Red Condor Anti-Spam Appliance Wins Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award

May 19, 2009 - PRLog -- ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – Red Condor, a leading provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced that Network Products Guide, an industry leading publication on information technologies and solutions, has named Red Condor’s Message Assurance Gateway appliance as winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award in the security, hardware and software category. This venerated annual award recognizes and honors vendors from all around the world that offer innovative and ground-breaking products that are raising the bar for quality and competition across all areas of information technology.

Red Condor’s MAG appliances are fully managed systems that provide enterprise-level email security for small and medium-sized companies, enterprises and Internet Service Providers. The appliances, which do not require filter tuning or ongoing administration, are available with Red Condor Vx Technology™, which provides resiliency and redundancy leveraging in-the-cloud computing for load sharing, disaster recovery and failover. Recent independent comparison tests found that Red Condor has a spam block rate of 99.991 percent compared with Postini’s block rate of 95.397 percent and Barracuda’s Spam Firewall 300 block rate of 99.961 percent. Red Condor also produced 90 percent fewer false positives than Barracuda and 84 percent fewer false positives than Postini. For more information on the tests, visit http://www.redcondor.com/resources/downloads/tolly-report....

“Innovation is clearly an important factor for greater success and has the most impact on staying competitive," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Network Products Guide. “Innovative products such as Red Condor’s MAG appliances are bringing improvements in email security performance and management.”

“Network Products Guide’s recognition of our technology further validates our efforts to develop a best-in-class anti-spam solution that stands out among all the traditional email filters,” said Dr. Tom Steding, chief executive officer of Red Condor.  “When we first introduced our product in the market, we knew innovation was going to be critical to be successful in this competitive market. Product innovation is a critical component of our ability to continue to meet the needs of the market and our goals of making spam a non-issue for our customers.”

To read more about this product innovation, please visit www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/.

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About Red Condor
Red Condor is revolutionizing spam fighting with its next generation technology. Red Condor’s highly accurate email filter, hybrid architecture Vx Technology™, and fully managed appliances lead to a dramatic reduction in the cost of owning a premium spam filter. With solutions for small business, as well as ISPs with millions of email inboxes, Red Condor has a cost-effective, time-saving solution that is rapidly gaining market share. The system’s design has built-in zero tolerance for lost email, and a near zero false-positive rate while achieving long-term spam block rates greater than 99%. This next-generation technology is backed by a 24x7 customer care center staffed by email security experts at Red Condor’s headquarters. For more information, visit http://www.redcondor.com.