Everyone.net Announces 100 Education Customers Now Use its Outsourced Email.Business Editors/Education Writers/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 2003 University Outsources Email to Everyone.net to Reduce Cost of Providing Communication Solution to Students Everyone.net, a leading provider of affordable, carrier-class email services, today announced its 100th education customer, as California State University Enrollment  Channel Islands selects Everyone.net to provide an email box to every enrolled student. The university is deploying Everyone.net's Web-based email Web-based email or webmail is a term referring to an e-mail service intended to be primarily accessed via a web browser, as opposed to through an application such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express, Mozilla's Thunderbird or Apple's Mail. service to save money over internally-managed alternatives, while still bringing full-featured email to students. According to Peter Mosinskis, Coordinator of Web Services for CSU See DSU/CSU. 1. CSU - California State University. 2. CSU - Cleveland State University. 3. CSU - Channel Service Unit. Channel Islands, the university looked into internally-managed email, but a cost-comparison showed significant money and IT staff resources could be saved by outsourcing to Everyone.net. The public university is facing severe budget cuts from the state of California, even as it is expected to grow from 2,300 students enrolled today, to 15,000 students served by 2025. Such budget cuts and growing student populations reflect trends that are triggering the use of outsourced services such as Everyone.net's. Everyone.net allows the university to roll out full-featured email cost-effectively, with no capital expenditures, and to scale with the student growth. "We felt that because Everyone.net currently handles large volumes of email, they are a dependable partner. Plus, their email service has strong spam and virus protection, and a complete feature set, which were requirements," Mosinskis stated. "We didn't want the educational goals of this email system to be obscured by spam," Mosinskis explained. "Our pilot test with students indicates they are very pleased with the customizable levels of spam protection." Everyone.net's email service includes mailboxes with user and administrator controls, plus custom storage, anti-spam and virus protection, and other functionality. The service allows administrators to implement tailored configurations that meet all student privacy and data-security regulations, and to control the look and feel of the login page. "Everyone.net's flexible solution paths let us meet each educational institution's needs," said Josh Mailman, vice president of marketing for Everyone.net. "Today we serve 100 schools, universities and other learning institutions with services from web email for students and faculty to affinity email for college sports and alumni groups to comprehensive solutions including Web, IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol , POP, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. , spam and virus protection for entire campuses." Other Everyone.net education customers include Missouri College, American InterContinental University American InterContinental University, commonly called AIU, is an international for-profit university owned by Career Education Corporation (stock symbol CECO). It was founded in 1977 as the American College of Applied Arts. - London, and Official College Sports Network. About Everyone.net Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) is based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , and offers custom email services. The company has provisioned over 26 million mailboxes for over 150,000 domains since 1998. Its cost-effective solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure and include advanced services like IMAP as well as spam protection and anti-virus. The company's financial backers include two premier 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] , El Dorado Ventures and Labrador Ventures. |
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