Red Condor Wins 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award

May 27, 2009 - PRLog -- ROHNERT PARK, Calif. – Red Condor, a leading provider of fully managed email security solutions, today announced that it has won the 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC). Red Condor’s MAG appliances are cost-effective, fully managed systems that eliminate spam, viruses, spyware, phishing schemes, offensive content and other dangerous email threats for all size organizations, from small businesses to enterprises and Internet service providers that manage thousands to millions of mail boxes.

“Red Condor has been recognized with this 2008 Product of the Year Award for its excellence in the advancement of voice, data and/or video communications,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief. “Red Condor has proven it is committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use the MAG appliances.  I am pleased to honor Red Condor’s hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from the company in the future.”

The MAG appliances do not require filter tuning or ongoing administration, and 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.

“We appreciate being recognized for our innovation, as that has been the focus and foundation of Red Condor since the company was founded,” said Dr. Tom Steding, chief executive officer of Red Condor. “We have had a tremendous start to 2009 as our technology has received multiple awards, which validate our efforts and our proprietary approach to fighting spam. This award is particularly special because it comes from a publication focused on the service provider and telecom markets. Like the other awards we have received to date, the Product of the Year award is a true compliment to the Red Condor team who works tirelessly to find ways to improve and innovate thereby staying several steps ahead of spammers and hackers.”  

The Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2008 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2008 Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the INTERNET TELEPHONY and Customer Interaction Solutions Web site.

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.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is a global integrated media company helping our clients build communities in print, in person and online.  TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN Magazine.  TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends.  TMCnet is ranked as 2,921 in Quantcast's Top U.S. Sites placing TMCnet in the top .03% most visited Web sites in the US. In addition, TMC produces ITEXPO, 4GWE Conference, Digium|Asterisk World and Communications Developer Conference.
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