Waterford Technologies Enables Email Archiving for Ipswitch IMail Software

Irvine, California - April 26, 2006 -- Waterford Technologies, the leading provider of second-generation intelligent email archiving solutions, today announced the availability of the MailMeter Archive for IMail email server software from Ipswitch, Inc. a leading developer of messaging, network management and file transfer solutions. In addition to providing email archiving, compliance, and reporting on the Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino email servers, MailMeter can now provide the benefits of email archiving for over 60 million IMail users around the world.

"There is a large market of medium sized businesses that are being neglected when it comes to email archiving and storage management applications," says Tom Politowski, president of Waterford Technologies. "These smaller organizations that do not use Exchange or Domino have been locked out of the email archiving market for too long. MailMeter and IMail have broken down that barrier so that tens of thousands of smaller organizations can now leverage the benefits of email archiving with an easy to implement, easy to use, fast and affordable solution."

Medium and small sized businesses are at high risk from unmanaged email environments. In larger companies, there is usually IT staff that can spot troublesome email patterns, or storage problems. In smaller organizations, however, problems are often found after they have caused damage. "Most of our customers come to us after they have been served a subpoena, had an employee incident, or have not been able to find emails after spending thousands of dollars searching through back up tapes," continues Politowski. "Having an email archive, especially for smaller organizations, is just smart business, and we are pleased we can now offer this capability to existing and future IMail customers."

"People buy Ipswitch IMail because it's reliable and easy to use, so we are excited to partner with an easy to use and reliable email archiving software such as MailMeter Archive," said Kevin Gillis, Ipswitch's Director of Product Management. "Our IMail customers will now benefit from archiving the critical information that lives in email in order to retrieve emails even if someone has left the company, track email threads for questionable material, or find evidence quickly in the event of some kind of investigation or lawsuit. In combination, our mutual customers will greatly improve their IT and end-user productivity."

MailMeter Archive solves multiple business issues for any sized organization:

• Email storage management: As the quantity and file size of emails and
  attachments continue to increase, organizations need ways to reduce the
  costs of storage.
• Email retrieval: Users need easy access to past emails for contractual,
  customer service and other critical business reasons which only
  increase with the use of email as official business correspondence.
• Legal Investigations: Whether your company is being sued or is suing
  another party, being able to search through vast amounts of company
  information is key to proving or disproving opposing arguments.
• Employee productivity: Monitor email and provide feedback via reports
  to reduce inappropriate content and enforce company policies
• Regulatory compliance: For companies subject to any regulations
  regarding record retention, an email archive is a must to be in
  compliance.
• Business intelligence and analysis: Robust reporting, searching and
  sorting technology enables never-before-seen information to be analyzed
  by management for business improvements.
  

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