About SMX

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Launched in February 2006, SMX is a privately-owned secure email software development and services company. Based in Auckland, SMX co-founders Jesse Ball and Thom Hooker lead a sales and development team focused on local and international sales through reseller and license agreements.

The SMX business model is for customers to be charged a monthly fee, based on the number of users within each customer business. Spam and viruses are cleaned before they reach customer networks with savings in network bandwidth frequently being more than the monthly cost of the service.

Technology innovations include the unique ability to service multiple customers out of a single system (multi-tenanted). No other service-based solution is so easily scalable, and no other is so fast to deploy - taking literally two or three phone calls and less than half a day to fully deploy across the largest organisation.

The SMX service is also designed to be easily 'white labelled', which means customers such as Telcos, IT services companies and Internet Service Providers can incorporate the service under their own brands.

Another key point of competitive difference is in SMX's ability to locally deploy infrastructure. Local deployment ensures email is not routed through countries such as the United States, but is filtered in the customers own country under local law and jurisdiction.

SMX has a blue chip list of New Zealand customers including the Automobile Association, the Accident Compensation Corporation, Harcourts, Christchurch Polytechnic, The Foundation for Research Science and Technology, Barnados New Zealand, Karen Walker and a number of local government and council organisations.

During 2008 SMX signed an important reseller agreement with India’s largest IT services company, CMC - a subsidiary of the giant Tata Group. CMC now has two data-centres up and running to host the SMX service. In 2009 SMX made its first sale into Japan and began both direct and indirect sales into Australia, following the opening of an SMX datacentre in Melbourne.