IBM will ramp up its cloud computing efforts in the messaging and collaboration market in 2010, focusing on extending the security of on-premises solutions to its LotusLive SAAS offerings. From January through October, IBM launched LotusLive Engage, a broad social networking and collaboration platform; LotusLive Connections, a SAAS version of its social networking suite; and its LotusLive iNotes hosted mail solution. IBM will have more to say on its future cloud computing direction in January at Lotusphere 2010.
– Customers and industry watchers can expect IBM
to accelerate its cloud computing efforts into 2010 and beyond, investing at a
rate that is commensurate to a $120 billion cloud computing market, an IBM
executive told eWEEK.
quot;Cloud computing quot; is a broad term that encompasses many things…