Boundary hopes to show you the web and your app in real time

If your application’s infrastructure is based in the cloud, then monitoring that infrastructure requires a cloud-based product as well. But monitoring the performance of cloud-based apps and the clouds they are hosted on requires a lot of data. Terabytes of it. Boundary, the real-time network monitoring service, has expanded its…

Posted on: December 2, 2012 8:00 am

IBM gibt die Marke Lotus auf

Die bisher darunter vermarkteten Produkte Notes und Domino werden allerdings weiterentwickelt. Die oeffentliche Beta der naechsten Generation kommt am 14. Dezember. Sie bringt neue Funktionen fuer Kalender und Mail, SAML-Support sowie bessere Unterstuetzung fuer System i und die Entwicklerplattform XPages. Weil IBM der staerkere Name ist, hat sich das Unternehmen jetzt…

Posted on: December 2, 2012 8:00 am

One on one with Mark Barrenechea of OpenText

Mark Barrenechea is president and CEO at OpenText. He has held a variety of executive jobs in the technology industry over the years before joining OpenText in January this year. We asked him about the current state of enterprise content management and how OpenText fits within a changing industry landscape….

Posted on: November 30, 2012 6:00 pm

Workshare strengthens its enterprise software offering with acquisition of UK …

Workshare, a document collaboration software firm started in San Francisco but now headquartered in London, today announced that it has acquired IdeaPlane, an enterprise social network built specifically for the finance and other highly regulated industries. IdeaPlane was founded by James Fabricant, a former MySpace International executive, and the platform…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 6:00 pm

IBM Drops Lotus Brand

In a move that has been a long time in the making, IBM is dropping the Lotus brand and in the future will use the IBM brand on its own to identify products such as Notes and Domino. IBM plans to deliver a public beta of IBM Notes/Domino 9.0 Social…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 6:00 pm

Alas poor Lotus, we knew you well

The time was sometime in 1992 or 1993, and I had just moved to New Jersey from California. Back then, I was a Mac guy, having just finished running a variety of HyperCard-related projects for Apple. The phone rang. It was an IT manager for The New York Times. She had just…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 6:00 pm

UC Exchange Offers Free Google Federation

UC Exchange creator NextPlane Inc. is now offering free Google federation to organizations using Microsoft OCS, Microsoft Lync, or IBM Sametime. Launched in October, UC Exchange is a cloud-based federation service for unified communications. Member organizations can connect users from different companies regardless of their underlying UC platform with presence,…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 6:00 pm

IBM drops Lotus brand from next version of Notes

Update Lotus Notes is no more and will henceforth be known as … drumroll please IBM Notes. Big Blue quietly let it be known the Lotus brand will disappear in the forthcoming version 9.0 of Notes and Domino, products that back in 1995 were so desirable it wrote a check for That acquisition…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 1:00 pm

IBM kills Lotus brand, readies Notes/Domino Social Edition

IBM is planning to release on Dec. 14 a public beta of Notes and Domino 9.0 Social Edition that will no longer use the Lotus brand. IBM has decided to offer a public beta, the first in a long time for Notes and Domino, because of the importance of the release, Ed…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 1:00 pm

GNCTD adopts IBM’s Social Business solutions

IBM through its business partner Vyam Technologies bagged a project from Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD), through a tender process. IBM has assisted GNCTD to create a centralized web portal and content management aystem. GNTCD has deployed IBM’s Social Business solutions to improve operational efficiency, achieve compliance…

Posted on: November 30, 2012 1:00 pm