Product Previews

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Veritas delivers i3 app performance update

Making good on promises sworn at its user conference in May, Veritas Software this week will announce the release of the latest version of its APM (application performance management) software, which tightly couples with the company’s software storage products. Veritas i3 7.0 integrates with Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster Server, allowing administrators to collect information from clusters and files to identify the root cause of service degradation. The software also adds application-availability management capabilities and enables administrators to create and regularly schedule synthetic transactions to test and measure application availability and response time. Veritas i3 Version 7.0 will be generally available in November. Pricing starts at $9,200 for a four-CPU environment.
Veritas i3 7.0, Veritas Software

V-Span engageWeb secures sharing of Office docs

V-Span this week will introduce engageWeb, a Web conferencing service that allows users to share Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents securely over the Internet. The engageWeb service is integrated with V-Span’s engageAudio audioconferencing service and is offered free — although charges apply to the audioconferencing service. EngageWeb is designed to strip away the complexity and high cost associated with traditional Web conferencing services by offering only the most commonly used features. The audioconferencing service is priced per minute and varies depending on volume.
engageWeb, V-Span

Zantaz archiving modules help with compliance

Targeting the growing need for compliance offerings, Zantaz this week will roll out Version 4.0 of its EAS (Exchange Archive Solution) e-mail and file management product. Version 4.0 adds three modules designed to improve risk management associated with regulatory compliance by making electronic records easier to search and access. The EAS Supervisor captures, indexes, and archives compliance-related metadata, whereas the EAS Pre-Review provides real-time reviewing of e-mail and IM messages before they are sent. Pricing is currently unavailable.
Exchange Archive Solution, Zantaz

Silex unveils miniature biometric reader

Silex Technology this week will take the wraps off of the Combo-Mini, a USB biometrics reader for use with laptops and PCs. The $179 device stores metadata about fingerprints and works in conjunction with a UIM (User Identity Module) card and password identification. Combo-Mini also supports cryptology for added security.
Combo-Mini, Silex Technology

Correction:

In this edition of Product Previews, we originally misreported the name of a Zantaz compliance module. It is called the EAS Pre-Review. The error has been corrected.