Nokia Speaking at Sendmail International Messaging Infrastructure Summit

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Barry Shurtz
Sendmail, Inc., along with numerous top Sendmail customers and partners, are excited to bring Sentrion users and prospective users an action packed conference agenda that is sure to benefit all businesses looking to consolidate, simplify and reduce the costs of their mission critical email messaging infrastructure.

Is a Cloud in Your 2012 Forecast?

This year’s event has a special focus on where the cloud fits in the typical complex messaging infrastructure of large global enterprises.
Nokia is now on stage presenting…
CUSTOMER PRESENTATION SPOTLIGHT

Microsoft BPOS and Sentrion Email Backbone

Nokia, one of the world’s largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers, was an early adopter of enterprise cloud-based email and chose Microsoft BPOS-D, the dedicated and customizable version of BPOS, for their email system. During their migration to the cloud, Nokia discovered that even with Microsoft’s customizable version of BPOS they could not support all of their enterprise SMTP requirements.  One of the major discoveries was how the cookie cutter approach to cloud email does not take into account how to manage email messages generated from machines and applications that rely on the messaging infrastructure to function.  This customer presentation will describe why Nokia chose the Sendmail Sentrion Message Processing Platform to ensure a complete solution and how Nokia’s on-premises Sentrion-based email backbone provides the critical link between mailboxes in the cloud and enterprise business applications and systems of record on-premises.

Speaker

Roope Lecklin, Information Technology
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Sendmail Partners with Totemo to offer Totemo TrustMail as part of the Sentrion Application Store

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

We have a lot to talk about at our International Messaging Infrastructure Summit in Las Vegas this week, and are excited to reveal that we have partnered with Totemo AG, to provide Sentrion customers with additional message encryption options on the Sentrion Application Store to improve the security of their email communications.

If you’re not familiar with Totemo AG, they are a leading provider of secure email, file transfer, and mobile messaging solutions to enterprise customers and government agencies that securely exchange information. Totemo TrustMail® is a highly regarded messaging encryption solution that provides transparent message encryption capabilities.

With Totemo TrustMail® now a part of the Sentrion Application Store, Sendmail customers will have the widest choice of “plug-in” encryption applications currently available on the market. TrustMail® adds a unique plug-and-play capability for key management unrivaled in the industry, and provides seamless integration into Sentrion message infrastructures, supporting all known email collaboration systems such as Microsoft Exchange, Oracle Collaboration Suite, and VMware Zimbra. It essentially simplifies the deployment of encryption for large enterprises.

To read more about our partnership, read the full release here.

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Sendmail Announces Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise (C3E) Application Suite

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

It’s an exciting day for us here at Sendmail! We kicked-off our International Messaging Infrastructure Summit in Las Vegas – Is Cloud in Your 2012 Forecast? – and today at the Summit, announced our newest product, the Sentrion Critical Customer Communications Enterprise (C3E) Application Suite. The Sentrion C3E application suite is built on the Sentrion Message Processing Platform to manage the end-to-end solution requirements for time-sensitive, business-critical messaging.

Key benefits of Sentrion C3E:
• Optimized Delivery Performance
• Improved Message Deliverability
• Brand Reputation Protection
• Enhanced Quality of Distribution Lists with Zero Intervention
• Reduced Time and Cost of Blacklist Resolution
• Proven Enterprise-Class Platform with Sentrion Message Processors

The Sentrion C3E Application Suite includes:
• C3E Injector
• C3E Core Message Processing
• C3E Message Tracking
• C3E Bounce Handler
• C3E Premium Reporting, powered by Splunk

The Sentrion C3E gives enterprises the applications required to more effectively communicate to high-value recipients by heightening reliability, automating the message delivery process and producing valuable delivery and readership analytics. Customers will be able to take advantage of the advanced application functionality so that critical communications arrive in your customers inbox as quickly and efficiently as possible.

See the official press release here that provides more details on what’s included in the Sentrion C3E application suite and check out this site for more information.

Visit the Sentrion C3E web pages here.

Stay tuned for more news today from the Summit!

