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Introducing Microsoft Online Services
Posted in: Application Delivery, C-Level, Deskside, Green Technology, Messaging, Offers, SaaS, Storage, Third Octet News, Virtualization, Words by thirdoctet on July 28, 2010 | No Comments
In today’s competitive global market, businesses need technology that enables flexibility and cost-effectively adds value to their organization. Internet-based hosted services provide a way to meet these objectives. They deliver feature-rich productivity tools to users while helping to relieve the burden of managing and maintaining business systems—freeing up IT departments to focus on initiatives that can deliver true competitive advantage.
Microsoft has a long history of developing and delivering innovative software and services for businesses and individuals. Designed to meet your unique business needs, our software-plus-services vision brings together the best of rich on-premise applications and flexible online services to give you ready access to the latest messaging and collaboration tools – without costly deployment and time-consuming maintenance. Microsoft Online Services reliably delivers 99.9 percent scheduled uptime and carries a financially backed service level agreement.
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Microsoft Online Services gives your business the powerful productivity capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Microsoft Office Communications Server, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting —all hosted online and all up and running quickly and easily without the upfront costs of an on-premise deployment. The suite of productivity tools enables your workers to communicate and collaborate effectively, while enabling your IT team to focus on more business-critical tasks. And with services hosted by Microsoft, you can have peace of mind knowing that experts are managing your IT and that your services will be available when you need them.
Features and Benefits
Microsoft Online Services makes it easy for you to leverage and rapidly deploy familiar Microsoft server products as flexible services. These hosted services—the Business Productivity Online Standard Suite—include the following:
Provide employees access to e-mail, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere, at anytime, on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices—while helping to protect against malware and spam. Exchange Online can be rapidly deployed, flexibly expanded, and is designed to be securely administered using a powerful yet easy-to-use Web-based console.
Share documents, contacts, calendars, and tasks in a single location. Based on Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, SharePoint Online delivers rich collaboration capabilities that enable team members to flexibly and efficiently collaborate, find organizational resources, search your intranet site, and manage content and workflow.
Connect with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events using only a PC with an Internet connection. Hosted Web conferencing services from Microsoft Office Live Meeting give your employees the power to collaborate wherever they are, to set up project meetings, brainstorm ideas, and collaborate on whiteboards without the cost and hassle of travel!
Enable users to find and rapidly connect with the right person from the applications they use most. Office Communications Online provides streamlined access to rich presence and instant messaging capabilities that are centrally managed by IT and work seamlessly with a range of Microsoft Office system programs.
How It Works
Each Microsoft data center, located strategically throughout the world, houses a highly reliable complex of equipment that provides seamless connectivity to the Microsoft Online suite of services. This global network of geo-redundant data centers provides around the clock access to your business-critical collaboration services, and helps keep your data safe.
With Microsoft Online Services, your IT staff retains control over the services offered to your end users. Microsoft Online Services work seamlessly with Microsoft Active Directory, so you can continue to manage user policies centrally and control which services are available via your existing users. A single administrative panel—with consoles for provisioning, usage, monitoring, and support—enables simple and centralized management. And your users can enjoy the convenience of a single sign-on to access all their hosted services.
Visit www.microsoft.com/online today for your free 30 day trial, or contact us for more information.
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McAfee, Inc. to Acquire MX Logic and Provide Industry’s Most Comprehensive Security-as-a-Service Portfolio
Posted in: C-Level, Communicate, Industry News, Messaging, Security by thirdoctet on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
Company to Add More than 40,000 Customers, Four Million End Users and 1,800 Partners
Care of McAfee.com; SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30, 2009 – McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately owned MX Logic, Inc. for approximately $140 million in cash at closing, with an earn-out of up to an additional $30 million in cash if certain performance targets are met. MX Logic is a leading global provider of cloud-based email and Web security and email archiving and continuity services. Adding MX Logic’s technologies and services will provide McAfee with the most comprehensive cloud-based security portfolio in the industry, one that combines leading global threat intelligence technologies from McAfee with its Security-as-a-Service solutions:Global Threat Intelligence
- McAfee® Artemis protects more than 33 million nodes through real-time cloud-based intelligence
- McAfee TrustedSource™ analyzes data from more than 100 billion messages per month
- McAfee SiteAdvisor® provides consumers with a safer search, surf, and online shopping experience by serving 1.9 billion ratings every day
Security-as-a-Service
- McAfee Total Protection Service, endpoint protection via Security-as-a-Service, protects more than five million users with centralized management in the cloud
- McAfee Vulnerability Assessment, Web application and network vulnerability assessments via Security-as-a-Service, provides real-time validation against industry standards including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
- McAfee SECURE helps keep consumers safe from cybercrime by scanning more than 80,000 merchant Web sites daily and serving more than 126 billion impressions since 2008. Additionally, McAfee vulnerability scanning services protects more than 250,000 Web sites.
