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DONOTUSE drawing board email computing

What Retention Policy? What deployment strategy?

In this series of papers, archiving expert Contoural's Bill Tolson provides an in-depth look at how to develop an effective email archiving solution for your organisation.

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The web: an online ghetto?

2007 has witnessed a shift in the methods used by cybercriminals to dupe innocent users from parting with their hard-earned cash.

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Intrusion Prevention Systems in the spotlight

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) are starting to attract the interest of IT managers at all levels, largely thanks to their innate ability to enforce company security policies and, of course, help stop attacks on an organization’s IT resources in real time.

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How to monitor a Pandora (in)box in 3 steps

Should you monitor your employees' emails? What steps should be undertaken? What are the limits of email monitoring?

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Using Archiving to Ease Exchange Server 2007 Migration

In many production environments older email servers are running close to capacity limits.  This new Microsoft white paper looks at how to use archiving to streamline and simplify the process of upgrading or migrating from previous versions of Microsoft Exchange to Exchange Server 2007.

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NAC: Controlling access to your network

Have you heard the one about the printer repair technician and the malware outbreak?...

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Remote Hacking via KVM

Ben Chai examines how far the latest KVM (Keyboard Video Mouse) technology has come and shows how your entire set of servers can be compromised due to the new found features of modern KVM.

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What to look for in an Email Archiving Solution...

Choosing an e-mail archiving solution - whether to meet technical, business or compliance reasons - is a project that should not be taken lightly.

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E-mail Compliance and Discovery - Don't Buy the Fear Factor

Ben Chai demonstrates how email archiving systems should be justified using old fashioned principals rather than the unquantifiable risks of non-compliance.

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Archive your emails or go to jail. You choose

Do you remember the content of the email you sent to your key supplier on June 8th 2001 at 4:05 pm?

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An Overlooked Way to Save Money

According to industry estimates, between one and three per cent of a company's annual revenue is spent on printing.

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Grid and SOA - Friends or Foes?

There are two architectural approaches to technology

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Hot Topics in European Insurance

While many market drivers and strategies are similar around the world, insurers in Europe have a different approach to driving business through customer intimacy, process excellence and operational efficiency.

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In the Beginning was the Mainframe

Some say that the technical platform future lies with commodity-based blade computers.

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Value Based SLAs - What are they?

A little while back, I was talking with Dr Bernd Kosch, chairman of the Enterprise Grid Alliance (EGA), now to be the Open Grid Forum, and we got on to the issues of cross-charging within a utility-style environment.

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Integrating the Digital Home

Forced upgrade cycles, dealing with security problems, interoperability issues, loss of data-the business challenges of IT move into the digital home.

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Search Engines Need to Start Finding

Typing "woppit" into Google provides 507 results. In Yahoo, 350. In MSN search, 528.

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Public Sector Projects - could they do better?

Big public sector IT projects get a very bad press these days: projects over-run, sometimes by years, they cost a lot more than they were originally budgeted for and often don't deliver the benefits they were supposed to.

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All About IT infrastructure library

In the last two years, the systems management and helpdesk vendors have bandied around a term as if it will be the saving grace of organisations for the future - ITIL.

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Beating the Insider Threat

Stand in any city station during rush hour and you are guaranteed that at least 80% of the people walking by will have some device capable of plugging into a PC and downloading data.

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A Streaming Headache for IT Bosses

The long summer of sport draws to a close, and corporate networks draw a breath of relief as multiple streams of video cease to take 90% of available bandwidth from the business.

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Collaboration and Communication - Is More Better?

In the good old days, if you wanted to communicate with someone, you met up with them and talked, or you sent round someone with a piece of paper...

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Are you a windscreen or a fly?

The term "convergence" is often used in the technology industries, especially to refer to the move towards standard, open, Internet-based communications, which makes it all sound very positive.

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Tame your Mobile Telephony/Data costs

The costs of mobile telephony and mobile data is often seen as a major concern for businesses when dealing with mobile operators..

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Are we (virtually) there yet?

Virtualisation is one of those words that seems so innocuous, but is more like the proverbial can of worms.