Posted on February 25th, 2010An agreement between a German provider of e-mail security eleven and an open-source provider of collaboration software Open-Xchange has recently happened. They have agreed on a wide-ranging technological coordination to increase the power of their e-mail security to all the products of Open-Xchange.
Because of more than 10 million customers, Open-Xchange is able to develop their new Open-Xchange Edition that allows web hosting companies to present a feature-loaded, user-friendly application used as Software and as a Service. This integrated power combining with eleven’s eXpurgate, which is an e-mail security solution, ISPs, telecoms and web hosts can generate a safe and highly secured e-mail solution. The security features include: very easy assimilation, easy accessibility and can provide a high detection rate of any junk mail/spam of more than 99 percent.
Eleven’s chief executive officer and founder, Robert Roth stated, “With eleven and Open-Xchange, web hosting companies can provide their customers not only a cost-efficient and professional service, but also the best protected e-mail solution. Moreover, eXpurgate will be assimilated as a premium selection in the Open-Xchange products aiming for companies that want their e-mail servers operated in their home.”
Eleven and Open-Xchange will be announcing their partnership on Monday, February 22 to Wednesday, February 24 in Miami at the Parallels summit. It will also be showcased on March 17 to 18, 2010 at the “Web hosting Day” in Cologne, Germany in Europe.
A gigantic number of more than 30,000 businesses of different sizes depend on eXpurgate to categorize and check more than a billion e-mails every day. Along with carriers and ISPs such as O2, freenet, T-Online and Vodafone, eleven’s customer base consists of many famous and renowned public institutions and companies such as Mazda, the Free University of Berlin, Air Berlin and Landesbank Berlin.
“Very efficient and reliable virus and spam protection is fundamental for every e-mail server. Open-Xchange users are protected from phishing e-mails, spams and viruses of course, with the use of eleven’s products.” CEO of Open-Xchange, Rafael Laguna said in a statement. “Beneficiaries from this relationship are companies that operate their Open-Xchange Server on their own as well as customers that obtain Open-Xchange as “Software-as-a-service” from hosting providers such as ISPs and telcos.”
The worldwide customer base of Open-Xchange grew up to 80 percent last year (2009), which makes Open-Xchange’s international customer base sums up to more than 15 million users, and leading it to look forward to 2010 and reach 26 million users.
With more than 10 million users, Open-Xchange Hosting Edition enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use, feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service