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Spider-Man in VR
Updated 15.4.2019
Ahead of Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: Far from Home hitting theatres, Intel and Nokia teamed up to bring Mobile World Congress attendees a thrilling VR experience, powered by 5G. The demo gave users a chance to virtually run, jump, climb, and web-sling through a digital cityscape, competing against other players in real-time: all enabled by 5G edge cloud technology. It’s just one example of how 5G is set to transform the entertainment industry and Intel is proud to be driving the technology forward.
Become everyone’s favourite neighbourhood Spider-Man in the world’s first multiplayer VR experience over a 5G network, powered by Intel and Nokia
BarTender 2019 out now
Updated 9.4.2019
BarTender by Seagull Scientific is the world's most trusted software for creating and automating labels, barcodes and more. Now with the release of Bartender 2019 it has never been easier to automate the creation of labels, barcodes and more.
ER/Studio 18.0 is now available!
Updated 5.4.2019
We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of IDERA ER/Studio 18.0
ER/Studio 18.0 contains major usability, reliability and performance improvements to streamline upgrades and collaboration. The major focus of the upgrades is Team Server in particular, as part of the ER/Studio Enterprise Team Edition Suite (ETE).
@Risk - Risk management provides operational reliability and competitiveness
Updated 4.4.2019
The Future in Your Spreadsheet!
How well do your business know if it will produce a profit or loss for the next period? Or how likely a critical project will be completed in the planned timetable and budget. How likely is the new product will be launched on time on the market and with what will be the volume?
Everyone would like answers to these types of questions. Armed with that kind of information, you could take a lot of guesswork out of big decisions and plan strategies with confidence. Intelligent reports can provide an accurate snapshot, but how to ensure the most accurate view of the future to support trustworthy decisions. With Palsade @RISK, you can answer to these questions and more - right in your Excel spreadsheet. It mathematically and objectively computes and tracks many different possible future scenarios, then tells you the probabilities and risks associated with each different one.This means you can judge which risks to take and which ones to avoid, allowing for the best decision making under uncertainty.
The MySQL High Availability Landscape
Updated 4.4.2019
The MySQL Server High Availability landscape provides with a slew of tools to help you ensure that your databases keep humming. Such tools are Galera Cluster, however, it is worth looking at semi-synchronous replication with failover tools, and also the usual leader-follower asynchronous replication. Today more workloads are moving to the cloud, and what failover options do you get with Amazon RDS for MySQL or even Aurora? What about the newfangled group replication and InnoDB Cluster? And let us not forget that Galera Cluster has spawned branches too!
Join Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster, as we discuss where Galera Cluster fits in and how to get best out of it.
Altova is pleased to announce Release 3 of our Version 2019 product line
Updated 3.4.2019
Version 2019 Release 3 (v2019r3) of Altova MissionKit desktop developer tools, server software products, and Excel add-ins adds support for the latest JSON Schema drafts across the product line, new Split Text View options in XMLSpy, support for high-res monitors and new Web services mapping options in MapForce, and much more.
Announcing WhatsUp Gold 2019
Updated 3.4.2019
Ipswitch has released the latest update to their award-winning network monitoring solution WhatsUp Gold in the form of WhatsUp Gold 2019, available as of April 3, 2019. It includes a number of key visibility and usability enhancements for WhatsUp Gold
ACL is changing its name
Updated 2.4.2019
Over the past 32 years, ACL has made a name as the first choice in audit analytics. We have also evolved our software into an analyst-recognized audit, risk management, and compliance platform.
Now with our recent acquisition of Rsam a leader in IT, vendor, and security risk management solutions we have taken an even bigger step towards uniting the impact of multiple teams to a single platform.
With all this growth, the ACL brand was no longer telling our story as well as it could. It's time that our brand evolved to match our products. ACL is now: Galvanize
Galvanize tells our story. It communicates the protection that our integrated governance software solutions bring to your organization.
Enfocus PitStop 2019 Release Announced
Updated 2.4.2019
Enfocus, the leader in PDF quality control, advanced PDF editing and workflow automation for the graphic arts industry announces the upcoming April 2019 release of PitStop Pro 2019, PitStop Server 2019 and PitStop Library SDK 2019, the latest versions of their award-winning PDF Preflight, Editing and Correction applications.
Beginning on 11th March 2019, customers who purchase a new license of PitStop Pro or PitStop Server will receive a license key for PitStop 2019, which means they can install and use PitStop 2018, and after the release of PitStop 2019, install and use it without the need for a new license.
PitStop Pro 2019 and PitStop Server 2019 are chargeable upgrades to PitStop Pro and PitStop Server 2018. Customers with a subscription or an active maintenance contract for PitStop will be able to upgrade to the new version without additional charge. Customers who upgrade to PitStop Pro 2018 from version 2017 or version 13 without a maintenance contract will not be eligible for a courtesy upgrade to the 2019 version at release. We now offer the opportunity to trade in existing license keys for a subscription at a savings of up to 50% off of the first year. For details on upgrades from previous versions, check the pricing with Moonsoft
Veeam Instance Licensing (VIL)
Updated 21.3.2019
Veeam Instance Licensing (VIL) allows customers to use a single type of licensing across all workloads - Physical, VMware, Hyper-V and AWS workloads, on premises and across public clouds. Customers can now more easily realize their multi-cloud strategy with this next-generation of portable subscription licensing from Veeam.
This next-generation of subscription licensing changes the game for managing multi-cloud environments.
The Doctor will see you now!
Updated 19.3.2019
You’ll receive a free license of Foglight Performance Investigator to use for six (6) weeks, and during the six weeks a technical consult will help you analyze the findings that Foglight has identified.
With Foglight you can rapidly detect, diagnose and resolve issues across multiple DB platforms on-premise and in the cloud, and identify over - or under - specified infrastructure supporting the database real estate. You’ll also get an analysis toolset for deep visibility into database performance and an effective solution to monitor all databases.
Ask for more information from sales@moonsoft.fi!
EQT Completes its Acquisition of SUSE
Updated 18.3.2019
Today SUSE announced the completion of the company’s acquisition from Micro Focus by growth investor EQT and its status as the largest independent open source company.
Having enjoyed eight years of continuous growth, SUSE is set to continue its growth momentum, strategy execution and portfolio expansion as an independent standalone business, strengthening its position as a leading provider of enterprise-grade, open source software-defined infrastructure and application delivery solutions that enable customer workloads anywhere with exceptional service, value and flexibility. Further investment and support for our culture, leadership and existing strategy will enable SUSE to scale and strengthen its position as a leader in the industry and continue to grow both organically and through add-on acquisitions.
Under our continued leadership, my team and I will guide SUSE to the next stage of its corporate evolution, operating globally as an independent company
End of Standard Support Life Announcement - Backup Exec 16
Updated 8.3.2019
The Veritas Backup Exec 16 will reach their End of Standard Support on April 2nd. Customers whose maintenance has lapsed are eligible for a discounted offer to upgrade to a newer version which will provide better support and updates. Ask for more information from sales@moonsoft.fi!