Dave Lovatt has been appointed as Channel Sales Manager for MXSweep the leading provider of enterprise level spam and virus filtering solutions for business email users. Dave will be responsible for strengthening MXSweep's relationship with its existing channel partners internationally, helping them take advantage of the increasing global demand for MXSweep's managed email protection service in the wake of a year in which worldwide spam has almost tripled in volume.

"We were taken aback by the unprecedented competition for the role of Channel Sales Manager, but in the end Dave Lovatt's extensive experience in managing channel partner relationships in our target markets made him the obvious choice, and we are delighted to welcome him to the MXSweep team. Dave comes to us from the Eclipse Group Solutions Ltd., the highly respected UK based IT outsourcing specialists. He joins MXSweep at an exciting time. The managed security niche in the software-as-a-service sector is set to explode. You only have to look at the recent Google acquisition of Postini, or SurfControl's acquisition of BlackSpider to see that global appetite for managed services has reached a critical inflexion point. Now more than ever there is a need for vendor neutral email filtering services. Email is mission critical so these latest acquisitions are good new for MXSweep because let's face it, what CIO is going to expose themselves to the risk of data-miners from search engine based conglomerates trawling through their corporate email archives? These businesses quite rightly demand privacy and independence ... MXSweep offers both," said MXSweep's CEO, Declan O'Connor.

    In addition, speaking of his new role, Dave Lovatt said "The MXSweep team are clearly passionate about delivering real service and that's what attracted me to the venture. Unsolicited Business Email has reached epidemic levels but their latest MXPurifier service proves that it is possible to eradicate it completely at source. My first priority will be to focus on communicating MXSweep's strong value proposition to our channel partners. MXSweep's managed service creates new recurring revenue streams for our partners whose customers are disenchanted with the poor performance of on-premise anti-spam solutions. These customers are no simply longer prepared to tolerate the high total cost of ownership (TCO) and ongoing maintenance/upgrade costs of on-premise appliances. In the security market we are seeing a landslide shift towards Software-as-a-Service and on-demand Managed Services. MXSweep's affordable subscription based business model is perfectly poised to take advantage of that market sentiment. However, being pay-as-you-go based is really just the icing on the cake, the real attraction is the industrial grade performance of MXPurifier."

    Even more, Danny Jenkins, the company's co-founder and CTO, stated: "Dave's primary focus will be to implement programs and strategies that yield strong results for both distribution partners and resellers alike. In his new role Dave will drive the existing channel program to ensure MXSweep's partners continue to receive best-in-class levels of technical support from MXSweep."

    The company offers a broad suite of hosted email security services, including Anti-Spam, Anti-Virus and Anti-Fraud functions for server and network protection. For more information visit http://www.mxsweep.com/ .