Blade.org Grows to 60 Companies; Delivers Two ''Security-in-a Box'' Solutions; Twenty Partners Join Open Blade Community; OpenService, DataCom and Avnet Launch IBM BladeCenter-based Security Solutions.PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Blade.org, an open community dedicated to developing next-generation technologies for blade computing, today announced 20 new members -- expanding its membership to 60 companies -- and is delivering two partner-driven, blade-based "security-in-a-box" solutions. Formally established in February, Blade.org provides collaboration and tools to ISVs and business partners looking to reach new markets and customers for blade-based technologies, representing the world's fastest growing server market segment. Blades provide an opportunity for cost savings as companies are able to collapse servers, storage devices, networking infrastructure and security appliances into a single location in the datacenter. New Blade.org members announced today include AudioCodes, Azlan, Azul Systems, Blade Network Technologies, Chelsio, ClearCube Technology, ClearSpeed Technology, DataCom Systems, Ericom Software Ericom Software, Inc. founded in 1993 is located in Closter, New Jersey, and provides software for enterprise-wide application access for server-based computing environments, (Citrix-like), running on Microsoft Windows Terminal Services (via the Remote Desktop Protocol, RDP), Virtual , IDT IDT Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA, USA) IDT I Don't Think IDT Identity Theft IDT Interrupt Descriptor Table IDT Integrated DNA Technologies IDT Inactive Duty Training IDT Instructional Design & Technology , LANDesk Software, Mazu Networks, Neterion, Privacy Networks, SilverStorm Technologies, Sirius Computer Solutions, Softricity, Tarari, Teradici and Xambala. "Today marks a milestone for Blade.org with 60 companies joined together to speed the creation of innovative products and solutions to clients around the globe," said Doug Balog, chairman of Blade.org, vice president of IBM BladeCenter The IBM BladeCenter is IBM's blade server architecture. History Originally introduced in 2002, based on engineering work started in 1999, the IBM BladeCenter was a relative late comer to the blade market. , and keynote speaker at the Server Blade One blade in a blade server. See blade server. Summit industry conference on April 19. "Research and development collaboration has become the new model for market success. The Blade.org community's first customer deployments show that when technology is made open and accessible, we can speed the time which customers can move from concept to deployment." Two "Security in a Box" Solutions Security Threat and Compliance Management Solution from OpenService OpenService, Inc., a leading enterprise security information management software provider and one of Blade.org's first members, today introduced their real-time security threat and compliance management solution based on IBM BladeCenter. In this new packaged solution, OpenService ported its Security Management Center (SMC SMC Saint Mary's College SMC Santa Monica College SMC Solaris Management Console SMC Smooth Muscle Cell SMC Small Magellanic Cloud (also see LMC) SMC Safety Management Certificate (maritime shipping) ) to BladeCenter to provide a highly-available and scalable security information management solution. OpenService is also working with Blade.org partner Avnet to deliver security information solutions to the market. The solution collects, analyzes and correlates security event data in real-time from across the enterprise. As such, it centralizes the management of risks, vulnerabilities, real-time events and post-attack forensics See computer forensics. , shortening the cycle of security threat identification and remediation. "The momentum that IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) has placed behind opening up the blade ecosystem has already helped OpenService identify and develop new solution opportunities for enterprises facing the challenges of protecting critical data from security threats," said Phil Hollows, vice president of marketing, OpenService. "Our success with Security Management Center at Woodbine Entertainment Group Woodbine Entertainment Group is responsible for operations of the casino and race track at Woodbine Race Track in Toronto. The group changed their name from the Ontario Jockey Club in 2001 and also operates/operated at other tracks in Southern Ontario: Woodbine Entertainment Group -- an Ontario-based horse racing horse racing, trials of speed involving two or more horses. It includes races among harnessed horses with one of two particular gaits, among saddled Thoroughbreds (or, less frequently, quarterhorses) on a flat track, or among saddled horses over a turf course with , gaming, and entertainment corporation -- recently purchased the OpenService SMC solution to improve security, availability and operations efficiency for its business. Woodbine woodbine, name for several vines, among them honeysuckle and Virginia creeper. woodbine Any of many species of vines belonging to various flowering-plant families, especially the Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia, family Vitaceae) of expects that the solution will more effectively protect its customers' betting records across its system for hundreds of mobile devices and betting terminals, while helping maintain its accounting records in accordance to government privacy guidelines. "OpenService and IBM provided a reliable and scalable platform to enable superior threat management, log management, security policy compliance, and regulatory compliance - all via a uniform, real-time security dashboard," said Randy Folmes, director of information technology, Woodbine Entertainment Group. "OpenService running on IBM BladeCenter allows our administrators to focus on security functions critical to the entertainment industry instead of IT configuration and maintenance." Digital Video Surveillance Solution from DataCom Systems DataCom Systems Inc., a leader in surveillance and monitoring solutions, today announced the DataCom Digital Video Surveillance Solution on IBM BladeCenter, specially suited for law enforcement, gaming and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. customers. By partnering with Blade.org members IBM and Avnet, DataCom is delivering a computing platform See platform. to manage and store the data from video surveillance cameras to safeguard an organization's physical assets. Joining Blade.org will provide DataCom with a thriving ecosystem of partners as it develops future solutions as well. The solution allows security personnel to remotely access, view and email recorded video footage--helping speed interaction with law enforcement. Because the solution compresses images on a 64-bit video capture board, it frees more than 80 percent of the BladeCenter resources for enterprise applications. The Washington County Washington County is the name of 30 counties and one parish in the United States of America, all named for George Washington. It is the most common county name in the United States. Sheriff's Office and Detention Facility in Arkansas recently deployed the solution to help monitor its new 710-bed detention facility. The facility can now track and manage up to 224 video surveillance cameras, while storing video for a minimum of 30 days, improving its prior VCR VCR: see videocassette recorder. VCR in full videocassette recorder Electromechanical device that records, stores on a videotape cassette, and plays back on a TV set recorded images and sound. system. BladeCenter's integrated iSCSI switch provides a single connection from the chassis to the storage array, speeding on-the-fly information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. . "Security surveillance is critical in the field of law enforcement," said Steve Kizzar, director of information technology, Washington County. "With the construction of our new detention facility and sheriff's office, we needed a high-performance, scalable computing platform that would not only store video and maintain the recordings for a much longer period of time than traditional-looped video tape, but also adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. our limited space, power and cooling constraints. By using this solution, we were able to consolidate our IT systems to improve network management and ease operational logistics." About Blade.org Blade.org is a collaborative organization and developer community focused on accelerating the expansion of blade solutions and the IBM and Intel blade ecosystem. This organization is intended to create new solutions, maximizing the value of the blade platform. More information is available at www.blade.org. IBM and BladeCenter are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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