HostingCon 2008 - Message Systems Protects the Network Edge

I know what you're thinking.

Okay, I don't know what you're thinking. Or who you are. Or anything about you, specifically. But imagine you are thinking this: "did you talk to anyone who didn't have the word 'mail' in the name of their company at HostingCon?"

The answer, my dear hypothetical question-asker, is, "Absolutely. I talked to Message Systems."

And the point I'm trying to force home with my ham-fisted wit here is "there sure were a lot of email solutions floating around at HostingCon."

If you were there, you probably already knew that, being as difficult to miss as it was. Call it an affirmation of the fact that the real value in the hosting business these days lies in the delivery of hosted services - that, and he fact that email is by far the most broadly accepted of those hosted services.

Anyway, among the many conversations I had at HostingCon was one with Barry Abel of Message Systems, which actually was a bit of a departure from some of the other mail-related conversations I had that week, apart from the daring exclusion of "mail" from the company's name.

Message Systems' primary product (particularly in relation to the hosting space) is the company's email application server for Linux, Edge of Network, or EON. It's a software package that can be installed on your existing hardware to manage delivery, as well as provide traffic shaping and any number of anti-spam controls.

The anti-spam technology from Cloudmark, for instance, can be deployed within the message systems platform to provide filtering, along with grey list data and other email checking technologies from a variety of sources.

The system is operated via a web-based interface. And its major selling feature is its ability to process at an extremely high capacity, according to the company.

Much of it offered in bulleted points, the product information on the Message Systems website is a little bit sparse. Fortunately the company offers the means to arrange an online consultation via the site, which would likely be the ideal venue for satisfying whatever other curiosities you might have about Edge of Network.