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Sendmail Refocuses on Virtual and High Performance Mail Processors

| Apr 7, 2008 | Enterprise Security | Show Update

| Analyst: Charlotte Dunlap

Current Perspective: Positive/Neutral Vendor Importance: High Market Impact: Low

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Event Summary

April 7, 2008 – Sendmail, a provider of message-processing security appliances, announced the release of two new messaging security appliances. The Sentrion MPV is a VMware-based virtual appliance designed for customers who wish to realize higher server utilization rates and support green data center initiatives. The Sentrion MPQ is a Quantum Message Processor, running on a blade server, featuring up to 16 times the I/O performance of existing Sentrion machines.

Analytical Summary

• Current Perspective: Slightly positive on Sendmail’s release of two new secure messaging appliances, because the company has refocused its business model on delivering mail processors in order to integrate data leakage protection (DLP) with high performance secure messaging. Sendmail uses a unique approach to DLP by converting Web mail, IM and FTP into an SMTP mail session, essentially treating the protocols as an SMTP attachment. By taking this approach, the company leverages its infrastructure already in place, including its policy engine.

• Vendor Importance: High to Sendmail’s release of a virtual secure messaging appliance and a high speed appliance following its new business focus, which addresses customers’ need for multi-protocol support and outbound messaging protection.

• Market Impact: Low on the secure messaging market segment, because Sendmail is not viewed as a significant player in this space which is dominated by IronPort/Cisco, Secure Computing, Proofpoint and Symantec. However, Sendmail considers itself ahead of the pack in offering integrated DLP of non-structured data, integrated with its core messaging components, competing primarily with Proofpoint. The company will have to highlight its differentiated approach to DLP, accomplished through its ability to integrate its MTA technology, policy engine, flow control, quarantine, directory, and Mainstream Management.

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