ESET, the global leader in proactive protection against malware, has increased the speed of its scanning engine by 30% on average. With the signature update 5187, many processes have been optimized for even higher performance.

For illustration, the scanning speed of executable (.exe) files has improved by more than 50%. This update affects all products in the ESET product line (excluding ESET Mobile Antivirus), confirming ESET in the forefront of the industry in speed and detection accuracy.  

New Professional Service Offerings and Design Guidance help Service Providers deliver additional value to SMBs

(NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced enhanced integration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise-class data protection solutions to cloud service providers by leveraging the Microsoft Dynamic Data Center Toolkit for Hosters. Although enterprise-class data protection has historically been too expensive for most small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to implement themselves, NetApp and Microsoft now enable service providers to offer enterprise-class data protection to their SMB customers. Additionally, NetApp announced the availability of new professional service offerings and additional resources and guidance for service providers to build a variety of enterprise-class cloud services.

“SMB customers have many of the same disaster recovery and business continuity requirements as large enterprise organizations, but often times don’t have the necessary skill set or budget needed to achieve the desired results,” said Laura DuBois, program vice president, Storage Software and Solutions, IDC. “Solutions that address this gap by providing enterprise-level data protection along with the support and guidance needed to deploy will be integral in helping SMBs realize the true benefits of a cloud infrastructure.”

A new consulting offering from IDS Scheer AG, a Software AG company, helps businesses transition quickly to agile supply chain management (SCM). This enables them to react rapidly to changes in the market and increase their liquidity without endangering production or delivery capabilities. The solution is based on a four-step method that determines the best alignment of disposition parameters. Customers receive proposals for improving their supply chain within three weeks.

In this new offering, IDS Scheer combines its process knowledge in the area of supply chain management with its data analysis expertise. The method starts with an in-depth quantitative and qualitative analysis of relevant SCM data and processes, the identification of forecasting and disposition parameters that impact a company's inventory levels, and determining the optimal parameter values and processes.

Based on that information, IDS Scheer then prepares proposals for improving the key SCM performance indicators and their accompanying processes. Potential areas for optimization and measures are then discussed with the customer's various departments and captured in an implementation plan that ensures the measures are actually executed.

In the final step, IDS Scheer collaborates with the business to introduce a monitoring system that enables the company to compare the defined parameters and their alignment with real-world conditions. Should the economic framework data change, the company can quickly adjust its supply chain by realigning any relevant SCM parameters to suit the new situation.

HP today announced the expansion of its unified communications and collaboration portfolio with offerings optimized for Microsoft Communications Server “14,” the next version of Microsoft’s unified communications platform.  The new offerings help clients improve productivity and lower costs by consolidating infrastructure, devices and management tools.

Communication modes, technologies and devices are multiplying within organizations, often in isolation from each other and critical business operations. This creates a communications environment that slows decision-making, spends valuable IT resources on maintenance and drives up operations costs. The new HP offerings enable clients to improve business output and reduce travel, telecom and IT operating costs by integrating with Microsoft Communications Server “14.”

Building on the unified communications and collaboration initiative between HP and Microsoft announced in May 2009, the offerings include:
— The HP Survivable Branch Communication zl Module that reduces IT infrastructure at remote branch offices and extends the business productivity and reliability of Communications Server “14.” It combines Microsoft Communications Server “14” and HP ProCurve software within HP ProCurve Switch 8200zl and 5400zl series products.
— Four existing PC models designed to provide a rich business-grade voice and video user experience at a lower total cost of ownership are now tested and qualified as optimized for unified communications by Microsoft.

Ciena^® Corporation (NASDAQ: CIEN), the network specialist, today announced the direction of its portfolio of network infrastructure and service delivery solutions following the completion of its acquisition of the optical networking and Carrier Ethernet assets of Nortel’s⁺ Metro Ethernet Networks (MEN) business. The newly combined product and service portfolio offers best-of-breed solutions focused on converged optical Ethernet to accelerate the transition to next-generation infrastructures, uniting the companies’ expertise in optical and Carrier Ethernet technologies with industry-leading control plane and management software.

Network operators of all kinds are challenged to handle constantly evolving demands on the network from trends like cloud computing, virtualization and advanced voice, video and data services. In addition, the move to WiMAX and LTE standards in mobile broadband, and the need for capacity and survivability in undersea deployments, are putting increased pressure on service providers for more reliable and efficient wireless backhaul and submarine networks. Operators must begin to build and scale their infrastructures to accommodate this exponential bandwidth growth while offering efficiency and reliability for all traffic types and applications.