Adobe

Adobe launches Acrobat 9

Adobe Acrobat 9 is a major upgrade enabling business, creative and technical professionals to better communicate and collaborate using Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF).

Among a host of new and enhanced features, the latest release enables users to assemble content from a variety of sources into professional PDF Portfolios, including video, audio, 3D and maps. Acrobat 9 boasts simple to create forms, providing an easy-to-access place to distribute and store forms, as well as collect and analyse form data. Other major features include new native support for Adobe Flash in Acrobat 9 enabling reliable, cross-platform sharing of video, animation and applications in Acrobat and Adobe Reader. With Acrobat 9, you can protect and control sensitive information, safeguard work and communicate exactly as intended.

The Acrobat 9 family includes Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, Acrobat 9 Pro and Acrobat 9 Standard.

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Autodesk

Autodesk Impression technology now available to Subscription customers

Create compelling presentation-ready graphics createddirectly from your DWG™ and DWF™ files. Autodesk® Impression software is easy to use, saves you time and recognises data from your CAD files. Now, it is available as a Subscription benefit for customers of:

• AutoCAD
• AutoCAD Architecture
• AutoCAD Revit Architecture Suite
• AutoCAD Civil 3D
• AutoCAD Map 3D
• AutoCAD MEP.

Impression 2 will be available as a downloadfrom the Subscription Center.

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Business Objects

Business Objects announce Xcelsius Engage 2008

You’ve invested the time, money and staff into establishing a company-wide database system that stores critical business data. Your challenge now: increasing the visibility of your business performance with an innovative information delivery solution that empowers business users to quickly access company data, spot opportunities and uncover potential problems - without constantly relying on IT.

Xcelsius Engage 2008 transforms any type of data from disparate data source into insightful dashboards - decreasing IT workload by delivering refreshable information in tools where business users work every day.

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CA

CA delivers support for Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008

CA will provide broad-based support for these products, across its product lines to enable Microsoft customers to effectively manage, govern and secure even the most complex enterprise environments.

“IT organisations seeking to take advantage of new features offered by Microsoft’s latest releases need to manage these new versions in a manner consistent with the rest of their enterprise assets and services,” said Louis Blatt, Senior Vice President for Strategy and Business Development at CA.

Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft said “CA’s extensive support of these new products will help customers successfully migrate, manage and optimise their increasingly complex and mission critical computing environments”.

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Citrix

Citrix begin shipping XenDesktop™

Citrix have revealed previously unannounced details about the complete XenDesktop product line, including the release of a new Express Edition offering free desktop virtualisation for up to 10 users, and new Enterprise and Platinum Editions which tightly integrate the industry’s most proven application virtualisation via the new XenApp™ for Virtual Desktops feature. All editions of XenDesktop are optimised to work with the new Citrix Desktop Receiver client to create an unparalleled end user experience as well as a wide range of certified Citrix Ready™ hardware and software solutions, creating the industry’s most comprehensive solution for desktop delivery.

“In desktop virtualisation environments, separating the applications from the desktop operating system provides IT organisations with greater flexibility, scalability and manageability of the overall desktop delivery solution. It simplifies desktop lifecycle management by consolidating desktops and applications down to just a few standardised images that can be dynamically combined for individual users’ needs,” said Andi Mann, Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates. “This model combines the cost advantages of server-based computing delivery with the user satisfaction of a personalised desktop experience - both of which are key drivers in the broader adoption of desktop virtualisation.”

The complete XenDesktop product line offers you a choice of five different editions with varying levels of functionality designed to make desktop virtualisation a mainstream reality.

New Citrix NetScaler MPX line

Citrix Systems new NetScaler MPX line of web application delivery systems to secure and accelerate increasingly complex web applications and support next-generation dynamic data centers. The new NetScaler solutions feature a massively parallel multi-core system architecture that significantly increases data center capacity and delivers 2.5 times more web applications with the same infrastructure footprint.

It is the industry’s first web application delivery controller to drive greater than ten gigabits per second (Gbps) of real world application performance while concurrently providing advanced acceleration, traffic compression and integrated web application firewall security – all in an energy-smart appliance form factor.

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EMC

New backup offerings

These new solutions leverage the latest technologies including data de-duplication, disk drive spin down and low-power disk drives, and continue to help dramatically lower the cost of disk-based backup versus tape.

