Coreix Managed Servers

RIM have announced BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0. BES 5.0 is what is known as a “middleware” server mainly used by larger businesses to manage their BlackBerry Smartphones, synchronize emails in addition to assisting collaboration between Microsoft Exchange, and IBM Lotus Domino.

One incredible feature of BES 5.0 is the ability to update Blackberry Smartphones over-the-air. This means that the operating system of a BlackBerry smartphone can be patched to the latest version without users having to bring their BlackBerry into the office for upgrading.

Othey enhancements include increased support for switch over to to a standby server in case the main server goes down. Additionally BlackBerry users now have the facility to access Windows network file shares. Also the Blackberry Administrator interface is now web based.

BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is considering establishing an Australian data centre as it continues efforts to upgrade its infrastructure reliability across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Speaking with ZDNet.com.au, the company’s chief information officer Robin Bienfait said she had improved the reliability of the company’s network from 99% when she started in 2007 to 99.7% currently. She is now pushing to reach 99.99%.

For the Asia-Pacific region, with its lower levels of network connectivity and distributed geography, this will mean landing data centres in countries and allowing resident businesses and browsing sites to actually connect to them. This would help latency, application adoption and performance, according to the executive.

Source: ZDNet

Blackberry Mobile Phones

BlackBerry Enterprise Service (or BES) has brought about a major change in the way the email and communications are handled in the business environment . The BlackBerry Enterprise Service has grown into one of the most powerful business tools around. In order to reap the full benefits of BlackBerry Enterprise Service, it needs it needs to be enabled firstly on your Blackberry mobile phone and then on a reliable server by making use of Coreix’s managed hosting services. Some mobile service operators may charge a fee to enable BlackBerry Enterprise service on your phone