n Check Point Software last week offered customers two new management products designed to make their lives easier. The new tools, SmartCenter and SmartCenter Pro, are centralized firewall and VPN management consoles designed to give users a single location from which to manage Check Point products and security policies. By centralizing the functions of a number of the company's offerings into the SmartCenter products, users will save time and money administering their networks, the company says. SmartCenter includes the management console and policy management features, whereas SmartCenter Pro offers those capabilities along with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol access to user information and the ability to automatically download and remotely install software updates and patches. Both products are available. SmartCenter costs $14,000, and SmartCenter Pro is priced at $18,000. www.checkpoint.com
n PeopleSoft last week said it would sell Vigilance's supply chain event management product with its supply chain management applications. PeopleSoft said supply chain event management can alert employees and suppliers of chain disruptions such as a production halt or an inventory-level dip, and help identify a new source for materials. Pricing was not revealed. www.peoplesoft.com
n Silverback Networks, which has raised a little more than $30 million in venture capital, is in the process of closing an $8 million round that includes new - as yet unnamed - investors. The company, which has 50 employees and 80-plus customers, offers an appliance that companies can use to monitor networks, systems and applications and that Silverback remotely administers and upgrades. John Igoe, Silverback's COO, says the company has increasingly been selling its technology to service providers, which then offer it to their customers.
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