New Aerohive BR200 cloud managed branch router

Aerohive Networks announces the new BR200 cloud managed branch router. Available with or without wireless AP capability. This further expands the branch router offering.

New Infoblox hardware appliances

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 12, 2012 – Infoblox Inc. today announced the availability of new hardware platforms for its automated network control solutions. With built-in energy efficiency, remote management and high availability advantages, the platforms are designed for today’s demanding, distributed and “Green” enterprise or service provider networks. New features with the new hardware platform:

  • Energy Efficiency: Highly efficient components, intelligent power management, consumption and cooling features, such as turning off unused Ethernet ports; power supplies are in compliance with environmental standards, including ETSI EN 300 019-1-3, Energy Star and 80 Plus efficiency.
  • Lights Out/Remote Management: Proactive monitoring and alerts for power, temperature CPU usage issues and more; remote management features reduce on-site maintenance visits resulting in more cost-effective operations, and Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) 2.0-compliant for enhanced remote site communication and management.
  • High Availability: Redundant and field-replaceable power supplies, fans and disks as well as the use of error-correction code (ECC) memory providing a high level of stability and reliability.

Aerohive Demonstrates Industry First Bonjour Gateway to Enable Apple AirPlay and Apple AirPrint across Multi-Subnet Enterprise Networks

Aerohive Networks™, the pioneer in cloud-enabled enterprise networking infrastructure, today announced a new feature, that enables management and control of Apple’s® “Zero-Configuration Networking” technology, called Bonjour®, to make services such as AirPrint™ and AirPlay® usable across large, multi-subnet networks regardless of the underlying topology. Aerohive’s new patent-pending Bonjour Gateway, will be delivered as a software upgrade for existing customers and as an out-of-band device compatible with customers’ legacy wireless and wired networks.

Aerohive’s Bonjour Gateway will be available for beta trials in Q2 and will ship midyear 2012.

PRTG version 9.2 released

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PRTG announced and released version 9.2 of their network management software. While there were numerous new features, our favorite would have to be the AJAX interface changes including the new sunburst view for easily seeing the status of all sensors in a single page overview.

PRTG's VMware sensors now support vSphere 5, so you can now monitor ESX(i) 5 hosts, virtual machines, and vCenter 5. Virtual machines that are located within vApps can now be monitored, as well. They also added a new "WMI UTC Time Sensor" which can measure the time difference between a Windows target machine and the PRTG system time, so you can be alerted if a client is on the wrong time.

Altaware, Inc. adds DeviceLock

Altaware, Inc. adds DeviceLock for helping to secure laptops and desktops from data loss and data leakage. Our customers now have a simple and effective solution to start implementing DLP solutions.