Solarwinds is excited to announce the availability of Application Performance Monitor 4.2 which continues to deliver world-class server and application performance monitoring in one, easy-to-deploy software package.

The latest features include:

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Lync Server provides enhanced versions of the communications capabilities provided by Office Communications Server 2007 R2—presence, instant messaging, robust conferencing, and enterprise voice—as well as improvements in topology, deployment, and management tools. The software has also been integrated with Microsoft Office 2010, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010, so that e-mail, calendaring, documents and other data from these platforms can be accessed from Lync.

The latest release of Exchange can help you improve business outcomes while controlling the costs of deployment, administration and compliance. Exchange delivers the widest range of deployment options, integrated information leakage protection and advanced compliance capabilities that combine to form the best messaging and collaboration solution available.

• Solution Deployment Flexibility and Choice
• Simplified High Availability and Disaster
• Ease Administration and Lower Help Desk Dependency
• Greater Mobility and Flexible Access
• Ease Inbox Overload and Increase Productivity
• Transform Traditional Voice Mail
• Achieve and Maintain Compliance
• Safeguards for Sensitive Information
• Reduced Risk of Malware and Spam

WhatsUp Gold v15 – designed in cooperation with hundreds of network managers like yourself -- is like nothing you've ever seen!

Here are 10 cool things you can do with v15:

• Discover, map and monitor your network with one-click. WhatsConnected layer 2 discovery is now integrated.
• Respond to issues and outages much faster with a dynamic, new "task-oriented" web interface – fewer clicks to remediation.
• Identify security threats – use Event Log Management to zero-in into systems reporting critical errors or failure audits right from the WhatsUp Gold dashboard.
• Protect your network management data and ensure compliance. WhatsUp Gold, Flow Monitor and WhatsVirtual are FIPS 140-2 validated.
• Understand your organization's bandwidth usage across multiple uplinks and locations by aggregating and reporting on multiple flow interfaces simultaneously.
• Authenticate and authorize access using your existing Active Directory Security Groups.
• Quickly get interface flows, packet counts, absolute values – the information you need with super flexible reporting.
• Centrally discover and configure Cisco NetFlow MIB supported devices, monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage in a few clicks – it just works!
• Infiltrate physical and virtual environments by tracking associations and mappings (with WhatsVirtual v15).

FREE 30-DAY TRIAL OF WHATSUP GOLD

Symantec System Recovery 2011 offers a superior solution by delivering fast and reliable system recovery that helps you minimize downtime and meet recovery time objectives with confidence. In just four simple steps, quickly restore physical and virtual systems in minutes, not hours or days.

With Symantec’s patented Restore Anyware and LightsOut technologies, you can easily restore complete systems to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, virtual environments, or remote locations. In addition, unlike other solutions, Symantec System Recovery provides seamless and automated physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to physical (V2P) conversion capabilities through an easy-to-use wizard driven user interface for immediate system recovery. It provides the speed and simplicity you need to get your systems back up and running quickly.

Built on 10 years of research and development and with more than 787,000 protected systems, Symantec System Recovery (formerly Backup Exec System Recovery) is one of the most proven, trusted, and reliable system recovery solutions.

To learn more about these or other Symantec Products, please contact our Symantec Vendor specialist at sales@ha-shemnetwork.com.

The release of Altiris 7.1 includes Altiris IT Management Suite and its integrated suites and solutions: Client Management Suite, Server Management Suite, Asset Management Suite and ServiceDesk.

Altiris 7.1 not only introduces tremendous quality advances, significant improvements in performance and scalability, and has been vetted by over 500 beta customers. New features include:

• A new management interface delivering the fastest console performance with consolidated management of common tasks, drag and drop functionality, and tighter product integration
• Deeper automation and intelligence driving innovation and optimising software expenditures – freeing up valuable human and financial capital
• Broad patch management coverage helping organisations protect against a growing list of non-Microsoft, 3rd party applications – over 2/3 of vulnerabilities exist in third party desktop applications

To learn more about these features and other new enhancements visit the Symantec website.

SolarWinds introduced Universal Device Tracker (UDT) to its portfolio of easy-to-use IT management software. SolarWinds Universal Device Tracker provides network engineers with a powerful, affordable, easy-to-use switch port tracking tool that enables historical device tracking, alerts, and switch capacity from a single pane of glass.

