Microdium Appointed as Asia-Pacific Distributor

Singapore located distributor Microdium with regional offices in Malaysia and India is a leading Asian distributor specialized in backup, disaster recovery and archiving solutions. Thanks to a clear focus on various data protection technologies, both for real time and also for long term retention, Microdium is able to offer its resellers true end-to-end solutions. As of now, the portfolio will also include our email archiving solution MailStore Server. For more information on the new MailStore partner, please visit www.microdium.com.

New: MailStore Server 7

Today we are very excited to announce MailStore Server 7.

New Features and Improvements:

64-bit Support – The MailStore Server Windows service now runs natively as a 64 bit process on 64 bit platforms. There is still only one setup application. Setup decides whether to install the 32 bit or 64 bit version of the service.

New Archive Store Concept – The new „archive stores“ replace the „file groups“ known from earlier MailStore Server versions. Conversion is done quickly and automatically. Advantages of the new concept include:

• Archive stores have names which are independent from the directory they are stored in.
•  Archive stores are independent from the master database. In fact, they can easily be detached and reattached on a different server.
• Archive stores can be temporarily disabled rather than having to be detached.
• Archive stores can place their metadata, contents and search index parts in different directories on separate volumes.
• Archive stores can handle much larger folder structures than the file groups from MailStore Server 6, making them much better suitable for larger installations.

Microsoft SQL Server Support – MailStore Server can store metadata and (if wished) contents in a Microsoft SQL Server database. We support SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012.

PostgreSQL Support – MailStore Server can store metadata and (if wished) contents in a PostgreSQL opensource database.

Mobile Web Access – A new web access for mobile devices replaces the old iPhone client and supports a much broader range of devices, for example

• BlackBerry
• Google Android
• Windows Phone
•  iPhone, iPod touch, iPad

Better Microsoft Exchange Web Services (EWS) Support – Much better error handling. Client throttling support (avoiding “EWS 500” and “ErrorServerBusy” errors).

Multithreaded Multi Mailbox Archiving – Multi-mailbox archiving can now be spread over multiple threads (e.g. 5 or 25), making it much faster and more interesting for larger companies.

First-class support for IceWarp Email Server – Multi-mailbox archiving, multidrop (Exchange Journal-like) archiving, synchronization of the user database including groups support.

First-class support for Kerio Connect E-mail Server – Multi-mailbox archiving, multidrop (Exchange Journal-like) archiving, synchronization of the user database including groups support.

New Generic Multi-Mailbox Archiving – For all other e-mail servers. Based on SASL authentication (RFC standard).

Much more flexible user and folder management – Management of users and archive folders has been improved. Some examples:

• Users can now be renamed.
• User archives can now be renamed.
• Emails and folders can now be moved between user archives.
• It is now possible to set privileges for multiple users in one step.

API (Application Programming Interface) – Provides a complete set of commands for managing archive stores and users.

VSS Writer – MailStore Server now includes a VSS writer which makes backup easier and faster in some scenarios, and dramatically reduces downtime during backup to a few seconds.

MailStore Server Startup Script – You can now provide a startup script (batch file) to make it much easier to use MailStore Server together with Network Attached Storage (NAS).

New UI Design based on our new Corporate Design – We integrated our new logo and adapted the whole software to our new corporate design.

Learn more about MailStore Server | Download free trial | Setup files for existing customers

Watanmal Group Trusts in MailStore Server

We are happy to announce our new customer Watanmal Group from India. From now on they will use MailStore Server 6 for email archiving purposes. Watanmal is a company that holds 100 years of expertise in the FMCG segment – and whose turnover today is about US$ 650 million. From April 2012 they trust in proven MailStore technology.
More information about our new customer you’ll find here: www.watanmal.com.

MailStore Home 7 Beta: Possible Virus Scanner Problems

As reported by some users of our new MailStore Home 7 Beta a specific virus scanner software signals a trojan (TR/Spy.Gen). But this obviously is a “false-positive” and not true.

Due to our very high safety standards a release of an infected software version is almost impossible. So we ask for your kind support: If you have such a supposedly infected file please inform the vendor of your antivirus software about the download link and tell them to check it manually.

