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SAN JOSE, March 30, 2009 -– LogLogic®, the log management leader, today announced it has been included in Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Storage Technology and Systems, 2009″ report by Roger W. Cox, John Monroe, Pushan Rinnen, Stanley Zaffos, Donna Taylor and Joseph Unsworth.

Gartner’s report recommends that IT professionals consider and evaluate innovative technologies from emerging vendors if they reduce cost and simplify the storage infrastructure and improve data availability. According to the report, published on March 23, 2009, “Bandwidth reduction and greater safeguards against internal and external threats via log management will result in cost savings to the customer in time saved and threats avoided.”

“Most enterprises generate more than a terabyte of log data every day,” said Pat Sueltz, CEO of LogLogic. “We take that previously unused machine language and turn it into usable information that simplifies compliance, security, governance and IT operational information. What could be cooler than returning 30% of an enterprise’s lost data as valuable intelligence, without using agents or costly professional services? We are leading innovators in this field – just plug in LogLogic and away you go.”

As the log management leader, LogLogic serves more than 700 customers worldwide with cost effective solutions for security information and event management (SIEM), business operations and regulatory compliance. LogLogic’s open log management platform enables customers to build their own applications and workflows for comprehensive and effective log management. LogLogic also provides various compliance suites and the Lasso Gateway appliance for centralizing Windows event collection.

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Virtual PBX®, the inventor and leading supplier of hosted business phone services, and Gizmo5, the leading standards-based consumer calling service, today announced a new collaboration that gives clients a complete business-class phone solution that offers the industry’s deepest feature set at a price level well below the current industry standard.

Built on an open-system VoIP peering platform, the new service combines the feature-rich products of both companies. As part of the announcement, Virtual PBX has launched iVPBX, a new product that provides customers with unlimited inbound calling and no per-minute fees at a price of just under $10 per seat — about one-fourth to one-fifth the cost of most competing plans. Gizmo5 clients who use the new iVPBX product can send calls by IP directly to their Gizmo phones at no cost.

“This deeper relationship with Gizmo5 is a sound next step for Virtual PBX, following on its innovative open VoIP peering technology announced last November,” said Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst of the Enderle Group. “The attractive pricing for its new iVPBX product comes at an ideal time given the current economic conditions, and continues Virtual PBX’s leadership in supporting the small business market.”

Virtual PBX has been delivering calls to businesses through its hosted PBX service since 1997. Typically, companies using the service have one main business number for clients to call. Virtual PBX takes those calls, answers them with a “virtual” attendant, and then delivers them to employees using any kind of phone, in any location. This has enabled small firms and those with distributed employees to portray a professional phone image and get top-end features without the expense or maintenance hassles of purchasing their own telecommunications hardware.

Traditional Virtual PBX pricing plans include a varying number of free minutes with a price of 4.4 to 6.5 cents per…

Intel expects its new line of Xeon processors for servers and workstations to serve as the catalyst to interconnect 15 billion devices worldwide by 2015. Intel also predicts that its latest 45nm chips will create opportunities to push the limits of science and technology.

Based on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture, the new Xeon 5500 processors have showcased groundbreaking advances in performance, virtualization and workload management, according to Intel Senior Vice President Patrick Gelsinger. “As the Internet expands toward our vision of 15 billion connected devices by 2015, the Xeon 5500 will also be a foundational technology for the transformation of Internet infrastructure,” he said.

The industry is currently aligned on a cloud-computing vision in which applications are served from optimized hardware — making them available on demand and scalable, Gelsinger noted. “Executing to this vision requires underlying technology that incorporates the adaptability, capability, and intelligence of our newest Xeon processor,” he said.

A Big Play

More than 230 systems based on the Xeon 5500 processor are already in the works at more than 70 system manufacturers around the world, including Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and others. One reason is that Intel is making “a big play” when it comes to processor power consumption, said Matthew Wilkins, a principal analyst at iSuppli.

“Successive generations of microprocessors are now delivering more performance and consuming less energy,” Wilkins said. “If your organization runs a data center or server farm with hundreds, even thousands, of systems or microprocessors, moving to newer, more efficient microprocessors can deliver cost savings through a reduction of power consumption.”

The Xeon 5500 integrates automated energy-efficiency enhancements that provide users with greater control of energy expenditures. For example, achieving a processor idle power level of only 10 watts will enable a 50 percent reduction in system idle power compared to the previous chip…

Sony Computer Entertainment America has made the cut. The consumer entertainment-device maker cut the price of the popular Sony PlayStation 2 gaming console by 25 percent on Tuesday.

