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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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(6 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...No sooner had I posted about the abysmal 88.blacklist.zap, that I now find our mail servers at the mercy of BarracudaCentral. Yet again, here is an organization totally unwilling to work with fellow mail administrators and unresponsive to phone calls or requests for information. I have no idea how, when or why my domains have [...]
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(7 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5) Loading ...Well, I just had my first interaction with 88.blacklist.zap informing me that one of my E-mail messages had been blocked because mail from my mail server IP address was banned. News to me! Well, first things first. I already subscribe to one of the best monitoring and management systems around called MxToolbox. They informed me [...]
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