New Hosted Email Archiving Service
Symantec Hosted Services is pleased to announce the release of MessageLabs Hosted Email Archiving, a new service due for general availability towards the end of June 2010.
According to Gartner, cloud-based archiving grew 59% in 2008 driven by customers’ need to manage ever faster growing volumes of email as well as regulatory pressures. MessageLabs Email Archiving addresses these customers’ needs with a cost effective, simple to deploy and use hosted email archiving service. The service provides your customers:
- Email Storage Management
IT departments can essentially remove quotas from end users’ mailboxes and provide archives that can easily be searched through Outlook or a web-browser.
- Compliance
The solution allows administrators to control email retention policies by user, group or message, provides optional supervision and review capabilities, and makes it easy to implement legal holds.
- Easy Legal Discovery
With MessageLabs Email Archiving, legal teams can conduct search and retrieval of email and hundreds of types of attachments based on a broad range of criteria or search terms.
Service Highlights
- A predictable cost model with unlimited storage
- Easier and faster implementation as no onsite server or appliance is required
- Double byte character support for customers with global operations or those in non English speaking countries
- Compatible with customers running Notes or GroupWise platforms
- FINRA/SEC compliant solution for customers in the finance sector in the US
Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection
The general availability of Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection was announced on May 12, 2010.
For years you’ve offered your customers MessageLabs, now Symantec Hosted Services, cloud-based services to help protect them from the threats that can be introduced through email, Web, and IM interactions. Beginning today, you can offer your customers a critical layer of protection for their service portfolio, providing them with comprehensive security for their Windows-based desktops, laptops, and file servers, while they continue to enjoy the benefits of a hosted service.
This easy-to-use solution includes the following advanced security technologies, all managed from a single Web-based management console:
- For desktops and laptops: antivirus, antispyware, firewall, and host intrusion prevention
- For file servers: antivirus and antispyware
Target Customer Profile
Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection is available to customers in North America and is designed for small and mid-sized businesses with 20 – 250 users.
Hosted Endpoint Protection Free Trial
A trial can be a powerful sales tool to show your customer how a product will work in their environment. You can offer your customers a Free 14-Day Trial to show the following benefits:
- Automatic security updates for all employee systems whether in the office or on the road
- Advanced technologies for antivirus, antispyware, firewall, and host intrusion prevention
- Web-based management console
- Identification of unsafe web sites in search results for laptops and desktops
- Security Audit & Customizable Reporting
If you would like to promote this Free trial on your website please email sstamler@messagelabs.com to get a link and landing page created for your company.
Resources to Help You Sell
We have created several documents that will help you with a trial of Hosted Endpoint Protection. These documents include:
Web Security Service Quotas Functionality
Symantec Hosted Services is pleased to announce the arrival of new functionality for our Hosted Web Security service. Administrators of Hosted Web Security are now able to:
- Create browse time and download-based limits on user Web browsing activities.
- Permit rules to be set that only allow browsing for a specific amount of browsing time or specific web categories or content types to be downloaded
- Provide reporting of user exceptions when browsing time limits have been exceeded and quota rules triggered
This functionality provides administrators with greater flexibility to set browsing limits by time of day, Web categories or specific site URLS, as well as to safeguard bandwidth and enforce acceptable use of the Web.
For more detailed information on the new functionality download the
WSS Quotas Presentation
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