The new programme provides the ideal platform for the Channel to leverage the power of high performance email anti-spam, anti-virus, hosting and archiving services.

As well as introducing formal Bronze, Silver and Gold accreditations with training, enhanced margins, co-op funding and client referrals, the company is removing a number of its services from direct sale and making them available solely through their Partner channel. These services are Gateway email filtering, Mailcore email hosting and MessageBunker email archiving. Enquiries for these services made directly to The Very Good Email Company will be referred to relevant accredited Partners.

In addition Partners are able to sell The Very Good Email Company’s Zimbra hosted email and collaboration suite (with full SLAs) and fax to email solutions.
Iain Ogilvie, marketing manager at The Very Good Email company, commented: “We believe this is a great opportunity for established IT companies. Partnering with The Very Good Email Company adds high quality email filtering, archiving and hosting services to existing portfolios – adding additional monthly revenues without diluting any existing service offerings.”

Adrian Mardlin, MD at The Very Good Email Company added: “We are delighted to be enhancing our offerings to the Channel – especially at a time when a certain well known software giant appears to be undermining its own Channel community with regard to hosted email solutions.”

Further information can be found on The Very Good Email Company Website at http://www.verygoodemail.com/partner/overview/

Email solutions provider APM Internet has today unveiled a new brand identity that represents a significant consolidation of focus as a leading email solutions provider. The re-brand deliberately bucks recent the trends in IT services of having abstract names that bear no relation to a company’s chief activity.

The company went through an internal exercise (no expensive brand agencies) and kept coming back to one name. That name summed up their focus and would make it easy for potential customers and partners to readily understand what the company did, and what it stood for. From today the company’s new public identity is The Very Good Email Company, with a new website and collateral in place to support this new brand.

Adrian Mardlin, MD at The Very Good Email Company commented: “Our old name didn’t clearly say what we do – our new identity as The Very Good Email Company reflects our focus as an email solutions provider and our ethos of performance and customer care.” He continued: “No clever names – or expensive ‘branding’ exercises – just a simple, straightforward name that ‘does what it says on the tin’.”

Paul Evans, Technical Director, added: “The new name gives an idea of the type of team we are. This is not a cocky attitude or marketing ‘mist’, it’s a bar; a level of achievement we are setting for ourselves. It’s not about assuming the right to refer to ourselves as ‘very good’ but rather a title we intend to continuously earn from our customers.”

www.verygoodemail.com

About The Very Good Email Company

The Very Good Email Company is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email services, The Very Good Email Company has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

The Very Good Email Company has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. The company is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

www.verygoodemail.com

Further information:

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

Email solutions provider APM Internet has launched a new in-the-cloud email archiving and discovery service, MessageBunker (www.messagebunker.com), into the Channel, providing ultra-secure archiving that is simpler and cheaper to deploy than existing alternatives.

MessageBunker silently duplicates and stores every email and a Google-style interface enables users to search their archive and find relevant emails and attachments in seconds. Found emails can be viewed instantly, downloaded, printed, or restored. In addition MessageBunker’s Time Travel utility enables users to see their inbox as it was at any point in time since archiving began via a webmail interface and download the entire package as a zip file if required.

As MessageBunker is a ‘cloud’ service there is no software client to install, or hardware to add to an office network – all the end user needs is access to a decent web browser.

Iain Ogilvie, marketing manager at APM Internet: “The volume of email traffic continues to rise and legislation regarding business communications is becoming ever more stringent. Sooner, or later, all businesses will need to have some form of email archiving solution in place.” He adds: “Email archiving is one of those subjects that most of us would probably choose to ignore. It’s not sexy, it doesn’t appear to directly add revenue to your business and it’s just something else you simply haven’t got time to address. MessageBunker is the ideal solution.”

