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Open-Xchange announced the availability of Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition as a lower cost alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint for educational institutions, public administrations and small- and medium-size businesses.

Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition combines the leading open-source groupware with the Debian-based enterprise Linux Univention Corporate Server. The integrated directory services and web-based graphical administration interface significantly reduces administrative costs — user rights/permissions, groups, and resources can be easily, centrally managed.

“Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition provides organizations from 50 to 5,000 users
with an alternative to Microsoft Exchange,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “We’re delivering function that goes beyond the Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint stacks for lower cost.”

Open-Xchange makes communication easier and teamwork more efficient by providing users with integrated tools for e-mail, calendar, address book, document and task management. Its innovative “Social OX” simplifies the aggregation of e-mail and contact information — personal and business. All data is presented clearly and can be edited quickly using the intuitive AJAX-based web interface. Microsoft Outlook on Windows and the applications Mail, Address Book and iCal on Mac OS X can be used as well. And, with mobility support, Open-Xchange gives users access to their data anywhere, anytime and with virtually any device.

Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition completes the on-premises Open-Xchange offerings and is positioned between single server Open-Xchange Appliance Edition and the customizable Server Edition. Advanced Server Edition includes centralized server management and software monitoring and software distribution — even in different locations. It enables the LDAP directory and Microsoft Active Directory to be used in parallel.

For more information, visit http://www.open-xchange.com/en/open-xchange-advanced-server-edition-en.

Pricing and availability
Open-Xchange Advanced Server Edition is available now through Open-Xchange partners. A one-year software subscription including software connectors for Microsoft Outlook and Mac OS X for 25 users is $1,687.50 / 1.125,00 EUR for the first year. Cost for each additional user is $67.50 / 45 EUR in the first year. For additional years, the software subscription cost is 25 percent of the first year. Also available are support offerings with different service level agreements.

About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premises versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, please visit http://www.open-xchange.com.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the launch of Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, a new cloud-based offering for small and medium sized organizations who wish to deploy comprehensive security for their computer systems without the need for additional hardware or management software. Customers will now be able to protect their Windows-based laptops, desktops, and file servers from the proliferation and growing sophistication of threats with the simplicity and convenience of a cloud-based service.

Harnessing more than eighteen years of experience developing award-winning technologies for anti-virus and endpoint protection, Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection is designed to safeguard endpoint systems with a single solution managed from a Web-based console offering advanced protection from the endpoint to the gateway.

“As the hosted model for messaging security has become increasingly popular for its ease of management and deployment, organizations are similarly motivated by the reduced complexity that cloud-based services can offer while effectively protecting their endpoint systems” said Rowan Trollope, Senior Vice President, Symantec Hosted Services. “Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection leverages our SaaS expertise to deliver advanced technologies that help protect customer systems without requiring additional hardware, management software, or dedicated IT staffing”

As threats become more complex and the global workforce increasingly more mobile, analysts have predicted that businesses will demand highly effective security solutions that are easy to set up and require minimal maintenance– features especially important to small and medium sized businesses that have limited resources to stay current with evolving security requirements while managing a myriad of additional IT responsibilities.

“Customers often experience pain when increased IT resources are required to stay abreast of evolving endpoint threats” said Christian Christiansen, VP of Security Products and Services, IDC. “To reduce these difficulties, customers want turn-key, endpoint solutions that provide the latest protection levels with easy set up, zero maintenance, and automatic upgrades. Security SaaS implementations can fully provide these solutions”

Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection leverages the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, one of the largest security research networks in the world, and benefits from the network’s rapid threat identification and response. With Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, automatic security updates occur transparently over an Internet connection keeping employee systems current whether workers are in the office or on the road.

