By Chris Coulson, MCSE, MCP, Network Consultant

(Editor’s Note: Due to reader interest and many positive comments, we are repeating this article from a previous edition. Original Article Here )

Kudos keep coming our way from clients who have experienced the relief from Spam that their new Postini Service delivers, and we have documented proof (see chart below). Here’s a very enthusiastic one:

“The filtering is very effective! I have locked down our exchange server to only accept connections from Postini’s servers and we now get very little Spam (still see one or two once in a while). Also, I have not had to deliver any messages yet in my quarantine folder! The other noticeable improvement is the amount of traffic we have removed from the gateway! If you get the chance to see our Postini filtering reports you will see what I mean!”

If each of your company employees spends an average of 15 minutes per day clearning spam from his or her email box, how much time and money does that add up to each year? Add to that the savings resulting from NOT having to add bigger hard drives or more Internet bandwidth, and you will understand why our clients are so satisfied with their decision to use Postini.

This indicates the value of the Postini Anti-Spam solution. Significantly less e-mail traffic, lower disk storage needs, less user action and anti-virus support as well. Time saved equals lower costs.

If your e-mail systems have been a source of concern and frustration at your business, we have good news: SN Business Solutions can implement this leading solution in your business in a very short period of time. You, too, will immediately begin to see the positive results.

The outstanding benefits that the Postini service provides include:

• Reduction in Spam support and management in your business

• E-mail filtering through Postini’s managed e-mail security service which is located between the Internet and your company’s e-mail gateway; Postini blocks unwanted e-mail before it hits your corporate mail server, significantly lightening the load on your server, IT staff and end-users.

• A very high rating in anti-spam effectiveness with the best overall balance of accuracy at 97% and false positives at .08%

• A strong anti-virus defense that has blocked billions of viruses through Postini servers in the past few years

• A decrease in e-mail server storage since spam is filtered at the Postini servers and not on corporate e-mail servers

You may read the original Postini article written by Director of Information Technology Consulting Services Chip Hayden, MCP, by clicking here.

We have included, below, a chart that details the amount of inbound spam stopped for a dozen of our clients during the month of February. The chart indicates that 2.3 million e-mail messages were sent to the domains of the clients listed in the report. Only about 198,000 were sent to valid e-mail addresses, about 118,000 or 60% were blocked as known SPAM and were never seen by our clients, about 62,000 or 31% were deemed as good e-mails and were forwarded to in-boxes, and about 17,000 or 9% were questionable and were sent to a quarantine folder.

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