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SMX Limited signs global agreement with Symantec

Auckland, 11 July 2011.

Cloud-based email security company SMX Limited has signed a global agreement with Symantec.

Symantec’s Brightmail software will be integrated into the SMX anti-spam and anti-virus cloud-based solution.

The SMX solution targets large international systems integration vendors and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) looking for a comprehensive anti-spam and anti-virus service to offer under their own brand and local infrastructure.

SMX Co-Founder and CEO Jesse Ball says the collaboration is an exciting opportunity to deliver a world class cloud-based email security service that is quickly and efficiently deployed on a customer’s own infrastructure – enabling their complete control and visibility, and all the while enhancing their brand profile.

“As an example, working with CMC, our market partner in India, we have just implemented such a solution for Times Group, India’s largest media group,” Ball says. “Times Group uses the service under its own brand, and runs in their own local data centre, but is managed remotely by SMX. The SMX 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.

David Dzienciol, Vice President, SMB and Channels, Asia Pacific and Japan, Symantec says: “The demand for partners to offer cloud-based services is growing at a rapid pace. Symantec is focused on providing its partners with superior value, market leading technologies and sustainable revenue opportunities to help meet this demand.

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“The SMX partnership demonstrates how partners can leverage Symantec’s technology to deliver innovative new cloud-based services offered by international system integrators and ISPs.”

About SMX
SMX is a market leader in ‘cloud-based’ email filtering. Technology innovations include the unique ability to service multiple distributors, resellers and customers out of a single system (multi-tenanted). No other service-based solution is so easily scalable, and no other is so fast to deploy. The SMX solution integrates sophisticated user provisioning and billing and is designed to be easily ‘white labelled’, which means customers such as Telcos, IT services companies and Internet Service Providers can incorporate the service under their own brands – as well as selling the SMX service under the SMX brand.

Another key point of competitive difference is in SMX’s strategy of deploying its service ‘in country’. Local deployment – through an SMX datacentre, or through the datacentres of market partners - ensures email is not routed through countries such as the United States, but is scrubbed in the customers own country, under local law and jurisdiction. SMX has a blue chip list of customers in Australia and New Zealand serviced from SMX datacentres in both countries, with direct sales as well as via a growing reseller network including major players such as Fujitsu.

International partners include Symantec, Message Systems, CMC India (a subsidiary of the giant Tata Group) and Tsukaeru.net, Japan’s fastest growing provider of hosted applications and services. Launched in 2006, 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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