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• SharePoint 2010 Backup and Restore Support -- Now provides backup and recovery capabilities for SharePoint 2010. Also enables administrators to conduct an out-of-place restore of data from SharePoint 2007 backup sets into SharePoint 2010 environments saving countless hours and ensuring the security of data.
• FIPS 140 Federal Information Processing Standard Compliance -- Enables easy and secure deployment in government agencies and contractors required to ensure compliance with FIPS standards.

Pricing and Availability

Idera's SharePoint backup 2.8 is available now at $1495 per server. To learn more, visit Idera website.

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Titus Labs Metadata Security for SharePoint offers organizations an additional layer of security for SharePoint information. It enables administrators to protect any document type or item, and restrict access in SharePoint based on metadata properties, or SharePoint content types. Metadata Security for SharePoint automates the process of creating item level security permissions for sensitive information.

Here are some of the key features of Metadata Security for SharePoint:

• Automatically applying security permissions based on the document's metadata properties or content type, making per-document security much easier
• Support for metadata security for both document libraries and lists
• Allows permissions to be assigned to users or groups based on their Active Directory properties.
• Provides the ability to read user and group names from columns and populate them in item permissions, making it much easier to manage permissions for specific people or groups

Newly released version 4.2 of Contributor for SharePoint product line provides Microsoft Office/Outlook 2010 compatibility along with support for new SharePoint 2010 enterprise content management (ECM) features including keyword metadata, document sets, and in-place records management.

Colligo Contributor is a desktop software suite that enables users to easily access, capture, and tag SharePoint content from popular desktop applications, including Microsoft Outlook and Windows Explorer. Information workers can instantly view, modify, and create SharePoint documents, forms, lists, and metadata, whether online or offline. Easy to deploy, learn, and use, Colligo Contributor requires no server modifications and provides a new level of desktop support for all shipping versions of Microsoft SharePoint. Custom interfaces can be built on the Contributor runtime using the Software Development Kit (SDK).

New features and functionality in version 4.2:

• Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 Ready:  Contributor V4.2 is now compatible with Microsoft Office 2010 installations. Contributor Pro, Add-In, and Uploader customers can now take full advantage of Outlook 2010 in their organizations (note: V4.2 still supports Outlook 2003 and 2007).
• Keyword Metadata:  Version 4.2 now supports the use of Keyword Metadata fields, allowing user created folksonomies to be accessible via the Colligo metadata editor. Users can set, edit, and modify terms from term stores on the server through a simple type-ahead interface from the Colligo Term selector. Contributor retrieves potential term matches from the server and lets the users select the desired term. Selected metadata terms can then be used in filters and views to present items in a structure format.
• In-Place Records Management: In-place records management is a feature that restricts the use of items stored in SharePoint, without first moving them to a special storage location. Contributor V4.2 identifies in-place records using a special icon and respects the server restrictions on deleting and updating of declared records.
• Documents Sets: Documents sets are groups of items that are associated through a relationship, allowing them to be managed and controlled as a group. Contributor V4.2 downloads existing documents sets from the server and identifies them with a special icon. Document set items can be viewed, modified, added, or deleted from within Colligo Contributor V4.2.
• Synchronization Performance Optimization: A number of optimizations to the processing and synchronization of content with the Contributor SQL database are included to accelerate synchronization and increase overall performance.

Pricing and Availability:

The free Colligo Reader (for individual users only) and a 30-day trial of Colligo Contributor Pro are available at www.colligo.com.

Products in the Colligo Contributor product family can be purchased from the Colligo store at www.colligo.com/store. For more information on pricing and availability of the Contributor Software Development Kit, partners and customers should contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .Volume pricing available.

Click here for user reviews on Colligo Contributor product family.

Idera's SharePoint Admin Toolset and Free SharePoint Performance Monitor Tool Support SharePoint 2010.

Comprised of 11 powerful tools, Idera SharePoint admin toolset is an essential set of utilities used by SharePoint users and administrators for daily SharePoint administration and troubleshooting tasks such as: performing backups, troubleshooting performance issues, analyzing and re-indexing SharePoint content databases, generating essential security reports, etc.

Idera SharePoint performance monitor is a free tool that enables real-time monitoring of critical performance counters for SharePoint, IIS and Windows Operating Systems in an easy-to-read graphical console that sends alerts when issues arise.

