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This week, Symantec secures cloud instant messaging and offers Lync support, CA has upgraded its security services, there’s talk of a Facebook privacy opt-in or out option, BWise releases v 4.1.3 and LexisNexis sells insurance software business.

This week, in what may be a response to Microsoft’s recent moves to integrate its products, Google Apps and NetSuite team up and the result is definitely good for SMB. Xerox and Cisco have also partnered, CA offers data protection on Azure, while TrendMicro offers backup for very small businesses.

After all the hoopla around the ILTA conference in Las Vegas last week seems things have quieted down a bit GRC-wise. Even still EMC is looking to guarantee the safety of data located in cloud services, CA is trying to set itself up as the cloud security provider and Guidance Software has just released a complete e-Discovery platform.

In terms of the kind of sums that are being tossed about in recent acquisition play, CA Technologies’ (news, site) agreement to pay US $200 million for Arcot, an identity authentication and fraud prevention vendor, would be minor play if it didn’t take the software giant one step closer to its stated goal of becoming the cloud security player on the market.

You could never accuse Autonomy (news, site) of letting the grass grow under its feet. Only a month after it announced it was buying CA’s (news, site) information governance business, it has closed the deal despite indications at the time that this would take some months. And it has already integrated its IDOL search platform into what was CA’s Message Manager.

The recent release of annual figures from Autonomy (news, site)  indicated that company was in the market for more acquisitions. No surprise then that it has just announced it is buying CA’s information governance business, including CA Records Manager and CA Message Manager.

There have been a number of new releases that should appeal to SMBs this week including a new version of SpringCM’s cloud-based enterprise content management system. There’s even some free cloud space too.

IT management software company CA (news, site)  has announced that it has just closed a cash deal worth US$ 350 million to buy monitoring solutions provider Nimsoft.

The Islandia, NY-based giant says this acquisition will open up a whole new customer base of midmarket/emerging enterprises and management service providers (MSPs).

Despite persistent global economic difficulties, a recent survey from technology consultancy IDC (news, site) shows that the world-wide storage software market continues to hold its own with 6.3% growth between Q3 and Q4 last year.

However, while the combined market for all top vendors increased by 0.5% in Q4 last year compared with Q4 in 2008, the overall picture is gloomier with a total contraction of the market year-on-year of 4.7%.

Last week, we pondered the fate of acronyms -- namely GRC. Continuing the conversation, we sat down with CA’s (news, site) Marc Camm, senior vice president and general manager of GRC Products, and Peter Stapleton, senior principal product manager for CA GRC Manager, to discuss their thoughts about what Governance, Risk and Compliance will look like in 2010 and beyond.

CA (news, site) has a fresh perspective on how their customers view their product. As they developed version 2.5 of their GRC Manager, they surveyed their customers of version 2.0 to see how exactly they had been using it.

It turns out everyone had a different view of the world and used it differently depending upon their industry, job title or relevance to risk and compliance. Such insight sparked the impetus behind the release of GRC Manager 2.5.

CMSWire spoke with Tom McHale, VP of product management for CA GRC Manager, and Marc Camm, senior VP and GM of GRC products, about the new features and how v2.5 aims to help companies meet compliance standards and improve workflows.

IT management software company CA (news, site), along with interactive marketing company Acxiom have set out to produce an enterprise class, cloud-based information governance solution. This new partnership aims to tap into the blossoming eDiscovery market by providing a solution that both companies say cannot be beaten for value.

The timing of this announcement is interesting considering Arkansas-based Acxiom is just about to release its Q1 figures, which it has already indicated in June would be close to 21% lower than Q1 last year.

CA, an independent IT management company, has got our backs during this economic crunch. Recently, they released a new Information Governance Suite with an array of new Enterprise IT Management and Governance solutions, each designed to help organizations improve the economics of IT and provide greater business value.

In our quest to better understand eDiscovery and everything it has to offer, CMSWire has spent time talking with various companies that tackle the very essence of search and discovery of electronic documents.

In part one of this initiative, we reported on two companies that focus on the right side of the popular Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). The right side focuses on the processes involved in synthesizing and analyzing the data.

In our part two, we focused on the left side of the model — the one that deals with the information management part of the eDiscovery process.

Until recently we’ve all thought of Iron Mountain as little more than a backup tape shipping and storage business. While offsite maintenance of tapes is a necessary pain of IT existence (and has been a successful endeavor), recent acquisitions and partnerships have demonstrated that Iron Mountain is headed into quite a new arena. The high dollar records management space would appear to be the company’s new calling and they’ve just put some serious resources behind it.