Email Gateway
The Email Gateway is the entry and exit point for email flowing in and out of the enterprise network and the first line of defense for email security. ColdSpark provides state-of-the-art solutions for the email gateway, specializing in large network environments with custom requirements and preferred third-party security vendors.
ColdSpark’s Email Gateway Solutions replace legacy applications with a high performance open platform (the SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform™) that supports state-of-the-art transport-layer functions, enterprise operations and, most importantly, integration with preferred security, compliance and directory applications.
For companies that use hosted filtering services (e.g. Postini, FrontBridge), ColdSpark’s Email Gateway is a flexible, highly efficient alternative to email appliances that enables architecture for redundant security and secure transport and communication modes with service providers.
Key Benefits
- Upgrade performance, increase scale and reduce hardware footprint
- Improve directory service integration for better gateway policy enforcement
- Flexibly deploy security applications as a compliment to existing services and internal apps
- Provision differentiated services, and SLAs, by business unit (Services Oriented Email Networking)
- Deploy high-tech authentication, reputation and transport security capabilities
- Eliminate mail hops and points of failure
- Unify management
- Increase performance
- Improve transparency and activity metrics
The Email Routing Core Solution leverages the SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform, which acts as a universal message manager to govern routing and result handling for all processes and attached services.
Key Capabilities
Email Platform
- Advanced mail flow management
- Domain-based flow control (intelligent and configurable)
- API's for integrating third-party and custom applications
- High-performance, advanced, directory integration and cacheing
- Rules-Based Message Routing
- Virtualization for traffic streams
- Universal message management for attached processes
- Anti-virus
- Anti-spam
- Data-protection
- Policy
- Encryption
- Archive
- Custom applications
- Central management interface
Enterprise Operations
- High-performance (5m messages per hour) and n-tier scalability
- High-availability architecture
- Support for enterprise monitoring and management tools
- Virtualization, SOA and turn-key provisioning to support multiple business units
- Secure operation and central security tools
- Cross-platform software
Advances in technology for email delivery and message composition dramatically increase performance and enable support for new features. ColdSpark helps today’s enterprises build a strategic capability for enterprise email routing that meets and exceeds enterprise requirements and adapts to future needs.