According to a recent survey by the German IT industry association BITKOM, fax is in greater demand than ever before. While it remains true that E-Mail and telephony are by far the most popular means of communication at companies and therefore indispensable, eight out of ten companies surveyed use fax for internal or external communication. At the same time there is no reason for fax communication and digitization to exclude each other. Businesses utilize the communication technology which enables them to set up each of their business processes as efficiently as possible.
Experton study: 25 percent lower costs with managed cloud solutions
The analysts at the IT consultancy Experton Group have investigated opportunities for cost optimization through managed cloud services in a new study. The result: When compared with running an in-house IT infrastructure, companies can achieve savings of 25% on average in this way.
Tags: analysts // Cloud Services // Experton // Study
How the @ got into the email address: Communications pioneer Ray Tomlinson dies at the age of 74
He is known as the inventor of the first modern email: In 1971 US informatics expert Ray Tomlinson succeeded in sending a message between two computers for the first time. Email, as we now know it, was born. But something else has also survived the years – the @ sign.
Tags: Email // Email Security // Ray Tomlinson
In the Name of Her Majesty: British Phishing Emails Promise Tax Refunds
In recent days, many inboxes have been receiving emails that at first sight appear to carry joyous news. In the subject line they announce a tax refund, and the sender seems to be “Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs” (HMRC) – the British tax authority. So every recipient with business ties to the United Kingdom is likely to take a closer look.
Tags: Email Security // HMRC // IT-Security // Phishing
What companies have to consider when migrating to Office 365
An increasing number of companies are currently migrating to cloud-based solutions such as Microsoft Office 365. We have compiled a list of 5 tips, which companies need to bear in mind when migrating to Office 365.
Tags: Cloud Fax // Email Security // Microsoft Office 365
All Admins are not Alike: Granular Administration of Rights for Email Security
When it comes to granting rights, managers responsible for enterprise IT would always like to define access to important systems as precisely as possible. It is only in the rarest cases that one uniform administrator profile is sufficient for the entire IT support: Especially with regard to email security, it often occurs in practice that support employees are only supposed to monitor the flow of messages for one specific department or site.
Tags: Email Security // IT-Security // Retarus Access Management
How to protect yourself from blackmail trojan Locky
Since last week the aggressive blackmail Trojan Locky has been causing mischief on computers around the globe. Retarus expands existing spam and virus protection functions and switch all customers over to fourfold virus scanning for the duration of the current, acute threat. To protect yourself as well as possible from attacks by Locky and similar ransomware, users should additionally be vigilant when running macros.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Online Fraud // Ransomware // Trojan
Make space in your email inbox: Send large files with Retarus LFiX
It’s a dilemma: A large file should be sent to a colleague or business partner in the most direct way possible. At the same time you don’t want to bother the recipient with an attachment comprising several megabytes. Normal email transmission is therefore not an option. With Large File Exchange (LFiX), Retarus offers an easy-to-use, yet highly secure solution.
Tags: file transfer // filehosting // filetransfer // IT-Security // LFiX // Retarus Large File Exchange
Efficient Communication Processes in the Supply Chain
Manufacturing companies receive every day thousands of messages by fax, email and letter, which need to be sorted, processed, manually entered into the ERP system and finally archived. To ensure a secure and efficient management of all electronic communication processes, a growing number of industrial enterprises are trusting in Retarus.
Tags: Argomm // Automotive // Manufacturing // Retarus Managed EDI Services // Supply Chain
Retarus Cloud Services: Trouble-free Fax Communication with Skype for Business
With Skype for Business (previously known as Lync), Microsoft offers a comprehensive unified communications platform for phone calls, video conferencing and collaboration. What many companies are not fully aware of is that the use of a unified messaging solution can entail significant disadvantages especially for fax communication as in some cases it simply cannot be supported. By using virtual fax services from the cloud, companies can bridge this gap without problems.
Tags: Cloud Fax // Lync // Skype for Business // Unfied Communications // VoIP