News/Events

Mirapoint Offers Email Security Appliance on IBM BladeCenter To Secure Large Enterprise and Service Provider Networks
Mirapoint RazorGate on IBM BladeCenter will Help Scale Security for Large Networks

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (RSA Conference 2007, Booth #2143) – February 5, 2007 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced another security industry first - Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliance on IBM BladeCenter. This collaboration combines Mirapoint’s best in class email security technology with IBM’s industry leading BladeCenter to offer large enterprise and service provider customers a high performance, intensely scalable solution for delivering email security throughout their infrastructure. Mirapoint and IBM are demonstrating RazorGate on BladeCenter in Booth #2143 throughout the RSA Conference.

Delivering Scalable Non-Stop Security in a Blade Server Architecture
IBM BladeCenter offers the simplicity, density, availability, affordability, and scalability that are central to the blade technology promise, and IBM BladeCenter features help lead the way in enabling the self-optimization, self-healing, and self-protection crucial to the on demand computing revolution. With Mirapoint RazorGate and IBM BladeCenter, organizations can scale email security for their network even in extremely high growth, high demand environments. The Mirapoint RazorGate running on BladeCenter also provides best of breed anti-virus, anti-spam, unique edge blocking and user-based junk mail management to provide an air-tight email security no matter how large the organization.

“Together with IBM, we are addressing the critical need for intensely scalable, always on email security that our large enterprise and service provider customers demand” said Barry Ariko, CEO, Mirapoint. “We are very pleased to team with IBM to deliver this breakthrough technology combination that enables our customers to secure their email systems no matter how many users they must support.”

RazorGate Performance Meets the Needs of Large Organizations Worldwide
Top ranked by InfoWorld Magazine with an “Excellent” rating of 9.2, the RazorGate appliance delivers unique, edge blocking technology, zero hour anti-spam and anti-virus, inbound and outbound content filtering combined with industry-leading message throughput of more than 25 million messages per day, equating to more performance at half the price of other leading email security appliances.

"Large enterprises and service providers face the daunting task of securing increasingly complex and mission-critical messaging systems," said Christian Christiansen, program vice president, Security Products and Services, IDC. "Putting email security on BladeCenter, as Mirapoint and IBM have done, provides significant enterprise value because it potentially reduces server consolidation, scale and security issues with one solution."

Pricing and Availability
Pricing for Mirapoint’s RazorGate on IBM BladeCenter will be comparable to RazorGate appliance based pricing and will be available 2H07. For more information on Mirapoint, please visit Booth #2143 during the RSA Conference 2007, Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif., from Feb. 5-8.

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, the Middle East and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

2007 Mirapoint, Inc.  All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

< Back to Current Press Releases