SolarWinds Universal Device Tracker will allow customers to:

• Easily track down the location of machines that are suspected to be infected by viruses or malware
• Quickly locate a lost device by IP, MAC, or Hostname
• Allow read-only access to device and switch information for helpdesk or remote administrators
• Monitor and identify switches that are working at or near capacity allowing the ability to load balance before a problem occurs
• Keep a record of historical data of what devices were connected and when

WinZip 16 is a major release, delivering a variety of exciting new features, including a high-performance 64-bit zip engine, breakthrough web-based file sharing functionality, and better ways to protect your files.

What's new in WinZip 16?

Tap into your PC's full zipping power with the new 64-bit zip engine:

• WinZip 16 lets you take full advantage of your computer's processing power for ultimate zipping speed.

Send large files fast with ZipSend™ and ZipShare™:

• WinZip 16 lets you zip and send large files using ZipSend, our NEW file delivery web service. Now you can send up to 2GB without worrying about bounced messages or clogged email systems. PLUS zip and share files of any type with your social networks using ZipShare, our NEW Facebook app!

Store even more with Blu-ray Disc support:

• WinZip 16 Pro lets you archive files to Blu-ray Disc for maximum storage capacity.

Preview and convert other major compressed file formats:

• WinZip 16 lets you browse and edit the contents of other major compressed file types (7Z, RAR, etc.) and also convert them into Zip format.

WinZip has partnered with InnerPass to offer InnerMeeting—an easy and affordable way to conduct web meetings for online presentations and screen sharing. InnerMeeting is one of the most popular applications currently on Skype, allowing you to effortlessly share your screen with one person or many people at the same time. If you ever need to demo a product, tutor someone remotely, or present an idea from your desktop then try InnerMeeting now!

Enjoy these simple functions...

• Desktop Sharing: Share your entire screen.
• Application Sharing: Share a specific application.
• Pass Control: Pass control of your mouse and keyboard to a guest.
• Group Chat: Chat one-on-one or to everyone in the meeting.
• Free International Conference Bridge: Guests can dial in from almost anywhere for little to no charge.
• Skype Integration: Use the web's #1 VoIP provider to call into the meeting.

Try InnerMeeting No Charge for 10 days

Polycom is repositioning and renaming the UC Intelligent Core™ as the Polycom® RealPresence™ Platform—the most complete enterprise software platform for unified communications (UC). The Polycom RealPresence Platform comprises the five essential functional components of a UC software platform—Universal Video Collaboration, Video Resource Management, Virtualization Management, Universal Access and Security, and Video Content Management—combined with an ecosystem of partners that embrace and extend it.

The Polycom CX7000 solution (codenamed "Rally") is specifically designed to integrate with Microsoft Lync. With especially tight integration between the Polycom and Microsoft solutions, customers get an intuitive interface, simplified UC experience, and seamless telepresence. The solution integrates all the features of the Lync platform customers love (IM, Online Meetings, content collaboration, etc.) with Polycom's industry-leading room video collaboration solutions in a single plug-and-play system.

Polycom Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Unified Communications Innovation Partner of the Year

McAfee and Intel recognize that, in order to ensure users have an engaging and productive computing experience, it is essential that devices are protected against intrusions from security breaches and malware in more effective ways than are available today. Every type of device is vulnerable, and it is this recognition combined with the desire to take a holistic approach to secure computing that led to the Intel and McAfee collaboration.

With the announcement of this new DeepSAFE technology, McAfee and Intel are working to change the industry by combining the power of hardware and software to create much more sophisticated ways to prevent attacks. Cybercriminals know how to evade current operating systems-based security, demanding a new paradigm – security beyond the operating system.

McAfee DeepSAFE:

• Builds the foundation for next-generation hardware-assisted security operating beyond the operating system
• Provides a trusted view of system events below the operating system
• Exposes many attacks that are undetectable today
• New vantage point to block sophisticated stealth techniques and APTs
• Provides real time CPU event monitoring with minimal performance impact
• Combines the power of hardware and flexibility of software to deliver a new foundation for security

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