April 8, 2008 Sandvik extend their WebSphere® MQ monitoring to OpenVMS with Cressida's TeQuest™. Sandvik is a high-technology engineering group with advanced products and a world-leading position within their specialized areas. Sandvik run their applications on a broad mix of operating systems including zOS, OpenVMS and i5 platforms with their business critical applications on OpenVMS. Their problem was that the OpenVMS platform, which is strategic to Sandvik, was not covered by IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON software in the same way as their other WMQ platforms. Thus using Cressida TeQuest they were able to bring Tivoli Omegamon® for Messaging support to all their WebSphere MQ platforms.

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February 11, 2008 Cressida Technology Ltd., a WebSphere® MQ (WMQ or MQ) solution provider, announced today that InQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ family of automated action solutions has entered General Availability status. In its first release InQuest comes with 3 distinct modules that include:

- Message content Based Alerting (MBA)
- Standards and Rules Enforcement (SRE)
- Message content Based Replication (MBR)

InQuest™ for WebSphere MQ utilizes the standard WMQ API to intercept MQI calls and collect message related content, header and options data. This information is used to provide real-time automated message alerting, tracking, reporting, standards enforcement, replication, accounting and auditing facilities for both persistent and non-persistent MQ messages. To read more please click here!

November 20, 2007

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October 01, 2007

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September 30, 2007

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July 18, 2007 Ecora Software have published their latest Ecora Newsletter . Key items covered are:

• Real Help for Migrating to a Virtual Infrastructure
• "Securing Cardholder Data So You Don't Make Headlines"
• Neos Banca
• The Release of Patch Manager 5.0 SP1

June 28, 2007 Sherpa Software have announced Archive Attender 3.12 is now generally available. Key new features include:

• Public folder data can now be archived
• Archive Attender no longer requires the dot net framework 1.1. Please be aware that it still relies on the 2.0 framework
• The user object GUID from active directory is now stored to maintain uniqueness of a user's configuration even as the user is migrated in the company's environment. This requires updating all the users currently in Archive Attender's configuration from active directory, either manually or through the automated queries
• Two additional options have been added to stubs for more flexibility - if one of the stub options that includes the body is selected, the option to display the stub link after the body of the message and also the option to now include a dummy attachment for messages that originally contained an attachment
• Other Exchange content types such as read receipts and message posts can now be archived

May 31, 2007 During 2006, a new business critical application was under development. Severn Trent considered this application an important part of the strategy for maintaining their position as a world class Utility provider. A central and vital component of this application was again WMQ and there was a critical requirement to implement rapid emergency recovery in the event of an application failure. A crucial part of this process was the ability to restore the MQ queue managers to the same point in time quickly and accurately. This type of functionality was not provided for in the application design or in the underlying native WMQ.

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April 24, 2007 Sherpa Software has recently teamed up with industry leading researcher, Michael Osterman, to publish two widely acclaimed white papers. One dealing with PST management in Exchange, and the other on email archiving in Lotus Notes. Whether you require email information security for regulatory measures, legal requirements or internal security, Sherpa's Attender family of products are there to help you at every turn. Please click to receive the PST white paper, and Email Archiving white paper.

March 21, 2007 Ecora Software can help organizations demonstrate compliance with nine of the twelve basic PCI requirements, enabling them to pass key PCI audits efficiently, painlessly, and successfully. Ecora enables organizations to generate reports to assess controls and identify who has access to which systems and data, validating that the current environment matches mandated standards. These reports are a critical part of passing PCI audits and are designed to be easily understood by auditors. Report packs that map specifically to individual PCI requirements are pre-installed. Additional report packs are included for Sarbanes Oxley, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, HIPAA, and FISMA requirements. These reports are also beneficial for validating compliance with other internal IT initiatives.

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