Swisscom Debuts Cloud Services: Computing, Storage and Email Archiving in the Cloud, Powered by Proofpoint, Verizon, Nirvanix

The corporate business division of Swisscom, the leading telecommunications provider in Switzerland, announced today that it has entered the cloud computing / Computing-as-a-Service market with a new family of on-demand IT offerings that include cloud-based computing, storage and email archiving features powered by leading SaaS vendors, including Proofpoint.

Swisscom's Cloud Services (see http://www.swisscom.com/cloud for more information) allow companies to build up their computing and storage capacity at any time, without having to make investments in IT infrastructure or specialized staff. The three main components of Cloud Services are:

• Computing-as-a-Service (CaaS), provided in collaboration with Verizon.
• Secure Storage, which offers on-demand storage powered by Nirvanix.
• Email Archiving, based on Proofpoint's SaaS email archiving solution, Proofpoint ARCHIVE.

Quoted in Proofpoint's press release about the new partnership, Roger Wüthrich-Hasenböhl, head of marketing and sales for Swisscom Corporate Business, said that they chose to partner with Proofpoint because of the security, performance and TCO benefits delivered by Proofpoint ARCHIVE.

“Today’s enterprises are looking to cut costs and improve efficiency without sacrificing quality or security and Swisscom’s customers expect the highest levels of service quality, availability and stability. As a high-security, high-performance, low total-cost-of-ownership solution, Proofpoint’s email archiving product was the perfect fit for our portfolio of cloud-based services,” he says.

In it's own announcement, Swisscom Corporate Business highlighted the litigation/regulatory audit readiness, and security benefits of Proofpoint's solution, noting that it offers, "unlimited scalability and mail data are stored such that they are unalterable and therefore audit-compliant."

Swisscom is the newest channel partner for the Proofpoint ARCHIVE solution, which is also sold through Microsoft Online Services and other Proofpoint channel partners. Proofpoint's CMO, Peter Galvin, noted that Proofpoint's SaaS email archiving, email security and data loss prevention solutions are, "an ideal value-added offering for service providers and ISPs looking to broaden their cloud-based service portfolios."

OEMs and resellers interested in including Proofpoint solutions as part of their own cloud-based initiatives should contact partners@proofpoint.com for more information.

To learn more about the cost and security benefits of moving email archiving to the cloud, download the Osterman Research whitepaper, Email Archiving: Realizing the Cost Savings and Other Benefits from Saas by visiting:

http://www.proofpoint.com/id/saas-email-archiving-costs-whitepaper/index.php

Comments

[Flora]

What are the benefits of using cloud-based computing, storage and email archiving features?Also does it has any email storage feature?