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Name change reflects expanded solution line for total production optimization.

Ball Ground, Georgia (PRWEB) May 24, 2007 — Nester Software, a leading provider of production optimization solutions, is renaming itself Plataine. The name reflects the recent expansion of the companys solution suite to provide optimization and decision support for the entire production process, from order to assembly.

Plataine specializes in the optimization of complex production processes that involve two-dimensional cutting of raw material and the assembly of the cut pieces into a finished product. Its unique combination of advanced technology solutions addresses the distinct needs of companies that produce goods out of sheets and rolls of raw material, such as sheet metal, plywood, and textile.

Somewhere over the Amazon jungle in Brazil two modern, brand new aircraft crossed paths and one of them never landed. It is assumed that, at 37,000 feet, these two aircraft collided and the larger of the two, a Boeing 737-800, entered a descending spiral which culminated on the floor of the jungle. The jungle was so thick that rescuers had to parachute in and clear landing spaces for rescue helicopters. Of the 154 crew and passengers on the Boeing none survived.

Meanwhile, an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet experienced a slight “jolt”, described by a Times writer as a “car hitting a pothole”, landed at a nearby military base where they discovered damage to the left winglet and some damage to its tail. The wing had started to peel back, causing the Legacy passengers to fear they were going to crash, but the pilots were able to land safely.

What happened?

As with most aviation accidents the cause is not readily apparent. Each aircraft was under air traffic control (ATC), and each aircraft was equipped with TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) which should have warned them they were too close. To further complicate things, these aircraft were operating in a “gray” area of radar coverage where two different ATC facilities” responsibilities overlap. It appears that the Legacy jet was following one airway at 37,000 feet and was supposed to descend to 36,000 feet upon reaching yet another airway.
The Boeing was traversing the area at 37,000 feet.

The interesting part.

Shunra VE 5.0 combines its award-winning network simulation technology with root cause analysis to find and resolve production-related performance problems - in the application or on the network - before deployment

Interop, Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 23, 2007 — Shunra, the worlds leading provider of network simulation solutions, today announced release 5.0 of its award-winning Shunra VE solution. Shunra VE 5.0 introduces a new dimension of insight into application performance across the network, giving users the critical analysis capabilities they need to make informed decisions about distributed application performance, service levels to remote end-users, and infrastructure investments, before rollout into production. With this new version, Shunra VE delivers the complete solution for testing networked applications, and is ideal for initiatives such as data center relocation projects, disaster recovery and business continuity planning, ERP/CRM deployments such as SAP and Oracle, WAN optimization and acceleration, VoIP deployments, and application development offshoring.

Shunra VE 5.0 is already used at companies such as Avaya, Boeing, Electronic Arts, Elizabeth Arden, General Dynamics, Liberty Mutual, McKesson, Nice Systems, Pfizer, and SightSpeed. Shunra VE 5.0 is available immediately and will be showcased at Interop, May 22-24, 2007 in booth 460.

“Shunra VE 5.0 is a significant contributor to the success of our business. Its an integral part of how we do our testing and it has enabled us to improve the quality of our product enormously. It was worth every penny!” said Aron Rosenberg, Founder and CTO, SightSpeed, the leading provider of free and premium Internet video and voice communications services. “With Shunra VE 5.0, weve been able to reduce development time ten-fold and it now takes us just a couple of minutes instead of days to test our application. Shunra VE 5.0 is very easy to use and we love the Microsoft Visio® interface which makes it extremely easy to design network scenarios, as well as recreate problems instantaneously.”

New patent-pending features in Shunra VE 5.0 include:

–Root cause analysis. VE Analyzer is a powerful new feature that extends Shunra VEs comprehensive reporting capabilities by automatically providing drill-down metrics on each individual transaction. This enables users to quickly and easily isolate the root causes of problems - in the application or on the network - without the need for external analysis tools. VE Analyzer reports include:

Transaction breakdown summary (client, network, server) Application efficiency analysis, including application turns and bounce diagrams Throughput and bandwidth utilization Network and application error analysis Voice quality in MOS and R values for each remote location Video over IP analysis including MDI and VQFactor reports Playback of recorded voice and video conversations A SIP conversation diagram, ideal for problem troubleshooting

–Automatic measurement and comparison of transaction response times. The new VE Transaction Manager measures and documents each transactions response times, making it easier than ever to compare response times across remote locations, or across different network technologies, such as Frame Relay vs. QoS, IPv4 vs. IPv6, bandwidth upgrades vs. application acceleration solutions, etc.

–Simultaneous testing by multiple teams. The new VE Multi-User feature enables multiple test teams to run different tests in parallel through its web-based interface, making it an ideal solution for any IT group to test the network impact on the application simultaneously.

–Test backup and disaster recovery scenarios. With Shunra VE 5.0, users can now assign metric thresholds, such as utilization or packet delivery rate, to a network link which, when exceeded, will trigger alternative routes and other pre-defined events in the network simulation scenario. This feature supports advanced dynamic routing mechanisms such as OSPF and RIP.

–Library of real-life network recording samples from across the globe. Shunra VE 5.0 includes an extensive library of real-life network recordings, including cable modems, DSL, WiFi and cellular, captured from network links all over the world. This pre-recorded real-life data makes it even easier to configure real world network scenarios and increases the accuracy of simulation sessions.

“Delivering a high Quality of Experience (QoE) to remote end-users is a critical requirement for enterprises operating in national and global markets. Yet QoE is constantly jeopardized by the need to support a growing range of applications, consolidation projects and IT initiatives. To achieve a high level of predictable QoE requires well integrated real-world testing with detailed performance analysis, coupled with good collaborative processes across the IT organization,” said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates. “Shunra VE 5.0 addresses this need by providing a comprehensive testing solution that combines advanced network simulation with transaction analysis in a manner that can support a wide range of roles from network engineers, to application development and QA testing.”

“As a top industry analyst firm states, we are the recognized market leader because we are continually increasing the value that our network simulation products deliver to customers,” said Thomas Charlton, Shunras CEO. “With this latest release we, yet again, set ourselves apart from the competition by adding deep packet and root cause analysis to the extensive list of benefits that Shunra VE provides. Shunra is the first to provide its customers with a complete solution for identifying, analyzing and resolving potential performance bottlenecks in networked applications well in advance of deployment in production. Furthermore, we are now the only company to offer both software and hardware solutions that enable application and network experts to work together in an integrated approach for successful production rollout.”

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At Ford Motor Company there are some big changes happening, namely Bill Ford is stepping aside the CEO position to Alan Mulally who is a former Boeing Commercial Airline Division CEO. In fact Mulally is credited for turning around Boeing as it flew out of one of the biggest down turns in commercial aviation manufacturing. So, he understands advancing technology and re-designing factories, dealing with labor unions, getting the job done while pleasing Wall Street. But some wonder can he do it, as filling Bill Ford’s shoes is a big job.

Change management at Ford Motor Company at the top level is not without its own set of crisis and some question how well Mulally will do. Others see Alan Mulally as the right man in the right place at the right time at Ford Motor Company. Ford has already indicated a tough run of layoffs, selling some of its acquired brand names such as Range Rover, Austin Martin and Jaguar to raise funds and balance its assets.