- MX Logic protects 40,000 customers with more than four million end users with email and Web security and email archiving and continuity services
- More than 1800 MX Logic channel partners provide a strong Security SaaS partner ecosystem to cross sell McAfee Security SaaS solutions and develop co-branded and bundled offerings
- MX Logic data centers in Asia Pacific, EMEA, Japan and the United States protect a geographically dispersed customer base with the capacity to expand into new customer segments and global markets
“The acquisition of MX Logic will reinforce our position as a leader in Security-as-a-Service, and brings world-class email and Web defense, including archiving and business continuity services, extending our proven expertise in providing cloud-based services to our customers,” said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive officer, McAfee. “MX Logic aligns with the McAfee vision to lead Security SaaS by bringing industry-leading technologies and a strong partner ecosystem.”
Following completion of the proposed acquisition, McAfee will offer the most comprehensive and dedicated security portfolio in the market with the broadest set of delivery options including appliances, software, in the cloud or hybrid deployments. This approach will give businesses in all market segments the flexibility to purchase these solutions as standalone offerings or to mix and match these deployment choices to meet their exact needs.
“We view McAfee as the leading dedicated security company and a pioneer in Security-as-a-Service,” said John Street, chairman and chief executive officer, MX Logic. “We will now be even better equipped to help our customers address the complex challenges associated with blocking spam, phishing scams, viruses in the cloud, and enforcing email policies to prevent sensitive data leaks.”
Following the closing of the proposed acquisition, the MX Logic team will report to the McAfee Software-as-a-Service business unit, headed by Marc Olesen, senior vice president and general manager.
The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009, contingent upon regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions. McAfee expects the impact of the acquisition of MX Logic to be breakeven to slightly accretive in 2010 on non-GAAP earnings-per-share and more dilutive to GAAP earnings-per-share. For the remainder of 2009 we expect the impact of the acquisition to be $0.01 to $0.02 dilutive to non-GAAP earnings-per-share and more dilutive to GAAP earnings-per-share. Non-GAAP earnings-per-share will exclude the impact of amortization of acquired intangibles, stock-based compensation expense and other nonrecurring costs or charges. For additional information, please reference the acquisition landing page at http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/corporate/mcafee_mxlogic.html and the McAfee Security Insights Blog at http://siblog.McAfee.com/.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, California, is the world’s largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee is committed to relentlessly tackling the world’s toughest security challenges. The company delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems and networks around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the web more securely. Backed by an award-winning research team, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. http://www.mcafee.com.
About MX Logic, Inc.
MX Logic is a leading global provider of managed email and Web security, archiving, and business continuity services that deliver enterprise-grade performance without enterprise-level complexity and cost. Its easy-to-use, award-winning services reduce risk and liability, lower overall IT costs, and increase productivity. MX Logic services are available through its industry-leading partner network. For more information, visit www.MXLogic.com.
