Microsoft will not be alone in seeking the attention of
technology buyers at its Tech Ed show in San Diego next week.
Several companies are taking advantage of the technical education
event in San Diego to show off new or updated
products.
Celestix Networks will unveil its ISA3000
appliance based on Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration
(ISA) Server 2004, which will also debut at Tech Ed. The ISA3000 is
a network and application layer firewall, virtual private network
and web caching appliance.
PolyServe will announce availability of its
clustering software for Windows. Previously the company offered its
flagship Matrix Server product only for Red Hat Linux and
Novell SuSE Linux.
Shavlik Technologies will announce commercial
availability of an agent-based patch management tool.
Empirix, a provider of testing and monitoring
tools, is to launch version 7.0 of its e-TEST suite for automated
functional, regression and load testing.
PKWare will reveal a series of toolkits that
will allow commercial and custom software developers to embed
compression and strong security into their products.
Sybari Software will make several candidate
release announcements as well as a new partner announcement.
Configuresoft will unveil Enterprise
Configuration Manager for Microsoft's Systems Management Server
(SMS), providing centralised assessment, verification and control
of system configurations for large SMS infrastructures.
RSA Security will join with IBM and Microsoft
to make an announcement about web services security specification
interoperability. RSA will also show its newest product, the RSA
Federated Identity Manager, to illustrate how its products work
with the WS-Federation & WS-Security specifications.
Ivis Technologies will unveil XBoost, which
bridges the company's JBoost and netBoost infrastructure
applications and acts as a conduit between .net users and Java
users. XBoost promises to increase application development
efficiency. It also manages security and enhances presentation look
and feel.
AutoProf will introduce new versions of its
Policy Maker Professional and Policy Maker Software Update
products. Policy Maker Professional will add several new extensions
to Microsoft's Group Policy Management Console and Policy Maker
Software Update will add one for patch management.
Authentica will release details of its Windows
Rights Management Services integration initiatives.
Advanced Systems Concepts will reveal version
5.0 of its ActiveBatch product, which is a cross-platform job
scheduling and management application. The update offers an
improved user interface and a new planning tool.
Joris Evers writes for IDG News
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