†SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, announced important feature updates to Pingdom, its market-leading digital experience monitoring (DEM) solution. The updates include the all-new filmstrip view and threshold alerting, as well as mobile application enhancements.

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Based on technology from Untangle Inc., the new subscription-based offering is designed to combine all of the security tools a typical SMB requires in one easily deployed package.

Securecast’s attack simulation and end user education tools will power a new solution that integrates with Webroot’s endpoint and DNS protection systems to help businesses teach best practices for avoiding phishing and ransomware threats.

Carvir’s advanced, endpoint security solution now provides data protection to more than 2,000 businesses.

North American users of the vendor’s Barracuda Backup appliances who wish to store protected data offsite can now choose between Amazon’s S3 service or Barracuda’s own cloud. Support for Microsoft Azure will be available as well in the future.

The new product adds support for one of the most popular three-phase UPS voltages to the 93PM product line and offers a lithium-ion battery that lasts significantly longer than lead-acid cells and takes up less space.

New cloud services and capabilities extend industry leading enterprise performance management suite

New ETL service automates the preparation of data for analytics, reducing the time it takes customers to start analyzing their data from months to minutes

New security service uses machine learning to classify sensitivity of customers’ data in Amazon S3 and then monitor and report on risks and anomalous access