Just A Word (or two) From Steve
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Loading...We’ve all been there. The CEO, corporate council and/or other executives are demanding that the company have a legal disclaimer at the end of all E-mail messages. Their obvious solution is to demand that every user put the disclaimer at the end of their signature block. That quickly becomes a nightmare as every internal message […]
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(16 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)Loading...I previously wrote about the problems and issues with version 5.20.x and that we were looking forward to seeing what 6.1 was going to provide. Well, we downloaded version 6.0 and it is a significantly different product; even changing the name to IBM Systems Director. For starters, it no longer uses a thick client for administration, […]
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Like a lot of companies, we have been looking for alternatives to giving our users a full copy of Adobe Acrobat. Not because of the features or capabilities, which are plentiful, but because the price ($449) is way too high for what most users need. I would say that most people are simply converting Microsoft Office documents […]
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...In setting up a Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS) cluster, there are various reasons to want to separate or group client systems together. For example, you may have a set of systems that communicate constantly in processing information and therefore you want them to be on the same ESX host. On the other side, you may […]
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(5 votes, average: 4.40 out of 5)Loading...Over the past year, we have been struggling with the deployment of IBM Director and continue to discuss whtether or not it makes any sense to continue trying to get it working or abandon it completely. Our company standardized on the IBM server platforms over four years ago, using the X-series systems and BladeCenters, all […]
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(2 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Given our experience with GFI MailEssentials and MailSecurity, we have been looking for a replacement E-mail security gateway replacement product. Like most administrators, we know about the major players and we decided to go back and see where they were at. We stumbled upon the Symantec 8300 Mail Security Appliance during that investigation. From the […]
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