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About 4.5 Million Catholic School Students to Get Office 365

The deal between Microsoft and the Catholic Church could be escalated later to include 43 million students Full Story »
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Medical Firm Avoids Exchange Nightmare with Outside Help

International medical vendor Mediq was expanding in a big way by acquisition and needed a standard email platform across its business, but the project's cost and the complexity of doing it alone was so daunting that the company called on outside help that costs it less in the long run.

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How to Avoid 5 Common Email Management Mistakes

Email managers have a lot at stake. After all, the volume of global electronic messages sent via email dwarfs all other forms of electronic communication, including social networking. Since the inception of electronic mail, which, according to some Internet historians, can be traced to a small mainframe app called 'MAILBOX' from the mid-1960s, human-to-human messages have been created, transmitted and stored in electronic format. But early email administrators could hardly have envisioned the complexity of current email infrastructure and the concomitant maze of technical, security, business and regulatory challenges.

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Open-Source Messaging at (nearly) the Speed of Light

Felix Ehm, a member of CERN's beams control group, has always had a curious and scientific bent.

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VMware Envisions Virtualization in Post-PC, BYOD Era

VMware wasn't just looking to save money when it launched a BYOD plan with the mandate that all of its U.S. employees use their personal mobile phones for work. It was taking a crash-course that would help shape its vision of post-PC era computing.

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Zeus Variant Tricks Facebook, Webmail Users Into Exposing Card Details

The new Zeus version injects rogue debit card-related offers into popular websites

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About 600,000 L.a. Community College Students to Get Microsoft Live@EDU

The institution considered Google Apps for Education but chose Microsoft's cloud email and collaboration suite for schools and universities

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Take Me Off Your Mailing List!

This is a plea to web designers, programmers and, most particularly, marketing people, to stop annoying us when we want to unsubscribe from your &^%$#@!* stupid, er, sorry, not interesting to us, email lists. It's also a plea for all of you IT people to talk to these groups in your company and convince them to do some "right thinking" about this issue.

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Twitter Acquires Email Marketer Restengine

Twitter continues to buy companies that can help boost revenue

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Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft Office and Exchange?

The BYOD phenomenon and the need to collaborate with mobile users and international subsidiaries led New England Biolabs to weigh a switch from Microsoft Office and Exchange Server to Google Apps. The results of their proof-of-concept testing surprised many, including the CIO.

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How To Ignore Your Email Without Losing Your Job

Save time and be more productive by using these simple tips and tricks to check e-mail less often without losing your job.

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Why Your Business Still Needs Newsletters

Email marketing remains the most effective means of obtaining new customers and keeping them loyal to your brand.

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At Interior Department, Google Apps Will Co-exist with Outlook, Office -- for Now

While the agency chose Gmail for backend e-mail, it will give employees the option of continuing to use Outlook and Office on the desktop

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After Legal Tussle, Google Beats Microsoft for Large US Contract

The Department of the Interior will deploy Google Apps to 90,000 employees for cloud-based email and collaboration applications

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12 Best Email Marketing Tips for Professionals

From obtaining relevant data to reaching customers wherever they are, these best-of-breed email marketing tips can help you improve your campaigns beyond generic email blasts.

 
The Farmers Insurance Case Study tells the story of Perimeter's progressive relationship with Farmers Insurance and Perimeter's messaging suite of services. Download this case study now to find out the benefits of messaging solutions and how working with Perimeter can simplify your IT needs.
This whitepaper, from the Radicati Group, is an independent analysis of the market for Microsoft Hosted Exchange, revealing top players, mature players, specialists and trail blazers.
Authored by messaging industry analyst The Radicati Group, this white paper looks at the key reasons organizations should consider moving to a cloud-based archiving solution. It will cover why you should outsource your archiving solution, unique benefits of cloud archiving, and Perimeter's cloud archiving solution.
Reduced Compliance Burden with Perimeter's Message Archive.
Learn why a mobile development platform is critical to be able to support today's complex enterprise mobility strategies. Learn what to look for in a mobile development platform and how apply these tools whether you're developing a dedicated app for one device or multiple apps running across multiple devices.
Learn how developers are using HTML5 and native development methods to build mobile apps. Get practical insights on how these tools are being used, what's driving their usage, and how to choose the best development approach for your business.
How cloud-based email can help your company.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC

Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality.
With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.
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