New SMX3 ‘platform as a service’ delivers fast, easy cloud provisioning, billing and reporting

Auckland, 20 July 2011. SMX Limited has launched SMX3 – a major upgrade of its proven inbound and outbound email filtering ‘security as a service’ platform. SMX3 now enables service providers, telecom operators and large enterprises to deliver a wide array of applications and services from the cloud – faster and at less cost.

Thom Hooker, SMX Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, says SMX3 is a logical evolution of SMX’s cloud-based email security service which he says is now well established with more than 200 resellers and partners and more than 1,200 customers and 1.6 million users throughout the Asia Pacific region. Major partners include Symantec, Fujitsu and CMC India.

“SMX3 is so named because it delivers three important Cloud ‘firsts’,” Thom Hooker says.

“Number one, The SMX3 application framework and API are designed to enable fast and easy integration of virtually any existing enterprise application and serve them up via the cloud model. Moving applications to the cloud – fast – is a huge unmet need.

“Number two, SMX3 provides a turn-key service platform that supports real time provisioning, streamlined billing and invoicing, real time reporting, white labelling, multiple languages and remote management.

“Number three, SMX3 enables cloud providers to deploy locally, on local infrastructure. This is important for email security applications, but is also important for any application which requires major bandwidth.

“To our knowledge SMX3 is unique in the market. We have, in effect, evolved SMX to become a ‘platform as a service’. We’ve leveraged the open architecture of the SMX platform to maximise our ability to integrate other applications and services,” Thom Hooker says.

The largest implementation of the SMX platform has recently been completed at Times Group, India’s largest media group, working with SMX’s local partner CMC. Times Group is using the service under its own brand, running in their own local datacentre, but managed remotely by SMX. The SMX3 solution was up and running literally in days, tightly integrating an advanced billing and provisioning system. Times Group is using SMX to deliver inbound and outbound email filtering for its own staff as well as deploying the service to more than one million customers provided with hosted email by Times Group subsidiary, Times Internet.

Whitepaper| Download the SMX3 Technology Overview PDF: http://smxemail.com/doc/smx3-technology-overview.pdf

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About SMX

SMX is a market leader in cloud-based email filtering and cloud platform management. The company’s SMX3 platform delivers state-of-the-art inbound and outbound email filtering and also enables fast and easy integration of virtually any existing enterprise application and the serving of these applications via the cloud model. SMX3 integrates sophisticated user provisioning and billing and is designed to be easily ‘white labelled’, meaning customers including Telcos, IT services companies and ISPs can incorporate SMX services under their own brands. SMX’s strategy of deploying its service ‘in country’ is a key competitive differentiator. Local deployment – through an SMX datacentre or through the datacentres of market partners – ensures email is ltered in the customer’s own country, under local law and jurisdiction. SMX has a blue chip list of 200 resellers and partners and over 1,200 customers and 1.6 million users throughout the Asia Pacific. Major i nternational partners include Symantec, Fujitsu, Message Systems, CMC India (a Tata Group subsidiary) and Tsukaeru.net, Japan’s fastest growing provider of hosted applications and services. SMX is a privately-owned company based in Auckland, New Zealand, where co-founders Jesse Ball and Thom Hooker lead sales, support and development teams focused on local and international sales, both direct and through reseller and license agreements. More information: www.smxemail.com

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