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Security

Foundry Networks, Inc., a performance and total solutions leader for end-to-end switching and routing, and Secure Computing Corporation announced a comprehensive security solutions partnership to reinforce enterprise gateway security through Web security, messaging security and network gateway security. www.securecomputing.com

HP strengthened its security portfolio, HP Secure Advantage, with the introduction of several products that increase data protection and compliance in storage environments. www.hp.com

Cisco announced a number of enhancements across its portfolio that evolve the company's Self-Defending Network solution from network security offerings into a broader systems approach that strengthens the overall protection of networks as well as the increasingly diverse number of endpoints, applications, and content that utilize them. www.cisco.com

Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of the public beta release of its next-generation Microsoft Forefront security solution, currently code-named “Stirling.” www.microsoft.com

RSA, the Security Division of EMC, outlined the next phase in its solution for Identity Assurance - a key component of the company's Information Risk Management strategy - offering a set of solutions with capabilities designed to minimize information risk and enable business success and innovation for customers. www.emc.com

RSA, the Security Division of EMC, announced the next generation of RSA Authentication Manager, the software management platform and the power behind the flagship RSA SecurID solution. www.emc.com

RSA, the Security Division of EMC, introduced a new offering, RSA Key Manager (RKM) for the Datacenter, designed to centralize and streamline encryption key lifecycle management throughout the enterprise. www.emc.com

EMC announced the availability of a new integrated solution aimed at bridging the IT and security operations functions in support of improved compliance, risk management and cost control. www.emc.com

RSA, the Security Division of EMC announced the advancement of the RSA Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Suite through new capabilities that are designed to allow customers to secure the sensitive information that is most critical to their businesses. www.emc.com

Abaca Technology Corporation announced that its revolutionary anti-spam solution is now available for enterprise customers with the release of the Abaca Email Protection Gateway EPG 3000. www.abaca.com

Sendmail, Inc. announced the release of two new appliances; The Sentrion MPV and The Sentrion MPQ. www.sendmail.com

Azaleos Corporation announced ProtectXchange a new email security offering available under its OneStop brand of Managed Microsoft Exchange services. www.azaleos.com

Archiving and Compliance

Mimosa Systems and Nexsan Technologies, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term disk storage, have partnered to provide an integrated, cost-effective solution featuring next-generation, single-instance information storage with integrity checking and full audit logging. www.mimosasystems.com

C2C and Titus Labs, Inc. are working together to provide solutions that will allow organizations to make more informed decisions concerning the archiving, storage, retention and discovery of business records, while reducing storage costs simultaneously. www.c2c.com / www.titus-labs.com

Business Social Networks

IBM announced that its new portal software with Web 2.0 support will ship this quarter. Called IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1, it is designed to securely combine information from both the enterprise and the Web. www.ibm.com

IBM unveiled the industry's first complete mashup portfolio for business, empowering individuals to create situational applications, or mashups, and to help them do their jobs more effectively and meet the needs of the emerging real time enterprise. Innovative companies of every size are beginning to realize the value of service oriented architecture and possibilities of Web 2.0. www.ibm.com

Cisco launched several talent innovations, including its next-generation partner talent platform, the Partner Talent Network. This new platform uses advanced social networking capabilities and interactive video to transform how channel partners attract, develop and retain employees. www.cisco.com

Socialtext announced the release of Socialtext 2.20, which now contains a number of enhancements which make it easier for organizations to add new content to the wiki. www.socialtext.com

Wireless

Palm, Inc. announced the Palm Centro smartphone is now available to StarHub mobile customers in Singapore, making its trademark ease of use accessible for even more customers who want to stay connected with friends, family and co-workers. www.palm.com

Miscellaneous

Secure Computing Corporation unveiled TrustedSource Alliance, a new partner program that makes, TrustedSource, available to partners for integration into, or interoperability with their products and solutions. www.securecomputing.com

HP announced the availability of HP Upline, a new subscription service designed to help customers readily back up, access, share and store digital content over any Internet connection. www.hp.com

IBM announced a breakthrough in safeguarding virtual server environments and introduced new software to help businesses better manage risk. www.ibm.com

EMC announced five new information-centric security consulting services leveraging solutions from RSA, The Security Division of EMC. www.emc.com

Google announced a preview release of Google App Engine, an application-hosting tool that developers can use to build scalable web apps on top of Google's infrastructure. www.google.com

Cisco and EMC announced the intention to expand their strategic alliance to offer holistic data security solutions that span different layers of the information technology (IT) infrastructure, including storage, servers, networks and data center security. www.cisco.com / www.emc.com

IBM announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FilesX, a privately held storage software company based in Newton, Mass., and Haifa, Israel, that specializes in continuous data protection and nearly instant data and application recovery software for enterprises and remote/branch offices. www.ibm.com / www.filesx.com

IBM unveiled its present and future strategy, products and services designed to gain a larger share of the $160 billion service oriented architecture (SOA) market while also reflecting on the milestones that have influenced the business and information technology (IT) community since the introduction of WebSphere ten years ago. www.ibm.com

IBM announced it has completed its acquisition of Telelogic AB, a publicly-held company based in Malmo, Sweden. www.ibm.com / www.telelogic.com

HP introduced four new operating environments (OEs) with the latest release of HP-UX 11i v3, Update 2. Designed to simplify UNIX deployments on HP Integrity servers, the new OEs enable customers to reduce costs and accelerate time to solution for immediate out-of-the-box productivity. www.hp.com

Secure Computing Corporation preliminary results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2008. www.securecomputing.com