Cloudmark delivered an improvement in the Melbourne IT's message processing performance, which reduced hardware requirements by up to 80 percent.

Cloudmark, a provider in messaging security, announced that Melbourne IT, an Australian Web and application hosting company, has selected Cloudmark Authority to protect its e-mail subscribers from messaging abuse.
 
The company stated that since deploying Cloudmark Authority, Melbourne IT, through its Web hosting brand, WebCentral, has seen a reduction in the amount of e-mail-borne threats, including spam, phishing and viruses, making their way to customer inboxes. As a result, the company is able to provide the highest levels of e-mail protection and satisfaction for its extensive customer base. Further it also states that with Cloudmark Authority, Melbourne IT benefits from overall improved system performance and savings in infrastructure and operational costs.

The company articulated that the sheer volume of spam has soared in Australia, including widespread phishing scams purporting to come from Australian banks. In the face of growing malicious traffic volume, Melbourne IT found that its existing filtering solution couldn't process this unwanted increase in traffic as effectively and efficiently as required. The company explored several options and conducted a proof-of-concept trial with Cloudmark Authority. In the trials, Cloudmark stated that its Authority proved to be significantly more accurate in blocking messaging abuse, while generating fewer false positives than competitive solutions. Further, Cloudmark delivered a dramatic improvement in the company's message processing performance, which reduced hardware requirements by up to 80 percent. Beyond hardware cost savings, this smaller infrastructure footprint reduces data center space and power consumption, which is especially critical for hosting companies and consistent with Melbourne IT's sustainability strategy.

"In Australia, there is growing public pressure on both government and service providers to clean up e-mail and stop the onslaught of unwanted and potentially dangerous messages flooding inboxes," said Michael West, messaging product manager of WebCentral. "We are committed to protecting our customers by using the best technology available and found that the high level of accuracy of Cloudmark Authority best met our needs and simultaneously helped us to optimize our infrastructure utilization. With Cloudmark, we help to ensure that our customers are shielded from e-mail threats and receive the messages they want in a timely fashion. We are proud to be the first provider in Australia to offer this level of service and security."