Kerio Puts Wireless Email and Groupware Within the Reach of Every Small Business

November 7, 2006; 06:35 AM
Kerio Technologies Inc., specializing in secure Internet software for small and mid-sized businesses, today released a new version of Kerio MailServer that offers Direct Push email for Windows Mobile® smartphones and PDAs. Users will be able to wirelessly synchronize their email messages, calendar data, contacts, and tasks in their Kerio MailServer account with a Microsoft Windows Mobile-based device.

"Mobile email can be both complicated and expensive for the average small business owner to deploy," says David Ferris, president and senior analyst at Ferris Research. "Most secure mobile email solutions require a groupware server, usually combined with another expensive middleware server."

"I want small businesses to benefit from mobile email, mobile calendar, and mobile contacts just like large corporations do," says Martin Viktora. "Kerio MailServer takes Microsoft Exchange out of the equation when it comes to delivering push email or looking up contacts in Global Address List with a handheld device connecting wirelessly."

Support for mobile email in Kerio MailServer 6.3 is fully transparent and does not require users to install any additional software on their mobile devices. Likewise, Kerio MailServer does not require any additional third-party middleware to push email, contacts and calendars to mobile users.

Kerio also addresses a big worry of IT administrators -- lost cell phones and a potential loss or leak of private company data.

"We constantly see people losing their phones," says Eric Near, Help Desk Manager at the Nashville Symphony. "We really need to address the problem of how to remotely delete company data from their phones after such incidents."

Kerio MailServer supports Remote Wipe allowing administrators to simply delete all data from a particular smartphone linked to a company mail server. As Remote Wipe is not available in older Windows Mobile phones, Kerio MailServer 6.3 offers its own alternative solution -- Smart Wipe -- for older devices that lets administrators push alternate empty mailbox data to the phone thus erasing all emails and groupware information.

Kerio MailServer supports all Windows Mobile smartphones and devices such as the Palm Treo 700w and Motorola Q offered by Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile's SDA, and other OEM phones offered by Cingular, Sprint, Orange and O2.

Kerio MailServer supports over-the-air synchronization for all versions of Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system developed for PDAs and smartphones including Windows Mobile 2002/2003/2003SE and the newest Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Mobile 5.0 AKU2 as well as Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition and SmartPhone Edition of Microsoft Windows Mobile.

With Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync built in, Palm Treo 650 users can directly sync up their corporate email and calendars with Kerio MailServer.

Pricing and Availability

Kerio MailServer 6.3 is available now from over 500 partners worldwide. Download it at www.kerio.com for a supported 30-day evaluation.

The base license for Kerio MailServer supports 10 users and starts at just $399 for the standard version, or $499 with integrated McAfee Anti-Virus for bi-directional scanning of all email. The license includes 12 months of phone and email technical support as well as an upgrade subscription for new releases, updates and patches.

Mobile sync is a standard feature of Kerio MailServer and is available free of charge to all existing Kerio MailServer customers with current subscription. Kerio MailServer runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

About Kerio Technologies Inc.

Innovating in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies Inc. (www.kerio.com) provides Internet messaging and firewall software solutions for small to medium sized businesses and organizations worldwide. Kerio's corporate headquarters are located in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Great Britain and the Czech Republic. Kerio's technology partners include McAfee, Inc. and Internet Security Systems.

In August 2006, Kerio MailServer was awarded Editor's Choice by Windows IT Pro magazine in the round-up of Microsoft Exchange alternatives.