ersion 8 capabilities and features are identical across the three deployment alternatives:

• the same Backup Agents are used across all three, giving administrators the flexibility to evolve their servers without modifying their agent machines
• complementary products like Arkeia’s Backup Replication and Arkeia’s Central Management Server work seamlessly across all three backup server deployments, making these advanced capabilities easy to deploy and use
• a consistent and enhanced user interface across deployments means no new learning curve when deployment modes change 

Compared to Arkeia Network Backup v7 and earlier versions, version 8 comes with the following enhancements:

• Virtualized Environment Support
• Introduction of a virtual appliance for ESX and ESXi
• Introduction of a VMware ESX Server agent
• Enhanced Graphical User Interfaceo    Backup Schedule Calendar introduction
• Reorganization of the Menu for a better ergonomy
• Client-server communication simplification with stronger security
• Remove the dependency of name resolution (FQDN)
• Allows the client to connect to the backup server via IP
• Allows the backup server to connect to the client via IP
• Allows Arkeia to bind to a specific IP
• Enhanced handling of client hostname change
• Enhanced software installation options (DNS or IP)
• Lack of client licenses no longer stops the entire backup job if a new client is added
• Enhanced reporting
• Enhanced Alerts logging to the end user
• Enhanced backup error reporting to the end user
• Wiki-based technical documentation
• New platforms supported including SLES 11 and Mandriva 2009 Spring

• delivers all the functionality of Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 as a system image for a VMware virtual machine
• comes bundled with licenses for a disk-based virtual tape library (VTL) and Arkeia Backup
• can be deployed in both VMware ESX and ESXi virtual environments
• can be rapidly deployed and enables companies to take full advantage of virtualization benefits such as high-availability, load-balancing, and storage provisioning 

Both the virtual appliance and the ESX agent are available for download from here

AA Credit Union uses Array’s TMX1100 for load balancing, thereby ensuring that resources are distributed to the proper server when it is overloaded, and also solving redundancy and failover issues. Four hundred tellers currently use the AA Credit Union system for financial transactions and 200,000 members use its Web site for home-banking services. With the high volume of traffic crossing the system, it is essential to provide a reliable Web site and network architecture for immediate and persistent connections to ensure transactions are efficiently and securely completed.

“The TMX1100 is now a critical part of our teller activities as well as members’ home-banking services, and we are very impressed by the performance,” said Thomas Wilde, systems analyst at AA Credit Union. “Array’s product provides a fault-tolerant solution that is reliable and time-saving. We are able to keep our applications up and running securely with minimal downtime.”

The SSL encryption feature of TMX1100 enables AA Credit Union to encrypt PCs to load balancers. This provides an additional layer of information protection, ensuring all banking transactions are secure, which is critical in the financial industry.

Building on its reputation as the data protection leader of the open systems market, Arkeia Software announced support for Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Arkeia Software reiterates that way  its leadership as the broadest supporter for open source operating systems and applications. In addition to Linux, Arkeia supports other open source operating systems including OpenSolaris and the BSD family.

Arkeia Software supports both backup servers and backup agents on 100 Linux platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Open Enterprise Server, Debian, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Slackware, PCLinuxOS, CentOS and Fedora.

Cable Bahamas branded its new Unified Communications platform “CoralWave Pronto!.” The SaaS offering was launched with a first modular offering, bringing e-mail, instant messaging, VideoMail and calendaring to all its subscribers immediately. CoralWave is already planning a second roll-out of Pronto! modules for Value Added Service in early 2009, including My Stuff, where CoralWave subscribers can create their own personal storage of Rich Media, playback their favorite music and view family photo albums all via the web 2.0 client CoralWave Pronto!.

“This is one of the most dynamic online platforms we’ve seen for Unified Communications and online living,” says David Burrows, Director of Marketing. “Imagine a world where all the functions you need for online living come in one seamless, integrated interface. Imagine a world where, when you log in to check your email, you gain automatic access to your photographs, your contacts, your calendar, your music, your video email, and your instant messages while you drag and drop your photographs into your own personal web space and blog about your day, all while listening to your music. This is what our customers will have access to with CoralWave Pronto!. We are very excited to bring this innovation to our subscribers.”

