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THE PROBLEM
Increasing volumes of spam draining company bandwidth
and IT resource
Home to world-class film, television and commercial
production along with post production facilities, The
Pinewood Group provide facilities for major national and
international film productions, including, Sherlock
Holmes, Robin Hood and James Bond.
Like many organisations, Pinewood depend on email
communications as a vital part of conducting business.
Like many companies, Pinewood began experiencing a surge
in unwanted messages, becoming a major hindrance for its
employees and partners, over the years.
Their challenge was to find a better way to manage
nuisance email or spam, and to minimise the amount of
time their employees and IT staff had to spend weeding
out inappropriate messages.
Pinewood’s email infrastructure is architected around
Microsoft Exchange, it was vital the chosen solution
integrated seamlessly in this environment, incorporating
active directory synchronisation.
Pinewood historically adopted an on-premise solution for
email security and compliance, but as sophistication and
volume of spam traffic increased this approach became a
significant drain on user time and IT resource. Their
existing anti-spam and email security solution was a
heavy burden on several levels.
Primary:
As spam increased, the email server
infrastructure had to manage increased loads, processing
thousands of messages daily which caused a strain on the
infrastructure.
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Secondary:
Pinewood’s IT staff had to ensure their on-premise
solution was continually kept up to date, had the latest
software patches, and didn’t reach end of life.
In addition to this, the organisation was suffering from
Directory Harvest Attacks, Denial of Service attacks,
with the on-site approach providing no solution.
Daniel Lennox, Technology Systems Manager noted, “Other
solutions we evaluated could not provide us with
comparable levels of protection.”
A more innovative and intelligent approach was required
to address the organisation’s issues; configured,
activated and supported by a trusted global technology
partner.
THE SOLUTION
Google Message Security - Managed Service Email Security
relieves the Burden
To address the challenge of fighting spam, viruses and
general message management, The Pinewood Group’s
technology team evaluated a series of potential
solutions in the market.
Very quickly they established Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS) as the preferred platform, and following this
they discovered the technical, commercial and functional
benefits provided by
Google Message Security as the leading solution
available globally, with the best fit for the
organisation following consultation with Netpremacy
Global Services.
Google Message Security provided The Pinewood Group with
a multitude of functional benefits, all derived from a
single solution, managed from a central location in the
cloud.
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