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Cisco Evolves Data Center Architectural Strategy to Deliver Distinct Business Advantage

SAN JOSE, Calif. – September 14, 2010 – Cisco today announced it has expanded its data center product and services portfolio and evolved its data center architecture to accelerate IT innovation, increase business value, and support new business models such as desktop virtualization and public or private 'clouds'.
Cisco introduced Unified Network Services, which are designed to deliver any network service in any environment and in any form factor, and Unified Fabric and Unified Computing enhancements to deliver increased deployment flexibility, simplicity and cost-effectiveness. Cisco also unveiled new professional services that help partners and customers realize the full value of their Cisco Data Center Business Advantage investments.
Together, Unified Network Services, Unified Computing and Unified Fabric form the foundation of an integrated architecture, the Cisco Data Center Business Advantage, designed to improve the efficiency and agility of both traditional and virtualized data center environments. The Cisco Data Center Business Advantage helps customers link their IT investments to increased business return by accelerating the delivery of new services and revenue streams, improving profitability, and enabling transformative new business and IT models.
ANNOUNCEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
Introducing Cisco Unified Network Services.
Cisco Unified Network Services provide rich services in physical or virtual form factors, and offer flexibility and choice while delivering consistent policy-based provisioning, operational simplicity and workload portability across network, compute and cloud environments. The first innovations introduced within Unified Network Services include:
•    The Cisco Virtual Security Gateway (VSG) is a virtual appliance designed to provide security policies at the virtual machine level within and across VLANS and shared compute infrastructures in the data center. The Cisco Virtual Security Gateway addresses critical security and compliance requir

Data Protection Manager 2010 Beta

Now that the beta version of the third generation of System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM), previously called “DPM v3” or “Zinger”, was released, we now have a supported method for backing up Exchange Server 2010. Here’s an overview and small list of features: Continuous data protection of Windows application and file servers to seamlessly integrated disk, tape, and cloud — with support for a growing list of Microsoft technologies, such as: Windows Server from 2003 through 2008 R2 SQL Server 2000 through 2008 Exchange Server 2003 through 2010 SharePoint Server 2003 through 2010 Dynamics AX 2009 Essential Business Server 2008 and Small Business Server 2008 SAP™ running on SQL Server Along with new workloads and support of the latest generation of Microsoft application servers, these platforms are gaining several new protection and recovery capabilities. Some enhancement examples include: SQL Server database administrators will see up to 2000 databases protected by a single DPM server and will get a self-service restore capability so that authorized DBAs can restore data themselves. Also, you will be able to protect entire instances of SQL Server, where all new databases will be automatically protected. SharePoint administrators will also see new content databases be automatically protected and will no longer need a recovery farm for Office “14” servers to do individual item recovery from DPM 2010. Robust and flexible protection and recovery for the following Microsoft virtualization environments: Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 Windows Server 2008 with

NETGEAR Launches the Industry’s Highest-Density Network Storage Solution for SMBs

SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 22, 2009 — NETGEAR®, Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced the addition of a new, high-density network storage system to its award-winning family of ReadyNAS® products for Small- to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). The ReadyNAS 3200 is a 2U 12-bay unified storage platform that provides up to 24 terabytes in a single system.
The easy-to-use system offers high-end features such as redundant power supplies and dual Gigabit Ethernet ports at an SMB price point, enabling growing businesses to securely share, store and protect business-critical network data. With support for up to 24 TB of capacity, making it ideal for online server consolidation or backup, the ReadyNAS 3200 solves common SMB storage problems in the most efficient manner to date. Server virtualization, file sharing, disk-based backup and building first-time iSCSI SANs are natural solutions for the ReadyNAS 3200.
"With the ReadyNAS 3200, we've expanded the capacity and performance of rack-mount solutions in the award-winning ReadyNAS storage line to a much wider spectrum of SMB sizes," said Drew Meyer, director of Storage Marketing for NETGEAR's Network Storage Business Unit. "NETGEAR's recognized leadership position in the SMB storage market makes us a trustworthy and reliable choice for end users and channel partners alike. With the ReadyNAS 3200, we are augmenting our line of storage solutions that provide the high-end features of other, more expensive rack-mount products with the ease-of-use and price point that match the resources of a growing SMB."
The ReadyNAS 3200 combines the award-winning features of the other ReadyNAS for Business products, including the recently launched ReadyNAS 2100 1U rack-mount and the ReadyNAS Pro and NVX desktop systems, with a massive capacity platform for sharing, storing and protecting SMB data (see press releases at http://www.netgear.com/About/PressReleases/en-US

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SpamTitan Product Review

In this review for SpamTitan’s Virtual Anti Spam Software I will walk you through the SpamTitan interface so that you can see the myriad of options available and how easy it is to configure.

Removing Pests from Windows (Part 1)

In this two part article I will discuss pests and potential issues associated with pests that may be encountered within windows. IT security professionals are faced with these resource and information divulging threats daily and because at his point there is not mature technology to deal with the problem officially it is challenging to remove these pests form the computer or server manually. These pests are like parasites of the digital world. These parasites feed off the electronic resources of the host machine, eventually draining the machine to standstill point.

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