Businesses now rely on email as a critical method of communication. As a result,
disruption or degradation of email services has become as much a business issue
as a technical one.
How many times over the last 18 months have we read 'horror stories' of companies
crippled by a virus or malicious code that has penetrated their IT systems?
How many times has your company been affected? Were you one of the lucky ones who
suffered less than a day's interruption in email service, spent less than a
man-day's worth of investigation and remediation and incurred no cash cost?
Or were you at the other end of the scale and suffered major disruption to your
service, and consequently your business activities?
The five major pain points identified for businesses today regarding mail servers
are: spam; virus; security; robustness; cost.
The tricky part however has been achieving the right cost-benefit balance.
Until now that is.
There doesn't need to be a trade off.
You don't have to pick which pain point is least important.
You don't have to compromise.
The server is out there.
Mac OS X Server: mail services
The powerful workgroup and Internet solutions built into Apple's UNIX-based
Mac OS X operating system deliver comprehensive, easy-to-use mail services.
Spam
The industry-standard security features of OS X Mail mean that access to email
is secure and password controlled. The built in anti-spam applications also
include an improved filtering engine, offering better accuracy and providing
more powerful protection against spammers.
Virus
Anti-virus measures built into OS X Mail ensure that, even without
ISP based mail filters, OS X Mail users are protected against virus and
malicious code attack. With virus definitions updated every 30 minutes,
high levels of protection are maintained.
Security
Built-in SSL/TLS encryption, strong authentication and support for
standards-based spam and virus-filtering products protect your network
mail services from unauthorised access or abuse.
Robustness
Full support for Internet mail protocols - internet message access protocol
(IMAP), post office protocol (POP) and simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) -
ensures compatibility with standards-based mail clients on Mac, Windows,
and Linux systems.
Cost
Provides support for over 100,000 mail accounts with no per-user licensing fees.
Mixed platform environment
Don't think that just because you operate a Windows environment that you can't
integrate the OS X server - you can. And very successfully. OS X Server integrates
readily and seamlessly into Active Directory, simplifying systems management and
administration.
A real market alternative
Not only does OS X Mail address each of the five pain points
comprehensively, but it offers the standard functionalities expected from a leading
email solution, including shared calendar, mailing list solution and webmail.
The clear cost and security benefits of the solution, combined with the robustness
of the technology, positions it as a real market alternative.
The stakes are getting greater day to day. How much longer are you still
willing to gamble?
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