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Skype gets a little more professional
Skype released its Skype Connect 1.0 unified communications offering for businesses. This version of Skype can connect directly to IP-enabled PBX or other unified communications systems, allowing businesses to leverage Skype’s network and calling rates through their existing telephony infrastructure.
MoreSame Exchange, but with a lot more gadgets.
Microsoft has recently released its Microsoft Exchange 2010 Service Pack 1. The service pack includes a wide range of upgrades, new features, and bug fixes that are aimed towards improving Exchange’s functionality and capabilities.
MoreWorkers now forced to use Facebook for real work!
FaceTime has just recently launched its Socialite SaaS solution to help monitor and secure social networking usage within the enterprise. It’s a groundbreaking step towards extending security and compliance to enterprise social networking, which in itself is a relatively new addition to the enterprise.
MoreHP’s acquisition of Palm instantly changed the landscape of the wireless market. Even without knowing HP’s exact roadmap for the near future, or which direction (or directions) they plan to take, it is clear that this deal will have major implications on device vendors, users, wireless carriers and everyone in between.
MoreThere has been quite a buzz within the tech community with articles and blog posts on Apple’s latest “game-changing” and “revolutionary” device, the iPad. The hype surrounding the iPad’s release has reached excessive levels in recent weeks. One popular tech blog has even included a feature that allows visitors to block all Apple iPad-related content, due to the nearly overwhelming coverage of the iPad. But is the attention the iPad is receiving warranted, or will the iPad struggle to find its target audience?
MoreIron Mountain, known for traditional document storage capabilities, has been an active player in the e-mail archiving market for a number of years. It is currently the second largest e-mail archiving SaaS vendor, after Autonomy ZANTAZ. Unlike Autonomy ZANTAZ, which expanded into the on-premises market a number of years ago, until now, Iron Mountain has offered only a hosted archiving solution.
MoreVMWare acquires Zimbra: Our thoughts …
Last Tuesday, January 12th, VMware announced that they have acquired Zimbra from Yahoo!. Originally purchased by Yahoo! in 2007 for $350 million, Zimbra became expandable earlier this year when Yahoo! decided to refocus their attention on the consumer market with their “It’s You” campaign. Zimbra’s focus on the enterprise market clashed with Yahoo!’s new direction, and rumors of Yahoo! shopping Zimbra sprang up shortly thereafter in September 2009.
MoreIt has been just over a month since Motorola released their highly anticipated Droid handset, which is based on Google’s Android mobile platform. Motorola has made no secret that the Droid is aimed squarely at Apple’s iPhone, but Motorola is hardly the first device manufacturer to proclaim that they possess the “iPhone killer”. RIM’s release of the BlackBerry Storm in November 2008 was met with mixed reactions from users, while taking little away from Apple’s mobile device market share. Palm’s Pre received praise for its revamped operating system and innovative design, but a single device and carrier dependence have limited its widespread uptake thus far. It is evident that Motorola has waited in wings, observing and taking notes from the failed attempts of their counterparts. The Droid has already had an impressive debut, and strong sales should continue, but everyone wants to know if the Droid really is the one.
MoreIs Email Increasing or Decreasing?
Our newly released “Business User Survey, 2009” shows that for the first time since we started monitoring email traffic patterns, the amount of email that reaches business user inboxes is actually decreasing. Survey respondents indicated that they sent and received an average of 108 email messages per day in 2009, which is noticeably lower than the average of 140 email messages sent and received in 2008. This is a fairly significant decrease of 23%!
MoreMicrosoft Slashes prices of its Cloud Offerings
In a competitive price cutting frenzy, earlier this month, Microsoft slashed prices of its cloud services for messaging and collaboration. The company cut in half the per user price of its Exchange Online services, from $10 per user/month to $5 per user/month, and cut by 33% the price of its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) suite.
MoreArchive Manager from Perimeter as a Solution to the FRCP Problem
In October 2009 Perimeter introduced a new hosted service, Archive Manager, enabling organizations to capture, store, manage, and quickly retrieve messages to comply with a number of regulations, including the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). Customers of Perimeter’s USA.NET hosted e-mail service will be able to get the Archive Manager integrated with their hosted e-mail service.
MoreIBM’s Entrance into the Hosted Archiving Market
The hosted archiving market, estimated to reach about $714 million in revenue by the end of 2009, just got a new competitor – IBM. The company announced its entrance into the archiving, as well as storage hosted markets in October.
MoreTwo announcements caught our eye this week – Palm finally announced that it will officially open the doors to its Palm webOS developer program in December, and RIM announced BlackBerry Widget Packager 1.0 Beta 1, a new tool that allows web developers to package up their web assets into BlackBerry Widgets (i.e. small, discrete, standalone web applications that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript). Both of these announcements signal that the wireless application wars are heating up!
MoreOver the past few years, EMC has transformed itself from an old-fashioned storage and back up vendor to a highly competitive archiving and eDiscovery vendor.
MorePalm Introduces New Apps Program
To challenge the popular iPhone, Palm is getting ready to introduce its own e-commerce apps program. Feeding users’ addiction for endless new apps will be beneficial for both developers and Palm: the sales of each app will be split 70%/30% between developers and Palm. Palm’s WebOS platform, powered by Linux, offers a clean and simple way for developers to built interactive apps for Palm’s smartphone junkies.
MoreSymantec’s Partnership with LifeLock, Inc.
In August, Symantec announced a new partnership to promote and cross-sell its Norton security software, offering anti-virus, anti-spam, anti-spyware, and Web protection capabilities. Symantec’s chosen partner - LifeLock, Inc. - is a subscription service enabling a “proactive identity theft protection” program for $99/year. Both partners operate in the security market, however it is quite puzzling as to what made Symantec decide to associate itself with such a colorful company as LifeLock.
MoreTwitter’s network, powered by NTT America, went down yesterday, August, 6th, due to a reported Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Inaccessible for two hours, the outage caused grief among consumers and businesses alike.
MoreMcAfee’s acquisition of MX Logic
With the acquisition of MX Logic, announced on July 30th, 2009, McAfee is following in the footsteps of Symantec, which acquired MessageLabs in November 2008. Both vendors hope to capitalize on the quickly expanding hosted market for messaging security services. The hosted e-mail security market is projected to grow at an annual rate of about 25% over the next four years.
MorePalm announces cool new features for the Palm webOS platform
This week Palm announced a number of new features for the Palm webOS platform that aim directly at the iPhone’s leadership in the “supercool” wireless phone category. The new features will be available on the new Palm Pre phone due to be launched on June 6 on Sprint’s mobile network.
More“Microsoft SharePoint Market Analysis, 2009-2013”
This is the first report we publish devoted exclusively to Microsoft SharePoint Services (WSS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) in both the On-Premises and Hosted Collaboration Market. In the past we included information about these products in a number of our other reports we published annually, but increasingly our readers were asking us to do a report exclusively on Microsoft SharePoint “along the lines” of our Microsoft Exchange Server & Outlook Market Analysis report which provides extensive information on penetration by version, region, business size, and more.
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