VERITAS Software Corporation announced the availability of VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0 for Windows, storage management and virtualization software that integrates with Microsoft platforms to manage storage in Windows environments. An option to VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows, VERITAS FlashSnap is a software-based snapshot solution that leverages Microsoft’s Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) that enables Microsoft-supported snapshots of Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

IntelliReach Corporation announced they have entered into a strategic sales partnership with Tabula Rosa Systems. In accordance with the partnership agreement, Tabula Rosa will sell IntelliReach’s MessageScreen Platinum. MessageScreen integrates an anti-spam and anti-virus engine with an explicit image filter. The MessageScreen messaging firewall provides email security for Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and IBM Lotus Notes messaging environments.

Roaring Penguin announced that the Cities of Garden Grove and West Hollywood in California, and the Town of Davidson in North Carolina are fighting spam with Roaring Penguin Software’s CanIt anti-spam solutions. CanIt is based on the MIMEDefang email inspection and manipulation software. It can be deployed in any enterprise enterprise email environment, including on all Linux and UNIX servers. As a stand-alone gateway appliance, it can protect email environments running non-UNIX servers, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise.

Microsoft Business Solutions announced the general availability in North America of Microsoft Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 1.2, the first scheduled release to Microsoft’s flagship CRM offering since it was launched in January 2003. Microsoft CRM 1.2 was designed specifically for small and midsize businesses and divisions and departments of large organizations, and is accessible from Microsoft Outlook and the Web.

NaviSite is presenting two messaging technology Webinars. Attendees can hear about the latest messaging technology from market leaders Microsoft and IBM, and learn how to analyze their internal infrastructure for deployment. On December 9, 2003 at 2:00 EST you can learn about the new features and advantages of Microsoft Exchange 2003 and NaviSite’s new Exchange 2003 hosting services.

The Washington Post reviews the Motorola MPx200, the first cell phone available in the United States with Microsoft’s Smartphone 2002 Pocket PC software. The review says that once you plug the phone into a PC running Windows 98 or later, its ActiveSync software automatically updates the MPx200’s address book, calendar, to-do list and email inbox, but not text notes, with the records in Microsoft Outlook.

innovaphone and serVonic announced that with innovaphone’s IP-based PBX’s and serVonic’s software solutions for Unified Messaging and CTI, innovaphone offers its customers Unified Communication over IP. innovaphone will offer serVonic’s solutions IXI-UMS Unified Messaging Server and IXI-Call CTI Server in a version complementary to the innovaphone PBX. The unified messaging server is integrated into SMTP-based messaging systems like Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino via a Connector.

ePeople announced that its integration between ePeople Teamwork and PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 8.8 Sales has been certified. The integration between ePeople Teamwork and PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM 8.8 Sales helps sales organizations manage the buying process which most often involves multiple departments and decision makers. Teams can be assembled quickly and participants collaborate using any common messaging device including Microsoft Outlook, cell phone, pager, or PDA.

ITBusiness Canada says that as telephony continues shifting from the traditional circuit-switched approach to packet-switching using Internet Protocol (IP), the unified messaging market stands to benefit. Organizations replacing old-style private branch exchanges (PBXs) with voice over IP (VoIP) technology are likely to look at unified messaging at the same time. It becomes easier to offer access to all messages through a commonly used client like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino, and applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) can be tied in with an IP messaging scheme.

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