Friday 03 September 2010
Unica Marketing Innovation Summit — Unica Corporation, the recognized leader in marketing software solutions, today announced significant advancements in its software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture that powers the Unica OnDemand product line. This innovative architecture makes maximum use of cloud computing and content delivery network resources to improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of Unica OnDemand products benefitting marketers, businesses, and consumers.
For marketers, the Unica architecture improves productivity by speeding application responsiveness. For example, application log-in from Asia is four times faster than without web application acceleration; the user experience is now the same, regardless of geography.
For businesses, Unica’s utilization of cloud computing technology delivers an even higher level of reliability and scalability — for both the delivery of personalized marketing and the collection of site performance, visitor behavior, and campaign results data.
For consumers, the Unica architecture provides a better web site experience by accelerating the delivery of personalized web site content, landing pages, and other online assets.
“Unica is an online marketing technology leader with mature, scalable, and reliable SaaS solutions,” said Eric Peterson, senior partner & Founder at independent industry analysts and consultants, Web Analytics Demystified. “By putting its product intelligence into the cloud, Unica will offer its users improved experiences and accelerated application performance.”
In related news, Unica expanded its UK-based data center to accommodate growing demand in Europe, in compliment to its multiple North American data centers.
Unica’s leading-edge SaaS infrastructure underpins the Unica OnDemand product line which includes Unica NetInsight, Unica Interactive Marketing, Unica Marketing Operations, Unica Search, and Unica Pivotal Veracity. More than 20,000 marketers rely on Unica’s on-demand software.
“The majority of technology innovation is currently focused in the areas of software-as-a-service and cloud computing. More of today’s marketers have a growing appetite for easy-to-implement, easy-to-use solutions that reduce total cost of ownership and demands on internal IT resources,” said Elana Anderson, vice president, Products, Unica. “This initiative enables us to deliver unparalleled reliability of service and will enable our products to easily scale to meet the increasing amount of customer traffic.”
About Unica Unica Corporation /quotes/comstock/15*!unca/quotes/nls/unca (UNCA 10.50, -0.19, -1.78%) is the recognized leader in marketing software solutions. Unica’s advanced set of enterprise marketing management and on-demand marketing solutions empowers organizations and individuals to turn their passion for marketing into valuable customer relationships and more profitable, timely, and measurable business outcomes. These solutions integrate and streamline all aspects of online and offline marketing. Unica’s unique interactive marketing approach incorporates customer analytics and web analytics, centralized decisioning, cross-channel execution, and integrated marketing operations. More than 1,500 organizations worldwide depend on Unica for their marketing management solutions.
Unica is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts with offices around the globe. For more information, visit www.unica.com.
Note to Editors: Copyright 2010 Unica Corporation. Unica, the Unica logo, and NetInsight are registered trademarks of Unica Corporation. All other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.
Forward-looking Statements The information provided in this press release above contains forward-looking statements that relate to future events and future financial performance of Unica. These forward-looking statements are based upon Unica’s historical performance and its current plans, estimates and expectations and are not a representation that such plans, estimates, or expectations will be achieved. These forward-looking statements represent Unica’s expectations as of the date of this press announcement. Subsequent events may cause these expectations to change; and Unica disclaims any obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements in the future. Matters subject to forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including those factors listed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2009 under “Risk Factors,” which factors could cause Unica’s performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
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Ebix, Inc, a leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, unveiled today its strategy for Cloud-computing and announced the new Ebix Cloud family of products and services for the Insurance market.
Within the Cloud-computing model, all Ebix solutions and software will be delivered as a utility or on a pay-per-use model basis. Built on top of the current Ebix product portfolio, these offerings would provide a range of services from collaboration infrastructure to data integration solutions. Ebix’s Cloud-computing platforms will allow an insurance entity to outsource data center and application hosting across multiple platforms to a single managed service provider. This will work to drive costs down and improve overall performance and reliability.
Ebix would also utilize the Cloud Web Application framework for developing multi-tenant SaaS applications based on the Cloud infrastructure. The new Cloud service would offer the convenience of traditional SaaS, but with far greater freedom, control, and cost savings for Ebix’s customers. Ebix Cloud Infrastructure solutions will help clients create and manage their applications over the Public and Private Clouds.
