Ipswitch sells Internet email products based on Windows servers. The focus is on small and medium-sized businesses. In its field, Ipswitch is one of the established leaders. The company has recently evolved a way of selling email-as-a-service, via its partner, Rackspace. Rackspace offers managed hosted applications. This usually means Rackspace puts up one or more... read more »
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Symantec released results for 1Q2007 ended June 30, 2006. Revenue increased 2% to $1.28 billion with a GAAP net income of $95 million. read more »
Clearswift announced version 2.4 of MIMEsweeper SMTP Appliance, its email security appliance. Key enhancements: additional anti-spam signature technology, multi-appliance support, and peer appliance personal message management, among others. Available immediately. read more »
Scalix plans to open source its Community Edition. This doesn’t affect its Enterprise Edition business, but it should help Scalix be better regarded in the FLOSS community. Scalix is based on technology licensed from HP — specifically, OpenMail. When this analyst was at HP, we thought it would be impossible to open source OpenMail. We... read more »
Websense released results for
2Q2006 ended June 30. Revenue increased 23% to $44.1 million with a GAAP net
income of $8.4 million.... read more »
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Rumor has it that MessageLabs is looking for a buyer, and has engaged UBS as investment banker. We believe the rumor to be correct. All in all, it’s probably a good time for MessageLabs stockholders to sell: Generally, plenty of M&A interest in the malware field — think of the recent acquisition of BlackSpider by... read more »
Yahoo! and Symantec announced Norton Internet Security provided by Yahoo!, its security suite. Features Norton AntiVirus and Norton Personal Firewall in a co-branded package. Available immediately. read more »
Encryption vendor PGP has just announced NetShare, which provides encrypted access to shared file folders. The approach is interesting because traditional approaches have been problematic. Traditionally, you create a file directory and give access privileges to the people who need access to the directory. However, those users can copy the files elsewhere, such as their... read more »
The Internet has revolutionized the way we purchase many products and services, as some airlines and travel agents may have noticed. A messaging firm, Deluxe Business, with all the latest whizzy Ajax/Web 2.0 bells and whistles, just put itself on sale at eBay. It received 25 bids and sold for $14,300. There goes the investment... read more »
When a mobile phone is lost or stolen, you need to be able to remotely and easily wipe off sensitive information, and preferably lock the phone. Synchronica offers mobile device management technology. Its remote wipe-and-lock has a very nice feature we’ve just learned about. The company call it the "scream" feature. If someone steals your... read more »
On July 5, Microsoft announced that it will fund the development of an open source translation tool between Open XML (the default file format for Office 2007) and Open Document Format (ODF). At first glance this is a somewhat unconventional approach, as opposed to simply developing this capability and building it into its own products.... read more »
Armedia released Armedia DeepExport, its deep export solution for the EMC Documentum platform. Provides exporting from an EMC Documentum repository to a local drive all contents of any folder and its subfolders as a utility which once installed will act as a native component to any of EMC Documentum’s browser-based client interfaces. Available immediately. read more »
Purchasers of spam control solutions are presented with a bewildering array of competing products and services. In this webinar, five vendors of spam control solutions talk about what makes their product or service stand out from the pack. ... read more »
OmniTI is in the process of renaming itself to Message Systems. The company makes specialized, high-end SMTP MTAs. Mainly these are sold to ISPs and email marketers. The firm has a nice, specialized niche. Founded in 1997, it’s self-funded, and has always been profitable. There is a staff of 30. The main selling points for... read more »
Collaboration University 2006 will be held September 13-15, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri and September 27-29, 2006 at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel and Conference Centre at Heathrow Airport in London, UK. Personalized training and technical sessions on IBM Lotus Sametime and QuickPlace including foundational materials that are the underpinnings... read more »
EMC released results for 2Q2006 ended June 30. Revenue increased 10% to $2.57 billion with a GAAP net income of $279 million. read more »
McAfee published the first issue of “Sage”, its semi-annual security journal designed to update and inform technical personnel and security executives on cutting-edge security topics. Includes the role of financial incentives in malware, the widespread adoption of open source philosophy and practices in malware development, and the effects of increasingly professional-grade malware. Available immediately. read more »
In Germany, the law says that organizations must not delete spam once their mail exchanger (MX) has accepted it from the Internet. In effect, you must reject before SMTP’s DATA transaction, or quarantine. So if you’re an international organization and you don’t want to quarantine even the most obvious-looking spam, consider not placing any MXs... read more »
Six Apart released version 3.3 of Movable Type and Movable Type Enterprise, its blogging solutions. Enterprise key features: LDAP authentication, Oracle 10g database support, and cross-blog publishing and aggregation tools, among others. Version 3.3 key enhancements: tag support to discover posts by topic, tag feeds to discover and subscribe to feeds of entries by topic,... read more »
Tool Helps Non-English Speakers Communicate in Email, Other Apps... read more »
On Thursday, SurfControl announced that it acquired BlackSpider Technologies. This is more evidence of the inevitable consolidation happening in the email security market. BlackSpider is a U.K.-based email security service provider. It provides the service in an off-premise model that some call a managed service but we prefer to call a hosted service. Although best... read more »
CA announced the acquisition of XOsoft, a provider of continuous application availability solutions. The terms of the transaction were not announced. read more »
ZANTAZ announced an updates to ZANTAZ First Archive, its archiving and discovery solution. Key enhancements: rapid review which enables researchers to review large numbers of files and messages, document tagging during review which provides a way for the reviewer to add matter-centric tags to each reviewed message or file, and search permissions which enables organizations... read more »
This white paper discusses the reasons businesses need outbound content control, key trends in outbound content control, and the features of Entrust’s Entelligence Content Server.... read more »
One of the interesting new changes in Microsoft Exchange 2007 is an increase in the maximum number of Storage Groups and Mailbox Stores. Exchange 2000/2003 supports a maximum of 20 Mailbox Stores organized in four Storage Groups. With Exchange 2007, you can have as many as 50 Mailbox Stores organized in 50 Storage Groups. By... read more »
Article covers McAfee’s response to Microsoft’s plans to enter the security software market. read more »
Traveling users will sometimes complain about the performance of Outlook Web Access (OWA), especially if they’ve traveled to another continent. This is usually related more to network latency than to network bandwidth issues (Eritrea being a notable exception). For example, N. American users who travel to Europe can expect to see additional quarter- to half-second... read more »
Exchange Email Archiving Needs Message Store Optimization... read more »
Unified Communications (UC) promises good things, but there’s a danger that it will actually make things worse. Look at your business card. It probably has several phone numbers. One for your desk. One for your cell phone. One for your fax machine. Maybe one for your site. Possibly even one for your home. There’s a... read more »
Article discussing although widespread virus outbreaks may be a thing of the past, the total amount of malicious software being written is on the rise. McAfee just added the 200,000th definition to its threat database and it expects the total number of identified threats to double in another two years. read more »
Fake Marketing Concepts: Shills, Astroturfing, and Sock Puppets... read more »