Red Earth Software releases Policy Patrol Zip

Save bandwidth & storage space by compressing attachments

Portsmouth, NH - June 3, 2004 - Red Earth Software, developer of email content security software, today announced the release of Policy Patrol Zip, email management software for Exchange Server and Lotus Domino that provides automatic compression of attachments at the server level. Policy Patrol Zip can compress and decompress attachments for outgoing and incoming email, and uniquely offers the ability to compress internally sent attachments as well as external attachments (if installed on Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003).

“Policy Patrol Zip addresses a problem that more and more companies are facing, namely the increased use and size of attachments”, said Mike Spykerman, president of Red Earth Software. “By compressing attachments Policy Patrol can help reduce bandwidth usage and decrease the amount of disk space needed for storing email messages. This in turn decreases network congestion, improves employee productivity and reduces the time needed to restore messages after a mail server failure. Furthermore, since compression is done automatically at server level, this saves users having to compress attachments before they are sent out.”

Policy Patrol can also decompress attachments to avoid users having to unzip received attachments. Although decompression increases disk storage space requirements, Policy Patrol offers the flexibility to apply a file size limit to decompression rules, therefore minimizing the impact on bandwidth and storage space, and only offering decompression where necessary.

Flexible user-based rules
Policy Patrol Zip allows companies to configure flexible, user-based rules that can be applied to specified senders and recipients, attachment types and attachment sizes. Policy Patrol works with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, 2000, 5.5 and Lotus Notes/Domino. A 30-day evaluation version of Policy Patrol Zip is available from http://www.policypatrol.com/Email_FilterDownloadfrm.htm. Pricing starts at 10 users for $95.

Red Earth Software is a Microsoft Certified Partner that specializes in the development of content security solutions that help companies regulate and optimize the use of their email and Internet systems. Included among Red Earth Software clients are large international organizations such as Nissan, Targus, Canadian Pacific Railway, USA.net, Lotto, Fujitsu Services (Central Government customer) and Daewoo.

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