In a move first reported on by eWEEK July 23, IT solution provider Sparxent July 28 confirmed
that it has acquired Cemaphore for an undisclosed sum.
Cemaphore, a partner of messaging rivals Google and Microsoft, makes software suites that help businesses migrate e-mail,
calendar and contact information from Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers to
Google Apps, and vice versa.
E-mail migration is a valuable tool at a time when companies are
increasingly looking to move their mail systems from traditional on-premises
applications, such as Microsoft Outlook, to SAAS (software-as-a-service)
solutions in the Internet cloud, such as Google's Gmail.
Cemaphore's software has been deployed on more than 100,000 seats for
customers that span many business verticals, including banking, financial
services, legal and health care.
Sparxent, which sells IT systems to medium-size companies, will offer
Cemaphore's MailShadow products to companies that require continuous
replication while migrating data between disparate e-mail systems, including
Microsoft, Google, AOL and Yahoo.
The deal marks the fourth acquisition for Sparxent since it was formed in August 2008.
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