SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - C2C, a leading supplier of enterprise email archiving software, today announced that its multi-server Archive One solution now has added increased resilience with the use of failover technology through the use of Active/Passive nodes.

“The load balancing/failover technology of Archive One allows us to ensure maximum availability of the archiving and retrieval services we provide to the 7,500 staff at the University,” says Andrew Williams, Computing Services Department of University of Liverpool.

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CHICAGO — July 23, 2007 — Through its presence at HostingCon 2007 this week, Microsoft Corp. will announce its comprehensive strategy for enabling hosting providers to be successful in the world of software plus services. The strategy includes providing the next-generation hosting platform, delivering applications ready for hosting, and driving growth through tight integration with Microsoft’s extensive partner ecosystem. At the show, Microsoft will demonstrate recent additions and updates to its core platform technologies and applications for the hosting industry that enable service providers to offer a compelling next-generation end-user experience for their customers. Microsoft will highlight new development tools and applications to hosting providers for the first time, detail the initial successes of its Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS7) Go Live license program for Microsoft® IIS7 beta, and announce that cPanel Inc. has introduced a Windows® version of its control panel. With these enhancements, hosting providers are well positioned to play an important role in the software plus services ecosystem by partnering with Microsoft.

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Sun Microsystems, one of the leading Unix Operating System vendors, plans to revamp its Solaris Operating System to include more Linux features to enhanced the Solaris kernel.

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ZDNet UK has observed that Microsoft has begun rolling out Windows 2008 internally. At present, 99.75% of servers hosting Microsoft.com have been converted to Windows 2008. Quoting the article:

“To deploy a new operating system and new web server into an environment like this without compromising performance or reliability is quite a feat,” Microsoft technical product manager Eric Woersching said on his blog.

For those interested in how Microsoft approached the switch, the company posted a 38-minute video with Woersching talking to two of Microsoft.com’s operations managers.

ARMONK, NY - 12 June 2007: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 11 - code-named “Cheetah,” - a next-generation data server which, for the first time, brings mainframe-like continuous availability and disaster recovery capabilities to global data centers.

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