Mainsoft Corporation, a provider of cross-platform interoperability software, on Tuesday announced Harmony - free software for Microsoft Outlook that provides full-featured access to Google Docs documents or Microsoft SharePoint® document libraries from within e-mail. Based on the prem... Mainsoft Corporation, a provider of cross-platform interoperability software, on Tuesday announced Harmony - free software for Microsoft Outlook that provides full-featured access to Google Docs documents or Microsoft SharePoint® document libraries from within e-mail. Based on the prem...Mar. 9, 2010 07:00 AM EST Reads: 401 |
Rackspace Hosting, a provider of hosting and cloud computing, on Tuesday announced that the cloud-based applications division has plans to restructure its reseller program, which will emphasize the company’s commitment to channel partners through increased revenue opportunities, new tr...Mar. 9, 2010 01:02 AM EST Reads: 493 |
There were a couple of things that I will remember from my time at the Parallels Summit ’10 which wrapped up in Miami last week.
The first was that the Summit’s venue – the Fontainebleau Resort – has a rich movie and music heritage, with its beautiful grounds providing the back drop f...Mar. 2, 2010 11:45 AM EST Reads: 753 |
Social media buzz came to a head with this week's FINRA webinar. "From the interest we're seeing and the calls we're getting,” Mr. Johnston said, “We thought financial professionals could use our new white paper ahead of Advisolocity’s official March 1 launch date."
Mr. Johnston inv... Feb. 4, 2010 06:52 PM EST Reads: 450 |
Burntsand Inc. (Burntsand) (TSX: BRT), a North American business consulting and technology services company, announced today the signing of a contract for a Microsoft Office SharePoint implementation totaling over $400,000US. The customer is a large biotechnology located in the United ... Mar. 1, 2010 05:20 PM EST Reads: 149 |
eTIPS VM, a virtual appliance offering for the data center; and Edge, a remote access authentication gateway. Also, additional enhancements to the award-winning eTIPS multi-function platform include comprehensive health checks for Microsoft Windows 7, 802.1X deployment support for the ...Mar. 1, 2010 06:45 AM EST Reads: 460 |
I’ve been talking a lot about external lists lately as you may know. They are so easy to create with SharePoint Designer, but you wouldn’t really deploy them to production that way would you? Of course not! We need a feature. At first, you might think generating...Feb. 28, 2010 12:25 PM EST Reads: 715 |
Iron Mountain said Monday that it’s bought archiving house Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash.
Mimosa’s NearPoint platform gives Iron Mountain on-premise archiving of Exchange e-mail, SharePoint data and unstructured files to go with its own cloud-based archiving not to mention ...Feb. 27, 2010 09:15 AM EST Reads: 2,508 |
IBM on Thursday announced it is working with the British Library on a project that will preserve and analyse terabytes of information on the Web before it is lost forever.
The new analytics software project, called IBM BigSheets, helps extract, annotate and visually analyse vast amoun...Feb. 25, 2010 06:00 AM EST Reads: 363 |
Arkeia Software, a provider of backup and recovery software and appliances, on Wednesday announced Arkeia Network Backup version 8.2 with new agents for backup and recovery of VMware and Hyper-V virtual environments and applications including Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, and SQL Ser...Feb. 17, 2010 09:05 AM EST Reads: 501 |
Microsoft SharePoint's open source clone, MindTouch, is integrating its platform with Fujitsu's ScanSnap family of scanners to help clients upload, store and share business documents on the web. The companies say that through this partnership, they have removed one of the biggest adopt...Feb. 15, 2010 06:30 PM EST Reads: 711 |
Rackspace Hosting on Thursday announced the launch of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, the collaboration and file sharing platform, backed by Rackspace’s 24x7x365 Fanatical Support. With the addition of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Rackspace's suite of cloud applications now includes busin...Feb. 11, 2010 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,284 |
For Financial Advisors, trusted communicator is job one
By: D. Bruce Johnston, President, DBJ Associates
Brokers and advisors are the most trusted sources for providing accurate information on investments, followed by friends or family, according to the 2010 Edelman Trust Barometer.... Feb. 11, 2010 11:11 AM EST Reads: 322 |
In a report entitled "The Growing Importance of Microsoft SharePoint", Osterman Research found that labor is a huge cost of managing SharePoint, on average $45 per user per month. One of the factors contributing to this situation is complexity. Keeping SharePoint available and oper...Feb. 11, 2010 06:35 AM EST Reads: 485 |
Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. # Revenues were $14.5 million (Q4 2008: $15.1 million; Q3 2009 $13.5 million). # Opera...Feb. 10, 2010 05:34 AM EST Reads: 788 |
Magic Software Enterprises Inc., a subsidiary of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, on Tuesday announced that its new iBOLT business integration suite component for Microsoft SharePoint will enable unlimi...Feb. 9, 2010 12:21 PM EST Reads: 611 |
Study from Mimecast Finds that Security and Integration Concerns are not Preventing Enterprises' Cloud Computing AdoptionLondon - February 4, 2010 - Mimecast®, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today ...Feb. 5, 2010 07:30 AM EST Reads: 802 |
Intuit and Microsoft plan to create new opportunities for software developers to deliver and market Web applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center. The two companies plan to integrate the capabilities of their cloud services platforms – the Intuit Partner Pl...Feb. 2, 2010 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,118 |
EMC Corporation, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, on Tuesday announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized EMC with a positive rating in its report entitled "MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors."* EMC has revolutionized its position as a leader in the ...Feb. 1, 2010 09:03 AM EST Reads: 689 |
A singular vision — a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs — guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex...Feb. 1, 2010 03:30 AM EST Reads: 826 |
Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise and mobile software, on Thursday reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009.
