Infrastructure

Making a play for the growing multifunction printer (MFP) device market, Xerox has released a device combining printing, scanning and faxing capabilities with its heritage in copying.

Sun Microsystems Inc. and IBM Corp. have both introduced data tape encryption technology, protecting against a security breach that can endanger or embarrass an enterprise.

Novell Inc.'s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10) offers greater compatibility and integration with various Windows business applications. SLED 10 comes with a number of open-source-based applications, including Novell

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Companies need to protect and access their data. But all too often they find themselves adrift when it comes to recovering data, pushed into a reactive mode that is not only costly and time consuming, but can jeopardize business. That said, businesses of all sizes should take a proactive approach to data protection to intelligently prepare for the inevitable recovery demand, instead of just hoping for the best.

Dell rolled out five servers aimed at small businesses and remote offices that are easier for customers to deploy and manage than its current lineup.

In a continuing bid to capture some of the tape-backup market, Microsoft Corp. released a beta version of the upgrade to its file-and-application server recovery software, which includes support for a wider range of the company's server products.

Oracle Corp. released Version 4.5 of BerkeleyDB, the embedable database it acquired through the purchase of SleepyCat Software Inc. New features include multiversion concurrency control for databases often accessed by many users at once, the ability to install upgrades and patches in replicated BerkeleyDB environments without taking the database off-line and a prebuilt replication environment for easier deployment of high-availability systems.