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The company released a module for its Sendmail e-mail server software that attempts to verify the source of messages to help Internet users block mail from unwanted senders. The technique is part of a developing Internet standard known as Sender ID.

“What authenticating does is allow you to rely on who sent the message,” said David Anderson, CEO of Sendmail, a maker of e-mail software. “We believe people will stop filtering out bad messages based on bad content and instead allow good messages with good senders.”

The majority of e-mail carried across the Internet uses the open-source Sendmail program, which runs on the Linux and Unix operating systems.

The new module for the program allows e-mail administrators to modify their systems and add the authentication technology.

Sender ID is a hybrid specification created from the Caller ID for E-mail system proposed by Microsoft and another antispam technology known as Sender Policy Framework that was developed by Meng Wong, the founder of e-mail service Pobox.com. The specification has not been finalized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, the technical group that sets Net standards.

“We want to get this thing accepted, because it has the best functionality and shortest deployment time of any of the choices right now,” Anderson said.

Sendmail is distributing a test version of the software to get enough companies onboard and gauge a computer’s ability to authenticate e-mail messages in real time. Adding the authentication to an e-mail server slowed processing down by 8 percent for outbound traffic and 15 percent for inbound traffic, according to the Sendmail’s testing site.

“The current focus is to try these authentication systems with real mail on real systems to determine if the approaches proposed are robust enough to survive in the current infrastructure,” the company stated in a white paper on the topic.

The new modules can be downloaded from the Sendmail testing site.

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The technology will lower Wi-Fi installation costs and let businesses more easily deploy a high-capacity wireless network.
“What Aruba does is allow you to put in an access point in a matter of moments,” says CraigThat will let businesses install more wireless access points, creating a “wireless grid” that will result in a network with a greater data-carrying capacity than a conventional wireless network, says Merwyn Andrade, Aruba’s chief technology officer.

Ortronics initially plans to offer two types of Wi-Jacks.
One is a device that plugs into the network port (powered by the network) and the other is a jack with the WiFi built-in
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“What BMC is proposing is a better way to manage applications, by creating models of how the application depends on the infrastructure,” said Jean-Pierre Garbani, an analyst at Forrester Research. “With a model, IT people can see that one component is not behaving normally…It’s a way to speed up and make problem management more intelligent,” Garbani said.

On Tuesday, the software maker plans to introduce an update to its Control-M program for organizing computing jobs. The revamp, Batch Impact Manager, helps businesses head off glitches and prioritize problem reports, BMC said.

Application failures are very costly to corporations, as they can prevent employees from doing their jobs or take revenue-generating applications, such as e-commerce Web sites, offline.

Business service management products help operators spot more quickly the source of problems that affect application performance, such as problems with servers, networking hardware and other underlying components.

The addition next week of the Batch Impact Manager to the Control-M software will enable system operators to get a consolidated view of scheduled batches of jobs, BMC said. If there is a failure in one of them, the software can send an alert and highlight possible problems with other applications. For example, the failure of a mainframe job to update customer transactions scheduled for the middle of the night could prevent a financial trading application from being available the following morning.

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