MessageBunker is now actively recruiting resellers from within the Channel, providing typical margins of 138% depending upon the amount of data stored and the level of discount attained by each reseller. Retail costs are minimal – £5 per month per 5GB of storage. For those that remain unconvinced – the service has a free entry level option that allows up to 5 mailboxes and 2GB of data storage.

Adrian Mardlin, APM Internet MD, commented ìThis is a great service that provides a simple, secure, economical solution to a rising tide of email and Government and Industry regulation – it is already proving extremely popular.î He continues: “MessageBunker provides an ideal solution for the Channel as it is simple to set up and manage and provides excellent margins.”

www.messagebunker.com

About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email services, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

www.verygoodemail.com

Email solutions provider APM Internet is pleased with its decision to host its new email archiving and recovery service, MessageBunker (www.messagebunker.com), in an ultra-secure facility provided by The Bunker at a former nuclear base.

Effective email data management is vital to every business and with the rise of business data retention legislation it has become a business imperative. Traditional email archiving solutions require the deployment of a dedicated device, which can prove expensive, particularly for smaller companies, and are tied to a single email platform. Other solutions can be fraught with security issues.

As well as ease of use, security of data and uptime are the keys to MessageBunker.com – a simple, robust and highly secure solution that provides an offsite email archive that simply plugs into existing email platforms – and these elements were key to the MessageBunker teams’ choice of data centre.

Adrian Mardlin, APM Internet MD, commented “We are very pleased with our choice of data centre – the team at The Bunker have provided excellent service and support.” He continues: “The facility at The Bunker is ultra secure, well away from London, and able to provide a complete end-to-end solution to connect back to our existing network in London.”

Simon Neal, Director of Data Centre Services at The Bunker commented “We are delighted APM Internet chose The Bunker – they required a highly secure data centre with guaranteed uptime and with our ex-MOD architecture and original build specification for the housing of high powered military machines we had no problem meeting APM’s requirements.”

www.messagebunker.com

About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email services, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

About The Bunker

The Bunker delivers secure managed hosting and data centre solutions from within Europe’s most secure data centre.

Our Data Centres, which are outside the M25 yet within easy reach of London, are ex-military Nuclear Bunkers purpose built to house the UK’s air defence systems. We run 24/7/365 and our NOC monitors systems both nationally and internationally and is staffed around the clock by system and network engineers and security staff.

Our technical leaders are recognised experts in security and cryptography, renowned for their work on Apache-SSL. The Bunker is ISO 27001 accredited and we are a Microsoft Gold Partner. We use Open Source software where appropriate as we believe it can offer great benefits in security, stability and cost effectiveness. Through our in house networks team and via close working relationships with a number of selected network providers, we deliver a multi-homed, no single point of failure transit network between our sites and the Internet.

The Bunker works with over 130 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated businesses that value a premium service built around security.

Our service is proactive, high quality, sometimes innovative, but always practical, responsive and secure. We never forget the enormous trust our clients vest in us. As an organisation we understand that our success relies upon our reputation and our reputation is earned by continuing to fulfil this trust and afford peace of mind.

The Bunker Protocol™

All Bunker-based applications are protected by The Bunker Protocol™, our proprietary, Ultra* Secure process framework that includes:

• Military-Grade Data Centres – in our underground bunker outside the M25 in Kent and our mirror facility in Newbury, both protected by integrated processes for physical, digital and human security
• Hardened Source™ – Our unique combination of open source and proprietary technologies built and integrated in-house from the source code up
• Tierless Support™ – no ‘first tier helpdesk’; tierless support – direct 24/7 access to qualified hands-on support teams

For further information, please visit www.thebunker.net

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

01442 892644

Email solutions provider APM Internet have launched a ‘Top Gun’ prize draw for new Channel Partners.

New Partners appointed before the end of March 2009 will be entered in a draw to win a flight in one of the most extreme aerobatic aeroplanes in the world – the Extra 300.

Partners are able to sell all services from the APM Internet portfolio, including email anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, email archiving and Zimbra collaboration tools, as well as fax to email and email to fax services.