Record Achievements: Total revenue of $331.7 million for Q409 and $1.17 billion for full year; Messaging revenue of $56.2 mi...Jan. 28, 2010 01:30 PM EST Reads: 634 |
Metalogix Software, a provider of SharePoint migration, management, archiving, and recovery solutions as well as email archiving solutions for Microsoft Exchange, on Wednesday announced Metalogix Migration Manager for Oracle Content Server (Stellent). Simplifying the migration of Stell...Jan. 27, 2010 11:13 AM EST Reads: 870 |
EMC Corporation on Tuesday reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009. Ongoing strategic investments aligned to key customer priorities helped EMC achieve record fourth-quarter revenue. A continued focus on efficiencies and expense controls helped deliver expanded gross ...Jan. 26, 2010 04:45 PM EST Reads: 996 |
The fundamental Green problem of all data centers is that they cost a fortune to power up, which in turn produces heat which then costs a fortune to cool down. Within this vicious circle a bastion was set up to counter this, namely ‘Green Storage’, which has mostly taken shape in the f...Jan. 20, 2010 12:30 PM EST Reads: 638 |
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise and Precise, the UK leader in
media intelligence, today announced a strategic collaboration under which
Precise will develop and market next-generation media intelligence servi...Jan. 20, 2010 05:56 AM EST Reads: 700 |
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows S...Jan. 15, 2010 08:30 PM EST Reads: 6,306 |
Today's private storage clouds, as touted by HDS, NetApp, and others, are horses of a different color. Enterprise storage systems are much more flexible and sharable thanks to integrated virtualization and advanced management features. But they retain the traditional enterprise storage...Jan. 14, 2010 09:45 PM EST Reads: 1,287 |
Alfresco Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration products, an integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere ...Jan. 13, 2010 05:02 AM EST Reads: 1,270 |
Here is an interesting article by Rob Barry titled: "In SOA, cloud resources may exacerbate security and file transfers issues." It highlights significant requirements for Federated SOA especially around large file transfer using SOAP Attachments. The article makes the following intere...Jan. 6, 2010 04:45 AM EST Reads: 1,402 |
Fujitsu announced on Monday the launch in Japan of its Workplace LCM Service, which leverages a cloud-based platform to provide total outsourcing support over the lifecycle of customer ICT equipment, including personal computers, printers, multifunction copiers, and on-site departmenta...Dec. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,049 |
There is a ton of discussion, stories, articles, videos, conferences and blogs about the benefits and value proposition of cloud computing. Not to mention, discussion or debates about what is or what is not a cloud or cloud product, service or architecture including some perspective...Dec. 25, 2009 03:00 AM EST Reads: 2,471 |
JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools, announced the public availability of TeamCity 5.0, the company's distributed build management and continuous integration tool. TeamCity offers easy setup and delivers out-of-the-box continuous unit testing, s...Dec. 16, 2009 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,735 |
F5 Networks today announced that the SEGA Corporation has deployed the F5 ARX solution to simplify their file management and archiving systems. In recent years, SEGA faced growing data management challenges with the increase of high-quality videos and multimedia files adding a signific...Dec. 16, 2009 11:00 AM EST Reads: 867 |
Microsoft has sold the Folio and NXT businesses it got when it bought Fast Search and Transfer, the Norwegian enterprise search firm, last year to Rocket Software on undisclosed terms. Folio is a clutch of publishing tools and NXT publishes intranet documents. Fast bought the products ...Dec. 4, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 928 |
To address this need, increasing numbers of healthcare organizations are evaluating enterprise imaging (EI) projects to create a central archive enabling universal access and streamlined data management. KLAS, in fact, recently issued a report on the topic, noting that many hospitals i...Dec. 3, 2009 11:45 AM EST Reads: 911 |
I have a talk coming up on Code Access Security at SharePoint Saturday Kansas City next month so I have been investigating sandboxed solutions quite a bit. After all, sandboxed solutions are just another flavor of using CAS with some additional things thrown in. However, af...Dec. 1, 2009 08:00 AM EST Reads: 596 |
Microsoft SharePoint is a fantastic tool for enterprise document management and collaboration. But having said that, there are challenges that come up when integrating this system into your corporate disaster recovery planning. In this article, I'd like to explore some of these challen...Nov. 23, 2009 01:00 PM EST Reads: 676 |
