As we ring in the New Year Enterprise messaging departments will have a lot on their mind and will face many challenges, including:
- Should they move email to the cloud or stay on premise?
- Is Microsoft Exchange 2010 an option in the immediate future or should they wait?
- What is the right Anti-virus/Anti-spam filtering solution when the present subscription expires?
- Is DLP and encryption important?
- How to they reduce costs yet face continual dynamic changes from various lines of business regarding messaging needs?
- And more…
Let’s face it. Even if there are set answers for these questions and many others today, it is impossible to predict the future. There could be mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, consolidation, new regulations, security changes, and much more.
The reason for Sendmail’s success in the Fortune 1000 is because we provide enterprises an open messaging platform with freedom of choice in various messaging applications. Most other vendors “lock the customer in” because they are all-in-one solutions which cannot be mixed or matched with others or the costs of licensing, deployment, operation, and integration will skyrocket!
With a Sendmail Sentrion MP intelligent email backbone, the user has “future proofed” the messaging infrastructure, for example:
- Encryption requirements vary greatly from company to company. Sentrion provides the platform to support multiple encryption solutions. Sentrion’s primary encryption application is based on a fully integrated version of Voltage IBE but we also support S/MIME and TLS. Sendmail even has customers using PostX, (Cisco) and PGP (Symantec). With Sentrion-based email backbones in place it’s very easy for enterprises to deploy multiple encryption solutions to meet various needs.
- The Sentrion Anti-virus application is based on a fully integrated version of McAfee, but we also support Frisk, and even open source plug-ins that can be found on milter.org. Many of our customers deploy multiple AV apps for defense-in-depth.
- The Sentrion Enterprise Anti-spam application blends two of the leading anti-spam solutions from Cloudmark and Commtouch and is driven by Sentrion’s policy engine. However, we have customers that use Sentrion as their email backbone and use other solutions for spam filtering. In fact, Sendmail Sentrion co-exists with every anti-spam solution included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways!
- Sentrion also provides on-box DLP capabilities and a number of applications that can be found in the Sentrion App Store, but Sendmail also has many customers using Symantec Vontu, RSA, or McAfee Reconnex without a change in the Sentrion MP email backbone. In fact, Sendmail and Symantec recently announced the Sentrion Connect for Symantec DLP App.
What all of this means from a strategic viewpoint for customers is that by choosing Sentrion for their email backbone, they are not locked-in to what Sendmail proposes. Unlike other vendors who force you to use their own, Sendmail offers “Future Proofing” so our customers can change applications, add new ones, or any combination in the future—this includes dynamic shifts to cloud computing/SaaS or on-premises or both—and investment protection for things such as M&A events, downsizing/consolidation, new lines of business, etc. Sendmail has references within our enterprise customer base for every combination of co-existence including our own flexibility to provide hard appliances, virtualized appliances, or even blade servers, which all work together.
This is a very important consideration for all enterprises but is also a key driver for financial services organizations and regulated industries where nothing is ever the same and shows why Sentrion has become the standard email backbone choice.
Taking this into consideration, the strategic value of Sentrion MP should be high on the list for making a choice for an unknown future!