In these challenging economic times everyone is looking to hunker down, cancel or decelerate projects until we see an upturn in the economy. Email and Internet access are probably the applications in your organization with the greatest user need and usage. This is an excellent time to consider investing in tools that will cut the costs of the email/internet systems and avoid costs of upgrade without affecting quality of service.

MaXCompression autozip for Outlook
DESCRIPTION: automatically and transparently compresses and decompresses attachments on the Outlook client before sending to an Exchange or SMTP server.
BENEFITS: reduces the size of the Information Store and bandwidth utilization from email by 30% or more leading to extended server life, avoiding server and network upgrade costs; reduces cost of connection by dial in users by reducing mail size
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Mail Attender email quota & retention manager
DESCRIPTION: allows Lotus Notes Domino & Microsoft Exchange Server users to deleting or archiving older mail items and attachments, manages user email quotas more effectively than existing tools
BENEFITS: reduces size of server stores by removing old email; 'gentle' process offers user-friendly warnings; 
JUSTIFICATION: review the White Paper for Domino and Exchange
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MIMEsweeper email filter
DESCRIPTION: content filtering of  inbound and outbound internet email against defined email security policies
BENEFITS: reduces email bandwidth load by removing non-business email and email threats at the perimeter
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EmailXtender email archive
DESCRIPTION: archives aged email to archive store on offline storage (optical, DVD etc.) and allows users to search and retrieve archived mail through their normal mail client
BENEFITS: reduces size of mail servers by moving older mail to offline storage
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Websense web filter
DESCRIPTION: filters users ability to go to inappropriate websites
BENEFITS: reduces bandwidth and network utilization
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MIMEsweeper for Web content security web filter
DESCRIPTION: filters bi-directional http/ftp activity against defined policies based on content, controls downloading of attachments, controls use of webmail products
BENEFITS: reduce internet access to non-business sites, reduce threats through webmail 
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