Dell Software Releases AppAssure 5.4 Data Backup Platform

AppAssure 5.4 features a slew upgrades designed to improve replication, optimize performance and reporting, and broaden platform support.

Dell Software announced the launch of AppAssure 5.4, the latest version of the company’s all-in-one backup, replication and disaster recovery software platform.

AppAssure 5.4 features a slew upgrades designed to improve replication, optimize performance and reporting, and broaden platform support.

The latest version is also designed to offer a simplified user experience to help meet the data protection needs of both customers and managed service providers (MSPs).

Additional upgrades include protection schedule templates, nightly mount checks, and reduced memory consumption.

A host of replication enhancements give users more control and flexibility when architecting their data protection environment.

AppAssure 5.4 features multi-target and multi-hop replication capabilities, allowing users to replicate backup data from a single AppAssure core server to multiple target servers.

Other new replication features include scheduled replication that enables users to set customized replication schedules for each target, and advanced replication throttling, which lets users limit the speed of replication in bandwidth-constrained environments.

"Modern data protection is about ensuring that critical data and applications can be quickly recovered in the event of an outage or corruption. Prolonged downtime simply isn’t acceptable," Srinidhi Vardarajan, general manager of data protection for Dell Software, said in a statement. "That means customers and MSPs not only need solutions that are fast, scalable and reliable, they also need the flexibility to build a program based on the specific recovery needs of their businesses and clients."

AppAssure 5.4 further empowers MSPs to manage customers’ backup environments with numerous replication, reporting and management enhancements.

In addition, Dell Software now offers a variety of sales tools and training materials tailored specifically for the MSP community, with Accelerite (formally Persistent System’s rCloud), JMK Solutions, Synesis International and Intelice Solutions all recently becoming partners.

The platform also offers support for a wide range of critical systems including VMware ESX 5.5, Oracle VirtualBox, UEFI, RHEL 6.5, and CentOS 6.5.

A series of upgrades provide new and existing users with a more streamlined management experience, such as a new graphical user interface that provides quicker access to the most commonly used areas of the product.

The release also offers dynamic deduplication cache sizing, which helps simplify the configuration process and delivers more optimal performance by automatically selecting the ideal deduplication cache size based on available memory.

"The release of AppAssure 5.4 is the latest example of how Dell Software’s robust portfolio of data protection solutions gives them just that," Vardarajan continued. "With AppAssure, users can protect data continuously, move data anywhere, and, when the time comes, recover everything and recover it quickly."

A host of replication enhancements give users more control and flexibility when architecting their data protection environment.

AppAssure 5.4 features multi-target and multi-hop replication capabilities, allowing users to replicate backup data from a single AppAssure core server to multiple target servers. Other new replication features include scheduled replication that enables users to set customized replication schedules for each target, and advanced replication throttling, which lets users limit the speed of replication in bandwidth-constrained environments. "Modern data protection is about ensuring that critical data and applications can be quickly recovered in the event of an outage or corruption. Prolonged downtime simply isn’t acceptable," Srinidhi Vardarajan, general manager of data protection for Dell Software, said in a statement. "That means customers and MSPs not only need solutions that are fast, scalable and reliable, they also need the flexibility to build a program based on the specific recovery needs of their businesses and clients." AppAssure 5.4 further empowers MSPs to manage customers’ backup environments with numerous replication, reporting and management enhancements. In addition, Dell Software now offers a variety of sales tools and training materials tailored specifically for the MSP community, with Accelerite (formally Persistent System’s rCloud), JMK Solutions, Synesis International and Intelice Solutions all recently becoming partners. The platform also offers support for a wide range of critical systems including VMware ESX 5.5, Oracle VirtualBox, UEFI, RHEL 6.5, and CentOS 6.5. A series of upgrades provide new and existing users with a more streamlined management experience, such as a new graphical user interface that provides quicker access to the most commonly used areas of the product. The release also offers dynamic deduplication cache sizing, which helps simplify the configuration process and delivers more optimal performance by automatically selecting the ideal deduplication cache size based on available memory. "The release of AppAssure 5.4 is the latest example of how Dell Software’s robust portfolio of data protection solutions gives them just that," Vardarajan continued. "With AppAssure, users can protect data continuously, move data anywhere, and, when the time comes, recover everything and recover it quickly." - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/small-business/dell-software-releases-appassure-5.4-data-backup-platform.html#sthash.YNBcBhmU.dpuf

Jalbum 10.4.4

                                          

    JAlbum is a program which allows you to seamlessly create and fully customize albums with pictures.In the user-friendly interface you can import images of various formats (e.g. BMP, PNG, TIF, JPG), by using the file browser or the "drag and drop" method, and by specifying the album name, description and location.

• OS Requirement  -Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7

• License Freeware File Size          =    46.6 MB

• Version 10.4.4

• Date Added         = Mon 12, 2012 at 11:40 am.

