Sendmail VMworld Survey Reports 56% of Companies Have Migrated Components of Their Email Infrastructure to Virtualized Environments
Emeryville, Calif., September 2, 2010 — Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of
message processing appliances and applications for enterprise messaging
infrastructures, today announced results of a survey focusing on key trends around
companies migrating their email infrastructures to virtualized environments. The survey
was conducted onsite during the VMworld Summit in San Francisco on August 31st with
over 200 survey participants. Sendmail is currently exhibiting at the VMworld event
(booth #940), and providing live demos on the show floor of the VMware Ready™
certified, Sentrion® Virtual Message Processor™ (MPV).
VMworld survey respondents were asked to provide insight around whether or not their
organization’s email infrastructure has been migrated to a virtualized environment, and
if so, which layers of their email infrastructure have been virtualized. Participants were
also polled about potential benefits and limitations that factored into their organization’s
decision to virtualize all or part of their email infrastructure.
Key findings of the survey include:
- 56% of companies have migrated components of their email infrastructure to a
virtualized environment. This statistic is reflective of the customer adoption rates
Sendmail has seen among enterprises utilizing the Sentrion Virtual Message
Processor (MPV).
- 38% of companies noted the Mail Store Layer (MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, etc.)
as the number one component of their email infrastructure that's been migrated
to a virtual environment, followed by Email Archiving Solutions (21%), and the
Gateway Filtering Layer (18%).
- 59% of respondents cited increased Server Utilization, which makes message
delivery more efficient, and High Availability / Failover Support, which ensures
messages are delivered even if systems fail, as the top benefits considered when
deciding to migrate their email infrastructures to a virtualized environment.
- 45% of respondents cited Performance/Throughput as the number one potential
limiting factor considered when deciding to migrate email infrastructures to a
virtualized environment, followed by concerns over security risks (14%).
- 87% of companies’ said their goals and expectations in achieving increased
server utilization rates and higher availability and failover support were met
and/or exceed by migrating part of their email infrastructure to a virtual
environment.
Based on these survey findings, a majority of companies today are successfully
migrating components of their email infrastructure to a virtualized environment, and
have done so despite concerns over security and system performance in order to
improve the efficiency and availability levels of their message delivery operations.
Having previously shared these concerns, many of Sendmail’s Global 2000 enterprise
customers selected the Sentrion MPV virtual appliance, which are pre-built, pre-
configured, ready-to-run enterprise applications packaged with an operating system
inside a virtual machine, to help them cut costs and improve their messaging
operations.
“Our recent survey results at VMworld confirm what many of our Global 2000 customers
have experienced when considering moving components of their email infrastructure to
a virtualized environment. While many companies are turning to virtualized solutions to
cut messaging infrastructure costs and improve operations, they struggle with achieving
their messaging virtualization goals because often times the performance and security
risks overshadow the potential benefits,” said Stephanie Nevin, Sendmail vice president
of marketing and business development. “With Sendmail Sentrion MPV virtual
appliances, enterprise companies are able to meet these goals and reduce costs
through server and application consolidation without sacrificing the overall performance
of their messaging operations or sacrificing messaging security.”
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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