Kapow Mobile Katalyst™

April 17th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

With traditional methods of application mobilization, projects can take years, cost millions – and often end up being abandoned. Kapow Mobile Katalyst changes the game, enabling you to mobilize any business app as much as 10x faster and 90% cheaper.

Kapow Mobile Katalyst enables the rapid mobilization of existing packaged or proprietary business applications, whether they have APIs or not. It is built on Kapow Katalyst™, the leading enterprise cloud and application integration platform proven and trusted by more than 500 customers. The unique power of Kapow Katalyst is the ability to extract, transform, integrate and migrate data without requiring application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables you to perform enterprise mobilization projects with Kapow Mobile Katalyst, fast, easily, cost-effectively. Projects that were once abandoned as too lengthy, expensive and disruptive now can go from idea to launch 10x faster and 90% cheaper with Kapow Software.

Fast track to mobility as a competitive advantage

The world is going mobile – in fact, nearly 80% of us are already there, using over 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions globally. Business is behind the curve on this one, according to Forrester: “A majority of companies either do not have a mobile strategy or are only just starting to build one. Forrester believes that they must integrate mobile as part of their overall corporate strategy as a matter of some urgency.”1

One of the hold-ups for business is the huge challenge of mobilizing existing apps, especially ones that have been around a while, were modified over time, and now have no “mobile ready” web service API. The problem is that most business apps lack APIs that expose the data and business logic you want to deliver to mobile devices. Adding a service-level interface to a legacy app is a complex development project requiring an extensive rewrite – including years of planning, coding, testing, spending, disrupting and, too often, abandoning. Kapow Mobile Katalyst changes the game by letting you repurpose existing apps as mobile apps, leaving the underlying systems untouched.

Kapow Mobile Katalyst™

Kapow Mobile Katalyst™

The picture illustrates the challenge. Just to be clear, we are not a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP). MEAPs are development frameworks to create the front-end for mobile apps for specific handsets and OSes. But first, before that can happen, you need to solve for “X”. The red X represents the data and functionality from the existing app that you want to provide in real time to mobile users. How do you get that out of the old app and ready to be tailored for the front end to the appropriate mobile form factor? That’s the sticking point with traditional approaches when there’s no API. Enter Kapow Software.

Kapow Mobile Katalyst™

Kapow Mobile Katalyst™

With Kapow Mobile Katalyst, essentially, you create a new web service interface “wrapper” without re-writing any of the existing code. The solution combines an application integration platform, a visual flow-chart development environment, a purpose-built integration browser and a collaboration platform to give you easy-to-use tools for extending any existing B2E and B2C business application to the mobile platform. With Kapow, instead of writing APIs you visually build flow-charts and data mappings to control the app’s business logic through its existing web interface, then deploy the mobilized app with one click into a production environment. Projects that took months or years are now possible in weeks or days.

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Damballa Advanced Threat Protection

April 12th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

Damballa is the leading provider of security solutions that protect enterprise, ISP and telecommunication networks against advanced malware, persistent threats, and zero-day targeted attacks. Our unique approach rapidly identifies the command-and-control infrastructure used by criminal operators to exfiltrate data from assets and devices infected with malware. Our signatureless solutions improve security both inside and outside the network perimeter and stop threats traditional prevention solutions miss. Damballa identifies the severity and intent of these attacks even when the malware evades detection.

Damballa Advanced Threat Protection

Damballa Advanced Threat Protection

For Enterprise Networks

Damballa Failsafe is the leading solution for detecting and terminating persistent threats and targeted attacks in enterprise networks. Damballa Failsafe hunts for hidden infections and undetected threats by monitoring and analyzing egress, proxy and DNS traffic, and detecting and analyzing suspicious file downloads. By correlating suspicious network activity, Damballa Failsafe can pinpoint infected assets while profiling the severity of the threat and providing full forensics regarding threat activity and the criminal operators behind the threat.

For Service Provider Networks

Damballa CSP is protecting some of the largest cable and wireless ISP networks in the world. By monitoring DNS activity to detect infected subscribers, Damballa CSP is a ‘light weight’, highly scalable and powerful solution for identifying network abuse and infected subscribers.

