Manage Virtualized Applications with Encapsulation
If you're being asked to maintain applications that are vital to your enterprise,
but those apps are proving incompatible with or difficult to move to newer OSs,
application virtualization vendor Trigence might have a solution. Trigence AE
3.0 for Windows is a cross-platform application virtualization environment that
lets you put applications in a "Trigence capsule" that separates the application
and its dependencies from the OS and underlying IT infrastructure. Encapsulated applications can be easily moved from legacy to updated hardware and
OSs, a process that might have been difficult, expensive, or even impossible
without the benefits of virtualization.
President and CEO David Roth stresses the advantages of encapsulation.
"Application encapsulation is a critical component of a dynamic utility computing model that allows enterprises to achieve dramatically higher performance
from their IT infrastructure," said Roth.
According to Trigence, applications can be encapsulated quickly (thanks to a
set of template files) and maintain their unique dependencies after encapsulation.
They can then be moved to a different copy of the OS or easily transferred to a
newer OS version. The product supports third-party management tools through
standard interfaces such as Windows Management Interface and Simple Object
Access Protocol and will be generally available in fourth quarter 2007. For more
information, contact Trigence at 201-377-0492 or visit www.trigence.com
Security
Manage User Privileges
BeyondTrust Privilege Manager 3.0 is
a Group Policy extension that lets you
implement least-privilege security in
Windows Vista environments. With Privilege Manager, you can let end users run
all required applications and perform all
authorized system tasks without giving
them administrative privileges. Unlike
Vista's User Account Control, which
requires users to respond to a prompt
every time they want to use an application that needs elevated privileges, Privilege Manager sets permissions for each
application and task and is transparent
to end users. Version 3.0 introduces
support for Windows Vista and 64-bit
systems. Pricing starts at $30 per seat.
For more information, contact BeyondTrust at 603-610-4250 or visit www.beyondtrust.com
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Group Policy
Simplify Policy Management
Need help verifying that workstations on
your network comply with Group Policy?
SDM Software's GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak 1.0 provides a collection
of utilities that help optimize the policy
review process. The Health Reporter
utility provides a quick "red or green"
analysis of target machines; Log Analyzer can peer into Group Policy logs,
including the new Vista operational logs; Status Monitor, a system tray utility,
provides information on policy processing; and Group Policy Spy tracks down
errant administrative policies that might
be conflicting with desktop application
functionality. All the utilities are compatible with Windows Vista/XP/2003. For
more information, contact SDM Software at 415-670-9302 or visit www.sdmsoftware.com
Load Balancing
Moving Closer to IPv6
A10 Networks has announced that its AX Series application acceleration switch now supports the IPv6
Internet protocol. The company plans
to release IPv6 server load balancing features in phases over the next
year. The first release, due later this
year, will support IPv6 deployments
in both transparent and gateway
modes and introduce IPv6 server
load balancing and static route support. For more information, contact
A10 Networks at 408-325-8616 or go
to www.a10networks.com
WLAN Troubleshooting
Detect and Resolve Wireless
Network Problems
AirMagnet's Handheld Analyzer 7.0
now supports the Summit SDCCF20G 802.11g compact flash card
with integrated antennas as well as
802.11g and 802.11d wireless networking protocols. The system can detect
use of pre-802.11 devices on the
network and notify administrators.
And AirMagnet's AirWISE technology
detects wireless network problems,
explains them in detail, and recommends steps to take to resolve them.
For more information, contact AirMagnet at 408-400-0200 or browse
to www.airmagnet.com
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