It’s been around for at least 36 hours now, so you’re no strangers to the news, but still:
Using a hosting service, there is no need to purchase, house or supply energy to new hardware needed to run the software. Customers of Lotus Notes messaging software can instead focus their IT resources on other strategic business projects.
The solution includes servers, storage, monitoring, networks, security and 24 x 7 support.
Did I mention it starts from $8 per user, per month?
Key benefits are:
- Fully managed, scalable enterprise e-mail application platform hosted at an IBM data center
- 1 GB mailbox
- Comprehensive service-level agreements for e-mail application and infrastructure (99.5% and 99.9% availability)
- Support for the regulatory requirements of the government and various industries
- Anti-spam and antivirus protection to support data privacy and security
- Backup and restore
Links:
Announcement letter: IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
Press release: IBM extends Lotus Notes software to new markets with on-line hosted service
Ed Brill: Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging announced today
PlanetLotus.org: IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
InformationWeek: IBM releases SaaS version of Lotus Notes Domino
InternetNews: IBM takes Notes in the clouds
eWeek: IBM SaaS version of Lotus Notes Domino goes on sale
PC World: IBM to roll out $8-per-month hosted Lotus
The Burton Group (Bill Pray): IBM announces Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging
Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging website at ibm.com
