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Greg  Arnette -- Founder and CTO; Sonian
Each of the hundred billion emails, IMs and documents created every day need to be preserved for some period of time. Yet, IT managers — who already struggle to manage overflowing in-boxes and maxed out email servers — are about to be hit with another data explosion.
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Paul French -- VP, Product & Solutions Marketing; Axway
What daily event exposes the enterprise to as much risk as the sending of an email attachment? Can you think of one? Email used to be a medium for short messages. First it was an inter-company tool, then an intra-company tool, then a personal tool. Today it’s the primary vehicle of collaboration, whether creating a T-ball schedule for the kids or a mission-critical order for customers....
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Paul West - principal and co-founder; Sharepoint360
With the economy tightening, collaboration is absolutely vital to business growth. The need to grow and innovate in today’s business landscape requires a new approach to connect, communicate and collaborate to increase revenues and reduce costs.
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Paul J. D’Arcy -- Director Services Marketing; Dell
As businesses look to adopt more “litigation friendly” email practices, many are turning their attention from email archiving to disaster recovery. Email archiving has been known to make the thorniest email discovery problems go away. In many organizations, however, there is a gap between email archiving and disaster recovery that can make eDiscovery costly and time consuming.
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Fred Touchette -- senior security analyst; AppRiver
Ninety-seven percent of all distributed email spam and malware is delivered by botnets. A botnet is a term that refers to a large group of malware-compromised computers that are designed to follow malicious commands from its controller, which may include delivering a spam campaign en masse, performing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks or infecting other computers in order to propagate...
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Dr. Thomas Steding, president & CEO, Red Condor
Organizations are struggling to keep up with the constant threats presented through email communications. A recent IDC survey found that 60 percent of organizations reported spam blocking effectiveness of less than 95 percent.
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Andrew Barnes, VP, Neverfail
Business dependency on IT systems has never been greater, so when things go wrong the impact can be catastrophic. Messaging systems today are a critical component in business activity. Whether it’s the CEO waiting for information on her BlackBerry as part of an acquisition negotiation, or the thousands of queries that flow through the corporate Web site and are dealt with by email, any glitch in...
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George Schlossnagle
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in both the volume and variety of digital communications used by consumers. Currently, most of us are wired to email, IM and SMS messages, and many of us are using Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds and other channels to receive info and communicate with others on a constantly increasing basis. Enterprise technology solutions, however, are still lagging behind...
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David Miles
Messaging is the core of any business. Email and instant messaging are staples in most offices, but, often, they are only two among many applications employees must access daily, each requiring its own unique username and password. All these identities create havoc for employees who have to remember them, as well as fundamental insecurity for the enterprise when employees write down or select...
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Dr. Paul Q. Judge
The Web has come a long way in the last few years. However, many of these advancements have disrupted traditional approaches to Web security. Given the fundamental shifts in the Web, there is a need to revisit how we secure users online today. The traditional approach to Web security was simply Web filtering—a solution that could control users: preventing them from going to unproductive...
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