Archiving

Actiance released expanded supervisory review capabilities for Alcatraz, its cloud-based archive for a broad range of communication channels. www.actiance.com

Smarsh has teamed up with Hootsuite, a platform for managing social media, to help customers facilitate the archiving, supervision, discovery, and production of published social media content. www.smarsh.com

Information Governance

OpenText and DocuSign announced new integrations to help OpenText enterprise customers securely create and route documents for electronic signature. www.opentext.com

Security

Sophos has introduced its Sophos Security Heartbeat capability for the Sophos XG series of next-generation firewalls and UTMs. www.sophos.com

BeyondTrust announced the latest version of the company’s privileged password and privileged session management solution, PowerBroker Password Safe 5.7. www.beyondtrust.com

Miscellaneous

Microsoft announced plans to offer Microsoft Azure and Office 365 from local UK-based data centers in late 2016 with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online following shortly thereafter. www.microsoft.com

Blue Coat Systems announced that it has agreed to acquire Elastica, a provider of cloud application security detection capabilities, for $280 million. www.bluecoat.com

BlackBerry announced that PRIV its smartphone powered by Android is now commercially available from carriers in North America. www.blackberry.com

Kaspersky Lab has patented a new technology to protect corporate data on employee mobile devices. www.kaspersky.com