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With a staff of over 1000 teachers and administrative employees, the Tuscaloosa City Schools System serves 10,400 students in Alabama. The school system uses Novell GroupWise and Messaging Architects’ GWExtranet to best make use of their collaboration environment and keep students, parents, and the community at large up-to-date with minimum effort. [case study] |
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For over 2 years the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District in Pleasanton, CA, has been using the Messaging Architects Guardian technology to eliminate spam and viruses from its collaboration system, which currently serves the faculty and administrative staff. Recently, the IT Department upgraded to the new Linux-based M+Guardian appliance. The result has been so positive the Network System Specialist will recommend that an M+Guardian appliance be deployed to protect the student email system once it is deployed. [case study] |
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The Black Horse Pike Regional High School District in Camden County,
NJ, decided to deploy an email retention policy in their school district
when the federal government made changes in the electronic discovery laws.
With the help of the Messaging Architects Professional Services team,
the Black Horse Pike IT Department worked on designing an appropriate
retention policy, which was implemented in 2007 using M+Archive as the
foundation for their archiving solution. [case
study] |
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For 3 years now Danville Schools District in Central Illinois has been
using the Messaging Architects Guardian technology in its fight against
spam and viruses. Since the solution was deployed, the feedback from the
teachers and administrative has always been very positive. Not long ago,
the Danville Schools District IT department upgraded to the new M+Guardian
appliance. The result is even more solid gateway protection of their email
system and virtually zero-effort administration. [read
testimonial] |
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Iredell-Statesville Schools is among the largest school districts in
North Carolina serving over 20,000 students. The school district’s
teachers and administrative staff use Novell GroupWise and the Messaging
Architects security and compliance product portfolio to achieve high productivity
in a safe and highly available environment. [case
study] |
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Last year, the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University
deployed M+Guardian and replaced the open-source products the academic
institution had been using for the past couple of years. M+Guardian immediately
brought considerable reduction in IT overhead, as the laborious manual
tweaking of filters was replaced by auto-updates and virtually zero day-to-day
administration. Read how M+Guardian helps keep Michigan State University
Spam and Virus-Free. [case study] |
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The South San Antonio Independent School District encompasses 21
square miles in the south and southwest portion of San Antonio.Approximately
10,000 students attend the school district, which consists of 2 high
schools, 4 middle schools, and 10 elementary schools. The faculty and
staff servicing South San Antonio ISD rely on Novell GroupWise for all
their collaboration needs. Read about their experience using technology
from Messaging Architects to achieve enhanced security of their messaging
system and meet the regulatory requirements for email retention. [case
study] |
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The College of Dentistry has about 900 faculty and staff users who
rely on Novell GroupWise for their collaboration system. At the beginning
of the year, the school began the implementation of email archiving
to address the needs for access to information and legal discovery,
as well as contain the explosive increase of storage accompanying the
exponential growth of email. Read about their experience in this undertaking. [case study] |
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At Loyola College, students and faculty rely on GroupWise for collaboration. Loyola
students get an “email for life” , which entitles alumni
to keep their institutional email addresses. Thus, even though Loyola
College has about 7 thousand active students and 1000 faculty members,
the IT Department has to maintain about 34 thousand GroupWise accounts.
To sustain such a large email system, it is imperative that the college’s
messaging infrastructure is protected from all kinds of security threats and
unsolicited email is eliminated as early as possible. Learn how GWGuardian
allows them to do it successfully. [case
study] |
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For over a year and a half, Saint Paul’s School has been using GWGuardian to protect its GroupWise system. The implementation was recommended and
put in place by Big Sur Technologies, Saint Paul’s trusted advisor
for all IT-related issues. GWGuardian’s superior technology coupled
with the exceptional expertise and excellent customer service offered
by Big Sur Technologies has translated into a winning combination for
Saint Paul’s School. [case
study] |
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Neosho R-5 School District consists of 4 elementary schools, 1 middle
school, and 1 high school. For the past 7 years, they have relied on Novell
GroupWise for collaboration and messaging. To protect their GroupWise
system, the Network Administrator at Neosho R-5 School District uses GWGuardian.