The new products and capabilities include:

• EMC Disk Library 3D 1500 and 3000 – New local area network (LAN) backup-to-disk system targeted at midsize businesses and featuring policy-based data de-duplicated backup, EMC five-9s (99.999%) storage platform and IP replication.
• EMC Disk Library 4000 – Open systems virtual tape library (VTL) now features data de-duplication, spin down and the latest high capacity, low-power disk drives to reduce power and cooling by up to 47%.
• EMC Avamar® Data Store Gen 2 and EMC Avamar 4.0 – Featuring global source-based data de-duplication technology and double the backup capacity per system. Now, customers use up to 43% less energy per terabyte backed up and reduce TCO by up to 25%.
• EMC NetWorker Fast Start - A simplified version of NetWorker backup software designed for growing midsize businesses that cuts deployment time by 75% and decreases installation time by up to 80%.

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HP

Compaq dc5850 business PC

Offering the high-end capabilities businesses need for uncompromising results and the energy efficiency desired to help reduce costs.

Key features:

• Latest processor and chipset technologies from AMD, featuring the new AMD Desktop brand called “Business Class” ensuring processor stability and longevity, and including the new triple-core and quad-core processors for superior performance
• Integrated DirectX 10 graphics technology for enriched graphics
• AMD HyperTransport™ 3.0 technology to help expedite response times and provide you with the data you need faster
• Standard dual-monitor capability, RAID support and next generation SATA hard drives to help enhance your computing power and productivity.

ExDS9100 server

With the rapid growth in content from media, film and other sources the need for incredibly scalable storage is upon us with vengeance. HP has announced that the ExDS9100 family of storage products will address the need to serve such data rapidly, reliably and with the ability to expand out and up as needed by those that use it. Starting at nearly 250TB this unit grows in 80TB increments up to approximately 800TB with the vision of more than 1PB in the near future. The full product will be available later this year but to find out more contact your Softcat Account Manager.

Colour LaserJet MFP

The new CM6030 MFP is ideal for workgroups of 6-15 users and departmental environments of up to 20 users who need to print, copy, scan, fax and digital sending functionality up to A3 format.

Key features:

• Print speeds of up to 31ppm A4 and 17ppm A3
• 1200x600 dpi
• 600x600 dpi scan resolution
• 835MHz processor.

ProCurve Switch 2510 Series

Designed to provide essential connectivity solutions to small business networks, the ProCurve Switch 2510 Series consists of four Layer 2 managed switches that provide reliable 10/100 and 10/100/1000 connectivity. Building off of the popularity of the 2510-24, a 24-port 10/100 switch with two dual-personality ports, the 2510 series has expanded to include a higher-density 2510-48, with 48 10/100 ports and four Gigabit uplinks. Additionally, the 2510G switches add Gigabit to the 2510 series, with the 2510G-24 and 2510G-48, 24 and 48-port 10/100/1000 switches, each with 4 dual personality ports - ideal for businesses that are ready to upgrade to increased network performance.

ProLiant DL785 G5

Introducing the most expandable ProLiant server available. This is an ideal choice for the growing enterprise class database, consolidation and virtualisation environments seeking to improve server utilisation and reduce server sprawl. The DL785 G5 is an 8-socket x86 server, supporting up to 8 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, 256GB of memory and 11 PCI-e I/O slots. It also leverages all of the familiar and easy to use ProLiant management tools and options.

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IBM

IBM release Lotus Foundations

Announcing new ways for growing companies to collaborate and expand simply, securely and affordably. IBM Lotus Foundations is a new family of software servers currently planned to provide the essential software that companies with 5 to 500 employees need to run their business. It will provide file management, directory services, backup and recovery, e-mail, office productivity applications and integrated business applications - ideal for the business with limited in-house technical resources.

IBM BladeCenter HS12

The industry’s first single socket Intel processor based blade server, specifically designed for businesses that are looking for an entry point to adopt blades. The HS12 Express offers availability, redundancy, scalability and energy management in a simple, easy to use package designed to eliminate the need to pay for extra processing power they don’t use.

