Posted by Joe Diamond on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 @ 08:24 PM
Avast, matey! Microsoft has set sail with yet another mighty acronym-BPOS. With recent price cuts and a robust offering for messaging and collaboration, the pieces of eight are aplenty and the grog nectar is flowing freely.
Excuse all this pirate talk. We just had an office movie night and Pirates of the Caribbean was the flick of choice. All things ♫yo ho yo ho♫ aside, we recently announced that we're able to support Microsoft's cloud-based Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). We're pretty excited to have jointly developed a connector hand in hand with Microsoft that integrates with their BPOS environment. This functionality enables our archive to communicate freely with the standard Outlook client as well as Outlook Web Access (OWA). Benefit: even if the message you're looking for is no longer available in your inbox, it's always available in LiveOffice's secure cloud archive.
Read more about our integration with Microsoft BPOS here.
Posted by Joe Diamond on Mon, Nov 16, 2009 @ 07:32 PM
Giant Google Gallantly Gallops Gingerly Toward Ginormicism. Say that five times fast! (Patent pending on my fabricated word "ginormicism.")
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably aware of Google's penetration into a market that has been historically dominated by the Microsoft Office suite. Google Apps, in general, has taken noticeable strides (see L.A. Times) in giving Microsoft a run for its money. While this isn't a proverbial David vs. Goliath tale (it's more like Goliath vs. Goliath), it'll sure be interesting to see whether or not Google will continue to trespass deeper into Bill Gates' enterprise territory.
As Google Apps' market share continues to expand (which includes web-based communication, collaboration and security), one thing is clear - there's room in the cloud for more than one hosted enterprise messaging vendor. Ultimately, and as Nick spoke of in a recent post, it all comes down to choice. That's why we've recently announced our hosted archiving technology which fully integrates with Google Apps.
Read more about our CloudMerge technology and our integration with Google Apps here.
Posted by Amy Dugdale on Tue, Sep 01, 2009 @ 04:25 PM
Today we announced archiving support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and we're pretty excited about it. We've tested the journaling functionality extensively in our labs and it works great. What we're even more excited about is the tools we've built over the last few months to help ease the migration pains that many organizations will inevitably struggle with as they upgrade to Exchange 2010.
We believe companies should have a simple process for shrinking their Exchange data stores prior to moving them so that they can speed up the transition process. So while Valerie Bertinelli has Jenny Craig and Jared has Subway, we're hoping Exchange shops will consider our pre-migration diet, which consists of:
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LiveOffice Personal Archive: First, clients enable journaling on their existing mail servers, allowing LiveOffice to capture data in its secure cloud, which effectively eliminates the need to migrate that data in the future. With Personal Archive's robust architecture, end users are able to view all archived email (legacy and current) from the comfort of their Microsoft Outlook client.
- LiveOffice CloudMerge for Microsoft Exchange: Next, clients can leverage LiveOffice's proprietary CloudMerge technology to automatically and securely transfer data from existing Microsoft Exchange 2003 or 2007 mail stores to LiveOffice Personal Archive. Again, this data is available for view by end users directly from Microsoft Outlook.
- LiveOffice CloudMerge for PST Files: LiveOffice's CloudMerge technology is also able to securely ingest an organization's PST files into the centrally managed, hosted archive - eliminating the most common source of data loss and IT headaches.
- "Skinny Migration:" With all historical and ongoing email securely stored in LiveOffice's cloud-based archive, IT administrators only need to migrate a small amount of data to their upgraded Exchange 2010 environment.
The official launch of Exchange 2010 isn't expected until later this year, but we are encouraging companies to start archiving their messages now so that they can focus on the actual upgrade when the time comes.
You can read our news release here.