Category Archives: Cloud

Sendmail Announces New Solutions for Smooth, Secure Migration to Cloud-Based Email

Today we officially announced the email management products and services we created specifically to help enterprises address the security, compliance, IT and other risks that come with both moving email to the cloud and keeping email in the cloud. While … Continue reading

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2013: Year of the Hybrid Cloud?

Last month, Network World predicted 2013 would be the year of the hybrid cloud. I think they’re right on. We talked about the hybrid cloud at last year’s Sendmail EMEA User Symposium, and at our User Summit in Washington DC, … Continue reading

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Sendmail and Mimecast Join Forces

This morning Sendmail announced a new strategic partnership with Mimecast that we think our customers will be really excited about as they consider different options for moving certain email functions to the cloud. After discussions with many of our customers … Continue reading

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We’ve been warning you about it. And now ReadWriteWeb wrote about it.

In a post entitled, “Automated Emails: Are You Launching a Denial of Service Attack on Your Own Company,” tech reporter Brian Proffitt addresses the issue organizations are beginning to encounter as they attempt to migrate email to the cloud without … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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*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

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Wall Street Journal asks: Is Cloud Computing Right for Your Company?

I came across a recent article in the Wall Street Journal by Robert Plant, (no not that Robert Plant!) an associate professor at the University of Miami, which focuses on how the cloud seems to be an attractive option for … Continue reading

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