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Cloud-Email and the Risk of Data Exposure

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Barry Shurtz

Of the concerns people have about cloud security today, data control and data loss rank high—just second behind BYOD according to Infonetic’s April 2013 report. No wonder the market for cloud-based security services is growing at 69%. Data control and … Continue reading →

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Happy ‘Phish Friday’

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Barry Shurtz

Last week Sendmail customer EMC warned businesses that Friday sees more phishing attacks than any other day of the week. It seems hackers and scammers have their own twisted version of ‘TGIF’. While it may not be especially surprising, EMC’s … Continue reading →

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Managing Your InBox

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Barry Shurtz

Google “Email Overload,” and you’ll come across an endless stream of both lamentations and suggestions from people who have come to view the inbox as a sort of albatross choking the productivity from their lives. Many may feel this way, … Continue reading →

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Government Leading Innovation in the Cloud

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Barry Shurtz

Who said government is stodgy and wasteful? When it comes to cloud computing, government’s on the forefront—particularly when it comes to cloud-based email. The US Army, EPA, GSA, Interior, Labor, the USDA…They are all among the government organizations moving email … Continue reading →

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Recap of Sendmail’s Annual Messaging Infrastructure Summit

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Barry Shurtz

To all Sendmail customers who could not attend this year–we’re sorry that you missed this year’s annual International Messaging Infrastructure Summit held in Washington DC on election week.  You missed out on some excellent discussions ranging from cloud email to … Continue reading →

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Email Fun Fact: The First Email Message: Who sent it and when?

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

There always seem to be someone talking about trying to eliminate email from our lives, but in reality, it’s nearly impossible to imagine what we would do without email. Email is indeed a business critical application – and for many … Continue reading →

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Episode 3: Neil and Susan back at it after the holiday break

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

Neil and Susan discuss the different types of SMTP applications that make it nearly impossible to move the email backbone infrastructure to the cloud.

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Can an Enterprise Email Backbone Infrastructure be Moved to the Cloud?

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Barry Shurtz

If you are considering moving any parts of your messaging infrastructure to the cloud, I encourage you to take a look at a new white paper entitled “Can an Enterprise Email Backbone Infrastructure be Moved to the Cloud?” We also … Continue reading →

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An Index of Sendmail Audio Podcasts

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Barry Shurtz

Ask the Experts: Simple Routing versus Complex Routing Ask the Experts: Messaging Infrastructure Filtering Part 4 Ask the Experts: Messaging Cost-Savings in a Difficult Economy Ask the Experts: Messaging Infrastructure Functional Techniques Part 3 Podcast: Ask the Experts: Email Directories: part … Continue reading →

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Open source discussion with Greg Shapiro, Sendmail CTO and VP of Engineering

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Barry Shurtz

I had the pleasure the other day to sit down and record a podcast with Greg Shapiro, Sendmail’s CTO, VP of Engineering and long time supporter of the sendmail open source project (www.sendmail.org).  We discussed the status of the open … Continue reading →

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