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Messaging and
Collaboration
AXS-One extended its leadership
within the IBM Lotus Notes and Domino market with the release of Version 3.7 of
the market leading AXS-One Compliance Platform. This latest release adds
significant features and functionality with broad applications for Lotus Notes
and Domino environments. www.axsone.com
Permessa Corporation launched Permessa Email Control! v5
software, which automatically recommends and enforces email policies based on
best practices. www.permessa.com
IBM and SAP AG announced
plans to deliver their first joint software product codenamed "Atlantic" that will integrate IBM Lotus Notes
software with SAP Business Suite. www.ibm.com
IBM announced to customers
and Business Partners at its annual Lotusphere
conference a roadmap of innovations, products, services and Business Partner
initiatives designed to make IBM Lotus Notes and Lotus Domino software,
licensed to 140 million users, the desktop of the future. www.ibm.com
Instant Messaging
Permessa Corporation unveiled Permessa IM Control! v5 for
enterprise instant messaging. The product enhances the real-time communications
products from IBM and Microsoft with important real-time compliance,
availability, and archiving features. www.permessa.com
Security
To address enterprises' insatiable appetite for
high performance and scalable network security, Cisco announced the
availability of the Cisco ASA 5580 Series Adaptive Security Appliances, the
company's highest-performing security appliance offering. www.cisco.com
Unified Communications
IBM made big advances
into the rapidly growing unified communications market by unveiling a range of
large client adoptions and major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) embedded
software and reseller agreements expanding IBM Lotus Sametime
to millions of new users. www.ibm.com
FaceTime Communications, an IBM advanced
level member of IBM PartnerWorld and the leading
provider of solutions that control greynets and
manage unified communications in the enterprise, is exhibiting at Lotusphere and has announced its support for IBM Lotus Sametime 8.0. www.facetime.com
Mobile
Research
In Motion (RIM) announced a series of updates for its
leading BlackBerry platform that include enhanced messaging and collaboration,
simpler management, enhanced security and expanded application development
support. www.rim.com
Research In Motion (RIM) previewed its BlackBerry Client for IBM
Lotus Connections -- a new software application that runs natively on
BlackBerry smartphones to provide mobile users with
access to Lotus Connections social software for business. www.rim.com
Simdesk Technologies announced it will
launch its SimMobileTM next-generation mobile
services platform at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 11 - 14. www.simdesk.com
IBM announced to more
than 7,000 customers and Business Partners at its annual Lotusphere
conference that five mobile software companies will be included in a new
CD-based Mobile Bonus Pack that will ship with the next release of Lotus Domino
software 8.0.1 due next month. www.ibm.com
Business Social
Networks
IBM unveiled a range of
Web 2.0 and collaboration tools to enable enterprise mashups
and social software, and help clients improve agility and speed decision-making
for an increasingly virtual, global workforce. www.ibm.com
IBM announced it is
expanding its business event processing software portfolio by acquiring AptSoft Corporation. AptSoft
technology helps businesses uncover the cause-and-effect relationships among
seemingly disparate business events that occur in milliseconds or throughout
defined periods of time. www.ibm.com
IBM announced plans for a
software portfolio expansion geared to the needs of millions of companies from
5 to 500 employees that want to focus on growing their businesses instead of
running their office systems. www.ibm.com
Voice over IP (VoIP)
Raketu released Raketu
Lite, the light version of the company's voice over
IP (VoIP) calling desktop application. Raketu Lite was developed
specifically for those consumers interested solely in Raketu's
leading edge VoIP calling features, including Global IM/SMS and email
capabilities. www.raketu.com
Vyke
Communications announced its acquisition of Callserve
Communications Limited ("Callserve"), a
UK-based telecommunications service provider. www.vyke.com
ASC announced the introduction of EVOip
8.0, a new VoIP recording solution with additional channel capacity and
compatibility with a wider range of IP phone systems. http://www.asctelecom.com
Miscellaneous
The openSUSE(R)
Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for
software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux
distributions, has extended its support to now build packages for CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. www.novell.com
IBM announced that it
will offer an integrated Open Collaboration Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from Canonical Ltd.
that is especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin clients. www.ibm.com
IBM announced it has
reached an agreement to acquire Net Integration Technologies Inc., a Toronto,
Canada-based, privately held company that offers a complete business server
software solution for small businesses. www.ibm.com
Downloaded for use in
English by more than 400,000 individuals at work and at home, IBM's Lotus
Symphony suite of desktop office software is now available in 24 languages
serving major markets worldwide. www.ibm.com
Cisco announced new products and services that
extend its Application Network Services (ANS) portfolio to enable end-to-end
application delivery networks. New ANS products and services include the Cisco
Application Control Engine (ACE) 4710 Appliance, Cisco Wide Area Application
Services (WAAS) Mobile,
Cisco ACE XML Gateway Release 5.2, and Cisco Advanced Services for application
delivery. www.cisco.com
Cisco introduced new Catalyst switches and
capabilities to the Campus Communication Fabric, its blueprint for network
services, to help customers increase operational flexibility and use the
network as a platform to accelerate the delivery of applications and to support
evolving networks. www.cisco.com
Rackspace announced its new corporate
identity reflecting its shift into IT hosting. As
more organizations transition from purchasing in-house computing assets to
leveraging service providers, Rackspace now offers a
suite of hosted IT services that are more reliable and provide better value,
including virtualization, hosted mail, custom application support, back-end IT
and storage. www.rackspace.co.uk
Momail announced the successful closure of its first round of
funding, valued at SEK 35 million ($5.4 million). www.momail.com
AT&T
Inc. reported strong fourth-quarter results and reaffirmed its positive outlook
for 2008 and beyond. This marked AT&T's 11th consecutive quarter and third
straight year of double-digit growth in adjusted earnings per share. www.att.com