Appliance added to content-management suite
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Workshare announced an updated version of its content-protection suite Monday, adding a network-monitoring appliance to augment the company's standalone desktop-monitoring software.The network-based Protect Network appliance, which monitors outbound network Web, instant messaging, FTP, and mail channels, sits at either the network egress point or in front of critical data repositories. It is designed to prevent unauthorized transmission of content.It works in conjunction with other pieces of the company's Content Protection Group suite, including endpoint-security software, Workshare Protect 6, which monitors for unauthorized content use on the desktop. The Workshare Management System is a centralized policy and management server used to establish content-security policy through Workshare's pattern-matching technology."It analyzes what the content is, including whether encryption should be applied, and prompts the user or stops some kinds of transactions," says Marty Jost, senior director of product marketing. "Workshare will also detect hidden fields in spreadsheets, which users may include by mistake."Workshare makes use of a fingerprinting technology to protect unstructured data through automatic or manual blacklisting and whitelisting and can automatically crawl Microsoft file shares. When Workshare detects potential policy violations, it can notify the manager or block traffic.The latest version of the product provides enterprise-wide distribution and management of the software, making it easier to deploy than the previous version, which was manually installed. Workshare has 130 employees and was founded in 1998 by Barrie Hadfield, CTO, with $20 million in venture capital funding from Steelpoint Capital Partners, Intel Capital, and Quester.London-based Standard Chartered Bank, which has global operations that extend into Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, has tested the Workshare content-protection system and is poised to deploy it to approximately 60,0000 desktops worldwide."As a bank, we have a lot of sensitive information and account data as well as proprietary data," says John Meakin, group head of information security at Standard Chartered Bank. "We have to put in place a mechanism that tracks what happens across the network."Sometimes it's necessary for bank representatives in a mobile environment to share client data under certain circumstances, Meakin says, and Workshare would be useful in applying restrictions, such as checking to make sure data is encrypted before it's transmitted. "Workshare will enable us to see where the information is going and intervene," he says.Workshare Protect 6 costs $30 per seat, and the network-monitoring appliance starts at $5,000.Network World is an InfoWorld affiliate
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It has interesting implications for firms that would like a Web appliance but also want the management features of a machine that's joined to an Active Directory domain, our columnist says.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL     SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- New software at Hewlett-Packard Co...
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Block meets file 3PAR and Network Appliance have signed an agreement to consolidate their block and file storage services into a single SAN/NAS pool.â¦
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Snapbridge Software brings content management to the little guys.
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(InfoWorld) - Storage giant EMC plans another foray into Web content management with the upcoming launch of a tool to handle content layout as well as management. Due to become generally available in the fourth quarter of this year, EMC's Documentum Page Builder, unveiled Tuesday, is designed to make it easier for nontechnical users to create, manage and deploy Web sites for their companies. "More and more people want to do more than just create Web sites; they want to influence way the site is presented," Greg Dierickse, senior product marketing manager at EMC for Web content management products, said. More organizations are looking for their employees with business knowledge and less technical know-how to become actively involved in Web site development, Lubor Ptacek, director of product marketing for content management marketing at EMC, said. Traditionally, business users haven't had much or any input into how Web sites are laid out, the content they contain and how the sites operate, meaning that those sites can often fall short of what businesses had hoped to achieve with them. Page Builder takes a component-based approach to Web site creation and management so that users can reuse static or dynamic components such as headers, footers or navigation to quickly pull together Web pages, Dierickse said. Based on XML (extensible markup language), the EMC tool supports and complements Adobe Systems' Dreamweaver templates so EMC users can modify templates that have been created in the Dreamweaver Web development tool. EMC has been working on Page Builder for about a year. "It's step one in a longer term road map," Dierickse said, as EMC looks to strike a balance between advanced functionality and ease of use. The next likely direction will be for the company to develop a product to help nontechnical users develop Web applications as well as manage content and layout, he added. The cost of Page Builder will depend on a user's IT configuration, but Dierickse estimated that the starting price could be under $100,000. Page Builder will be a new member of EMC's Web content management suite, which includes a number of products such as Documentum Portlet Builder and Documentum Web Publisher. The new tool will also support EMC's Documentum enterprise content management platform and so will be able to draw upon capabilities including a unified repository and business process management, Dierickse said. In the Web content management arena, EMC competes with players like Interwoven and Vignette. The storage vendor is currently the No. 1 overall enterprise content management player in revenue terms, according to market research company IDC, although IBM, the No. 2 vendor, is set to overtake EMC, should its planned bid to acquire the No. 3 company FileNetÂ be successful. EMC has been steadily building up its expertise in content management over the past few years, making some acquisitions along the way including the purchases ofÂ enterprise content management player DocumentumÂ in December 2003 andÂ document capture software vendor CaptivaÂ late last year. Looking ahead, EMC is keen to continue strengthening the ties between its content management software and itsÂ archiving capabilities, Ptacek said. That move got a boost back in April when EMC released products based on Documentum technology to archive e-mail messages and reporting data from enterprise applications. The vendor is likely to provide archiving for other forms of content such as video and audio, he added, with the eventual intention in several years' time of developing a unified method for archiving all content types.
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ContentWatch, the leading provider of Internet protection for homes, small/medium businesses, education, and government organizations, today announced the addition of the ContentProtect Pro Server Appliance in San Francisco at IT Security World 2006.
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New version allows users to categorize entries and make layout changes more easily.
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By Brier Dudley, Seattle Times  Jun. 7--Excerpts from the blog   Reporter-turned-blogger Mary Jo Foley said Wednesday that Microsoft is developing a "kitchen computing environment" that includes a family calendar, recipe center, entertainment features and a shared bulletin board.
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Microsoft Corp.  on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its Windows XP Media Center, adding features such as instant messaging and high-definition television to a personal computer designed for the living room.
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Forget bookmarks: Web content managers allow you to create your own personal, searchable cache of web pages.
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Microsoft on Monday announced that Windows Home Server has been released to manufacturing, with systems using the new operating system expected to go on sale this fall. Home Server, code-named "Quattro," is designed for easily linking together multiple computers in a home network and sharing media.
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A sleek home-media PC looks creamy delicious; a carry bag becomes a chair storing laptop; and more. By Brian Lam from Wired magazine.
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Also: Microsoft plans new BizTalk release for this year. [News.com Extra]
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