HP's Unveils PODs, New Servers And Application Control: Page 2 of 2

Also unveiled in Barcelona, at a roadshow stop on HP's "Converged Infrastructure" sales tour, is AppDV, for application digital vaccine, which combines enterprise application security and access management. AppDV comes from HP's TippingPoint security business, which also includes DVLabs, a security research group that scours computer networks looking for security weaknesses and emerging threats.

AppDV can respond to and protect against such threats but can also control the use of apps that may increase the risk of such threats. With the AppDV control panel, an IT administrator can block employee access to applications such as You Tube and Facebook that can be security hazards, but may also sap network bandwidth as well as employee productivity. However, as there may be legitimate business uses of these sites -- Facebook can be used by marketing and public relations, and You Tube can be a source of informational videos -- AppDv allows the administrator to selectively grant access to those sites for some employees while restricting it for others.