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Sendmail Talks to CIO Insight’s the Pulse Network: Email in the Cloud – It’s Not a Cookie Cutter Solution

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

Last week, Sendmail’s Vice President, Engineering and Chief Technology Officer, Greg Shapiro, spoke with Eric Lundquist and Tyler Pyburn of CIO Insight’s The Pulse Network to discuss what CIOs need to evaluate when it comes to what parts of their email infrastructure they should consider migrating to the cloud and what should stay on-premise.

During the live segment, Lundquist commented that email is such a central feature of companies and the way people communicate but that many email systems haven’t changed. Today, email is still the way most people communicate; however, we are seeing a shift in certain things in the email environment due to social media tools. When it comes to email in the cloud, Shapiro addressed key points such as:

  • CIO’s need to understand the different layers of their email infrastructures
  • While there are benefits of moving to the cloud, it’s also important to look at both the challenges and the risks
  • Biggest concerns are security, privacy and compliance
  • The easiest part of the email infrastructure to migrate is the external layer and the most difficult is the internal policy layer
  • Discussed how enterprises can overcome these challenges and deploy an email system they can trust.

Shapiro also talked about the benefits of the Sendmail Messaging Architecture Review (MAR) – a program that is designed to evaluate a company’s existing messaging infrastructure. Through the Sendmail MAR, enterprises are discovering security vulnerabilities and scalability flaws, while also discovering significant cost savings.

To watch the full segment, you can view the video here. What parts of your email infrastructure have you moved to the cloud? As always, we look forward to your comments and thoughts.

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Email Fun Fact: The First Email Message: Who sent it and when?

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

There always seem to be someone talking about trying to eliminate email from our lives, but in reality, it’s nearly impossible to imagine what we would do without email. Email is indeed a business critical application – and for many a personal one too – and many of us can’t remember what life was like when email didn’t exist – at least for those that pre-date email. So when did email begin to exist?

It’s hard to pinpoint when the world’s first email was sent—but it had to start somewhere, right? In 1971, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), emerged as the first large network of computers and would later lead to the development of the Internet itself. As part of this networking venture, at first scientists first began thinking of ways to deliver messages to printers at remote locations, although the protocol was never implemented.

It wasn’t until Ray Tomlinson, who worked in engineering at BBN Technologies, came along and led the effort to develop an experimental file transfer program called “CPYNET,” which would ultimately lead to the first email transmission. CPYNET could write and read files on a remote computer, and Tomlinson then thought to have CPYNET append to files instead of replacing them and merged its functionality with SENDMSG, a program that can deliver messages to another person on the same computer. It was then that we could send messages to remote machines, and the first email program took flight.

In the early 1980s, email relaying was also being used with the simple UUCP technology at the University of California at Berkeley. Eric Allman (now CSO of Sendmail) later created a program called delivermail to combine multiple email transport services, creating a switch instead of an integrated email store-and-forward capability. Allman built on this experience to create the Sendmail program, which was distributed with BSD Unix, and has become the most commonly used SMTP server on the Internet.

We’ve come a long way since the first email program was born, and we’re still a long way from perfecting it in its role as a modern-day mission-critical application. With issues such as privacy, viruses, and scams, the challenges have continued to evolve just as the functionality has over time. As a leading provider of message processing appliances and applications for enterprise messaging infrastructures, Sendmail is proud to help improve the quality of email that we use today.

Source:

http://email.about.com/cs/emailhistory/a/first_email.htm

http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ei.htm

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Malware Increased Nearly 400% – From our Good Partner, CommTouch

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

If there was any question about whether email-borne malware is still an effective tactic for cybercriminals, the past weeks have made it clear someone believes it is. 10′s of billions of malware-laden email messages have been detected by Commtouch in the last six weeks, with the daily average having increased by nearly 400%. On a single day in early August, Commtouch Labs identified over 25 billion emails containing malware! Several more major peaks have occurred since then and the trend is continuing.

There have been no significant changes in spam volumes since the attacks began, which would have been the most typical result of such malware waves, and there haven’t been any other reported attacks, so the reason for the extended malware outbreak and its ultimate goal still remain to be seen. This blog post describes the recent wave of malware emails, along with some data from Commtouch Labs.

The good news for Sentrion customers is that this problem is taken care of without end-users even knowing!

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The Road Ahead for Cloud Computing: What Does its Future Hold?

