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Interwork Technologies and Reflexion Networks Announce Email Security-as-a-Service for SMB Channel
Leading value-added distributor establishes key partnership to help solution providers meet clients' evolving security challenges
OTTAWA, ON, September 30, 2009 — Even in poor economic times, businesses need to keep pace with evolving security challenges. And for small and midsized businesses (SMBs), those challenges can be even harder to overcome, especially without a dedicated security team. The popularity and effectiveness of security as a service (SaaS) can help solution providers and their clients effectively tackle security challenges and take advantage of significant business benefits. Many companies are joining the SaaS bandwagon and many solution providers are in the process of converting all upcoming renewals to SaaS. In fact, by 2013, Gartner predicts that "many cloud-based services will more than triple in many security segments."
Interwork Technologies (Interwork), a leading, value-added distributor (VAD) of managed security solutions, and Reflexion Networks, an email and Web security technology vendor, are excited to announce the delivery of comprehensive email security delivered as part of a SaaS suite called S-Sphere. S-Sphere, an integrated suite of managed security services, features products from five industry-leading vendors, including Reflexion, and is designed specifically for SMB resellers and solution providers.
"We evaluated several leading email security vendors for S-Sphere and selected Reflexion Total Control as the best choice for our partner base," says Tim Laroque, Director of Business Development and Marketing for Interwork. "Reflexion offers award-winning technology that is easy to use and that can be managed from a single console. We are most impressed with the partner-centric design of Total Control and Reflexion's commitment to ensuring its partners' success."
Reflexion provides hosted services for email and Web security, email archiving and discovery, and business continuity. In addition to providing an extensive layered defense against email and Web-borne malware, Reflexion's in-the-cloud services help companies save money and staff time, reduce bandwidth and energy consumption, and ensure email availability even in the event of a local server or business outage.
SaaS is a win-win form factor for resellers and their clients. Resellers can use SaaS to add on-demand services such as email archiving and encryption, and can bundle numerous email security services together to create customized solutions for their clients. Solution providers can also take advantage of higher margins, while keeping costs low by eliminating the need to install anything at the customer's physical location. Clients benefit from less equipment and lower maintenance costs, access to specialized and dedicated resources, and monthly (versus annual) payments that are treated as operating expenses instead of capital expenses. Plus, resellers can provide clients with better security through SaaS. They can implement updates, patches, and solutions to new security threats faster, and often in real time. Resellers can now stop threats before they even touch a client's network.
"We are pleased to be an integral part of S-Sphere, which brings enterprise-caliber security solutions to the SMB market," says Scott Barlow, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Reflexion. "We look forward to helping partners protect their clients, while leveraging email security as a foundation for upselling additional annuity-based services, including email archiving, eDiscovery, Web security and email encryption."
About Interwork Technologies, Inc.
Interwork Technologies is a privately owned, investor-backed company with offices in New York, Colorado, and Ontario, Canada. Established in 1991, Interwork evolved from a solution provider into a value-added distributor specializing in information security, voice, and IT management solutions. Interwork has a growing partner network of 4,000 VARs and solution providers, and is known for being a specialty advisor and expert in emerging technologies. For more information, visit www.interwork.com.
About Reflexion Networks, Inc.
Reflexion Networks provides hosted solutions for email and Web security, email archiving and discovery, email encryption and business continuity for over 5,000 customers in 49 countries. The company's solutions are designed for and sold exclusively through IT Solution Providers worldwide. To learn more about Reflexion, please visit www.reflexion.net or call the company's Boston area headquarters at (781) 569-6666.