Sendmail has introduced a new managed email infrastructure service for enterprise-level users.

Sentrion cloud services deploy a SaaS (software-as-a-service) platform that intercepts inbound emails containing spam and malware. In addition, Sentrion message processors provide critical email backbone functions, such as data loss prevention, directory-driven message routing and content policy enforcement.

'The strength of Sendmail's portfolio of products lies in being a complete messaging infrastructure for (users), not just a tool for stopping unwanted mail,' Sendmail COO Glen Vondrick told IT Examiner. 'With the addition of Sentrion, we continue to enable our customers to reduce overhead and maintenance costs by moving certain commodity functions such as AV/AS services as well as associated malware services into the cloud. This allows customers to continue relying on Sendmail for both their inbound and outbound messaging, both on premises and off.'

Stephanie Nevin, a Sendmail VP, explained that harsh 'economic realities' have prompted enterprise users to adopt a cloud-centric approach towards email infrastructure management.

'The current economic realities and industry shifts are causing enterprise customers to re-think their approach to managing their email infrastructure,' said Nevin. 'By pushing the commodity filtering function to the cloud, businesses can reduce their overall operating expenses and focus their attention on the mission-critical internal email infrastructure to ensure that the important policy and routing requirements for corporate governance, regulatory compliance and data leak prevention are handled safely on-premises.'

Barry Shurtz, a Sendmail director, concurred.

'Historically, cloud computing has been geared toward small and medium size companies as a way to cut down on the overhead of having on-site computing resources. Over the past couple of years though, larger organisations have begun to reap the benefits that cloud computing offers. They have found out what smaller companies already knew: moving certain computing functions off-site can reduce overhead and maintenance costs, and allow for better scalability and reliability,' added Shurtz. X

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