Forward-Looking Statements:
This release contains forward-looking statements, which include those regarding future plans that McAfee has for the MX Logic business, expectations of McAfee regarding the combination of MX Logic’s products and services with McAfee products and services, the expected closing date of the acquisition, the expectations as to the opportunities resulting from the acquisition of the MX Logic business, expected plans that McAfee has for the integration of MX Logic’s products and business and the expected impact of the acquisition on McAfee financial results for 2009 and 2010. Factors that could cause the actual results or outcomes from the acquisition to be materially different from those anticipated include, among others, the inability to complete the acquisition on acceptable terms, or at all; the inability to integrate successfully MX Logic within McAfee or to realize synergies from such integration; costs related to the acquisition of MX Logic; the customer response to, and acceptance of, the combination of MX Logic’s products with McAfee products; the economic environment of the industries in which McAfee and MX Logic operate. In addition, actual results are subject to other risks and uncertainties that relate more broadly to overall McAfee business, including those more fully described in McAfee filings with the SEC, including its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, and its subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to McAfee as of the date hereof, and McAfee expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
NOTE: McAfee and any additional McAfee marks herein are registered trademarks of McAfee, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. McAfee Red in connection with security is distinctive of McAfee brand products. All other registered and unregistered trademarks herein are the sole property of their respective owners. Product specifications subject to change at any time without prior notice. © 2009 McAfee, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Building a Better Platform with VMware Infrastructure 3
Posted in: Communicate, Messaging, Virtualization by thirdoctet on June 10, 2008 | No Comments
Care of VirtualizationAdmin.com; Today’s messaging environments must be highly available, disaster tolerant, & cost efficient. Download this white paper based on real customer experiences running Microsoft® Exchange on virtual machines. Specific use cases demonstrate advantages of deploying Exchange on a VMware platform. Exchange administrators who read this white paper will learn how to:
* Simplify disaster recovery & decrease downtime
* Increase availability of applications & processes
* Simplify testing & troubleshooting
* Reduce maintenance & operating costs
* Improve provisioning strategies
* Optimize usage of storage & servers
Download this paper and learn more about:
* Exchange performance considerations and VMware® Infrastructure
* Unique technical benefits of running Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 on virtual machines
* Improved flexibility with Exchange 2007 server roles
* Improved Exchange design flexibility to meet specific requirements
* How this strategic approach enables IT to easily adapt to changing workloads & business needs
IronPort beefs up email security appliance
Posted in: Industry News, Messaging, Security by thirdoctet on September 13, 2007 | No Comments
IronPort Systems, a Cisco business unit, has unveiled new data-loss prevention and encryption capabilities for its email security appliances. These new features, which are being integrated into IronPort’s AsyncOS operating system for its email security appliances, are designed to help enterprises more easily protect their sensitive information, according to company officials.
Unlike dedicated data-loss prevention products that require separate software and/or hardware, AsyncOS’ new features add leak protection to the existing security features of IronPort’s email appliances, which provide spam and virus filtering as well as policy creation, content scanning, quarantining and archiving.
The new data-loss prevention features include content-scanning capabilities with keyword and smart-identifier matching, as well as regulatory and customised dictionaries. Content that is scanned includes email message bodies plus hundreds of attachment types, including Microsoft Office documents, they say. Options for outbound messages that contain sensitive information include quarantine, encryption, archive and notify, and can be managed by IronPort’s Email Security Manager tool.
With this enhancement to AsyncOS, IronPort has added its PXE encryption technology directly on to its applications, so that inbound and outbound email can be encrypted and decrypted without the need of additional hardware, officials say.
Exchange Server E-Mail Compliance Guide
Posted in: Messaging, Security by thirdoctet on August 8, 2007 | No Comments
mail-compliance management is a messaging security issue that every Exchange Server administrator needs to understand, along with the many regulations and litigation concerns that drive it. Get your company’s email-compliance efforts up-to-date with these articles, tips and tutorials. Learn how Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), HIPAA and other important federal regulations work, how to plan and set up corporate email-archiving policies, and how to shop for and implement email-compliance software tools.
A brief history of SPAM
Posted in: Messaging, Security by thirdoctet on August 1, 2007 | No Comments
The New Yorker traces the history of unsolicited e-mail advertising pitches to a 1978 send via the Arpanet network by a marketer for the Digital Equipment Corporation; to the present time with more than a hundred billion unsolicited messages clogging the arterial passages of the world’s computer networks every day. Read more…
You’re Not the Only One Reading Your E-Mail; 32% of US companies spy on it
Posted in: Messaging, Security by thirdoctet on July 30, 2007 | No Comments
Do you know who is reading your e-mail? Has the fact that there is a good chance that your place of work is reading your outbound e-mail, even those that you send from your personal Web mail accounts, changed your behavior? Did you know that more than one-quarter of U.S. companies have fired an employee in the last year for violating e-mail policies?
If your answer to all three of the above questions was “no,” you might breathe a sigh of relief to learn that your answers put you squarely in the majority of U.S. employees. But the relief will last only until the implications of these answers set in. The odds are, someone else in your company knows you’re reading this article right now.
Most antispam technologies get failing grade
Posted in: Messaging, Security by thirdoctet on July 27, 2007 | No Comments
An independent study finds that many enterprises are not satisfied with traditional antispam technologies. Users of challenge-response technology reported the most satisfaction making it the most effective method to fight annoying spam, according to an independent study. In fact most antispam technologies are getting a failing grade. Read more…