Key features:

• Affordable blade replacement to replace aging tower and rack servers
• Blade supported across all IBM chassis – emphasis on integration with BladeCenter-S
• Same reliability and availability as other IBM blade servers
• Flexible storage configurations for SMB
• Better power and cooling costs compared to traditional 1U/2P rack servers.

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Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab announces Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Mobile Enterprise Edition

This new release prevents malicious code from penetrating the perimeter of a corporate network via mobile devices and offers reliable protection for any data stored on them. Close integration with the Kaspersky® Administration Kit management console means the system administrator can deploy and administer antivirus protection from a single point of control on any node (file server, workstation or mobile device). The user can perform on-demand scans at any time (security policy permitting), which delete or quarantine any infected objects detected on memory cards, individual folders or specific files. Kaspersky® Anti-Virus Mobile Enterprise Edition on-schedule scanning also executes full anti-virus scans on mobile devices at times set by the system administrator.

The anti-spam filter blocks unwanted SMS/EMS/MMS messages, while an easy to use function enables spammer telephone numbers to be added to a blacklist. Contacts in the user’s address book are automatically added to a whitelist.

Release Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Using Kaspersky Security for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ensures all e-mail attachments and attributes are scanned and depending on the specified settings, the application disinfects, deletes or sends an alert along with malicious objects. Moreover, scans are performed in the background and do not significantly affect the mail server’s performance. In order to prevent data loss, copies of message modifications are saved in a backup storage, which allows important information to be restored in the event of loss during treatment of an infected object.

The application is configured and administered via the administration console built into the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), a convenient tool familiar to the administrator. The interactive installation and configuration mode is appropriate for most systems, therefore making it quick and easy to use. The selection of available options enables the administrator to configure the application to suit the volume and character of traffic, as well as the hardware environment.

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Kingston Technology

Introducing low latency DDR2 notebook memory

Offering greater performance options for existing mobile platforms, the HyperX 667MHz CL4 SO-DIMM kits in 2GB and 4GB capacities are the first in a new line of Kingston’s memory innovations.

This high performance mobile memory is perfect for notebook users who want to boost system performance by replacing their standard notebook memory with high performance modules that boot to the highest speed possible without any need to adjust system BIOS settings.

DataTraveler Vault - Privacy Edition

Kingston’s latest USB Flash drive is for organisations that require a secure way to store and transfer portable data. 100% of the stored data is secured by hardware-based, 256-bit AES encryption to guard sensitive information in case the drive is lost or stolen. And its durable, aluminium casing provides added protection.

DataTraveler Vault - Privacy Edition is backed by a five-year warranty, 24/7 tech support and legendary Kingston reliability.

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McAfee

World’s fastest network security suite

McAfee® Total Protection for Network is a new suite designed to end the “appliance and product fatigue” associated with deploying, maintaining and managing multiple security solutions. McAfee Total Protection for Network includes the McAfee M-8000 Network Security Platform, formerly known as IntruShield and the McAfee Content Security Blade Server.

The solution provides end-to-end network protection to protect the entire network infrastructure. McAfee Total Protection for Network blocks attacks, stops spam and Web threats, cleans e-mail, protects un-patched systems and offers a powerful solution to help meet regulatory compliance, including PCI.

Total Protection for Data announcement

McAfee® Total Protection for Data is a comprehensive solution delivering complete protection, full visibility and control of confidential data anytime and anywhere. With unmatched scalability and centralised management, the new solution includes endpoint encryption, device control and host data loss prevention (DLP).

Created in response to the growing number of regulations placed on organisations that require them to ensure customer privacy and data confidentiality. McAfee protects data regardless of how the data is used, stored, accessed or located. Customers receive comprehensive monitoring and protection of all communication channels including corporate e-mail, personal e-mail, Instant Messaging, file transfer, P2P file sharing, web mail and other applications. The inclusion of endpoint encryption protects businesses if a computer is ever lost or stolen.

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NetApp

NetApp release SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure

SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure provides storage and virtual infrastructure administrators with an automated solution for data protection and recovery of virtual machines in a VMware® ESX environment.

Key Features:

• Automated policy-based data protection of datastores though Snapshot
• Virtual machine-consistent backup through hot-backup mode enablement
• Granular recovery of virtual machine(s) through SnapRestore
• Increased server utilisation for application workloads by eliminating interruptions and performance impact caused by traditional backups/restores
• Replication of datastores to secondary site through SnapMirror, enabling cost effective disaster recovery.

