SMX offers a cloud-based anti-spam and virus service that can be "white-labelled", allowing others to deliver and brand the service as their own. SMX is now live at Tsukaeru.net, based out of Nagano.

"This is a strategic breakthrough for our export plans," SMX's managing director Jesse Ball says. "Tsukaeru.net is one of the fastest growing hosting providers in Japan, selling virtual servers and a range of virtual applications -- of which ours is now one."

Tsukaeru.net's president, Jason Frisch, is an Australian schooled in Japan who specialises in localising technology, says Ball. That means more than just translation, he adds, and in Japan there are two different types of translation.

The product's name in Japan translates as "cloud mail", he says.

Tsukaeru.net can also sell to other service providers off its platform, he says.