IronPort Customer Spotlight

IronPort's solutions are designed with an intense focus on customers. IronPort provides the right combination of resources and technical expertise to help organizations of all sizes manage the startling growth in email volume and withstand the massive flood of spam, viruses and fraud that threaten today's email infrastructures. IronPort has customers across a wide variety of different industries, helping organizations with the monumental task of managing, protecting, and growing mission-critical email systems. See a sampling of other valued costumers which IronPort has helped.

Featured Customer

Dell Inc.

IronPort Streamlines Email at One of the World's Largest Computer Vendors

"IronPort has performed beyond
any of our initial expectations."
- Erich Stokes,
I/T Email Systems Engineer,
DELL INC.

To view the complete Dell case study,
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At A Glance

Founded: 1984
Employees: 69,700
Revenues (FY2006): $55.9 billion
Worldwide locations: 50+
Mailboxes (employees, contractors, and process mailboxes worldwide): approx. 100,000
SMTP addresses (individuals, aliases, mailing lists, and processes): 305,000+
Average number of attempted inbound messages per day: 29 million
Percentage of those messages that are spam or contain viruses: 95%

Dell's Challenges

  • Quickly outgrowing its legacy email gateway solution
  • Spam and virus protection showing weakness against new attack variants
  • Keeping the email systems running properly required two full-time employees
  • Scaled out and excessively load-balanced infrastructure, with functions and processes spread across multiple systems

The IronPort Solution

  • Replaced an email system, consisting of 103 disparate servers, with a streamlined infrastructure using 12 IronPort appliances
  • Dramatically reduced the amount of spam getting into the system
  • Reduced spam traffic to internal mail servers
  • Virtually eliminated false positives
  • Created more efficient mail handling and eliminated capacity problems
  • Allowed Dell to eliminate 12 of its Microsoft Exchange servers, due to decreased traffic load of undeliverable messages
  • Decreased the employee time required to manage the email gateway systems by 75%