Antispam Appliance
I am running Exchange 2010.
My Cisco Ironport just hit end of life and I am not paying to go up to a C160.
So Appliances for antispam/antivirus at the gateway for a smaller office..... (Yes we are going appliance rather than app because we have the $ to spend on it.. yay!)
So all these are under 2grand... But which one??
Sonicwall, Barracuda, or Brightmail
My Cisco Ironport just hit end of life and I am not paying to go up to a C160.
So Appliances for antispam/antivirus at the gateway for a smaller office..... (Yes we are going appliance rather than app because we have the $ to spend on it.. yay!)
So all these are under 2grand... But which one??
Sonicwall, Barracuda, or Brightmail
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Have you considered the Sophos ES1000 Email Appliance, we use it at several customers sites and have been really impressed with it.
It rated highly in a review against the IronPort C150 http://www.sophos.com/security/topic/email-review.html
I haven't used IronPort myself so I can't really compare but for us the Sophos Appliance has been a great solution, it's very easy to configure and their support is fantastic.
Here's a link - http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/email/security-and-control/appliances
It rated highly in a review against the IronPort C150 http://www.sophos.com/security/topic/email-review.html
I haven't used IronPort myself so I can't really compare but for us the Sophos Appliance has been a great solution, it's very easy to configure and their support is fantastic.
Here's a link - http://www.sophos.com/products/enterprise/email/security-and-control/appliances
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Howver, the 300 jumps uo in proce to the Ironport...
The Barracuda 100 or 200 falls under the $2k mark, as does
The Sonicwall ESA 3300 http://www.sonicwall.com/us/products/392.html
and
Symantec's Brightmail Appliance http://www.symantec.com/business/products/family.jsp?familyid=brightmail
Just so hard to decide.. I went out on a limb after seeing Ironport (pre-Cisco purchase) and a tiny booth at a Connections msft event in vegas several years ago... It was between the Barracuda and Ironport, and at that time the Ironport saved be about a grand on delivery...
I have no complaints with Ironport, although after Cisco bought it, you now get the Cisco sad apathetic tech support before you can get to someone on the Ironport team who actually cares about the product. and the customer..
Juniper could be another player as well...