NETAPP release StoreVault™ S550

Ideal for mid-size companies that are expanding and looking for their storage technology to grow with them. The S550 builds upon its predecessor, the StoreVault S500, with 12TB of storage capacity. Scalability is simple and allows businesses to scale without disrupting their applications or users.

StoreVault is also announcing Microsoft® application integration for the StoreVault S550 and S500 with the introduction of SnapManager® for SQL Server™ StoreVault Edition software. This enables NetApp Snapshot™ technology to be applied to SQL Server data hosted on StoreVault, providing peace of mind security and dependability with the industry’s best implementation of point-in-time recovery with no performance impact.

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NETGEAR

802.11n wireless access point

It provides up to 10x the coverage and 15x the speed of 802.11g networks, as well as comprehensive enterprise level security with WPA, WPA2, rogue Access Point detection and 802.1x with RADIUS support.

When using the 5GHz radio band, the WNDAP330 avoids interference from 802.11b or 802.11g network devices. It can also be configured to operate in the 2.4GHz radio band for backward compatibility of older 802.11b and 802.11g clients, while still providing access for newer 802.11n devices. Additional features include Integrated 802.3af PoE, which eliminates the need for extra power cables, comprehensive SNMP functionality for advanced network management and WDS functionality for deployment over large areas with point-to-point and point-to-multipoint bridging.

Ethernet switches with static routing

The GSM7224R and GSM7248R switches deliver wire speed Gigabit performance and a full set of Layer 2 management features as well as static routing with unsurpassed affordability. These next-generation, high speed switches deliver maximum throughput where you need it, to high-performance workgroups at the edge of the network, or as a backbone for Fast Ethernet switches and high-speed servers in demanding small networks. The non-blocking design offers full Gigabit throughput simultaneously to all 24 or 48 10/100/1000 ports to ensure reliable performance. Flexible fiber connectivity is enabled through four combination small form-factor pluggable (SFP) gigabit interfaces.

3G/HSDPA to Ethernet Broadband Modem

The MBM621 supports standards-based HSDPA wireless networks around the world. Integrated into the unit is an HSDPA module and SIM card slot. Just plug into power and the modem will connect to your mobile operator’s high-speed wireless network. Imagine being able to connect to the Internet at broadband speeds wirelessly from anywhere there is 3G coverage.

The MBM621 is ideal for deploying a temporary broadband hotspot or as a backup to the main broadband connection to a firewall with dual WAN ports and automatic failover, such as the NETGEAR FVS336G, DGFV338 or FVX538. HSDPA AirLink supports up to a 7.2 Mbps connection rate with receive diversity and equalizer, enabling service providers to deliver a true broadband experience wirelessly.

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Samsung

Samsung launch the New T-Range.

Specifically for receptions, boardrooms, hotel atriums and more, these displays offer exquisite form without sacrificing on functionality with the world-beating 20,000:1 contrast ratio and 2ms response time of the widescreen monitors. What’s more this device is the first of its kind to use less than 1watt of power when on standby - so you can minimise energy bills and CO2 emissions.

Next generation widescreen monitors

Last year Samsung were the very first to introduce Windows Vista® Premium Certified widescreen monitors. Now they are launching the next generation: the SM953BW, SM2053BW, SM225LBW and SM2253BW.

These reliable, good looking, Windows Vista® Premium Certifiedmonitors offer you everything their predecessors did and more. An eye opening 8000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio and 2ms response time means you experience images with new clarity. The range also features DVI (Digital Visual Interface) and HDCP support for spectacular viewing, and the introduction of an energy saving function that’ll appeal to the environmentally conscious.

New higher resolution screens

With an ultra-high resolution of 1920 x 1200 and groundbreaking 10,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, the SM2493HM and SM2693HM display images in unsurpassed clarity, making them perfect for work in the CAD-CAM, graphic design and music or video editing industries. And because they offer an equally stunning response time of just 5ms, even the fastest-moving images appear with no hint of blurring, ghosting or trace effects.

They also feature triple input interface options, including HDMI, DVI-D AND D-Sub, so that you can enjoy high definition digital content with HDCP support.

