Messaging & Collaboration

Axigen announced the commercial release of version 6.2 of the AXIGEN Mail Server featuring Commtouch’s real time antispam protection and many other important security and delegated administration functionalities. www.axigen.com.

Archiving & Compliance

C2C announced Archive One for Domino, an exciting extension to their archiving product set. www.c2c.com.

Symantec Corp. announced Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0, the newest version of Symantec’s industry leading email and content archiving platform. www.symantec.com.

Security

Symantec Corp. announced Symantec Data Loss Prevention, version 9.0, providing organizations with increased ability to discover, monitor and protect confidential information wherever it is stored or used. www.symantec.com.

Autonomy Corporation unveiled its new unique Situational Awareness Web Portal that offers global companies the ability to control and monitor their security and surveillance activities through a rich user interface accessible over a standard Internet connection. www.autonomy.com.

Symantec Corp. announced Symantec Brightmail Gateway 8.0, its new messaging security platform as part of its Information Risk Management (IRM) strategy to secure and manage unstructured information such as email and online collaborative content. www.symantec.com.

IronPort Systems, now part of Cisco, announced hardware platforms for its enterprise- and carrier-grade e-mail security appliances that dramatically extend IronPort’s performance advantage over its competition. www.ironport.com / www.cisco.com.

Social Networking

IBM is launching a free open beta for “Bluehouse,” the first Web-delivered social networking and collaboration cloud service designed to connect people from different businesses. “Bluehouse” combines social networking and online collaboration tools to help businesses of all sizes to securely work together through firewalls and beyond organizational boundaries. www.ibm.com.

Unified Communications

BroadSoft Inc., a leading provider of Voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) application software, and Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of a hosted unified communications service for business from BroadSoft, based on Microsoft software. www.broadSoft.com / www.microsoft.com.

Miscellaneous

Symantec Corp. announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire MessageLabs, a leading provider of online messaging and Web security services. www.symantec.com / www.messagelabs.com.

IBM announced new BladeCenter servers and System Storage offerings designed to help midsize businesses simplify and automate the management of information technology resources, applications, processes and services. www.ibm.com.