Back in 2002 AINEO was the first to bring GFI products to Japan. If you are on MS Exchange, you definitely want to be on GFI. I am probably speaking more to administrators than users of mail servers.
The below video does a good job shows a simple but understandable explanation of the threat to PC users.
Nov 24
Many a new enterprise has failed because the owner never understood this truth—all business is ultimately about relationships. It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing that business success is purely a result of having the best product or the lowest price.
- Mac Hammond
Nov 17
Thought for Today: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, French author (1805-1859).
Nov 16
Living, caring for others, challenging yourself, could these be the secrets to life?
Check out this article.
In the book, The Millionaire Next Door, by Thomas Stanley and William Danko, 1,115 millionaires were surveyed around the country. They came up with seven common denominators among those who successfully build wealth:
They live well below their means.
They allocate their time, energy and money efficiently, in ways conducive to building wealth.
They believe that financial independence is more important than displaying high social status.
Their parents did not provide economic outpatient care.
Their adult children are economically self-sufficient.
They are proficient in targeting market opportunities.
They chose the right occupations.
Wow! This article in the Washington Post is really sad. I hate to see people lose data.
T-Mobile is a great company owned by Deutsche Telecom. A solid company. I suppose the point to the matter is their back-end was a Microsoft subsidiary called Danger Inc. Clearly they weren’t doing their job.
I found a company that is a very cost effective host. For $4.95 a month you can get unlimited Hosting on one domain. Amazingly cheap! The problem I found out (before switching to AINEO Secure) was that they don’t really back up everything. If your account is ‘too large’ you can’t even initiate a back up from your control panel.
I am very proud of all the sweat and blood we put into AINEO Secure. Running a hosting business is not for the faint-hearted.
We have been supporting mail services since 1997 so have solid communications is second nature to us. For example, our mail servers are clustered. That means that even if one of the mail servers goes down (pretty difficult with duplicate power, processors, and RAID disks), then then another server will pick up the slack.
All of the data is backed up and stored locally and in our Saitama center. I can’t imagine this type of Danger Inc problem happening to us. The last thing I want to do it let it happen to our partners.
Give us a try. AINEO Secure Hosting is great!
Alexander Kinmont of Morgan Stanley gave some interesting advice to the new Japanese prime minister today. Some very good insights-
1) Rescind the Bank of Japan law, and bring it under government control.
2) Fiscal Policy- Get away from politically motivated fiscal policy and move to economically motivated policy. Stop playing with interest rates and print money a bit.
3) Abolish the Inheritance Tax. This holds ups a lot of capital from going into the market.
Interesting thoughts to consider for Mr. Hatoyama.
Sep 13
It is very interesting to see that the US people are starting to have a bit more passion about not letting government get too big. It seems healthcare might have sparked the debates.
Living in Japan (a land of socialized medicine) and seeing executives going back to the US for treatment is a sign that we have some good things going in the US. This news report seems to really hit home with that.
Looking around on the net, it seems that there is a groundswell of people that are forcing the government to think a bit more before the spend the US dollar into oblivion (no value).
Aug 21
Wow! This was an encouraging email from someone we deal with. I guess happy people are always happy, no matter what the circumstance. I suppose it is like my choosing to be honest, you have to choose to be happy as well.
—– Original Message —–
From: James
To: Patrick Wolfe
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:49:58 PM GMT +09:00 Japan
Hi Patrick,
Good speaking just now – people as cheery as you are difficult to find on a Monday morning!
Thank God for Softbank Mobile. Mr. Son has yet brought competition to the market. Ten years ago, Softbank invested in broadband and spent oodles on getting users signed up on Yahoo BB here in Japan. They were very successful and brought the pricing of NTT and KDDI into the competitive arena. Very effective strategy that I believe directly contributed to making Japan the fastest and cheapest internet in the world. Only South Korea comes close to the speed and cost we have in Japan.
Mr. Son initiated a similiar program after purchasing Vodafone’s Japan operation. Rumor is that he went into heavy debt doing that. He rolled out very cheap calling plans trying to mass up subscribers. The famous White Plan is advertised at 980 yen/month with free calls to any other Softbank users (Great marketing idea!). In actuality, they have a number of other fees that take it to over 2,000 yen and put you on a two year contract and tie you into a phone terminal.
From what I understand, SBM only has two operation centers for their mobile network. NTT Docomo has some 50 network centers throughout Japan. Can you imagine the difference in operational costs in staffing those centers? That would definitely give SBM the ability to pass on those savings to their clients.
I think the Softbank strategy is working. To make sure we can support our partners and their IT, I have three mobile phones. I have noticed the connection time on my softbank is lagging. There is a connection delay from yesterday.
Beginning to wonder if they may have oversold their network capacity… If you are in Japan and using Softbank, have you noticed?