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How to Ease Spam Threats
eWeek

Fighting spam can be an all-consuming process. According to Victor Silva of USA.NET, end users can deploy a variety of weapons to help keep the problem under control, including software and appliances, and perhaps most importantly, training.

Like a door-to-door salesman, spam knocks at your door unsolicited. It can sap productivity, clog precious bandwidth, soak up disk space and slow servers. After all, spam has become the leading source of malware entering networks today. Worse yet, such unwanted bulk e-mail makes up nearly 71 percent of all e-mail traffic, according to the November 2007 State of Spam report by Symantec Corp. And spam levels continue to inch upward.

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Seven Reasons to Host Business E-mail
Inc. Technology

Businesses are moving away from simply adding more e-mail servers as they grow and opting to host e-mail with a managed service provider. Some reasons include reliability, accessibility, and an outsourced IT staff.

Rather than dealing with the headache of managing their own e-mail system, small and mid-sized businesses are moving to managed hosting services mainly because of lower cost and increased reliability. Managed service vendors, such as USA.NET, Apptix and Intermedia.net, allow remote workers to stay connected via BlackBerry services and also offer several layers of technical support, so businesses won't lose any daily efficiency.

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Negotiating With Host - Choosing between an in-house or hosted e-mail solution
Investment Advisor Magazine

Although in the financial services sector most “official” communication still depends on the telephone authorization, the signed letter, the wire transfer, or the mailed prospectus, much information in the financial sector now is transferred by e-mail—including recommendations, marketing materials, and client-relations materials.

This transfer of information exists in a world of precise oversight including self-regulation, regulation by state and federal overseers, internal and external auditing, industry standards, and legal obligations. Along with this complex environment comes a high level of legal exposure extending not only to employees but also to managers and officers who sometimes face personal liability from matters contained in those electronic communications.

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Outsourcing Email Management
CIO Magazine

When global staffing firm Adecco Group began an effort one year ago to consolidate and outsource its five data centers into one, Dave Bossi came to the realization that moving the data center would also move three separately managed Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers of different versions and a fourth legacy e-mail technology—with potentially huge disruption to 10,000 e-mail users. Bossi, the North American vice president of IT, thought this might be an opportunity to rethink the company’s e-mail strategy. “E-mail tends to get lost in the mix. It becomes an afterthought,” Bossi says. Unless, of course, something goes wrong.

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