Barracuda Partners with MarketLink to Build Nationwide Reseller Channel
CUPERTINO, Calif., December 8, 2003 -- Barracuda Networks, manufacturer of the Barracuda Spam Firewall, announced today a partnership with MarketLink to build a nationwide distribution channel of authorized Barracuda "Spam Defense" resellers. MarketLink will recruit resellers to represent the complete Barracuda Spam Firewall product line. The Barracuda Spam Firewall is a powerful, easy to use, and affordable enterprise-class spam and virus protection solution for businesses of all sizes.
"MarketLink has a wealth of experience in successfully building and supporting sales channels for leading companies, such as NetScreen and SnapAppliance," said Dean Drako, President and CEO of Barracuda Networks. "Partnering with MarketLink allows us to rapidly expand to meet the fast-growing customer demand we're seeing for our line of spam and virus protection solutions." Resellers joining the Barracuda Spam Defense Reseller Program typically have annual revenues of $2 - $10 million. Armed with Barracuda spam and virus protection solutions, resellers can now help their installed base of customers quickly and affordably take control of their spam and virus problems.
About the Barracuda Spam Firewall
The Barracuda Spam Firewall is available in four models and supports from 1,000 to 25,000 active users with no per user licensing fees. It can be installed in front of the email server in typically less than five minutes. Its architecture leverages open source virus and spam solutions in conjunction with eight defense layers- denial of service and security protection, IP block list, rate control, virus check with archive decompression, proprietary virus check, user specified rules, spam fingerprint check and a spam rule-based scoring system with Bayesian analysis. This architecture minimizes the processing of each email, which yields the performance required to process millions of messages per day. Unlike software solutions, the Barracuda Spam Firewall reduces the load placed on the email server by off-loading both spam and virus filtering. Customers may also subscribe to Energize Updates, enabling automatic system updates for maximum spam and virus protection.
About MarketLink Technologies
MarketLink Technologies contracts with manufacturers of computer related products to provide the highest quality representation possible, across all available channels and throughout the country. MarketLink has represented many successful networking and security product lines, including Netscreen, Barracuda, Snap and Firetide. For more information, visit http://www.marketlinkservices.com.
