PivotStor EP Series

PivotStor EP Series

EP Series Email Management Appliances
Filtering, Archiving and Encryption Made Simple

The PivotStor EP Series of email management appliances provide an integrated suite of patented EP-Ware™ software solutions on a highly reliable hardware platform. PivotStor email management appliances are available in four models entry level, SMB, SME and enterprise. All deliver "plug and play" operation in virtually any email environment - including Microsoft® Exchange and POP3 servers.

Three Powerful, Integrated Solutions in One Easy-to-Use Appliance
The PivotStor EP Series email management appliances take control of every email at the moment it arrives at the gateway.

1) EP-Filter: Intelligent filters create a spam-free environment
Before allowing any information to pass through to the end user, EP-Filter engages its multiple, customizable filters and policy engines to block known spam and check for viruses. The automation of this critical task saves the organization as much as five seconds per email, and given the ever-increasing volume of malicious or undesirable communications, the savings could equate to dozens of daily man-hours.

If an incoming email has been sent by an unknown source, EP-Filter automatically responds to the sender with a short "challenge" message - a simple request for confirmation that at once defeats autobots and, in the event that the sender is legitimate, offers a branded marketing tool for the organization.

2) EP-Archive: Definable and centralized policies for total information protection
Once it has been filtered, email enters the system and is then subject to the centralized policies of the EP-Archive storage engine. Its customizable rules can be tuned to match the organization's business needs. If the email or its attachments are duplicates, EP-Archive automatically tags it as a "single instance", which serves to reduce storage drain. The email is then fully indexed for easy search and retrieval by end users. And thanks to the sophistication of the EP-Archive software, archived data can be retrieved in minutes, not hours or days. This feature is particularly important in cases with legal ramifications.

3) EP-Encrypt: Protect information using automatic, definable encryption policies
All information in the archive can then be processed by the EP-Encrypt security engine, which rigorously applies Strong Encryption and digital signatures to all information. This ensures the integrity of the archived information and demonstrates that no data tampering has occurred (a key requirement in legal discovery).

The EP-Encrypt security engine also delivers strict and complete protection of valuable intellectual property and information. Users can elect to encrypt and sign emails and attachments so they are sent and received by necessary external parties without compromising security or privacy.

The EP Series is available in four configurations:

EP-50™ Entry
The EP-50™ is designed to protect up to 50 mailboxes in a small company, remote office or departmental environment. This standalone unit features a quiet, book-sized design with a low power footprint.

EP-1000™ SMB
The EP-1000™ is designed to protect up to 1000 mailboxes in a small to medium-sized company. A 1U rack-mount, short-form design with a low power footprint makes it ideal for any SMB company, ISP or ASP provider.

EP-2500™ SME
The EP-2500™ is designed to protect up to 2500 mailboxes in a small to medium-sized enterprise. A 1U rack-mount, short-form design with a low power footprint makes it ideal for any SME company, ISP or ASP provider.

EP-2500+™ Enterprise The EP-2500+™ is designed to protect over 2500 mailboxes in an enterprise environment. A 2U rack-mount design with a low power footprint makes it ideal for any enterprise company, ISP or ASP provider. It can be customized to support over 50,000 users per node.

All models use the full feature set of the EP-Ware™ system and feature the latest Intel™ high performance, power efficient dual and quad core processors.

EP-50™
Email Management Made Simple

The EP-50™ is designed for small companies as well as remote and departmental email protection. It can protect email hosted at ISPs and/or local email servers.

• Designed to manage up to 50 mailboxes and over 16,000 emails per day
• Small, standalone form factor with easy-to-integrate hardware
• POP3 and SMTP support for ISP hosted mailboxes

Small businesses naturally have far tighter financial constraints than large enterprises. Because of such limitations, unplanned expenditures driven by legal action or loss of data can present strain so severe that it threatens the business with extinction.

