Short takes from this week's technology
news
Compuware launches Visual Studio tools
Compuware has introduced two development tools for the Visual
Studio development environment. Devpartner Studio 8.0 and
Devpartner Fault Simulator 1.5 are designed to help development
teams find and fix defects early in the software development
lifecycle.
Sun speeds things up wth tape drive release
Following its acquisition of StorageTek earlier this year, Sun
Microsystems has introduced the T10000 enterprise tape drive. The
T10000 delivers a 250% increase in density and 400% increase in
throughput speeds over the earlier StorageTek T9940B drive. Sun
said data throughput is now 120Mbytes per second, with a capacity
of up to 500Gbytes uncompressed.
Sterling puts supply chain in order
Sterling Commerce has introduced a set of composite applications
to support supply chain management. Built on a service oriented
architecture, the Customer Order Management packaged composite
application has been designed to help business capture and manage
the fulfilment of customer orders across a multi-channel
environment.
Service manages and hosts Microsoft apps
IntY, a provider of secure managed internet and e-mail services
has launched a service to host and manage Microsoft applications.
The Managed Application Server service uses a server which sits on
the company's local area network and provides end-users with access
to applications through a server-based computing model.
Unique identity set-up to improve security
Phoenix Technologies has released, an endpoint security
application designed to prevent attackers from accessing protected
systems even if they have valid IDs and passwords. TrustConnector 2
creates a unique identity for each device that cannot be altered or
stolen.