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IT Weekly Roundup, Oct. 7
From the business wires this week: software for documenting your network’s assets and vulnerabilities, a solution for joining heterogeneous systems to Active Directory, and network time servers.
Neon Software released version 9.5 of
LANsurveyor for Windows,
a network documentation software that incorporates asset management, network
monitoring and vulnerability management capabilities. New features include improved
Microsoft Office Visio exports, support for Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer
2.0, and Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE) support.
LANsurveyor 9.5 also uses new network discovery methods -- CDP (Cisco Discovery
Protocol) and LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) -- for improved discovery
of complicated networks. Priced at $795.
http://www.neon.com
Prefix Ltd. announced the addition of USB Guard to its PC management
software, PrefixNE 2.2. USB Guard blocks a computer’s USB ports
from accepting unauthorized external mass storage devices and is managed from
PrefixNE’s application-based console, accessible from any network client
computer. http://www.prefixit.com
Centrify announced the release of DirectControl Suite 2.1, which
enables Unix, Linux and Mac computers to join a Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
domain, providing authentication, access and policy services for these systems
and their applications. Also included is a Windows-based Administrator Console
for role-based access control of managed systems and for administering secure
zones of heterogeneous systems.
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| Centrify DirectControl allows AD
admins to configure user, group and computer properties in their Linux/Unix
environment. |
The company also opened its Centrify Resource Center, a publicly accessible
Web portal that offers links to downloadable, precompiled versions of widely
used open source tools that work with DirectControl. Pricing for DirectControl
Suite 2.1 starts at $50 per workstation and $300 per server. http://www.centrify.com
The latest version of Promodag Reports for Microsoft Exchange Server is now
available. Promodag Reports 7, a reporting tool for analyzing and optimizing
your Exchange messaging system, features new trending reports and faster import
and report generation times. http://www.promodag.com
The latest release of WinDeveloper Software’s IMF Tune
enables anti-spam solutions to be integrated into Microsoft Exchange. All client-side
functionality of the spam filters is accessible through the standard Outlook
and Outlook Web Access interfaces. No client-side extensions or custom rules
are involved; thus, deployment is centralized. Anti-spam filters are simply
required to identify spam through a custom header or the e-mail subject. IMF
Tune is then able to extract this information and do the rest. Pricing starts
at $298 per licensed server. http://www.windeveloper.com
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| Symmetricom SyncServer S250 |
Symmetricom Inc. released its GPS (Global Positioning System) network
time servers, SyncServer S200 and S250. The network time servers
synchronize clocks on computers and servers for large or expanding networks
and are optimized for high-bandwidth next-generation networks (NGNs). Features
include scalability and security, high availability and throughput of three
independent 10/100Base-T Ethernet ports with IPv6 support, and managed through
a Web interface with various setup wizards. Pricing starts at $3,595. http://www.ntp-systems.com