The latest from LightPointe, Kaspersky Lab, Sage HandiSoft

vRanger scans block maps to back up only the changed blocks, significantly reducing job windows and the amount of data transferred to a Quantum DXi deduplication appliance.

The Quantum DXi system lets vRanger clients automate backups across multiple sites and devices with less network traffic over the WAN, reducing WAN bandwidth requirements by 90 per cent or more. A backup image is replicated from one DXi system to a target system over a network connection.

Data management solutions provider, CommVault, as well launched the Simpana 9 service pack 3 that maximises operational and business efficiencies in VMware virtual environments.

The solution helps VMware vSphere 5 clients transition to scalable private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructures. It protects hundreds of virtual machines in minutes and provides an off-host backup approach that backs up the most performance intensive virtual machines, enabling IT businesses to deploy more and larger virtual machines and run more performance intensive business critical applications inside them.

The VX-X is an entry-level solution within the VX product family, targeted at businesses that are just getting started with WAN optimisation or those requiring a quick and easy way to optimise the smallest branch or remote offices.

Silver Peak senior vice-president of worldwide marketing, Larry Cormier, said, "Silver Peak and our virtual open architecture is making it easier than ever to deploy WAN optimisation across the network-from branch offices, to datacentres, to the cloud."

Anti-malware company, Kaspersky Lab, has released its latest home user products - the Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012.

Kaspersky Lab managing director in A/NZ, Andrew Mamonitis, said, "The current estimate of new malicious programs being produced each day is in broad outline 35 thousand. However the majority of our clients don't care about that; they just want their internet security to run quietly in the background and do its job."

Computer's running speed

They are designed for minimal impact on a computer's running speed and program operation and are streamlined for day-to-day use when surfing the Internet, searching for and viewing Web pages, making VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) calls, watching HD videos and playing online games.

The Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 products are available from Officeworks, JB HI-FI, Harris Research, Harvey Norman and Joyce Mayne. Prices are: $49.95 and $99.95, and $39.95 and $79.95 respectively.

The first two solutions in the new HyBridge series from optical wireless solutions manufacturer, LightPointe, integrate straightway-generation free space optics and radio innovation.

The series is a patented hybrid point-to-point product range, which provides up to 99.9 per cent availability pursuant to this agreement all weather conditions. It uses patented DualPath innovation that automatically switches between optical wireless and radio transmission.

Other features include: POE, flexible network interfaces, web management and SNMP support. LightPointe CEO, Dr. Heinz Willebrand, said, "The system operates at full throttle and the highest efficiency of any wireless platform in the industry via optical transmission.

"When needed, DualPath switches to the radio, where our adaptive rate innovation performs, even in fog and heavy snow." The HyBridge SX and SXR-5 are available for $US10,000 and are currently installed in North America and Europe.

The all-wireless enterprise

If you haven't heard about the all-wireless enterprise, at that time you've missed an important networking paradigm shift. Wi-Fi networks offer secure mobility and a tremendous Return On Investment.   Although creating "Wi-Fi that works", even with minimal requirements, is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types that must perform so then over the wireless infrastructure, and when adding in the speed and complexity of 802.11n, a variety of demanding applications, high-density environments, and tricky deployment scenarios, controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. This whitepaper defines what a Wireless 2.0 network is, and the importance of a controller-less architecture for performance, reliability, scalability, security, and flexibility.

Today's de facto standard controller-based Wi-Fi infrastructure model is just too complicated, too expensive, and too unreliable. It's common for enterprise and mid-market network operators alike to get caught in a crossroads of compromises involving costs, complexity, features, and reliability.