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Cloud-Email and the Risk of Data Exposure

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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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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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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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

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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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Security Week: Concerns over Email Security in the Cloud – a Thing of the Past?

I had the opportunity to write a contributed article featured in SecurityWeek on the topic of email security concerns in the cloud, looking at the milestones we witnessed in 2010 around addressing these security concerns that may set the stage … Continue reading

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Cloud sourcing the messaging infrastructure – a view from the front lines

Our professional services team tells me they’re talking more and more with systems administrators who are being pushed by their upper management to outsource the email function to help reduce IT costs.  Indeed, we’ve all heard that the cloud can … Continue reading

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