{"id":123,"date":"2010-01-20T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2010-01-20T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T10:08:54","slug":"ibm-secures-panasonic-as-major-lotuslive-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"IBM secures Panasonic as major LotusLive customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest news from IBM, Panasonic will move <a href=\"http:\/\/redmondmag.com\/articles\/2010\/01\/14\/panasonic-drops-exchange-picks-ibm.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">100,000<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heise.de\/newsticker\/meldung\/IBM-gewinnt-Panasonic-als-Kunden-fuer-die-LotusLive-Cloud-Services-904536.html\" target=\"_blank\">380,000<\/a> employees to IBM&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lotuslive.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">LotusLive<\/a> hosted, Web-based collaboration suite of services. This deal is noteworthy in the cloud arena for its size: it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/c\/a\/Messaging-and-Collaboration\/IBM-LotusLive-Snags-Panasonic-to-Challenge-Google-in-the-Cloud-401835\/\" target=\"_blank\">larger <\/a>than any enterprise deal inked so far by Google Apps, a highly popular platform boasting 2 million clients.<\/p>\n<p>Few companies can ever hope to match IBM&#8217;s reputation and track record among enterprises. Now Big Blue is proving to be quite the cloud warrior, boldly striding into the Software as a Service fray after having accelerated its product offering with <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/2009\/01\/16\/ibm-to-acquire-outblaze-email-assets\/\" target=\"_blank\">the purchase of Outblaze technology<\/a> last year (Outblaze messaging assets were incorporated in the LotusLive Web-based collaboration suite).<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to IBM and Lotus from Outblaze!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest news from IBM, Panasonic will move 100,000 to 380,000 employees to IBM&#8217;s LotusLive hosted, Web-based collaboration suite of services. This deal is noteworthy in the cloud arena for its size: it is larger than any enterprise deal inked so far by Google Apps, a highly popular platform boasting 2 million clients. Few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.outblaze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}