AppRiver Teams With Florida Chamber to Protect Businesses from Hurricanes and Other Natural Disasters
GULF BREEZE, FL, June 2, 2008 – AppRiver, a leader in managed email security and messaging collaboration services, today announced that it has partnered with Florida Chamber of Commerce to help businesses in the state avoid the loss of critical email messages because of hurricanes or other natural disasters. This is the fourth consecutive year that AppRiver and the Chamber have teamed up to offer this service in conjunction with the arrival of hurricane season.
Since it first became available in 2005, the "Digital Disaster Preparedness" program has become an essential item on many companies’ disaster preparation checklist. “The Digital Disaster program allows businesses in harm’s way to quickly reroute their inbound messages to AppRiver servers where they will be securely held. Once the danger passes, or communications are restored, all held messages can be released and delivered to the corporate mail servers,” said Blake Gehres, Chief Technology Officer for the Florida Chamber of Commerce.
Registrations is very simple, it lakes less than 10 minutes, and once completed will enable AppRiver to monitor a company's email server activity. If the receiving server is affected by a hurricane, AppRiver will begin queuing the business' incoming email messages in one of its own securely located data centers until that company's email servers are up and running again. Additionally, the company can also request for its email to be redirected elsewhere or made available online, so the business can remain functional during the storm and the post-storm recovery period.
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