Fortinet, a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions, has announced the highly versatile FortiMail-3000C messaging security appliance, which delivers secure email processing breakthroughs designed to satisfy the most demanding corporate messaging environments – supporting up to 50,000 users with a single system. 

Featuring a 20-percent performance improvement over its predecessors, the FortiMail-3000C is ideally suited for large enterprises and application service and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, especially those subject to PCI/DSS or HIPAA regulations in retail, payment, financial and healthcare industries.

In addition to the new FortiMail-3000C platform, Fortinet is also announcing the upcoming availability of FortiMail 4.0 MR2 operating system. The enhancements to FortiMail 4.0 MR2 include improvements to productivity and security.

“In these budget-tightening times, total-cost-of-ownership is a crucial selection criteria for messaging security solutions,” said Michael Xie, founder, CTO and vice president of engineering at Fortinet.  “We’ve paid close attention to this market dynamic which is why we don’t use expensive and complex per-seat licensing models.  And, unlike competing offerings that frequently cobble together third-party antivirus or other protection schemes, we offer customers real-time updates directly from our FortiGuard threat prevention services.” 

The FortiMail-3000C appliance is available now. FortiMail 4.0 MR2 will be available in Q1 2011.