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Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging infrastructure and security solutions, today announced that its hosted and managed messaging security solution, CloudFilter™, has been chosen to provide email security for the protection against spam, phishing and viruses to customers of Ireland’s largest hosting provider, Digiweb. The solution will be offered to more than 48,000 web hosting, domain and data centre customers across Ireland.

Digiweb chose Cloudmark’s CloudFilter solution because of its innovative technology and industry-leading reputation. CloudFilter will allow Digiweb to offer its customers a professionally hosted, managed and secure email service, and will be the first in a proposed suite of cloud-based solutions that Digiweb plans to roll out over the course of 2010. Digiweb has already signed up numerous customers to the service and anticipates that demand will continue to be high.

The CloudFilter solution enables web hosting and email providers to offer premium email services, backed by industry-leading messaging security. CloudFilter delivers zero-hour protection using carrier-grade sender reputation data, advanced content filtering and proven messaging policies to rapidly detect and eliminate messaging attacks and threats before they reach the customer’s mailbox.

Dan King, hosting manager at Digiweb, said of the partnership: “It is crucial for us to protect our customers from large volumes of spam, phishing and viruses. By working with Cloudmark we are able to offer businesses of any size complete protection from messaging abuse, in an easy-to-use and cost-effective way.”

“Spam is a serious issue for hosting providers and their customers, taking up significant time and IT resources,” said Jamie de Guerre, chief technology officer at Cloudmark. “By using our CloudFilter solution, hosting providers such as Digiweb can ensure the security of customers’ email infrastructure, improving the user experience and delivering real peace of mind.”

About Cloudmark

Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging infrastructure and security solutions, delivering the industry’s fastest, most accurate and most scalable messaging platform for fixed, mobile and social networks. The Cloudmark suite of carrier-grade solutions simplifies and advances the management of messaging abuse, increasing network utilization and reducing infrastructure costs. Cloudmark’s patented solutions combine Advanced Message Fingerprinting™ technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms, a Global Threat Network™ consisting of trusted reporters across the globe, real-time, automated analysis of traffic and content patterns, along with security research expertise, to provide real-time security intelligence and filtering across carrier networks. Cloudmark solutions protect more than one billion subscribers for the world’s largest networks, including AT&T, Comcast, MySpace, NTT, Swisscom and Time Warner Cable. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Paris, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudmark.com.

Cloudmark and the Cloudmark logo are registered trademarks of Cloudmark, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

About Digiweb

Digiweb is one of the UK and Ireland’s leading telecoms and Internet Services Providers, offering wireless and fixed broadband, telephony, and web hosting services. Digiweb was the 2007 Irish Telecommunications Company of the Year, and 2007 Irish ICT Company of the Year, and has been growing steadily since then with recent acquisitions of Smart Telecom, Internet Ireland and TalkTalk customer bases in Ireland and Belgium, having been successfully integrated into its operations. Digiweb is a leading provider in the Ireland and UK broadband markets having established an extensive wholly owned telecoms network, operated from its carrier-class facilities in Dublin. The company employs 150 staff across Ireland, and is currently recruiting to support its future growth. The company also services clients throughout Europe for satellite broadband and managed services.

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Source : businesswire.com