Email Systems and Next Generation Collaboration

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Email Systems and Next Generation Collaboration

• Kevin Woods
• Director of Marketing and Product Management
• Mirapoint Inc.

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Company Overview

• Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is based in Silicon
  Valley, CA with offices worldwide
• Leadership in appliance solutions shipped first
  products in 1998
• 1 scalable email server appliances
• Industrys first email security appliances
• 650 customers 60M mailboxes worldwide use
  Mirapoint
• Mirapoint employees are email experts

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Education Govt. Customers
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Inbox - c.1980 - Xerox PARC
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Inbox - c.1990 - ELM
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Inbox - c.2004 - Outlook
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The Evolving Email Experience
Email Experience Today
Email Experience Tomorrow
Messages addresses
Participants, Interest Groups, Communities
Folders, Filing
Search, Topics, Threads
Mailbox, Message Store
Multi-Media Store
Connectionless Text
Instant Messaging, VoIP VoiceMail, MMS, BLOGs
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Next Gen Infrastructure
Common Policy Control or Moderation Practices
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The Benefits of IMAP

• Written as an advanced replacement for POP
• Based on the notion that everything is kept on a
  server and viewed remotely
• Multi-session capable
• Handles folder sharing and folder access control
  lists
• Allows messages to be appended
• Handles hierarchical folder structures
• Supports a single folder hierarchy across
  multiple machines

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Infrastructure Components of Email

• Security
• Data storage archival
• N1 redundancy
• Content filtering
• Virus and malware protection
• User controls and rules
• Multi-client support, common user interface
• Time stamp for every transaction
• LDAP directory
• Address books

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Why Mirapoint Appliances?
Email App
OS
Why?
Hardware
Storage
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Email Server Product Family
Introducing Mirapoint Message Servers

• Key Advantages
• All-in-one, turnkey email server appliances
• Support full set of email security services
• Provides robust multimedia store for Unified
  Communications MMS deployments
• Support direct attached, SAN NAS storage

M4500
M450
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Email Security Services

• Mirapoint Services

Internet
Desktop Email(POP, IMAP)
Wireless Access(WAP, i-mode)
UnifiedCommunications
Desktop
Outlook Sync
Mobile Messaging(SMS, MMS)
Security Services(Spam, Virus, ect.)
Mobile
Web Access(HTTP)
Group Calendaring Address Book
XML Application Interface
Web
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Email Security Product Family
Industrial-strength Protection from Hacker
Attacks, Directory Harvests, Spam, Viruses,
Inappropriate Content, Policy Violations More