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Here are some of the results: Email archiving:- 36% of decision-makers are more concerned about the need to archive e-mail today than they were 12 months ago. - 30% are more concerned about e-discovery issues than they were a year ago.... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/The-Need-to-Archive-Email-Is-a-Growing-Concern-105/page1.html Thu, 17 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/The-Need-to-Archive-Email-Is-a-Growing-Concern-105/page1.html In today’s business environments, we often hear the term ‘high-availability’. Whether a hardware or software solution, we aim for redundancy at all levels, so as to maximize the availability of mission-critical services and operations. 1. IntroductionThis white paper discusses a high-availability solution for the AXIGEN Mail Server, using the Heartbeat package with DRBD. AXIGEN is a... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Smart-Setups/High-Availability-Messaging-Solution-Using-AXIGEN-Heartbeat-and-DRBD-104/page1.html Fri, 11 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Smart-Setups/High-Availability-Messaging-Solution-Using-AXIGEN-Heartbeat-and-DRBD-104/page1.html One of the more important benefits of unified messaging - the integration of e-mail, voice and fax communications in a single mailbox - is the time savings that it affords users. Here's a stab at quantifying just the voicemail-related benefits of unified messaging:• Assume that the typical user receives five voicemails per day. During a 250-day work year, the typical user would receive 1,250... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Mobility/Quantifying-the-Time-Savings-from-Unified-Messaging-103/page1.html Thu, 10 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Mobility/Quantifying-the-Time-Savings-from-Unified-Messaging-103/page1.html Forrester Research has a new report out that offers some insights into the communications technologies that enterprises are adopting -- and are still holding off on. There's also a provocative data point on how involved business unit executives are in Unified Communications purchases.The respondents were asked how much influence three types of roles have in UC purchasing decisions. The biggest influencers... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Who-Makes-The-UC-Buying-Decision--101/page1.html Mon, 07 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Who-Makes-The-UC-Buying-Decision--101/page1.html According to a new survey, almost two thirds of business users have to manage their own e-mail inboxes to stay under corporate capacity limits. And for almost a third, those limits are a paltry 100MB or less.C2C sponsored the third-party survey to draw attention to its email data management solution called Archive One, but to me the interesting point is just how pathetic most business email systems are --... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/No-Excuse-For-Mailbox-Quotas-100/page1.html Fri, 04 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/No-Excuse-For-Mailbox-Quotas-100/page1.html When U.S. Cellular's chief operating officer, Jay Ellison, imposed a "no email Friday" rule at his company, he thought it would ease workers' overload. Instead, he got a rebellion:A growing number of employers, including U.S. Cellular, Deloitte & Touche and Intel, are imposing or trying out "no email" Fridays or weekends. While the bans typically allow emailing... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/A-Day-Without-Email-Is-Like--99/page1.html Thu, 03 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/A-Day-Without-Email-Is-Like--99/page1.html Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee. It invited 50 people from around the world, including five from the UK, to surf without spam filters.The experiment revealed that UK residents are most likely to be targeted by the infamous Nigerian e-mails and "adult" spam. One UK participant received... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/-Spam-Experiment-Overloads-Inboxes-98/page1.html Wed, 02 Jul 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/-Spam-Experiment-Overloads-Inboxes-98/page1.html Using virtualisation software will not just save money and space, but also help optimise IT for business needs.CIOs who have converted to virtualization are keen to praise its cost benefits and preach the green benefits of its power savings, but for many the major benefits are yet to be realized. The virtualization process provides massive opportunity to align IT with the business, and CIOs who are ahead of the... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Virtualization-Software-Will-Help-Optimize-IT-for-Business-97/page1.html Mon, 30 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Virtualization-Software-Will-Help-Optimize-IT-for-Business-97/page1.html IT professionals may initially be awestruck by the promises of virtualization, but Gartner analysts warn that awe could turn into upset when organizations start to suffer from seven nasty side effects. Here are the reasons Gartner says virtualization is no IT cure-all:1. Magnified failures. In the physical world, a server hardware failure typically would mean one server failed and backup servers would step in to... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/7-Side-Effects-of-Sloppy-Virtualization-96/page1.html Fri, 27 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/7-Side-Effects-of-Sloppy-Virtualization-96/page1.html Sudden massive bot recruitment campaign by Srizbi botnet drives malicious spam up 9.9%, according to researchers at MarshalA massive bot recruitment campaign appears to be behind a record surge early this month in the volume of malicious spam -- from 3 percent of all spam traffic to nearly 10 percent, according to researchers with  Marshal’s TRACE team .The Srizbi botnet, which has been making... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/Malicious-Spam-Traffic-Triples-in-One-Week-95/page1.html Thu, 26 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/Malicious-Spam-Traffic-Triples-in-One-Week-95/page1.html Two in five small to medium businesses (SMBs) say virtualisation is the best way to bypass a potential recession.Of 100 companies questioned by internet service provider Star, 43 per cent cited virtualisation tools as a key way to protect their organisation from the current economic climate. A further 21 per cent of respondents said that a converged approach to new technologies was the best strategy for dealing... