The new collaboration services enhance the value-added Web-hosting offerings available from Sprint E|Solutions.
Earlier this year, Sprint E|Solutions and Sun announced a strategic alliance of their sales and marketing teams to provide an integrated Web solution for customers.
As part of its commitment to enhance the infrastructure and application components of the Sprint Application Infrastructure Management (AIM) platform, Sprint E|Solutions is working with Sun and iPlanet to enhance business customers’ end-to-end applications capabilities.
In addition to Sprint’s Tier 1 backbone and Web-hosting offered through its Internet Centers, now Sprint AIM and iPlanet messaging and calendar services will combine and offer leading software features such as: application monitoring and reporting, security, mobile commerce and help desk support.
Sprint E|Solutions continues to focus on delivering superior e-enablement – whether through alliances or organic growth, said Keith Paglusch, president, Sprint E|Solutions.
The performance and flexibility of the iPlanet servers strengthen Sprint E|Solutions portfolio of end-to-end solutions and services. In this case, e-mail and group-scheduling applications that are available to our customers.
With over 190 million mailboxes and 80 million calendar licenses sold, iPlanet’s intelligent communications services software is increasingly the choice of leading service providers around the world, said Wes Wasson, vice president of product marketing for iPlanet.
By combining iPlanet’s infrastructure software and Sprint E|Solutions e-business and wireless services, we can help our mutual customers recognize significant savings and enhanced productivity through integrated collaboration solutions.
The iPlanet TM Messaging Server is a carrier-grade, high performance messaging solution, providing highly scalable and highly reliable messaging services.
It also provides the foundation for unified messaging services through the storage of email, voice mail, and faxes in one universal message store, which is accessible through multiple devices such as telephones and PDAs.
E-mail and scheduling software services continue to capture a significant focus of IT resources and outsourcer services.
In fact according to Gartner Group, in 80 percent of cases, enterprises with less than 300 users could save money by outsourcing e-mail.
The iPlanet Calendar Server provides a highly scalable and reliable web-based solution for centralized calendaring and scheduling in enterprise and service provider environments. It also allows event-feeds that deliver important news directly to users’ personal calendars, which can be accessed from any web browser.
The iPlanet Messaging Server and the iPlanet Calendar Server are part of the SunTM Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) offering for smart web services – an open, integratable product stack designed to enable the infrastructure required for robust web services.
The e-mail and collaboration solutions utilizing iPlanet’s Messaging and Calendar Servers are housed in Sprint E|Solutions Internet Centers, including the most current center, Dallas-Fort Worth, where a grand opening ceremony was be held yesterday.
Sun is a preferred technology provider for the Sprint E|Solutions Internet Center infrastructure. The company is providing Sun EnterpriseTM servers and storage devices running on the Solaris TM Operating Environment, consulting, service and support, to help meet the availability standards Sprint E|Solutions customers expect.
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