Symantec has extended the reach of its popular NetBackup line with a new product aimed at helping remote office workers perform disk-based backups. Veritas NetBackup 6.0 PureDisk Remote Office Edition aims to solve two main problems - remote offices don't like handling tape backups and aren't terribly good at the process.

Symantec figures that moving to disk-based backup can make life easier on the branch office administrators, especially if it can deliver an easy-to-use software package for management. In addition, the PureDisk product can eliminate the need for a remote office to handle backup management altogether by making it possible for the home office to control all backups from one place.

IBM plans to announce availability of the new technology, dubbed Secure Blue, on Monday. The Armonk, N.Y.-based company envisions its idea and technology will be used in digital media players, electronic organizers, cell phones, computers and devices used by the government, medical, and financial services industry.

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Have you ever had a need to allow only a subset of your users access to Citrix Web Interface or Secure Gateway? This is especially useful if you use an internal Web Interface and an external Web Interface/Secure Gateway environment. You might want to let anybody log on through the internal Web Interface, but restrict access through the external Web Interface/Secure Gateway. Sam Jacobs created a utility to do just that at http://www.ipm.com/Restricted_User.617.0.html. The basic concept of this modification is to place a list of users in a text file on your Web Interface server. Then, the code looks in this file at login time to see if the authenticating user is allowed to continue.