He chose the secure appliance because it was the best solution to offer
his school district reliable and superior protection without having to
spend any time configuring spam settings or managing virus updates, as
the whole process is fully automated. [case
study] |
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Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, MO consists of six campuses
and over 150,000 students.To successfully manage the growing volume of
email traffic and the number of individual email accounts, MCC relies
on Novell GroupWise and NetMail. To protect its hybrid messaging infrastructure
from spam, viruses, and other internet-borne threats, MCC selected Messaging
Architects' Advanced Email Firewall because
it was the most effective in meeting their needs for a scalable, flexible,
cross-platform solution that could protect their email system without
requiring hours of baby-sitting management and manual tweaking from the
IT staff [case study] |
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Over a year and a half ago, St. Cloud Technical College was faced with
the challenge of finding an email security solution that was flexible
enough to manage multiple email domains within the institution’s
infrastructure. After reviewing several products available on the market,
the St. Cloud IT Department selected GWGuardian that best met their needs for enterprise-class salability and granularity
of configurations. The overall relationship with Messaging Architects
has proved to be very beneficial for SCTC as the academic organization
continues to meet the regulatory and legal challenges of secure electronic
records managements. [case study] |
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Over two years ago, the Splendora Independent School District deployed GWGuardian from Messaging Architects to resolve
email security issues without dedicating valuable time and resources to
managing the problem. The same strategy towards simplicity and efficiency
with regards to collaboration led the Splendora ISD IT group to implement GWExtranet. As a result, the nightmare of
coordinating events and dedicating resources across the school campuses
through an endlessly long spreadsheet was channeled to a single GroupWise
account, made instantly available to everyone in the community, and in
the process hundreds of hours of unnecessary browsing through hundreds
of calendars were saved. [case study] |
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The New Berlin School District serves the educational needs of several
thousand students from the state of Wisconsin. Read on to learn how this
school district makes the most of its GroupWise system, providing a secure
and efficient collaboration environment for students, teachers and staff
with GWGuardian and GWExtranet,
while meeting regulatory requirements for quick and accurate access to
archives in open records requests with GWArchive. [case study] |
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New York Mills UFS is a school district that serves the educational
needs, from elementary to high school, of the community in Central New
York. Sean Finnerty, high school counselor and technology consultant explains
why GWExtranet is an excellent solution that
meets all his needs to publish information online directly from the GroupWise
calendar and boosts productivity. [case
study] |
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The College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida is the
state's only veterinary college. To improve the communication between
the faculty and the graduate students, the IT Department added GWGuardian and GWExtranet from Messaging Architects
to its Novell GroupWise environment to ensure the system's security and
offer improved capabilities for remote collaboration. Find out how GWGuardian
and GWExtranet fit into the messaging infrastructure of the College of
veterinary Medicine adding value to it. [case
study] |
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Le Moyne College is a nationally acclaimed college of liberal arts and
sciences that draws students from across the U.S. and abroad. The school's
IT department relies on Novell GroupWise and NetMail for a reliable collaboration
between faculty, staff, students, and alumni. For a year now, a total
of 7500 emails users have been protected from spam, viruses and other
internet-borne threats by GWGuardian . Learn
how GWGuardian addressed the institution's security needs for superior
protection while increasing end user productivity and reducing IT staff
overhead. [case study] |
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With 500 staff members, the Oconomowoc Area School District serves over
4400 students and relies on Novell GroupWise for its collaboration needs.
