H.323 is a series of protocols that provide audio-visual communication sessions on any packet network. It is currently implemented by various Internet real-time applications such as NetMeeting. SIP is the main challenger. It is still early days, but if SIP…... read more »
Article discussing Proofpoint Network Content Sentry, an add-on appliance to its Content Security suite, which monitors Web mail, message boards, blogs and FTP-based communications.... read more »
You may have heard us predict the death of email spam before. Briefly, the argument goes like this: as more people’s mailboxes are protected by anti-spam filters, and as those filters get more accurate, fewer spam messages get delivered, so…... read more »
Quest Software released results for 2Q2005, ended June 30. Revenue decreased 16% to $107 million with a GAAP net income of $10.7 million.... read more »
Tiger (MacOS 10.4) introduced better (but not ideal) integration of Mail.app and iCal with Exchange. Snerdware produces AddressX to which will allow you to access an Exchange GAL via the Apple Address Book. Groupcal (which is not yet compatible with…... read more »
On August 3, Microsoft released a set of 30 free sample applications for Windows SharePoint Services. These applications are designed to be used either “out of the box†or as templates for customized solutions. They address a range of common…... read more »
Trend Micro released results for 2Q2005, ended June 30. Revenue increased 16% to Â¥17.19 billion ($160 million) with net income of Â¥3.93 billion ($36.52 million).... read more »
NetIQ announced in December 2002 its acquisition of Marshal Software for $23 million in cash. Marshal Software’s customer base at that time was estimated at over 3,000 companies. NetIQ had acquired earlier that year another vendor, PentaSafe Security Technologies, which sold security policy management products. Together these solutions promised NetIQ customers the ability to define... read more »
Quest Software released version 3.0 of Quest Recovery Manager for Exchange, its solution that discovers and recovers Exchange data from existing backups. Key enhancements: support for additional third-party backup software, intelligent search, and task automation, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
GFI released version 9 of GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP, its email content security solution. Key enhancements: quarantine filters, search options and web-based configuration, among others. Available immediately.... read more »
The merged Symantec/Veritas presented its view of its strengths to us. We list them here, along with our comments. "Breadth of offering: Complete email management solution from a single vendor." Sceptical on this. There’s much more to email management than anti-virus, anti-spam, and email archiving/retention technology. Eg, they have no tools for bandwidth planning. It’s... read more »
At Microsoft’s TechEd Conference in Orlando in June 2005, and at TechEd Europe in July, Microsoft declared the beginning of the end for Exchange’s Public Folders. While they will remain a feature of the next version of Exchange called E12…... read more »