Mirapoint Provides Reliable, Flexible Platform to Meet Increased Messaging Needs for 3,000 Users

SEATTLE, (Educause 2007, Booth #1209) – October 23, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced that Endicott College has extended its Mirapoint email deployment to include faculty and staff.  Endicott initially implemented the Mirapoint Message Server™ for its student population in January 2007, when the solution was selected, deployed, provisioned and activated in less than two weeks, while students were off for their Winter Break.  Mirapoint’s successful deployment with Endicott College underscores the company’s ability to meet the needs of higher education customers with reliable, flexible and easy-to-deploy messaging solutions.

Located in Beverly, Mass., Endicott ranks number 17 among Baccalaureate Colleges (North) according the U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges 2008 report.  This second phase of the university’s Mirapoint deployment follows the incredible success of its initial roll out to the student population.  Endicott College had been using an open source solution that required significant IT resources for administration and management.  Additionally, the university was quickly approaching the 10 Megabyte (MB) capacity limit it had allocated to each student through the existing email solution.  At the end of the first term, the determination was made that the existing email system would not last another semester.

“Our EMUMAIL system was failing and we were quickly approaching our capacity limit.  The constant administration required was consuming our small IT department, yet we were not able to keep pace with student email usage practices; we knew we had to make a change immediately,” said Gary Kelley, chief information systems officer, Endicott College.  “Our only window of opportunity was during the Winter Break of 2007.  Mirapoint met the challenge, successfully deploying and activating the email system within a matter of days.”

Endicott had evaluated other messaging solutions and decided on Mirapoint based upon ease of deployment and administration.  The university has a small IT department to support the combined student, faculty and staff population of approximately 3,000.  Ease of use was a critical deciding factor.

“We evaluated other solutions but none afforded the administrative time savings Mirapoint provided.  For example, we calculated a Microsoft Exchange implementation would require at least two IT personnel to deploy and run it, and we simply don’t have those resources,” continued Kelley.  “With Mirapoint we went from spending two hours a day on our email system to spending two hours a week if that.”

Mirapoint Message Server has helped Endicott reduce administrative time, improve the reliability of its messaging environment, and extend the per-user capacity to support today’s email usage practices.  Endicott deployed the Mirapoint solution with 50 MB allocated to all students, and 100 MB to faculty and staff.  Increased capacity can be added as well.  The Mirapoint Message Server will also bring greater flexibility to Endicott’s messaging infrastructure to support future evolution.  As an example, the university has plans to migrate from point-of-presence (POP) servers to an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) environment so that local clients can access email on remote servers.  Endicott has also been impressed with the ease of porting data from administrative systems into the Mirapoint system.

“We are very pleased Endicott College has extended its Mirapoint deployment to include faculty and staff in addition to the student population,” said Barry Ariko, president and chief executive officer, Mirapoint.  “By removing administrative, feature and capacity constraints from their messaging infrastructures, universities such as Endicott can empower their constituents with the full productivity today’s email applications have to offer.”

EDUCAUSE attendees can learn more about Mirapoint messaging solutions by visiting booth #1209 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle, Wash., October 23-26, 2007.

About the Mirapoint Message Server

The Mirapoint Message Server is a solid foundation for a secure messaging infrastructure, providing a standards-based platform that intelligently serves, secures and manages messages with multi-mode client access. Mirapoint appliances offer the industry’s best price-performance and the scalability to handle the most demanding messaging environments. The Message Server appliance includes advanced features such as group scheduling, calendaring and address book. For large, multi-tier deployments, the Message Server easily and seamlessly integrates with the RazorGate® and Directory Server™ appliances.

About Endicott College

Founded in 1939 by Dr. Eleanor Tupper and her husband, Dr. George O. Bierkoe, Endicott College is an innovative, vibrant, student-centered institution that supports undergraduate and graduate students in their pursuit of knowledge.  For more information on Endicott College, visit www.endicott.edu.

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, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.  For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

Press Contact:
Arlene Lim
Loughlin/Michaels Group for Mirapoint
(408) 910-3112
arlene@lmgpr.com

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