Broadband ISP PlusNet UK has today started a staggered migration of its internet access customers from their current IronPort based anti-spam / anti-virus email security platform and across to a new solution provided by Cloudmark.

The Cloudmark service will work in a similar way to the old one but is allegedly more cost effective, better geared towards an ISP environment, offers more control over outbound spam prevention/rate limiting and is easier to scale.


Migrating between two different email platforms is an extremely tedious process for any ISP, as TalkTalk found out to its peril last year (here), and PlusNet will rightly deserve a pat on the back if they manage to do it without causing too many problems.

The ISP hopes to have everybody moved across to the new platform by Saturday 22nd October and we wish them the best of luck.