“We can get a much more robust solution delivered through the cloud than we would be able to host for ourselves, and at a much more reasonable cost” said David Wassenar, Vice President, IT, Apprise Software. “We don’t have to put any team member’s time into it, and we don’t have to spend money to provide the hardware redundancy on our end to ensure high availability for the solution”

Key Features and Benefits of Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection

* Comprehensive Protection for Customer Systems: Advanced technologies for antivirus, antispyware, firewall and host intrusion prevention.
* Always-on Protection for Endpoints: Automated updates occur transparently over an Internet connection to keep employee systems current and consistent with client policies when employees are in the office or on the road – even when they’re not logged into their corporate VPN.
* Web-based Management Console: Administrators can access the administration portal over a supported Web-browser and corporate VPN access is not required to monitor and manage each computer. Administrators receive real-time alerts via SMS or email and can easily perform functions such as initiate a LiveUpdate to refresh system protection levels, view history on systems and change local policy settings.
* Ease of Management: Adds and manages new computers without requiring on-site management servers. Updates occur automatically and new features are introduced as they become available during the subscription period for no additional fee.
* Scalable: Flexibility provided through a hosted model allows the solution to scale to incorporate new endpoints quickly and efficiently without requiring additional hardware or management software.
* Fast to Deploy: Can be quickly deployed to users via standard download, an email invitation or silently pushed to the customer’s network.

“Getting hardware out of our data center and centrally managing all of our endpoints with a single Web interface has been a top priority for us” said Sumeet Lakhaney, IT Director for New York City-based Fourth Wall Restaurants which manages six upscale restaurants in Manhattan. “Our focus on building a next generation IT center means that we have moved to a SaaS model for all of our business applications which will standardize our environment and decrease our overall cost to serve”

Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection is available now to customers in North America. It delivers antivirus, antispyware, firewall and host intrusion prevention for desktops and laptops and antivirus and antispyware for file servers. The service can be purchased on its own or in combination with other Symantec Hosted Services across email, web and IM.

To sign up for a free trial, visit www.messagelabs.com/trials/hep.

Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection is part of a broad portfolio of flexible endpoint security protection solutions for SMB customers, including the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition and Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition. Customers who are not yet ready to make the transition to SaaS can continue to rely on Symantec’s award winning SMB security portfolio.

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

Note to Editors: If you would like additional information on Symantec Corporation and its products, please visit the Symantec News Room at http://www.symantec.com/news. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are valid only in the United States.

Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the successful patenting of some revolutionary new technology for tracing program code.

The technology offers a method for simply and securely tracing the sequence of events that occurs when a set of program instructions are executed. The patented system allows Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts to analyze the behavior of third-party programs without having to scrutinize the software’s structure and internal processes on a line-by-line basis.

The new technology, developed by Kaspersky Lab’s expert Mikhail Pavlyushik, was registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on 30 March, 2010 as Patent Number 7689974 В1.
Code-tracing allows a program’s behavior to be examined in detail in a number of different running environments. The resultant traces are then used for identifying errors and debugging software, as well as for optimizing its performance. The data obtained during code-tracing may include information about a program’s algorithms that remain the intellectual property of the vendor. This means it has to be protected against unauthorized access. The newly-patented technology from Kaspersky Lab recognizes this requirement and complies with it in full. The traces created by the software are not recorded in the usual text format, but in binary code. Additionally, all the strings are replaced by numerical descriptors, making it impossible for unauthorized parties to read the data produced by the tracing process. However, the patented system is capable of taking the data generated by the code-tracing software and turning it into legible text that program developers and other trusted users can work with.
“Using code-tracing techniques to examine a program’s source code is an effective method of analyzing its behavior. It has been used extensively in our products and by our research departments for some time now,” said Nikolay Grebennikov, CTO for Kaspersky Lab. “This newly patented technology considerably simplifies the tracing process for our malware analysts and it ensures that the results cannot be accessed by anyone who is not suitably authorized.”
Kaspersky Lab currently has more than 50 patent applications pending in the U.S., Russia, China and Europe that relate to a range of unique IT security technologies developed by the Company’s personnel.

