Aug, 2001 : Sendmail Presents Email Server for Linux on IBM Mainframe
📅 - Sendmail, Inc. (sendmail.com), aleading provider of Internet messaging solutions,announced yesterday the immediate availability of itscomplete line of products for Linux on the IBMmainframe. Sendmail Switch, Sendmail Advanced MessageServer and Sendmail Mobile Message Server on Linux forthe mainframe provide cost-effective email systemswith high scalability, reliability and manageability.
Performance tests conducted by Sendmail, Inc. and IBMdemonstrate that a single IBM eServer z900 mainframecan support more than 2 million users, making it thelargest single-server email systems on Linux availablein the industry. For organizations requiring largerenvironments, Sendmail's cluster architecture allowscustomers to harness multiple mainframes totransparently serve an even greater number of users.
"Service providers and a growing number of enterprisessee centralized email hosting as the preferred way toprovide the scalability and reliability needed to dealwith increasing email usage and message complexity,"said Mark Levitt, research director, IDC. "Themainframe environment is a strong platform forcentralized email hosting, especially fororganizations already using mainframes formission-critical applications with high performancerequirements."
Today large enterprises consider email as a criticalbusiness system and require the high reliability andlow total cost of ownership. Impressive costreductions can be obtained for enterprises thatalready host critical business applications on amainframe by adding the Sendmail solution as anadditional workload. Or, distributed enterprises canconsolidate multiple departmental or divisional mailservers onto a single highly reliable platform. Inboth cases, the company says the mail systemreliability improves while hardware and systemadministration costs are substantially reduced.
"There is no debating that email is a vitalapplication for conducting business today," said GregOlson, executive vice president business developmentof Sendmail, Inc. "Most larger companies already runtheir critical applications on the mainframe platformbecause it provides a level of reliability unmatchedby any other system with a total cost of ownershipoptimized over 30 years. For these companies email isbest served on their mainframes."
Sendmail solutions on Linux for the IBM eServer z900are available today. For product and pricinginformation, please visit the company's Web site.Sendmail, Inc. will be exhibiting Aug. 28-30, 2001, atLinux World in San Francisco in booth no. 1144.
Performance tests conducted by Sendmail, Inc. and IBMdemonstrate that a single IBM eServer z900 mainframecan support more than 2 million users, making it thelargest single-server email systems on Linux availablein the industry. For organizations requiring largerenvironments, Sendmail's cluster architecture allowscustomers to harness multiple mainframes totransparently serve an even greater number of users.
"Service providers and a growing number of enterprisessee centralized email hosting as the preferred way toprovide the scalability and reliability needed to dealwith increasing email usage and message complexity,"said Mark Levitt, research director, IDC. "Themainframe environment is a strong platform forcentralized email hosting, especially fororganizations already using mainframes formission-critical applications with high performancerequirements."
Today large enterprises consider email as a criticalbusiness system and require the high reliability andlow total cost of ownership. Impressive costreductions can be obtained for enterprises thatalready host critical business applications on amainframe by adding the Sendmail solution as anadditional workload. Or, distributed enterprises canconsolidate multiple departmental or divisional mailservers onto a single highly reliable platform. Inboth cases, the company says the mail systemreliability improves while hardware and systemadministration costs are substantially reduced.
"There is no debating that email is a vitalapplication for conducting business today," said GregOlson, executive vice president business developmentof Sendmail, Inc. "Most larger companies already runtheir critical applications on the mainframe platformbecause it provides a level of reliability unmatchedby any other system with a total cost of ownershipoptimized over 30 years. For these companies email isbest served on their mainframes."
Sendmail solutions on Linux for the IBM eServer z900are available today. For product and pricinginformation, please visit the company's Web site.Sendmail, Inc. will be exhibiting Aug. 28-30, 2001, atLinux World in San Francisco in booth no. 1144.
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