Security is a critical need in the insurance industry and it gains even more significance in the era of Cloud-computing, which presents challenges such as data safeguards, audit, governance and availability. Ebix is mitigating this security risk by auditing the deployment of its infrastructure based services on the stringent ISO 27001 standards.
Ebix Cloud offerings would help customers by continuing to offer On-Demand solutions to optimize resource utilization and by reducing the infrastructure management and monitoring costs. These Cloud offerings will encompass the areas of — Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service and Software-as-a-Service. The Cloud offerings will include providing consulting, migration, custom application development and deployment services to Ebix clients, while deploying turnkey pricing strategies rather than having users pay for computing power or storage.
Ebix president and CEO, Robin Raina said, “As an On-Demand solutions provider to the insurance marketplace, it is a natural progression for Ebix to grow into the Cloud-computing arena as it aligns well with our current application development strategies. Our Cloud-computing services are being designed to meet customers’ critical need to experience results quickly as they deploy their technical applications in traditional data centers, modular data centers or the Cloud.”
Robin added, “There is an opportunity in the insurance industry to offer infrastructure based services on a utilities model, delivered over a Cloud. This will allow insurance companies, brokers, investment advisors, broker dealers, and other entities involved in the insurance industry to run multiple applications interfaced with each other outside the confines of their own data centers. This means clients will have the benefit of dealing with one infrastructure services provider. We believe Ebix is uniquely positioned to play a major role using Cloud-computing within the insurance industry. We are one of the only players who can deliver a multitude of services while processing an end-to-end insurance transaction, utilizing our suite of SaaS based products like EbixExchange, EbixAdvantage, SmartOffice and SmartIntegrator.”
About Ebix, Inc.
A leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance industry, Ebix, Inc., provides end-to-end solutions ranging from Infrastructure Exchanges, Carrier Systems, Agency Systems and BPO services to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance industry.
With 30+ offices across Brazil, Singapore, Australia, the US, New Zealand, India and Canada, Ebix powers multiple exchanges across the world in the field of life, annuity, health and property & casualty insurance while conducting in excess of $100 billion in insurance premiums on its platforms. Through its various SaaS-based software platforms, Ebix employs hundreds of insurance and technology professionals to provide products, support and consultancy to thousands of customers on six continents. Ebix’s focus on quality has enabled it to be awarded Level 5 status of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (CMM). Ebix has also earned ISO 9001:2000 certification for both its development and BPO units in India. For more information, visit the Company’s website at www.ebix.com
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Google Inc. will sell the online services of other business software makers in an effort to fill its own product gaps and persuade more companies to rely on applications piped over the Internet.
The online store that was announced late Tuesday marks another step in Google’s crusade to convert the world to “cloud computing,” the idea of running applications in Web browsers instead of installing them on individual hard drives. The information entered in the programs also is stored in data centers run by third parties such as Google.
More than 50 software makers have agreed to sell their Internet programs through Google, which will keep 20 percent of the sales. The prices are expected to range from $50 annually to several hundred dollars annually per user.
Intuit Inc., a maker of business accounting software, and Concur Technologies Inc., a maker of expense reimbursement software, are among the best-known vendors peddling their wares in Google’s store.
All the applications sold in Google’s store can be melded with Google’s own cloud-computing services, said Vic Gundotra, the company’s vice president of engineering.
Google views cloud computing as a way to deepen people’s dependence on its services and generate more revenue beyond the Internet search advertising that provides virtually all its income.
Cloud computing also provides Google with a weapon that could weaken one of its biggest rivals, Microsoft Corp.
Although it’s introducing more online alternatives, Microsoft still makes most of its money from individual computer licenses of its Windows operating system and software programs.
The applications store could also could provide fodder for the low-cost computers that will run on a Google operating system named after its Chrome Web browser. The first computers using Chrome OS won’t have a hard drive, meaning they will need Internet access and cloud-computing services to perform the tasks routinely done on Windows-powered machines.
