Internet Focus.Corporate Users Generate Four Billion E-mall Messages A Day KVS KVS Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (Dutch: Royal Flemish Theatre, Brussels, Belgium) KVS Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (Hindi: Indian Central Schools) KVS Kenny Vs Spenny (TV show) Plc, says that corporate enterprise users are generating four billion email messages a day, making manual email storage and retrieval cost-prohibitive. The figures are from research by The Radicati Group Inc., commissioned by KVS earlier this year to review the worldwide email market. The average message size for a corporate email message is approximately 3K, and - thirty percent of corporate users are receiving attachments with their email, which range between 100-500K. The figure of four billion for worldwide corporate email traffic is expected to grow close to seven billion messages a day by 2003, amplifying the inefficiencies and inadequacies of current storage, retrieval, archiving and management systems for enterprise-wide email systems as they continue to grow exponentially. www.kvspic.com MathSoft Teams With 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) on MathML Under the terms of this deal, MathSoft becomes a preferred IBM partner and will work directly with IBM Research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. to integrate IBM techexplorer 3.0 in MathSofTs own patented technology for mathematical calculations. The first development effort, which will be distributed by MathSoft, will enable the publishing of interactive technical documents as HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. with MathML, giving users a solution for posting interactive maths content on the Internet. As part of the agreement the largest ever techexplorer distribution contract, MathSoft will license one million copies of IBM techexplorer Hypermedia hypermedia: see hypertext. The use of hyperlinks, regular text, graphics, audio and video to provide an interactive, multimedia presentation. All the various elements are linked, enabling the user to move from one to another. Browser 3.0. This ambitious partnership with MathSoft has the potential to change the face of maths publishing on the Web," said Mimi Jet a techexplorer evangelist at IBM. www.mathsoft.uk BT Expert Internet BT Expert Interact, is a one-stop shop One-Stop Shop A company or a location that offers a multitude of services to a client or a customer. The idea is to provide convenient and efficient service and also to create the opportunity for the company to sell more products to clients and customers. business solution for small to medium companies designed to change the way businesses communicate and work. The solution, it is claimed, offers secure Internet access See how to access the Internet. , company-wide e-mail, desktop fax, and a pre-configured intranet, complete with a web design wizard so users can get an Internet site up and running. The solution, is supplied, installed and maintained by BT. NOP (NO oPeration) See no-op. research recently commissioned on behalf of BT, showed that 62% of small businesses in the UK do not have websites and only 22% expect to be trading on-line by the end of 2000. The research found that small businesses are not ready to use e-business because they feel they are not large enough, do not have the infrastructure and can not afford the investment. BT Expert Internet is designed to specifically address this type of small business. www.bt.com Ensim Delivers HP OpenMail Ensim Corporation, has announced the availability of liP's OpenMail to European ISPs and ASPS which allows service providers to deliver hosted, enterprise-class messaging to small and medium sized businesses. www.ensim.com Tube Travel Planning Software London Underground has launched a new, dedicated website incorporating Travel InfoSystems' TubePlanner software. Tube travellers with Internet access can now use the Travel InfoSystems solution free of charge to plan journeys across the capital, and print out detailed itineraries. With this travel planner, users are invited to choose a start point and destination for their journeys, based on the Tube network's 275 stations and places of interest around London. The Travel InfoSystems solution then calculates the closest Tube stations and produces a detailed plan of the journey with estimated travel times. www.thetube.com DemoShield 6.7 InstallShield DemoShield 6.7, the latest version of the multimedia and Web-authoring software, provides new Interact-focused functionality, allowing software developers, marketers, technology trainers and technical publication authors to create multimedia and Web-based presentations. Using DemoShield 6.7, presentation creators can "Interact-enable" multimedia content using animated CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. , streaming media files and reduced presentation file sizes. DemoShield 6.7 helps presentation authors optimise for the Internet with new features including: * Reduced File Sizes - The DemoShield product has been rearchitected to generate demo files 40 percent smaller in size (depending on the type of demo), saving disk space and creating faster downloads. * Smaller DemoX Player - Because the player size has been reduced, users can view their presentations faster without lengthy download delays. * Support for Streaming Media - Allows users to play streaming audio and video files as well as software animations from DemoShield, using the ubiquitous RealPlayer from RealNetworks and Media Player from Microsoft DemoShield supports the most common streaming file formats such as ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange , ASF See Windows Media formats. 1. (language) ASF - Algebraic Specification Language. 2. (body) ASF - Analytical Solutions Forum. , WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. , WAX and VOD See video-on-demand. VoD - video on demand . * New File Support - DemoShield 6.7 offers direct support for MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). files and new player options for MP3s in addition to QuickTime files (MOV (1) (Metal Oxide Varistor) A discrete electronic component that is commonly used to divert excessive current to the ground and/or neutral lines. Acting like a pressure relief value, an MOV is comprised of zinc oxide with small quantities of bismuth, cobalt, ). www.installshield.com Financial Training Package InMarkets Training, has launched a complementary set of three training packages available via the Internet or corporate intranets. Suitable for all types of training the new e-learning packages are used by financial institutions to train new employees, existing staff about new products and are often made available to an institutions clients to provide added value through educating them about the products the restitution provides. Course programmes are available in three types of package according to the organizational learning strategy, extent of training required, numbers of students and learning style. www.inmarkets.com Method-Finder 2.0 for Life Sciences Laboratory Researchers BIOSIS BIOSIS Biosciences Information Service has released MethodsFinder 2.0, a Web database of laboratory methods for life sciences researchers. The update is designed to offer customers access to thousands more full-text methods from Web pages and grey literature, tens of thousands more records in the database, and an enhanced search engine Life sciences researchers have turned to the Internet as a plate to-find and exchange laboratory techniques. As a result, more laboratory methods and related material are available on the Web than ever before. "MethodsFinder 2. 