                                      

Internet Domains Top 271 Million

The Internet continues to grow, as top-level domains including dot-com remain strong.
VeriSign released its quarterly Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) on April 9, once again showing a steady rise in the total number of top-level domains (TLDs) on the Internet. The fourth-quarter DNIB reported that there are now 271 million domains registered across all TLDs.

TLDs include the popular .com and .net domains, both of which are administered by VeriSign under a contract with the U.S. Department of Commerce that was most recently renewed in 2012.

According to VeriSign, the .com and .net registries now include a combined 127.2 million registered domain names, with 112 million in .com and 15.2 million in .net. Year-over-year growth for the combined .com and .net domain space was reported at 5 percent.

The other large component driving TLD registrations comes from country-code TLDs (ccTLDs). At the end of 2013, the total number of ccTLD registrations was reported by VeriSign to be 123.5 million, for a 12.1 percent year-over-year growth rate.

The most popular TLD as ranked by the total number of registered domains is .com. Following .com is the .tk domain, which is the country-code TLD (ccTLD) for Tokelau, a small territory in the South Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. One of the reasons for the popularity of the .tk ccTLD is the fact that it offers free domain names to anyone who wants one.

The .tk ccTLD is managed by domain registry operator Freenom. The way that Freenom's .tk ccTLD actually generates revenue is by monetizing domains that expire.

"Domains that are no longer used by the registrant or are expired are taken back by Freenom and the residual traffic is sold to advertisement networks," Freenom stated in a recent press release. "Next to this primary source of income, additional revenue will be generated by offering digital white labeled services, such as hosting packages, SSL certificates and others, to free domain name users."

The domains .de (Germany), .net, .uk (United Kingdom), .org, .cn (China), .info, .ru (Russian Federation) and .nl (Netherlands) round out the top 10 in the TLD list.

DNS

In addition to managing the .com and .net TLDs, VeriSign also manages the root zone for the global Domain Name System (DNS) that powers the entire Internet. VeriSign manages root DNS under contract with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the Commerce Department. IANA control is set to shift away from the Commerce Department by 2015. The transition, however, is not expected to impact VeriSign's administration of DNS.

During the fourth quarter of 2013, VeriSign reported that its root DNS infrastructure had a peak domain query load of 100 billion queries a day, which is a 19.2 percent decrease from the fourth quarter of 2012. The average daily DNS query volume during the fourth quarter of 2013 was reported at 82 billion queries a day, for a 6.4 percent year-over-year increase.

The most popular TLD as ranked by the total number of registered domains is .com. Following .com is the .tk domain, which is the country-code TLD (ccTLD) for Tokelau, a small territory in the South Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. One of the reasons for the popularity of the .tk ccTLD is the fact that it offers free domain names to anyone who wants one.

The .tk ccTLD is managed by domain registry operator Freenom. The way that Freenom's .tk ccTLD actually generates revenue is by monetizing domains that expire. "Domains that are no longer used by the registrant or are expired are taken back by Freenom and the residual traffic is sold to advertisement networks," Freenom stated in a recent press release. "Next to this primary source of income, additional revenue will be generated by offering digital white labeled services, such as hosting packages, SSL certificates and others, to free domain name users." The domains .de (Germany), .net, .uk (United Kingdom), .org, .cn (China), .info, .ru (Russian Federation) and .nl (Netherlands) round out the top 10 in the TLD list. DNS In addition to managing the .com and .net TLDs, VeriSign also manages the root zone for the global Domain Name System (DNS) that powers the entire Internet. VeriSign manages root DNS under contract with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the Commerce Department. IANA control is set to shift away from the Commerce Department by 2015. The transition, however, is not expected to impact VeriSign's administration of DNS. During the fourth quarter of 2013, VeriSign reported that its root DNS infrastructure had a peak domain query load of 100 billion queries a day, which is a 19.2 percent decrease from the fourth quarter of 2012. The average daily DNS query volume during the fourth quarter of 2013 was reported at 82 billion queries a day, for a 6.4 percent year-over-year increase. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/it-management/internet-domains-top-271-million.html#sthash.IO3cOSHh.dpuf

Intel, SGI Test 3M Liquid Cooling Technology

The two-phase process involves submerging the system in 3M's Novec fluid, a process officials said may reduce data center cooling costs by 95 percent.
Intel and SGI are using a supercomputer to test a data center cooling technology that calls for the system to be fully submerged in a liquid developed by 3M.

Officials with the three companies say that the cooling method could save as much as 95 percent in the cost of cooling the data center and significantly reduce the floor space needed for the infrastructure.

Keeping the data center cool enough to avoid problems caused by heat has been an issue for organizations for years. Heat can cause a range of headaches for IT administrators, from huge power bills and system failures to shorter component life and environmental concerns. System and component makers have been working to make their products more energy-efficient, and data center administrators use a variety of methods—like hot/cold aisles, massive air conditioning units and outside air—to keep the facilities cool.

