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Intelligent Anti-Spam Bounce Control Important
Intelligent Anti-Spam Bounce Control Important... read more »
Zero-Hour Virus Control Needs Dynamic, Intelligent Quarantines
Zero-Hour Virus Control Needs Dynamic, Intelligent Quarantines... read more »
Urgent: Find a Solution to Top-of-Inbox Task Prioritization
The latest from our stating-the-obvious department… We’re all drowning in email. We’re all scrambling to keep abreast of our email and to keep the size of our inboxes down to a reasonable level, so we don’t get overtaken. We even take our laptops away on vacation, to keep the deluge at bay. What this does... read more »
Email Archiving Vendors Exaggerate the Regulations Compliance Threat
Email Archiving Vendors Exaggerate the Regulations Compliance Threat... read more »
Interesting Statistics on Email Disaster Downtime
Interesting Statistics on Email Disaster Downtime... read more »
Trend Toward High Email Availability
Over the last six months, we’ve noticed a growing number of vendors offering technology that helps reduce email downtime. That makes sense, because we all rely heavily on email, and productivity takes a real hit when it’s not available. One example is Teneros. Exchange itself is also moving in this direction. A promising recent offering... read more »
Staff Lawsuits Not a Good Reason To Install Anti-Spam Technology
Staff Lawsuits Not a Good Reason To Install Anti-Spam Technology... read more »
A Concise Definition of the Benefits of Enterprise Content Management
The concept of enterprise content management has evolved from document management. It’s a shifting concept. Here’s a crisp roundup of the main benefits as perceived today: Broader availability of corporate knowledge Lower infrastructure operating costs Shared information is kept consistent Ability to automate business processes Provides control over the document lifecycle Discovery and litigation support... read more »
The Plan for AOL Instant Messaging (2005)
A recent briefing from AOL’s instant messaging (AIM) division indicates that it might finally be getting its act together. Its intent is breathtaking.... read more »
Oracle Content Services: An Alternative to SharePoint Services for Enterprise Content Management
Regulatory compliance and increasing volumes of electronic documents are transforming content management from a niche category into a more mainstream market. Many organizations are considering Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services as a potential solution to the need for enterprise content management (ECM). Another player is Oracle, which has recently introduced its Oracle Content Services 10g as... read more »
The Type of Bounce Data Information That’s Useful
The Type of Bounce Data Information That’s Useful... read more »
The Most Important Compliance Regulations
The Most Important Compliance Regulations... read more »
Oracle Content Services: Worth a Close Look
Oracle describes its newly released Oracle Content Services as “ECM for the masses.†This is an apt description. It has a number of strengths for large-scale ECM deployment: Low cost to implement High database scalability Easily navigated hierarchy Fine-grained control over security Records management capabilities Strong search feature that addresses all stored content If you’re... read more »
A Definition of Enterprise Content Management
A Definition of Enterprise Content Management... read more »
SharePoint Is Not Good for Enterprise Content Management
SharePoint is generating a lot of interest in team workspaces. It’s validating the space. Many organizations are also considering it for enterprise content management. That’s a mistake; ECM is too much for SharePoint to take on. The main problems are: Limited Database Scalability. The default database for SharePoint Services is the Microsoft Data Engine. Its... read more »
Not More Than 50 Virtual Directories Have Been Sold
Here’s a snippet from the museum’s archive, dating from October 2005.... read more »
New From Tumbleweed: Email Security Software and Appliances
New From Tumbleweed: Email Security Software and Appliances... read more »
Feedster–Useful Search Engine for Blogs
Feedster’s an interesting Web site–www.feedster.com. It’s a search engine for blogs. You can also define your search criteria, and an associated RSS feed. It looks really useful. For example, browsing blogs can be a useful way to find out what people are saying about a product or version you’re evaluating. Recommended. Makes money through advertising.... read more »
The Location of a Hosted Email Security Data Center Is Irrelevant
The Location of a Hosted Email Security Data Center Is Irrelevant... read more »
Accuracy of Cloudmark Desktop: Not Bad, but Could Be Better
Accuracy of Cloudmark Desktop: Not Bad, but Could Be Better... read more »
Email Search Must Include Context
Searching through email has to get a lot better. Notes/Domino has had powerful word-based search for a long time. Now Exchange is getting the same. And there are excellent third-party utilities, such as Google Desktop Search. These are valuable, but search needs to go much further. Often, you can’t remember an email by words in... read more »
Exchange 12 “CmdLets” Make Management Easier; Developers Still Have Good Opportunities
One part of the Exchange 12 API (application programming interface) announcement at the Professional Developer’s Conference was that the administration APIs for Exchange would be based on “CmdLets.†CmdLets are application interfaces built on Microsoft’s Monad technology. A benefit of CmdLets is that previously difficult management tasks, such as creating a mailbox, can now be... read more »
The Top Spam-Sending Countries
The top spam-sending countries are: U.S.-74% of traffic China-8% Canada-7% Korea-3% U.K.-3% Other countries-6% Yes, it adds to 101%, due to rounding errors. … David Ferris, with thanks to Commtouch... read more »
5 Ways to Avoid the Junk Mail Folder
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The Government’s Take on E-mail
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How to Avoid Scammers, Spammer and the Rest of the Bad E-guys
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Paranoia About Hosted Messaging Services Will Die Down
One major objection to using hosted messaging services has been along the lines of "What, you want us to put our sensitive emails in the trust of a third party? No, way, they’re too sensitive…" In a few specialized cases, such as military organizations, this makes sense. But it doesn’t for most of the rest... read more »
Distribution List Issues for Regulations Compliance, Corporate Data Mining
Information about distribution lists are about to become important for regulations compliance and corporate data mining purposes. Some of the issues that come to mind are: Fancy features associated with DLs (e.g., controls on who can sent) Archiving who joined/left list when Being able to find messages sent to a DL in an archive Easy... read more »