This report is primarily quantitative in nature. It estimates: The revenues received by vendors from businesses The number of businesspeople using the technology The number of businesses using the technology It provides estimates of the available market: The number of business email users The number of businesses that are able and likely to purchase the... read more »
EMC Corporation acquired Kashya, a provider of data replication and data protection software, for $153 million. read more »
Postini released Directory Sync capability and Single Sign-On interface, its administration solutions that more tightly integrate the Postini message management services platform with customers’ existing IT systems. Allow users, policies, authentication and authorizations to be defined at the customer premise and automatically synchronized with Postini’s services infrastructure. Available immediately. read more »
As large organizations introduce mobile messaging solutions to keep pace with growing demand, product selection and implementation issues become key considerations for successful deployments. This Ferris report provides recent data on the size of the mobile messaging market and addresses the most important issues for large organizations to consider when evaluating and designing mobile messaging... read more »
It’s sometimes argued that the high cost of hard disk storage is a good reason to invest in new auxiliary messaging technology, such as tape-based email archiving. However, some forms of disk storage are so cheap that such arguments may be invalid. One of the things that trips up many people is the huge (more... read more »
Open Text released results for 3Q2006 ended March 31. Revenue decreased 4% to $101 million with a GAAP net income of $7.3 million. read more »
Quest Software released results for 1Q2006 ended March 31. Revenue increased 23% to $128 million with a GAAP net income of $6.6 million. read more »
We attended the Infosecurity Europe 2006 conference in London last week. A highlight of the conference sessions was the so-called Hackers’ Panel, which included Gary McKinnon (aka Solo), who is accused of hacking into 97 United States military and NASA computers and faces the threat of U.S. extradition from the United Kingdom. When asked how... read more »
Symantec announced the Symantec Phish Report Network, its antifraud community. Members contribute URLs they have identified as fraudulent Web sites to the network, Symantec then collects the data and distributes it to other network members. read more »
In this roundtable, Domino messaging support staff discuss their views on unified messaging in their organizations.... read more »
Blue Security‘s Do Not Intrude Registry is a list of email addresses offered to spammers for cleaning their lists. The Blue Security list, which is available free of charge, contains addresses of its members who don’t wish to receive spam. It’s in a hashed format, so that spammers can’t extract the actual addresses. Naturally, there... read more »
BorderWare Technologies announced BorderWare Infinity Platform, its integrated content security platform. Provides centralized policy enforcement, monitoring, reporting and auditing for communications through a common interface. Available 4Q2006. read more »
Last week, John Graham-Cumming launched SpamOrHam.org. If you’re familiar with "Hot or Not" you’ll probably get the idea. As Graham-Cumming says: The basic idea is to get humans (that means you) to read a small number of messages (some are ham; some are spam) and decide what they are. I’m doing this because there are... read more »