystemSoft's PowerProfiler/SE for Windows NT or other power management packages from IBM and Toshiba.
November 13, 2000
Network Applications Inovie Software TeamCenter 4.0 Improved. Inovie Software has updated TeamCenter, its Web-based collaboration tool for executives and managers. New features include the ability to save everything about an e-workplace--the space where a project or document is created, executed and managed--in a template so it can become a corporate best practice. TeamCenter's Big View feature lets managers view several projects at once, its new folder-based security ensures that objects inside a folder inherit the security applied to the folder, and the product now supports LDAP and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). You'll also find revision control of documents and check-in/checkout, greater personalization, enhanced time-card reporting, and an extended early-warning system.
Available: Now. $15,000 per JDOT server, $350 per unique user with volume pricing available.
Inovie Software,
(858) 272-8880; www.inovie.com
November 13, 2000
Programming Tools Catalyst Development Corp. SocketTools 3.5 Improved. Catalyst Development Corp. has added a series of enhancements to its Winsock-compliant programming software. The improvements include a new HTTP control and a library that supports all versions of the protocol, proxy servers and client authentication; and enhancements to the FTP control and library, including built-in support for four proxy server types. The update also boasts a new file encoding/decoding control that supports uuencode and base64 encoding formats as well as file compression, and a new SocketWrench library that simplifies the basic Windows Socket API. Improvements to the mail controls and libraries include POP3 control and library support and SMTP support for several types of user authentication and delivery-status notification.
Available: Now. Starts at $247 (free upgrade for users).
Catalyst Development Corp.,
(800) 766-3818; www.catalyst.com
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