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

It’s true that security and dependability are still of great concern to many IT users, but the last two years have shown tremendous innovation and progress, especially in the ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ realm. Experts believe cloud computing can transform the IT industry from an asset-centric approach to a services-centric approach, and could change IT from on-premise technology to on-demand services. Still not convinced? We’ll let the numbers tell the story.

A recent article in Datamation by Damu Kuttikrishnan caught my attention.  The article titled, “Cloud Computing: The Road Ahead,” highlights trends and predictions from analysts with leading industry research firms such as Forrester, Gartner and IDC. Here are some key stats from a few of the industry reports that I found interesting and wanted to share:

A recent Forrester report “Sizing the Cloud” notes:

  • The cloud computing market will rise from $40.7 billion this year to more than $241 billion in 2020, with a year-to-year growth of over 20 percent.
  • Estimates tremendous growth in SaaS, with its market size estimated to be over 80 percent of the global public cloud market.

Gartner conducted its latest survey from 2,014 CIOs representing more than $160 billion in CIO IT spending and covering 38 industries across 50 countries. The survey showed that:

  • Only 3 percent of CIOs have more than half of their infrastructure and applications operating in the cloud. However, that number is expected to grow to 46 percent by 2015.
  • Gartner predicts that by 2014, worldwide cloud services revenue, both public and private, will reach more than $148 billion.

According to IDC:

  • Spending on IT cloud services may reach $4.6 billion by 2014.
  • By 2012, nearly 85 percent of net-new software firms coming to market will be built around SaaS service composition and delivery; and by 2014, about 65 percent of new products from ISVs will be delivered as SaaS services.
  • SaaS revenue will account for nearly 26 percent of net new growth in the software market in 2014.

Here at Sendmail, we believe that while finding a solution that takes advantage of the benefits of the cloud, it’s also important for enterprises to address the risks. When it comes to email in the cloud, it is not a cookie-cutter solution, and organizations need to continue to consider both the driver for cloud email as well as the risks.

Source: http://www.datamation.com/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-the-road-ahead-1.html

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Sendmail Attending and Exhibiting at VMworld 2011 Next Week!

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

Next week, we are looking forward to being a part of the VMworld Conference – the leading virtualization and cloud infrastructure event of the year.  The event takes place August 29 – September 1 at The Venetian Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Our Director of Product Management, Nick Fillippi, myself, and other Sendmail experts will showcase live demos on the show floor of the VMware Ready™ certified Sentrion® Virtual Message Processor™ (MPV) and will be talking about how Sendmail’s virtual solutions provide secure messaging capabilities with the added benefits of improving messaging operations. We are seeing more and more companies migrate their on-premises email infrastructure to virtualized environments to improve the efficiency levels of their message delivery operations.

Come say hello at the Sendmail booth – #967 – if you are at the show!  Or if you miss us and are interested in learning more, we always like to read your comments below.

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In the Cloud: Sendmail Knows Messaging

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

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.

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Email Fun Fact: How Many Emails Are Sent Every Day

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Barry Shurtz

Welcome to a new addition to the Sendmail blog, “Email Fun Facts!” While we will continue to deliver posts highlighting company and industry news here, we also want to talk more about…that’s right email– but in a more light-hearted nature that will give you something to rattle off at the water cooler of the next office party. Every other Friday, we would like to share with you a post with surprising and interesting trivia about the world of email.

For example, have you ever wondered just how many emails are sent every day? In April 2010, the Radicati Group, a technology market research firm, issued a report that estimated that in 2010, there was approximately 294 billion emails sent per day.  This means that more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and about 90 trillion emails are sent per year. We have said in the past and continue to support the fact that “email is not dead.”

And, I’m sure all of you are quite aware that many of the emails that fill your inbox weren’t exactly invited. A whopping 90 percent of the millions and trillions of messages are spam or viruses, according to the report, with only about 1.9 billion users sending legitimate emails.

In fact, the first spam message was sent out on May 3, 1978, when a DEC marketer sent news of a new computer operating system to approximately 600 recipients within ARPANET, the first major wide-area computer network. It was the last spam message to be seen for some time, as it was not received with a very positive reaction. Obviously…that is something that has changed.

Source: http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/first_spam.htm

http://email.about.com/od/emailtrivia/f/emails_per_day.htm

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