Enterprise e-mail perfect for cloud

Cloud-based e-mail architecture might well be better, faster, and cheaper than any of the alternatives, according to SOA World Magazine.

Recognising e-mail as the central tool in today's contemporary business model is effortless - any breakdown in this mission-critical instrument and companies come to a virtual halt.

Staff collaboration is limited, customer and vendor relationships are potentially compromised, and IT resources must be re-allocated to administer first aid, leaving other work sidetracked.

Larger Australian organisations aren't getting the best from their investments in storage and are struggling to achieve their own goals, according to a new Symantec survey, says ITWire.

Almost all respondents said they could achieve better storage utilisation, but less than half were using tools to help achieve that goal. "This research clearly identifies the risks and challenges confronting Australian organisations in implementing and managing storage," said Craig Scroggie, VP and MD of Symantec Australia and New Zealand.

"The pressure is growing on IT teams to reduce costs whilst managing increasingly complex data centre operations due to consolidation, virtualisation and exploding data volumes.

Staffing cuts are driving organisations to rein in their firewall policies and change processes with automation tools, states DarkReading.

Misconfigured firewalls are more common than people think, with the massive number of firewall rules that accrue in a large network and the typically manual process, mistakes happen, and often.

But with increasing pressures in compliance and budget cuts, the relatively young firewall auditing and management market has been quietly catching fire as a way to get a handle on firewall policies and to automate a traditionally laborious and error-prone process.