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Email Systems and Next

Generation Collaboration

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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