In brief: Tarari ships XML acceleration engines

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• Tarari last week shipped a silicon-based engine and a software engine for accelerating the processing and exchange of XML data. The engines focus on Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation and are optimized for Web services and transactional XML processing. The engines, called RAX-XSLT, are part of Tarari's Random Access XML family of XML Content Processors for use by engineers in building network devices, switches, appliances, blades and servers. The RAX-XSLT technology is available as part of the Tarari XML RAX Content Processor Development Kit, which is priced at $4,995.
• Crosswalk has announced a software bundle designed to enable IT managers to monitor their back-up environments. The Crosswalk Storage Manager Backup Bundle reports on the mapping of host drives to the back-up applications and identifies hosts that are not being backed up. The bundle works with back-up applications from Computer Associates, IBM, EMC Legato, Syncsort and Symantec/Veritas. Pricing starts at less than $10,000.
• Microsoft has upgraded the synchronization component of its Windows Mobile 5.0 software. ActiveSync 4.1 fixes several problems that occurred with its 4.0 version when trying to synchronize data between a handheld device and a PC, according to information published on the Microsoft Developer Network blog. Connections were dropped between a PC and a device, and sometimes the software only partially synchronized data between the two. The problem stemmed from a conflict with desktop firewall applications or applications that manage network traffic, Microsoft says. The update is available here .

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