Recent Articles
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Misplaced Caution About Open-Source Anti-Spam?
Given that the new open-source approaches to spam filtering are capable of virtually eliminating unwanted e-mail and preserving the good stuff, why do many companies continue to struggle with spam? Jonathan Zdziarski, the developer of the DSPAM open-source Bayesian spam blocker, believes IT departments of most small- to medium-sized businesses are afraid to try free…
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Channel Steps Up to Hurricane Rita Preparation
As Hurricane Rita made its slow, painful progression toward Texas and Louisiana, resellers, disaster-recovery service providers and technology vendors made all-out efforts to help businesses protect their data. On Thursday, NovaStor Corp. began offering free off-site storage to any small business or systems integrators working with small firms in the projected path of the major…
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Slamming Spam for Free
Jonathan Zdziarski knows how open-source spam-filtering programs work. He wrote one. Even so, Zdziarski’s creation DSPAM—and similar programs that are designed to get better at their job over time—sometimes gives its creator the willies. It usually happens when the application blocks spam messages that appear absolutely legitimate at first blush. “It gets really accurate after…
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Partners Say Shakeup Will Sharpen Microsoft’s Agility
SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Technology partners Tuesday said the software giant’s radical reorganization from seven into three major divisions is an important move to reduce costs and improve competitiveness. The partners, who were demonstrating their own technology on the exhibition floor of OpenWorld,—the annual customer conference of yet another partner, Oracle Corp.—said they didn’t believe the reorganization…
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Disaster Preparedness Remains a Hard Sell for VARs
This may provide little solace for small and midsize businesses brought down by Hurricane Katrina, but for as little as $20 per month they could have backed up their individual workstations to a Hewlett-Packardsite in Seattle. Solutions like this are out there, said the VARs who provide them and vendors who make them. But SMBs…
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Security App ‘Solidifies’ Against Bad Code
Allowing a security application to decide whether a piece of computer code is safe to run on the network is akin to asking the bouncer at hip Hollywood party to decide who should be allowed through the door. It’s just too hard for the enforcer to tell who belongs at the party and who doesn’t.…
