Fourth release of LotusLive Notes is live today
June 8 2011
Earlier this morning, we announced the availability of the fourth release of LotusLive Notes. The new release is primarily designed around quality improvement, but adds some new features for customized mail routing, additional language support for LotusLive Notes Traveler, and additional monitoring capabilities.
As I've commented on before, I'm pleased and impressed with our engineering and delivery team's ability to turn the crank rapidly on new releases, true to the model of software as a service. A year ago, we had not yet even shipped our limited availability release, and since that time we have done three feature releases and now a fourth. We also added have delivered on a model for Domino applications in the cloud, and integration between LotusLive Notes and all the other LotusLive services.
In the second half of this year, we plan a release and a half of additional improvements to LotusLive Notes. Things that we're thinking about include a self-service user trial, Internet-based mailbox transfer, and more administrative customization. There is also a plan to activate the first non-US LotusLive data center in Japan. In 2012, we'll also pick up additional new features and capabilities.
My team and I continue to be busy discussing cloud and hybrid options for LotusLive Notes with both existing Notes/Domino customers and prospects who run Exchange or Google. IBM's strengths with LotusLive include the integration with other LotusLive services, inclusion of the Notes client in the subscription, hybrid deployment architecture for on-premises and cloud single domain operation, and many others. We look at LotusLive Notes as one of your delivery method choices, in addition to on-premises or through third-party hosting providers.
Congrats to the team on the 4th release!
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Albert Buendia http://www.slug.es | 6/8/2011 6:36:49 AM
Hi Ed,
A few months ago I attended a seminar about firewalls in Barcelona. In the coffee break an IT guy said that the laws of some European countries emphasize the need for the cloud datacenter resides in Europe. Of course, I'm no a legal expert but I stayed with the sentence. He noted that Microsoft was aware of these facts and had installed a data center in Europe. I don't remember the countrie. Perhaps it was in Germany.
Regards, Albert.
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David (The Notes Guy in Seattle) http:/thenotesguyinseattle.com | 6/8/2011 11:15:25 AM
...asks the guy whose career has been tied to the success of IBM Lotus for 17 years. I'm still The Notes Guy in Seattle and you can see my statement on this: { Link }
But a guy's gotta eat. When I moved to this area 12 years ago, there was a thriving Lotus community. But none of that "mix of direct sales activity, geographic marketing (e.g. radio ads in the US), web placement, analyst briefings, direct email, telemarketing, and many other activities" ever seems to include the state of Washington.
The grass is always greener...where you water it.
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Michael Dwyer | 6/8/2011 9:46:45 PM
Looking at the link { Link }
makes me wonder if a good IBM marketing tool might be to correlate the decision to swap Notes for Exchange against company financial performance. After all, if a company switches to Exchange and then goes doenhill or falls over, it does not look like a good decision. Not quite cause and effect, but all is fair in love and war and marketing.
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LotusLive Cloud http://www.lotuslivecloud.net | 8/12/2011 4:32:45 AM
IBM will open a new IBM Cloud Data Center in Japan and a dedicated data center for LotusLiv
There is no denying the feature-richness and options of LotusLive are fantastic and possibly better than the competition. Besides blogging it and informing the public via the usual Lotus community channels, how will you be informing and convincing the rest of the world that they need to make the switch to your cloud?