Mark Papermaster, a former IBM executive who left Apple after the iPhone 4 antenna issues arose, will run Ciscos switching technology group. – Mark Papermaster, who spent 25 years with IBM
before a tumultuous year-plus at Apple, is now in charge of the chips that go
into Cisco Systems key data-center switches.
Papermaster
reportedly started work with Cisco Nov. 15, where he is vice president of the
networking giants Silicon Switching …
Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice as much for one quarter of the previous price. Will users begin entrusting more e-mail and photos to Google server farms? It’s hard to say, but certainly cutting storage costs for its Picasa photo-sharing and Gmail applications is a sign the cloud computing market is maturing. Was the cost cut a competitive gesture? Google’s cut came one days after Cisco Nov. 9 launched its Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail app for $3.50 per user per month with 5 GB of storage.
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Google slashed the costs of hosted storage for its Picasa
and Gmail applications, offering 20 gigabytes (GB) of storage for $5 per year, or twice
as much for one quarter of the previous price.
For perspective, that’s enough storage for 10,000
high-resolution photos taken with a 5 …
Cisco told eWEEK it is working on Cisco Inbox, a combination of Cisco WebEx Mail and the company’s social networking tools for businesses, including Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Show and Share video and Pulse tagging. Combined with the company’s new Intercompany Media Engine, Cisco will have a server-software combo Google, Microsoft and IBM would find tough to compete with. At a time when these vendors are looking to well-rounded solutions, Cisco appears to have an edge — and it’s backed by the network.
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Cisco Nov. 9 unveiled several new solutions at its Cisco
Collaboration Summit, most notably Cisco WebEx Mail hosted e-mail and
enterprise social networking tools, including Enterprise Collaboration
Platform, Show and Share and Pulse.
EWEEK detailed the new tools here, and analyzed…
Cisco Nov. 9 at its Cisco Collaboration Summit began its largest collaboration product launch to date. While the launch covers the usual Cisco strongholds — IP phones to media servers to unified communications — the company also rolled out hosted e-mail from its PostPath buy and enterprise social software. Cisco WebEx Mail is intended to compete with Google’s Gmail, Zoho Mail, IBM LotusLive iNotes and Microsoft Exchange Online. Enterprise Collaboration Platform will battle IBM Lotus Connections and the swath of enterprise social software products from MindTouch, Socialtext, Jive Software and others.
– Cisco Nov. 9 embarked on its largest collaboration product launch to
date, covering products from IP phones to media servers to unified
communications.
The launch theme for today’s Cisco Collaboration Summit is
quot;intercompany collaboration, quot; to allow partners and customers to
exchange…
