IBM Lotus Foundations is a future line of small business software servers, installed on -premise. The combination of Lotus Foundations and “Bluehouse” will provide essential software solutions in simple to acquire and manage packages. Small-and-medium sized businesses (SMBs) need superior collaboration and business solutions as much as large companies. With Lotus Foundations and Bluehouse, used separately or in combination, organizations will be able to take advantage of proven enterprise-strength software delivered as a turn-key package for start-up businesses without IT staff.
Based on Nitix, IBM Lotus Foundations is expected to provide server software that requires minimal technical expertise and is autonomic — able to manage and heal itself. This will allow small-and-medium sized companies to focus on their business, rather than spending time and resources managing information technology.
The first component of the Lotus Foundations family is currently expected to include a pre-loaded, one-stop-shop solution for small companies: Lotus Domino mail and collaboration platform, file management, directory services, firewall, back-up and recovery, and office productivity tools. Designed to accommodate growth, customers will be able to easily add more users or servers as needed. In addition, as planned, Lotus Foundations will give system integrators and independent software vendors the opportunity to integrate their new or existing applications into the Foundations platform with minimal effort.
A key component of the Lotus Foundations family will be technology acquired through IBM’s purchase of Net Integration Technologies, which is expected to close later in the first quarter of 2008, as announced last week. Industry observers have favorably rated the Net Integration Technologies small-business server against Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Net Integration Technologies features have consistently received high marks for ease-of-use, installation and disaster recovery. IBM plans to integrate the innovative Net Integration’s technology into its Lotus Foundations family of software servers. Lotus Domino is already integrated into the Net Integration platform. IBM’s strategies for SMB, collaboration and acquisitions are among the keys to its growth.
“Bluehouse,” will offer a suite of collaboration services that allows businesses to work together by sharing contacts, files, project activities and interacting with chat and Web meetings. This new set of services will enable small companies to easily collaborate beyond their organizational boundaries without the need for any in-house technical expertise. “Bluehouse” is now available as a limited beta offering and will be progressively unveiled throughout the year.
SMBs have the same types of business challenges as large corporations but must solve them with limited or no IT resources. They need to compete globally and they require industry-specific solutions that help them automate, simplify and speed product-to-market cycles.
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Nitix™ Autonomic Linux-based Server Operating System
Nitix is a Linux-based server operating system that provides networking, collaboration, file and storage, security, and application services in an easy-to-deploy and manage environment. Advanced technologies and built in features simplify IT infrastructure, deliver increased productivity and greatly improve cost savings.
Robust suite of services
Nitix includes Web, email, file and print services, plus additional security, backup and disaster recovery features to help protect your valuable business data.
Easy and reliable application deployment
Nitix is a high-performance platform on which you can build and deploy Linux-based applications. Nitix’s autonomic capabilities and unique technologies maximize the benefits of Linux®, accelerate the deployment of your applications and help to ensure that they continue to run problem-free.
Reduced complexity = lower costs
The greatest cost of an IT infrastructure is managing it. The more complex the system, the more it will cost you to manage it.
Nitix uses autonomic computing features and leverages the reliability and performance of Linux to greatly reduce infrastructure complexity and lower your IT costs. Nitix also incorporates wizards, a user-friendly interface and easy administration tools to make Nitix services and Nitix-run applications even more manageable.
Increased reliability, security and uptime
We know you can’t afford to have your server go down. That’s why, in order to make Nitix services and Nitix-run applications ultra reliable, secure and stable, Nitix comes standard with several management features for network security and redundant Internet connectivity. Autonomic features further ensure maximum uptime by self-managing, protecting and healing your system.
Easy backups to protect your data
Nitix’s easy backup feature gives you automatic, unattended backups of all of your critical data and email and allows you to restore either a single file, or all files— including system files— back to a known-good state.
Built-in disaster recovery
A sound disaster recovery plan is essential to protect the well being of your organization. Nitix includes a built-in disaster recovery plan with an advanced disaster recovery technology that enables Nitix-powered servers to be recovered from any type of system failure (faulty hardware, fire, flood and theft) into a fully functional state, in 2-minutes, without losing more than 15-minutes of data.
Works with your existing IT infrastructure
Nitix is completely interoperable with your existing desktops (Windows, Macintosh or Linux) and network servers (Microsoft, Novell or Red Hat) so you don’t have to overhaul your existing IT infrastructure.
Greater return on hardware investments
For the past several years, traditional operating systems have grown (bloated) dramatically. Fully deployed, some are now larger than 2,000 MB. Including all its features, functionality and unique technologies, today’s Nitix operating system is less than 60MB.
Nitix’s compact size and efficient design allows the operating system to be run on entry-level and older computers increasing server hardware life cycles. Nitix will maximize your server’s potential giving you a longer return on hardware investments and saving you money.
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Nitin Talreja 