Advanced Threat Intelligence

Damballa FirstAlert is the advanced cyber threat intelligence system that powers the Damballa Failsafe and Damballa CSP offerings. Damballa FirstAlert detects emerging threats long before the rest of the security industry has discovered and analyzed the related malware, and it is based on more than a half a decade of global DNS traffic monitoring and malware analysis, superior machine learning technology, six patents pending and backed by some of the world’s leading authorities in cyber threats and criminal networks.

 

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Veeam Backup & Replication

April 4th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

Built specifically for virtual environments

Server virtualization has been a compelling event for organizations of all sizes to rethink their data protection and disaster recovery (DR) strategies. Many companies have realized that having a server backup and disaster recovery plan built specifically for virtual environments is essential. Veeam Backup & Replication provides fast, flexible and reliable recovery of virtualized applications and data. It unifies backup and replication in a single solution, increases the value of backup and reinvents data protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments.

One install, One interface, One product

Veeam Backup & Replication is built specifically for virtual environments to provide fast backup and recovery for virtual machines running on both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V. With a single license, from a unified console, you can support your entire virtual infrastructure with industry leading features such as instant file level recovery and streamlined VM recovery, scalability, 2-in-1 backup & replication, built-in de-duplication, centralized management and much more. Whether you are using VMware or Hyper-V – we’ve got you covered!

Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Backup & Replication

Leverage virtualization-specific approach

Veeam Backup & Replication protects your investment in virtualization by helping to maintain business continuity and provide you the tools needed to remain flexible and agile so you can meet the ever-changing needs of the organization. Veeam Backup & Replication is much simpler and less expensive to maintain and license than legacy backup tools. It’s licensed per CPU socket and includes backup, replication, de-duplication, multi hypervisor support and centralized management in one cohesive solution. Veeam Backup & Replication provides the most comprehensive protection of your virtual infrastructure at a fraction of the price of other solutions.

 

Reduce amount of time spent on backups

Are you spending too much time on backups? Are your backups taking too long? Unlike traditional file-based backups, Veeam Backup & Replication provides image-based backups that allow for quick recovery of an entire VM, file or application item. Now you can backup as frequently as you need to, what you need to, and still easily meet your recovery point objectives (RPOs).

 

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FIREMON BACKBOX

March 26th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

ENTERPRISE BACKUP FOR SECURITY DEVICES

Network devices fail all too often and when they do, recovery can be difficult and the outage costly. Failures come from lots of sources including hardware, software and operating system malfunctions, misconfigurations, upgrades and high-availability replication.

When failures occur, recovery time needs to be short. Homegrown scripts are ineffective and unreliable. You need recent, verified backups of all your network devices in a centralized, secure location. You need BackBox.

SCALABLE, RELIABLE DEVICE BACKUP

Firewalls, routers, switches, content filters and load balancers make up the core of networking devices in the enterprise today. All of them play critical roles in the availability and security of the network, and it is important to ensure they continue to function correctly.

FIREMON BACKBOX

FIREMON BACKBOX

Central and Secure Backups:
BackBox provides a single, central location for all your network device backups, ensuring that recovery always starts from the same location. It is protected by a state-of-the-art infrastructure to ensure no compromise of your critical configurations.

Verified For Recovery:
A backup is worthwhile only if it is usable when you need it. BackBox’s verification system ensures that all of the components necessary for restoration are captured and usable.

Real-Time Reporting:
To ensure that management and compliance initiatives are met, BackBox provides a full suite of reporting, including a live dashboard with real-time status, a detailed backup log, and alerts and notifications.

Disaster Recovery:
Backup is a central function in most disaster recovery plans. BackBox supports disaster recovery planning and execution with the templates and procedures necessary for quick and successful recovery.

 

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Silver Peak Data Center Class WAN Optimization

March 25th, 2012 Abdul Saleem

Silver Peak provides a robust WAN optimization solution that addresses the bandwidth, latency, and packet loss issues that are common to most enterprise environments. Silver Peak’s optimization techniques are all performed in real-time and primarily at the network (IP) layer to ensure maximum performance across the widest range of applications and WAN environments.

