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Email Hosting and Backup Services

Email Backup


To supply a total set of related email services that meet your archiving and compliance requires, Smarsh can host your organization’s email in its secure and redundant information centers. We fully grasp the mission-critical nature of your e mail hosting and incorporate in depth measures to ensure maximum uptime, reliability, safety, and overall technique efficiency.  Smarsh provides POP3/IMAP, Exchange, and BlackBerry hosting plans.  Smarsh also works using the top hosted e-mail companies on the market.  Please contact our sales team for additional info about our hosted e-mail and collaboration offerings.
Virus and Spam Protection

Smarsh also delivers hosted spam, virus and material filtering.  Users’ mailboxes are protected from spam, viruses, phishing attacks and also other dangerous subject material by intensive layers of message security. We use redundant clustered spam and virus appliances to eliminate harmful emails in the gateway. Subsequently, each and every message is also scanned around the person mail servers by software-based mail-aware antivirus programs from a separate provider. Spam and virus definitions are updated hourly.


Characteristics Include:

  • Marketplace top spam and virus prevention with maximum accuracy, minimal false positives
  • 99.8% effectiveness against even challenging spam which includes, image based spam, backscatter, and foreign language spam
  • Zero hour anti-virus filtering updated many occasions everyday
  • Geographically dispersed gateways maximize uptime
  • Shop and forward (mail bagging) capability ensures mail is delivered within the occasion of Exchange service failure
  • Optional end user quarantine management functionality
  • Customizable spam policy rule sets assigned to users and groups
  • Protection from spam, viruses, spoofing, phishing, spyware, and denial of service attacks


You often keep ownership and manage of the data. Multiple physical, procedural and technical safeguards are in spot to shield and limit access to your data. Smarsh information centers are redundant, geographically-dispersed and SAS 70 (Form II) audited. All systems are protected by multi-tiered firewalls and proactively monitored inside of the Smarsh Network Operations Center. Encrypted access for your data is granted only for your firm’s authorized system administrators.

Efficiency

  • Cost-free up storage capacity | Forrester Analysis survey information indicates that storage capacity requirements are increasing in between 20 and 40 % each year.1 By “off-loading” information, your company can absolutely free up important storage space and optimize server performance. Clear away subject material out of your messaging server and migrate it to an archiving platform.
  • International availability | Full platform functionality is available securely 24-7 by way of the online world.
  • Search and make information rapidly | Smarsh presents the storage, database and indexing expertise to ensure optimal search and retrieval occasions, even because the volume of one’s archive grows.
  • Seamless updates | In lieu of waiting for your release and installation of one’s software’s up coming version, Smarsh platform updates are introduced routinely.


Deployment

Rapid on-boarding | Your firm may be up and operating around the Smarsh platform in days or weeks in lieu of a long-term phased timeline. With its diverse and developing client base, Smarsh has encountered many different method integration scenarios and manages the deployment process for you.
Versatile integration | The exclusive Smarsh architecture is platform-agnostic and integrates with on-premise (Microsoft Exchange, Lotus, Novell, etc.) and SaaS (Google Apps Premier, for instance) messaging platforms.

Price

Predictable pricing | Smarsh does not charge for storage or disk space, substantially reducing charges for regular e mail backup. Pricing is predictable, simple to spending budget and does not demand significant capital expenditures.
No software/hardware to sustain | Smarsh manages all hardware and computer software inside of its information centers, and upgrades are automatic and included as part of the managed service.
Minimized internal IT operating burden | Sustain access and ownership of all your data, and liberate your IT group to concentrate on core competencies.