Avaya offers co-branding

Avaya has unveiled new managed services solutions designed to enable its partners to offer Avaya managed services branded under their own name, reports InformationWeek.

Real-time monitoring and management of communications and IT infrastructure are provided under the umbrella of Avaya's managed services.

The partner-enabled Avaya Managed Services solutions operate with IT infrastructure Library (ITIL) standards.

Hermes SoftLab, a storage and data management software engineering company, has released its Microsoft SharePoint data management technology, according to IT News Online.

The software building block, called the Hermes SoftLab SharePoint Filter, will help storage vendors provide advanced SharePoint data migration for storage applications, such as data protection and active archiving.

The filter module intercepts the internal SharePoint calls and provides a clean, integrated application programming interface for independent software vendors and in-house developers to significantly boost the value of their SharePoint data management solutions.

Oracle has acquired "substantially all" of the assets of Sophoi, a maker of software used by media companies to manage and track their intellectual property, states PC World.

Sophoi's product, which has been rebranded Oracle Media Intellectual Property Management, helps companies fight "revenue leakage, minimise the instances of rights conflict, and reduce the risk of non-compliance with rights terms and conditions," Oracle says.

The increased complexity of today's media world, where content is delivered over multiple channels, from the Internet to broadcast television, presents too great a challenge for older IP-tracking systems, many of which are custom-built, according to Oracle.