Bamboo Solutions has released the latest version of Project Management Central (“PM Central”). The newly enhanced SharePoint Project Management application includes robust resource management capabilities and bi-directional synch with Microsoft Office Project. PM Central enables projec...Nov. 16, 2009 10:13 AM EST Reads: 939 |
Cisco today announced a revised recommended voluntary cash offer to acquire TANDBERG. Under the revised terms, Cisco will offer to purchase all the outstanding shares of TANDBERG for 170 Norwegian Kroner per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.4 billion. Cisco wil...Nov. 16, 2009 05:25 AM EST Reads: 843 |
The webcast, which took place on November 5, featured Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, and Greg Olsen, director business development, Sendmail, Inc., who revealed data results from two recent studies, conducted by Osterman Research. Both studies underscored the idea th...Nov. 12, 2009 05:01 AM EST Reads: 700 |






Rackspace Hosting, a provider of hosting and cloud computing, on Tuesday announced that the cloud-based applications division has plans to restructure its reseller program, which will emphasize the company’s commitment to channel partners through increased revenue opportunities, new tr...
There were a couple of things that I will remember from my time at the Parallels Summit ’10 which wrapped up in Miami last week.
The first was that the Summit’s venue – the Fontainebleau Resort – has a rich movie and music heritage, with its beautiful grounds providing the back drop f...
eTIPS VM, a virtual appliance offering for the data center; and Edge, a remote access authentication gateway. Also, additional enhancements to the award-winning eTIPS multi-function platform include comprehensive health checks for Microsoft Windows 7, 802.1X deployment support for the ...
I’ve been talking a lot about external lists lately as you may know. They are so easy to create with SharePoint Designer, but you wouldn’t really deploy them to production that way would you? Of course not! We need a feature. At first, you might think generating...
Iron Mountain said Monday that it’s bought archiving house Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash.
Mimosa’s NearPoint platform gives Iron Mountain on-premise archiving of Exchange e-mail, SharePoint data and unstructured files to go with its own cloud-based archiving not to mention ...
IBM on Thursday announced it is working with the British Library on a project that will preserve and analyse terabytes of information on the Web before it is lost forever.
The new analytics software project, called IBM BigSheets, helps extract, annotate and visually analyse vast amoun...
Arkeia Software, a provider of backup and recovery software and appliances, on Wednesday announced Arkeia Network Backup version 8.2 with new agents for backup and recovery of VMware and Hyper-V virtual environments and applications including Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, and SQL Ser...
Microsoft SharePoint's open source clone, MindTouch, is integrating its platform with Fujitsu's ScanSnap family of scanners to help clients upload, store and share business documents on the web. The companies say that through this partnership, they have removed one of the biggest adopt...
Rackspace Hosting on Thursday announced the launch of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, the collaboration and file sharing platform, backed by Rackspace’s 24x7x365 Fanatical Support. With the addition of hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Rackspace's suite of cloud applications now includes busin...
In a report entitled "The Growing Importance of Microsoft SharePoint", Osterman Research found that labor is a huge cost of managing SharePoint, on average $45 per user per month. One of the factors contributing to this situation is complexity. Keeping SharePoint available and oper...
Magic Software, a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009. # Revenues were $14.5 million (Q4 2008: $15.1 million; Q3 2009 $13.5 million). # Opera...
Magic Software Enterprises Inc., a subsidiary of Magic Software Enterprises Ltd., a provider of application platforms and business and process integration solutions, on Tuesday announced that its new iBOLT business integration suite component for Microsoft SharePoint will enable unlimi...
Study from Mimecast Finds that Security and Integration Concerns are not Preventing Enterprises' Cloud Computing AdoptionLondon - February 4, 2010 - Mimecast®, a holistic email management company offering SaaS-based email archiving, continuity, security and policy control, today ...
Intuit and Microsoft plan to create new opportunities for software developers to deliver and market Web applications to small business customers through the Intuit App Center. The two companies plan to integrate the capabilities of their cloud services platforms – the Intuit Partner Pl...
