IronPort Customer Spotlight

The Ohio Heart & Vascular Center

Unclogging the Email System with IronPort

"IronPort has one of the few products that simply works."
- Bill Hahn,
 Chief Information Officer
OHIO HEART & VASCULAR CENTER

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At A Glance

Headquarters: Cincinnati, OH
Locations: 12 regional offices
Services: Advanced cardiology and healthcare
Employees: 248
Email System: Microsoft Exchange 2000

Ohio Heart's Challenges

  • 42,000 inbound messages per day - only about 7% of which are legitimate
  • Legacy anti-spam appliance was unable to filter accurately
  • Enormous database of quarantined mail that users had to check by hand
  • System required frequent manual intervention, and active management of white- and blacklists

The IronPort Solution

  • Major increase in end-user productivity
  • 100% improvement in filter effectiveness over previous system
  • Decreased email administration time by 90%
  • Dramatically reduced traffic load on Microsoft Exchange server