Infrastructure Briefs

Raritan, a vendor of keyboard-video-mouse switches, recently announced a product that lets small and midsize data centers manage servers and other network devices distributed across networks over IP. Called the IP-Reach M Series, the products have one- and two-port configurations that attach it to an Ethernet network.

From IP-Reach M units, administrators can access network devices to manage them. The products are aimed at replacing remote-access software, which requires an agent on each device. A Web-based management utility allows remote access. The IP-Reach M products are $2,800 and $3,800 for one and two ports, respectively, and are available now. www.raritan.com

Linmor Technologies recently announced the Nebula PM appliance for network performance management. The rack-mountable appliance is based on Linux and tracks performance of Layer 1 through Layer 3 switches, routers and other network devices. The box performs monitoring, reporting and graphing of performance data on network devices. Nebula PM then collects the performance data from those devices. Pricing for the Nebula PM appliance starts at $9,500, and customers can receive a 25% discount through March 31, 2003. www.linmor.com

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Raritan, a vendor of keyboard-video-mouse switches, recently announced a product that lets small and midsize data centers manage servers and other network devices distributed across networks over IP. Called the IP-Reach M Series, the products have one- and two-port configurations that attach it to an Ethernet network.

From IP-Reach M units, administrators can access network devices to manage them. The products are aimed at replacing remote-access software, which requires an agent on each device. A Web-based management utility allows remote access. The IP-Reach M products are $2,800 and $3,800 for one and two ports, respectively, and are available now. www.raritan.com

Linmor Technologies recently announced the Nebula PM appliance for network performance management. The rack-mountable appliance is based on Linux and tracks performance of Layer 1 through Layer 3 switches, routers and other network devices. The box performs monitoring, reporting and graphing of performance data on network devices. Nebula PM then collects the performance data from those devices. Pricing for the Nebula PM appliance starts at $9,500, and customers can receive a 25% discount through March 31, 2003. www.linmor.com

Storage vendor Northern Parklife has rolled out a free software utility that can help customers determine the cost of managing their companies' storage. Called Cost Wizard, the tool works with any company's quota management package and can estimate how much an organization will save by implementing a storage resource management package.Cost Wizard generates a report that details disk capacity, free disk space, number of files over a certain size and how much space can be reclaimed using quota management software. Users can download the software from www.northern.net

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