“When building a UC as SaaS offering, there are some key criteria to meet: Multi-tenancy, high density, scalability, reliability and a very intuitive web 2.0 client,” says Sophia Walker, Director of Information Technology. “CommuniGate Pro and Pronto! met all these critical points and exceeded our core requirements.”

“Increasing customer loyalty with value added services is the way Network Operators of tomorrow need to go now,” explains Jon R. Doyle, VP Business Development CommuniGate Systems. “Cable Bahamas puts itself in a perfect position to remain the leading provider in the Bahamas by reducing churn rates and placing value on top of its access products.”

Click here http://www.cablebahamas.com/Pronto/ to find out CoralWave Pronto!.

Peplink Balance multi-WAN routers allow customers to easily combine multiple Internet services from different providers. As new generation of broadband Internet such as DOCSIS 3.0, FTTB becomes readily available, Peplink Balance 210 and 310 will meet business’ new bandwidth requirement without giving up Internet reliability. Because of Peplink’s advanced failover and load balancing algorithms, businesses can easily substitute their existing high-cost dedicated Internet to a combination of low-cost connections. Peplink’s enterprise-class Internet link balancing technology has received rave reviews for ease of use, stability and affordable pricing.

“Internet link balancing and failover used to be complicated and expensive. Many businesses still rely on a single Internet connection. Whenever there is a service outage, all you could do is to wait and complain. This is not true anymore,” said Keith Chau, General Manager at Peplink. “Customers can now subscribe to Internet services from any provider and combine them easily with our devices, not to mention the cost savings when they change from expensive dedicated Internet to regular DSL or Cable! If one of the Internet services goes down, the system administrator will be notified but other users will not notice a thing.”

VPN Load Balancing and Failover, All Protected with 256-bit AES

Peplink is also shipping firmware 4.6, which provides the industry first Multi-Site VPN Load Balancing. Multi-Site VPN Load Balancing enables businesses to easily connect multiple locations with the highest reliability possible by leveraging multiple low cost Internet connections at each site.

Peplink Balance 210/310 and Firmware 4.6 are immediately available. VPN Load Balancing and Failover feature is available for 210/310 and other business-class models.

Following extensive testing, British Airways chose the CommuniGate Pro Dynamic cluster solution for its 99.999% uptime, and its ease of customization and administration for its global messaging solution. After a successful rollout across British Airways’ global front-line workforce, everyone at the airline is connected via e-mail. Corporate and departmental news and information is now sent more quickly than ever to a wider range of employees. This has resulted in consistent messages going to everyone at the same time.

British Airways empowers employees with corporate e-mail via CommuniGate Pro. CommuniGate Pro provides email to over 30,000 mobile employees at British Airways to simplify corporate-wide communications.

In choosing a messaging solution appropriate for its worldwide work force, it was important that it be secure, flexible and have the ability to customize the look and feel to keep the British Airways brand. CommuniGate Pro Dynamic cluster architecture fit the profile.

Backup Replication is integrated with Arkeia EdgeFort appliances and Arkeia Network Backup software and enables data transferability from one location to another. Backup Replication also offers duplication of data coming from total, incremental, and differential backups. Arkeia’s Backup Replication provides organizations that have distributed data bulletproof redundancy and recoverability.

“Arkeia’s Backup Replication works seamlessly with Arkeia Network Backup,” said Pierre Vanacker, Director of New Technology at Airborne Mobile, a mobile application company. “Managing Backup Replication jobs is easily scheduled through the Web interface and it ensures that data in my remote locations is also backed up in my datacenter.”

Integration with Arkeia Network Backup software and EdgeFort all-in-one appliances means companies can pick the optimum location for backup jobs to reside, and automate the movement of the data. Companies can backup to disk locally, archive to tape locally, and replicate offsite to another location or data center all within the same interface and scheduling tool, the company said.

“Companies need to protect data across their organization, especially in remote locations,” said Dave Elliott, GM Americas & Asia at Arkeia Software. “With the release of Backup Replication, companies can seamlessly move backup data from site to site, such as from a remote office to a corporate data center.”

Backup Replication is available now and can be purchased as an addition to Arkeia EdgeFort or Arkeia Network Backup, the company noted in a release.

