Message Processing Platform (MPP) Supports IBM OpenPower™ Servers

"The success of OpenPower systems from IBM depends on the support of advanced functionality such as that offered by MPP,” said Brian Connors, vice president, Linux on POWER, IBM. "With Email filtering becoming a central concern to our clients, we believe the MPP application is an ideally suited for our OpenPower product line and its clients..."

Announcing Message Processing Platform (MPP) Support for IBM eServer® OpenPower™ Servers

Boston, MA LinuxWorld February 15th, 2005 – Message Partners, the leading provider of email security integration software, is pleased to announce support of the IBM eServer® OpenPower™ servers for the Message Processing Platform (MPP). The MPP allows service providers, enterprises and SMB customers to build open, scalable email filtering, security and compliance applications that leverage best-of-breed commercial and open source technology. The MPP combined with OpenPower benefits businesses by combining adaptable email security and the incredible scalability, reliability and value of the OpenPower platform.

The MPP provides the administrative, end-user, operations and network layer interfaces of an email security application, independent of the underlying email scanning technology. This reduces the total cost of ownership of an email filtering application and eliminates the reliance on a single vendor for email security services. At the heart of MPP is a directory-enabled policy engine that enables any combination of our embedded security technology, commercial and open source scan engines and compliance tools to be applied on a per-customer or per-user basis. This enables new revenue streams for service providers and allows enterprises to build layered antivirus, antispam and compliance email security architectures. MPP services include antivirus, antispam, content filtering, archival, content-based archival, DoS prevention, standards based email monitoring and more.

“The success of OpenPower systems from IBM depends on the support of advanced functionality such as that offered by MPP,” said Brian Connors, vice president, Linux on POWER, IBM. “With Email filtering becoming a central concern to our clients, we believe the MPP application is an ideally suited for our OpenPower product line and its clients..”

Michael Katz, President of Message Partners continues, “We have done extensive testing at IBM’s testing labs with MPP on OpenPower and we are extremely impressed with the price-to-performance of this platform.” “For our customers, this scalability and reliability translate directly to increased protection from high-volume spam attacks and other security threats – all at a very attractive cost.”

Built on a mainframe-inspired technology and tuned for the Linux® environment, IBM eServer OpenPower systems meet the requirements of clients by delivering the performance, reliability, availability and compute power they expect from larger systems—at affordable price-points. This competitively priced IBM 64-bit IBM POWER5™ processor-based server is designed for a flexible, open Linux architecture to help simplify today's complex IT environments.

About Message Partners
Message Partners, based in New Rochelle, NY, is the provider of MPP, the industry leading email integration platformthat enable scalable, flexible, policy-driven email security and compliance applications. With prominent service provider, education and enterprise customers, Message Partners is the proven solution for customized email security architectures. Message Partners is a subsidiary of RAE Internet, Inc. Visit us at booth 1302 at LinuxWorld Boston.

Contacts:
Michael Katz
Message Partners
mkatz@messagepartners.com
http://messagepartners.com