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Envox Updates Voice App Development Platform

Voice solutions vendor envox has updated its eponymous development platform. The suite supports an impressive range of telephony, voice, Web, fax, cryptography, and data-communications standards, allowing rapid deployment of voice portals, automated directory assistance, mobile Internet, and other voice-enabled applications. Version 6 includes enhanced VoiceXML 2.0 gateway capabilities and easier integration with enterprise apps, with support for Web services protocols SOAP and WSDL. Text-to-speech and voice recognition have also been improved, using technologies licensed from ScanSoft and Nuance. Envox 6 Studio, an IDE (integrated development environment) that offers drag-and-drop visual development and an integrated debugger, lists at $5,000 per license. The runtime engine, Envox 6 Communications Server, costs $350 per port. Both components run on Windows.

Envox 6, Envox  envox.com

Taking Charge of SMS

Administrators who use Microsoft Systems Management Server in large environments will appreciate Configuresoft’s new Enterprise Configuration Manager for SMS, which offers an enterprise view of configuration data for all SMS clients and servers on the network. The product also aids configuration policy compliance, including upgrading out-of-date clients, and Configuresoft even provides policy templates based on best practices. Pricing starts at $5 per SMS client and $100 per Management Server.

Enterprise Configuration Manager for SMS,

Configuresoft configuresoft.com

Serial ATA RAID Speed

Having acquired SATA (Serial ATA) hardware vendor 3ware in March, AMCC has wasted no time in releasing the company’s new 9000 Series RAID controllers, which the company says outperform the competition by as much as 150 percent. The controllers can manage up to 4.8TB each, read in excess of 400MB per second, and write more than 110MB per second. They cost between $399 and $899 apiece, depending on the number of ports.

3ware 900 Series, AMCC amcc.com

Software Performance Tune-Up

Segue’s SilkCentral Performance Manager helps developers improve software quality by running simulated business transactions against their applications and monitoring the results. Its reporting function provides a variety of real-time application health and performance statistics, which can be used to validate SLA levels. Version 2.6 adds the ability to integrate monitoring data with network management software and enterprise dashboards using industry-standard APIs. Prices start at $22,500 plus maintenance.

SilkCentral Performance Manager 2.6, Segue segue.com