Education & Government Success Stories
Discover how educational institutions and local and federal governments are reducing email security threats, driving down the cost of email storage, and complying with record retention laws.
Who's Mitigating Email Risk in Education & Government
As a state agency, TxDOT is bound toto provide the public with access to information, including email and other electronically delivered documents, in the most cost-effective way. Netmail Archive provided TxDOT with an enterprise-class email archiving solution for GroupWise to meet their eDiscovery challenges and budgetary requirements.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive, M+Archive
For the past 3 years City of Jackson, TN, has been using Messaging Architects’ cutting-edge anti-spam technology to ensure a secure environment and high availability of their collaboration system. Recently, they upgraded to the M+Guardian secure email gateway. The deployment took less than a day and has brought additional ease of use and improved productivity to the City of Jackson’s IT Department. Read how M+Guardian solves their spam and virus problems on a daily basis.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
For several years, City of Casa Grande, AZ, has been using Messaging Architects’ cutting-edge anti-spam technology to secure its collaboration environment and ensure that the email system is always available to employees. At the beginning of the year, in addition to launching a new and improved website to serve their community better, they also upgraded to the M+Guardian secure email gateway. The upgrade was quick and painless and it further simplified email security administration for the IT professionals. Read how M+Guardian solves the spam and virus problems for the City of Casa Grande employees on a daily basis.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
For several years, the Port of San Diego has been using Messaging Architects’ software in order to maximize its investment in the Novell GroupWise collaboration system. The self-contained Netmail Secure email firewall ensures that the organization is protected from spam and viruses while supporting the Port of San Diego’s commitment to a green policy by efficient use of processor power. Netmail Archive has automated the email retention process making open records requests fast and easy to produce and guaranteeing that the local government agency remains fully compliant with the current state regulations.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, Netmail Archive, M+Archive, M+Guardian
"By using Netmail Archive for our transition from GroupWise to Exchange, we were able to leverage the dollars we saved by not having to invest into a separate migration tool and we were able to extend the email system refresh beyond the original scope of the project. Netmail Archive allowed us to meet the need to migrate and enable a deployment policy for centralized email retention and electronic discovery. I cannot stress enough how much help Netmail Archive has been."
- Steve Shields, Director of Technology
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Migrator, Netmail Archive, Netmail Migrator, M+Archive
Haarlem IT department uses Novell GroupWise. Like with any public agency, a large part of the electronic correspondence that goes through the municipal system falls in the category of “legal documents” and as such needs to be handled and stored appropriately throughout its lifecycle management. For the past three years, the City of Haarlem has been using Messaging Architects’ Netmail Archive to ensure that its email is retained according to the municipal policies.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive, M+Archive
When officials of Jackson County, OR, decided to update their eight-year old email policy, it was crucial all departments were on the same page before investing tax payers’ dollars into the technology that would accomplish the goal. Messaging Architects’ two-day e-policy workshop helped the key County stakeholders reach the needed consensus to successfully and effectively design and implement an updated email retention policy.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, Netmail Archive, Services , M+Archive, M+Guardian
Netmail Secure was selected to replace the College's outdated anti-spam product as a highly efficient, accurate and low-maintenance email security solution that integrated easily into the academic institution's highly virtualized IT environment.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
Gwent Police selected Netmail Archive, Messaging Architects' cross-platform version of the archiving software Gwent Police already had in place, to perform the migration from GroupWise 8 directly to Exchange 2010. Netmail Archive included the migration tool and didn't require additional investment beyond their subscription contract. Messaging Architects were also able to carry out the migration in line with the exceedingly tight timeline Gwent Police had to work with.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Migrator, Netmail Archive
Metropolitan Community College has made a few strategic decisions aimed at simplifying email management and reducing the cost associated with it, including a migration to Exchange. They selected Netmail Archive to perform the migration of users and data at the pace they needed.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Migrator, Netmail Archive, Netmail Migrator, M+Archive
The University of Dundee is rolling out a campus-wide email retention strategy to reduce storage costs, proactively deploy the tools for quick electronic discovery and improve collaboration for 28,000 end users encompassing faculty, staff and students. Messaging Architects enables them to accomplish these objectives with the comprehensive functionality of Netmail Archive and a high quality of customer support.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive, M+Archive
"With the Messaging Architects products, I’ve future-proofed my investment. The way I see it, the Netmail products work to protect my messaging system regardless of the platform I am on – today it may be GroupWise, tomorrow it may be something else. I have brought up this fact to my administration and they fully support my decision in selecting Messaging Architects’ email archiving and security software.”
