Software United: VDEL Unleashes the Full Power of IBM Software on the Desktop

Software United: VDEL unleashing the full power of IBM Software on the desktop

VDEL is proud to launch SoftwareUnited - a program aimed at providing a Microsoft-free platform for complete solutions by Independent Software Vendors (ISV), including IBM and Red Hat products.

VDEL created the SoftwareUnited program, based on IBM and Red Hat OEM programs, which for the first time delivers to ISVs a complete Microsoft-free platform for their applications. The driving force behind the program is DesktopUnited - a platform that includes Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), IBM software and VDEL applications, part of a global partnership delivering Microsoft-free desktop solutions.

Speaking from the launch and conference in Cyprus, Milan Prohaska, VDEL said, "With Vista up in smoke and Microsoft promising even a more cloudy future, almost everybody realizes it is time to change old habits and move to better desktop solutions. That is why more and more people are moving quickly to IBM Software on Linux"

"Choosing platforms such as DesktopUnited provides a more secure, open and functional desktop solution at less then half the cost of the equivalent Microsoft offering. Especially in these challenging times, it will be hard for any responsible IT manager not to at least consider such alternatives."

The first product on the DesktopUnited platform is VDEL's OpenReferent solution - a Lotus Notes and Symphony package that sits on top of RHEL - which has caused a great demand in Eastern Europe, especially with local administrations looking for secure, cost effective solutions.

'Once we realized what impressive functional benefits and enormous cost savings are provided by OpenReferent - and that it is based on IBM Lotus Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we decided to immediately start a project of revamping the entire software infrastructure in the municipality, and not only the desktops" said Mr.Constantin Zuyev, vice governor of Tver region, Russia.' We will continue to move our IT to IBM Software on Open Source in future as well since we realize the immense benefits of such platform'.

On the server side, SoftwareUnited is offering ServeUnited - Platform for Servers based on Linux and including IBM software. ServeUnited provides all required subscriptions and licenses that customers need, as well as technical support by phone or the Internet.

VDEL guarantees customers of DesktopUnited and ServeUnited that all the required licenses and subscriptions are included, plus telephone, 30 days installation support and Web support for the duration of the subscription. It reassures customers that the ISV application is part of a great price / performance solution. In addition, with all this is place, ISVs are free to concentrate on pitching their own solutions and competing in the fragmented market.

"Customers will clearly benefit from an open-standards based alternative to the desktop environment. VDEL's new initiative, based on IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution and Linux provides them with a proven way to reduce costs and break their dependency on a single vendor," said Inna Kuznetsova, Director, IBM Linux Strategy.

IBM and Red Hat have provided special contracts to VDEL for use with the SoftwareUnited program, enabling added choice in the desktop market.

On top of collaborating with VDEL on its new multilingual support center this year with special focus on desktop needs, Red Hat will also sponsor The Fedora Project for Eastern Europe to expand the local open source community.

"We're excited to offer added choice to customers in the desktop market through our collaboration on the Software United program with VDEL and IBM," said Werner Knoblich, vice president of the EMEA region at Red Hat. "The combination of IBM solutions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux will offer an affordable high-performance solution to customers looking for a reliable proprietary alternative for the desktop."

The initial focus of SoftwareUnited will be to recruit high quality ISVs as soon as possible in order to provide an offering for every vertical industry. By signing up to SoftwareUnited, ISVs will receive full development kits from VDEL that will enable them to develop applications based on the VDEL software bundle including IBM Software such as Lotus, Tivoli, Informix, and DB2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

SoftwareUnited will certify these applications and use the existing channel to promote these applications throughout the world. Supported IBM products include a range of Tivoli security, compliance and systems management software, database and data server offerings as well as Lotus Notes and Lotus Symphony.

New Email Management for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

New E-mail Management Capabilities for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Help
Users To Quickly, Transparently Manage Email, Address Legal and Compliance
Risks


ARMA 2007, BALTIMORE, Oct. 9 (medianowonline) - Open Text(TM)
(NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTC), the largest independent provider of Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) software and solutions, today released its newest
email management application which provides advanced features for Microsoft
Exchange Server 2007. The latest version of Livelink ECM - Email Management
lets customers more easily deploy and manage email with Microsoft's newest
release of Exchange Server, providing comprehensive capabilities that can
improve information governance and mitigate the legal and regulatory risks
posed by email.