Register for the APM Internet Partner Program by contacting Mandy Ackland, or Iain Ogilvie, on 01442 892644, or email sales@apm-internet.net

Adrian Mardlin, APM Internet MD, commented “With the launch of our Zimbra hosted email and collaboration tool, as well as our innovative new email archiving and discovery solution, MessageBunker, we believe there has never been a better time to join our Partner Program. We look forward to treating the lucky winner to the flight of a lifetime!”

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www.messagebunker.com
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About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email solutions, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

01442 892644

UK email anti-spam and anti-virus solutions provider APM Internet has launched a fully hosted email and collaboration service for small to medium enterprises based on the innovative Zimbra Collaboration Suite.

APM Internet’s Zimbra Collaboration Suite provides rich Zimbra features in a fully customized ‘in-the-cloud’ package that includes dynamic webmail, shared contacts and calendars, as well as online document and spreadsheet authoring and editing capabilities. APM Internet’s Zimbra Collaboration Suite offers convenient anytime access via the web, offline or mobile, including full compatibility with outlook and other popular desktop clients.

Email is a critical business tool, yet many businesses don’t have the time, staff, or budget to get the best from it. APM Internet’s Zimbra Collaboration Suite is a fully managed hosted email solution for businesses of every size that provides all the benefits of having your own dedicated server – without having a server to host and manage.

APM Internet’s Zimbra Collaboration Suite provides better email, better protection from spam and viruses, full mobility, security, backups and disaster recovery – all for a fixed monthly cost.

Features

o Business-class email – Protection from spam and viruses, automatic filters, signatures…

o Exchange style collaboration features – Outlook integration, server-based storage (IMAP) and everything you would expect, including:

• Powerful shared calendaring – multiple calendars, invitations, share with anyone, sync with Windows, Mac or mobile!
• Mobility built-in: Custom client for mobile devices enables easy access to all of your email, wherever you are.
• Business collaboration tools – task lists, document storage and sharing, as well as a private file ‘briefcase’. All fully integrated.
• Wherever you are, whenever you want – use of ‘best of breed’ webmail anywhere and/or dynamically sync with Outlook or Mac.

The service can be used in conjunction with APM Internet’s new MessageBunker email archiving and business compliance service – www.messagebunker.com

Adrian Mardlin, APM Internet MD, commented “Zimbra has rapidly established itself as a feature rich alternative to Exchange and we are delighted to be adding it to our portfolio.” He added “Any small business would be crazy to install their own Exchange server when they can save money and have a more reliable service at the same time.”

“Zimbra is focused on improving the overall collaboration experience through innovative and flexible messaging, calendaring and document authoring technology,” said Andy Pflaum, VP of Zimbra Business Development. “We designed the Zimbra Collaboration Suite from the ground up to be deployed by hosted service providers and are excited that APM Internet is bringing Zimbra to its customers.”

www.verygoodemail.com

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About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email solutions, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

For further information, please visit www.apm-internet.net

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

01442 892644

MessageBunker automatically archives any Internet-accessible email account (IMAP or POP3), providing full backup, fast searching and OS-X Leopard-style Time Machine for your email. It’s intended for anyone wanting an offsite or secondary backup of their mail, whether a small business or GMail user.

MessageBunker is hosted on dedicated servers within the ultra-secure facility at a former US Nuclear base at Greenham Common, provided by The Bunker.

Email anti-virus and anti-spam specialists APM Internet have launched a beta test of an innovative new email archiving platform – MessageBunker – and are looking for trialists. Registration is via the site at www.messagebunker.com with the Invitation Code ‘mbtrial’.

Effective email data management is vital to every business and with the rise of business data retention legislation it has become a business imperative. Traditional email archiving solutions require the deployment of a dedicated device, which can prove expensive, particularly for smaller companies, and are tied to a single email platform.

