Kevin Woods
Director of Marketing and Product Management
Mirapoint Inc.
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
Industry’s 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
SECURITY
Email Experience Today
Messages addresses
Folders, Filing
Mailbox, Message Store
Connectionless Text
Email Experience Tomorrow
Participants, Interest Groups,
Communities
Search, Topics, Threads
Multi-Media Store
Instant Messaging, VoIP
VoiceMail, MMS, BLOGs
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Next Gen Infrastructure
Presence
Instant
Messaging
Discussion
Groups
Common
Folders
RSS
Feeds eMail
Database
Common Policy Control or Moderation Practices
Database Database Database
Operating
System
Management
Security
User Interface
Hardware
Operating
System
Management
Security
User Interface
Hardware
Operating
System
Management
Security
User Interface
Hardware
Operating
System
Management
Security
User Interface
Hardware
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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
> N+1 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?
Why?
Email App
OS
Hardware
Storage
> Purpose-built
Solutions
> Performance
& Reliability
Optimization
> Deployable In
Minutes; Simple
Management
> Secure, Hardened
OS with No
Known Exploits
> Turnkey Network-
Based S/W Updates
> Single Vendor
Support
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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
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> M4500
> M450
Email & Security Services
> Mirapoint Services:
Internet
Desktop Email
(POP, IMAP)
Wireless Access
(WAP, i-mode)
Unified
Communications
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…
> RazorGate 100
Lowest cost; geared to SMB market
Zero-touch installation & management
DirectPath™ state-less technology
> RazorGate 300
Mid-market solution; 1500-5000 users
More complex feature set (Routing & queue management)
Hardware redundancy
> RazorGate 450
Highly-configurable solution; 5000 users+
Includes multi-system management tools for the largest service provider & enterprise networks
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