KnowledgeTree – Online Document Management Software

2010
09.02

Document management is one of the main challenges of organisations. It’s storing, sharing, searches and retrieval. If the documents are not organised with a proper tool, it’s a waste of effort. More and more organisations converting their hard copy documents to document management systems. In future it will be like that. Major challenge is sharing, and retrieval. KnowledgeTree is an online document management solution. Very flexible and convenient solution.
Features:-
File Sharing and Collaboration
Secure Online Access
Search and Preview
Workflow and Document Alerts
Microsoft Office Integration & Desktop Tools

TreeSize Professional – Disk Space Manager

2010
08.19

TreeSize Professional is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2003/2008 (32 or 64 Bit). Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on your disks. TreeSize Professional shows you the size, allocated and wasted space, the number of files, 3D charts, the last access date, the file owner and permissions, the NTFS compression rate and much more information of several folders or drives you choose. It also lets you search drives, entire servers or the entire network for old, big, temporary and duplicate files.

Main Features
• Visually track down disk usage and see the size of all folders including their subfolders and break it down to the file level.
• Several exporting and reporting possibilities: Printed report (showing the directory structure), Excel, HTML, XML, text file, clipboard.
• The integrated fully customizable file search helps you to find and archive the largest, oldest, obsolete and temporary files, e.g. invalid shortcuts or files owned by a nonexistent account.
• You can search multiple drives, entire servers and even your entire network neighbourhood. The search results can be exported, moved, deleted or passed to any executable file or script.

solarwinds Engineer’s Toolset

2010
08.11

Network troubleshooting is easy when you have the right network tools! Engineer’s Toolset delivers an advanced collection of must-have monitoring, discovery, diagnostic, and Cisco tools.

Explore the Tools

Monitoring Tools
• Network Performance Monitor
• Bandwidth Gauge
• SNMP Real-time graph
• Real-time interface monitor
• Advanced CPU Load
• CPU Usage
• Syslog server
• DHCP Scope monitor
Discovery Tools
• IP Network Browser
• Network Sonar
• MAC address discovery
• Subnet List
• DNS Audit
• Ping
• Port scanner
• Switch port mapper
• DNS / Whois resolver
• Advanced subnet calculator
Diagnostic Tools
• Enhanced ping
• Proxy ping
• DNS Analyzer
• Trace Route
• Spam Blacklist
• WAN killer
• Wake-on-LAN
• IP Address Management
• SNMP Brute force attack
• SNMP dictionary attack
• Remote TCP reset
• SNMP MIB Browser
Cisco Tools
• NetFlow real-time tool
• Config downloader
• Config editor/viewer
• Config uplaoder
• Router CPU Load
• Router password decryption
• TFTP Server

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Engineer’s Toolser v10

eScan AntiVirus Toolkit Utility

2010
08.05

MicroWorld Technologies Inc. providing a free AntiVirus Toolkit. It’s really useful in ad hoc / stand alone cleaning of Viruses, Spyware and Adware. Compatible with Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 2008 32 & 64-bit OS.
eScan Antivirus Toolkit 12.x features:
• Scans & cleans your computer completely and provides reports of any viruses that it finds.
• Checks and cleans all illegal dialers that are present on your computer.
• Checks and clears you of any background illegal sniffers or tools like spyware, adware, keyloggers etc. running in the memory of your computer.
• You can add this utility to the startup list of programs on your computer so that it scans and clean your computer every time you start using it.
• When you download this utility you will get it with the latest updated list of viruses that can scan and clean your computer for all known viruses.
• No need to install. Just download and run the eScan Antivirus Toolkit to scan for viruses.
• The eScan Antivirus Toolkit works on Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 & Windows 2008 (32 & 64 bit OS) and also provides multi-language support

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e Scan™ Secure-Scalable-Reliable

Aligning IT with Business Strategy

2010
08.03

Tough economic time create pressure IT capabilities. We used to hear now IT spending so much, IT department not responsive, they are not sync with business needs. Business knows the value of IT but difficult to value it or present it. It’s very challenging for CIO, to address the part.

IT defines and implement a governance process handle this situation. It meets the business expectation, customer satisfaction, proper KPI, and value of IT spending. Many organisations run IT without any proper governance. There we can see all the activities are expenses. There is no return. A serious thought and action plan highly required to tackle the issue. Improve competency, customer satisfaction, and effective use of IT resources.

SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP)

2010
07.19

Any backup is only as reliable as its ability to restore business data and applications when they are needed most. The SonicWALL® Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Series offers end-to-end backup and recovery solution for SMBs.

CDP delivers automatic, transparent backup that ensures data, applications and systems are reliably protected from common user error, hardware failure, deletion, potential disaster and malicious attack. Integrated scheduling offers administrator controls to perform backups continuously in real time or automatically on a routine basis for both files and database data set. CDP integrated scheduling performs daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly backup at a specific desired time for optimize backup operation and network resource utilization.

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Continuous Data Protection
CDP Demo

Data Centre Planning Tools

2010
07.12

I have seen companies building data centre without proper calculations. It’s end up different concerns. Data centre area / size, location, cooling, power, UPS, accessibility, maintenance, scalability, etc. If we do a proper calculation and consider all the aspects of its design we can avoid such incidents. Some scenarios after completing the design / construction understand that site don’t 3 phase power source, difficulty of water in line / drain piping of CCU. Difficulty of bring or move racks / CCU / UPS / Battery pack to data centre. Difficulty to add redundant power source, or due to the area unable to fix generator. Difficult to construct solid walls. Power backups and cost of equipments.

APC providing some tools to help us in the design / planning data centre.
• Data Center Efficiency Calculator
• UPS Efficiency Comparison Calculator
• Data Center Capital Cost Calculator
• Data Center Power Sizing Calculator
• IT Equipment Cooling Calculator

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APC Tools

WAN Link Aggregation

2010
07.08

Bandwidth Aggregation (also known as Link Balancing) also Automatic traffic failover on link or ISP failure for multiple ISPs. Additionally, it provides automatic VPN tunnel failover on most products. The products in this section all for Multi-homed ISP/WAN link failover even if your company cannot get BGP services. (If you do not know what this is, you most likely do not have BGP services from your ISPs.) Most of the products in this section work with your company’s DNS service to dynamically update the IP of the service hosted on the multiple ISPs so that the end user/client always receives content.

BIG-IP LINK CONTROLLER

F5 BIG-IP Link Controller helps you make the link aggregation. This helps us two ways, avoiding cost of higher bandwidth single link, second availability. Others we can say reliability and ROI of bandwidth. We don’t want to mention how importance the connectivity now.

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BIG-IP LINK CONTROLLER

IT MNAGEMENT FROM YOUR SMARTPHONE

2010
07.04

How to manage IT infrastructures from smart phone? More and more companies providing smart phones to employees, to extend the reach ability, access and productivity. We can manage the infrastructure through the smart phones. It supports wide range of smart phones. Rove Mobile Admin is one of the products in this category.

Feature Summary

Manage Microsoft Windows, Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange 2007, IIS, SQL Server, DHCP, DNS, Cluster Server, System Center Operation Manager, and System Center Mobile Device Manager, RSA, Lotus Domino, Novell, Oracle, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5, Citrix, HP iLO, Backup Exec and VMware Virtual Infrastructure servers, Nagios, BMC Remedy Service Desk, BMC Performance Manager Portal, Microsoft Hyper-V and create SSH/Telnet and RDP/VNC connections from your wireless handheld device or any computer.

Supported Clients
• BlackBerry smartphones
• Apple iPhone or iPod Touch devices
• Windows Mobile 6 smartphones
• Android OS 1.5+ devices

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Microsoft Exchange Server Reporting Tool

2010
07.01

Exchange administrator required a tool for reporting. This gives traffic, storage, billing, mailbox content analysis, and outlook web access. Reporting tool should be very convenient, easy to use. Provide reports in various file types, agent installation not required in server, both graphical and tabular output, and individual mailbox selection. Also need to consider the costing of tool and easy to administration.

In this category I can recommend PRAMODAG. Gives all the reporting features, cost savings and easy administration. Below listed key features:-

The product is designed for simple, convenient, and effective user interaction.
• Reports come in tabular or graphical format with many configuration options to suit specific information requirements.
• Reports can be exported to different formats: HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, RTF, MHT.
• Reports can be sent by email, published in a public folder, a Web site or to a SharePoint document library.
• Individual mailbox reports can be automatically sent to the user or manager.
• Reports options can be saved for instant access using the Favorites menu.
• Mailboxes can be selected based on various Active Directory attributes (server, OU, department…).
• Reporting period can be restricted to specific days or business hours.
• Data collection, report generation, export and publication may be automated and scheduled.
• Data repository can be an Access or SQL Server database.

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