HostedEM Announces First Ever Cloud-Based Novell® GroupWise® Solution

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- HostedEM, a managed services provider, announces the upcoming launch of the first ever Cloud-Based Managed Service for Novell® GroupWise® in the enterprise collaboration market. Leveraging the Verizon cloud (VZ), Hosted Enterprise Mail powered by Novell® GroupWise® (HostedEM) is delivered through a partnership with Novell, and relies on cloud archiving provided by Sonian as well as anti-spam and anti-virus protection provided by Kaspersky Lab.

"We're thrilled to be able to announce this service," said a representative of HostedEM.  "Novell GroupWise is a product with a substantial and devoted customer base, and until now, some customers have been forced to choose between the benefits of cloud-based, managed email and the rich features in GroupWise."

The cloud-email service of HostedEM is designed to run exclusively with Novell GroupWise. "We are very excited to have HostedEM delivering Novell GroupWise in the cloud," said Bob Flynn, president and general manager at Novell. "For those customers who are looking to move their on-premise e-mail solution to the cloud, this will give them a cost-effective, yet powerful choice. The beauty of HostedEM is that it delivers the same market-leading level of security and reliability that our customers have enjoyed for years with Novell GroupWise."

The service is also based on a partnership with Sonian, whose email archiving solution provides one of the core capabilities of HostedEM. "As a pioneer in cloud-powered email archiving, Sonian is very excited to support the first available cloud-managed GroupWise option," said Jeff Dickerson, CEO at Sonian. "Sonian has been working with the Novell GroupWise community for years, developing the optimal integration points for high performing and efficient archiving directly from the GroupWise Post Office."

Petr Merkulov, Vice President of Product Management at Kaspersky Lab, expressed the company's excitement at the opportunity to provide anti-spam/anti-virus protection for HostedEM. "Kaspersky Lab welcomes the opportunity to work alongside our premier technology brand partners Novell, Verizon, and now HostedEM to provide our mutual customers with the best-of-breed technology platform they require," says Merkulov. "Kaspersky Lab has a large community of long-time Novell clients, and by providing security for the first hosted GroupWise® option, we are giving them exactly what they need: the industry's best multi-layered protection for their data, all efficiently hosted in the cloud for a low Total Cost of Protection that meets their business needs."

Hosted Enterprise Mail powered by Novell® GroupWise® brings Novell's popular enterprise collaboration client into the cloud management sphere with its launch on May 24th.

For information on service specifics and pricing, visit www.hostedem.com or contact [email protected]

Novell®, the Novell® logo and GroupWise® are registered trademarks of Novell, Inc. in the USA.

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