Higher Internet Reliability and Lower Operating Expenses

‘With the current market conditions, Internet reliability has never been more important’, commented Keith Chau, General Manager at Peplink, ‘any email outage, disconnects with your sales force, road warriors or business partners are not acceptable. Companies simply can’t take the risk of losing any business now.’ Reliability and costs are not always growing in proportion. ‘By replacing the expensive leased line with multiple low-cost DSL/Cable broadband links, companies actually get higher reliability and more bandwidth with lower operating expenses!’

Balance 20L and Balance 390 Extend and Complete Peplink’s Product Line

The Balance 20L appeals to home users as the only affordable dual-WAN router on the market powered by enterprise-grade software to provide maximum stability and reliability for even power home users. The Balance 390 is a high performance triple-WAN, all-Gigabit router with enough power, 250Mbps, for next-generation, high speed Internet services such as FiOS, DOCSIS 3.0, or 4G Mobile broadband, ideal for large businesses at a legitimate price. No matter what your needs are, the Balance 20L and Balance 390 will increase your performance and decrease your costs.

For more information on the Peplink’s Balance 20L and Balance 390, as well as their complete line of multi-WAN routers, please visit www.peplink.com

“With Pronto! 2.0 you have a powerful platform for e-mail, chat, voice calls and media and entertainment delivery—all utilizing the web. You are not just tied to your home or work PC anymore. You can access this information anywhere and anytime.”

Additionally, Pronto! 2.0 utilizes the power of Adobe AIR, which enables web developers to extend rich Internet applications to the desktop, delivering a more engaging digital experience and addressing key limitations of traditional web applications. Users can open separate windows for Pronto! functions, including IM, calendars, e-mail, and voice, to configure the desktop that works for them. Pronto! 2.0 supports drag-and-drop operations for a more familiar and natural way to save and add attachments from e-mail.

Media and entertainment also gets a big boost with Pronto! 2.0. With the latest H.264 and AAC codecs supporting HD Video capabilities in Adobe Flash Player 9 and AIR, Pronto! 2.0 delivers a powerful high-quality viewing experience over the Internet. Extending Flash Media Interactive Server 3 with CommuniGate Pro’s advanced server API’s and plugins enables Pronto! to help network providers protect and deliver licensed content from Content owners to more consumers with a universal experience regardless of platform.

”Pronto! 2.0 covers all forms of communication apart from the signals smoke! Now we have included the systems of high clarity and the applications of entertainment, adds Doyle. ”The video in the internet becomes more important, and Pronto! 2.0 presents it’s endless possibilities for the multimedia applications.

Pronto! is available today as an open and free service in www.TalktoIP.com where users can take Pronto! for a test drive. Moreover, an installable version is located at  www.communigate.com

The SC Magazine Awards highlight and showcase the best products, services and professionals in the information security industry. After being voted a finalist in the ‘Readers Trust Awards’ by readers of SC Magazine, Astaro Security Gateway was selected as the winner of the hotly contested ‘Best Network Security’ category by a panel of judges comprised of independent industry experts.

Walter Schumann, VP Sales, Marketing and Support EMEA, said, “Winning SC Magazine’s Best Network Security award, on top of other awards from ITPro, CRN, PC Magazine and PC Pr@xis, sends a clear message to users that Astaro provides market-leading, practical, easy-to-use, comprehensive and effective security solutions that meet customer’s developing security needs.”

The Astaro Security Gateway integrates a complete set of security technologies that comprise a mix of best of breed, open source and commercial software covering all aspects of security including email security (anti spam, anti phishing, dual virus protection for email, transparent encryption), web filtering (content filtering, anti virus for the web, anti spyware, and IM & P2P control), and network protection (firewall, remote access & VPN, and intrusion protection).

Astaro’s recently launched Version 7 of the Astaro Security Gateway contains a number of advanced features and enhancements. Among these are transparent e-mail encryption, SSL VPN, active/active clustering and safeguards for the uncontrolled flood of unsecured instant messaging traffic and peer-to-peer file sharing traffic.

PePLink, pioneer in the products and solutions of charge balancing of Internet connections, announced today the beginning of a new model, PePLink Balance 380, while also an important firmware version for all Internet routers.