Since 2005, the School District has been using GWGuardian to provide reliable and administration-free anti-spam protection for its
users. Recently, the IT group proactively addressed the important issue
of email retention and deployed GWArchive in the school district's system to ensure they were prepared for open
records requests and other legal discovery quickly and painlessly.[read
case study] |
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Highland Community College uses GroupWise as a collaboration platform
between students and faculty. Currently, the institution is running GroupWise
6.5 and all the accounts are managed through eDirectory. Since February
2005 GWGuardian has been the messaging firewall offering anti-spam and
anti-virus protection to the college's email system and making the end
users extremely happy. [case study] |
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The college houses students and adults, who are encouraged to take responsibility
for their own educational process. IT plays an important role in Da Vinci
College's competence-aimed education, since the students need access to
the local network to complete their assignments and check email. When
the institution's old anti-spam and anti-virus product was declared "end-of-life",
the IT staff wanted to find an in-house alternative for better management. GWGuardian not only solved their needs for
superior anti-spam and anti-virus protection, but also offered WebAccess
support, which further met the IT group's requirements. [case
study] |
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Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia is one of Finland’s largest applied
science polytechnics. When the IT department realized they needed a solution
that would get rid of viruses and spam in their email system all in one
shot, they turned to Tomi Moberg, Messaging Architects partner for Finland.
He deployed GWGuardian as the university's
messaging firewall. Since the GWGuardian implementation, the email system
overhead has significantly decreased and secure email delivery has become
the standard. End users no longer get bothered by junk mail and can rely
on a more stable and secure GroupWise for all their collaboration needs. [case study] |
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The Institute for Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark’s
biggest university, has 1600 students and offers research-based education
in the area of psychology. The messaging infrastructure at the Institute
is spread over 5 different locations with 1 central GroupWise server.
To overcome the spam problem plaguing the department, eating up the administrators'
bandwidth, and affecting GroupWise performance, the IT team deployed GWGuardian
messaging firewall and has remain spam-free ever since. [case
study] |
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"The mobile users have been very happy with GWAnywhere. The synchronization
of GroupWise email, appointments, tasks and contacts is completely transparent
for the end users and they are just satisfied that they can travel light.
All the information they typically need is now made available to them
through their Treo smartphone and they like that," [Rebecca
Chickering's testimonial] |
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"There are a number of reasons why I think [GWGuardian ]’s a great solution but what I really like about it is its flexibility
in allowing me to grant end users the ability to manage their own quarantine
and specific preferences related to spam filters. For my department, this
translates into less administrative overhead for the staff and dramatic
savings in time. I like the fact that end users can access their spam
quarantines both through the quarantine reports that are emailed directly
to their GroupWise accounts or in real time by logging through the web
portal. The quarantine reports are really easy to customize to get the
look and feel of our school templates," [read
testimonial] - Ruth Michels , Network and PC technician, Grand Rapids
Public Schools |
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"As we were already using GWGuardian from
Messaging Architects and we already had positive experience with the company,
it was an easy decision to go ahead and try GWArchive. We weren’t
disappointed; working with them has been great," [read
testimonial] - Leonard Jenkins , Technology Director, Brunswick County
Schools, NC |
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"...At the beginning of this school year, the IT department will be
offering a specialized GWExtranet course
for teachers that will teach them how to use this product most efficiently
for their needs. I recommend it to any school or academic institution,
it's a great way to get rid of the paperwork and work more efficiently
in the academic environment... The GWGuardian
appliance arrived pre-configured and started protecting our GroupWise
system within a short time. Now everything goes through GWGuardian and
we feel secure, as viruses aren't even allowed to enter GroupWise. This
is another product that I would recommend to all academic institutions." [read testimonial] - Dean Emmerson,
Director of Technology, Bath Public School Department |
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The GWGuardian FastTrack session was great!...
I know when I was looking at GWGuardian, I asked for references. I got
great reviews from the names that were provided to me, but I took it all
with a grain of salt, as no company would willingly provide a bad reference.
