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The Road to Secure Collaboration

By Mark Schertler--Chief Security Architect; Axway

Email dominates business communications despite being little more than a one-to-one/one-to-many “push” technology that hasn’t kept pace with the modern business world, doesn’t facilitate true interactive, many-to-many collaboration, and suffers from a range of size and security restrictions due to its underlying SMTP-based infrastructure. For instance, stakeholders can only exchange marked-up digital documents--which require consolidation and redistribution for verification--rather than share and develop one copy of a digital document. And in 2012, that simply won’t suffice.

Published May 22, 2012

Eye on Messaging

Google Takes on Competitors, Privacy Issues, Makes Google Drive Core Service

by Stephanie Jordan

The long awaited Google Drive made its debut this week amid a flow of commentary both pro and con for the product. In theory the product is late to the cloud party with rivals such as Dropbox,...

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The Real Importance of Google Drive

by Michael Osterman

Google has finally announced Drive, its storage and synchronization solution that—at least on one level—is designed to compete with Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive, YouSendIt Dropbox, Trend...

Messaging News 2012 Resource Directory

by Messaging News staff

Messaging News is pleased to present the Messaging News 2012 Resource Directory—the 5th annual edition of our resource guide. Since the last publication, new companies have come on the scene,...

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Next Up, Social Media Law

by Stephanie Jordan

More and more today, for the corporate user, social networking is giving way to social business, and along with it, experts predict, will be specific social media law and regulations.A recent eWeek...

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Some Thoughts on Lotusphere and the New Communications Paradigm

by Michael Osterman

There is lots of talk about email going away: some are swearing completely off of email, others complain about how many messages they receive in their inbox, others use only email. Our own...

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Making the Case for “Social” Media

by Michael Osterman

To some decision makers, “social” media has the somewhat dubious connotation of people telling the world what they had for breakfast or spending a couple of hours each day keeping up with family and...

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What Is the Real Value of Social Media?

by Michael Osterman

This post is aimed at people who don’t think that social media offers much real business value and that it’s more time-waster than productivity tool. One of my favorite quotes from Jimmy ...

IDC Offers Insights into SMBs, Unified Communication and Collaboration

by Stephanie Jordan

Just because a business is small to medium-sized does not mean that the importance of messaging tools is lost to them. According to recent research released last week from International Data...

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Should You Have Email-free Days?

by Michael Osterman

Essential has posted an interesting blog entry about Rhondda Cynon Taff (RCT) Homes, the largest landlord in Wales, with regard to their decision to have an email-free day once per week. The...