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Synacor Turns to Cloudmark to Increase Spam Blocking, While Reducing SMTP Servers and False Positives MAKING THE CASE 28 Real World Solutions from People in the Trenches Providers (ISPs), including white label portals, premium online content and email collaboration suites. For ISPs looking to outsource email management, Synacor pro- vides white label consumer and small business messaging solutions. Over the past nine years, telephone companies, cable operators, ISPs, media companies and advertisers alike have leveraged Synacor’s solutions to take advantage of the Internet to build close relationships with consumers. B The Challenge In the midst of a major email project for a large ISP client, Synacor realized that its open-source email protection so- lution was no longer a viable tool for its growing custom- ers’ needs. Due to large data requirements and an increase in malicious messages, the current system was straining the SMTP servers and was not able to handle messag- ing protection requirements of Synacor’s robust client list. Leaving Synacor vulnerable to mail floods, the com- pany’s system architects determined it was in need of a highly accurate, scalable and high-performing messaging MESSAGING NEWS DECEMBER 2008 MAY/JUNE 2010 SEPTEMBER 2009 ased in Buffalo, New York, Synacor is a global technology company with a comprehensive ar- ray of value-added solutions for Internet Service