Preparing for cloud e-mail

Burton Group, a research and consulting firm focused on analysis of enterprise IT, provides research guidance to Enterprises looking to move e-mail to the cloud, reports Trading Markets.

The decision to deploy hosted e-mail is playing out in executive suites with top down pressure to bring enterprise messaging system cost down with more predictability and manageability.

This pressure in the enterprise e-mail market is shaping up to be a monumental struggle for dominance over the software-as-a-service marketplace by large, established vendors.

Google has released Google Search Appliance 6.0, offering new architecture that promises improved scalability, customisation and search results quality, according to CMS Wire.

As if dominating Web search isn't enough, Google continues to add new features to its rack-mount search boxes to take on the enterprise search market.

However, you have to look carefully to find out what exactly is a new feature, and what is labelled with Google's near-ubiquitous 'beta' tag.

Intel has a new flash memory I/O acceleration system - codenamed Braidwood - coming for its CPUs, according to reports from Computex in Taiwan, The Register reports.

It is a flash memory cache, possibly up to 16GB capacity, that caches I/O from the processor so that data in the I/O is available more quickly when it is next needed.

Intel first tried such caching with Robson, sold as Turbo Memory, which was not generally considered a success.