Small, sleek desktop printer

Size matters? As far as the Samsung ML-2240 is concerned, most definitely.

This tiny monochrome laser printer delivers on performance and price. Easy to use, install and maintain, this sleek desktop machine measures just 353 x 298 x 209mm. With an impressive 22ppm print rate and 1,500 page toner capacity, large print runs are handled with speed and efficiency.

Add complete compatibility with both Macs and PCs, simple job control and extra economical features like toner save mode and paper saving configurations (it’s simple and easy to print 2, 4 and 8-up per sheet).

Affordable colour printing

The CLP-660ND was developed to meet small and medium sized businesses’ demand for more budget friendly colour, this offers Samsung’s lowest cost-per-page colour printing yet.

Traditionally, full colour printing has been an unjustifiable luxury for many customers - especially for everyday print jobs.

With outstanding colour resolution (4,800 x 600) and duplex as standard the CLP-660ND offers 24 ppm and a CPU of up to 533MHz and 128MB of memory. Efficient and flexible, it can be easily networked and delivers an equally reliable mono performance.

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Symantec

Symantec announces release of latest Ghost offering

Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is the industry’s leading imaging tool and Symantec’s preferred offering for small businesses that require easy Windows endpoint management, while numerous large enterprises leverage Ghost for its imaging engine. The release of Ghost Solution Suite 2.5 reaffirms the product’s reputation for powerful and reliable imaging. Providing imaging speed and flexibility, automated OS deployment and user migration.

New features:

• Deploy anywhere hardware independent imaging automation
• Full-disk encryption support • Effortless physical to virtual and virtual to physical image creation
• Secure disk decommission for data wipe and protection.

Upgraded Veritas NetBackup PureDisk

New Veritas NetBackup PureDisk 6.5 offers storage and bandwidth-optimised data protection for data center, remote office and virtual environments. It reduces the size of backups with a deduplication engine that can be deployed for storage reduction, using integration with NetBackup, or for bandwidth reduction using PureDisk clients. An open architecture allows customers to easily deploy and scale NetBackup PureDisk.

Key Features:

• Integrates with NetBackup to make diskbased data protection more cost effective 
• Reduce total storage required for disk backups by 10x or more (versus tape) with global data deduplication
• Bandwidth optimised protection of decentralised data on physical and virtual servers.

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Toshiba

Unveil Spring Collection

Toshiba’s new Spring Collection features four categoriesof laptops, making it easier to select a model that best suits your needs:

• Everyday Computing
• TSL (Thin, Small and Light)
• Big Screen
• Pen Computing

The Spring Collection see’s the introduction of a suite of stylish new Satellite Pro Business Laptops. Models are structured to offer businesses a clear choice of products based on specific professional requirements.

The Satellite Pro A300 series has a wide choice of specifications available, making it the perfect all-round choice, powerful, yet easily portable for off-site business when necessary. The Satellite Pro U400 packs powerful performance into a compact 13.3” chassis for businesses that operate on the go, while the P300 provides an attractive mix of a large screen 17” display and spectacular graphics for those who spend the majority of working hours in the office.

All models offer subtle style and impressive feature sets to make Toshiba’s Satellite Pro range its most attractive yet.

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Trend Micro

Trend Micro Worry-Free™ SecureSite

A hosted service that secures ecommerce websites by scanning for website vulnerabilities. By protecting online shoppers from hackers, it also safeguards both your business reputation and your revenue.

With Worry-Free SecureSite, you can increase customer confidence so online shoppers will complete transactions. It quickly identifies vulnerabilities and helps you address them by providing guidance from TrendLabs worldwide network of security experts.

Worry-Free™ Security for Small Business

Worry-Free Business Security solutions protect your assets, your customer information and your reputation from identity theft, cyber criminals and other web threats. These solutions are smarter, simpler and deliver a whole new line of safety defences, so you can focus on your business.

• Safer: Unique web threat protection prevents exposure to risky websites, secure ecommerce transactions and guards business data from theft.
• Smarter: Security updates constantly without slowing your PCs. Real time threat detection and spam blocking occurs in Trend Micro’s data center, before threats reach your business.
• Simpler: Hands-off security protects business operations with traffic-light status, easy set up and automatic configuration in or out of the office.

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