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OpTier Transaction Manager Ships
• OpTier Inc. in New York has announced the availability of CoreFirst, an application for automatically preventing performance problems in real time and providing transaction-level visibility into multitier workloads in production, according to the company. CoreFirst is designed to ensure consistent, predictable performance for IT business services, giving organizations the ability to ensure service levels as well as optimize the resources of their IT infrastructure, says OpTier. Pricing starts at $100,000.
FineGround Delivers File Services App
• FineGround Inc. in Campbell, Calif., has announced FineGround Velocity-FS, an appliance for the data center that's designed to help deliver high-performance file services over WANs. The product is installed in front of data center storage and file systems to optimize file service traffic for distribution over the WAN, and it's designed to preserve rights management and access control, security and other features, according to the company. Velocity-FS will be available in June, starting at $20,000.
AXS-One Upgrades Financial Manager
• Rutherford, N.J.-based AXS-One Inc. has begun shipping Enterprise 9.0-Compliance Edition, the latest version of its financial management system. The software, which runs on Windows, HP-UX, IBM's AIX and Sun's Solaris, includes integration with Crystal Reports, an XML user interface and enhanced cycle management products, such as budget, expense and purchase cycle management, the company says. A bundle of up to four component modules starts at $25,000 per module. The average upgrade price for existing customers is between $25,000 and $50,000.