Ferris Research has completed the most comprehensive survey to date of business email systems, interviewing more than 900 companies around the world about their preferred vendor, upgrade patterns, plans for migration, and what they pay for their software. The report looks at small (1-99 employees), medium (100-999 employees), and large (1000+ employees) organizations in the... read more »
A quite common type of spam message is now a very short message of the form: WordsJoinedUpLikeThis http://somedomain.com This sort of message is very difficult to detect using content analysis techniques. For the message to achieve its goal, the URL in the message needs to point somewhere reasonably stable, so that the intended targets of... read more »
This report describes the results of a survey of 917 organizations of all sizes to determine the email systems they are using, the versions deployed, migration plans, and the cost of the software. Responding organizations account for 10.6 million employees, or roughly 2% of the workforce in developed industrialized economies.... read more »
Enables Enterprises and Service Providers to Significantly Reduce Time, Complexity and Costs Associated with Migrating to Exchange 2007... read more »
Mobile and web users can now easily mix video, music, imaging and text to create personalized messages... read more »
A recent Ferris report, The Central Role of Classification for Compliance and Content Control, described document classification. Security labels (see backgrounder [Security Labels here]) provide a mechanism for document and information classification. Security labels are often used in environments where document classification is mandatory, and access according to this classification will be enforced. The key... read more »
Sonian provides the most affordable and reliable email archiving solution in the market by leveraging Amazon Web Services infrastructure.... read more »
To protect student communications and assist school district staff members, Privacy Networks’ industry leading search and archive platform will provide email retention while reducing costs... read more »
Elsevier’s Beta Medical Wiki Invites Board-Certified Physicians to
Comment, Collaborate and Update Established Medical Textbook Online... read more »
Strawberry release of award-winning new social network makes social publishing for your group easier and faster than ever before... read more »
Spam text messaging is connecting cell phone users to sex sites and costing them up to 20 cents apiece.... read more »
HOUSTON — Are you inundated with text messages on your cell phone? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. Ferris Research, a company that tracks messaging services, said 1.1 billion spam messages went out in 2007. That is up 38 percent from the year before.... read more »
Use of security labels is standard practice for handling information in high-security environments. Documents are marked with a label, such as “Secret,” and access to information is controlled by an equivalent security clearance. Security labels for online information generally use ESS (Enhanced Security Services for S/MIME – RFC 2634), which is based on the X.411... read more »
New RazorGate 6000 and Message Server S6000 Deliver Ultimate Reliability and the Industry’s Lowest TCO... read more »
Consumers Share Social Media, Internet Calling, Unified Messaging, Web and Video Feeds for Effortless Content Sharing and Instant Communication on any Device... read more »
Mobile users can dial locally and message globally with personal voice messages up to five minutes long to mobile phones in over 20 countries... read more »
Editor’s note: Before embarking on his currently footloose and fancy-free existence, Nick used to be CTO of Lotus. Lotusphere 2008, the big annual user and business partner conference/exhibition for Lotus software, was held in Orlando, January 20-24, 2008. Here are my main impressions. I’ve now had a chance to synthesize the flood of inputs. My... read more »
On January 18, Lotus announced it will acquire Network Integration Technologies. This will help Lotus produce a range of products that have low IT demands, increasing their attraction to small and medium sized businesses. Network Integration produces a very-low-overhead operating system, Nitix. This takes over the host machine, and either handles a lot of IT... read more »
Email archiving is a fast growing market, driven by the new FRCP amendments and the demand for improved email data management for eDiscovery, and Symantec’s Enterprise Vault is the market leader. Recently, however, key members of the product team have been leaving: Nick Mehta, VP of Product Management, left in October 2007 and is now... read more »
Spam text messages, including those for pornographic websites, are now targeting cell phone users young and old.... read more »
Appliance Provides Flexible Management and Robust Security Control at the Network Gateway to Increase Accuracy and Coverage Against Messaging Threats... read more »
Applications Combine Web 2.0 Collaboration with Advanced Document Management... read more »
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces that its product Kaspersky Anti-Virus 7.0 has received the Gold Anti-Rootkit Protection Award from the authoritative information security portal Anti-Malware Test Lab ... read more »
Barracuda IM Firewall Now Includes Automatic Export for Archiving IM Conversations... read more »
Officescape Uses Advanced VoIP Technology to Integrate Essential Business Communications Into a Single, User-Friendly Platform for the Mobile Professional... read more »
Gateway Email Encryption Helps Comply with New Government Infrastructure Initiative to Protect the Privacy of Social Care Clients... read more »
XMPP is the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, which is the Internet standard for instant messaging, real-time messaging, and presence. On January 16, the sale of an XMPP client and server solution by Jabber.com to the U.S. Marine Corps for 280,000 users was announced. This large sale ties in with XMPP activity at leading U.S.... read more »