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Mirapoint Earns Five Prestigious Honors for Technology Innovation and Product Excellence.


SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Company Receives Product Recognition from American Business Awards, Frost & Sullivan, InfoWorld Magazine, PC Pro Magazine, and The Tolly Group

Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, has received several product honors recognizing its continued technology innovation and excellence. Further validating its leadership in the secure messaging market, the company is a finalist in the American Business Awards, was named Technology Innovation of the Year by Frost & Sullivan, secured a "Very Good" rating from InfoWorld, earned a five-star, "Recommended" rating from PC Pro and was awarded the "Up to Spec" certification by The Tolly Group.

"We are honored to receive such tremendous recognition from these highly influential organizations," said Barry Ariko, chief executive officer for Mirapoint. "This is strong validation of our continuing efforts to deliver innovative email solutions in the market to ensure that our customers have the most reliable and cost-effective secure messaging products available."

Mirapoint's RazorGate Named Technology Innovation of the Year

Mirapoint's RazorGate email security platform earned the company Frost & Sullivan's 2006 Technology Innovation of the Year in the field of appliance-based email. Frost & Sullivan's Technology Innovation of the Year Award is bestowed upon a company that has carried out new research, which has resulted in innovation(s) that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. This award recognizes the quality and depth of a company's research and development program as well as the vision and risk-taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavor.

"Protection against email attacks to ensure an available, secure, messaging environment is critical to today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002.  enterprises," said Vedavalli Rangan, research analyst for Frost & Sullivan. "The Frost & Sullivan Award A Sullivan Award may refer to:
  • Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award or Mary Mildred Sullivan Award; awarded at 29-grantee institutions of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation.
 for Technology Innovation of the Year recognizes Mirapoint's development of a next-generation email security platform as a solution that provides multi-layered email protection and facilitates enhanced, secure messaging performance. The RazorGate appliance offers high-performance throughput for the efficient scanning of messages and increased storage capacity to offload To remove work from one computer and do it on another. See cooperative processing.  junk mails See spam and junk faxes. , all at a highly competitive price point."

Recently Introduced M50 All-in-One Appliance Wins Early Kudos

Earning a five-star rating for performance, features and designs and value for money, Mirapoint's M50 all-in-one messaging and security appliance Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances.  received the PC Pro "Recommended" ranking, a stamp of approval from the publication's enterprise hardware experts and given to products that PC Pro's experts recommend for the intended implementation.

The July 2006 article reports that Mirapoint's M50 appliance "takes messaging security to the next level" and "provides a sophisticated range of capabilities." The article also states that for those thinking of upgrading their email system, "the M50 should be at the top of your list." The full review can be read at http://www.mirapoint.com/news/articles/PC-Pro-review.pdf

Mirapoint's M50 was also named a finalist in the Best New Product or Service Category of the American Business Awards. Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10  (April 27, 2005), The American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in the workplace. Winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 12 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
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"Being named a Finalist in The American Business Awards is an important achievement," said Michael Gallagher Michael Gallagher is the name of several different people:
  • Michael Gallagher (bishop), bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
  • Michael Gallagher (US politician), the Assistant Secretary for Commerce and Information in the United States Department of Commerce
, founder and president of The Stevie Awards The Stevie Awards were created in 2002 to honor and generate public recognition of the efforts, accomplishments, and positive contributions of companies and business people worldwide. . "It means that independent business executives have agreed that the nominee is worthy of national recognition. We congratulate all of the Finalists on their achievement and wish them well in the competition."

Mirapoint Offers an Attractive Alternative to Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox.  

To round out the accolades, The Tolly Group reviewed Mirapoint's Message Server email appliance See e-mail appliance.  and awarded it an "Up-to-Spec" certification. Designated as a proven "plug-and-play" alternative for Microsoft's Exchange email platform and other enterprise messaging solutions, Mirapoint's Message Server offers organizations a way to reduce costs and complexity in their message network and according to according to
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 the Tolly Group report, "provide a powerful arsenal of built-in weaponry at no additional cost."

According to The Tolly Group, Mirapoint's Message Server is an attractive and viable alternative to Microsoft's Exchange email platform for enterprise customers' needs in messaging. The evaluation also notes that the "rapid and simple installation is a hallmark of the Mirapoint offering," and "...the Mirapoint solution eliminates the time consuming complexity of the native Microsoft solution."

"Mirapoint's Message Server demonstrated high performance and reliability throughout the rigorous testing conducted by Tolly Group engineers," said Kevin Tolly, president, 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.  and founder of The Tolly Group. "The Mirapoint appliance is easily installed and integrated, seamlessly works with all leading email clients See e-mail program. , provides industry-leading reliability, and has an outstanding webmail client, making it an attractive drop-in alternative to Exchange for enterprise messaging."

The complete 23-page whitepaper can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/nzhws

Mirapoint Message Server Highly Rated by InfoWorld

In addition, InfoWorld honored Mirapoint's Message Server with a "Very Good" rating and a score of 8.2 for combining an "easily managed and capable e-mail/calendar server with excellent e-mail security features." According to the May 26 issue of InfoWorld, Mirapoint's Message Server offers a "flexible and scalable e-mail solution and an excellent user experience."

The complete product review can be viewed at http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/05/26/78562_22TCmailsec_1.html

Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with proven email server See mail server. , archiving and security appliances that offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). Mirapoint's Message Server is the industry's only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management. The industry's first email archiving See e-mail archiving.  appliance that employs corporate policies to index and organize messages, Mirapoint's ComplianceVault appliance reduces the cost and complexity of archiving email by eliminating space-wasting spam and duplicated email content, as well as categorizing messages for easy search and retrieval. Mirapoint's RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent. Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About The Tolly Group

The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting organization based in Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , FL., offers a full range of services designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit its Web site at http://www.tolly.com. E-mail info@tolly.com, call (561) 391-5610, or fax (561) 391-5810.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

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