SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2007 - HP today announced a new version of its award-winning storage resource management software that allows midsize businesses to gain control over their rapidly expanding storage environments. HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition Storage Resource Management (SRM) Software automates complex and manual tasks, and improves the utilization of IT resources via a single, secure, web-based interface. Introduced at Storage Networking World, the software is the first product rollout from HP's recently formed Enterprise Storage and Server Software business unit, which provides software to manage, virtualize and automate customers' IT systems. Compared to traditional a la carte enterprise SRM software, HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition offers a more cost-effective solution that better equips companies to deal with constant business change and the exponential growth of their data. "HP has created an entry-level storage software solution with enterprise-class, peak performance standards without sacrificing quality or features," said Nick van der Zweep, director of product marketing, Enterprise Storage and Software Division, HP. "The latest Storage Essentials offering is yet another illustration of HP's growing portfolio of tailored solutions designed specifically to meet the needs of midsize business customers." HP Storage Essentials is built on the latest open standards, including SMI-S and J2EE, and integrates with HP Systems Insight Manager software for unified server and storage management. Simplifying storage environments with SRM software HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition reduces complexity in small to medium HP storage-based storage area networks (SANs) by offering customers a complete view of their storage systems. Using HP Storage Essentials provides customers with greater optimization of SAN and network-attached storage (NAS) capacity, increased IT staff efficiency and simplified end-to-end management processes. The single web-based
Announcement from VMware, posted by Bruce Herndon on April 12, 2007: I am pleased to announce that the public beta release of VMmark is now available. It can be found at http://www.vmware.com/beta/vmmark/. Before I discuss this release, I'd like to thank all of the partners who gave us such valuable feedback throughout the VMmark technology preview and private beta program. They really helped us get it into shape for a wider audience. Those of you new to VMmark might want to check out the original benchmark design document at http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/resources/573. For the public beta release, VMmark has undergone some key changes from that original specification in order to simplify benchmark setup and execution. The most important changes are: Distribution of virtual appliances for the Linux-based workloads. Our good friends at Novell have graciously agreed to allow us to redistribute SUSE SLES10 VMs for the database server, file server, and web server components of VMmark. Users will still need to do some simple setup and configuration. Otherwise, the servers are ready to go. Distribution of an XML-based open-source benchmarking harness for STAF/STAX appropriate for choreographing multi-workload benchmarks. Reduction of the memory footprint from 7GB per tile to 5GB per tile. As I related in an earlier blog entry, this change allows us to measure a wider range of systems, including 2-socket multi-core systems with limited DIMM slots. Replacement of the database workload with SysBench running against MySQL. This change allows us to distribute a fully-configured database server VM to simplify the benchmark setup. Bug fixes and workload adjustments. A comprehensive benchmarking guide with step-by-step instructions for benchmark setup and execution. VMmark is intended to measure performance in an enterprise consolidation scenario. More importantly, it is a benchmark for the entire virtualization platform. Appropriately configured CPU, memory, network
Press release: With the latest version 6.1 of PRTG Traffic Grapher we introduce a new feature: Packet Sniffing in WLANs! Using a specialized WLAN USB dongle hardware (available from the Paessler Online Shop) PRTG is able to inspect all network data packets travelling in your WLAN network in order to classify network traffic by IP address, protocol and other parameters. This feature is supported by the Freeware and Commercial Editions in version 6.1 or later. Also new in version 6.1 is the German user interface and manual. Download the latest version of PRTG Traffic Grapher.
PALO ALTO, Calif., April 11, 2007 - HP today unveiled ground-breaking, ink-based color multifunction printers (MFP), enhanced management offerings, and a new portfolio of services and solutions to help enterprise customers optimize their printing environments. The new ink-based multifunction printers, the HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFPs with HP Edgeline Technology, offer a powerful new printing engine based on the company's $1.4 billion investment in Scalable Printing Technology. Enabling enterprise and small and midsize business customers to improve productivity and control operating costs, the MFPs deliver a powerful combination of features, including high-speed performance,(1) best-in-class operating costs(2) and reliability,(3) excellent output quality, and intuitive usability. "Building on HP's MFP industry leadership, HP is extending our portfolio with new Edgeline color MFPs," said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "The Edgeline offerings will transform the industry, providing customers a multifunction printing solution with unprecedented ease of use that can improve productivity and lower color operating costs by up to 30 percent." HP also announced HP Web Jetadmin 10.0, a major upgrade to the industry's leading printing fleet management software solution, and the new HP Universal Print Driver 4.0 for Windows®, which is compatible with Windows Vista™. Aiming to capture a significant portion of the $147 billion enterprise printing market which the company has been approaching with renewed vigor since October 2006, HP is increasing its global sales force, offering new innovations, and leveraging services and solutions across its portfolio. Today's introductions provide tools customers need to optimize their printing infrastructure, better manage their environment and improve workflows. Redefining business printing with HP Edgeline Technology The total market opportunity for HP Edgeline Technology is expected to be more than
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-April 10, 2007-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) is pleased to announce the launch of its innovative do-it-yourself data recovery software. File Recovery for Windows is an advanced, easy to use application which recovers all file types including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook PSTs, databases, AutoCAD, Microsoft SQL as well as all popular photo formats. The software can also recover music and movie files such as MPEG, AVI, and MP3 files. File Recovery for Windows supports all FAT12/16/32 and NTFS file systems running Microsoft Windows, even if partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted. File Recovery for Windows has been designed as an efficient, low-cost solution for logical data recovery situations if files are lost due to a virus, malicious hack attack or an operating system crash, in which a disc drive has not experienced physical damage. This inexpensive software solution is able to recover files from any brand of disc drive. Clients are able to download the solution for free from Seagate's web site and preview their disc and file content in a simple hexadecimal viewer telling them if a successful recovery is possible. The risk in the purchase decision has been removed, and users know in advance exactly which files can be recovered before they purchase the software. "I called a handful of drive recovery services and was given estimates ranging from $700 to $8,000 to restore my data with a wait of at least four days," commented Kevin Halladay, I.T. manager of the Sundance Ski Resort in Utah. "I called Seagate Recovery Services about sending the drive in for recovery, and their client service representative suggested that Seagate's D.I.Y. software was the ideal solution for my data loss situation. I downloaded the software and recovered all of my data, and Seagate saved me hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. The software is easy to use, very intuitive and provided a full recovery for a fraction of the cost of an in-lab solution. The produ