Sendmail Announces Record-Setting Growth in the First Half of FY10

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sendmail, Inc., the leading provider of message processing appliances and applications for enterprise messaging infrastructures, today announced record-setting results for the first half of fiscal year 2010. Following two consecutive years of record-breaking revenues in 2008 and 2009, the company’s momentum continued with two record quarters in the first half of 2010. This tremendous growth has been the result of increased demand for Sentrion® Message Processor appliances from Global 2000 enterprises moving to virtualization and cloud computing in their messaging initiatives.

“Sendmail’s great results prove the value of modernized message processing for cost-conscious IT enterprise organizations”

In the first six months of FY2010, Sendmail product revenue grew by more than 27 percent over the same period of FY2009. In the past twelve months, Sendmail doubled sales in the Americas and experienced the most successful four consecutive quarters of revenue growth in the company’s 20-year history.

“Sendmail’s great results prove the value of modernized message processing for cost-conscious IT enterprise organizations,” said Glen D. Vondrick, Sendmail executive vice president and chief operating officer. “As these IT organizations closely examine migrating messaging functions to the cloud, they gain a realization of their true overall messaging costs and discover the valuable impact an intelligent email backbone can provide to complement email security solutions and groupware mailbox systems. We can proudly boast that Sendmail Sentrion appliances are now implemented as a separate internal layer between all the major email security solutions such as Cisco/IronPort, Proofpoint, McAfee, Google/Postini, and Symantec/MessageLabs, as well as all major groupware mailbox systems such as Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Notes, and others.”

Demand for Sendmail Sentrion appliances within enterprises was further fueled by the completion of Sendmail Messaging Architecture Review services, which provided valuable insight and recommendations to support cloud computing and Microsoft Exchange 2010 migrations. The addition of Intelligent Message Processing has also proven to further enhance Microsoft Exchange performance and operation due to migrating policy and routing decisions away from the Exchange servers.

“Blackboard leads the industry in enterprise technology and solutions for millions of students around the world, and our Managed Hosting service processes millions of email messages a week,” said Al DeGregorio, director of managed hosting, Blackboard Inc. “Email is a business-critical application we rely on to service our customers. We had concerns that our existing mail server implementation would have increasing difficulty handling our growing volume of traffic. After conducting a Messaging Architecture Review with Sendmail, we selected Sentrion Message Processors to provide the modernization of our messaging backbone. With Sentrion, we now have a messaging application platform that will scale as we grow our business, freeing us from potential bottlenecks.”

Company and Customer Highlights

In the first half of 2010, Sendmail also achieved the following company, product, and customer highlights:

Increased total Sentrion unit sales by 50% worldwide as compared to the first half of 2009
One of the world’s largest banks, handling 1.2 trillion dollars in assets, leveraged their Sentrion email backbone and replaced Proofpoint filtering products for email security with Sendmail Enterprise Anti-spam and Anti-virus applications from the Sentrion App Store
Secured a leading global Life Sciences company as a new customer by implementing an on-premise, intelligent email backbone infrastructure to assist in their attempts to migrate messaging to the cloud
Replaced email security point solutions from McAfee at one of the world’s largest energy companies with Sentrion infrastructure and applications
Hired a new Vice President of Federal Sales and Systems Integrators in Washington D.C. to expand the company’s investment in government business, and through major enterprise resellers such as Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)
Helped a major branch of U.S. government reduce operating costs through modernizing its messaging infrastructure by moving them to a Sentrion virtualized email backbone
Launched a localized version of the Sentrion Message Processing Engine (MPE) in Japan and achieved record business growth in the region
Secured one of the largest ISP’s in Japan as a customer – gaining over 5M new user seats
Hosted a successful two-day Messaging Infrastructure Summit in New York City where more than 40 enterprises gathered to exchange ideas and gain valuable insight on IT architecture and best practices for managing enterprise messaging infrastructures
Received the following awards and honors:

1) 2010 Info Security Products Guide Global Awards: Product Excellence Awards – Sendmail Sentrion Message Processor 4.0 (March)

2) SC Magazine 4.0 Highest Overall Rating: Sentrion 4.0 (March)

3) 2010 Computerworld Honors Program: Laureate and Finalists for the case study, “Email Backbone Modernization and Smart Appliances” (June)

About Sendmail, Inc.

Sendmail provides message processing appliances, applications, and services that enable enterprises to modernize their messaging infrastructures resulting in optimal email systems and lowered operating costs. Since 1982, thousands of customers around the globe have relied on Sendmail open source and commercial products for intelligent email backbones that solve the complex problems of policy-based message handling and routing between email systems such as Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Notes and the Internet. The award-winning Sentrion Message Processors provide enterprises with a core messaging platform available in hard appliance, virtual appliance, and blade server configurations that can be customized with add-on applications available from the Sentrion App Store. Sentrion Message Processors and applications address the challenges of gateway management, inbound threat protection, outbound data leak prevention, full email content scanning for regulatory compliance, and intra-company message management all on a single, yet powerful, messaging infrastructure platform. Sendmail is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with sales and support offices throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

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