The organization’s primary data center, housed in an older building at its U.S. headquarters in Massachusetts, suffered from space, power and cooling constraints. Additionally, IFAW was looking to upgrade its technology infrastructure to continue to effectively manage increasing global business demands.
“The closure of spam affiliate, Spamit, was partially responsible for the disruption to spam output,” said MessageLabs Intelligence Senior Analyst, Paul Wood, Symantec.cloud. “However, there are likely other factors at work, such as consolidation and restructuring of pharmaceutical spam operations which has led to instability in the market likely to be exploited as a business opportunity by other spam gangs. We expect to see more pharmaceutical spam in 2011 as new pharmaceutical spam brands emerge and botnets compete for their business.”
This explains why the embedded team was moved last year from the Interactive Entertainment group and is now part of Microsoft’s Server and Tools business. It’s still selling embedded operating systems to computer and device makers, but the big money is in stacks of software, servers and services in such industries as retail, health care, manufacturing and automotive.
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