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GURU advisor will be at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 22nd to 25th 2016!

MWC is one of the biggest conventions about the worldwide mobile market, we'll be present for the whole event and we'll keep you posted with news and previews from the congress.

Here’s SecurePass, a cloud-based service for multi-platform authentication based on One Time Passwords.

Password management inside a company is always one of the most delicated and debated topics, and it gets even worse as the number of employees and services to be managed grows. GARL, a Swiss company specialized in security systems, offers SecurePass, a centralized service for identity management.
This offer is composed of four different types of subscriptions that differ in the features included and, of course, the price. The entry-level offer (Personal) is free but has a maximum number of two users and only SSO authentication; as price increases, we have the Business, Enterprise+ and Service Provider plans; the details of the number of users included and the authentication modes supported are available at this link. We’d like to point out that all the prices are quite cheap (3 or 7 € at month per user).

Ethernet managed switches of the 2920 lines are part of the broad family of switches developed by HP Enterprise. In particular they are part of the offer of non modular devices with stacking, routing and POE capabilities dedicated to the SMB market.

4 different 2920 models are available differing by the number of Ethernet ports (24 or 48) and PoE (Power over Ethernet) capability.

The model we have tried is the 2920-24G (J9726A) that, as the name suggests, offers 24 Gigabit Ethernet ports (the last 4 are Dual Personality Ethernet/SFP) coupled with four 10GbE uplink ports (that can be configured in SFP+ mode or 10GBase-T).
Regarding scalability, the switch also features a Plug&Play stacking system with up to 4 units with automated failover. This configuration is reached by installing an additional 2-port module with a transfer speed up to 40Gbps into the dedicated slot on the back.

Intel presented today eight new models of the Xeon D15xx family, composed by System on Chip (SoC) dedicated to different kind of use. In particular, the new D15x1 and D15x7 found their place in the storage and in the networking market.

On a storage basis, Intel declares performances up to six times better than the previous platforms of the Avoton family (based on the Silvermont architecture), thanks also to the presence of Storage Acceleration Library, that provides hardware acceleration of cryptography, compression and data parity control, and of Storage Performance Development Kit. The latter is way more optimised than the native Linux driver in highly scalable environments.