September 1, 2010 – ObserveIT Ltd., the leading provider of User Session Recording software, marked its 50,000th IT admin adoption in August of 2010. The company's flagship product, which is deployed at large and small enterprises worldwide, provides an immediate response to the simple yet difficult-to-answer question: "Who did what on our servers?" IT Managers and Security Officers quickly adopted this exact visual recording of remote and console user sessions in order to improve network security and oversight. ObserveIT software is available as both a feature-limited free version as well as a feature-rich enterprise version, and can be downloaded at www.observeit-sys.com. ObserveIT solutions provide a clear-cut view of each action preformed by third-party providers and privileged users. Whenever a user connects to a corporate server (using Terminal Services, Citrix, VMWare, SSH or any other connectivity protocol), ObserveIT records every action that occurs, including applications launched, text entered and window and mouse movements. Deploying this technology enterprise-wide provides companies with immediate answers to core needs: Compliance Auditing, Secure Verification of 3rd party activity and Root-Cause Analysis. The company is poised to further capitalize on its latest momentum as it enters the Beta-release phase of Unix and Linux session recording to its application platform. By expanding to include SSH monitoring with its current protocol-agnostic Windows coverage, IT managers will gain universal auditing of user activity. Key Benefits of ObserveIT In addition to the Record & Replay capabilities, users enjoy customized scheduled report delivery, full-text searching of all user activity (including App Names, UI text, resources effected and more), real-time playback, and policy messaging within user sessions. ObserveIT deploys with a small installation footprint and minimal resource usage. The product integrates smoothly into System Monitor platforms s
San Francisco, CA - August 31, 2010 - Today at VMworld 2010, Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the new Security Gateway Virtual EditionTM (VE) with VMsafe integration that secures the cloud with the industry's most advanced firewall and protects dynamic virtual environments from both internal and external security threats. The new Security Gateway VE is based on Check Point's Software Blade Architecture, enabling businesses to leverage the same flexible and comprehensive security solutions available on physical networks - including Firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention - to meet the special security, networking and management needs of virtual environments. The new Security Gateway VE is designed to ensure organizations can secure inter-VM traffic and external networks with granular firewall policies and integrated intrusion prevention capabilities to protect against malicious and unwanted network activity. In addition, organizations can automatically apply security policies to all existing or future virtual machines, without changing the existing network topology or experiencing downtime during live migration. With Security Gateway VE, customers are able to meet both the traditional network traffic requirements and the dynamic requirements needed to protect data at the hypervisor level, ensuring they have the most comprehensive security for virtual environments. "Protecting the network from external threats and inspecting traffic in between virtual machines are the two primary challenges associated with securing virtual environments," said Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point Software Technologies. "The new Check Point Security Gateway VE inspects inter-VM traffic at the hypervisor level for seamless security across an organization's environment. In addition, administrators have more transparency to prevent threats such as viruses, Trojans and key loggers from ev
HP today announced HP CloudStart, the industry's first all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days. Built on an HP Converged Infrastructure, HP CloudStart simplifies and speeds private cloud deployments. Consisting of hardware, software and services, HP CloudStart empowers businesses to deliver pay-per-use services reliably and securely from a common portal, and it offers the ability to scale and deploy new services automatically. Real-time access to consumption and chargeback reports allows clients to operate their private clouds in the same fashion as a public cloud. With HP's open architecture approach, clients are able to integrate their private clouds with third-party enterprise portals, public cloud services, usage billing packages and multiplatform resource management. "To better serve the needs of their enterprises, clients are asking us to help them become internal service providers with the ability to deliver applications through a highly flexible private cloud environment," said Gary M. Budzinski, senior vice president and general manager, Technology Services, HP. "With CloudStart, HP is enabling clients to optimize applications for private cloud computing today, while providing a platform for a comprehensive, open and hybrid environment in the future." HP CloudStart delivers private cloud compute service in 30 days HP CloudStart is delivered by HP Cloud Consulting Services, which provides the expertise needed for clients to transform their existing delivery approaches into more efficient shared-services models. HP BladeSystem Matrix, enhanced with HP Cloud Service Automation software and data services provided by HP StorageWorks, forms the backbone of the CloudStart offering. It enables clients to reduce provisioning times up to 80 percent(2) with one-touch provisioning across infrastructure, applications and business services. Other benefits include: Seventy-five percent reduction in compliance-manag
WindowsNetworking team wishes all the best to all system administrators out there. Let your servers be rock stable and your networks never go down! Let your days be less stressful and your users more understanding! Have fun today! Happy SysAdmin Day!
London, 26 July 2010 – 3CX has released version 9 of its popular phone system for Windows. Version 9 is a significant upgrade that adds video support as well as enterprise features such as the ability to monitor remote PBX installations via 3CX Assistant and automatic remote installation and configuration of 3CXPhone and 3CX Assistant. "3CX Phone System 9 is now a complete Unified Communications solution –We have added standards based video and support for smartphones as clients. At the same time we have added key enterprise features that widen 3CX's appeal to larger companies" "3CX continues to take market share and now has over 20,000 server installations worldwide. I expect that with v9 this number will grow dramatically." Video supportV9 allows single click set-up of video calls with other 3CXPhone users or with standards based video phones such as from Xlite, Yealink or Grandstream. Android smartphone support3CX v9 allows Android smartphone users to make and receive calls from anywhere using their extension. Android users just download the 3CXPhone for Android softphone and configure it to use their 3CX Phone System account. Provisioning of 3CXphone and 3CX AssistantDeploying and administering 3CXPhone and 3CX Assistant installations is now much easier via the provisioning feature. Phone System users can install the client apps by clicking on an HTTP link which will automatically install and configure them. Changes to the configuration, as well as software updates are automatically pushed out to the clients. Multi Site – capabilityMonitor presence and queues on remote PBXs and transfer calls between PBXs SLA / Shared parkingSeamless Key System like functionality for "sharing" phone lines without the need to transfer calls. Supports standards based SIP phones, no proprietary phones required. Microsoft Dynamics supportTrigger outbound calls from within Microsoft Dynamics and resolve inbound calls to customer records automatically. All calls are reported and logge