A review using services like virustotal.com showed up that only 1 out of 42 well known virus scanners reports this problem with MailStore Home 7 Beta – and it is Avira AntiVir.

Update April, 24th, 2012:
No problems with Avira AntiVir any longer.

FINS Joins Ranks of MailStore Distribution Partner Network in Turkey

We are glad to announce a new member of our distribution network in Turkey. This undescores and bolsters our international growth strategy on the email archiving and management market.

As of April 2012, FINS (Future Information Network Solutions) headquartered in Istanbul will join the group of international MailStore distributors. FINS specializes in the distribution of high-grade backup and network management solutions and decided to add the leading MailStore Server 6.0 technology from Germany to their portfolio after carefully sounding out various email management systems.

Heinz B. Wietfeld, Director Global Sales at MailStore: “The Turkish IT market is one of the most exciting emerging markets worldwide, which is evidenced in the strong demand for high-end technologies such as MailStore Server. The trend of Turkish companies expanding on the international stage means that the Turkish parent companies also need to comply with EU and/or U.S. legislation to a certain degree. Given this backdrop, we are very happy to have gained a well-established and strong partner such as FINS as MailStore Server sales partner in Turkey. We are convinced that FINS and its many partners will play a major role in shaping the Turkish email management market of today and tomorrow.”

Heinz B. Wietfeld is new Director Global Sales at MailStore

We are proud to announce the expansion of our management team. Heinz B. Wietfeld (40), who joined the company in April 2012 as ‘Director Global Sales,’ will bring further impetus to our rapid international growth.

Heinz B. Wietfeld has successfully filled various enterprise content management-related positions in sales and management for close to 15 years, and he is highly experienced in the rapid globalization of sales networks. Wietfeld holds a degree in business administration and brings an active business network to the table, in particular in Europe, the Arab region and North America. Heinz is married, has a daughter and lives near Koblenz, Germany.

Heinz B. Wietfeld: “I’m very excited about this opportunity to contribute to the impressive success story of MailStore. I believe that up to date only very few European software companies have been able to impact a market segment as profoundly in as short a time as MailStore has over the past two years. The company successfully positioned a technologically leading solution, rapidly advancing from an ECM niche provider to a well-established player in the industry, both on a national and international level. This is reflected by the fact that already more than half of our customers are based outside of the DACH region.

The majority of our nearly 10,000 MailStore business customers use our applications in scenarios ranging from 5 to approx. 250 workstations. However, we and our sales partners are noticing an increasing trend of large corporations with thousands of workstations also turning to products from MailStore. In particular, our broad range of supported email solutions, which is further enhanced by providing convenient access to the archive via mobile devices such as an iPad, makes us an ever more popular choice not only with the IT management but also with senior decision makers.”

CEO and MailStore Software Corp. founder Tim Berger: “We are very pleased to welcome a manager of Mr. Wietfeld’s caliber and experience to oversee all sales activities. Our sales team and the international partner network are growing at a tremendous pace, which is why we need to individually adopt our structure to the various sales growth phases both internally and externally. Given this backdrop, the fact that Mr. Wietfeld has already lived and worked in the U.S. will allow us to further improve our understanding of and traction in our largest non-domestic market.”

Hooters trusts in MailStore Server

Las Vegas located “Hooters – Hotel and Casino” is a new MailStore customer. From now on they use MailStore Server 6 for email archiving purposes.
The parent company, Hooters Inc., with more than 460 restaurants today is one of the most successful restaurant chains worldwide. Hooters only runs restaurants with full service (a non-fastfood concept).

Learn more about Hooters: www.hooterscasinohotel.com

MailStore at InfoSecurity Europe

MailStore Software Corp. is proud to announce participation at InfoSecurity Europe trade show, courtesy of UK distributor Zen Software Ltd. The No1 information security event in Europe will take place in London, Earls Court, 24th-26th April. Over 300 exhibitors from major names in the industry will be on-site.
Infosecurity Europe attracts media attendance from across Europe and UK and this year’s event will be covered in nearly 800 IT industry publications and National Press across UK and Europe.

Come along and visit us at stand K94, and to arrange a personal demonstration of the latest version of MailStore Server – the standard in email archiving – please contact Zen Software using sales@zensoftware.co.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there!