0 provides a centralized location where users can expect to find methods and protocols Rom around the Web, indexed and constantly updated." In addition, MethedsFinder 2. 0 also maintains a growing archive of protocols from the traditional fife sciences literature. www.biosis.org Network Testing Tool NetIQ, have announced the availability of its network-testing tool Chariot 4.0. which now supports Interact-scale testing with consoles available to test up to 10,000 connections, emulating the network traffic of hundreds of thousands of users. Testing of all sizes is simplified with Chariot 4.0's Visual Test Designer, which defines tests and sets up configurations graphically using mouse clicks and drag-and-drop techniques. The tool increases Chariot's usability and makes new users productive, enabling the set up of tests - including very large and complex ones - in minutes. With Visual Test Designer, a single graphic can be used to represent large groups of endpoint computers, eliminating the need to define test connections individually. Chariot determines the end-to-end performance of complex, multi-protocol networks by running scripts that mimic a variety of applications, including Web, VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a , videoconferencing, e-mail, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and others it conducts tests that simulate traffic of the actual network environment, providing metrics on response time, throughput, and jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle from the end-user's perspective. Chariot 4.0 ships with more than 125 popular application scripts, including new scripts to emulate Microsoft's Exchange 2000, Active Directory, SQL Server, NetMeeting, Citrix, Oracle, and a variety of VOIP codes. A Script Editor is built in to customise scripts, and an optional Application Scanner is available that analyses the network flows of custom applications to automatically create test scripts. With Chariot 4.0, buffer sizes of application scripts can be varied, providing more realistic emulation of multimedia applications, such as VOIP and streaming video that typically send data at varying packet sizes. The new version also continues to expand traceroute capabilities, which isolates performance problems by mapping and reporting the route taken by the application script, including hop-by-hop information. In addition to Win32 and Solaris already supported, traceroute testing can now be run with Linux, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. encipoints. www.netiq.com Web Watcher to stop Internet abuse Web Watcher, is a fit-and-forget monitoring application developed to prevent employees from abusing the Interact whilst working. Once the software is installed, the network administrators, departmental manager, or any other supervisor can choose to be notified via email immediately if an employee visits a web site that is not considered to be `business-oriented'. Once installed on the administrator's PC, Web Watcher can be used to send itself as an email attachment to each licensed user. The attached file will contain the installation file for the monitoring software itself. As soon as the software is installed on the employee's PC, a message will be e-mailed to the administrator automatically, in order to confirm that the software has been installed correctly. Web Watcher will provide automatic notification, via email, to the administrator when a violation of the company's AUP See acceptable use policy. AUP - acceptable use policy occurs, whilst also flashing up a message on the user's own PC to inform him that he has been reported. Each time the browser is started (or the page changes) Web Watcher tracks the web sites visited, returning an e-mail directly to the administrator if any potential abuse is detected. www.cockrane.nu WS-FTP Server 2.0 and WS-FTP Pro 6.6 Ipswitch Inc. supplier of Internet software for Windows platforms, has released WS-FTP Server 2.0, the latest version of its File Transfer Protocol A communications protocol used to transmit files without loss of data. A file transfer protocol can handle all types of files including binary files and ASCII text files. See Kermit, Zmodem and FTP. (FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to ) server for Windows NT/2000 that makes files and folders on a PC available to others via the Internet. Combined with WS-FTP Pro 6.6, the latest version of FTP client, WS-F'TP Server 2.0 provides a secure, end-to-end FTP solution for Windows NT/2000 by supporting SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (Secure Sockets Layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption. ) for file transfers. Additional new features are designed to provide network administrators with time saying benefits, further manageability of their servers and the ability to automate routine administrative tasks. www.ipswich Enterprise Vault 3.0 Enterprise Vault 3.0 is a corporate knowledge backbone, providing features such as Public Folder Support, PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there Migration, and support for Microsoft Exchange 2000 and .Windows 2000 to the product's existing features, to address the enterprise-wide email management market. A recent study of corporate email users reveals that large corporates with; over $1.6 million per year for users to find; and retrieve old email messages. Companies spend more money on this problem than for all technical support and help desk put together. This, combined with email volumes doubling every year, mean serious financial and legal implications for large corporations. Enterprise Vault provides the ability for users to search and retrieve archived Microsoft Exchange data from their desktop, as well as providing optional journaling facilities for knowledge management, audit or regulatory purposes. www.kvspic.com |
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