The cost of IT support is often out of reach for companies below 50 users, so internal support often becomes the responsibility of an employee whose IT knowledge is secondary to his/her primary role. This type of arrangement usually leaves little time to manage systems in general and complex things such as email in particular - and this puts the business in a reactive, vulnerable position. Simplicity and automation are critical for email management at this level - specifically the brand of proactive protection provided by the EP-50™ email management appliance. Safeguards are vital to ensure the health of the network, computer systems and user data.

EP-1000™ SMB
Designed for small to medium-sized companies, ISPs and ASPs

• Small, standalone form factor with easy-to-integrate hardware
• Designed to manage up to 1000 mailboxes and over 16,000 emails per day
• POP3 and SMTP support for ISP hosted mailboxes

SMBs typically experience the fastest new employee growth rate. With the associated volume of data (including email) growing at a rate of 60% per year, duplication of information and network overloading can cause slow responses and bottlenecks - each of which can severely hamstring an SMB's ability to operate efficiently.

Naturally, merely adding more storage is not a viable solution. Data management, like that offered by the PivotStor EP-1000™ email management appliance, is no longer a luxury; it is an imperative. Automating the protection, storage and management of email allows systems to run more stably. Combining advanced search capabilities to find information by subject, body text or attachment ensures that the email system communicates, stores and retrieves information quickly and efficiently.

EP-2500 SME
Designed for small to medium-sized enterprises, ISPs and ASPs

• Small, standalone form factor with easy-to-integrate hardware
• Designed to manage up to 2500 mailboxes and 415,000 emails per day
• POP3 and SMTP support for ISP hosted mailboxes

As an organization scales to thousands of users, the task of managing infrastructure becomes more complex; this is especially true for email systems. The overwhelming volume of incoming messages and attachments, both wanted and malicious, make management impossible for a single employee. Assuming an average of five seconds per email for a user to decide if it is junk mail or not, managing this for a user or IT manager can causes hundreds or even thousands of lost man-hours per year.

PivotStor EP-2500™ SME Email Management Appliance hosts an integrated suite of patented EP-Ware™ software solutions, each of which works synergistically with the others. The intuitive and sophisticated interplay between the three technologies is what makes the EP Series so easy for end users to understand, implement and utilize. And by empowering end users to manage their own email, the burden of orchestrating an enterprise-wide email strategy fades away.

Sheltering end users from undesirable email protects the company and its staff from legal action, as well as saving money on IT infrastructure, administration and storage. The EP-2500™ contains full SMTP and POP3 support, and can be used with Microsoft Outlook®, IBM Lotus Notes® and OpenLDAP.

EP-2500+™ ENTERPRISE A workhorse designed to handle the most demanding corporate email, ISP and ASP environments.

• Designed to manage over 2500 mailboxes and 800,000 emails per day
• Configurable to accommodate up to 50,000 mailboxes per node
• POP3 and SMTP support for ISP hosted mailboxes

In an organization with many thousand employees, email management and automation like that offered by the PivotStor EP-2500+™ Enterprise appliance is no longer a luxury; it is an imperative.

The PivotStor EP-2500+™ Enterprise appliance is designed to take away the pains associated with running this critical part of any business. It does so by providing an integrated suite of patented EP-Ware™ software solutions on a highly reliable hardware platform. Better still, PivotStor email management appliances deliver "plug and play" operation in virtually any email environment - including Microsoft® Exchange and POP3 servers.

EP-2500+™ delivers total control over company communications with complete transparency and unrivaled simplicity for users. It archives, encrypts, digitally signs, and filters out spam and viruses while simultaneously offering end users intuitive control over their entire email universe.

EP-WARE™
Robust Email Management Made Easy

The PivotStor EP Series email management appliances host three powerful software modules, each addressing the most critical components of email management:

EP-Filter creates a 100% spam-free environment by utilizing multi-layered, intelligent filters. It combines robust, state-of-the-art spam and proactive virus protection with technology engineered to be simple to setup. Administrators can establish and modify a litany of email-specific permissions, and users can manage an array of filter policies, including quarantining.