Google began offering a free online suite of
NetSuite Inc., a leading vendor of cloud computing business management software suites, today announced that technology advisory firm Nucleus Research has completed a survey of NetSuite customers and concluded that NetSuite customers are highly satisfied, loyal, and enjoying substantial business value from using NetSuite. The survey was conducted independently by Nucleus in late 2009 from its own due diligence and without NetSuite’s involvement, and the findings are available in Nucleus Research Note J96, “NetSuite’s Resilient Subscriber Base.” To read the Nucleus Research Note J96, visit www.netsuite.com/nucleusresearch. For more information about NetSuite customers, visit www.netsuite.com/customers.
Nucleus polled NetSuite customers to gauge their success and satisfaction with their decision to entrust mission-critical business functionality to cloud computing. Ninety percent of the customers surveyed rated their satisfaction as four or five out of five — satisfied or very satisfied, and no company rated their satisfaction below three. When asked to elaborate on the reasons for their satisfaction, NetSuite’s ability to drive cost reduction was mentioned as a key driver. By offering tremendous scalability and breadth of functionality, with little to no IT expertise required to install and manage, NetSuite has earned long-term satisfaction and loyalty. “Because the application has been validated by users as an effective tool in cost reduction, deployment footprints at existing customers are more likely to increase rather than decrease,” wrote Nucleus in the report.
“It’s wonderful to hear Nucleus Research confirm that NetSuite’s world-class functionality using a cost effective, customer-empowering cloud computing suite is appreciated by our more than 6,600 corporate clients,” said Stephen Wolfe, SVP of Worldwide Support at NetSuite.
By providing efficient, intuitive, and powerful enterprise suite applications without the overhead of on-premise solutions, NetSuite enables companies to avoid best-of-breed integration hassles as well as interoperability conflicts. The lack of high up-front costs enables companies to deploy NetSuite more quickly, often without a major capital expenditures process. Nucleus credits this customer-friendly approach with much of NetSuite’s success in attracting and retaining customers, and notes that it bodes poorly for legacy rivals. “The findings are bad news for traditional on-premise suites such as SAP,” Nucleus wrote. “It is one thing for SAP or Oracle to have SaaS-based rivals. But a SaaS-based rival that also provides integration-friendly enterprise applications such as CRM or financials is an even bigger threat.”
The Nucleus survey findings are the perfect punctuation to conclude 2009 – a year full of accolades for NetSuite. In the summer of 2009, Gartner Dataquest released figures showing that NetSuite has joined the ranks of North America’s top ten ERP vendors by revenue. In November, IDC awarded NetSuite its SMB Excellence Award in Software as a Service and Cloud Computing. Strategic advisory service ISM Inc. recognized NetSuite and NetSuite CRM with a Top 15 CRM Small & Medium Business Software Award for 2009. Customer Interaction Solutions magazine named NetSuite CRM as a recipient of a 2009 CRM Excellence Award. And in October, British businesses named NetSuite the top Enterprise Accounting Software vendor in Sift Media’s Software Satisfaction Awards 2009.
The reputation for satisfaction and customer loyalty is another compelling reason why companies of all sizes looking for a powerful, integrated cloud computing business management software solution are turning to NetSuite.
For more information about NetSuite Inc., please visit www.netsuite.com.
Enterprise communications and networking have become increasingly complicated with accelerated demand for cloud computing, virtualization, mobility, and unified communications. To understand how companies have managed their IT departments to prepare for these challenges, Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS) has just released a new report entitled “Recovering with Telecom Lifecycle Management: Transforming Communications for Top-Line Growth in 2010.”
This research explored the telecom lifecycle management strategies of over 750 organizations throughout 2009. Telecom lifecycle management is defined as the cradle-to-grave management of network and telecom infrastructure starting with strategic planning and business alignment to the eventual disconnection, replacement, and recycling of used assets and services.
The top 20% of respondents to this study were able to reduce costs by 16%, meet 87% of their service level agreements, and provide advanced communications capabilities to 45% of their organization. In short, they reduced costs, achieved superior support, and had greater propagation of advanced technologies such as video, unified communications, and mobility compared to their counterparts. Companies that defined best practices were also twice as likely as lower performing firms to focus on communications deployments that supported top-line revenue growth, rather than focus specifically on cost reduction.
