[May 21, 2008]

Messaging Architects Announces M+Guardian Virtual Messaging Firewall

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MONTREAL, May 21 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Messaging Architects, global leaders in risk
management software and services for enterprise email, announced today the
availability of version 2008.2 of its successful M+Guardian Secure
Messaging Firewall. Now available as a fully virtualized appliance, called
M+Guardian VMF, it delivers advanced email security and data loss
prevention combined with the business benefits of server virtualization.
M+Guardian VMF integrates seamlessly with other components of the M+
platform such as M+Archive, ensuring fully compliant email lifecycle
management.

With this release, Messaging Architects enables organizations to fully
leverage the business continuity and high availability features linked to
server virtualization and apply them to their messaging and collaboration
infrastructure. "M+Guardian VMF reflects Messaging Architects' commitment
to delivering best-of-breed technology that can simplify the lives of its
clients. We saw the advantages that ESX, the industry's leading enterprise
virtual platform, and the freely available VMware Server can bring to our
customers and wanted to ensure they could benefit from these advantages
when deploying M+Guardian," explains Nick Stefan, VP of R&D at Messaging
Architects. M+Guardian VMF is delivered using VMware's industry leading
virtualization platform for which Messaging Architects is a certified
VMware Technology Partner.

"The convenience of email as a business communications tool also exposes
enterprises to a wide variety of legal, financial and regulatory risks
associated with outbound email. M+Guardian truly delivers a significant
benefit for our customers in addressing these risks from a policy-based,
identity-driven perspective," says Maximilian Morgan, Product Manager for
M+Guardian. "Other solutions typically only address one or two security
risks, and fail to offer a unified view of the organization's mail flow,
resulting in important compliance and security gaps".

M+Guardian incorporates a robust, enterprise-class clustered MTA with
perimeter security, industry-leading anti-virus and anti-spam technologies,
reputation and content filtering engines, data privacy and loss prevention.
The built-in clustering capabilities of M+Guardian ensure that no latency
is introduced into the mail flow, even when sophisticated pattern matching
and filtering is applied on a large volume of messages. Before any new
version is shipped, M+Guardian is extensively field-tested on Messaging
Architects' own real-life, high-volume hosted email system. This system
(www.myrealbox.com) processes over 6.5 million messages a day for 50,000
users worldwide, filtering out 99.1% of all messages.

"The M+Guardian appliance really meets the needs of our Colleges with its
flexibility and numerous features. What I really like about this version is

the fact that it comes as a pre-configured and optimized appliance that
requires minimal setup on my part. The fact that it uses its own embedded
LDAP server is a huge selling point for me as it allows me to manage
profiles and policies centrally. M+Guardian also scales really well and is
able to easily handle all the traffic for both College email systems,"
remarks John McHugh, Network System Specialist at The Chabot-Las Positas
Community College District, where M+Guardian protects the email accounts of
1,500 faculty and staff users and some 22,000 students, ensuring full
compliance with internal policies and external regulatory frameworks.

The new fast-track deployment wizard simplifies implementation and provides
instant portability of server settings to new server hardware, whether
physical or virtual. Installation of M+Guardian will typically take less
than 15 minutes from opening the box to full Email Server protection.

Availability

M+Guardian 2008.2 is available immediately as a physical appliance or as a
virtual server for VMware. It is compatible with all standard email
servers, including Novell GroupWise, Microsoft Exchange and IBM Lotus
Notes/Domino. For more information, visit
www.messagingarchitects.com/mplusguardian.

About Messaging Architects

We are global specialists in risk management for enterprise email and
collaboration. We provide software and services for 100% uptime and
compliance. Used daily by thousands of enterprise clients worldwide, our
solutions are compatible with Novell GroupWise (NOVL), Microsoft Exchange
(MSFT) and IBM Lotus Notes/Domino (IBM). For more information, visit our
website at www.messagingarchitects.com/businessdriven.

Contact:
Gordana Stok
514-392-9220 x296gordana.stok@messagingarchitects.com

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