Transparency? Who needs transparency?

Last month, Switzerland endorsed a comprehensive list of animal rights for improving life for goldfish, dogs and cats. Mud loving pigs are also included and now they even have the right to a cleaner lifestyle. These cute critters are considered to be “social”, and according to a list of stringent animal rights they must be kept in the company of at least one of their own species. Did you know that “privacy” is a concern for goldfish? That’s right! Animal rights activists state that goldfish must have some privacy to be safe and comfortable, and Swiss owner’s no longer can place their fish in completely transparent tanks. Aquariums need a well planned system in place to ensure that the fish in the tank are supplied with sufficient amounts of oxygen, correct temperatures and privacy to be productive citizens within their social network. Naturally, setting up your fish tank with the proper supplies and equipment is the foundation that a fish tank is built on.

It’s the same with your corporate email system. Email has become one of the most critical elements in the corporate infrastructure today. Its use also represents significant risks to an organization in the form of impact to business continuity, loss of confidential information, legal exposure and failure to enforce regulatory compliance, all of which can have significant financial implications.

Email systems are one of the biggest storehouses of intellectual property and business information for organizations. In comparison, an organization’s email server is similar to an aquarium which holds your most valuable corporate data. How that data is maintained determines how well your organization and email users are protected. The supplies you choose when setting up your “email fish tank” actually become your insurance policy to protecting your business.

Ipswitch IMail Server Premium is a fully-featured, easy to use, standards-based email server system. IMail Server supports SMTP, POP3, IMAP, LDAP and provides workgroup collaboration, encrypted instant messaging, shared calendaring, multi-language Web-based email, a global address book and protection from viruses and spam. Everything you would expect to be found in an enterprise-class messaging system can be found in IMail Server.

For example, IMail Server Premium provides a solution to costs and complexities associated with deploying and managing Exchange Server 2007:

• Hardware Support – a business does not need to replace its servers to be able to run the very latest version of IMail Server. IMail Server can be installed on any x86 or x64 server with 512 MB or more of RAM enabling businesses to continue to leverage their existing hardware investments.

• Licensing costs – to purchase Exchange Server 2007 Standard Edition with Forefront Security for 100 users for a 3 year period would cost approximately $14,899. To purchase IMail Server Premium with security from BitDefender® for 100 users for a 3 year period would cost approximately $5,970.

Add more users into the “fish tank”, and the savings achievable with IMail become even more substantial. To learn more, please download our free competitive analysis “Exchanging Exchange Server”.

Besides that, watching your “fish” swim in an environment that provides a safe, productive and efficient experience is relaxing and just may lower your blood pressure; all the more reason to set yourself up with the most comprehensive messaging software from Ipswitch Messaging.