Barracuda’s bid to slam spam in ME

BARRACUDA NETWORKS, supplier of anti-spam and anti-virus e-mail protection is bracing itself for an unprecedented increase in demand for its services in the Middle East.

Barracuda Networks has around 40,000 customers worldwide who have purchased the Barracuda Spam Firewall - an integrated hardware and software solution.

"Over the last six months we have seen an increase in spam by around 70%. Whereas before we dealt with 700
million e-mail messages per day, we're now processing up to 1.3 billion," says Dean Drako, President and CEO of Barracuda Networks.

Following the prediction that 50 billion spam messages will be sent each day by 2007, at a cost to businesses of almost US $200 billion per year, Barracuda have outlined their forecast for the region.

» ITP.net - Cleona Godinho - 22-11-2006