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IT Weekly Roundup, Jan. 14
From the business wires this week: security tool for finding info holes on Web sites, hosted messaging and collaboration solution and a blazingly fast SATA hard drive.
SiteDigger 2.0 from
Foundstone
Professional Services, a division of McAfee, is an updated
security tool that helps companies track down confidential information
leaked onto the Web. Powered by indexed search information at Google,
organizations can identify security holes on their Web sites and
prevent or minimize information from being inadvertently made available on
the Internet.
http://www.mcafee.com
Xenos Group, Inc. released d2e
Vision 2.0, a document enhancement solution that can manage,
archive and repurpose documents for use in high-volume print or
Web applications. New components allow for processing Adobe PDF
1.4 and TIFF input files and generating indexes for electronic content
management, archive and database applications. The Java-based enterprise
solution is available for Windows NT/2000/XP, AIX, HP-UX, Linux,
Solaris and IBM z/OS, and has multi-language support. http://www.xenos.com
Targeting the needs of small- and medium-sized businesses, Microsoft’s
Solution for Hosted Messaging and Collaboration
3.0 offers a scalable platform of a variety of productivity
services. A hosted version of Microsoft’s productivity server
products, the solution features integrates the Windows SharePoint
Services Hosting and Live Communications Server 2005 Hosting enterprise
products as well as enhanced messaging and collaboration tools,
including the ability for users to share calendars and contact lists,
instant messaging, and a information dashboard. http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/hosters/default.asp
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| SoapBox Server 2005 comes with
Microsoft Management Console. |
SoapBox Server 2005 -- a .NET XMPP messaging
software product from Coversant, Inc.
-- now offers Managed Contact Lists. With the new version, administrators
can create users and groups of users to push out to clients and
take advantage of its synchronization with Active Directory, LDAP
and NT. http://www.coversant.net
Though designed for gamers in mind who have little tolerance for
lag, Western Digital’s WD
Raptor SATA hard drive may appeal to anyone with need for
speed. With seek times as low as 4.5 milliseconds at 10,000 RPM,
the WD Raptor comes in capacities of 36 and 74GB. Currently, the
high-speed drive is only available as an option in Compaq X Gaming
PCs. http://www.hpshopping.com