Akonix and FrontBridge Partner to Provide Integrated Compliance and Archiving for Email and Instant Messaging.SAN DIEGO -- Akonix Systems, Inc., the premier provider of solutions for security, control and integration of instant messaging (IM), today announced the addition of FrontBridge Technologies Inc. to its technology partner program, empowering customers with the ability to deploy an integrated, hosted, archiving and compliance solution for both email and instant messaging. FrontBridge Technologies is the leader in Total Message Management, delivering comprehensive managed services for the compliance, continuity and security of electronic messaging. The integrated solution was driven by customer demand, particularly among financial services clients. These customers utilize Akonix L7 Enterprise IM management system for controlling, logging and securing instant messaging. Through this partnership, customers can now add IM archives to email archives that are stored and managed in their FrontBridge Message Archive system - providing one location for ensuring records retention compliance for all electronic communications. "Our partnership with Akonix helps us provide customers with total solutions for archiving all electronic messages, whether from email or over IM," said Dan Nadir, vice president of product management for FrontBridge Technologies. "We are seeing increasing demand from our customer base in securing, logging and controlling IM communications and our partnership with Akonix will help us deliver the most comprehensive suite for managing all types of electronic communications." The Akonix and FrontBridge solution gives customers the capability to filter, monitor and archive all electronic communications, which is needed for full compliance with major regulatory requirements such as SEC Rule 17a-4, NASD NASD See: National Association of Securities Dealers NASD See National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). Rule 3010, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, and Sarbanes-Oxley, among others. "Frontbridge's Total Message Management services are recognized for their pioneering position at the forefront of the managed messaging services industry," said Peter Shaw, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Akonix. "Our ability to leverage FrontBridge's ASP features for compliance and archiving, and combine them with Akonix's instant messaging expertise, gives corporate customers the most powerful electronic communications management solution available today." To learn more about Akonix L7 Enterprise IM management solutions or for a free trial, please visit www.akonix.com. About FrontBridge Technologies FrontBridge delivers comprehensive Total Message Management services for email and instant message compliance, security and continuity, ensuring the safety, manageability and accessibility of all electronic communications. The service offering delivers message archiving, spam filtering, virus scanning, encrypted email, policy enforcement and disaster recovery. Services are powered globally by the only load-balanced, fully redundant data center network. FrontBridge is based in Los Angeles, Calif. and its managed services are trusted and relied upon by more than 3,000 businesses across the globe. FrontBridge maintains the managed service industry's largest distribution partner network, including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Sprint, VeriSign, Siemens Business Services Inc., TELUS TELUS Telemetric Universal Sensor and Equant. For more information, visit us on the web at www.frontbridge.com. About Akonix Akonix is the leading provider of enterprise-class business solutions for leveraging the power of multi-network enterprise instant messaging. Akonix's award-winning products leverage patent-pending core technology, an advanced IM application development platform, and certified strategic partnerships to deliver multi-network management, security, integration and compliance capabilities across all major IM systems, including America Online(R) AIM and ICQ ("I Seek You") A conferencing program for the Internet from Mirabilis, Tel Aviv, Israel (www.icq.com). It provides interactive chat, e-mail and file transfer and can alert you when someone on your predefined list has also come online. , Microsoft MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). , Yahoo! Messenger, Microsoft(R) Live Communications Server, Reuters Messaging, IBM Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) and Jabber An open standard for instant messaging (IM). There are tens of thousands of Jabber servers on the Internet, most of which are privately run within a company or college campus. There are also hundreds of public Jabber servers that any user can register with, Google Talk being the largest. . More than 500 customers in Financial Services, Telecommunications, Energy, Technology, Healthcare and Entertainment depend on Akonix to manage, secure and enable IM for over 700,000 enterprise users. Akonix is the preferred IM management solution of some of the world's largest companies, including Cingular Wireless, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. and ING. Akonix is widely recognized as the technology and market innovator with awards for its L7 Enterprise IM gateway from Windows & .NET Magazine, Network World, eWeek, SC Magazine, PC Magazine and Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: . Akonix is backed by leading venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] Menlo Ventures, Mission Ventures, Palomar Ventures and Windward Ventures, who collectively manage over $3.5 billion in capital. |
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