A key feature of the new release is tight integration with Exchange
Server 2007's managed folders functionality, which lets users organize
messages into customized Microsoft Office Outlook folders for individual
departments, users or functions based on corporate policy requirements.
Open Text's email management application enhances the Exchange Server 2007
environment by enabling organizations to apply their centralized records
management policies through these managed folders transparently. With this
application, each message automatically inherits the centralized record
classification assigned to a folder when users drag and drop emails into
that folder. Based on the classification, the message is assigned an
appropriate retention and disposition lifecycle.

"For us, user adoption and ease of use, not to mention ease of
deployment, were top considerations when looking at email management
solutions," said Greg Brown, Senior Project Manager, Records Information
Management, Halliburton Legal. "We liked Open Text's solution because users
could still work 100 percent in the Microsoft interface and very little was
required of them to maintain our records policies. Employees get a system
that helps them be productive, while we get a comprehensive system that can
uniformly apply records policies to email in order to meet legal and
regulatory requirements."

Key capabilities of Livelink ECM - Email Management for Exchange
Server 2007 include:

- Industry-leading records management to provide a structured approach
to determining how long emails are kept, defining and enforcing the
process by which they are archived, and ensuring their eventual
destruction.

- Automatic or interactive archiving. Emails can be easily dragged and
dropped in the archive by users or the system can automatically scan
email folders and apply pre-configured archiving and records
management rules.

- Audit trails to define the history of activities associated with
emails considered important business records. With a single click,
users can review details such as when and by whom an email was
deleted.

- Comprehensive search capabilities so that administrators, reviewers
and auditors can quickly and easily access archived emails. Emails
are exposed to enterprise search capabilities, so that companies can
make full use of email in content across the enterprise.

- Transparent archiving that lets users access and work with archived
emails, just as they do with emails on the email server. Archived
emails can be retrieved with single-click access from the archive and
users can edit, forward or move emails as needed.

- The ability to easily offload email content to more cost-effective
storage media, so that customers can improve the performance of their
email systems and reduce storage costs.

- Can be deployed quickly and easily without installations on the
Exchange Server or individual desktops or laptops.
"Few things scare a CIO more than email - it's ubiquitous in the
enterprise, proliferates at a fast pace and is fraught with legal and
compliance risks," said Peter Lipps, Vice President & General Manager,
Enterprise Records Management Business, at Open Text. "We continue to
introduce leading email management applications to give customers an easier
way to bring email under control, manage it consistently alongside other
important records, and minimize the cost and complexity of archiving and
storage."

McAfee Delivers Most Flexible and Manageable Data Loss Prevention Solution

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 9 (medianowonline)- Extending its
leadership in helping organizations prevent the loss of confidential data,
McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) released McAfee(R) Data Loss Prevention Host 2.0
in early September. The new version includes comprehensive device
management and integration with McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator(R) (ePO(TM)).
It is a key component of the industry's most comprehensive solution for
preventing both accidental and malicious data loss.

High profile data breaches continue to make headlines, impacting
corporate reputations and bottom lines. According to Privacy Clearinghouse,
more than 166 million American records (personal data) have been
compromised. McAfee Data Loss Prevention offers complete visibility and
control by monitoring and preventing confidential data loss everywhere --
at work, at home, and on the road. It stops information loss across
networks, through applications, and via removable storage devices, even
when data is disguised. McAfee is the first to safely enable the use of
valuable employee productivity tools such as USB thumb drives by offering
granular control over which devices are allowed to be used, while enforcing
control over what data can be copied onto them.
Easy management through McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator enables event
monitoring and incident details to prove internal and regulatory compliance
measures to auditors, board members, and other stakeholders.
"Enterprises face dire consequences because they are losing
confidential data without even knowing it," said Vimal Solanki, senior
director of marketing for McAfee. "McAfee DLP protects enterprises from the
risks of financial loss, brand damage, competitive disadvantage, lost
customers and non-compliance."
New Standards in Data Loss Prevention
McAfee is the first large security vendor in the Data Loss Prevention
(DLP) space offering the rich heritage, desktop and gateway expertise, and
stability not available with startups. McAfee DLP is part of an overall
Security Risk Management portfolio that customers can add without adding a
new agent or console to minimize management time and costs while offering a
complete security view for faster response. McAfee is the first to combine
comprehensive device management with flexible controls to stop confidential
data copied onto USB devices so that employees can use them safely.
Existing McAfee customers can leverage strengths of industry leading
security management console; ePO manages 55M+ endpoints in 30K+
enterprises.(PRN)

Availability
McAfee Data Loss Prevention Host 2.0 is available now in English,
German and Japanese.