ARMONK, N.Y., - 05 Oct 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today introduced a new collaboration software suite in the Cloud that gives users one-click access to collaboration and social networking services for only $10 per month. The move aims to accelerate the adoption of Cloud collaboration services to increase productivity, collaboration and innovation in today's global enterprises. IBM also announced today new enterprise-class email and social networking capabilities, value pricing options and third party integrations for its flagship cloud collaboration offering,LotusLive. With this announcement, IBM is making it easier for customers of all sizes to take advantage of all the collaboration capabilities of LotusLive. The new LotusLive collaboration suite combines enterprise-class email, calendaring, instant messaging, Web conferencing, file sharing and social networking services in an easy to deploy, simplified package for $10 per user per month. IBM also unveiled a Cloud service called LotusLive Notes, based on IBM's flagship messaging capabilities already used by millions of people worldwide. Building on deep experience in serving the enterprise, LotusLive Notes delivers feature-rich email, shared calendar, instant messaging and personal contact services, starting at only $5 per user, per month. Building on its leadership in enterprise social networking, IBM is also introducing a feature within LotusLive called Communities to help advance organizations' ability to work together both inside and outside their enterprise. Within a Community, members have the ability to tag information, share files and bookmarks, track projects and host discussion forums securely across multiple companies. "Businesses are looking to reduce costs, do more with less, and find ways to work more closely with their customers and partners," said Sean Poulley, IBM vice president of cloud collaboration. "LotusLive gives them the right tools to do this, delivered by a company they trust and is focu
LAKE FOREST, Calif., Oct 05, 2010 - WD(R) (NYSE: WDC), the world's leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new My Passport(R) Essential(TM) portable hard drive (photo), My Passport(R) Essential(TM) SE portable hard drive (photo), and My Book(R) Essential external hard drive (photo). All three drive families come in a variety of capacities and offer lightning-fast USB 3.0 connectivity (1). Highest industry capacity is another key feature for the My Book Essential drive, which is now available in 3 TB capacity, in addition to 1 and 2 TB capacities. Equipped with WD SmartWare(TM)visual backup software for automatic, continuous backup, these drives provide users the extra space they need to store or back up all of their digital memories, such as high-resolution photos and videos, along with music and other critical files, all in one place. The drives not only take advantage of the latest blazing-fast USB 3.0 technology, but are also fully compatible with USB 2.0 connections for those who have yet to upgrade their computers to USB 3.0. When connected to a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port, consumers can transfer data at speeds up to 150 MB/s. At that rate, a two-hour HD video will transfer in as little as three minutes. The same two-hour video would take approximately 13 minutes to transfer on a USB 2.0 port(2). My Passport Essential, still WD's smallest portable drive, is available in a 500 GB capacity and comes in five fun colors - Midnight Black, Cool Silver, Real Red, Pacific Blue and Arctic White (Arctic White only available in EMEA and APAC). My Passport Essential SE portable hard drives are available in 750 GB and 1 TB capacities and come in stylish black, silver, metallic blue and metallic red colors. The pocket-sized My Passport portable hard drives are powered directly through the USB cable; no separate power supply is needed(3). My Book Essential, the world's number-one selling hard drive, also impresses with its small footprint, sleek design and high
Woburn, Mass., (October 5, 2010) — Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use backup, recovery and security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the general availability of Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 10 Online. Successfully launched last month at VMworld, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online is a cutting-edge online backup and recovery solution that offers the advantages of an offsite datacenter without a substantial upfront investment. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online answers the need for customers who do not have multiple datacenters to cost-effectively back up their backups offsite for protection against primary site loss, creating a virtual datacenter capability. With the service, IT administrators can recover files, folders or even complete images of systems. A single Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 console seamlessly manages both local and online backup and recovery efforts regardless of the data's location. Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 provides the benefits of local backups and recoveries in the event of infrastructure failure or other occurrences such as accidently deleted files or virus attack. The new Acronis solution provides that extra level of protection, enabling organizations to recover quickly and completely from a secure cloud computing environment in the wake of a full-scale outage, without requiring a dedicated offsite storage facility and its associated costs. The service includes support for mixed virtual and physical computing environments found in many of today's businesses. One of the first data protection solutions to offer online agent-less backup for virtual machines, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online eliminates agents, which reduces repetitive administration tasks, and helps to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO). Additionally, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Online: Has minimal impact on management overhead, since the same Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 management console
BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 5, 2010 - HP today announced new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that significantly enhance the delivery of application services to business. HP is improving the quality of application service in branch offices with a turnkey, all-in-one connectivity solution that eliminates the need for local IT resources. A new HP TippingPoint security service increases network integrity by providing granular control of application access, with the ability to block access to entire websites – or features – across the enterprise. For service providers, the new, specialized HP ProLiant SL6500 Scalable System provides a single, high-performance scalable platform for hosting, web serving, cloud computing or outsourcing a variety of applications. Innovations in building and delivering the HP Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD), a modular, container-based IT environment, enable service providers to rapidly expand an entire data center for application access in as little as six weeks.(1) The new solutions are based on HP Converged Infrastructure, which provides clients with integrated servers, storage, networking and software. Converged Infrastructure is an ideal foundation for application service delivery because it offers an open, common architecture that is highly optimized and managed in a unified way. This allows clients to automatically tune their infrastructure to meet the specific requirements of their environments. "Enterprises are realizing that applications are only as good as the infrastructure that powers them," said Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking HP. "HP Converged Infrastructure delivers significant advantages in deployment speed, performance, reliability and management of applications that provide organizations quantifiable results over traditional environments." Streamline application delivery to the branch office Branc
Cisco Expands Borderless Networks Portfolio With New Products Across Switching, Routing, Security and Mobility SAN JOSE, Calif. - October 5, 2010 - Cisco announced today new products and services across all the functional elements of its Borderless Network architecture - the switching, routing, security and wireless portfolios. Notable additions include the highest-performing and high-density Cisco® Catalyst® switch, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance firewall and compact Cisco ASR 1000 Series router in their classes; new entry-level 802.11n wireless access points for smaller businesses; and new and enhanced smart-services offerings. Key Highlights: The new products and professional and technical services Cisco announced today extend the company's Borderless Networks portfolio to address the growing need for high-performance, highly reliable and highly secure application delivery from a smaller number of consolidated data centers to a growing number of wired and wireless endpoints, while optimizing overall resource utilization and footprint. High-Performance and High-Density Innovations: The Cisco Catalyst 4500 E-Series switch, the industry's most widely deployed modular platform, raises the bar in performance for campus switching by delivering 848 gigabits per second of system bandwidth and the highest density of 384 Power over Ethernet Plus (PoEP)-capable ports. With the new Supervisor Engine 7-E , the Catalyst 4500E also drives market transitions from 1G Fiber to 10G Fiber as a price/performance aggregation switch with 100 ports at 10G. Fully loaded with hardware-accelerated Borderless Network Services like Cisco Medianet, CiscoEnergyWise, and Cisco TrustSec, it is now powered by Cisco IOS® XE Software, enabling the delivery of third-party services. The Catalyst 4500E delivers best-in-class access resiliency with sub-10-millisecond supervisor failover utilizing the In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) functionality and enriched application visibility with Cisco