November 2006 Archives

Aberdeen Announces Data Protection Survey

By
Greg Galitzine
on November 30, 2006 9:30 AM | | Comments (0)
 
AberdeenGroup is undertaking a survey on the “value of Data Protection to control and monitor endpoint security in an organization.”
 
According to the opening page of the research survey, “Users access, manipulate, download and store sensitive data constantly on their desktops and laptops. The availability of cheap high-capacity portable media, including CD-R disks, USB thumb drives, and firewire hard disks, make unauthorized copying of large amounts of data a trivial task. Even legitimate users can have a laptop stolen or lose a media storage device containing critical data. This second study in Endpoint Security will explore the approaches organizations are using to protect data accessed and stored on the endpoint.”
 
AberdeenGroup will send a free copy of the final report to those who complete the survey.
 
The report authors hope to identify
 
  • The business and security drivers that press for adoption of endpoint data protection solutions.
  • The types of solutions being adopted to address end-point data protection security risks.
  • The impact of these solutions on risk management and business operations.
  • Key aspects of functionality that technology managers seek in their endpoint data protection solutions.
 
In the end, AberdeenGroup believes the successful completion of this research will yield the findings that provide insights into:
 
  • The risks to endpoint security.
  • The business and financial impact of these risks.
  • The types of solutions that are in use and the impact these solutions have on increasing security as well as improving operational efficiency.
  • The types of solutions that are being considered to address new risk.
  • The types of solutions that are not being considered to address risk, and why.
  • The technologies and processes that are being used by best in class organizations.
 
The research will target an end-user audience including CIOs, CSOs, privacy officers, CTOs, CFOs risk managers, and corporate executives.
 
To access the Endpoint Security Benchmark Survey Part II: Data Protection simply click here.

Compuware Research Puts VoIP Concerns at 73%

By
Greg Galitzine
on November 20, 2006 9:47 AM | | Comments (0)
According to research from Compuware, 73% of European IT executives are still worried about the quality and reliability of voice over IP.
 
The survey addressed 300 IT directors representing large enterprises across Europe.
 
Essentially, researchers noted that the bulk of this negative perception is fueled by a lack of knowledge of network performance before implementing VoIP.
 
It sounds like there’s a big opportunity for companies in the network monitoring space and for folks who do pre-deployment network assessments.

Tehrani Turns the Page on Zultys

By
Greg Galitzine
on November 17, 2006 12:46 PM | | Comments (0)
Rich Tehrani has written an interesting article on the subject of Zultys. The article is titled Zultys Saga Concludes — For Now, and it comes across as part cautionary tale, part confession on the part of former Zultys owner Iain Milnes.
 
If we are to take away any positives from this whole sordid affair it’s that the engineers at Zultys who orchestrated the buyback of the company at auction, backed by Telrad Connegy, truly believe in their creation.
 
At any rate, Rich’s article is a wonderful summation of the situation.

TMC Welcomes Russell Shaw to Blogging Family

By
Greg Galitzine
on November 14, 2006 2:55 PM | | Comments (0)
Russell Shaw joined the TMCnet family of contributors today, with the launch of a new blog entitled “RSS: Regulations, Statutes and Standards.”
 
Shaw’s blog will cover the always compelling subject of regulations, and now, in the wake of the recently concluded election, the subject takes on an ever-greater level of importance -- for consumers, service providers and enterprise customers of all sizes.
 
Said Shaw, “It is my pleasure to join the cast of bloggers on the leading technology Web site in the world. Given all the political changes in DC — including new committee chairs for regulatory areas which we cover — I think we are in a very suitable time frame for this launch.”

IR to Port Prognosis to Nortel, Avaya, Alcatel

By
Greg Galitzine
on November 13, 2006 2:00 PM | | Comments (0)
Integrated Research has announced plans to port Prognosis, its software for managing large scale Cisco VoIP networks, to three other leading vendors, effectively tripling its addressable market.
 
The company says that, over the next 12 months Prognosis will be extended to work on Avaya, Alcatel and Nortel installations. It says that the impetus for this initiative comes from current users of Prognosis who are looking to: eliminate the need to procure and maintain multiple, IP-PBX specific management tools; reduce the time and expense involved in training network operations staff to use differing solutions; give operations staff a single, consistent view across all their disparate VoIP environments.
 
According to Frost & Sullivan’s 2005 enterprise telephony systems market report, Avaya and Nortel’s combined share of the North American market is 38.8 percent. IPI notes that, if added to Cisco’s 19.8 percent share this represents a total of 58.5 percent across all three vendors.

Colorado's IP5280 Acquires GoXpand's Assets

November 3, 2006 2:43 PM | | Comments (0)

Colorado-based IP5280 Communications announced that it has acquired GoXpand's commercial business VoIP customers, expanding IP5280's VoIP venture in the Colorado market. Check it out:

Colorado's business VoIP specialists, and GoXpand, a broadband services provider delivering connectivity to in-building fiber, announced today the transfer of ownership of GoXpand's commercial business VoIP customer base to IP5280. This is IP5280's third acquisition of assets since the beginning of the year, furthering its expansion plan of business customers across the Colorado market.

IP5280 is Colorado's VoIP specialist in offering enterprise-class IP services for small and medium-sized businesses. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is the new convenient way that uses a high-speed Internet connection to make and receive phone calls with more manageability and functionality, and at a significant savings than compared to traditional phone service.

"We welcome GoXpand business VoIP customers to IP5280," said John Scarborough, managing partner of IP5280. "They join more than 100 businesses in Colorado, like Denver's Dutch Flower Market, Lion Financial Corporation and Omni Capital Group, who have already made the switch to IP5280 and are realizing huge monthly savings over the phone company."

IP5280 offers a range of unlimited local and long distance VoIP calling packages and data solutions that include Hosted VoIP and IP Business Trunking services offering full user mobility, unlimited local and long distance calls, and email integration. Advanced features include sending voicemail to your email inbox, simultaneous ring on multiple phones, automatic logging of calls, auto attendant that greets callers and delivers calls to different employees, and traditional features such as conference call and three-way calling.

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