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Mirapoint Selected by STMicroelectronics for Global Message Network
Semiconductor Giant Replaces Software–based Messaging Infrastructure with Mirapoint’s More Reliable, Secure & Low Total Cost of Ownership Appliances

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 27th 2004 – Mirapoint, a proven leader in email server and security appliances for enterprise customers, today announced that STMicroelectronics (ST), one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers, has standardized on Mirapoint Message Server appliances. Deployed in early–2004, ST will use Mirapoint’s purpose–built solutions to provide end–to–end email routing, storage, access and management functions across ST’s global message network consisting of over thirty sites and 32,000 enterprise employees.

Prior to deploying Mirapoint, ST used HP Openmail software running on a general–purpose UNIX server for its enterprise–wide email. Not only was the Openmail–based solution proprietary with a high ongoing cost of ownership, the system required a considerable degree of specialization by the company’s IT group and was becoming increasingly difficult to manage across multiple sites. In order to alleviate these management headaches, the company began looking for a new messaging solution that could be managed globally by a single team, and offer the scalability, reliability, low ongoing cost of ownership and security features necessary to meet the demands of ST’s growing business.

“We found Mirapoint’s appliance approach to email was the best solution for ST in terms of Internet standards–based design, proven reliability and built–in security,” said Herve Regad–Pellagru, corporate mail manager at STMicroelectronics. “Many of the solutions we evaluated were proprietary and required too much ongoing management, which made them inflexible and too costly for a globally distributed enterprise of our size. We needed a solution that could be easily administered from a central location, and only Mirapoint allows us to do that. Mirapoint has also demonstrated powerful cost of ownership savings for ST that have helped us dramatically reduce ongoing administration costs.

”As part of the selection process, the Mirapoint Message Server appliances were subjected to rigorous performance, reliability and usability testing by the ST team. Confident with the Mirapoint solution, ST began implementing the Mirapoint solution in late–2003 across its thirty–three sites in the USA, Europe and Asia. The complete migration from OpenMail to Mirapoint was completed in early–2004 and today only four full–time email administrators are needed to remotely manage ST’s global message network.

“Mirapoint’s robust, secure, optimized appliance approach perfectly meets ST’s needs, not only in terms of messaging but in terms of cost. It has been proven that Mirapoint offers the lowest TCO over a 3–year period of all the leading messaging vendors” states Jacques Montibert, Mirapoint’s manager for Southern Europe. “Furthermore, given the Mirapoint Message Server’s ability to scale to support large numbers of users and millions of messages, the system will effortlessly and seamlessly evolve with ST’s growing performance needs”.

With its new messaging infrastructure from Mirapoint, ST has made significant leaps forward in terms of its enterprise–wide email and collaboration capabilities. ST no longer experiences the internal interoperability and management headaches they faced with their older messaging solution, plus ST’s users now have a more reliable, dependable and secure communications platform with Mirapoint. Due to their positive experience, ST is now evaluating adding advanced group calendaring functionality from Mirapoint, plus other features for end–user flexibility, like Outlook and PDA SynQ.

About Mirapoint Appliances
The Mirapoint Message Server is the industry’s only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management with Mirapoint’s comprehensive, multi–layered Full–Spectrum™ email security technology. The Mirapoint Message Server 45–Series is designed to support any enterprise, service provider, government or education customer trying to deliver email to a broad base of users that demand anytime, anywhere access to carrier–grade email services.

Designed to complement an existing email server, like Microsoft Exchange, Mirapoint also offers the RazorGate email security appliances that provide multi–layered security protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats. The RazorGate appliances also provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting.

About Mirapoint
Mirapoint is a leader in solutions for message networks used by enterprise, service provider, education and government institutions. Customers use Mirapoint solutions, including the new line of RazorGate email security appliances, to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage Internet messages, including email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at http://www.mirapoint.com.

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