EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 17, 2009 - Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of reliable and secure email and messaging infrastructures, today announced the availability of its new managed email infrastructure services with the introduction of Sendmail Sentrion® Cloud Services™. Sentrion Cloud Services provides enterprise customers with more choice, agility, control and protection by offering a cost-effective SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution to filter inbound emails for spam and viruses before they are managed and regulated by the on-premises messaging infrastructure solutions. Sendmail's on-premises Sentrion Message Processors provide the more critical email-backbone functions such as data loss prevention, directory-driven message routing and content policy enforcement with proven high return-on-investment for large enterprises.

Enterprise customers are moving to a hybrid message processing architecture with a hosted approach to email filtering because of the significant cost savings realized by pushing commodity functions to the cloud. Just as important is the continued need to manage higher value complex message routing, delivery and content policy requirements on-premises. Messages caught by outbound or internal content controls typically should not leave the private network. The addition of Sentrion Cloud Services to Sendmail's portfolio of messaging infrastructure solutions provides enterprise customers the choice to use Sentrion Message Processor appliances for inbound spam protection and their internal policy management layer, or the ability to architect a hybrid-hosted solution that meets their specific requirements.

Sentrion Cloud Services provides businesses an immediate return on investment by reducing the infrastructure required for managing spam on-premises. The savings are realized by requiring fewer servers at the gateway to accept inbound mail and by reducing data center footprint, network traffic, storage costs and energy consumption.

"The current economic realities and industry shifts are causing enterprise customers to re-think their approach to managing their email infrastructure," said Stephanie Nevin, vice president of marketing, Sendmail. "By pushing the commodity filtering function to the cloud, businesses can reduce their overall operating expenses and focus their attention on the mission-critical internal email infrastructure to ensure that the important policy and routing requirements for corporate governance, regulatory compliance and data leak prevention are handled safely on-premises."

Sentrion Cloud Services gives enterprise customers the same level of protection from spam and viruses as the Sentrion MP™ (Message Processor) hard appliance, the Sentrion MPQ™ (Quantum Message Processor) Blade Server appliance, and the Sentrion MPV™ (Virtual Message Processor) that runs as a virtual appliance on VMWare.

Sentrion Cloud Services Advantages

Sentrion Cloud Services offers a number of advantages for flexible, managed and secure email systems that include the following:

• The hybrid configuration provides cost-effective message filtering while ensuring that the important internal policy and routing requirements for corporate governance, regulatory compliance and data leak prevention are handled safely on-premises.
• An immediate return on investment by reducing the infrastructure required for managing spam on-premises.
• Industry proven anti-spam, IP reputation and zero-hour anti-virus protection.
• Anti-phishing technology based upon heuristic scanners and URL filtering.
• Full attachment filtering.
• TLS encryption support.
• LDAP directory synchronization for end-user provisioning.
• Off-premises spam quarantine.
• Easy to use web-based end-user quarantine access with daily digest.
• Administrative and end-user policies for level white and blacklists.
• Flexible policies for filtering spam based on country and language.

Availability

Sendmail Sentrion Cloud Services is available immediately.

Additional Supporting Resources

Review the features and benefits of Sentrion Cloud Services as well read the blog posting from Sendmail's experts. Additionally, learn how to reduce your operating expenses by modernizing your messaging infrastructure in a video featuring Gartner.

About Sendmail, Inc.
Sendmail provides a message processing platform consisting of appliances, applications and services, architected to enable enterprises to modernize messaging infrastructure with an intelligent email backbone for policy-based message routing and managing system generated communications between groupware systems, deployed on-premise or in the cloud, and the Internet. Since 1982, thousands of enterprises around the world have relied on Sendmail open source and the award winning Sentrion hard and virtual appliances, with optional plug-in messaging applications from the Sentrion Application Store for gateway management, inbound threat protection, outbound data leak security, full message content scanning for regulatory compliance, and critical customer communications. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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