Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO Stops Spam on Campuses

University of North Carolina, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute join the list of universities deploying CanIt-PRO to stop spam on large campuses, give ultimate control to end users.

(PRWEB)27 October, 2003 — LISA'03 Conference, San Diego, California — The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have implemented Roaring Penguin Software's CanIt-PRO to address the problem of spam on campus while giving end users and administrators the final say over how spam will be identified and managed. CanIt-PRO, an industry-leading anti-spam solution from the makers of the acclaimed MIMEDefang e-mail inspection software, is available to the UNC's 50,000 faculty, staff and student e-mail users, and 10,000 users at Rensselaer.

Chris Colomb, Manager of Messaging Systems at UNC, said, CanIt-PRO has allowed us to address a very subjective but troubling problem – e-mail spam – in a manner that allows users to choose their own filtering policies. CanIt-PRO is a polished solution with inherent architectural flexibility. This ensures that we can customize CanIt-PRO to match our own mail policies and environment. We have a framework that will grow with us and remain current."

Michael Sofka, Senior Systems Programmer and technical lead for the e-mail group at Rensselaer, agreed: As a university we can't make top-down decisions about what e-mail will and won't get through – that has to be in the power of each e-mail user. We chose CanIt-PRO because it delegates spam control to end users while providing one central place where all users go to manage their spam settings, filters and preferences, regardless of their mail client or their location."

Both universities evaluated CanIt-PRO among other anti-spam solutions, including other Milter-based products. Colomb said, Compared to other anti-spam solutions we evaluated, CanIt-PRO provided the best balance between performance and price, requiring less hardware than comparable solutions while providing all the features and functionality we required."

Sofka added, We are seeing a steady uptake of the spam filtering service, and user adoption is accelerating each week. Those using it are very happy with CanIt-PRO, and as an IT department we have the flexibility to customize the product in small ways that make it fit seamlessly with our other services."

In both cases, CanIt-PRO fit ideally into the existing mail environments, as well as integrating seamlessly with existing anti-virus solutions. Many large enterprise and campus environments are finding similar success with CanIt-PRO. In September, 2003, Roaring Penguin announced that Algonquin College, an Ottawa, Canada-based campus of 30,000 e-mail users, had successfully implemented CanIt-PRO for both anti-spam and anti-virus benefits.

CanIt is available in standard and professional versions, as a software download or plug-and-play appliance. CanIt-PRO is ideal for very large enterprises or campus environments, where control and management of the system needs to be distributed to individual departments or users. Case studies and customer testimonals can be found at www.canit.ca/customer_testimonials.php. A trial version of CanIt can be obtained at www.canit.ca/evaluation.php.

About Roaring Penguin
Founded in 1999, Roaring Penguin Software Inc. specializes in providing intelligent computing infrastructure for enterprises. Since 2000, the company has focused on enterprise e-mail filtering, spam fighting and related product lines. Today, Roaring Penguin develops, deploys and supports a range of acclaimed mail-filtering and networking products. For more information visit www.roaringpenguin.com.

About UNC
The University of North Carolina has a rich heritage of academic excellence. Chartered in 1789, UNC was the first public university in the United States and the only one to graduate students in the eighteenth century. Today, UNC is a multi-campus university composed of 16 constituent institutions. The university consists of each public educational institutions that grands baccalaureate degrees in the state of North Carolina. For more information visit www.unc.edu.

About Rensselaer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was founded at Troy, N.Y., in 1824. It is the nation's oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering, the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and the humanities and social sciences. Institute programs serve undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals around the world. Rensselaer faculty are known for their pre-eminence in research conducted in a wide range of research centers that are characterized by strong industry partnerships. The Institute is especially well known for its success in the transfer of technology from the laboratory to the marketplace so that new discoveries and inventions benefit human life, protect the environment, and strengthen economic development. For more information, visit: www.rpi.edu.
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