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Archiving & Compliance
Mimosa Systems and Index
Engines announced a joint partnership to meet comprehensive organizational
eDiscovery requirements for on-line and off-line data solutions. The partnership
of Mimosa and Index Engines blends on-line and off-line eDiscovery technologies
to address the myriad business challenges posed by compliance regulations
and changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures (FRCP). www.mimosasystems.com
/ www.indexengines.com
Mimosa Systems announced
the Mimosa NearPoint Custodian Collector Option, providing a single solution
to rapidly search, retrieve, preserve and assess critical content owned by
data custodians with potentially relevant electronically stored information
(“ESI”). www.mimosasystems.com
Mimosa Systems announced
the Mimosa NearPoint Content Monitoring Option, providing unmatched email
content monitoring and risk management to meet the demands of more vigilant
corporate governance policies and more stringent regulatory compliance. www.mimosasystems.com
Mimosa Systems and RenewData
have formed a partnership to address growing organizational demand for a proactive
and comprehensive approach to litigation readiness regarding Electronically Stored Information (ESI). www.mimosasystems.com
/ www.renewdata.com
IBM announced it has completed
its acquisition of Arsenal Digital Solutions. With the acquisition of Arsenal,
IBM can provide global clients with security-rich information protection services
designed to handle increasing data retention requirements. www.ibm.com
/ www.arsenaldigital.com
IBM introduced the IBM
Compliance Warehouse for Legal Control, an integrated offering that combines
software, hardware and services in a unified environment to enable organizations
to achieve, sustain and prove compliance with multiple legal and compliance
mandates while reducing cost, complexity and risk. www.ibm.com
AXS-One and RenewData announced
an agreement that will deliver a complete offering for enterprise-class proactive
litigation readiness. The solution leverages RenewData's market leading non-native
data extraction, file filtering and data processing technology and processes
and AXS-One's archiving and records management software platform. www.axsone.com / www.renewdata.com
Akonix Systems, Inc., introduced Akonix L7 Enterprise v7.0,
a Unified Policy Management (UPM) platform that monitors, applies and enforces
policy and actions for the corporate use of unified communications (UC) applications,
including public and enterprise instant messaging (IM), online conferencing,
VoIP and electronic faxing. www.akonix.com
Security
Symantec Corp. introduced Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series
Virtual Edition, a complete virtual appliance version of the award-winning
messaging security appliance. Operating in VMware Server and ESX environments,
Virtual Edition helps reduce costs and save time by giving users the ability
to instantly adjust spam and virus filtering capacity without having to add
or configure the physical infrastructure. www.symantec.com
Symantec Corp. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. announced that
they have commenced their joint venture, which was announced in May 2007.
The new company will develop and distribute world-leading security and storage
appliances to global telecommunications carriers and enterprises. www.symantec.com / www.huawei.com
Hostway
Corporation announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with
Alert Logic, a provider of on-demand security solutions. Hostway’s Dedicated
Server solutions will now include an additional layer of protection: Threat
Manager Intrusion Detection Services by Alert Logic. This new managed
service offers enhanced 24x7 network protection, vulnerability monitoring,
and automated IT compliance reporting. www.hostway.com / www.alertlogic.com
Wireless
Elisa announced new 3G services that offer wireless
broadband backup to wireline data connections, helping
customers maintain connectivity should their network connection become compromised.
www.cisco.com / www.elisa.com
Dialogue Communications has announced the launch of its new
product - Mobile Site Builder - an application that enables global brands
to build mobile internet sites and storefronts quickly and easily, which stand
out in the competitive off portal market. www.dialogue.co.uk
Cisco announced that TELUS has enhanced its Short
Messaging Service (SMS) in its Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network (IP
NGN) with Cisco's carrier-class Signaling Transfer Point (STP) technology
known as the Cisco 7600 Internet Protocol Transfer Point (ITP) solution. www.cisco.com
/ www.telus.com
Unified Communications
CommuniGate Systems announced new features in its
latest version of Pronto! a powerful, yet lightweight Adobe Flash-based Unified
Communications user interface framework. The additional features are designed
to drive web 2.0 delivered Unified Communications and the mashup framework
for development of media and entertainment applications. www.communigate.com
Miscellaneous
Microsoft Corp. announced
that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire
all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration
of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. www.microsoft.com
The
OpenID Foundation announced that Google, IBM, Microsoft Corp., Verisign, and
Yahoo! have joined as its first corporate board members. With these companies’
deep expertise in Internet and security technology, the OpenID Foundation
strengthens the industrywide effort to empower users with portable Web identities,
or OpenIDs. This effort helps ensure the evolution of an open and interoperable
Internet that helps people take control of how their personal information
is used online and helps online businesses attract and retain more users by
simplifying and securing the management of digital identities. www.ibm.com
/ www.microsoft.com
/ www.google.com
/ www.verisign.com
/ www.yahoo.com
HP
introduced a new family of entry-level disk arrays with enterprise-class features
that can help customers more effectively centralize storage to lower costs,
increase administrator efficiency and reduce business downtime. The HP StorageWorks
2000 Modular Smart Array (MSA2000) family is composed of low-cost Fiber Channel
and iSCSI disk arrays for highly available, storage area networks (SAN) that
is designed for virtualized server environments. www.hp.com
Windows Server 2008 was
released to manufacturing and will be available for purchase to new customers
on March 1. With this release to manufacturers,
Microsoft has made tools, training and resources available to customers and
partners to help make it easier and faster to deploy or build upon the new
operating system. www.microsoft.com
Windows Vista Service Pack
1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing and will start being available to customers
in March, starting with Microsoft Volume Licensing customers. www.microsoft.com
Microsoft Corp. is now
offering Microsoft Outlook 2007 with Business Contact Manager, a contact management
application that extends the features of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, as
a stand-alone product. www.microsoft.com