Hosted Services

"Mirapoint provides us with high availability, tight integration with our management system, and just peace of mind." – Dickey Rural Networks “Because of mirapoint’s low total cost of ownership, we can profitably offer our customers a solution At half the cost of using one well-known messaging platform and one quarter of another.” – NavLink

Datamonitor believes user demand will shift from email filtering softwaresolutions to appliances and services. It forecasts the email filtering appliancemarket will grow at a CAGR of 32% from $224 million in 2004 to reach $701 million by 2008. But, Datamonitor expects email filtering services to grow atan even greater CAGR of 44% from $223 million in 2004 to $958 million byyear-end 2008.

THINKstrategies’ research shows that enterprises are becoming more receptive to hosted email and security services for the following reasons,

• The sheer volume and magnitude of today’s email security threats are too great for enterprises to combat.
• The sophistication of the email security threats is beyond the skills of enterprise IT professionals.
• The competitive pressures and budgetary constraints facing
  enterprises—large and small—preclude them from making sufficient investment in email security systems and staff.

As a consequence of these issues, organizations of all sizes are investigating and contracting for hosted email and email security services.

Mirapoint, Inc. offers a portfolio of email appliances which are aimed at ensuring optimal service reliability while minimizing the total cost of operations.The Mirapoint RazorGate® email security appliance leverages a patented, high-speed message transfer agent (MTA) to provide highly scalable, ‘carrier class’ 99.999% reliability, with redundant hardware components for even greater reliability. It also boasts industry-leading catch-rates of 98%+ with effectively no false positives. In addition to its impressive reliability statistics, Mirapoint’s RazorGate appliance also includes ‘pattern detection’ anti-spam, junk mail quarantine and integrated message encryption capabilities. It also can integrate easily with anti-virus solutions from multiple vendors.

The Mirapoint Message Server™ is the world’s only true appliance-based email server, providing a standards-based email platform that intelligently serves, secures and manages messages with multi-mode client access. 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.

Mirapoint appliance features give service providers greater flexibility in crafting their email service offerings. They can create a hosted email services model that includes security features such as anti-spam and anti-virus protection with integrated encryption alongside mail serving, storage, directory and archiving. Mirapoint users can offer Webmail via a private-labeled, enterprise-class web interface, or a mobility solution via BlackBerry, Treo or a smart phone service. Mirapoint’s appliances support full IMAP/POP email and instant messaging (IM) with fully integrated security. They can also support collaboration services, including shared calendar, address-book, folders, tasks, etc. In addition to integrating these important features into a single appliance, Mirapoint’s RazorGate and Message Server platforms are designed to be deployed quickly, scale to easily support over 100,000 users on a single system, and require minimum administration. These features dramatically lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase the potential operating margins for managed email service providers. The power and versatility of Mirapoint’s RazorGate and Message Server appliances has led to major carriers such as British Telecom and RIM as well as regional providers like BEK Communications Cooperative, Quality Technology Services and TelAlaska standardizing their managed email service solutions on these platforms.

To learn more or to request a free evaluation, call us at (800)937-8118 or email info@mirapoint.com.