Well, if you ever need another reference, feel free to call on me. Everything
the references said was true and then some. Thanks for a wonderful experience!" [read testimonial] - T.J. Russell,
Technology Coordinator, Independent School District #318, Grand Rapids,
MN |
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"We have been using GWGuardian for three years now and we think it is wonderful. A few years ago, I purchased
GWGuardian to provide protection for our GroupWise system. I wanted a
gateway solution that filtered for unsolicited email and viruses, and
was self-maintaining. I got everything configured, turned it on and have
loved it ever since. It works better than anything else I have seen... GWArchive was easy to use and it allowed us
to accomplish two things. First, we were able to export and publish all
email from the old GroupWise system in order to comply with the requirements
for email retention. Secondly, GWArchive simply allowed us to be nicer
to our users – they didn't lose their email during the upgrade and
they didn't have to do anything special to keep it... In addition to the
application doing everything we wanted it to do and needed it to do, it
also has searching capabilities for easy discovery." [read
testimonial] - Gary McCullors, Director of Information Technology,
Athens State University |
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"The application [GWArchive]
way easy to use and affordable, which is always a concern in the educational
sector. Moreover, it has an extremely flexible and fast search engine
that allows us to obtain the relevant information in cases of discovery
very fast - instead of waiting for several days, we can get it almost
immediately. This for us was crucial. Having GWArchive integrated in my
GroupWise system has made me a hero in the eyes the Millard Public Schools
Superintendent." [read testimonial] - John Dickey, Network Support Specialist, Millard Public Schools District |
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"It's amazing the difference GWGuardian has made on our network... Since its implementation, we haven't had a
single viral infection. Before most of the virus problems we experienced
were cause by email-borne viruses. Moreover, since GWGuardian keeps so
much unwanted email and viruses out of our system, we have seen a significant
improvement in GroupWise performance, as well. I can't express enough
how pleased I am with the product – it works flawlessly. We are
also very pleased in the overall relationship we have with Messaging Architects
and its strong commitment to Novell GroupWise... GWGuardian is a phenomenal
product; we are recommending it everywhere and I couldn't be more pleased
with Messaging Architects. We are currently looking at our budget to expanding
to other product offerings from the company," [read
testimonial] - Edward Parker, Technology Director, Clinton City School
District |
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"Our instructional technologists made sure to familiarize
themselves with all the capabilities of the product and prepared training
sessions for power users who could then take advantage of GWExtranet's
functionalities and pursue the school district’s strategic goals
towards excellence," [read testimonial] - Richard Flemming , Pflugerville ISD |
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"I would recommend GWGuardian to all my colleagues in the academic sector. It has an impressive spam
catch rate and requires minimal administration. What else could an IT
professional ask for? In addition to the fact that GWGuardian is a superior product, I have always received quick and efficient client
care from the Messaging Architects team. This was an important factor
in my decision to choose GWArchive as the
solution to tackle the exponential growth of email messages in my email
system. The reality is that nobody is getting rid of anything, and user
archives are getting very large while more and more data is getting corrupted. GWArchive offers various possibilities for
dealing with GroupWise storage intelligently and will contribute to a
significant improvement to my GroupWise infrastructure." [read
testimonial] - Joe Laskowsky, Network Manager, Office of Physical
Plant, Penn State University |
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"Our users are thrilled! I received many emails the first
couple of weeks after I implemented GWGuardian thanking me for stopping the spam. My management is happy, too. GWGuardian's
reports allow me to show them exactly how much spam and how many viruses
are being trapped, which relates directly to productivity. As much as
60% of our incoming mail was spam or viruses. Now users don't have to
deal with all that garbage in their inbox and our technicians have fewer
infected computers to clean up." [read
testimonial] - Cheryl Alvarado, Director of Operations, Emporia State
University |
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"GWGuardian - a perfect name
to describe a powerful product. Complete GroupWise protection in one package.
Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus are no longer a concern. I have gone from one
hour a day managing spam to less than 30 minutes a month. Thanks to all
the folks at Messaging Architects for their superior customer service
and an exceptional product. I look forward to exploring your full product
line." - Justin Green, Director of Technology, Bermudian Springs School
District |
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"GWGuardian has enabled us
to cut down on the incoming spam and junk mail to almost nothing immediately.
The product works as a true fire-and-forget solution and support is top
notch, bar none. We have been using GWGuardian as our anti-spam solution
for the past 4 years. Recently, we upgraded to the Academic AV version
and it immediately started catching messages that were virus-infected.