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced an agreement for EMC to resell the Brocade IP networking portfolio of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switching products through the EMC Select program. This new agreement reflects the companies’ joint commitment to address key customer requirements with 10 GbE switching products as they consolidate and virtualize data centers on their journey to the private cloud.

This agreement further extends the two companies’ long-standing, strategic partnership founded upon providing innovative solutions from Brocade and EMC that successfully address customer requirements, as well as a shared vision to improve IT efficiency, simplicity and business flexibility.

EMC will offer the comprehensive portfolio of Brocade networking solutions including:
• Brocade FCX Series switches: High-performance, flexible and easy-to-manage 1 GbE top-of-rack switches that are purpose-built for today’s virtual data centers. Offered in 24- and 48-port models, the Brocade FCX Series enables horizontal stacking of switches, unifying network management for an entire row of servers. An optional 4-port 10 GbE module enables wire-speed performance across all ports.
• Brocade TurboIron 24X switch: A compact, high-performance, high-availability and low latency 10/1 GbE dual-speed solution that meets mission-critical data center top-of-rack, aggregation and High-Performance Cluster Computing (HPCC) requirements.
• Brocade NetIron MLX Series: Advanced routers that provide high-density 10 GbE and 1 GbE solutions and are built with capabilities for Data Center Bridging (DCB)/Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE). They offer exceptional wire-speed performance, scalability and a rich set of IPv4, IPv6, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) and multi-VRF capabilities – including hitless upgrades. As a result, these routers are ideal for a wide range of advanced applications in virtualized data centers.
• Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series: 10 GbE-capable edge switches that feature wire-speed performance and deep packet buffers for media-rich applications. The NetIron CES Series includes advanced services such as VPLS to support geographically distributed Ethernet LANs in a compact form factor.
• Brocade ServerIron ADX Application Delivery Controllers: A complete family of application delivery controllers with industry-leading performance that use application intelligence to enable on-demand, elastic data center computing.

In addition, Brocade Support services will be available to EMC customers using Brocade IP and converged networking solutions through Brocade Supplemental Support (BSS).

“Virtualization and cloud computing are driving high-performance Ethernet adoption and convergence in the data center. This new agreement not only signifies the evolution of our long-term, productive partnership with EMC to meet this demand, but it allows our joint customers to reap the benefits of our combined experience and expertise in Ethernet, storage and converged networking technologies,” said Ken Cheng, Vice President of infrastructure products division at Brocade. “This joint expertise will help enable our customers to streamline their migration toward high-performance virtualization, data center convergence and cloud infrastructures, while simplifying their operations, reducing costs and increasing business agility.”

“Customers look to EMC for a complete set of technologies, solutions and services that increase levels of efficiency and optimize their data center environments,” said Barbara Robidoux, Vice President, Storage Product Marketing, EMC Corporation. “The addition of Brocade’s leading 10 GbE switching products within our set of offerings further meets this customer imperative as we continue to provide a solid foundation for their journey to the private cloud.”

Availability
Brocade Ethernet switches and routers will be available through the EMC Select program in Q3 2010.

About Brocade
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) develops extraordinary networking solutions that enable today’s complex, data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data.

About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information.

Brocade is a registered trademark of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

HostPilot Control Panel provides business owners and IT managers with a single point of control over their Intermedia-hosted communications services. Its intuitive features enable complex Exchange administration – such as remotely wiping data from a lost BlackBerry Wireless Handheld™ – to be delegated to non-technical staff.

Release 1.48 of HostPilot Control Panel includes:

* Onboarding overview: A new migration overview page shows customers the step-by-step process Intermedia uses to rapidly migrate them from an in-house Exchange server. This provides transparency into the process and the proprietary tools Intermedia applies.

* Customer-controlled cut-over: Cut-over refers to the moment a customer switches to Intermedia’s Exchange hosting service from their prior set-up. The new functionality gives customers the option to perform cut-over directly once migration is complete, increasing their control over the Exchange migration process.