“As companies make strategic investments in their computing and communications infrastructure, they must make sure that they can actually manage the technologies deployed,” said Hyoun Park, research analyst, Aberdeen Group. “If organizations don’t know what they have now and how they are using their communications assets and services, they have no chance of fully utilizing new technologies to get the value and productivity that they expect.”
Top-achieving companies adopted a number of capabilities and technologies that prepared them for new communications investments, including complete archived records of communications usage, visibility to asset depreciation and disputed services, and adoption of a consolidated telecom expense management solution that provided a complete view to telecom and network spend and inventory. By showing how organizations successfully integrated telecom lifecycle management into their IT and operational departments, this report will show the enterprise how telecom and network departments must prepare for future communications deployments.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the following underwriters: AnchorPoint, a division of MTS and Tangoe. To obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit: http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=6013
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Hosting.com, the leading provider of managed hosting, cloud hosting and colocation solutions and a strategic VMware vCloud(TM) partner, today announced multiple enhancements to the Cloud Enterprise environment driven by significant market demand. Access to high performance SAN (EMC) storage, increased computer resources (8GB of RAM now 32 and 4vCPU now 
and support for seven additional operating systems (including RedHat and Windows Datacenter 2008 R2) highlight the enhancements.
Cloud Enterprise customers can now increase their virtual machine resources to 32 GB of RAM and 8 virtual CPUs via the Hosting.com portal. Companies deploying demanding applications can use Hosting.com’s secure cloud solutions for their test, development and production needs.
In addition, Cloud Enterprise customers pushing upper disk i/o rates have the ability to move data to high performance storage on Hosting.com’s EMC SAN. SAN storage is ideal for customers seeking security, functionality and enterprise-class reliability from the latest storage technologies at mid-market prices.
“Our cloud solutions are frequently used to host robust applications, databases and web servers that require additional resources and storage,” noted Hosting.com Cloud Product Manager Fred Strelzoff. “Increasingly, Hosting.com clients want to migrate their dedicated hosting or colocation solutions into a cloud hosting environment. The support of nine total operating systems eliminates the need to migrate operating systems and makes the migration process less costly and painful.”
Last week, Hosting.com announced VMware Virtual Machine upload availability for customers to migrate their own virtual machines or VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk Format) files to Hosting.com’s Cloud Enterprise and Cloud Dedicated solutions. Customers now have the flexibility and portability to move their virtual machines, either from their own environment or another host, into one of Hosting.com’s Cloud Super Sites.
Hosting.com’s portfolio of Cloud Hosting Solutions include Cloud Enterprise, Cloud Dedicated, Cloud VPS, and vCloud Express - solutions that reduce costs, improve efficiency and provide extreme flexibility to businesses of all sizes. Hosting.com has made significant investments in enterprise-class technologies such as VMware, EMC, Dell, Juniper, F5, and Intel to deliver a robust, standards-based cloud infrastructure to clients demanding unparalleled performance and security.
Operating Systems now supported include Windows 2003 Enterprise 32-Bit and 64-Bit, Windows 2008 Data Center R1 32-Bit, Windows 2008 Data Center R2 64-Bit, Windows 2008 Data Center 64-Bit, Cent OS 32-Bit and 64-Bit, Redhat Enterprise 32-Bit and Redhat Enterprise 64-Bit.
About Hosting.com
Hosting.com provides enterprise colocation, cloud computing, dedicated hosting, managed hosting, disaster recovery, and business continuance services to a global customer base demanding a high level of security, reliability, and responsiveness. Hosting.com monitors, manages, and enhances the Web-based platforms of Web 2.0 companies, software as a service (SaaS) providers, content distribution networks (CDN), and medium to large enterprises whose Web presence is crucial and high availability mandatory.
Hosting.com currently operates SAS 70 Type II certified datacenters in Irvine, CA; Louisville, KY; Newark, DE; San Francisco, CA; and Denver, CO.
All Hosting.com products and services are supported by 24×7x365 live expert technical support through toll-free telephone, email, and online chat.
