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📅 - ICANN Nominating Committee Posts Its Operating Procedures - The ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom) has posted the procedures it will be using in its work to select eight ICANN Directors, three GNSO Council Members, and five Interim ALAC members. See also the www.icann.org/en/groups/nomcom Nominating Committee web page, where this document and other information about this new Nominating Committee process are presented.If you would like to receive NomCom announcements, please send an e-mail with the text "subscribe nomcom.announce" to < nomcom.announce-request@icann.org>. ...
📅 - Ingrian Integrates Tivoli into Appliances - Data privacy and protection solution developer Ingrian Networks (http://www.ingrian.com) announced on Friday that it has formed an agreement with IBM to integrate components of IBM's Tivoli Access Manager software into Ingrian's network security hardware platform, providing customers with performance and security enhancements. Under the terms of the agreement, Ingrian will embed its appliances with IBM Tivoli Access Manager's digital identity services, which identify users, establish entitlements and determine the business context of a transaction being conducted. Embedding the capabilities, says Ingrian, allows the processing of user access rights to take place on the Ingrian ...
📅 - IBM Helps Developers Win SMB Customers - Computing service provider IBM (IBM.com) announced on Thursday that it has introduced the ISV Advantage Initiative, a program designed to provide mid-market independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to help them meet the needs of small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers. IBM says it understands that SMB customers have different technology needs and challenges that require solutions delivered through partnerships in the software community. Instead of competing with its partners' offerings, says IBM, the company collaborates with ISVs to offer solutions designed to meet SMB requirements. The new initiative is another component ...
📅 - Last Digital Launches New Hosting Web Site - London-based Web hosting firm Last Digital (LastDigital.com) announced on Monday that it had unveiled its new Web site, designed according to customer feedback and in-house research to provide a smaller, fixed-format home page and easily navigated menu that make information easier to find. According to the company, the new Web site is designed to facilitate the addition of more products, services and support items to address the requirements of customers. The company's customer support system adds greater depth to its Web hosting products, offering a set of solutions incorporating support tickets, domain registration, accounting information and automated billing. ...
📅 - Inforonics Debuts Rapid Response Services - Application management and managed hosting services provider Inforonics (http://www.inforonics.com) announced on Tuesday that it has released its Rapid Response Services (RRS), designed to quickly and cost-effectively preserve and maintain the operation of an organization's IT infrastructure when it is in danger of shutting down due to uncontrollable circumstances, like a service provider going out of business. Inforonics says its RRS immediately assesses the situation, recreates the client's systems environment and gets the IT infrastructure up and running again. According to Inforonics, the service should be particularly appealing to companies transitioning their infrastructure or ...
📅 - Globix Announces New RapidDeploy Services - Globix Corporation (http://www.globix.com) announced last week the availability of its new RapidDeploy service suite. The suite comprises a combination of colocation, bandwidth, professional services and hands-on logistical support that enables enterprises to move their Web and e-mail servers from distressed providers to a Globix data center. The RapidDeploy platform provides clients with an ideal transitional environment in which to host their servers before moving to a permanent Globix solution. It includes dedicated firewalls and load balancing equipment to ensure that customers have the best security and performance during their transition. "This is the right ...