Mobile users across Europe and Asia Pacific can connect to Microsoft (News - Alert) Exchange faster when they use AppRiver’s Akamai-optimized Microsoft Exchange solution. This was published by AppRiver in the results of a performance evaluation using the mobile performance monitoring testing solutions from Compuware (News - Alert) Gomez.

The company stated that e-mail performance is important to customers as more and more workers work remotely.

AppRiver partnered with Akamai (News - Alert) to deliver fast, reliable and secure e-mail to customers and to solve latency and connectivity issues. Gomez’s mobile monitoring solution tested e-mail performance on AppRiver-enhanced mobile devices on its Europe and Asia Pacific-based mobile broadband networks both with and without Akamai acceleration. A four-week series of tests simulated users with identical login credentials signing into their Exchange accounts and running through typical Exchange transactions.

“An industry first, AppRiver has integrated Akamai Application Performance Solutions to achieve dramatic improvements in connectivity and performance, especially for global and wireless e-mail users,” said Willie M. Tejada, vice president of application and site acceleration at Akamai, in a press release. “Users of AppRiver’s Hosted Exchange Service with Akamai Application Performance Solutions enjoy consistent system performance and availability whether they’re located close to the data center or halfway around the world, even with wireless connections.”

The AppRiver-Akamai offering contributes to several strategic objectives for any enterprise, which include Mobile worker support, and secure e-mail delivery. This offers secure, on-the-go access to information, including e-mail, calendars and tasks to the users. Also, to create a high-speed virtual private network for AppRiver customers, acting as a “secure perimeter,” AppRiver and Akamai privatize the connection between the user and the Exchange server(s).

Recently, the company released its mid-year Threat and Spamscape report, which constitutes an in-depth summary and analysis of spam and malware trends marked out between January and June 2010. In this period, AppRiver quarantined over 26 billion spam messages. This aids to safe guard its customer base of 45,000 corporations and six million mailboxes. In the last two quarters, 45 percent of all spam traffic originated from Europe, the company stated.