(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Furthering its vision of creating holistic messaging security solutions, carrier-grade messaging security provider Cloudmark (www.cloudmark.com) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bizanga (www.bizanga.com), the software developer behind the scalable and full-featured message processing platform of the same name.
According to its Tuesday announcement, Bizanga’s Intelligent Message Processor platform and Cloudmark’s award winning messaging security software are already integrated as a result of an existing OEM partnership, and the acquisition will benefit operators by delivering a unified solution that increases the performance, reliability and security of their messaging infrastructure and decreases their system integration and management costs.
“The acquisition of Bizanga is part of our ongoing commitment to provide operators with the most advanced messaging solutions to address infrastructure and security demands,” Cloudmark chief executive officer Hugh McCartney said in a statement. “By integrating the industry’s best messaging security solution with the leading messaging platform, we can offer carriers a single-source messaging security solution for the entire infrastructure and continue to broaden our product offering with further innovations.”
It’s no secret that today’s messaging infrastructures face a deluge of spam, which accounts for more than nine out of ten messages operators receive. To combat messaging threats at their earliest outbreaks, carriers are continually looking for innovative solutions to stop spam as quickly and as early as possible at the network’s edge. Through the integration of Bizanga technologies, Cloudmark plans to move more intelligence from the back-end service to the edge of the operator network, enabling higher filtering rates and thereby closing the gap on spammers.
Currently deployed by some of the largest operators in the world, the Bizanga messaging platform complements Cloudmark solutions, delivering a holistic messaging security solution that combines messaging management and complete, end-to-end filtering solutions to protect against all forms of current and emerging messaging threats. The acquisition will enable a powerful, single solution that delivers the most robust and highest performing messaging protection against current and emerging threats.
Under the terms of the agreement, intellectual property pertaining to message store technology, previously the product BizangaStore, will be owned by a separate and independently operated entity, led by former Bizanga chief executive officer Jerome Lecat. The new entity will focus solely on developing and delivering scalable storage software solutions for the email market.
Olivier “Mario” Lemarié, former chief technical officer of Bizanga, will be joining Cloudmark as vice president of Gateway Technology as part of the acquisition. Lemarié said, “Cloudmark has led the fight against messaging abuse through innovative product development, providing customers with unparalleled protection, cost savings and choice. By combining forces, I am both confident and excited about the prospect of delivering a single-source messaging security solution that dramatically simplifies and protects against messaging abuse.”
