SpamTitan Blocks More Than Just Spam

Company:

Headquarters: Galway, Ireland

Technology Sector: Security

Key Product: SpamTitan AntiSpam

Year Founded: 2003

Number of Channel Partners: 105 worldwide

Ideal Channel Partner: Small business-focused solution providers

Why You Should Care: SpamTitan offers comprehensive e-mail security, protecting against phishing attacks, viruses, malware and, yes, spam too.

The Lowdown: Hands down, one of the biggest headaches for businesses and organizations of any size is spam, which can clog networks, eat up bandwidth and lead to more serious problems such as phishing attacks and malware.

Which is why SpamTitan is about more than just spam, executives said. SpamTitan, offered as both an ISO software suite and as a virtual appliance, also focuses on viruses, Trojans, phishing attacks and other high level e-mail security threats. That is to say, the product addresses spam and all that comes with it.

With both SpamTitan ISO and SpamTitan for VMWare, customers use their own hardware or virtualization software, which allows channel partners to quickly and easily install the product--usually about an hour. That ease of deployment and simplicity are two things that set the product apart from the myriad spam filters on the market, executives say.

"It allows us to get in front of people. It's very much a try-and-buy sales method," said Ronan Kavanagh, CEO of SpamTitan. "If you make it easy for the customer, they'll try things."

SpamTitan, which primarily targets the SMB, along with K-12 education and other verticals, has seen strong growth, which will help enable the company to double its channel base over the next year, Kavanagh said.

Meanwhile, Kavanagh said that SpamTitan for VMware also positions the company well for the impending mass migration to virtualization as more customers transition from a physical IT environment to a virtual one.

"The rollout of virtualization in organizations these days is huge," he said. "That makes for easy trial and testing of virtual appliances, of which we are one. They can be up and running with our product within an hour. That in and of itself gives you an advantage over the competition."