Silver Peak appliances leverage the following Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA) technology components to accelerate all enterprises applications in a secure and reliable fashion:

Network Memory: Silver Peak’s patent-pending solution for disk based WAN deduplication. Network Memory inspects all traffic that is sent between clients and servers, storing information as a local instance in Silver Peak appliances. Repetitive information is delivered locally rather than sent across the WAN, improving application performance and WAN utilization. Cross-flow payload and header compression provide additional gains on first-time data transfers and non-repetitive traffic.

Network Integrity: Silver Peak employs a variety of real-time techniques to address packet delivery issues common to shared WAN technologies, such as MPLS and IP VPN. These include adaptive Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Packet Order Correction (POC) to overcome dropped and out-of-order packets, and advanced Quality of Service (QoS) techniques to prioritize traffic and guarantee network resources.

Network Acceleration: Silver Peak mitigates the impacts of latency across the WAN by using various TCP acceleration techniques, like adjustable window sizing and selective acknowledgements, as well as CIFS acceleration techniques, such as read-aheads and write-behinds. These tools help to overcome inherent chattiness that can otherwise hamper application performance across a WAN

Secure Content Architecture™: Silver Peak keeps enterprise data secure with its Secure Content Architecture. All NX appliances are equipped with hardware based AES encryption to protect local data stores. Optional IPsec keeps content safe when it traverses the WAN. Intelligent security policies can be established for granular control of WAN traffic.

Are you struggling with how to deliver applications to distributed locations or hot to protect data across the WAN? Do you want a way to centralize branch office infrastructure, but are limited by the performance of your WAN? Have you tried compression and/or Quality of Service (QoS) techniques, but still are not getting the results you desire? Are you disappointed with acceleration products that only work on a specific application, and require significant investment in time and resources to deploy and keep current?

Silver Peak Data Center Class WAN Optimization

Silver Peak Data Center Class WAN Optimization

Silver Peak has the answer. By using the latest in WAN acceleration technology, the Silver Peak solution provides the following tangible business benefits:

  • Improve application performance. Applications are no longer subject to the bandwidth and latency issues inherent to WANs.
  • Increase employee productivity. Better application response time makes end users more productive.
  • Reduce server hardware costs. Branch office servers and storage can be eliminated as infrastructure is centralized within a data center. In addition, enterprises do not have to pay additional facility and environmental costs to house servers at remote facilities.
  • Minimize software licensing costs. Reducing the amount of application servers can minimize licensing costs in some application pricing models.
  • Decrease WAN expenditures. When information is localized, less traffic traverses the WAN. This maximizes bandwidth utilization, which minimizes WAN costs.
  • Lower IT support costs. Server centralization minimizes the need for onsite technical support staff in remote offices, and reduces travel costs to these facilities.
  • Maximize security and data protection. Enterprise data is best protected when servers are placed in a data center with proper security precautions and environmental protections.
  • Facilitate compliance. IT staff can better audit servers to ensure that they are properly configured in a centralized environment.
  • Improve disaster recovery. It is easier to enforce server backups and ensure proper data storage and retrieval when branch office infrastructure is centrally controlled and managed.

The Silver Peak solution was designed from the ground up to support a wide variety of business-critical applications in a secure, scalable, and reliable manner. Specific technology features of the Silver Peak solution, and the associated enterprise benefits that they provide, include:

Benefits

Technology Features
Enterprise Scalability, from remote offices to large data centers • Not limited by TCP flows
• Silver Peak appliances support 2 Mbps to 2.5 Gbps of WAN bandwidth capacity
LAN-Like Performance, for optimal application delivery across a distributed enterprise • Information delivered locally when possible
• Only deltas traverse the WAN when delivering “similar” data
• Advanced payload and header compression
• Latency/loss mitigation, including TCP acceleration, and adaptive FEC
• Quality of Service
Complete Application Transparency • No modification required to clients, servers, or network infrastructure
• Byte-level visibility works across all applications
Secure Data Protection, in the box and across the WAN • Real-time encryption of disk drives using 128-bit AES
• IPsec tunneling between Silver Peak Appliances
Network Resiliency, providing maximum application performance with maximum up-time • NX series appliances feature redundant power supplies
• Fail-to-wire (in most models)
• Redundant deployment options
Manageability, for rapid deployment and cost effective operations • Easy-to-use setup wizard
• Intuitive UI for configuration, monitoring, management, and reporting

 

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