Stories about: Radicati Group

Your company scans incoming e-mail for viruses and outgoing messages for confidential information. Your spam filter snags most of the garbage, and it gets better as it learns the latest spamming and phishing spoofs. You're encrypting sensitive e-mail now, and you recently completed a project that keeps your messages safely archived in case federal regulators come knocking.

As any e-mail administrator will tell you, managing the content of the constant flood of incoming and outgoing messages is only half the battle. The sheer volume of e-mail, coupled with the increasing size of files that users want to send, also puts a staggering load on the network and servers. At the same time, end users are resisting attempts to limit the size of their in-boxes, demanding the right to stash gigabytes of mail and attachments on the server. IT clearly needs a strategy to manage the e-mail flood.

With more and more business taking place via e-mail, users need to manage content on three fronts.

With its acquisition of JBoss, Red Hat hopes its third try scaling up the open-source software stack proves to be the charm.

Microsoft will stay at the top of the growing corporate email market, thanks in part to its software's new wireless push capabilities, according to a new report from The Radicati Group.

It's an ambitious undertaking, but building an identity infrastructure delivers real rewards.

During the past few years, enterprise e-mail security needs have expanded beyond simply fighting spam. As a result, vendors in this space are left having to continuously enhance their products with related features in order to keep up.

The number of worm and virus attacks crashing into corporations through IM is skyrocketing. This unsettling trend is forcing enterprise IT managers to finally get serious about securing corporate networks against IM malware.

Like airborne viruses, instant messaging worms are fledglings, but very much on the rise. These new worms are also proving that once inside a corporate network they can be just as destructive, if not more so, than traditional e-mail attacks.

Microsoft is expanding its hosted Exchange product for service providers to include instant messaging and Web sites that serve as collaborative online workspaces, the company announced on Monday.

The Radicati Group pegs the penetration of Wi-Fi in the enterprise at 50 percent by 2008. Cut that number in half and it's still huge. So now that Wi-Fi is becoming a standard part of enterprise infrastructure, it's time to get serious about security and management.