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Cloud Slam 10
TORONTO–(BW)– The Cloud Slam Conference, which brings together leading companies and visionaries in business, technology, and cloud computing to showcase the hottest opportunities for driving profitability through sustainability, today announced call for proposals. Taking place March 23-25, 2010 as virtual event , the conference is also proud to announce it has gathered more than 700 attendees passionate about cloud computing. These announcements reflect a growing trend involving companies that have committed to developing best practice cloud strategies for the emerging global economy that requires innovative, viable and profitable models for business success.
You are cordially invited to participate in Cloud Slam 2010 through paper submission, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. To get more information visit http://cloudslam10.com/content/call-proposals.
The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research cloud computing, their use in business, their design, performance and use, and their applications.
There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. To sponsor Cloud Slam or get additional information about event, contact Khazret Sapenov at 510-984-2312 or at sponsors@cloudslam.org.
Follow the latest news and updates related to Cloud Slam 2010 on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/cloudslam.
About Cloud Slam
The Cloud Slam Conference, which brings together leading companies and visionaries in business, technology, and cloud computing to showcase the hottest opportunities for driving profitability through sustainability, today announced call for proposals. Taking place March 23-25, 2010 as virtual event , the conference is also proud to announce it has gathered more than 700 attendees passionate about cloud computing. These announcements reflect a growing trend involving companies that have committed to developing best practice cloud strategies for the emerging global economy that requires innovative, viable and profitable models for business success.
The latest in enterprise 2.0 software, building a collaborative workplace, social software tools, employee engagement in collaborative workplaces to discussing the latest state of cloud computing, its benefits, technical and security challenges, how the applications can be build, controlled and managed in a cloud-based environment are key issues debated at the Cloud Computing Congress Europe (http://www.cloudcomputingcongress.com) & Enterprise Social Media Europe (http://www.enterprisesocialmedia.net ) on the 15/16 March, Olympia, London.
It is a conference designed for the CIO, CTO, Head of Internal Communications, Enterprise architect, Data Storage managers, Head of IT, Government IT decision makers and more, allowing businesses to learn about the latest in enterprise social media apps, and cloud computing deployments – their successes and failures, and how far the market has come so far.
You can join the Linkedin group on the event web site http://tinyurl.com/ydll8q2 to network with other attendees, or follow the latest event activity on the Cloud Computing Congress Twitter account – http://twitter.com/cloud_comp_news
The 2 days of conference will feature industry leading speakers, including:
• David Wilde, CIO, Westminster City Council
• Dominic Burch, Head of Corporate Comms and New Media, ASDA
• Paul James, CIO, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, MOD
• Anthony Frost, Head of Corporate Communications, Santander
• Evangelos Kotsovinos, Vice President, Morgan Stanley
• Kostas Tsatsaris, CTO and Director, Strategy and Architecture, HM Revenue and Customs
• Robert Johnson, Strategic Consultant, COI Strategic Consultancy
• Henri Reinbolt, CIO, Greenwich Council
The Cloud Computing Congress & Enterprise Social Media are just two of the conference streams at the Social Media World Forum event http://www.socialmedia-forum.com, a leading social media event that brings together all facets of industry connected to social media. The event features 4 conference streams: Social Media, Mobile Social Media, Enterprise Social Media and Social TV.
“In a market such as Cloud Computing & Enterprise building trust and relationships between leading technology providers and clients is key to moving the cloud debate forward” comments Ian Johnson, MD Six Degrees Events. “By integrating the Cloud Computing Congress with Enterprise Social Media (http://www.enterpriseseries.com ), we build a networking environment that not only focuses on application building and we 2.0 in the workplace, but how services can be managed in a cloud environment.”
The Cloud Computing Series (http://www.cloudcomputingseries.com ) will offer the Enterprise market the chance to come along to free exhibitions and meet the various people at the show, and interact with an event with 4 conference streams. One large connected exhibition is running alongside this conference, which will be open over the 15th/16th March 2010.
Future events are being held in New York in June, and Singapore in September.
Industry tracker Gartner forecast on Monday that revenue from Internet-based “cloud computing” will top 14 billion dollars annually by the end of 2013.
