In the past few years, free email services have become popular with some universities. However, there are serious drawbacks in using free email services over the secure email solution that Mirapoint offers. Free email brings uncertainties about security and privacy and limits an organization’s ability to enable rich collaboration between faculty and students, due to the limitations of separate email systems. Mirapoint provides educational organizations with an appliance-based email and calendaring solution that enables full collaboration on a single platform, while eliminating the security risks and privacy issues associated with traditional free email offerings.

“We are pleased to offer free student email licenses to higher education organizations,” said Alan Elliott, vice president of marketing, Mirapoint. “Universities today require a combination of secure email and calendaring for a broad mix of users from students to faculty and staff. Educational organizations can now take advantage of free student licenses with the benefits of Mirapoint’s appliance-based solution without losing control of their user base which can occur with traditional free email offerings.”

In addition to free student email licenses, Mirapoint’s messaging solution provides higher education organizations with a single collaborative platform for faculty, staff and students, with guaranteed privacy of email data and the reliability of an appliance-based solution. Mirapoint’s messaging solution eliminates data mining threats, patching updates, arduous administrative requirements, and costly complicated deployments. Other benefits of Mirapoint’s messaging solution include:
Proven five-nines reliability (less than 6 minutes of downtime per year)
Scalable to tens of thousands of users on a single appliance
Completely brandable interfaces
Compatible with Outlook and Entourage for those who want a desktop client
Built-in storage options and SAN or NAS support
Mobility support for Blackberry, as well as a multitude of smart phones on the market today
Integrated anti-spam, anti-virus and content filtering options
Archiving options for email management
Centralized reporting tools to track real-time changes and threats in the network

Pricing and Availability

Mirapoint’s free student email licensing is available immediately to new higher education customers purchasing licenses for their faculty and staff.

Secure Messaging Infrastructure for Educational Organizations

Mirapoint email server, archiving and security appliances offer carrier-class, 99.999 percent uptime reliability and the industry’s lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Mirapoint’s Message Server is the only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management. Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliances provide multi-layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, with spam and virus catch-rates upwards of 98 percent. Mirapoint’s Messaging Reporter delivers a holistic view of spam, virus, and email trends across the messaging network. The Mirapoint Directory Server serves as the backbone to the messaging infrastructure providing a foundation for storing and managing message routing information, user profiles, and access privileges. Combined, Mirapoint appliances deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About Mirapoint

Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.