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Steve Jobs’ birthday doesn’t go unnoticed by spammers

Optrics — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:21:35 PST

Steve Jobs’ birthday doesn’t go unnoticed by spammers

by Dave Michmerhuizen & Luis Chapetti – Security Researchers Happy Birthday, Steve! As expected Steve Jobs’ birthday did not go unnoticed by spammers.

Association of Information Technology Professionals

Optrics — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:40:41 PST

Association of Information Technology Professionals

Tweet Last week I had the pleasure of joining Brian Jacobs, Senior Product Manager, at AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals) Atlanta Chapter’s monthly dinner event. If you haven’t heard of AITP before, I strongly recommend looking into and joining this community of IT professionals

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ManageEngine User Conference – Australia

Optrics — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:42:50 PST

ManageEngine User Conference – Australia

After our successful User Conferences in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, London and other cities in the Europe, we've been bombarded with questions about a User Conference for ManageEngine lovers in Australia and New Zealand. Now, we don't say "No"

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ManageEngine IT360 Now Optimized for the Apple iPad

Optrics — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:26:23 PST

ManageEngine IT360 Now Optimized for the Apple iPad

Hello all, We have been talking about r eal-time IT and its importance in business for quite a while now.

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Comparing the traffic utilization of IP Groups in a single report

Optrics — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:25:16 PST

Comparing the traffic utilization of IP Groups in a single report

This blog is to let you know how NetFlow Analyzer can be efficiently used for generating report for comparing the traffic stats for different data-centers or departments in your network. Imagine the time and the hassles involved in collecting the data form those groups from all you devices.Then consolidating the data you have and generating the report.

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DNSChanger Malware – Are you afraid you’ll lose Internet access on March 8th?

Optrics — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:28:50 PST

DNSChanger Malware – Are you afraid you’ll lose Internet access on March 8th?

Tweet Over 450,000 computers - including half of the Fortune 500 companies and over 50% of government entities – are still infected with the DNSChanger malware. Don’t be one of them! As you’ve probably heard (or maybe even experienced) the DNSChanger is a Trojan horse that changes the DNS settings on computers and routers to send users to malicious sites, which then steal personal information and generate illegal ad revenue for the scammers (we’re exhausted just thinking about it).

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Bringing in the white!

Optrics — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:40:59 PST

Bringing in the white!

The winter is leaving us but we will remain white! The cool new website look is here and we are now more aligned in Sophos style! Brilliant white is the perfect color for symbolizing a successful start into a new era based on Complete Security. This visual modification is the next step in growing together with Sophos and ensures that we can present a recognizable brand to you under the Sophos banner

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Integrating Applications Manager alerts to IBM Tivoli

Optrics — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:03:56 PST

Integrating Applications Manager alerts to IBM Tivoli

To meet the growing complexity of their infrastructures, organizations today use numerous monitoring tools to track the health of their business environments. These monitoring tools generate alerts of statistics, errors, notifications or any other information that may be crucial to the enterprise. How does the operations team of any organization keep track of alerts from so many different tools generated on different systems?

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SonicWALL Customer — Pleasanton Unified School District

Optrics — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:18:02 PST

SonicWALL Customer — Pleasanton Unified School District

Gary Hicklin, IT Director at Pleasanton Unified School District speaks on the school district's decision to replace its Cisco® firewalls and Lightspeed Systems® content filtering solution with SonicWALL E7500 Next-Generation Firewalls and Content Filtering. The district can now ensure bandwidth for the school's use of web-based applications and better manage the growing number of mobile device connections.

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WhatsUp Gold’s Caitlin Buxton Named One of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs!

Optrics — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:05:30 PST

WhatsUp Gold’s Caitlin Buxton Named One of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs!

Tweet The WhatsUp Gold team is happy to announce that Caitlin Buxton, Director of North American Channel Sales at Ipswitch Network Management Division, has been named one of CRN’s 2012 Channel Chiefs. This prestigious list of the most influential and powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while evangelizing and defending the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT Industry. Caitlin Buxton recently returned to Ipswitch, Inc.’s Network Management Division after six years and is responsible for setting WhatsUp Gold’s North American Channel strategy and managing the channel organization to successfully execute on it.

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