Michael Osterman
How much do you use e-mail?
We have just published the results of a survey that we funded internally to find out how people use e-mail and instant messaging. The survey was conducted with 340 individuals in mid-October. Here's a summary of what we found:
Notes in the cloud
Last week, IBM announced the availability of Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging, joining Microsoft and a growing number of other vendors that are offering cloud-based messaging services.
Schools need to retain their e-mail
上周，沃特福德技术公司发布了有关小学和中学电子邮件存档的调查结果。该调查与K-12学校，老师和父母的管理人员一起进行了一些调查，提供了一些...
Would you like to stop using e-mail?
Given the costs, risks and administration time required to manage e-mail, would you eliminate e-mail in your organization if it was feasible to do so? That's the question we asked of e-mail administrators, security managers, IT...
The upside of the financial crisis
We live in interesting financial times. OK, now it's your turn to make a gross understatement.
The double value of DLP
Data leak prevention (DLP) systems are an increasingly important part of a set of best practice-technologies aimed at protecting corporate data and other sensitive information from being accidentally sent through e-mail and other...
You need to encrypt your e-mail
On Oct. 1, a new Nevada law went into effect that requires organizations operating in the state to encrypt personal information sent outside of the organization. A similar, but more restrictive, law will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2009...
Younger workers and the demise of e-mail
We've heard for some time that young people don't use e-mail, but instead use Facebook, MySpace, instant messaging and other social networking and real-time communications tools, and that they just don't use e-mail anymore. Further,...
Cisco buys Jabber
Cisco's latest acquisition is Jabber, a leading developer of enterprise-grade presence-enablement capabilities. Jabber's offerings include its Extensible Communications Platform, JabberNow (an enterprise instant messaging appliance),...
Organizing content by context
As users of e-mail, desktop productivity applications, collaboration tools and other information generation and management capabilities, we create lots of content and we have lots of difficulty finding it when we need it. A key part...
Is spamming a constitutional right?
In 2004, Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison for violating Virginia's fairly restrictive antispam law. Earlier this year, he appealed to Virginia's Supreme Court and his conviction was upheld. He appealed again and...
Loss of mobile access can have serious consequences
A study we recently completed with end users of mobile messaging devices in organizations of various sizes revealed just how critical mobile e-mail really is.
The negative spiral of false-postitves identified by e-mail filters
我们今年早些时候进行的一项有关消息传递和网络安全性的研究向以消息传递为导向的决策者询问了其垃圾邮件过滤器假阳性比率随着时间的变化。虽然我们发现三分之一的中型和大型...
Web-based attacks: What's the worst that could happen?
We are seeing a renewed level of interest in various types of external threats owing largely to some really clever techniques employed by spammers, hackers and others, who are using technologies including Flash and SQL to lure...
What do gas prices and SaaS have in common?
It's hard to turn on the TV, read the newspaper or talk to your neighbor without hearing about the impact of high gasoline prices. However, I believe that much of the attention paid to skyrocketing prices for gasoline has more to do...
Path Path的收购是思科的明智之举
Cisco last week announced that it had purchased PostPath for $215 million. This follows the acquisition of IronPort for $830 million and WebEx for $3.2 billion, among other Cisco acquisitions, including Linksys, Pure Networks, Five...
Which do you adjust: The culture or the technology?
A reader of a recent newsletter article disagreed with my comment about unified communications that read "perhaps the first step should be to adjust the culture to fit the technology - you're likely to be less successful if you try to...