Last month Sendmail announced a partnership with Harris, specifically that the companies would be working together to bring their customers the Trusted Enterprise Cloud. What does that mean? It means that the companies have collaborated to jointly develop and bring to market an integrated email and messaging cloud service for commercial enterprises and government organizations.
Dan Kusnetzky , an analyst and ZDNet contributor, offers a bit of feedback on the offering in a blog post on ZDNet’s Virtually Speaking blog. Worth calling out here is Dan’s assessment that while not everyone agrees on the definition of virtualization and the components of a secure, managable and reliable virtualized environment, it is clear that Sendmail knows messaging, Harris Corporation knows quite a bit about security and management, and BMC knows a thing or two about management and security and appear “to be able to present quite a comprehensive understanding of what’s needed to create the type of secure, managable environment that they’re promising to customers.”
Through its work with customers, Sendmail knows that security, computer-generated email systems, multiple encryption requirements, regulatory compliance, policy enforcement, deep content scanning, data loss prevention and high-volume outbound mail are but a few of the challenges enterprises face when moving email to the cloud. The joint Sendmail and Harris messaging cloud system provides a platform and a toolkit for enterprises to overcome these challenges and deploy an email system they can trust. This combined service leverages the strength of the Sendmail Sentrion Message Processing Platform, the Harris Trusted Enterprise Cloud™ and the Harris Cyber Integration Center™ (CIC) to create this secure, virtualized environment.
For more information about Sendmail’s relationship with Harris, please see the press release here.