EMC Corporation, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, on Tuesday announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized EMC with a positive rating in its report entitled "MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors."* EMC has revolutionized its position as a leader in the ...
A singular vision — a belief in a better way to address current and future data management needs — guides CommVault in the development of Singular Information Management® solutions for high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified management of data on complex...
Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise and mobile software, on Thursday reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2009.
Record Achievements: Total revenue of $331.7 million for Q409 and $1.17 billion for full year; Messaging revenue of $56.2 mi...
Metalogix Software, a provider of SharePoint migration, management, archiving, and recovery solutions as well as email archiving solutions for Microsoft Exchange, on Wednesday announced Metalogix Migration Manager for Oracle Content Server (Stellent). Simplifying the migration of Stell...
EMC Corporation on Tuesday reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2009. Ongoing strategic investments aligned to key customer priorities helped EMC achieve record fourth-quarter revenue. A continued focus on efficiencies and expense controls helped deliver expanded gross ...
The fundamental Green problem of all data centers is that they cost a fortune to power up, which in turn produces heat which then costs a fortune to cool down. Within this vicious circle a bastion was set up to counter this, namely ‘Green Storage’, which has mostly taken shape in the f...
Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU. or AU.L), a global leader in
infrastructure software for the enterprise and Precise, the UK leader in
media intelligence, today announced a strategic collaboration under which
Precise will develop and market next-generation media intelligence servi...
Pundits talking about how Windows 7 is all about Microsoft competing against Apple, recovering with Vista consumer adoption disaster, or getting people off of XP, are missing one other – extremely important – part of the Windows 7 story. Windows 7 and its server counterpart – Windows S...
Today's private storage clouds, as touted by HDS, NetApp, and others, are horses of a different color. Enterprise storage systems are much more flexible and sharable thanks to integrated virtualization and advanced management features. But they retain the traditional enterprise storage...
Alfresco Software on Wednesday announced the availability of Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration products, an integration between the Alfresco open source enterprise content management (ECM) system and IBM Lotus Quickr, Lotus Notes, Lotus Connections and WebSphere ...
Here is an interesting article by Rob Barry titled: "In SOA, cloud resources may exacerbate security and file transfers issues." It highlights significant requirements for Federated SOA especially around large file transfer using SOAP Attachments. The article makes the following intere...
Fujitsu announced on Monday the launch in Japan of its Workplace LCM Service, which leverages a cloud-based platform to provide total outsourcing support over the lifecycle of customer ICT equipment, including personal computers, printers, multifunction copiers, and on-site departmenta...
There is a ton of discussion, stories, articles, videos, conferences and blogs about the benefits and value proposition of cloud computing. Not to mention, discussion or debates about what is or what is not a cloud or cloud product, service or architecture including some perspective...
JetBrains, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools, announced the public availability of TeamCity 5.0, the company's distributed build management and continuous integration tool. TeamCity offers easy setup and delivers out-of-the-box continuous unit testing, s...
F5 Networks today announced that the SEGA Corporation has deployed the F5 ARX solution to simplify their file management and archiving systems. In recent years, SEGA faced growing data management challenges with the increase of high-quality videos and multimedia files adding a signific...
Microsoft has sold the Folio and NXT businesses it got when it bought Fast Search and Transfer, the Norwegian enterprise search firm, last year to Rocket Software on undisclosed terms. Folio is a clutch of publishing tools and NXT publishes intranet documents. Fast bought the products ...
To address this need, increasing numbers of healthcare organizations are evaluating enterprise imaging (EI) projects to create a central archive enabling universal access and streamlined data management. KLAS, in fact, recently issued a report on the topic, noting that many hospitals i...
I have a talk coming up on Code Access Security at SharePoint Saturday Kansas City next month so I have been investigating sandboxed solutions quite a bit. After all, sandboxed solutions are just another flavor of using CAS with some additional things thrown in. However, af...
Microsoft SharePoint is a fantastic tool for enterprise document management and collaboration. But having said that, there are challenges that come up when integrating this system into your corporate disaster recovery planning. In this article, I'd like to explore some of these challen...
Bamboo Solutions has released the latest version of Project Management Central (“PM Central”). The newly enhanced SharePoint Project Management application includes robust resource management capabilities and bi-directional synch with Microsoft Office Project. PM Central enables projec...
Cisco today announced a revised recommended voluntary cash offer to acquire TANDBERG. Under the revised terms, Cisco will offer to purchase all the outstanding shares of TANDBERG for 170 Norwegian Kroner per share for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $3.4 billion. Cisco wil...
The webcast, which took place on November 5, featured Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research, and Greg Olsen, director business development, Sendmail, Inc., who revealed data results from two recent studies, conducted by Osterman Research. Both studies underscored the idea th...
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