Beginning April 1, the Sony PlayStation 2 will be priced at $99.99. Sony hopes to tap into a market of gamers who weren’t born when PS2 was launched in 2000, according to John Koller, director of hardware marketing.

“In the gaming industry, the typical life cycle for a console is around five years, but because we build each of our platforms for a large and diverse consumer base, we design our platforms differently,” Koller wrote in a PS2 blog post. “With the original PlayStation and now PlayStation 2, we’ve proven that consumers can rely on our platforms for their gaming and entertainment needs for at least a decade.”

Just as PS2 has reached a decade of being on the shelves, Sony Entertainment President Jack Tretton believes PlayStation 3 will have the same success. “We believe PlayStation 3 offers the same promise by helping secure the Blu-ray format and delivering unprecedented value as the total home entertainment solution for the next decade,” he said.

Mixed Reactions

Sony also made the cut to reach a group of users unable to afford the gaming console at its full price, and that led to some happy consumers, including someone with the screen name Monsignor.

“YES!!!! I’ve been waiting for this price to drop below $100 for over eight years,” said the poster on Sony’s blog. “Finally, I can now go out and buy it and see what all this fuss is about. Thanks, Sony.”

While a minority of posters were happy with the price cut, a majority of comments from gamers indicated disappointment. Users had hoped for either a price cut for the PS3 or new firmware.

“The PS2 is a system…

Boston, MA, March 31, 2009 — Core Security Technologies, provider of the CORE IMPACT family of comprehensive enterprise security testing solutions, today announced a new partnership with Patriot Technologies. The addition of Patriot Technologies to Core Security’s Value Added Reseller (VAR) Program will allow the software maker to extend its ability to provide comprehensive security testing solutions to federal and commercial entities, and also enable Patriot Technologies to broaden the depth and breadth of their offerings.

“Based on Patriot’s experienced and dedicated field sales professionals, their reputation as a trusted advisor within the security space and their history of offering services concentrating on information security and information technology, we felt that this was a perfect fit for the CORE IMPACT family of products,” said Jeff Clark, vice president of business development of Core Security Technologies. “With this new partnership, together we will be able to help more government organizations to comply with IT security regulations and lock-down their systems and infrastructure.”

CORE IMPACT Pro has proven itself as an extremely valuable asset in helping organizations meet specific security testing requirements (e.g., standards including FISMA, PCI and NIST), and in helping organizations prove that other prescribed defense mechanisms and policies are functioning properly. By taking a comprehensive, real-world approach to security testing, CORE IMPACT Pro helps organizations meet the letter of the law, and embrace the underlying spirit of compliance regulations.

“Integrating the CORE IMPACT family of products into our solutions will help us take our security offerings to the next level,” said Bruce Tucker, president and founder of Patriot Technologies. “We look forward to demonstrating to our customers how Core Security offers a unique insight into their security posture.”

As a respected leader in the federal space, Patriot Technologies has multiple contract vehicles that allow agencies to benefit from pre-negotiated pricing. Patriot’s federal contracts…

Intel has taken the wraps off a new quad-core Xeon 5500 processor that the chipmaker is calling its most important server product launch since the Pentium Pro came to market in 1995.

“Simply put, the Xeon 5500 is a technological marvel — the most spectacular processor that Intel has ever produced and that the industry has ever seen,” said Intel Senior Vice President Pat Gelsinger.

More than 100 applications were released Monday that have been optimized for the new Xeon chip, which is based on Intel’s Nehalem microarchitecture. “This is the most that Intel has ever had for a server launch,” Gelsinger said.

Performance Enhancements

The Xeon 5500 integrates QuickPath technology under which each processor core has its own integrated memory controller and high-speed interconnect for linking processors and other components, which speeds up applications. The new processor also integrates Intel’s Turbo Boost technology, which enables all active processor cores to intelligently clock themselves up in increments as long as the CPU is operating below its maximum power, current and temperature specs.

“We can turbo up all the cores if there is thermal headroom; then, when a lighter workload is detected, shut off cores and turn up the remaining cores, with this done dynamically and detected in real time,” Gelsinger said.

The new chip for servers and workstations also receives a big multitasking boost from hyperthreading technology capable of supporting up to 16 threads. Also on tap: a multi-level shared cache that reduces latency to frequently used data, together with Intel’s 5520 chipset and related technologies.

“The full cadre of the technology I have been talking about have given power efficiency gains — not just at the processor level but also at the platform level,” Gelsinger said.

Gelsinger also said Intel has set 30 new server performance benchmark records using the Xeon…