IBM released last week a new data migration tool intended to ease the movement of large amounts of data from existing content platforms such as SharePoint, Exchange Public Folders, Domino Document Libraries and other repositories (see coverage here, here and here). The tool also provides synchronization capabilities to enable platform coexistence during extended migration periods.

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I have written in previous posts about how IBM’s new collaboration solution Lotus Quickr is likely to become another great component in the corporate arsenal of fighting email overload. Rob Novak at SNAPPS, an IBM design partner working on providing ready-made templates for Quickr, just posted a preview of what is to come.

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IBM has published a couple of short flash-based demos of the upcoming Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr products, to their public website. Both products were greeted with much fanfare during the introduction at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando, last January.

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Email attachments, specifically the (ab)use of email as a document sharing system is a common concern amongst many companies coping with the constant increase in network traffic and storage demand. Stuart McIntyre on the Quickr blog highlights an interesting approach on how to lighten the email load by providing an intuitive integration point between email client and collaboration solution.

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