Cloudmark Gains Momentum with Small and Medium Businesses in Fight Against Spam and Fraud.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Company Adds 400 New Cloudmark Exchange Edition Customers Since Launch and Announces a Free Trial for Instant No-Risk Protection Cloudmark(TM) Inc., the company that delivers the immune system immune system Cells, cell products, organs, and structures of the body involved in the detection and destruction of foreign invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and cancer cells. Immunity is based on the system's ability to launch a defense against such invaders. for email, today announced that in only four months it has added over 400 new direct Cloudmark Exchange Edition(TM) (CEE cee n. The letter c. ) small and medium sized business (SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. ) customers to the thousands of other companies using Cloudmark technology. CEE is a risk-free, server-side, anti-spam and anti-fraud solution that for the first time offers a free 15-day trial. The trial is easy to download, provides immediate protection and can be instantly activated from inside the product, with no interruption to your service. To download the free trial, please visit http://cloudmark.com/exchangeedition/download/. CEE is powered by Cloudmark SafetyBar(TM), formerly SpamNet(TM), the most award-winning desktop solution proven by its customers and leading technology publications, PC World and PC Magazine, to stop over 98 percent of spam with zero false positives. By taking advantage of automatic real-time updates from the SafetyBar community of more than one million users in 72 countries, CEE delivers instant spam and fraud protection with no configuration and no maintenance -- critical requirements of SMBs that often operate with minimal IT staff. "Small and medium size businesses tell us that spam is becoming a more serious network efficiency and security concern for them," said Craig Spiezle, Director, Safety Technology and Strategy Team at Microsoft Corp. "By extending the native email server See mail server. protection capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is widely used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure solutions. with Cloudmark's real-time anti-spam technology, our mutual customers now have an excellent, maintenance-free solution to help keep unwanted email traffic out of their networks so that precious company resources can be more strategically aligned." According to a recent report by the Yankee Group, spam and viruses rank as the top two security breaches for SMB's -- over 80 percent fall victim to these forms of messaging abuse and suffer major losses in business productivity. "Beginning with the easy and problem-free installation to the intuitive administrative console, the whole operational experience has been extremely positive," said Bynumn Michie, Assistant Director of IT, Southern Methodist University's Cox Business School. "But, I think that the real measure of Cloudmark's product is the feedback that I get from the end users -- everyone has commented what a difference CEE has made in eliminating inappropriate spam messages." In addition to unmatched accuracy levels, Cloudmark Exchange Edition seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Exchange Server(TM), allowing for easy installation and administration, while completely eliminating client-side software and its associated configuration and maintenance costs. "We had hundreds of SMB's using Cloudmark's desktop solution, SafetyBar, and they told us to design a product with the same results at the server level," said Karl Jacob, 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. for Cloudmark. "It made perfect sense to leverage the technology they already loved and quickly deliver the CEE solution on-demand, which has been very well received." About Cloudmark Exchange Edition Cloudmark Exchange Edition communicates with the Microsoft Exchange Server through Microsoft's standard Messaging Application Programming Interface (messaging) Messaging Application Programming Interface - (MAPI) A messaging architecture and a client interface component for applications such as electronic mail, scheduling, calendaring and document management. (MAPI (Mail API) A programming interface from Microsoft that enables a client application to send to and receive mail from Exchange Server or a Microsoft Mail (MS Mail) messaging system. Microsoft applications such as Outlook, the Exchange client and Microsoft Schedule use MAPI. ) to receive notifications when messages arrive, and to perform various preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. actions on messages that have been determined to be spam or fraud. As email arrives and the Exchange Server routes it to its addressees, CEE computes a unique signature or indistinguishable one-way hash for each message and sends it to the Cloudmark Service for evaluation. When the Cloudmark Service determines that a message is spam, it notifies the CEE server. Based on the organization's specified policy, it then tags the message in the addressee's mailbox, moves it to a spam folder, or deletes it. Cloudmark Exchange Edition also offers reporting, so administrators can review statistics on how many messages CEE is filtering, how many users are enabled and how much time and money the product is saving the organization to demonstrate ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and increased productivity across an organization. About Cloudmark, Inc. Cloudmark(TM) is the company that delivers the immune system for email. The company offers tailored anti-spam solutions for the desktop, small and medium businesses (SMBs) and the large enterprise -- providing immediate spam relief to thousands of businesses and more than a million desktops in 72 countries. Cloudmark invented the highly effective spamDNA technology, the recent innovation of Email Genetic Mapping(TM) coupled with Cloudmark's revolutionary nDimensional technology, and the first peer-to-peer, real-time, SpamFighting community in 1998. CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. Jordan Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r , also co-founder of Napster, and Vipul Ved Prakash Vipul Ved Prakash (born 1977) is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He is perhaps best known for creation of Vipul's Razor, a collaborative anti-spam system. In 2001, Vipul co-founded Cloudmark, a company that builds email security software for consumers, enterprises and ISPs , chief scientist and author of Vipul's Razor founded Cloudmark. For more information about Cloudmark, visit the company's web site at: http://www.cloudmark.com/. Cloudmark, the Cloudmark logo, Cloudmark Exchange Edition, SafetyBar, and SpamNet are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cloudmark, Inc. for use in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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