Sparxent Acquires Cemaphore Systems

Sparxent, Inc., an IT and business solution provider focused on medium sized companies, has acquired Cemaphore Systems, Inc., based in San Mateo, Calif. Cemaphore provides continuous email uptime and easy migration of email data between diverse email systems, on-site or in the cloud. Exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

"Cemaphore is the only company to offer real-time email synchronization both on premise and as a service in the cloud. The ability to offer this capability from the cloud eliminates up-front costs, reduces the time to service and provides immediate financial benefits to users," said Dave R. Taylor, Sparxent co-founder. "Cemaphore’s easy approach to safe email synchronization will be particularly valuable to our mid-market customer base. The acquisition is also part of our strategy for delivering a portfolio of business-critical services to mid-market companies in a way that best meets their individual needs."

Corporations today cannot survive without email, a vital component of any IT infrastructure. "Email will lead the charge into mainstream adoption of the cloud-provisioning model," said Matt Cain, research vice president at Gartner, in the June 2008 Email and the Cloud report. "Cloud vendors have discovered ways to deliver economies on storage and cost savings unavailable to most enterprises."

Cemaphore’s flagship technology, MailShadow, provides reliable email synchronization through real-time shadow mailboxes in multiple locations to ensure 24×7 email uptime. MailShadow enables continuous replication, instant recovery and seamless migration between disparate email systems such as Microsoft Exchange, Exchange Online (in Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite), hosted Exchange, and Google Apps. Cemaphore partners closely with industry leaders in cloud computing such as Microsoft and Google. In addition, customers across a broad range of industries including banking, financial services, legal and healthcare are successfully using MailShadow technology with more than 100,000 seats worldwide.

"Cemaphore provides Sparxent with an enterprise-class suite of messaging solutions for email continuity and migration, as well as the ability to capitalize on key market needs for cloud services," said Tyrone Pike, Cemaphore president and chief executive officer. "Sparxent provides Cemaphore with broader market reach and resources worldwide. Together Sparxent and Cemaphore can deliver cost-effective IT solutions with a relevant mix of onsite and cloud offerings to solve key problems facing mid-market companies."

Gartner, Inc. recently listed Cemaphore in its March 2009 Cool Vendors in Software-as-a-Service Security 2009 report. In addition, Cemaphore was named winner of Utah Business Magazine‘s 2009 Innovation Award and finalist in the Best New Software-as-a-Service category in the 2009 American Business Awards.

The transaction marks the fourth acquisition for Sparxent since August 2008 and provides an important component to further the company’s overall plan of offering both integrated technology and broad service solutions for its customers. Sparxent consults with medium sized companies on an individual basis to identify and deliver the specific IT solutions best suited to achieve their overall business goals.