TIBCO and Pluribus Networks Partner to Deliver Hardware Messaging Solutions

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Today, Pluribus Networks announced it has partnered with TIBCO Software Inc. to deliver TIBCO Enterprise Message Service Appliance and TIBCO FTL Message Switch. High-performance messaging requires ultra-low latency and extreme bandwidth on the network, along with large memories and high-speed storage. These hardware…

Posted on: September 27, 2012 9:00 am

Mimecast Raises $62M For Microsoft Exchange And Office 365 Cloud-Based …

Mimecast, a startup that offers a email archiving, continuity, and security software for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365, has raised $62.15 million in Series C funding led by private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners, with existing investor Dawn Capital also participating. This brings Mimecast’s total funding to over $80 million. Founded in the…

Posted on: September 27, 2012 9:00 am

E-Mail Downtime Throws Businesses for a Loss

Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint are the world’s two most-used email and enterprise content management applications. But they’re much like the little girl in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, "When she was good, she was very good indeed. But when she was bad, she was horrid." When they go…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 2:00 pm

OnePlaceMail R6.3 means business

Scinaptic has announced the release of Version R6.3 of its OnePlaceMail Outlook Add-in offering improved usability and tighter integration with business workflows and line of business systems. The latest update promises performance increases of up to 95% when saving emails and email attachments to SharePoint. Line of business data can There…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 2:00 pm

Axceler, Webtrends Partner For Better SharePoint Governance, Visibility

There’s just nothing like seeing a couple of old hands get together for a common cause. That’s what’s happened today with the announcement that Webtrends and Axceler are joining forces to help another old pardner SharePoint. SharePoint Governance Is Suddenly a Hot Topic One of the many interesting things about…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 2:00 pm

Fake Windows update notice wants your email passwords

Scammers know when the gettin’s good, and with Microsoft’s recent woes with Internet Explorer and its planned Oct. 26 release of WIndows 8, the market’s ripe for the pickin’. So don’t fall for the latest phishing scheme, which comes via email and is supposedly from Microsoft with an email address This scheme…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 2:00 pm

Live! News as it happens

22:46 Protester shows slipper to Bihar CM: A protester among a group of contractual workers today showed a slipper to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar at a public meeting in this district, official sources said. The man suddenly took his ‘chappal’ in his hand and showed it to Kumar as he…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 9:00 am

Text Messaging Still Thriving Despite Smartphones, Twitter and WhatsApp

The tech industry attracts the worst kind of futurists, Clayton Christensen-quoting types who behold shifting paradigms, looming inflection points and disruptive innovations everywhere they look. The futurism business is so competitive these days that technologies get declared dying at the very moment they are actually peaking. In monarchy terms, that’s…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 9:00 am

The Death of SharePoint Designer?

For many of us who eagerly await the release of the latest and greatest from Microsoft we were shocked and awed when we discovered that this release removed one of the primary tools for Business Users from the product. SharePoint Designer, as we had come to know it, had been…

Posted on: September 26, 2012 9:00 am

Iran Says It Blocks Gmail Based on Court Decision

Iran’s telecommunication minister says the government has blocked Google’s Gmail service following a court order to bar access to the popular email service. The semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Reza Taghipour as saying Tuesday that Gmail had not observed Iranian law. He did not elaborate but said if the court…

Posted on: September 25, 2012 7:00 pm