Ύστερα από πολλές σημαντικές προσπάθειες εξέλιξης, το σύστημα Communigate Pro βρίσκεται πλέον στην έκδοση 5.1.1. Πολύ σημαντικές διαφορές από τις προηγούμενες εκδόσεις είναι οι παρακάτω:

• Νέο Flash Interface για το WebMail (Pronto)
• Νέο Administration Interface για πολύ εύκολη παραμετροποίηση
• Πολλαπλές εξελίξεις στο κομμάτι του PBX (Τηλ.Κέντρο) και γενικότερα στο κομμάτι VoIP
• Βελτιώσεις στο MAPI Connector
  Περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες: http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/History51.html

Σύντομα η νέα έκδοση του Communigate Pro κοντά μας. Προς το παρόν διαθέσιμη η έκδοση Release Candidate 4.
Η εταιρία CommuniGate Systems, ο αδιαφιλονίκητος πρωταγωνιστής στις λύσεις επικοινωνιών μέσω internet, παρουσιάζει την εξελιγμένη έκδοση του συστήματος CommuniGate Pro με νέες δυνατότητες κλιμακωτής υποδομής (scalability), εφαρμογών και δυνατοτήτων. Το προϊόν θα επιτρέπει στους χρήστες να επικοινωνούν μεταξύ τους με το πρωτόκολλο SIP με τον πιό εύκολο τρόπο. Επίσης υπάρχουν μεγάλες βελτιώσεις στο interface, καθιστώντας εξαιρετικά εύκολη τη διαχείριση του συστήματος.

Περισσότερα στην ηλ. διεύθυνση:

http://www.communigate.com/CommuniGatePro/History.html

The Astaro Command Center V 1.0 allows the central management of Astaro Security Gateways in works such as concerning the definition of policies of safety, parametrization of applications, control of situation, briefing of publications etc. The flexible interface that is based entirely on Web, offers a total picture of situation of Astaro Security Gateways, giving the occasion in the administrator of systems to intervene when in need. Using the last technologies as AJAX, (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) the user sees immediately the changes that become without delay, something very important in case of total management of many ASG appliances.

More details in link: ACC V 1.0

NSS Company advanced in the collaboration with Stalker Company with regard to the disposal of her products in Greek and Cypriot market.

Communigate Pro 5.0 is a powerful platform of communication management that is addressed in companies seriously occupied in the essential organisation of communications aiming at the diffusion of knowledge in all levels and its’ management from the administration having as objective the correct decision-making. Also, the replacement of other simple systems of management from CommuniGate Pro, contributes essential upgrade of capabilities with bearable cost.

The basic difference between the electronic correspondence and other technologies of communication, is that the electronic correspondence is a means of communication the data of which continue and exist for future use. That is to say, the messages of electronic correspondence are not transmitted simply, but are recorded and they remain in the postal case of sender and recipient for future report or until they are erased. These messages do not only include the text but also other data, as elements of sender, the recipient, notifications, attach files etc, therefore the systems of electronic correspondence are actually systems of management of knowledge. It has been observed in deed that in most companies the system of electronic correspondence is bigger by volume information concerning the rests. In practice it is perhaps the most important system, that in deed was initially drawn for simple communication of messages of text from one user to another, but with the time changed and its role was upgraded completely. The companies henceforth need a system that could extend itself and allow the users to be possible to communicate and to collaborate via this, maintaining the complete safety of information that is trafficked in. This information, does not include more simple electronic messages but contributes in complete electronic management of contacts, electronic management of work, notes, electronic management of meetings, up to telephone calls via internet and complete concretisations of electronic telephone centres (IP-PBX).

Beginning with the development of electronic correspondence, we speak for completed systems of communication management. The system CommuniGatePro is a completed platform of management of communications (unifiedmessaging system) that includes multiple services of communication such as SMTP, POP, IMAP, LDAP, SIP that can be supported from various customers (clients) or via Web. Apart from the electronic correspondence, the system offers incorporated index/directory LDAP, timetable (via Outlook, via Web, or even via iCAL or vCAl), management of notes, files, management of postal lists etc. A basic characteristic of the system is the support of multiple platforms of functional systems such as Linux, Windows, Unix, Mac OS, AS/400 and other that in its entirety exceed them the thirty (30) combinations functional/hardware. The system has been drawn in order to function with the use of multiple instruments with internal mechanisms (active & dynamic clustering) so that we speak for a solution without limits, that are suitable beginning from a company of few individuals until organisms with needs for more from 10.000.000 users. The price list is shaped proportionally, rendering the system very accessible beginning from 580,00 € for 25 users.