Cloudmark on the Move

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:01:00 GMT

Messaging infrastructure and security solution provider CloudMark announced that Web hosting leaders Hostopia and DigiWeb will be using its services.

DigiWeb will be using CloudMark's hosted and managed security solution Cloudfilter to provide spam, phishing and virus protection to over 48,000 web hosting, domain and data center customers across Ireland. The addition of CloudFilter is the first in a proposed suite of cloud-based solutions that Digiweb plans to roll out in 2010. According to the announcement, Digiweb anticipates the demand to be high.

“Spam is a serious issue for hosting providers and their customers, taking up significant time and IT resources,” said Jamie de Guerre, chief technology officer at Cloudmark. “By using our CloudFilter solution, hosting providers such as Digiweb can ensure the security of customers’ email infrastructure, improving the user experience and delivering real peace of mind.”

Hosted email and Web service provider Hostopia will be using Cloudmark Authority™, combined with Cloudmark Sender Intelligence, will be providing its four million email customers the messaging anti-abuse solution.

“At Hostopia, we constantly strive to provide our customers with the highest quality hosted web and email services, and we found that Cloudmark Authority was the clear choice to protect our environment,” said Dirk Baghat, CTO of Hostopia. “While our previous commercial grade technology worked well to combat spam, we wanted to further advance our solution to enhance our messaging infrastructure. With Cloudmark Authority, we can achieve improved performance while delivering the most advanced protection against spam, phishing and virus attacks.”

Hostopia Gets 14,000 Hosting Accounts

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:39:00 GMT

Hostopia.com, Inc. and Tucows Inc. just signed an agreement for Hostopia to purchase certain of Tucows' shared hosting customer assets including approximately 14,000 Domain Direct, NetIdentity and ItsYourDomain.com (IYD) customer accounts. The companies indicated that accounts involved in the transaction will continue to be served under the familiar Domain Direct brand, which will operate as a managed service by Hostopia.

For those that follow these type of things, Hostopia will pay $1.6 million (US) in cash for these assets, with adjustments to be made on closing. This amount is payable 20% on signing of the agreement and 80% upon the closing of the transaction, which is scheduled to occur on May 15, 2008. The companies plan to migrate these accounts to Hostopia's unified web service platform by July 2008.

"We are very pleased to have concluded this transaction. We are already hosting some of the Tucows Retail Service Group's users so the impact on customers should be minimal," said Colin Campbell, CEO, Hostopia. "Our plan is to provide customers with numerous upgrades and additional value-added services to earn their loyalty and continued business. Traditional web hosting is fast evolving to the SaaS (software as a service) model and Hostopia is perfectly positioned to offer these services to these customers."

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