Archive for December, 2010
3 Different Approaches to Web Site Archiving – Which is best?
Information compliance regulations have been steadily getting much stricter over the past ten years or so. When it comes to compliance, most businesses focus on key areas such as printed marketing materials, emails, and press releases. But no much thought is given to the company web site. Archiving web site data is a special challenge [...]
Full StoryHow high-growth mega-brands like Zappos use their client support teams to create cults of brand evangelism
Zendesk was created as an alternative to traditional customer support help desk solutions. These traditional systems were heavy on the IT support side, and didn’t adapt easily to change as the web evolved. The founders wanted to create a customer support solution that would be flexible enough to adjust both to the changing needs of [...]
Full StoryHow Elite Security Pros Are Winning The War Against Digital Espionage And Data Privacy Leaks – In The Streets And In The Courtrooms
This is a guest post from Julie Machal-Fulks of Scott and Scott llp. They are a Dallas TX business and technology law firm. Companies dealing with privacy issues should recognize that internal safeguards related to corporate information are as important as those dealing with consumers’ personal information. A company needs to protect its confidential or [...]
Full Story5 Most Explosive IT Trends That Will Forever Change Business Computing in 2011
This is a guest post from Ennio Carboni. He is president of Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, creator of WhatsUp Gold IT management solutions. He is based at Ipswitch’s headquarters in Lexington, Mass. I spend a couple of hours each Thursday cold-calling customers and asking about their technology and people experience with our organization. It [...]
Full StoryInterview with Bynari – A Linux Alternative to Exchange
Since its inception in 2001, Bynari was one of the early innovators of the Linux platform. The company’s vision was to create a Linux based email platform comparable to Microsoft Exchange but at great savings to its customers. We’ve achieved that and continue to enhance it with every release. Today, I’ll be interviewing Joel Ammor, [...]
Full StoryCoping with the Reality—and Unlimited Risk Potential—of User Provisioning
This is a guest-post by Martin Hack, Vice President of NCP engineering The reality of today’s collaborative, global, 24-hour business world has unlocked more employee-related security pitfalls than ever before. Organizations typically juggle consultants that work alongside full-time staff including road warriors, employees who connect from home afterhours and on the weekends, and a number [...]
Full Story10 Expert Predictions For Business Computing and Enterprise IT Trends in 2011
Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software In-house and internal threats will be a big element of 2011 as organizations begin to understand that anti-virus/malware/phishing software is no longer effective. There will be an epiphany that critical infrastructure is under constant attack and that there is a serious need to implement more comprehensive security software, security [...]
Full StoryProfile: Superlumin – Bandwidth Optimization, Content Caching and Application Acceleration Software
SuperLumin was founded by a group of veteran engineers from high-tech companies including Novell, Cisco, Volera and Arroyo. During this time, it was evident that video was the new bandwidth driver in the Internet. Current proxy technology had aged and shifted solely to a proxy-as-security technology rather than proxy-as-caching technology. Legacy proxies were not capable [...]
Full StoryInterview With Solera – Network Forensics and Threat Management
Solera Networks develops integrated network forensics and threat management appliances. Their systems capture every packet on both virtual and physical networks. Solera’s network forensics solutions enable complete visibility and situational awareness into any network traffic. They improve network security, management, forensics and compliance capabilities by providing a complete historical record of all network activity through [...]
Full StoryInterview With BeyondTrust Priveliged Identity Management
BeyondTrust is a 25-year old provider of privilege authorization management, access control and security solutions for virtualization and cloud computing environments. Through the PowerBroker software suite, BeyondTrust helps organizations manage privileged accounts on servers, devices, operating systems, desktops or applications. These privileged accounts allow access to change core settings of the IT infrastructure or install [...]
Full Story4 Biggest Risks and Problems of Spam – How Spam Is Costing Your Business
As far as I’m concerned, SPAM is theft. Period. In order to save money, a company or individual is stealing resources from you in order to pay for their marketing and communications. And for businesses, spam can carry a lot of risks and costs: Viruses The best-known viruses are the ones who destroy their hosts, [...]
Full StoryInterview with Attorney Benjamin Wright about Wikileaks and Corporate Privacy Leaks
Benjamin Wright is an attorney based in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of the law school at Georgetown University, he has been practicing law since 1984. Since 1988, he has focused on technology law, including privacy, e-commerce, data security, cyber investigations and e-records management. On these topics, he advises organizations around the world (corporations, governments, non-profits). [...]
Full StoryGuest Article: The Wrong Question – By Spybusters
Written by Kevin D. Murray, director of Murray Associates I am asked some really odd security questions. Take this one from a media editor, for example… “I’ve been reading various articles in which experts are quoted as saying that terrorism is a threat that is just as important as malware to corporations. But I’m not [...]
Full Story16 Benefits Of Thin Client Computing
The difference between “thin client” and “fat client” computing is fairly simple to understand. In a traditional “fat-client” computing environment, all of the programs are stored on a local machine – such as a desktop or laptop – and files are stored on a central server drive. Whenever someone wants to work with a file, [...]
Full StoryInterview With Moodlerooms – Open-Source, Object-Oriented Online E-Learning
Moodlerooms, Inc., was founded in 2005 by former educators Tom Murdock, Sheila Gatling and Gina Russell Stevens. They wanted to make teaching and learning more effective, engaging and accessible for everyone. As a result, Moodlerooms’ mission has been to provide an open, flexible and affordable e-Learning platform for delivering educational courses and content online. By [...]
Full StoryWhat Kind of People Visit Enterprise Features?
You know what? I spend so much time on here talking about myself that I think it’s time we talked about you – my readers – for a change. I’ve selected a random sampling of data in order to give you a bit of insight into the viewership trends here at Enterprise Features. Browsers: Firefox [...]
Full Story17 Questions To Ask When Evaluating Hosted Microsoft (MS) Exchange Providers
Internal Questions Is email management an essential part of your core business? If not, outsourcing might be beneficial. When you need to migrate to the next version of MS Exchange, what costs will you have to incur? Do you already have the hardware and trained personnel to handle th e unique backup and restore requirements [...]
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