* Add-in tool for migrating Active Directory objects: This tool is being released in beta. It simplifies the migration of Active Directory objects (i.e. users, contacts and distribution lists) from an on-premise to hosted environment. Via an add-in to the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), the tool is installed on the administrator’s workstation so they can migrate Active Directory objects in less time and with more control.

* Customer communication system: The system enables Intermedia to send targeted, proactive messaging to customers informing them of maintenance events and other service issues. Impacted customers will receive event notifications on their HostPilot landing page, by email, and, if they wish, SMS text message. These customer communication enhancements help Intermedia customers stay in-the-know regarding service events.

“We continuously strive to find new product and delivery enhancements that give the control of an on-premise solution to our customers – without the complexity, maintenance and other expenses associated with on-premise email,” says Jonathan McCormick, COO, Intermedia.

The WebObjects Community Association and BoxOffice Tickets have announced 2010’s WOrld-wide WebObjects Developer’s Conference (WOWODC 2010), the annual conference dedicated to WebObjects, Apple’s enterprise-class web application development framework. WebObjects is a powerful, elegant, and proven web application framework that doesn’t trade agility for scalability or elegance for capability. WebObjects is Cocoa for the web, CoreData for the enterprise.

The past few years have seen substantial new development surrounding WebObjects, one of Apple’s most mature and time-tested technologies. Its behind-the-scenes roll in the iTunes music store and the App Store have driven development both by Apple and the global WebObjects community, bringing substantial updates to existing functionality and dramatic new features that keep WebObjects on the cutting edge of internet-enabled application development. Don’t get left behind.

“This is our fifth conference, and it has been a great success with increasing attendance and more and more sessions every time! WOWODC is THE place to learn about WebObjects development.” says Pascal Robert, event organizer and Steering Committee member.

This three-day event will be held on August 27th, 28th and 29th in Montreal (Canada) at the Hotel Gouverneur Place Dupuis. Sessions and Hands-On Labs will be led by WebObjects experts from around the world. Covering subjects ranging from the WebObjects IDE (Eclipse-based WOLips) to advanced scalability and performance tuning.

Breakfast, lunch and snack breaks, including beverages will be served each day with evening social activities also scheduled.

All sessions will be recorded and provided to attendees. Non-attendees may also purchase the recordings.

Join us for 3 days of education, discussion and networking hosted by the WebObjects community’s leading experts!

Feature highlights include:

* DirectToWeb (D2W) –
WebObject’s best-kept secret! Get introduced to, or learn more about, DirectToWeb – an amazing feature of WebObjects that allows developers to create powerful applications very quickly and with little code by leveraging an incredibly flexible rules engine.

* Integrating WebObjects with other enterprise technologies –
WebObjects is written in Java and applications can be deployed in multiple environments including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and any other Java-enabled platform. Learn how you can integrate your WebObjects applications with tools like JasperReports, Lucene, Kerberos and PDF generation.

* Project Wonder –
Project Wonder is a set of open-source frameworks that not only simplifies many common tasks, but also adds hundreds of new features including AJAX and RESTful Web Services. Learn how to use Wonder to speed development at the same time you increase flexibility and functionality!

* Developer Tools –
The WebObjects IDE has matured a lot in the last two years. Power-users will show you how to make the most of WOLips and Eclipse and how to use tools like JRebel and Hudson to streamline your development and deployment.

* Labs and case studies
This is your chance to get hands-on, face-to-face time with the experts and also hear how other organizations are using WebObjects.

Pre-Registration:
Online pre-registration is available through HulaHub/BoxOffice Tickets. Tickets are $465 USD up until June 21 ($565 USD from June 21 to August 14). Registration will be available at the door, however will not be able to guarantee food or beverages. Discounts for groups and for students are also available.

Cancelation:
Full refund before August 14th 2010, $100 USD refund after August 14th and before August 27th 2010. No refund after August 27th 2010.

