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Alt-N Technologies White Papers
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Exchange 2007 Migration Alternatives Despite this increasing cost and complexity to manage email, some Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) have persevered with the familiar and continue to use products such as Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and Lotus Domino. But, as such products continue to become expensive to maintain and require hardware changes to migrate to the latest versions, many of those SMBs are finding it necessary to rethink their messaging infrastructures. This white paper will examine and contrast the costs associated with implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange Server, the dominant corporate email platform, with those of Alt-N Technologies’ MDaemon Email Server for Windows: a platform designed specifically to meet the needs and budgets of SMBs. |
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Email Server Essentials Selecting an email system to fulfill the needs of a Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) with 5-500 employees can be easy to do by following some practical and straightforward guidelines. Choosing a productive system involves finding the best combination of security, mobility, collaboration and ease-of-use, in addition to the basic functions of sending and receiving electronic messages. This white paper highlights some of the major considerations for selecting an in-house or hosted email solution for SMB usage. |
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Impact of Messaging and Web Threats Threats to messaging are consistently growing in complexity and approach. Spam, viruses, phishing, abuse and other forms of Malware are no longer the problem of large enterprises. Understanding these threats and the various techniques and technologies to help mitigate risk is more critical than ever before. This whitepaper, developed by Osterman Research and sponsored by Alt-N Technologies, discusses messaging and web threats, various delivery models and new approaches and techniques that businesses should consider to protect their inbound and outbound email communications and web traffic. |
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Best Practices for Maintaining a Healthy Exchange Messaging System by Hewlett-Packard Company / Paul Robichaux With any business, if a critical infrastructure system such as email degrades or fails, the effect will ripple outward to other business-critical operations and services. Microsoft has engineered Exchange to be both robust (not likely to fail, even under unusual conditions) and resilient (capable of graceful recovery when failures do occur). Despite these efforts, monitoring and managing your Exchange servers, and the infrastructure services they depend on, is critical to keep your overall business operations healthy. Your email system is more than just Exchange: it includes server and network hardware, the Windows OS, storage subsystems, and other components whose failure can affect messaging operations. |
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Email Mining: Emerging New Business Application There's a new application coming soon to a corporate email system near you. It's a logical extension, experts say, of the increased emphasis on the archiving and searching of email these days, driven by regulatory compliance and legal discovery. This coming new application is called "email mining," because it's all about extracting knowledge from a company's rapidly expanding email stores, using specialized email archiving solutions. |
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A Guide to the Sarbanes Oxley Act and Email Security Motivated by corporate scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) has profoundly changed the way corporate America does business. This Guide will uncover how SOX addresses the threat of fraud in the finance departments of public companies by placing great emphasis on companies establishing reliable "internal controls" for gathering, processing, and reporting financial information. |
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The Benefits of Integrating Enterprise Content Management Systems and Team Workspaces Report Organizations have a great need to enable their employees to organize and collaborate over documents and other enterprise content. Two types of applications can provide organizations with these capabilities: enterprise content management (ECM) and team workspaces. This report illuminates the benefits and features of these two systems, their key differences and similarities, and the value to be gained by integrating the two applications. It also shares three case studies of an integrated ECM/team workspace solutions and the benefits gained by the integration. |
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Boundary Email Security: The First Line of Defense Report While certain security-related functions can also have their place at the mail server, email security is best performed at the organization's "boundary." This generally refers either to a point outside the organization's network or to a controlled area between two firewalls at the edge. Effective email security at the boundary addresses a variety of functions, including anti-virus protection, spam control, archiving, policy enforcement, and encryption. This report discusses the boundary email security challenges facing organizations now and in the near term. It also presents the architecture options available to help organizations implement security. And it looks at Infocrossing's MailWatch, a hosted service that offers organizations a comprehensive way to protect their email. |
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The Growing Need to Archive Email: An Osterman Research White Paper This white paper, sponsored by WaLa Systems, discusses the requirements to archive email and provides examples of specific regulations and the consequences of inadequate archiving. |
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The New Realities of Email Governance: Effective Email Policy Management for Today's Business Environment: An Osterman Research White Paper This white paper, sponsored by Sendmail, discusses discusses the importance of email governance in the context of all aspects of messaging management. |
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Implementing HIPAA with ScriptLogic ScriptLogic's software solutions help many different types of enterprise comply with the requirements arising from government legislation. The aim of this document is to highlight ways in which ScriptLogic solutions can be used to bring Windows-based IT systems into line with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. |
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Implementing HIPAA with Active Administrator The Administrative and Technical Safeguard requirements of HIPAA include a number of standards which ScriptLogic's Active Administrator helps Covered Entities comply with. Discover how the software helps achieve compliance with these standards, by giving IT administrators the power and control they need over Active Directory to enforce appropriate safeguards. |
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The Insider Threat: Understanding the Risks & Defending the Enterprise In today's world of disappearing network perimeters and high-stakes cyber-crime, no threat looms larger than that of the Insider. |
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Foldera Activity Folders: Organizing the Chaos at Work Michael Sampson, Shared Spaces Research & Consulting Activity Folders, a new service from Foldera, Inc., brings needed clarity, simplicity, and automatic information organization capabilities to the small business market. |
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Encryption Made Easy: The Advantages of Identity Based Encryption by Proofpoint, Inc. Enterprises are becoming increasingly interested in easy-to-use email encryption, as a wide variety of privacy and data protection regulations now apply to small, medium and large organizations across a wide variety of industries. Effective secure messaging technologies keep sensitive information private, prevent anyone from tampering with the contents of messages and authenticate the identity of both the sender and recipient. And all organizations, regardless of their size, require encryption to be both user- and IT-friendly. |
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StrongMail White Paper - Fixing the Broken Killer App |
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StrongMail White Paper - Fixing the Broken Killer App |