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Author Archives: Gregory Shapiro
Phishing: DMARC to the Rescue
Here is something you need to know. DMARC, or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance, is a new standard for email authentication. You will appreciate it for two reasons: it will protect your email and it will protect your brand. … Continue reading
The Impact of Machine-Generated Messages on Enterprise Email Infrastructure
Sendmail has a new white paper available (PDF) on the impact of machine-generated messages on enterprise email infrastructure. The paper describes the category of machine-generated messages, the challenges they create, and what you can do to meet those challenges. It … Continue reading
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Interesting Observation Regarding IaaS at Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group
The Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group kicked off a series of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) meetings last night with a presentation about CloudStack. CloudStack was recently relicensed by Citrix under the Apache Software License and is a public and … Continue reading
Sendmail Annual European Symposium 2012
I just got back from the 2012 Sendmail Annual European Symposium in Frankfurt, Germany. This year’s event featured great customer presentations, partner workshops, and technical sessions. Glen Vondrick, Sendmail’s President and COO, kicked off the sessions with a look at … Continue reading
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Cloud Service Selection Criteria
During the 2012 Consumerization of IT Conference & Expo, Terri McClure, ESG Senior Analyst, gave a presentation on Online File Sharing & Collaboration in the Enterprise that included a useful list of key criteria for evaluating cloud vendors for file … Continue reading
Embracing failure
Amazon’s Rule #1: “Everything fails all the time.” (Werner Vogel, CTO at Amazon.com) A common misconception for consumers of cloud services is that SLAs ensure availability. In reality, SLAs do nothing to improve availability. SLAs only provide a way for attorneys … Continue reading
*aaS: A picture is worth a thousand words
During a presentation, I attempted to explain the differences between Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) using examples to illustrate the resources provided by each: IaaS: VMware vCloud, Amazon EC2 … Continue reading
Google Adds DKIM
On Thursday, Google added DKIM signing to their Google Apps offering . This is great news for everyone as it strengthens mail receiver’s abilities to block mail forgeries and provide reliable domain reputation. Both Google and Sendmail have had a … Continue reading
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eWeek Knowledge Center: How to Move Your Messaging Infrastructure to the Cloud
At first, it may seem as if moving certain functions of your email infrastructure to the Cloud would be a no brainer. But what you may not know is the risks associated with each component of the email infrastructure needs … Continue reading
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Conference attendance on the decline – but valuable information can still be had
Last week, I attended three IDG conferences: CloudWorld, Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), and OpenSource World (formerly known as LinuxWorld). Despite the fact that all three conferences occurred simultaneously, attendance was very low. It looks like large conferences are mostly … Continue reading
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