- Eddie Parker, Director of Technology
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, Netmail Archive, M+Archive, M+Guardian
Jefferson-Lewis Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) has been using NetMail for more than 11 years. When the Jefferson-Lewis IT team found out Messaging Architects was taking over NetMail, they couldn't have been more pleased. Jefferson-Lewis had been using M+Guardian and was very happy with the quality of the product and support. So, not only did Messaging Architects have a good track record with M+Guardian, but they also took M+NetMail in the direction of standards-based development — a win for everyone.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Guardian, M+NetMail
Since electronic communication is critical to its academic process, Millikin University has high standards for its email system. Unhappy with its previous anti-spam solution, Millikin was looking for one that would help it meet those standards — in short, offer a better catch rate, improved performance, and more flexible features. Millikin found a solution to meet its needs, and more, in Messaging Architects' Netmail Secure.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
Twelve schools make up the Sparta Area School District. For five years now, the District’s IT Department has been ensuring a risk-free collaboration environment with Messaging Architects’ secure Netmail Secure gateway, allowing students, teachers, and staff to benefit from technology without being exposed to the threats that it may bring.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
Cannon School has been using Messaging Architects’ Netmail Secure technology for seven years now. When they moved to Exchange a few years ago, they continued to rely on Netmail Secure to provide their students and teachers a risk-free messaging environment.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
To meet the email retention requirements of its educational institutions, DESD uses Messaging Architects’ Netmail Archive and hosts all archives in a virtualized environment. This is a cost-effective solution for the participating schools because this approach relieves them from having to buy their own servers.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive, M+Archive
In 2007, East Grand Rapids Public Schools evaluated the state of their collaboration system and their potential liabilities. As a result of the assessment, they made the proactive decision to deploy a centralized email archiving system as part of their messaging infrastructure. They selected Netmail Archive as the solution that best met their email retention and e-discovery needs, while tightly integrating with the their Novell GroupWise system.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive, M+Archive
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’ M+Extranet to best make use of their collaboration environment and keep students, parents, and the community at large up-to-date with minimum effort.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Extranet
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 Netmail Secure appliance. The result has been so positive the Network System Specialist will recommend that an Netmail Secure appliance be deployed to protect the student email system once it is deployed.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
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 Netmail Archive as the foundation for their archiving solution.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive, M+Archive
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 Netmail Secure appliance. The result is even more solid gateway protection of their email system and virtually zero-effort administration.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure
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.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Archive, M+Guardian, M+Extranet
Last year, the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University deployed Netmail Secure and replaced the open-source products the academic institution had been using for the past couple of years. Netmail Secure 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 Netmail Secure helps keep Michigan State University Spam and Virus-Free.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure
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.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, Netmail Archive
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.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive
In 2004, 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 the Netmail Secure technology from Messaging Architects as the one that best met their needs for enterprise-class scalability and granularity of configurations. The 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.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
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 Netmail Secure 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 Netmail Archive in the school district's system to ensure they were prepared for open records requests and other legal discovery quickly and painlessly.
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, Netmail Archive, M+Archive, M+Guardian
"I recommend M+Extranet 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. "
- Dean Emmerson, Director of Technology, Bath Public School Department
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Extranet
"The application Netmail Archive 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 Netmail Archive integrated in my GroupWise system has made me a hero in the eyes the Millard Public Schools Superintendent."
- John Dickey, Network Support Specialist, Millard Public Schools District
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Archive
"We are currently using M+Extranet 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 M+Extranet, 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
Industry: Education & Public Sector
"M+Extranet 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
Industry: Education & Public Sector
"Netmail Secure is one of the best solutions that we deployed in our academic institution. Since we installed the Netmail Secure appliance, spam and viruses are no longer a problem for our users. Viruses are blocked whether our virus scanner has the signatures or not. They don't even enter our mail system... "
- Tim Malloy, GroupWise Administrator, Columbus State Community College
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: Netmail Secure, M+Guardian
"M+Extranet provided us with an easy, out-of-the box solution for our calendaring needs. Prior to that, we used to create and publish static html pages with information and events. However, we felt the need to enable our GroupWise users to publish their calendars in real time. Installing M+Extranet 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..."
- Randy Orwin, Bainbridge Island School District #303
Industry: Education & Public Sector
| Product: M+Extranet
