In Short

A roundup of today's other technology news in brief:

Investment in productivity software firm

OfficeMetrics, a maker of online office productivity software, has secured a €1 million investment from the AIB Seed Capital Fund, which is co-managed by the Dublin Business Innovation Centre.

Founded in 2006, OfficeMetrics provides tools to track, analyse and compare personal, team and organisation-wide productivity. It has 50,000 users in 89 countries.

The software company previously traded as Openplain Software.

Internet address system ‘creaking’

Waterford Institute of Technology’s Telecommunications Software and Systems Group (TSSG) hosted a summit on IPv6 in Dublin Castle this week which attracted 150 delegates.

They heard how the current system of internet addresses is creaking under pressure and overcapacity. The introduction of IPv6 will greatly increase the number of internet addresses available, but will also support the introduction of new types of services.

“By the end of 2011, people wanting new public IPv4 addresses who wish to offer services on the internet – such as deploying a new secure web server for e-commerce – will find this very difficult, or extremely expensive,” said Mícheál Ó Foghlú of TSSG. “To thrive the internet needs to grow, to grow it needs new addresses.”

KeepITsafe signs deal with Vision

Online backup provider KeepITsafe has signed a two-year €250,000 deal with Vision Business Technology. As part of the deal Vision will offer its customers a managed, monitored online back-up solution using KeepITsafe’s platform.

AirSpeed Telecom wins new contract

AirSpeed Telecom has won a €100,000 contract with Vista Primary Care to provide high bandwidth connections for the distribution of medical images around the country. Vista Primary Care, based in Co Kildare, provides X-ray, ultrasound, MRI, and CT services to GPs, hospitals and consultants. AirSpeed Telecom operates a nationwide wireless network and the win comes on the back of a contract to provide a back-up network for BreastCheck.