Ipswitch Offers a Hosted Email Solution
Ipswitch, Inc., the maker of IMail Server, just launched Ipswitch Hosted Email, a cloud-based Windows email server that gives businesses a low-cost alternative to Hosted Exchange.
With Ipswitch Hosted Email, businesses enjoy the financial predictability that comes with a hosted solution without losing peace of mind over security and reliability. “We understand that businesses are looking for more than just a simple hosted email solution,” says Tripp Allen. “Businesses want a trusted business partner with financial stability, industry expertise, and a proven track record of outstanding technical support.”
With Ipswitch Hosted Email businesses have their own Virtual Private Server (VPS) ensuring that valuable business data remains secure, isolated and backed up nightly. Other security features include Commtouch Premium anti-spam, integrated anti-virus powered by BitDefender, encrypted instant messaging and DKIM/DomainKeys authentication.
Ipswitch Hosted Email provides a full featured mail server for businesses. According to Allen, “This is not a basic hosted email service. We are providing a complete business solution.”
With Ipswitch Hosted Email, businesses can:
- Continue to use Microsoft Outlook®
- Utilize mobile synchronization with Exchange ActiveSync®
- Leverage Exchange-like collaboration
- Integrate Ipswitch Hosted Archiving for regulatory compliance and eDiscovery
- Eliminate the need for multiple providers and various licenses.
“This offering is ideal for businesses that need to do more with less. We are providing the functionality you would expect from an on-premise server in a convenient hosted service,” adds Allen.
For more details on Ipswitch Hosted Email, visit us online at: http://www.orderimail.com/.
It’s logical to think that running an anti-virus solution on your mail server will protect your business. For the most part, that’s true….but don’t be fooled. Not every anti-virus solution is created equally. The landscape of Internet threats is constantly evolving, making it critical to have a mail server with a proactive anti-virus solution. So what should you look for? What makes one anti-virus solution stand out over the rest?
Take less than two minutes to find out…..
Commtouch, the premium anti-spam provider for IMail Server, has released their Q2 2010 Internet Threats Report.
Highlights of the report include:
- Spam levels averaged 82% of all email traffic throughout the quarter, bottoming out at 71% at the start of May and peaking at nearly 92% near the end of June.
- Pharmacy spam retained the top stop with 64 percent of all spam.
- An average of 307,000 zombies were activated daily to inflict malicious activity, representing a slight increase over the prior quarter.
- India has surpassed Brazil for the title of the country with the most zombies (13 percent of the world’s total).
- TDSS.17 was the most widely distributed email-borne virus, but the Mal/Bredo malware had the most variants – over 1800 (more than double the variants of Q1).
- Pornography remains the Web site category most infected with malware.
To read the full report, click on the following link:
http://www.imailserver.com/resources/pdf/Commtouch-Trend-Report-Q2-2010.pdf
IT and Vacation…Mutually Exclusive?
It’s summertime….vacation season. At least for some of us. If you work in IT, the concept of a vacation may seem foreign to you. Forget the vacation. Even taking a lunch without interruption would be nice, right? Does any of these sound like you…
“They have a running joke that things only go wrong when I’m not here and therefore I’m forbidden from taking a vacation.”
“I’m a one-man band around here so it’s hard to truly get away.”
“I envy those that can take a day off without worrying if the network is down or if the boss can get to his emails.”
“Sure I can take a vacation…with my laptop and Blackberry.”
It’s sad that many working in IT don’t enjoy the benefit of true, uninterrupted time away from the office especially those that work for a small to mid-size business. So is there any hope for the heroes that have the thankless job of keeping critical business systems and functions running smoothly?
Yes! Granted, there is no simple catch-all solution. Everyone’s situation is different based on company size, industry type, number of IT people on the team, availability and resources for back-up, etc. But I have created a short list of helpful tips for finding a better work/life balance. read more…
Yesterday I read the following quote from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg…”I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but in consumer technology, if you want to know what people like us will do tomorrow, you look at what teenagers are doing today. And the latest figures say that only 11 percent of teenagers email daily. So email – I can’t imagine life without it – is probably going away.”
So essentially what you’re saying Sheryl, is that the behaviors I exhibit as a teenager are the same behaviors I’ll exhibit as an adult. While that may be true in some aspects, for example – I still eat Lucky Charms for breakfast and I still indulge in the occasional ‘Saved by the Bell’ re-run, there are circumstances in which my behaviors are not at all reflective of those during my teenage years. For example, as an adult, I don’t communicate with my co-workers through the passing of paper notes folded up into triangles and the locker room is no longer my hub for information. Over the years, as my environment changed from an algebra class to a software company, several of my behaviors have changed as well.
I think it’s important to keep in mind where email is most relevant. Would I expect a teenager to be the primary user of email, in the midst of school, sports, dates, etc.? NO! Email has the most relevance in the workplace. Why? Because it’s the tool that best meets the needs of businesses. It’s fast, secure, accommodates the attachment of documents, and has the ability to be archived. It is, in fact, the primary communication system in most organizations. Organizations that teenagers will someday be a part of.
With that being said, it makes sense that email fares better statistically when looking at a broader audience as opposed to just the teenage segment. An article on Mashable titled “What Do You Check First: E-mail or Facebook” states that more than 50% of U.S. online consumers check their e-mail before visiting other websites when they start the day. It goes on to say that Facebook is the first destination for only 11% of U.S. online consumers.
I think you get my point. I strongly disagree with Sandberg’s comments and if I’m being very honest, I find her opinion to be somewhat short-sighted. Maybe even slightly biased based on the company that she works for. Yes, communication is evolving, yes short-form communications are on the rise but to say that email will become obsolete because teenagers aren’t using it is a pretty big stretch in my opinion. Or maybe it’s wishful thinking for Facebook? What are your thoughts?
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