Cloudmark Wins over 200 New Customers with Trade-up Program; Company Extends Offer for Its Entire Suite of Products as It Closes Most Successful Year to Date.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 -- 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 over 200 new customers have participated in its trade-up program, whereby Cloudmark replaces any company's existing anti-spam solution free of charge with Cloudmark's superior email security solutions and standard support for the duration of the current subscription.(1) Due to the immediate success of the trade-up program, Cloudmark has decided to extend the offer through March 2005. Companies of all sizes are still eligible for the trade-up program, replacing their existing solutions with Cloudmark Immunity(TM) for large enterprises and Cloudmark Exchange Edition(TM) for small and medium businesses. For personal users, Cloudmark's newly launched SafetyBar(TM) solution (formerly SpamNet(TM)) is also eligible for a trade-up through a $20.00 rebate when a one-year subscription is purchased. For more details on Cloudmark's offer or to sign-up for Cloudmark's trade-up program, please visit http://www.cloudmark.com/tradeup/. "2004 has been a breakthrough year for Cloudmark as we introduced a complete suite of products -- Cloudmark Immunity, Cloudmark Exchange Edition, and Cloudmark SafetyBar -- that provide our customers with the most accurate, simple and uncluttered security solutions on the market," 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. of Cloudmark. "We knew that if we showed we were willing to put our money where our mouth is, we'd see immediate defectors from dissatisfied customers of other solution providers and we anticipate this trend to continue with the program's extension." "We were extremely excited for Cloudmark to offer a cost-effective trade-up offer for its Cloudmark Exchange Edition solution. The evaluation period Evaluation period The time interval over which funds assess a money manager's performance. & trade-up offer allowed us to evaluate Cloudmark and implement a more effective anti-spam solution than our current solution in our environment," said Hein & Associates LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol . "Cloudmark Exchange Edition has proven to be the most accurate and effective solution we've evaluated, providing us with a much more comprehensive email anti-spam platform than our previous solution." Market Solutions 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. In April, the company introduced Cloudmark Exchange Edition(TM) (CEE cee n. The letter c. ), the easy-to-use, server-side, anti-spam solution, specifically for small and medium businesses (SMB). Powered by Cloudmark SafetyBar(TM), the most accurate desktop solution as proven by customers and PC Magazine two years in a row, to stop over 98 percent of spam automatically without losing critical business emails, CEE has added over 400 new direct SMB customers to the thousands of other companies using Cloudmark technology. Enterprise In June, the company launched Cloudmark Immunity, the first and only enterprise email security solution to combine advanced Email Genetic Mapping(TM) (EGM EGM Electronic Gaming Machine EGM Electronic Gaming Monthly EGM Extraordinary General Meeting EGM Expert Group Meeting EGM Estudio General de Medios (Spanish: General Means Study) EGM Emergency General Meeting ) with nDimensional technology to automatically learn the preferences of the enterprise and its employees. In addition to the tremendous success of the trade-up program, Cloudmark signed new partnerships with the General Services Administration The General Services Administration (GSA) was established by section 101 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C.A. § 751). The GSA sets policy for and manages government property and records. , Openwave, Secure Computing For the general concept, see . Secure Computing Corporation, or SCC, is a public company (NASDAQ: SCUR) that develops and sells computer security products, such as:
Consumer In November, the company launched Cloudmark SafetyBar(TM) 4.0, the easy-to-use anti-spam and anti-fraud solution for Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook (R) and Outlook Express(R). SafetyBar, backed by the first and largest community of spam and fraud fighters, protects more than 1.1 million users in 153 countries from spam, fraud and all email threats before harm is done. Formerly SpamNet, SafetyBar stands alone as the world's most award-winning desktop solution, by scoring the highest accuracy rate in PC Magazine's last four reviews, while registering consecutive zero false positives in the magazine's last two reviews. SafetyBar remains undefeated as the best spam protection this year having consistently garnered top accuracy to win PC World's Best Buy, PC World 2004 World Class Award for Best Spam Filter, PC Magazine's Editor's Choice and PC Magazine's 5 Stars for accuracy among other industry awards. In addition to its recognition by leading technology publications as the most award-winning anti-spam solution, SafetyBar was chosen by PayPal in December to provide the e-commerce security leader's 50 million worldwide customers with anti-fraud protection free of charge. Funding In recognition of Cloudmark's leadership position in the desktop, small, medium and large enterprise space, the company received $11 million in its final round of funding from FTVentures, Presidio Venture Partners, a Sumitomo Corporation company, and its major initial investor, Ignition Partners. The investment strengthened Cloudmark's already solid financial position, and will enable the company to further fund research and development and expand its ability to meet the growing worldwide demand for innovative e-mail security solutions among enterprise, service provider, small business and consumer markets. About Cloudmark, Inc. Founded in 2001, Cloudmark(TM) is the company that delivers the immune system for email. The company offers tailored anti-spam and anti-fraud solutions for the individual user, small and medium businesses (SMBs), large enterprises and service providers to bring immediate relief to thousands of businesses and more than a million individuals in 153 countries using its solutions today. 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. Prominent 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] Ignition Partners, Presidio Venture Partners, a Sumitomo Corporation company, and FTVentures back the company. For more information about Cloudmark, visit the company's web site at: http://www.cloudmark.com/. Cloudmark, the Cloudmark logo, SpamNet, SafetyBar, Email Genetic Map (EGM), Trust Evaluation System (TeS) and Email Genetic Mapping 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. (1) Additional terms and conditions apply. Go to www.cloudmark.com/tradeup/ for more information. |
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