McAfee’s Unified Management Threat (UTM) firewall will enable multifunctional network security appliances especially for SMEs.

“McAfee UTM firewall is a complete office network-in-a-box Internet security appliance that can be deployed as a firewall, VPN gateway, or UTM security appliance,” said Darrell Rodenbaugh, SVP of McAfee’s midmarket segment.

The new solution offers SMBs a range of security solutions in an integrated package with a platform for subscription-based security services to respond to cost-cutting initiatives, managing their risk, and meeting their compliance regulations programs.

UTM management firewall has web-based central control that allows active monitoring of intrusion detection, network events to alert network personnel, and supports 3G wireless support for a primary connection or backup/failover.

APC By Schneider Electric, an energy management company is offering online comprehensive assessment tools targeted at data centers. The tools help evaluate and determine the health status of the existing infrastructure and also help enable up to 30% energy savings.

The APC online tools are new Web-based applications with easy-to-use interfaces designed for use in the early stages of data center concept and help CIOs or IT managers design the right physical layer of the data center.

Reports indicate that data center consumes the maximum amount of energy and out of 100% energy that goes into a data center, only 2% gets effectively utilized by the IT architecture.

vice-president & sales of APC By Schneider Electric (APAC) said, We provide the physical infrastructure design for the data centres that gives better cooling and power management through our intelligent software. Our software was now available online free for any CIOs to determine the energy efficiencies of their existing data centres and redesign them accordingly.

The company offers tools from desktops to data centres for the home segment, SMBs to large enterprises.

The website tools.apc.com is a comprehensive site with links to various tools like Data Center Power Sizing Calculator, Visualization Energy Cost Calculator, Energy Efficient Calculator etc.

All our software are designed in-house by the APC development centers. In fact, APC has two development centers in India at Bangalore that have contributed significantly in the developments of the software, said Sharma.

The InfraStrucXure (ISX) is a energy efficient, modular and scalable architecture comprising of - UPS, power distribution, cooling, racks, and management tools technologies like InRow cooling, high efficiency UPS systems etc help save data center operational costs in a big way, enabling up to 30% energy savings.

The tool set ISX Central and with ISX Capacity Manager allows APC customers to not only manage their energy, but for the first time have the eyes to see what is actually using the energy and allow customers to see where free energy can be utilized without compromising the facility. ISX Central also allows customers to commence projects to remove energy hungry / lowly performing technologies with new efficient product and ISX Change Manager is the tool to manage change.

XFX, a technology manufacturer of high resolutions computer graphics and computer accessories will provide products based on AMD ATI Radeon series this year.

We are excited with this technology partnership as it allows us to incorporate current and future ATI graphics technology into our graphics card designs. This partnership will enable our R&D teams to develop a wider range of XFX graphics products, said Sunny Narain, VP, regional sales, XFX Speaking on the new technology partnership, Patrick Wong, director graphic sales, APAC, AMD, said that India graphic card market is growing exponentially, and AMD sees a lot of potential for our graphics and high resolution work portfolio.

A study by Nasscom estimates games industry to reach 300 million by 2009 and animation industry to reach $950 million by 2009, which requires graphics cards and other computer peripherals.