The cloud-based service's monthly price will be based on usage

AT&T will launch new cloud-based unified communications services on Thursday, giving businesses the ability to integrate chat, email, voice over IP calls, audio and video conferencing, and more over desktops and many mobile devices.

Le service IaaS sur le cloud public de Big Blue, IBM SmartCloud Entreprise, est disponible dans une nouvelle version, moins chère, et disposant de davantage de fonctionnalités.

IBM a décidé de procéder au toilettage de son offre IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) sur le cloud public, IBM SmartCloud Entreprise.

Selon une étude d’IDG Connect, l’iPad est devenu un support de premier choix dans le monde de l’entreprise, capable de remplacer le PC portable.

Selon une étude d’IDG Connect, la division de génération de pistes d’IDG, dédiée à l’utilisation professionnelle de l’iPad, 91 % des professionnels de l’informatique dans le monde qui possèdent la tablette d’Apple l’utilisent pour communiquer au travail.

Symantec has acquired LiveOffice, a provider of cloud-based data archiving and storage, for $115 million (£75 million), the companies announced.

LiveOffice, a US company, offers a variety of storage and e-discovery services for email, instant messaging, social media, file sharing and other applications in order to meet regulatory requirements. The company works with 20,000 companies in 50 countries, according to its website.

Avaya unveiled the latest version of the company's unified communications (UC) solution for small and midsize businesses (SMB) with the release of Avaya IP Office 8.0. The new version includes enhancements designed to improve collaboration with mobile capabilities. Avaya's latest mobile application builds on the previously available Essential Mobility solution for IP Office.

You're one of the 2.1 billion people actively using the Internet.

Looking at the state of the online world throughout 2011, traffic site Pingdom found that the number of Internet users has jumped from a mere 360 million at the end of 2000 and now accounts for 30 percent of the planet's population.

Amazon Web Services launched a managed NoSQL database service yesterday that lets users easily launch a database and scale it up or down as needed.

The service meets the needs of web companies that are collecting, storing and processing an increasing amount of data. Without such a scalable database, AWS users would sometimes spend weeks forecasting and preparing their databases to perform during heavy usage periods, the company said. That's because traditional databases were not designed to scale quickly.

IBM quarterly results show modest gains, falls slightly short of analyst expectations for its fourth-quarter 2011 results
IBM brought its fiscal 2011 year to a close with modest gains in both revenue and net income, the company reported Thursday.

For the quarter that ended Dec. 31, IBM reported revenue of $29.5 billion, up 2 percent from the same quarter in the prior year. Net income was $5.5 billion, up 4 percent.