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Virtualisation-Is-Top-Choice-for-SMBs-94/page1.html Wed, 25 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Virtualisation-Is-Top-Choice-for-SMBs-94/page1.html Many employees in the modern workplace simply assume their electronic communications are being read by IT administrators. A new study released by IT security firm Cyber-Ark Software shows that those assumptions aren't too far off base.The survey of 300 senior IT professionals at mid-market and enterprise firms yielded the disturbing news that a third admit that they or fellow administrators have... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Study-Raises-Spectre-Of-E-Mail-Snooping-By-IT-Pros-93/page1.html Mon, 23 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Study-Raises-Spectre-Of-E-Mail-Snooping-By-IT-Pros-93/page1.html Most small and large enterprises are uncertain of the benefits of a unified communications implementation, according to a recent survey of 2008 networking plans from Forrester Research.Fifty-five percent of the 2,187 North American and European companies queried said there is "confusion about the value" of unified communications for their company. Only 11% of the firms have already deployed it.... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Enterprises-Baffled-by-Unified-Communications-Survey-Finds-92/page1.html Thu, 19 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Enterprises-Baffled-by-Unified-Communications-Survey-Finds-92/page1.html Tech vendors have made headway in the war on spam, yet spammers are returning volley with sheer numbers. Perhaps it's time for more drastic measures? "The biggest reason we're not winning the war on spam has little to do with the anti-spam vendors," says Logan Harbaugh, a Test Center analyst. "It's more about the ever-increasing volume of spam."Anti-spam email... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/And-Still-the-Spam-Comes--91/page1.html Wed, 18 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/And-Still-the-Spam-Comes--91/page1.html There is a general paranoia about server virtualization in the security community that goes something like this. The server virtualization hypervisor acts as a resource switch enabling multiple virtual hosts to share a single physical system. In theory, if you compromise the hypervisor, you gain access to every virtual host along for the ride. Imagine an instance where 50 hosts live on a single Intel server and... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/The-Real-Issue-Around-Server-Virtualization-Security-90/page1.html Tue, 17 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/The-Real-Issue-Around-Server-Virtualization-Security-90/page1.html E-mail users are receiving an increasing number of bounceback spam, known as backscatter, and security experts say this kind of spam is growingThe bounceback email messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."You eye your computer screen; you're... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/100-E-mail-Bouncebacks-You-ve-Been-Backscattered--89/page1.html Thu, 12 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/100-E-mail-Bouncebacks-You-ve-Been-Backscattered--89/page1.html Web-based email may be exposing you to privacy and security problems you didn't expectWeb-based email is booming. Services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail are convenient, accessible and, best of all, free. Many of us have come to rely on them without giving it a second thought.But second thoughts may be in order, according to security experts, privacy advocates and some Webmail users. Few consider the... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Web-Integration/The-Darker-Side-of-WebMail-88/page1.html Wed, 11 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Web-Integration/The-Darker-Side-of-WebMail-88/page1.html Networkworld.com publishes the conclusions of an extensive study they have conducted on email, web and instant messaging security issues within North-American mid-sized and large enterprises. Among the findings of the study, there were:  - Two out of five organizations has had a virus, worm or Trojan successfully infiltrate their network through e-mail.  - More than two in five organizations have... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Bad-Things-Keep-Happening-The-Current-State-of-Messaging-and-Web-Security-87/page1.html Mon, 09 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Bad-Things-Keep-Happening-The-Current-State-of-Messaging-and-Web-Security-87/page1.html Small businesses are indeed the latest target for spammers. Most small businesses -- unlike their big business counterparts -- have less sophisticated anti-spam protection, and spammers have shifted their tactics to take advantage of an easier target.Unwanted email is a threat to both productivity and security. Spam now comprises more than 50 percent of all enterprise email and represents somewhere between 40 and... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/How-to-Stop-Spam-Disguised-as-Business-Email-86/page1.html Fri, 06 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/How-to-Stop-Spam-Disguised-as-Business-Email-86/page1.html Unified communications represents the goal of many workplace decision makers - the integration of e-mail, telephony, presence, fax, mobile communications, collaboration tools, audio conferencing, Web conferencing and videoconferencing into a coordinated and centrally managed communications system, all of which will be accessible via a single address. I believe that's where most workplace communications is... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Mobility/The-Path-to-Unified-Communications-85/page1.html Thu, 05 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Mobility/The-Path-to-Unified-Communications-85/page1.html Email's popularity has had a profound impact on archiving. But not all email archiving tools are created equal. An archiving tool must interface with your email or database system, yet impose few performance penalties against the applications using the email archive. Your company should have retention rules planned ahead of time, and you should consider the need for index/search capabilities to address... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Backup-amp-Archiving/How-to-Purchase-an-Email-Archiving-Tool-84/page1.html Wed, 04 Jun 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Backup-amp-Archiving/How-to-Purchase-an-Email-Archiving-Tool-84/page1.html On behalf of Proofpoint, Inc., Forrester Consulting fielded an online survey of email decision makers at large US, UK, German, French and Australian companies. Respondents were asked about their concerns, priorities and plans related to the content of email leaving their organizations, as well as related concerns about the risks associated with mobile devices, blogs and message boards, media sharing sites and... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Outbound-Email-and-Data-Loss-Prevention-in-Today-s-Enterprise-2008-83/page1.html Fri, 30 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Outbound-Email-and-Data-Loss-Prevention-in-Today-s-Enterprise-2008-83/page1.html E-mail archiving is the process of systematically recording and saving copies of e-mail correspondence for records keeping and documentation purposes. US courts have issued guidelines on what is called 'e-discovery' or exchanging information using electronic means in legal proceedings. The American Bar Association has, in turn, warned lawyers that e-discovery apparently covers all means of electronic... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Backup-amp-Archiving/What-Is-Email-Archiving--82/page1.html Thu, 29 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Backup-amp-Archiving/What-Is-Email-Archiving--82/page1.html Despite a decline in spending on business software given a waning U.S. economy, an April 2008 survey of IT organizations shows that virtualization software spending has increased.The survey of about 2,000 respondents by Rockville, Md.-based ChangeWave Research found that overall software spending is on the decline, with only 12% of respondents saying that they will invest in software over the next 90 days, and one... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Virtualization-Spending-Strong-despite-Tighter-IT-Budgets-81/page1.html Wed, 28 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Virtualization-Spending-Strong-despite-Tighter-IT-Budgets-81/page1.html Online firm Habeas released its annual study of consumer attitudes Wednesday, which showed that email remains the "primary method of communications in personal and business capacities."The survey found that 67% of respondents prefer email to communicate online, and 65% feel that will still be the case in five years. And vis-à-vis a younger generation "aging out of... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Habeas-Email-Remains-Primo-Communication-Method-80/page1.html Mon, 26 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Habeas-Email-Remains-Primo-Communication-Method-80/page1.html The leading technology research firm, The Radicati Group Inc., publishes an extensive white paper reviewing the strategic importance of email messaging systems in today’s business environments and the AXIGEN Mail Server .Email is a vital communication channel for organizations of all sizes. Having a reliable and efficient messaging system can improve employees’ productivity, reduce operating... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/AXIGEN-an-Innovative-Messaging-Solution-for-Organizations-of-All-Sizes-79/page1.html Wed, 21 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/AXIGEN-an-Innovative-Messaging-Solution-for-Organizations-of-All-Sizes-79/page1.html Top Rules for an Effective Email CommunicationEmail is one of today’s most widely employed means of communication. Whether for personal or business purposes, email is extensively used throughout every day activities, its speed and reliability making it the communication channel of choice for millions of people worldwide. Figures on email usage are impressive, and growing, as reported by major technology... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Email-Etiquette-78/page1.html Tue, 13 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Email-Etiquette-78/page1.html Checking email, reading email and answering email can take up hours of time if you let it. But only if you let it. Here are four simple email management rules to help you keep control of your inbox:1) Let your email program manage your email as much as possible.Email management starts with setting up and using filters. If you're using an email program such as Outlook, you can configure email rules to send... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Basic-Email-Management-77/page1.html Fri, 09 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Studies-amp-Benchmarks/Basic-Email-Management-77/page1.html But it’s not a losing battle. New technology can filter out more than 97 percent of spam — without axing legitimate messages.SoftScan, a European managed-security services provider focused on messaging, reported that spam levels dipped slightly in January to 96.8 percent of all email scanned, compared with 97.02 percent in December 2007.While SoftScan’s reported drop isn’t... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/Spam-Hits-an-All-Time-High-76/page1.html Wed, 07 May 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Security/Spam-Hits-an-All-Time-High-76/page1.html A consensus on the definition for "unified communications" may be harder to establish than you might think. For example, here are some possible definitions:     - A unified communications system routes voicemail sent to one or more telephone numbers and faxes to one or more fax numbers into an e-mail inbox where they can be heard and viewed in a manner similar... http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Mobility/How-Do-You-Define-Unified-Communications--75/page1.html Wed, 23 Apr 08 00:00:00 +0300 http://www.mailradar.com/articles/Mobility/How-Do-You-Define-Unified-Communications--75/page1.html