UK businesses threatened by email melt-down as employees send holiday photos and videos
Thousands of small businesses are in danger of their email systems collapsing as employees heading off on summer breaks send and receive holiday photographs and even videos as huge email attachments.British messaging and collaboration software company Softalk says that small and medium sized businesses are particularly vulnerable as they don't have large IT departments to manage and monitor their email systems.
"For many small and medium sized businesses email is now as important if not more important than phone calls and traditional post," said Simon Bates, director of Softalk. "Yet many businesses are relying on old email systems that they first implemented when email first became widely available and before it became a business critical system."
Softalk says that businesses can take some simple steps to ensure the integrity of their email systems:
• Use the email server to set limits for maximum size of attachments that can be sent and received
• Set quotas for individual users mailboxes to prevent employees using the email server for storing hundreds of megabytes of personal photographs and videos
• Use the email server to prevent users from sending or receiving certain types of attachment
• Install up to date anti-virus filters to prevent viruses slipping through disguised as holiday pictures
• Install anti-spam filters to cut down on the amount of unproductive email clogging up users in-boxes
• Implement anti-virus and anti-spam security at the email server level so that you can always ensure that filters are up to date without the need to update every individual user’s PC
• Have clear policies in place so that employees understand how they are allowed the company email system for personal use
• Ensure that policies include rules to ensure that employees don’t send or receive inappropriate images
• Check that your email server is robust enough and has the capacity to cope with the demands of today’s email traffic which has increased from an average of 15 billion emails a day in 2001 to an average of 132 billion a day in 2005.
• Ensure that you are backing up and archiving your email database on a frequent and regular basis
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The claim was made in a sworn statement by Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft employee who quit for Google in 2004.
Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer has denied the claims, saying they are a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place".
The statement is the latest salvo in a bitter legal battle between the firms.
In his sworn statement, Mr Lucovsky - a key Windows architect - alleged that Mr Ballmer hurled a chair across the room when he informed him he was moving to Google, before launching into an abusive tirade against Google's chief executive Eric Schmidt.
However, Mr Ballmer has dismissed the claims.
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The row between the two firms was triggered when one of Microsoft's vice presidents, Dr Kai-Fu Lee, was hired by Google to set up a research centre in China.
Microsoft claimed the move was a violation of a one-year non-compete clause in his contract and began legal action against the search engine giant.
However, Google has retaliated by claiming that Microsoft's action is a form of intimidation designed to eliminate the threat of a fast-growing rival.
The group has been moving further into the software arena - most recently with the launch of Talk, a service which lets e-mail account holders talk to each other via a PC, microphone and speakers.
The system is a direct threat to online voice and instant messaging service providers such as Skype, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Microsoft won the first round of the increasingly bitter battle between the two firms in July, when a King County Superior Court judge issued a temporary order barring Mr Lee from carrying out the duties he had been hired to do for Google.
The two sides will face each other in court again on Tuesday when Microsoft will ask a court to extend that order until the matter comes to trial in January.
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