Pricing and Availability:

Free Trial for SharePoint Admin Toolset; $495 per user. Download it here: http://www.idera.com/Products/SharePoint/SharePoint-admin-toolset/

SharePoint performnace monitor is free. Download it here: http://www.idera.com/Products/Free-Tools/SharePoint-perf-monitor/

• Seamless integration of Nevron Chart and Gauge web parts in SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010
• Seamless migration between MOSS 2007 and 2010 charts and gauges templates
• Displaying of numerous charting types and chart combinations with advanced data analysis features inside SharePoint
• Displaying of KPIs, numeric and real time data inside SharePoint

Pricing and Availability:

Nevron SharePoint Vision for MOSS 2010 is now available for download, starting at $1699. Visit www.nevron.com for complete pricing, developer licenses and discounts, and more information.

Protecting the SharePoint community for nearly a decade, the newest version of Trend Micro PortalProtect combines Web threat protection, content-filtering and data loss prevention.

Trend Micro has introduced Trend Micro PortalProtect 2.0, which supports the Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 platform and is newly strengthened with Web threat protection and data loss prevention – two new features in the latest version that's unmatched by competing SharePoint protection solutions.

Trend Micro PortalProtect 2.0 stops viruses, but it also does more than that – it's backed by the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure which scans, filters and correlates more than 20 billion emails, Web sites and files every single day, and then leverages that data to identify and respond to emerging threats. Trend Micro PortalProtect 2.0 has the ability to detect and block unwanted Web content posted to SharePoint environments.

In addition to Web protection, PortalProtect adds advanced content-filtering for both file and Web content, helping to ensure that offensive material does not appear on SharePoint. It includes pre-built data loss prevention with easy-to-use templates that track personal identifiable information (PII) like social security or account numbers that can creep into SharePoint sites either intentionally or accidentally by employees, causing companies to compromise compliance to HIPAA, PCI or internal regulations. Content-filtering policies can be limited with Active Directory or SharePoint users and groups.

Pricing and Availability for North America:

Trend Micro PortalProtect will be available June 25, 2010.

Per user pricing varies by seat count and price decreases with volume. For the 501-1000 seat level, PortalProtect is $18.82 per user.

For more information on PortalProtect, visit Trend Micro website.

Metalogix Releases EMC-Certified Storage Adapters that Tightly Integrate EMC Storage with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2007

Metalogix StoragePoint enables organizations to keep unstructured content, also known as Binary Large Objects (BLOBs), out of Microsoft SharePoint Server content databases and stores them on EMC Centera. The combined Centera/StoragePoint solution enables organizations that must comply with strict government and industry content storage regulations to take full advantage of their SharePoint investment. Installed and configured in minutes, StoragePoint also improves SharePoint performance, scalability, manageability and security without sacrificing functionality or affecting user productivity.

StoragePoint software reduces the size of SharePoint content databases 90 percent or more by keeping Content (BLOBs) out of the database while retaining only the metadata and BLOB reference in SQL Server. Compressed, encrypted or both, the content is stored onto virtually any EMC storage platform. StoragePoint adapters for EMC storage platforms are available through Metalogix. For more information, please visit: www.storagepoint.com

ScriptLogic Corporation recently released the latest version of Enterprise Security Reporter 3.7, with enhancements that help IT administrators and their companies comply with rules dictated by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

To combat security breaches in which customers’ personal and financial data have been compromised, several payment processing companies developed PCI DSS, which establishes common processes and precautions for handling, processing, storing and transmitting credit card data. ScriptLogic’s Enterprise Security Reporter for SharePoint assists PCI compliance efforts by closely controlling credit card information or creating reports to demonstrate that controls are in place.

While no single software product can address all PCI compliance requirements, new version of this product plays an essential role in managing internal controls.

Pricing and Availability

Enterprise Security Reporter for SharePoint is available immediately and priced on a per server basis.

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BA-Insight's Connectors for FAST provide instant access to information contained within all enterprise systems via a search interface while fully honoring the native security in the connected system. The Connector framework provides security mapping capabilities, which support both Microsoft Active Directory and Native mapped security and two tiers of security checking - at index time, and real time re-checking. This combination of layering security ensures that each system's security is honored without having to sacrifice scalability.

BA-Insight's FAST connectors are immediately available.  Visit BA-Insight Website