Cisco IME Server to Expand Reach of UC Beyond Firewalls

Cisco is preparing to launch its IME server, a technology that is designed to extend the same sort of video collaboration that is found within a company to partners and customers. A new protocol proposed by Cisco, dubbed Viper, will help Ciscos IME server work with third-party systems. – Cisco Systems is looking to bring the advantages of unified communications, which primarily are seen within individual companies, to dealings between businesses

Cisco IME Server to Expand Reach of UC Beyond Firewalls

Cisco is preparing to launch its IME server, a technology that is designed to extend the same sort of video collaboration that is found within a company to partners and customers. A new protocol proposed by Cisco, dubbed Viper, will help Ciscos IME server work with third-party systems.

Microsoft Delivers Beta of Visual Studio Teamprise Explorer

Microsoft is seeing some of the fruits of its acquisition of the Teamprise assets from SourceGear with the release of a beta of Visual Studio Team Explorer. – Microsoft is seeing some of the fruits of its acquisition of the Teamprise assets from SourceGear with the release of a beta of Visual Studio Team Explorer

Microsoft to Discontinue Windows Essential Business Server

Microsoft plans on discontinuing future development of its Windows Essential Business Server starting in June. Although originally targeted at midsize businesses, Microsoft found that those customers were gravitating towards cloud-based, management and virtualization needs serviced by products such as Windows Server 2008 R2 and Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, eventually leading to the companys decision to eliminate EBS

Axcient Adds Business Continuity to Data Protection Service

Data protection and business continuity solution provider Axcient announced ServerAlive, which enables MSPs and IT administrators to launch a virtual instance of a customer’s failed server. – Axcient Inc., the provider of the Axcient data protection and business continuity platform, purpose-built for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT administrators to serve their small to medium-sized business (SMB) customers, today announced the release of ServerAlive

Zend Ships Version 5.0 of PHP Server

Zend Technologies, which calls itself the PHP Company, recently announced its release of the Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the companys PHP web application server. – Zend Technologies, which calls itself the PHP Company, recently announced its release of the Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the companys PHP web application server. Zend officials said Zend Server 5.0 provides new code tracing technology that enables PHP developers and administrators to re…

Nine Reasons Enterprises Should Run Their Apps in the Cloud

As an enterprise grows, its IT system needs to grow along with it. In fact, it’s optimal for an IT system to stay a few jumps ahead of current production requirements. For many businesses, the idea of outsourcing key applications to a trusted cloud service is beginning to look more and more attractive, as data storage and server hardware/software and I/O needs expand

CMS Products Launches BounceBack Server Edition

BounceBack Server Edition, the disaster recovery solution from CMS Products, offers cost-conscious businesses a backup option for Microsoft’s Foundation or Small Business Server operating system. – Data security and disaster recovery specialist CMS Products announced its family of quot;Instant Server Recovery quot; solutions for small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) running Microsoft’s Foundation or Small Business Server operating system. The server line includes BounceBac…

Bloom Energy Server Pushes Green Power Forward

A car-sized fuel cell-based power plant, known as the Bloom Energy Server, could power up to 100 U.S. homes and fit in the driveway

Parallels Ships New ‘Bare Metal’ Server for Apple Xserve

Parallels Server for Mac/Bare Metal Edition runs virtual machines on an Xserve machine so businesses can standardize on the Apple platform and still run Windows and Linux-based applications if they desire. – Virtualization software maker Parallels said Feb. 24 that it is expanding its product line by adding a new hypervisor specifically designed for Apple’s Mac OS X and Xserve server.