*Vancouver-based Peer 1 Hosting has formed a
relationship with Microsoft Corp. to offer customers fully featured,
enterprise-level email services. In addition to the Peer 1 hosting services,
this will deliver a cost-effective, immediate and hassle-free way of managing
SMB customer mail environments. Peer 1 said its hosted Microsoft Exchange
solution is scalable, secure and full-featured, giving users the ability to
easily collaborate without them having to invest in mail servers, software
licenses, security, or be involved with ongoing system administration. Users
can share and access calendars, tasks, contacts, public folders, groups and
global address books as well as synchronize from their desktop, mobile device,
and the Web. The packages start from US$10 per mailbox per month. It will be
deployed through a web-based automation platform to make managing the mail
accounts easier, with customers being able to administer users and feature
benefits.
*Primus Canada has added a full suite of Polycom
Hosted PBX phones to its commercial product lineup. Now available across
Canada, these new phones offer Polycom HD Voice capabilities to Primus clients.
“We’re thrilled to be able to provide Primus customers with even more choice,”
says Jeff Lorenz, VP sales & marketing, Primus Canada. “Today’s
announcement underscores our commitment to providing not only the most advanced
products and technology, but a full suite of end-to-end services that today’s
businesses come to expect.” Primus offers a full and comprehensive portfolio of
phones and businesses have the choice of six distinct phone products tailored
for various business needs. Each phone in the new lineup boasts premium clarity
using Polycom’s HD Voice and innovative features. Primus Hosted PBX eliminates the cost of
owning and servicing an expensive PBX system, and offers 24/7 support so
clients can focus on core-business functions.
*Security software vendor BitDefender wants to give
you an Apple iPad. Well, one of you at least. They’ve launched a new online
game called “What’s in Nelson’s Dojo” they say is inspired by TV’s The Office. You
just have to watch a series of three videos clips that last up to three minutes
each, and pay attention. The videos are comedic tales of workplace buffoonery
at a small business. Prizes include an iPad, BitDefender Internet Security 2011
or one-year licenses for BitDefender Client Security and BitDefender Security
for File Servers to cover 25 computers for businesses. The game runs through
September 1st, and you can find out more at www.WhatsInNelsonsDojo.com.
New Products
*Xerox Canada has launched the Xerox WorkCentre
3550 desktop black-and-white laser multi-function printer (MFP), the newest
addition to Xerox’s family of office products. This MFP copies, scans, faxes
and prints up to 35 pages per minute for busy offices. Designed for SMBs, it
includes features such as automatic duplex printing and the CentreWare Internet
Services device management tool. It has a standard paper capacity of 550
sheets, the secure print feature keeps documents from printing until users
provide a PIN code to release the job, color scanning, a USB port for file
transfer, scanning and faxing features such as network scan to PC,
scan-to-email and fax-forward-to-fax/email, and Optical Character Recognition
software quickly and easily turns user’s hard copies into editable, more
manageable electronic documents. The WorkCentre 3550 starts at $1,199 and is
available immediately worldwide through Xerox direct sales, agents, resellers,
dealers and concessionaires.
*Ottawa’s Protecode Inc., a solution provider for
managing open source software licenses, has announced Protecode System 4, an
update to its suite of capabilities that enable businesses to efficiently and
cost-effectively identify open source content in their source code and
determine their licensing obligations. System 4 installs as a simple overlay on
existing design, development and testing environments without changing any
existing workflows. The core of System 4 is the Protecode open source reference
database that matches source code against a comprehensive list of 450,000 open
source software projects. System 4 delivers improvements in three key areas:
scalability, a new user interface and improved data relevance. Enterprise users
can now instantiate multiple virtual instances of Protecode System 4 enabling
different groups within an organization to set up their own open source
management systems with specific roles and intellectual property policies. Protecode
System 4 is available now.
*McAfee Inc. has unveiled its Risk Management
solution for IT Security, combining real-time threat intelligence with global
vulnerability scanning across applications, databases and networks, and
correlates that with security countermeasures already in place, to help
organizations assess their highest priority risks. Consisting of three
underlying offerings -- McAfee Risk Advisor 2.5, McAfee Vulnerability Manager
7.0 and McAfee Vulnerability Manager for Databases – the solution automatically
pulls information together into a real-time risk analytics engine. This enables
organizations to fully understand their risk posture across every meaningful
sector of their IT environment including databases, web applications, systems
and networks to know precisely what is needed to optimize their security
posture.
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