Cloud email gets 'significant upgrade', boasts Mimecast

Mimecast Inc, a SaaS company that offers email archiving, continuity, security & policy control recently announced a significant upgrade to its flagship product Unified Email Management platform. The company boasts of improving its email archiving service, adding better security, regulatory compliance, 'ligitation hold' and e-discovery facilities, as well as linking it more closely to Microsoft Exchange. "The key thing is two components which is the cloud-based filing systems Stor5, which has been extended substantially to handle lots of folder types and lot more meta data structures. There have also been significant improvements to do with search and speed," said Peter Bauer, CEO Mimecast.

Teneros increases deployment by launching SaaS-based email recovery solutions.

Teneros, SaaS High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions provider recently reported 50 percent increase in mailbox deployment because of its new SaaS solutions. "The Teneros SaaS-based disaster recovery services provide cost-effective business insurance and continuity without adding expensive equipment, software or headcount." said Ben Petro, president and CEO for Teneros.

Cisco Loses WebEx Chief To Salesforce.

In recent news, Doug Dennerline, Cisco’s WebEx Chief has resigned from his current job and joined Salesforce.com as its executive vice president of sales for the Americas. "Doug's proven track record of sales leadership success and firsthand knowledge of the benefits of cloud computing will accelerate us in our pursuit to free businesses from the constraints of traditional software." said Frank van Veenendaal, president of worldwide sales and chief sales officer. 

Printable Announces SAAS DirectSmile Integration.

Printable Technologies Inc., a leading provider of SaaS web-to-print and media personalization solutions, announced today a new, innovative partnership with DirectSmile the inventor of image personalization. “Now organizations of all sizes can create marketing campaigns with personalized images that can dramatically increase response rates at just a fraction of the cost. We will continually seek solutions that facilitate a greater return on investment for our clients.” said Dustin Ritter, Director of Marketing at Printable Technologies.

Rocket Matter Announces Product Integration with Skype.

Rocket Matter, a Web-based legal practice management and time and billing solution for small to mid-sized law firms, announced the integration of Skype in their flagship product i.e. Rocket Matter Web application. "Adding Skype-enabled calling to our product is just another step to ensure that our customers have all efficiencies possible at their fingertips," said Larry Port, the company's founding partner and chief software architect.

Appirio aims new SaaS app at large services businesses.

Appirio, a company known for helping companies adopt cloud-based software, announced the launch of a SaaS application for large services providers that will go by the name of Appirio Professional Services Enterprise and is built on top of Force.com. “Using Force.com as an underlying platform gives Appirio a leg up on other PSA vendors, since it can focus solely on application features instead of the grunt work of assembling and maintaining a technology stack” said Ryan Nichols, vice president of product management and marketing.

Nomadesk Unveils On-Demand File Sharing Software.

Nomadesk, On-Demand File sharing software provider announced the availability of its software/services in United States market. The software brings the power of cloud computing to small and medium-sized businesses, while alleviating the hassles and minimizing the high costs of managing, sharing, backing up, securing and synchronizing confidential project files. "Nomadesk leverages the SaaS delivery model to bring the full power of cloud computing to small businesses, giving users all the features and benefits of an enterprise-class file sharing and collaboration solution with greater ease of use for a low monthly subscription fee," said Chris Shipley, Chairman & CEO of Guidewire Group.