Bhanu has a degree in Mechatronics and has been developing with Ruby on Rails for the past 2 years.

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This acquisition further validates the software as a service business model as a way to deliver cost-effective IT solutions for the mid-market. Increasingly, small and medium sized organizations are starting to look at hosted IT services as a better overall way to solve essential problems like security, compliance, archiving and long-term information management. Google taking a position in this product category expands the market opportunity for all hosted messaging vendors. Customers will be able to choose form several great SaaS archiving offerings in the near future.

At Sonian we believe hosted archiving services will be the best way to achieve storage and compliance goals for the mid-market enterprise. Hosted applications served by trusted partners elegantly solve essential business problems more cost-effectively than an organization can accomplish on their own in their own data center.

I just checked Postini’s latest trend for Messages Processed: 580 million messages processed. With the $625 million purchase price in mind, looks like the value is about $1.08 for each message processed. Not that any serious financial analyst would use that formula.

These are exciting times in the messaging marketplace.

The messaging compliance and archiving market really needs a “Archive 2.0″ style web product to solve the painful IT problem of archiving email for compliance, storage management and disaster recovery. We will be offering a web-based archive, with unlimited storage, for one low fixed price, per user per month. We will also be cost-effective providing e-discovery services with the Sonian Archive platform.

Today we launched the FreeSender beta. Go ahead and give it a whirl, and tell us what you like, or what you think we could improve.

FreeSender is a super easy way to move and share files between computers. It’s as convieient as using email, without the hassles of spam filters and attachment size limits getting in the way.

Simply upload your file(s) and we will give you a personal URL link. Then you can mail the link to anyone, including yourself. You can also password protect your files and tell us how long to keep them available.

There is no registration required and it’s free to use as much as you want. Eventually we’ll use advertising to help support the site.

SafetyPin is your secure place on the web to save your passwords, user id’s, PIN’s, license codes, and any other type of information that only you can read.

SafetyPin uses an “in-browser” encryption algorithm, along with a pass code that only you know, to secure your information. All information stored is only accessible with the pass code that only you know. Think of it like your ATM PIN number.

You can share your SafetyPin account with others, so it’s an ideal solution for IT departments, families or other groups to have one place to securely store all your important information.

I awoke Friday to find my six month old Macbook dead from it’s overnight who-knows-what REM sleep activities.

I self-diagnosed the problem to be Total Hard Drive Failure (THDF). The tell-tale rhythmic click…click…click from the drive bay and the fact the disk utilities on the OS recovery DVD couldn’t even see the drive pretty much confirmed my diagnosis.

It was now time to call Apple Care to arrange repair, and figure out how to survive without my primary computer. I figured I could get by with a spare Windows laptop and my hosted productivity apps.

Apple Care estimated two to three weeks turn-around. Ouch - That wasn’t going to work for me, since I had important Keynote presentations to give in just a few days. I had to be more self-sufficient to get back up and running. So I located a replacement drive at an out-of-the-way Mac reseller in Falmouth, MA (100 miles round-trip) (paid retail for a 160Gb drive - that hurts) and am now installing the OS from the DVD and pray that my backup from a few days ago has most/all of my data. I’m most concerned about my presentation files.

Over the past year I have been using web apps exclusively for email, calendaring, word processing, project management, and spreadsheets. My presentations are the only work product not “in the cloud.”

As I write this I am selectively recovering files from a backup and starting to piece together my system so I can do development work. The total hard drive failure could have been a really big problem - web apps allowed my virtual team and I to keep on working through my local outage. So the drive failure still robbed me of about a day of productivity, but I didn’t lose any valuable data.

Lessons learned: spread data assets over multiple physical devices and areas, and use a disk image system instead of full/incremental backups to recover from system failure.

Freesender is an amazingly simple way to share files. Simply upload the file you want to send, get a private URL, copy the URL into an email or document, and share the URL via conventional email. No more worrying about mail servers stripping attachments or causing problems.

We’re really excited to bring this to you, and know FreeSender will be meaningful to you everyday.