Using liquid to keep the systems cooler has been experimented with for years, from IBM's Rear Door Heat Exchanger technology, which can be installed on server rack doors and uses chilled water, to other immersive liquids. Fujitsu last year introduced a new cooling technology called Liquid Loop Cooling, which uses a combination of liquid and air. Intel two years ago worked with a company called Green Revolution Cooling, whose CarnoJet System keeps systems cool by submerging them in a dielectric fluid called GreenDEF. The liquid is a blend of white mineral oil that company officials say has 1,200 times the heat capacity by volume than air. They said the process can reduce power use related to cooling by as much as 95 percent and the total power consumption of the data center by half.

The need for more efficient cooling systems will only grow as trends like cloud computing, virtualization and the Internet of things promise to increase the demand on data centers for more compute, storage and networking capabilities.

In the proof-of-concept run by Intel, SGI and 3M, the vendors submerged an SGI ICE X—the latest generation of the OEM's distributed memory supercomputer, which runs on Intel's Xeon E5-2600 server chips—into 3M's Novec Engineered Fluid, another dielectric fluid. 3M engineers have developed a two-phase immersion process that they said will reduce cooling energy costs by 95 percent.

It also will mean that organizations will no longer have to rely on municipal water supplies for evaporative cooling—greatly reducing the water consumption in the facility—and that the head taken from the system can be reused for heating systems and other tasks, such as the desalination of sea water, according to 3M officials.

The system works by submerging the system into the Novec fluid. The heat from the system is pulled away by the fluid, and the vapor is released and then condenses, falling back into the bath as liquid.

Because of the tremendous gains in energy efficiency, organizations will be able to more tightly pack components and do more computing in less space. According to 3M, businesses will be able to do the same amount of computing in a 10th of the space used by traditional air-cooled data centers. Using the Novec cooling system, a data center can support 100 kilowatts of computing power in a square meter. By contrast, traditional air-cooled facilities can support up to 10 kilowatts per square meter.

"As the backbone of the data economy, modern data centers must increase the raw performance they deliver, but also do so efficiently by containing power consumption and operating costs," Charles Wuishpard, vice president of Intel's Data Center Group and general manager of workstation and high performance computing at the company, said in a statement.

SGI officials noted that their ICE X supercomputer can scale from tens of teraflops of performance to tens of petaflops, and allows for tighter packaging of components and easy scalability. Having more efficient and less costly ways of managing data center and system cooling will help ICE X customers better leverage capabilities of the supercomputer, they said.

According to the vendors, more in-depth evaluation of the Novec system installation will begin this month. In addition, they also are working with the Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and APC by Schneider Electric to evaluate an identical system, with the hope of showing that it can be used in data centers of any scale.

KMPlayer 3.3.0.33

                      

KMPlayer sits at the top, sharing its ranks with other notorious applications such as Windows Media Player, VLC media player, BS.Player or Gom Player.

OS Requirement Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7

License Freeware File Size       23.1 MB

Version 3.3.0.33

Date Added Wed 05, 2012 at 04:05 pm

                               

AVG launches Zen, a security app for managing all your devices

AVG has announced the launch of its new Zen, a tool to manage the protection, performance, and privacy of all your PC and Android devices from one place. Zen allows you to add any of your and your family's devices, so you can monitor their security remotely.
AVG Zen was first revealed at the Mobile World Congress in February. It gives you a centralized hub where you can see the security status of your various devices, and works with all of AVG's main products: AVG Internet Security, AVG PC TuneUp, AVG PrivacyFix, AVG Antivirus for Android, AVG Cleaner for Android, AVG PrivacyFix for Android and AVG Zen Admin for Android apps.
AVG isn't the only company who sees centralized device management as the future for security apps. We saw Remo MORE at the Mobile World Congress, which lets you optimize performance, manage files and more remotely too.
We spoke to AVG's security evangelist Tony Anscombe in February, who said the company tried to create something that was very easy to use and understand. He said it would give parents the knowledge and power to manage their family's security and privacy settings. The interface is very simple, and clearly shows you the status of each of your connected devices, while making it easy to change the settings on any of them.

FTL: Faster Than Light out now for iPad

FTL: Faster Than Light, the popular PC indie space simulation game, is out now on iPad. This coincides with the release of the free Advanced Edition expansion for the original PC version.
The expansion is free for everyone with the PC game, and the new iPad version also includes the Advanced Edition content. It costs $10, which is the same as the PC release. The developers say 'the iPad version is a true equivalent to the PC in the experience it provides, which is why we are price matching to the PC version.' This means there will be non of the in-app purchases which have become common, and sometimes controversial, in mobile gaming.
FTL is a game about running a spaceship and exploring the galaxy. As captain, you have to 'manage the crew, fix the engines, reroute power to shields, target the enemy life support, and then figure out how to repel the boarders that just transported over!' It was influenced by classic sci-fi like Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica.
You can buy the game on PC or iPad. Unfortunately there is no demo, although the developers say they 'hope to release one'. Watch this space.
Source: FTL