FatCow Deploys State Of The Art Anti-Spam Solution

Katie writes "BrightmailProtects FatCow Customers with Industry Leading Effectiveness and Accuracy

ALBUQUERQUE, NM, - (May 13, 2004) – FatCow® web hosting announced today the successful system-wide deployment of its state of the art anti-spam filtering solution. “This represents a major victory for us and our customers in the war against spam. We wanted to ensure that we not only provide our customers free spam protection regardless of cost, but also give them the very best solution the industry has to offer. The combination of Brightmail’s anti-spam software and a dedicated hardware mail gateway was the answer.” said Jackie Fewell, CEO of FatCow.

Brightmail® Anti-Spam is the software of choice for many Fortune 500 enterprises and 8 out of 12 of the world’s largest ISP’s such as MSN, ATT WorldNet, Verizon Online and EarthLink. FatCow is one of the first companies in the shared hosting space to deploy Brightmail’s award winning product. The anti-spam solution is being offered free of charge to FatCow’s 28,000 customers. Brightmail Anti-Spam, winner of PC Magazine’s 2003 Editor’s Choice Award, allows FatCow to effectively reduce spam with 99.9999% accuracy.

“We sought a very customer friendly solution which would smoothly dovetail with our powerful, easy to use hosting product and provide the most flexibility and control with the fewest false positives. The combination of an integrated hardware and software solutiondelivers. Our mail gateway effectively allows us to improve and centralize our overall mail handling while providing greater system-wide server performance and security on a more effective anti-spam management platform.” said Todd Hassan, FatCow’s CTO.

Since deploying Brightmail and IronPort, FatCow has seen the system tag and route over 200 million unwanted messages. “Our customers have nothing but praise for the new system. The blocking accuracy and straight forward implementation has enabled us to deploy and move on to our next system upgrade.” said Hassan.

About FatCow
FatCow is a brand of Net//works! Web Hosting, LLC. Founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1998, FatCow provides shared Web hosting solutions for small to medium-sized businesses and individuals looking for an affordable web hosting option. FatCow’s approach to small business hosting has been proven through tremendous company growth and market response. For more information, please visit www.fatcow.com.

About Brightmail
Brightmail, the global anti-spam market leader delivers technology that makes messaging environments secure and manageable. PC Magazine’s EDITORS CHOICE for best enterprise anti-spam software, Brightmail Anti-Spam protects the email networks of businesses, government agencies, and service providers, blocking unsolicited bulk email, or “spam”, while assuring that legitimate mail is reliably delivered. Brightmail protects over 1,800 enterprises globally, including Avaya, eBay, Bechtel, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cisco, Cypress Semiconductors, Deutsche Bank, Eastman, Lucent Technologies, Macromedia, Microsoft, Motorola, SAS and Terra Lycos. Brightmail also provides spam protection for the leading Internet service providers, including AT&T WorldNet, Cox Communications, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear, Xtra and Verizon Online. Brightmail now protects more than 300 million mailboxes worldwide. For more information, visit www.brightmail.com.

Brightmail® is a U.S. registered trademark. Brightmail Anti-Spam, Probe Network and the BLOC are trademarks of Brightmail Incorporated. All other names and brands are the property of their respective holders.

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