Our partner:
Box Office Tickets Inc. has been empowering the event and entertainment industry through innovative “back of the house” services since 1993. Known for the quality of its customer service and technology, Box Office Tickets is a national brand with proven experience in handling all types of events: the arts, sports, business conferences, and non-profit fund-raisers. Through its website and RoBOT(R) technologies, Box Office Tickets provides a complete range of reliable and affordable solutions for order processing, admission control and data management services.

Alcatel-Lucent announced it has signed a major five-year agreement with external linkBT for an evolution of its external link21st Century Network (21CN), the foundation of BT’s IP transformation to enhance customer experience and accelerate time-to-market for next generation services.

Leveraging Alcatel-Lucent’s High Leverage NetworkTM (HLN) architecture and transformational services, this project will further evolve BT’s infrastructure, enabling the company to expedite network convergence, increase capacity and deliver content cost effectively as it prepares to introduce new video-rich services to an expanded base of wholesale and retail subscribers.

While allowing its customers in more than 170 countries to benefit from the development of 21CN, this contract will specifically help BT to build up its infrastructure to continue to play a leading role in strengthening the UK’s leadership in communications by increasing performance, capacity and bandwidth to a broader customer base.

“21CN is a huge transformational programme. It’s about providing a network for the future which requires a game-changing approach.” said George Nazi, managing director, BT 21CN Core Convergence. “Alcatel-Lucent came up with an innovative solution that will help us keep 21CN at the forefront of innovation and radical change.”

With video-rich content consumption booming, it has become critical to accelerate the transition to a unified smart IP network and to an open application environment that enables new business models. With this network evolution, BT is striving to increase revenues and reduce costs while migrating to new and more profitable business models.

“BT’s 21CN is one of the most complete, exciting and ambitious business transformation programmes anywhere in the global telecommunications industry,” said Lakh Jemmett, Vice President, Alcatel-Lucent North Europe. “We are proud that our High Leverage Network architecture is enabling BT to transform their business, transform their networks, and deliver powerful new services in a scalable, cost-effective way.”

GMO GlobalSign Inc (www.globalsign.com), one of the longest established Certification Authorities (CA) and specialists in digital certificate security, has today announced a significant milestone for Ireland with the first successful e-Notarization being completed by David Walsh, Solicitor and Notary Public (www.davidwalshlegal.ie), and Registrar for the Faculty of Notaries Public in Ireland (www.notarypublic.ie), using GlobalSign’s Adobe® Certified Document Services (CDS) solution branded as DocumentSign.

In today’s interconnected digital world, it is important for businesses and legal professionals to ensure that any data transmitted electronically across public networks, such as the Internet, retains its authenticity and integrity whilst shown to originate from a verified source. GlobalSign’s DocumentSign Digital ID is the ideal solution, allowing the creator to add certification and approval signatures to secure Adobe® PDF documents. The document recipient can then instantly verify the trusted status of the document in their natural language, simply by opening the file with a ubiquitous product such as Adobe Reader®.

Irish businesses and private citizens alike are now able to have their critical business documents e-Notarized by David and a growing number of Irish Notaries who have recognized the need to act as hubs and upload trusted business information on to the Internet. The ability for notaries to be able to offer the Internet as a highly available and environmentally friendly transport mechanism for notarized documents will act as a catalyst for eBusiness and eProcurement in 2010 and beyond. The PDF Advanced Electronic Signatures (PAdES) format is a recognized European Digital Signature format under the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Technical Standard (TS) 102 778 (announced by ETSI in September 2009). As companies move forward to comply with the recommendations of eProcurement initiatives, such as the Pan European Public Procurement Online (PEPPOL) project’s Virtual Company Dossier (VCD), notaries are also ideally placed to take advantage of the time lag between country-specific company registrars being able to offer the option of providing digitally signed company formation evidence. CDS compliant digital certificates enable an e-Notary to create an authentic digital copy of any formal evidence of a company formation.

