Big Blue released this week Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging service, a hosted version of corporate email service, Lotus Notes/ Domino. The company is going to charge $10 per user for the service. The service will also provide spam and virus filtering, backup and restore services and 1GB mailbox. It is expected to compete with Google gmail and Microsoft Exchange online.
Cisco and Microsoft jointly unveiled new product Windows Server on WAAS. The company can deploy corporate applications and infrastructure services across branch and data center with the help of this product which is an integration of Windows Server 2008 with the Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS).
Google applied for a patent for an innovative concept: Wave Powered Data Center. The data center consists a system that includes a floating platform-mounted computer data center. The data center consists a number of computing units, a sea-based electrical generator that provides electrical connection for those computing units, and one or more sea-water cooling units for providing cooling to those computing units.
IBM recently announced new smart dashboard solution IBM Systems Director 6.1 for Data Center Management. This is also part of IBM’s New Enterprise Data Center strategy to streamline Data Center operation. The software will help clients to view, maintain and adjust the energy consumption, performance, and hardware utilization of their multi-system, virtualized environment from a single window.
Ingeniux, a leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 Content Management System (CMS), recently announced three new software-as-a-service packages which will be available on demand. To support growth in software-as-a-service Ingeniux has opened a second data center. Co-located in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Vanguard Networks Applications Ware 7.1 unveiled new software for enterprise users and financial companies to add new functionality with enhanced voice and performance benefits with additional security and routing features.
Cloud Computing has become a buzzword in the tech industry due to marketing and service offerings from big players like Google, IBM and Amazon. AT & T announced that they are entering into Cloud Computing by offering the service, AT&T Synaptic Hosting.
Google explained its vision for Web Development in the next three years at its developers conference being held in San Francisco. Google Inc. will invest in three key areas for developers, including opening up its servers to host their applications, encouraging pervasive connectivity to the Web, and making the browser more powerful, said Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice president of engineering,
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