Email Continuity solutions and Email contingency strategies safegaurd business operations. Pravda Risk Management reports. SOSYS squares the circle for Email continuity,now securing email operational integrity for modest and large enterprises

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Continuity Central's coverage of email continuity strategy acknowledges the need for High availability email strategies first pioneered by Despatches in the 1990s.

The latest expansion of Despatches' SOSYS EMS (Emergency Messaging System), once the first messaging system to ensure corporate email could remain active and functioning - no matter what natural, man-made or technology disasters bring systems down, now allows Email centric organisations to integrate SOSYS from nearly a dozen European Datacentres.

By 2005, an estimated 15.5 billion digital business messages will be sent within the USA each day. Email is the defacto communication choice of business and non profit organisations. Email is the most relied-upon method for corresponding with customers, employees and business partners and accounts for more data exchanges than telephone calls. Loss of email service translates directly into tens of millions of Euros and Dollars worth of revenue and productivity are lost globally each month.

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The value of keeping communication channels available transcends day-to-day business usage. Recent environmental and political events have demonstrated the role electronic communications play in responding to and recovering from a disaster.

"If you can't communicate, you can't recover," states Bernard Le Moing, founder Lodinaccess. "Email is not only critical to maintaining productivity and revenues for an organisation under normal conditions, in times of disaster the loss of established office communications raise the depaendability on the remaining functioning resources, with SOSYS that lifeline is electronic mail communications.
Keeping messaging systems available and running during a catastrophic event can make the difference in a company's ability to successfully respond and recover from a disaster."

Despatches' EMS Solution: SOSYS

Designed as a hot stand-by email system that can be activated when a company's primary email system becomes incapacitated by any number of natural, man-made or technology disasters, SOSYS guarantees the uninterrupted, flow of business-critical information between a company and its customers, partners, vendors, suppliers and employees.

"Competitive advantage today is all about speed of communication, global collaboration and superb execution. Email's the tool. SOSYS is the Assurance of continuity" said Jean-Patrice Hira CTO of Lodinaccess SA, principal distributors of Despatches Secure communications and Email continuity technologies in France.

SOSYS is built upon Solaris and Advanced Linux platforms with Windows Server operating and feature integrations. SOSYS and the Despatches backbone are resistant to viruses and resillient to the hostile measures that can often incapacitate typical enterprise messaging infrastructures. Once activated, EMS automatically routes all email sent to and from corporate addresses through a secure and offsite independent messaging infrastructure managed at SunGard or any number of other MessageOne technology partners.

The moment an outage occurs, the EMS system instantly broadcasts alerts to company employees, both in the office and in mobile locations, via SMS/TXT, wireless messaging, text on pagers and alternate email addresses, thus notifying them the emergency mail service has been activated.

ONce Authenticated, employees can access their email through EMS from around the globe via any Web browser. While on the EMS system, all key corporate and personal contact information and document transfer capabilities are active, as if a connection failure never occurred.
Once service to the primary messaging system is returned, everything sent and received during the emergency is automatically merged back into the company's primary messaging environment and reflected in users' mail systems, appearing as if a failure never occurred.

Averaging five percent of the cost of other disaster recovery systems on the market, Despatches EMS is the logical and responsible choice for protecting corporate messaging systems. Regardless of price variations, including the number of users, storage choice and other options, EMS equates to pennies-per-month assurance.

Since being founded in 1997, Despatches has received perpetual funding and resources from it's investment and affinity venture partnerships, with renewed infrastructure and resource injections throughout every financial Quarter of from 1999 to 2003.

About SOSYS

SOSYS helps enterprises prepare for and respond to disruptions in their normal business operations with the best and most cost-efficient solutions in the industry.

By engineering breakthrough technologies that deliver unmitigated availability of mission critical corporate infrastructure at economical costs, SOSYS protects the continuity, integrity and profitability of clients.