Purple Rage announces the release of the latest version of Peer Software’s PeerSync Observer Enterprise Edition. Observer version 2.0 provides enhanced monitoring of all instances of PeerSync and PeerLock.

New features facilitate improved management in Peer collaborative environments by providing administrators with comprehensive visibility of file activity from a single console.

Purple Rage, a UK distributor of software solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, today announces the release of PeerSync Observer Enterprise Edition 2.0. Observer 2.0 provides administrators with the ability to monitor all running instances of PeerSync and PeerLock from a single console. Version 2.0 gives users optimised performance of, and increased visibility into, their Peer product deployment(s) and enables administrators to more efficiently manage even the most demanding collaborative environments.

PeerSync Observer Enterprise Edition V2.0 offers complete interoperability with the new version of PeerLock 2.0, the industry’s only stand-alone file locking tool. PeerLock 2.0 eliminates version conflicts many users experience with Microsoft’s DFS Replication solution, as it adds true file-locking. Administrators implementing both PeerSync Observer V2.0 and PeerLock 2.0 will achieve immediate productivity gains. Collaboration is made even more efficient, reliable and transparent – all within an environment that can be easily monitored and managed from any location (using the new Observer tool).

“Removing any and all barriers to efficient collaboration is imperative in today’s digitally-driven, 24×7 business environment,” said Paul Marsala, Peer Software’s President. “Our goal is to provide users with a seamlessly integrated collaborative framework, built on our core PeerSync file management tool. Together with the new version of PeerSync Observer and our recent release of PeerLock 2.0, users now have a complete solution for reliable, anywhere/anytime collaboration. “

New Features:

• The ability to receive PeerLock status information and display it in a separate table, similar to the display available in PeerLock, when running in an application mode.
• Allows Observer to set the interval by which PeerSync and PeerLock transmit status information to the Observer.
• PeerLock entries can now change their status and colour if the Observer has not received new updates from PeerLock for a given period of time.
• Improved PeerSync and PeerLock status colour change notification setup and accuracy. The Observer will now correctly update the colour status of the entries accordingly. End user setup for colour change notification is now much simpler and intuitive.
• Can show/hide, resize, reposition, and sort all PeerSync and PeerLock table columns. Each column size and index will be saved in the PSOBDEF.CFG file to be loaded each time the Observer is restarted.
• New “Locked” and “Released” PeerLock activity panel Tabs to maintain separate listings of locked or released files similar to the PeerLock application.
• Improved auto sorting mechanism to automatically sort PeerSync and PeerLock entries, as they are received, based on a new “Status Level” column.
• Refresh all active PeerSync or PeerLock entries by hitting F5 on the keyboard provided that the PeerSync or PeerLock Activity Panels are in focus.
• Manually add, rather than self-discover, a machine name for the Observer to broadcast to directly (in order for running PeerSync and PeerLock instances to begin transmitting status information to the Observer). This ability is useful when the Observer is having problems receiving status information from PeerSync and PeerLock instances running on the domain or across the VPN.
• Enhanced Logging to include PeerLock activity.
• New “Enable Repetitive Broadcast” setting ties into the “Always Enable Activity Reporting” feature. When this option is checked the user will be able to “Enable Repetitive Broadcast” and specify the broadcast interval. This sets the cycle of how often the Observer will broadcast messages to all PeerSync and PeerLock instances running within the designated domain to begin transmitting status information to the Observer.

Since its introduction in 1993, PeerSync has been used by thousands of organisations to keep their data secure, synchronised, and continuously available, without interruption. PeerSync unobtrusively monitors connections between storage points and provides a range of manual, scheduled, and/or real-time file backup and synchronisation routines. In addition, users can select multiple source-target configurations for speed and flexibility when dealing with multiple computers and storage devices.

Observer Enterprise Edition v2.0 is available directly from the Purple Rage website (www.purplerage.com/peer) or through authorised Purple Rage resellers. For those ordering Observer Enterprise Edition v2.0 between now and 15 November 2007, it is £247 per instance; after 15 November 2007 the price will increase to £494 per instance.

A free 15 day trial copy is available for downloading at http://www.purplerage.com/getpeer.

Purple Rage announces the release of the latest version of Peer Software’s PeerLock. PeerLock 2.0 offers a more granular approach to file management for improved distributed collaboration.

New features provide more flexibility and control over file locking and releasing; includes cross domain file locking, narrower “release” intervals, and key performance enhancements for more efficient collaboration.

Purple Rage, a UK distributor of software solutions for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX, today announces the release of PeerLock 2.0. The new version contains features and enhancements to provide greater control over file management and collaboration.

The only true stand-alone file locking solution on the market today offering real-time detection of file use and immediate remote locking, Peerlock’s core functionality ensures that when a user is modifying a file, no other user will be allowed to make changes to that file on any machine that the user has chosen to lock. The new version, Peerlock 2.0, eliminates several critical file management barriers (i.e., now files can be locked on any location even if the location is on a different domain) and facilitates more seamless collaboration by reducing file “release” intervals (longer “release” intervals increases the risk of “version conflict,” one of the main reasons collaborative projects are late, over-budget or fail).

PeerLock 2.0 adds locking options for more precise control, increases visibility into locked files across collaborative environments, and offers a number of enhancements to streamline overall performance. PeerLock 2.0 eliminates version conflict many users experience with Microsoft’s DFS Replication solution, as it adds true file-locking; project teams relying on the PeerSync Collaboration Package will realize immediate productivity gains, as collaboration is made even more efficient, reliable and transparent.

Key Features

• Cross Domain File Locking: Lock files on any location even if the location is on a different domain or on another machine requiring specific credentials for access.
• Performance – Improved Locking and Releasing Time: Files are locked and released in milliseconds instead of approximately one second per file.
• Detection Options – Dual Detection: Use both Local and File Server Mode Detection for complete locking on machines that may have files opened from users connecting over the network as well as accessing the files locally.
• Ability to manipulate Locked List: Release locks from the PeerLock Locked list.
• Lock Options – Allow Access based on Source File: This feature adds the ability to Lock Target Files with the same access based on the Source File. When using this feature files on the source and their corresponding target(s) will be accessible by other users in the same manner: i.e. you cannot open the file, you can open the file for read access or you can open the file for read and write access. This is an important feature for applications that open some files for read and write access and other related files for read access, as well as, applications that just open Source Files for read access (such as for CAD resource files).
• Display – Release List: Sorts recently released files and all information pertaining to the locking and releasing of those files including why the file was released (i.e. Manually, Locking Stopped, PeerLock Stopped or the Source File was released).
• Internal File Management – Cache Management: Used to track and remove temporary files used by PeerLock. There are options to enable the caching, clear the cache at the start of locking and to clear the cache manually on demand.
• Failed Connections Retry: PeerLock now stores failed connections and retries them on a ten minute cycle. This should improve overall performance when connection losses occur.
• Performance – Optimized Lock and Release: Separated the Locking and Releasing cycles to allow for the ability to set the priority of each procedure.

A free 15 day trial copy is available for downloading at http://www.purplerage.com/getpeer.