Each account gets unlimited storage space, the ability to archive up to 10 mailboxes and absolutely no charges during the beta period. At launch the base service will continue to be free – with higher specification versions available for a low monthly fee.

Adrian Mardlin, APM Internet MD, commented “This is an exciting new service that answers a growing need within all sectors of the business community. Email archiving solutions can be complex and expensive, but MessageBunker really is simple to set-up and can be archiving your email in minutes.” He continues: “With the current ‘Credit Crunch’ businesses are looking at ways to reduce cost and improve efficiency – ‘in-the-cloud’ solutions such as MessageBunker are leading the way.”

www.messagebunker.com

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About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email services, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

For further information, please visit www.apm-internet.net

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

01442 892644

Faxtastic! provides users with a unique fax number that takes any received fax and converts it into an email attachment, with no additional software required. Users can choose from a free 0871 number, an 0844 number, or a newly introduced range of UK geographic numbers.

To receive faxes, users get their own unique fax number. Any faxes sent to that number are converted into TIFF Image format and sent to a chosen email address (or addresses).

All users need to send a fax is an email account -and they can send to any fax machine in the world. It’s a simple matter of writing an email as normal, optionally attaching PDFs, Word documents or TIFF files, and sending the email to a specific email address.

That’s it. Users can send and receive faxes with nothing more than an email account.

Faxtastic!’s free 0871 package is just that; free from charges for receiving inbound faxes – all faxtastic! ask is that it is used on a regular basis. One fax must be received in the first seven days, then one every 90 days thereafter. As long as end users keep to this requirement the number stays theirs for free. Outbound faxes cost from 5p per page; credits are purchased in blocks and never expire.

Other services include an 0871 ‘budget’ option, as well as 0844 and the new geographic numbers – ideal for small to medium enterprises.

All pricing is transparent – with no hidden charges or caps on the number of pages that can be sent, or received – unlike some other providers.

Adrian Mardlin, MD of faxtastic! parent company APM Internet, commented “Geographic numbers were the next logical step in the development of our fax solutions – these are proving to be extremely popular and more numbers will be added on a regular basis.” He goes on to say “We are seeing an increase in interest from users of other fax services who’ve been put off by the introduction of service limitations and charges – our ethos is one of simplicity and transparency.”

www.faxtastic.co.uk

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About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email services, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

For further information, please visit www.verygoodemail.com

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

01442 892644

Today’s news that Google Gmail has suffered another major outage must ring alarm bells for many businesses that rely on this platform for their communications, flagging the need to back-up their email ready for the rare occasions that things go wrong.

Email solutions provider APM Internet have recently launched a new email archiving and recovery service, MessageBunker (www.messagebunker.com) hosted in an ultra-secure facility at a former nuclear base.

Ease of use, security of data and uptime are the keys to MessageBunker – a simple, robust and highly secure solution that provides an offsite email archive that simply plugs into existing email platforms – such as Google Gmail.

Paul Evans, APM Internet Technical Director, commented “Whilst it is rare for platforms such as Google Gmail to suffer problems it does highlight the fact that many business users are happy to have all of their email eggs in one basket – until things go wrong.” He continues: “We would urge users affected by today’s outage to explore some of the archiving solutions available, including MessageBunker.”

www.messagebunker.com

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About APM Internet

APM Internet is the UK Leader in email and fax solutions, formed in 2002 by Adrian Mardlin – the founder of successful ISP Nildram (now a part of Tiscali). With a specific focus on fax and email solutions, APM Internet has built a successful niche providing fax-to-email and email-to-fax solutions, as well as email packages with leading edge spam and virus filtering.

APM Internet has brought together experienced individuals to create a core team of design, development and implementation experts. APM Internet is all about technical excellence, concentrating on messaging and nothing else, maintaining a tight focus on providing the best services in the business.

For further information, please visit www.apm-internet.net

Iain Ogilvie

press@verygoodemail.com

01442 892644