AWS has announced an expansion of its services into an Asia-Pacific region in the first half of 2010, enabling businesses to deploy compute and storage resources in close proximity to their end-users in the region.
Sonian will access AWS’s infrastructure services from multiple Availability Zones in Singapore in the first half of 2010, then in other Availability Zones within Asia over the second half of 2010.
Over the past 2 years Cisco has been acquiring companies in the messaging and collaboration space. The individual companies are all interesting and successful businesses, and now Cisco has combined them into a new SaaS collaboration service called WebEx Mail which feature-wise looks to compete head on with Google Apps and Hosted Exchange.
For $5 per user per month you get 35 Gb of storage, Outlook connector and a AJAXy web UI plus Ironport email security. This new offering will be an interesting platform to watch and see if Cisco can win collaboration business away from Microsoft, IBM, Novell and Google.
Sonian will provide hosted archiving services for this new platform.
Congratulations to Amazon Web Services for finalizing Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS70) Type II Audit, and has obtained a favorable unbiased opinion from its independent auditors.
SAS70 certifies that AWS has had an in-depth audit of its controls, specifically as it relates to operational performance and security to safeguard customer data. All Sonian customers benefit from this attention to security and operating efficiency.
National Kidney Foundation cuts GroupWise storage with cloud storage email archiving. Search Storage reports that NKF is saving money on email storage with the Sonian Archive hosted service.
Hosted archiving does not require any on-premises hardware or software, and enables the IT department to focus on other projects without worrying about email retention and long term storage.
Xcellent! Wade Rousch at Xconomy has extended an invitation to participate in the panel discussion for Xconomy Forum: Cloud^3 — Cloud Computing Goes Exponential
I and Sonian board member John Landry will join other technologists and entrepreneurs to talk about cloud computing’s impact on the IT climate for startups, small and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises, and consumers. Register to attend this event as well as Cloud Camp at the link above.
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