GroupWise is the best email application out there and GWGuardian makes
it even better." - Russ Hilton, Portage Township Schools |
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"During the evaluation period, we tested and compared GWGuardian to other systems. The feedback from the users was that they liked GWGuardian.
The end user features were user-friendly and very intuitive. The IT team
involved in the testing and decision-making process was also very positive." [read testimonial] - Håvard Haugan,
Bodø University College, Norway |
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"I admire your company's policy of building relationships
with clients, even thousands of miles away. This letter is to signify
that Messaging Architects now has another raving fan. I will recommend GWGuardian to any and all school district
or company IT employees that I interface with. In every aspect, GWGuardian
is the best product I have ever seen." [read
letter] - Aaron Petritsch, Network Systems Specialist 1, Lancaster
School District, California |
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"GWGuardian's superior level
of defense for our school's email system is reflected in the pleasant
surprise experienced by our new Headmaster. He was transferred from another
American school and for a while kept the email account at the other school
in addition to his Escola Americana account. He was amazed at the amount
of unwanted mail that was clogging his inbox at the old institution. He
finally requested that they close his other account because it simply
was too difficult to manage." [read testimonial] - Michael Bruner , Director of Technology, American School of Rio de Janeiro |
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"Just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how easy your GWGuardian product is making my life. Our
users are just getting used to email. They never really had it until this
year, so. naturally. SPAM was never a problem for them. However, we proactively
put in GWGuardian and my users may never
know what SPAM is in on their network computers. It simply chews up all
the SPAM out there!!! It's super easy to manage and super easy to maintain.
I want to thank you for having such an outstanding product!!!" - Chris
Kamler, Technology Director, Excelsior Springs School District |
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"We are currently using GWExtranet to publish our Groupwise Calendars. We are very happy with it. We use
it to show calendars for all of our buildings, highlight what's happening
today, and allow people to follow our athletic events closely. Thanks
to GWExtranet, the schools in our district can keep up close ties with
the community and ensure that everyone is kept current." - Gary R. Burns,
Data Processing Manager, Union-Endicott
Central Schools |
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"After reviewing a number of products available on the market,
we came to the conclusion that GWGuardian by Messaging Architects was the one that offered the best value. The product
is reliable and robust, and offers a complete set of capabilities that
allows us to address the needs of our clients in the best possible way." [read testimonial] - Alain Bellemare,
Systems Administrator, SRIC Inc. |
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"GWExtranet is Great! The same
day of installation I am posting multiple resource calendars to our web
site and using the notice board! I am combining some calendars and others
are being seen singly. This is what I have been hoping to do for years!!!"
- Brian M. Mowrer, Network Administrator, Mishicot
School District |
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"We use GWGuardian for spam and virus protection.
I believe that this was one of the best solutions that we could come up
as an academic institution. Since we installed GWGuardian AV, spam and
viruses are no longer a problem for our users. I put it on the most extremely
filtered setting for spam and don't worry that I have blocked mail that
might be important to CSCC's users. Viruses are blocked whether our virus
scanner has the signatures or not. They don't even enter our mail system..." [read testimonial] - Tim Malloy, GroupWise
Administrator, Columbus State Community College |
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"We are extremely happy with the Messaging Architects suite of products.
We are currently using GWGuardian as our
gateway anti-spam solution and GWExtranet to publish and share the various college calendar with the community at
large. We've had awesome results with GWGuardian..." [read
testimonial] - Carl J. Ness, Assistant Director of Information Services, Clarke College |
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"GWExtranet provided us with an easy,
out-of-the box solution for our calendaring needs. Prior to introducing GWExtranet into our system, we used to create
and publish static html pages with information and events. However, more
and more we felt the need to enable our 500+ GroupWise users to publish
their calendars in real time. Installing GWExtranet has given more people
the incentive to fully utilize their GroupWise calendars. In fact, many
of our staff members now post their assignments online using their GroupWise
calendars..." [read testimonial] - Randy Orwin, Bainbridge
Island School District #303 |
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