We have now migrated all our hosted messaging services to Websense Hosted Messaging Security.

Traditionally we have run our own systems and a hosted third party screening platform.  Whilst this worked well, we often found that the system maintenance was a high burden and the product itself, developed by a third party was often buggy leading to availability issues. 

We had the infrastructure to support, but if the application crashed sporadically during the evening a firefight would ensue.

After a long think, we decided to switch applications to a different vendor, choosing Websense.   We then had another decision......do we host ourselves, or do we outsource..... ?

We have an outstanding hosting setup, located across 2 high quality ISO accredited disparate Tier 2 Datacentres, but we felt best that Websense have the facilities, setup and knowledge to host their own product.  This was also cost decision, weighing up the options it was more cost effective to outsource to a SaaS solution rather than using our own time, resources and equipment. 

Generally this is the direction of IT at present, cloud computing, elasticity and SaaS solutions arent just buzz words, they make real sense.

So what do we now do ?

We will manage and administrate the solution from start to finish, without having the burden of a buggy application and a server farm to stabliise ! 

Well, we are now a Websense channel partner and you can purchase any of the Websense range from us at a  considerable discount from RRP.

We will also consult and manage the transistion from your existing Email Security Solution to Websense Hosted Messaging.

Once setup, we will be happy to administrate the solution, implementing policies, settings filters etc and customising the environment to suit your needs as a business. Spam is a fine art, we have been dealing with it for years! Whilst the threats change and evolve, we still need to know how to stop it and that we are confident of.

If you would like any further information regarding Websense Hosted Messaging, and what we can do to help,  please feel free to get in touch, g.schofield@conduce.net .