At the TechEd 2007 conference for solution providers in Orlando, FL this week, ISV’s showed up to show their new products designed to accompany Microsoft’s latest products:  Exchange 2007; Windows Vista; Office 2007; SharePoint 2007 and SQL Server 2005.

The ISV’s applications for solution providers included e-mail backup and recovery and system management tools and workflow platforms, application virtualization and Web 2.0 products for .Net application development.  

The following vendors appeared at this solution providers conference:

1.    Double-Take Software.  This company showed its latest data protection and recovery platform for Exchange Server and SQL Server.  This platform features a new reporting center for data analysis and collection along with the ability to predict future protection situations.  It also recommends ways to prevent outages and ways to reduce recovery times and increase functionality.  

2.    AppAssure, of Reston, Virginia.  This company displayed its Replay for Exchange.  This new solution providers product features rollback for one message or a whole server.  The product uses block-level data protection to protect Exchange databases.  Quick volume recovery time (in minutes) along with search features for e-mail and legal documents make this product unique.  

3.    Captaris of Bellvue, WA.  This company demonstrated a new product to help manage workflow.  Workflow 6.5 works with Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office InfoPath 2007, Office Forms Server 2007, SQL Server 2005 Express and also gives more support for BizTalk Server 2006’s business rules.  This product also works with .Net Windows Workflow Foundation with a simulation that helps optimize performance.  

4.    Symantec, the Cupertino, CA giant.  This company showed solution providers an updated Altiris Virtualization Solution 2.1 that now supports Vista and has application streaming aided by Appstream.

5.    TNT Software.  This Vancouver, British Columbia company announced it had shipped ELM Enterprise Manager 5.0.  This real-time monitoring, alert, reporting and archiving product is for the Windows platform for small businesses.  The upgrade for solution providers offers audit support features and access to SQL Server along with a Database Archive Management System.  It has advanced monitoring features and a variety of bundled extras.   

6.    Quest Software.  This company announced to solution providers at the conference its Change Director for SQL Server.  The product enables enhanced monitoring of databases to help manage outages.  

7.    Strangeloop Networks of Vancouver.  AppScaler was presented by this company, which is a product that helps improve the performance of Web applications created with Microsoft’s ASP.Net system.  The application for solution providers will be released in September.  

8.    Falafel Software.  This San Jose, CA-based company introduced its Web 2.0 project management product ActiveFocus.  The product is made to help manage products during their life cycles.  

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