The document e-Notarized by David was referred to the Department of Foreign Affairs for technical scrutiny and considered to be authentic. It may yet be the first Irish e-Notarial certificate to receive the e-Apostille in Ireland in due course, Ireland being well advanced in its e-Apostille pilot programme.

“These are very exciting times indeed for any Notary Public, as we now have a tool set which allows us to take advantage of the Internet, and as such provide a more efficient service to our customers, whilst at the same time retaining the security and trust which are the hallmarks of the Notarial profession.” commented David Walsh, Solicitor & Notary Public david (at) davidwalshlegal (dot) ie, and Registrar for the Faculty of Notaries Public in Ireland info (at) notarypublic (dot) ie.

“This first e-notarization in Ireland represents a significant step towards moving away from a traditionally paper-based industry, thus reducing carbon footprint and increasing time and cost efficiencies at all levels”, said Steve Roylance, Business Development Director, GMO GlobalSign. “We look forward to continuing to provide the highest levels of security and trust to an industry where compliancy is key.”

About Adobe® CDS Certificates Certified Document Services (CDS) is the first digital signing solution that allows authors to create Adobe® PDF files that automatically certify to the recipient that the author’s identity has been verified by a trusted organization. Authors of PDFs add digital Certifying Signatures and Approval Signatures to documents they distribute over the Internet. The process is the virtual equivalent to sealing a document and adding wet-ink signatures and assuring the recipient that the document is authentic, comes from a verified source and the contents have not been tampered with since being published.

About GMO GlobalSign Established in 1996 and as a WebTrust accredited public certificate authority, GlobalSign offers publicly trusted SSL, including EV SSL Certificates, S/MIME and Code Signing Certificates for use on all platforms including mobile devices. Its Trusted Root solution uses the widely distributed GlobalSign Root CA certificates to provide immediate PKI trust for Microsoft CA and enterprise CAs, eliminating the costs associated with using untrusted Root Certificates. Its partnership with Adobe® to provide Certified Document Services (CDS) enables secure digitally signed PDF e-documents. These core Digital Certificate solutions allow its thousands of customers to conduct secure online transactions and data transfer, distribute tamper-proof code, and bind identities to client certificates for email security and remote two factor authentication. The company has a history of innovation within the online security market and has offices in the US, UK, Belgium, Japan, and China.

About GMO Internet Group GMO Internet Group, headquartered in Japan, is a leading force in the Internet industry offering one of the most comprehensive ranges of Internet services worldwide. The group holds top domestic market share in domain registration, web hosting, and payment processing and provides a host of other Internet services including global online security services, e-commerce solutions, and Internet advertising to both businesses and individuals. At the centre of the group is GMO Internet, Inc. a company listed on the prestigious first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE: 9449). Please visit www.gmo.jp/en for further details

For further details please contact:

Steve Waite GMO GlobalSign Inc 877-775-4562 press (at) globalsign (dot) com

Answers Corporation, creator of the leading answer engine, which includes the properties WikiAnswers(R) and ReferenceAnswers(TM), announced today that its Chief Executive Officer, Bob Rosenschein, is scheduled to present at the Jefferies 6th Annual Global Internet, Media & Telecom Conference to be held May 10-12, 2010 in New York.

Mr. Rosenschein’s presentation will take place on Monday, May 10th, at 10:50 a.m. ET. A webcast of the presentation will be available on the Investor Relations section of Answers.com at: http://ir.answers.com.

About Answers Corporation

Answers Corporation owns and operates Answers.com, the leading Q&A site, which includes WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers. The site supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Tagalog (Filipino). WikiAnswers is a community-generated social knowledge Q&A platform, leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of its large and growing community, answers are improved and updated over time. The award-winning ReferenceAnswers includes content on millions of topics from over 250 licensed dictionaries and encyclopedias from leading publishers, including Houghton Mifflin, Barron’s and Encyclopedia Britannica. (answ-g)

For investor information, visit http://ir.answers.com.

