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Autodesk Speeds Work, Saves Money for Design and Engineering Firms
Autodesk, Inc - a leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, announced the results of the AutoCAD 2011 software Productivity Study. David S. Cohn Consulting compared the productivity of AutoCAD 2011 to AutoCAD 2008 on typical AutoCAD design processes in a variety of industries. The consulting firm concluded that AutoCAD 2011 showed an average productivity improvement of 31 percent for users who upgrade from AutoCAD 2008 to AutoCAD 2011, and a 44 percent overall productivity improvement for users who upgrade to AutoCAD 2011 and Windows 7, while also upgrading to a new HP Z200 workstation.

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Facetime

FaceTime adds content control for social networks, blogs and webmail
Enterprises can now enable Twitter, Facebook and other Web 2.0 Platforms with FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) 3.0. New features deliver content monitoring, control & recording across Web 2.0; adds user behavior reporting over multiple modalities, reduces data leakage, and meets regulatory compliance

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McAfee Vulnerability Manager Awarded "Five Stars" and "Best Buy" by SC Magazine
In the February 2010 issue, SC Magazine finds the McAfee Vulnerability Manager to be "a solid value for the money. Vulnerability Manager provides many easy-to-use powerful vulnerability assessment tools in one appliance." Equally important the reviewer found no weaknesses in McAfee Vulnerability Manager. About weaknesses, the summary simply states, "none that we found."

Read the SC Magazine article here.

 
     

SonicWall NSA: A UTM worthy of the name
"SonicWall's NSA E7500 combines smooth setup, high performance, and real protection against Internet malware"
The SonicWall NSA E7500 is a breeze to configure, an excellent performer, and the truest unified threat manager (UTM) we tested, blocking an impressive 96 percent of the attacks we threw at it

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New Conficker worm set to activate on April 1, 2009
Trend Micro announces Customer Information Statement on the new WORM_DOWNAD.KK (aka Conficker) threat, which is set to activate on Wednesday April 1, 2009. This statement contains facts and advice on Detection, Cleanup and Prevention.

Download the statement here.
Latest news on the worm threat: New homeland security tool to detect Conficker worm

 
   

Netvault Full Adoption with Vmware
BakBone Software, the leading provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, is now shipping NetVault: Backup 8.1. NetVault: Backup 8.1 supports individual ESX Servers as well as full virtual data centers without the need to create and run scripts, giving BakBone customers the flexibility to deploy data protection in virtual environments and manage the solution under one umbrella, from one GUI.

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Frost & Sullivan Names Eaton its 2008 Company of the Year in Europe in the Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) Market
LONDON, 12 Jan 2009 — Based on its recent analysis of the European uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) markets, Frost & Sullivan has recognized Eaton with the 2008 European Uninterruptible Power Supplies Company of the Year Award. Eaton's excellence in its core UPS business and customer satisfaction demonstrate an extraordinary level
of business performance.
     

 
     

The serious business of business continuity
AUCKLAND, 1 December, 2009 - In October, Air New Zealand suffered a serious failure when its mainframe went down, crashing the airline’s check-in, call centre and booking systems. Although Air New Zealand was able to restore its systems within six hours, the system failure highlighted that backup is not such a prominent issue. It’s recovery that matters most.
Greg Wyman, Asia Pacific regional director for StorageCraft Technologies, says remote backup was typically too complex and expensive for smaller firms, who would just use tapes.

Read more from Computerworld here.

 
     

KODAK i4000 Series Scanners: Turn chaos into efficiency and efficiency into advantage
Stuttgart , 01 March - Kodak today announced the KODAK i4000 Series Scanners, designed to help end users, especially those in small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), cost-effectively automate document capture and management. The new capture platform of the i4000 Series Scanners combines walk-up ease of use, one touch scanning, comprehensive software capabilities and simplified integration within new or existing document management processes, for a complete information management solution.

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  KODAK Capture Desktop Software Increases Productivity for Distributed Scanning with Features that Enhance Ease of Use
Rochester, NY , March 3 -- High performance capture software working together with distributed scanning creates an efficient platform for any business to digitize paper documents into more accessible and functional electronic files. New KODAK Capture Desktop Software, built on the same code base as KODAK Capture Pro Software and sharing a similar interface, will soon be bundled starting April 2009 at no additional charge with select KODAK Scanners to help drive new levels of productivity through a variety of features that make it easier to process and share scanned documents.

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FXP Phaser 3125/N given Silver Award by Hardware Magazine
March 09 issue of Hardware Magazine reviews the Phaser 3125/N and awards it a Silver Award. In its review, the Phaser 2125/N is found to deliver "fast, speedy prints, ideal for any office or personal use that needs their documents printed right here, right now."

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