Emeryville, Calif., May 12, 2009 — Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of reliable and secure email and messaging infrastructures, today announced it has signed CLAdirect, a proven distributor of IP networking solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean, as a sales distribution partner for the region. Effective immediately, Sendmail's suite of hard appliance Sentrion® Message Processors and its recently announced Sentrion® Cloud Services™ solution will be available to enterprise customers in the fast growing region via CLAdirect's sales and support organization.

Latin America is experiencing rapid technology growth, with an Internet market increase of 30.9 percent in 2008, according to IDC. As enterprise organizations adapt to meet the new demands of the region, they are recognizing that the increase in managing enterprise messaging complexities makes early UNIX and open source initiatives ineffective and costly to maintain. Point solutions for anti-virus and anti-spam filtering are also not meeting the rapidly growing needs for the more critical email-backbone functions, such as data loss prevention, directory-driven message routing and content policy enforcement. CLAdirect's distribution of Sendmail's external protection and internal policy management solutions meets these evolving messaging needs by offering increased efficiencies with considerable return-on-investment due to the cost savings gained from modernizing the messaging infrastructure.

“We are experiencing increased demand for our unique messaging infrastructure products in Latin America and the Caribbean” said Stephanie Nevin, vice president of marketing and business development, Sendmail. “CLAdirect's distinct market knowledge in the area and experience in selling complex technology solutions will help them be a successful channel partner for Sendmail in the region. This agreement is a natural extension of our global efforts to deliver appliance-based products, applications and services that enable Global 2000 and large enterprise corporations to modernize their messaging infrastructures.”

“We are pleased to join with Sendmail as their newest solution provider and channel partner in Latin America and the Caribbean,” said Alberto Gross, president, CLAdirect. “Sendmail is a leader in the messaging industry and their team of Messaging Architects has invaluable insight into the pain points of enterprise corporations seeking to cut operating expenses, improve the agility of their messaging systems and gain significant return-on-investment. It's a terrific opportunity to have a collective CLAdirect sales force represent Sendmail and we look forward to helping build their customer base in this advancing region.”

About CLAdirect

CLAdirect is the expert distributor of IP networking solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since 1997, the company has worked closely with its clients to design, sell, install, configure, and support all types of solutions for internetworking throughout the region, in cost efficient ways. CLAdirect is headquartered in Miami and extends its reach through local offices in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Panamá, Perú, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.

For more information email info@cladirect.com.

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.

For more information call 1-87-SENDMAIL or email info@sendmail.com.

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