Follow www.Answers.com on Twitter as http://twitter.com/answersdotcom.

internet users may have connection problems on May 5, at 17:00 UTC, when DNSSEC will be rolled out across all 13 web root servers.

Bruce Tonkin, chief strategy officer at Melbourne IT, says:

“The problem may take several days to surface and be inconsistent from one user’s PC to the next. A user at one machine that hasn’t switched on his PC for two or three days will have no access to the internet. A user that left his machine on the night before will have some pages – and responses from DNS servers – cached on their machine, and will still have connectivity.”

Tonkin recommended network managers run a series of simple online tests to ensure their network can handle the larger DNS responses:

A reply-size test available at DNS-OARC:
https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/replysizetest

Ripe Labs’ ‘Test your DNS Resolver’
http://labs.ripe.net/content/testing-your-resolver-dns-reply-size-issues

InfoWorld has published a great review of Free remote access tools for Windows and Mac.

With a remote access tool, your office computer can be reached from home, your home computer can be reached from the office, and both can be reached wherever else in the world you happen to be.

The tools reviewed are:

DESKTRA Freedom Desktop 1.1
Gbridge 2.0
LogMeIn Free Edition
Remote Desktop Connection
TeamViewer 5
VNC
WinRemotePC 2009 Lite

And the full article can be read at:

http://infoworld.com/d/mobilize/infoworld-review-free-remote-access-tools-windows-and-mac-018

Vordel, a provider of Cloud and SOA governance products, today announced at the Infosecurity Europe conference that it has joined the Cloud Security Alliance as a corporate sponsor member. Vordel is joining the alliance to help advance the control of data exchange between public, private and community clouds and to drive trust and reliability for Cloud Computing.
Vordel will support the Cloud Security Alliance’s initiatives by working closely with other members to address the key security, interoperability, monitoring and performance challenges related to the enterprise adoption of Cloud Computing. Over the past 8 years Vordel has consolidated its position as the premier provider of high performance hardware and software products to govern SOA-based applications.

In Q4 2009, the company announced Vordel Cloud Service Broker, a world-first product which connects internal applications to the Cloud. Vordel Cloud Service Broker connects on-premises applications to Cloud services such as Force.com and Amazon Web Services, with security, monitoring, and control. The company is running a pilot invitational program for Vordel Cloud Service Broker. For more information or to join the program: please visit http://www.vordel.com/products/beta.html

Mark O’Neill, Vordel CTO, said, “Organizations can see the clear financial advantages of Cloud Computing on one hand, but on the other hand they see the lack of trust. At Vordel we are bringing years of expertise building high-performance SOA products to address this trust deficit and security concerns related to Cloud Computing. Vordel is excited to be involved in the Cloud Security Alliance to help shape and influence best practices.”

Dave Cullinane Chairman at Cloud Security Alliance and Chief Information Security Officer at eBay (NasdaqGS:EBAY) said, “Cloud computing presents many exciting possibilities for enterprises but we need to encourage all security vendors to work together to provide the technology we need to secure the cloud infrastructure. We now have an opportunity to embed security right into the infrastructure and Vordel’s knowledge of managing large-scale XML and SOA environments will be of great benefit to the Cloud Security Alliance advisory groups.”

About the Cloud Security Alliance
The Cloud Security Alliance is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and to provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Cloud Security Alliance is led by a broad coalition of industry practitioners, corporations, associations and other key stakeholders. For further information, the Cloud Security Alliance Web site is http://www.cloudsecurityalliance.org.

About Vordel
Vordel provides high performance, enterprise-level hardware and software products to enable Governments and large enterprises confidently deploy SOA and Cloud-linked applications. Vordel uniquely accelerates, manages and protects applications to enable enterprises govern their Service usage and performance in a cost effective manner.