Revenue from businesses using software programs hosted online as services in the Internet “cloud” should tally 7.5 billion dollars this year, a 17.7 percent leap from 2008, according to Gartner.
The trend toward cloud computing, or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), has accelerated during the economic crisis.
Cloud computing lets firms essentially rent text, spreadsheet, calendar or other programs as needed and avoid the cost or buying, installing, updating and maintaining software on workplace machines.
“The adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets,” Gartner research director Sharon Mertz said, referring to business computer networks.
Vendors are responding to the growing market by expanding the kinds of business computing services hosted online, according to Mertz.
Microsoft on Monday announced a pact with Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co. (CHT) to collaborate on cloud computing services.
The companies will work together to “deliver a new generation of seamless, connected experiences that bring the power of cloud computing to consumers and to business” in Taiwan, said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
Joint efforts will include a datacenter optimized to host online services for businesses and new cloud offerings for users of personal computers, smartphones, and televisions, Ballmer said in a statement.
“We hope that our strategic alliance with Microsoft will result in a more convenient mobile experience for consumers,” said CHT chief executive Shyue-Ching Lu.
“The combination of Microsoft’s innovative technologies and CHT’s resources is intended to accelerate the application of cloud technologies on actual services, bringing consumers convenient services and fresh user experiences.”
Microsoft’s fortunes were built on selling packaged software such as Windows operating systems and Office work programs but the US technology colossus has been gradually adapting to an inexorable market shift to the cloud.
Amazon and danish ComArchive have entered into a unique partnership. The deal makes it easier, safer and cheaper than ever before for companies of all sizes to get a highly professional e-mail archiving solution. This is facilitated by combining the market’s best e-mail archiving software with Amazon Web Services’ groundbreaking Cloud Computing.
Amazon Web Services is the world’s leading provider of cloud computing, EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), - a solution seeing rocketing growth in these years. Cloud computing gives the customer processing power, bandwidth and data storage at Amazon on a needs basis, and you only pay for what you use.
Danish ComArchive in partnership with Amazon Web Services is now offering a turnkey answer to companies’ e-mail archiving needs. This will help companies all over the globe quickly retrieve their old e-mail correspondence and generally keep tabs on large volumes of business-critical e-mails.
Installed in just 10 minutes
”The smart thing is that you can log on to Amazon, create a server and have a comprehensive and safe archiving solution up and running in the space of 10 minutes,” says Svend Frandsen, CEO, ComArchive.
Amazon offers a vast array of server configurations with software that has already been defined and is ready for use. As a user, you just purchase access and from there on, it is very simple to start up a server using an image that you choose on the basis of your own needs.
ComArchive’s new solution consists of a total of six ready server images. Which of the six virtual servers you decide to start up at Amazon as a customer is determined by your need for security and computing power. A common feature of the six server images is that they contain fully operational version of ComArchive\’s e-mail archiving software which is identical to the solution you can download from www.ComArchive.com
Natural consequence of the virtualisation wave
The advantage of e-mail archiving on a virtual Amazon EC2 server is the installation speed, the security and the low price:
”Over the past few years, companies have opened their eyes to the fact that virtualisation holds great potential. We have been at the forefront of this trend, and we can now see that virtualisation is followed by a migration of servers to safer and less expensive providers - and Amazon\’s EC2 concept is second to none in this field,\” says Svend Frandsen. The CEO is pleased with the great interest in the concept, because the solution is already in use at several companies, including Balslev A/S.
”Security gets top priority at Amazon and with the help of ComArchive, we have added the Amazon server to our corporate network with high security and VPN accessibility\”, says CIO Michael Frendorff, Balslev A/S.
Great financial potential for everyone involved
”Balslev has obtained a server-based archiving solution which can be operated for less than a dollar per employee and month. If we compare this cost with the expenses of hosting your own e-mail archiving, it becomes clear that we’re looking at a highly competitive product,” says Svend Frandsen.
The potential inherent in the collaboration with Amazon is very great indeed for ComArchive, according to the company’s CEO. The market for e-mail archiving solutions is expected to reach USD 1 billion in 2011, and ComArchive\’s partnership with Amazon gives the company a considerable technological edge.
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