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BAIS
Announces Enterprise-Class Spam/Virus Blocking Solution
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BayArea.net Announces
complete integration of Postini, the latest anti-spam and virus blocking
technology and
recipient of PC Magazine's "Editor’s Choice Award," with
our standard and high-availability email services.
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Santa Clara, Calif. –
September 13, 2003 – Bay Area Internet Solutions (BAIS), the Bay
Area's leading hosting and Internet access provider has been diligently
evaluating SPAM and Virus protection solution options for its
customers for many months. After evaluating many different
solutions, BAIS is pleased to announce the availability of SPAM
filtering and Virus blocking services through a partnership with
Postini, an industry leading provider of email and virus protection for
the enterprise. Pricing
and more details on this much needed solution.
How the BAIS implementation
Postini works:
- Incoming email passes
through a meshed group of redundant BayArea.net
"pre-Postini" servers for validation and pre-processing.
From these servers the email is routed to Postini's automated
filters, which are designed to detect suspected unsolicited
commercial email (or SPAM and viruses that may threaten a users
system or network.
- Any suspicious email
is re-directed to a personalized, web-based, password-protected
Message Center (it
does not arrive at an individual user desktop or server inbox).
Think of this as a quarantine area. In the Message Center users can
read the quarantined email online, delete it, or deliver (forward)
it to its original or alternate destination.
- The user receives
email notifications, with login instructions, whenever suspicious
messages are logged and isolated on their Postini Message Center
site.
- From the personalized
Postini Message Center users can read the email online, delete it,
or deliver (forward) it to a regular "me@bayarea.net" or
"me@mydomain.com"
mailbox. From this site users can also setup the preferences
for SPAM and virus handling and sensitivity.
- Postini also lets
users "block" specific senders (email from these senders
will always be filtered and blocked). And users can
"approve" senders (their email will always be delivered).
- The BayArea.net
implementation of Postini works on a physical POP account user ID.
Any email address or alias routed to this user ID will be redirected
through Postini's filtering.
If customer utilizes
BayArea.net email services for their business or host their own email
server and employ BayArea.net Internet access services, they may
purchase Postini spam and virus filtering services as an option to any
of the applicable services available from BAIS.
Postini service is
private and secure. Nobody has access to the users email but them. They
control the filter settings. They can check on the filtered messages
locked in your Postini Message Center at any time. Postini can also be
easily disabled with two mouse clicks.
About Bay Area Internet
Solutions, Inc.
Bay Area Internet Solutions
is a pre-eminent Internet solutions company providing
high-speed access solutions, co-location, and managed hosting services
to worldwide customers. With highly scalable and reliable Internet Data
Center capabilities, BayArea.net delivers innovative, high quality
services and solutions enabling businesses and high-technology
professionals to thrive safely and securely in today's online world. In
July 2002, Bay Area Internet Solutions was designated the fourth largest
co-location service provider in the Northern California marketplace by
the prestigious San Jose Business Journal’s Book of Lists. The Company
currently has points-of-presence in Northern and Southern California, as
well as a significant international customer base.
Media Contacts:
Steve Stewart
408.545.0500 x 703
Bay Area Internet Solutions
sales@bayarea.net
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