November 2006

AcumenIT Forges Links With Barracuda Networks

AcumenIT, who form part of The Acumen Group, has developed the partnership in order to offer clients an enhanced service offering that focuses on eliminating spam.

Graeme Carstairs, technical manager at AcumenIT said: "This partnership is an important step forward for AcumenIT. Email has become the key tool for communications among companies worldwide, but with frequent virus attacks combined with the alarming rate that spam crams inboxes, email is quickly becoming a less efficient means of communication."

"AcumenIT's partnership with Barracuda Networks will provide clients with new state of the art techniques to block the growing inconvenience of unwanted email messages including Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - a unique character recognition method of dealing with the recent influx of image-based spam," continued Graeme. "We already provide an extensive and comprehensive service, however, this partnership and the implementation of such sophisticated anti-spam measures has quickly proved to be of enormous benefit to many of our clients."

Paul Thackeray, vice president and managing director of Barracuda Networks, EMEA, said: "The Barracuda Spam Firewall includes all the features needed to eliminate spam and completely protect email servers from all forms of attack. Email may be blocked, quarantined, tagged, or delivered based on the policies of the organisation or the preferences of the individual user. I am confident that our partnership with AcumenIT will enhance their current service offerings, at a rate that is entirely cost effective for their customers."

AcumenIT specialises in working with organisations that have no full-time internal IT staff, or as a complementary service to those companies with IT support teams. AcumenIT adopts a proactive approach, offering flexible support contracts tailored to provide clients with real value for money. AcumenIT offers client centred solutions - imperative in the modern IT marketplace.