Archiving and Compliance

C2C announced PST Manager, a new product that makes it possible to find, analyse, migrate and/or eliminate troublesome email PST files throughout a network. www.c2c.com

EMC Corporation introduced a new, midrange deduplication storage system that drives continued price/performance increases into the Data Domain product line. www.emc.com

ZL Technologies, Inc announced new enterprise-class social media archiving capabilities via the integration of FaceTime’s Unified Security Gateway. www.zlti.com

IBM introduced its new Information Archive for Email, Files, and eDiscovery. As part of its Smart Archive Strategy, IBM delivers an end-to-end, simplified archiving and eDiscovery solution to ensure the success of information archiving projects.  With this solution IBM helps organizations accelerate the implementation of an end-to-end archiving and eDiscovery solution from weeks to days. www.ibm.com

Unified Communications

Avaya announced a suite of new and enhanced product innovations and services based on Avaya Aura. Included are updates to the Avaya Aura platform, Avaya Aura Contact Center, and Avaya Agile Communication Environment (ACE).  www.avaya.com

ShoreTel released ShoreTel 11, the latest version of its UC software. With features such as a client for the iPhone and a distributed database, ShoreTel 11 helps large businesses simplify system management, improve reliability, and lower communications costs, and gives on-the-go workers more choice of mobile devices. www.shoretel.coml

Social Networking

LinkedIn reached a new milestone by reaching a million members in Spain. In September 2009, the company announced that it had reached over 500,000 members in the country, which confirms that LinkedIn has doubled the number of Spanish users in only 10 months. www.linkedin.com

Wireless

AOL Inc. unveiled a new smartphone portal, m.aol.com. In addition, AOL is increasing its focus on the Android operating system with the launch of the AOL app for Android, giving users a way to access dozens of AOL’s most popular properties, and the DailyFinance app for Android. www.aol.com

Miscellaneous

Novell and Tencent announced the establishment of a research laboratory in Shenzhen, China to jointly develop an Internet Data Center (IDC) cloud computing platform. www.novell.com

Blue Coat Systems, Inc. announced the Blue Coat Assessment Service, a new cloud-based reporting and analytical service that enables Blue Coat channel partners to easily and remotely conduct an extensive analysis of an enterprise network using a Blue Coat PacketShaper appliance. www.bluecoat.com

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) and SunGard announced the planned acquisition by SWIFT of the assets of SunGard’s Ambit Messaging Hub (AMH) solution for high-volume financial messaging. www.swift.com

CA Technologies announced the general availability of five products in the CA Virtual portfolio, which offer comprehensive management capabilities designed to help increase business agility by providing a way to provision, control, assure, secure and optimize virtual environments. www.ca.com

Skype announced it has expanded its pay-for-call offerings for advertisers. Click & Call Advertising with Skype supported by Marchex, is an advertising program which provides an efficient and measureable way to acquire new customers by using Skype to drive inbound calls. www.skype.com