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Fotec White Paper: Can you guarantee system recovery from back ups ?

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Research shows that 70% of companies expect to recover 100% of their data if there’s an IT problem – but in actual emergencies, very few actually achieve anything like 100%. In this White Paper, we discuss the reasons why, and what can be done about it. To read the White Paper, simply Register as a [...]

So how many companies use the internet for voice calls ?

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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), with its promise of dramatically reduced phone and comms line costs,  has been threatening to hurt the traditional phone companies’ revenues for years. But how many companies are using VoIP now ?
Recent surveys suggest that after a long ramp up, the market is growing very fast right now. In companies [...]

Fotec partner wins Service of the Year Award

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At the TechWorld 2009 awards, Fotec partner A-Server won the ‘Cloud/SaaS Service of the Year’ award. A-Server is the first vendor to win the award, which is a new category created to recognise the growing demand for cloud computing.
TechWorld has been running the UK awards for 15 years.  Previously named the Network Industry Awards, the program’s [...]

10,000 Scam emails reported to Revenue and Customs in one day !

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A record 10,000 scam emails offering fake tax refunds were reported to HM Revenue and Customs in just one day in October 2009. This follows the report that over 83,000 were reported during the month of September.
Phishing involves sending a fraudulent email disguised as an official request for information. The email will often look authentic, [...]

IDC give 6 reasons to use outsourcing to archive email

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IT researcher IDC have stated the 6 reasons why they believe outsourced email archiving is taking off.
Apart from the problem of just storing the rapidly accelerating number of mails, organisations have to comply with increasingly onerous retention regulations, supply information or respond to growing electronic discovery requests. On-site mail servers are being pushed to capacity, [...]

SPAM costs the Earth

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We all know spam wastes time and slows network performance, but new research has found it’s also bad for the environment. ICF International reported that 62 trillion unsolicited emails were sent last year, using 33 terawatt hours of electricity. That’s the equivalent to the energy used by 3 million cars in a year – or [...]

I.T. Spam back to 94% of all email

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Spam has finally recovered from the jolt it received last November when ISPs cut off the Californian based web-hoster McColo, from which spammers were trafficking email attacks. Taking down McColo reduced the levels of Spam on the Internet by two thirds at a stroke, but gradually the figures have been on their way back [...]