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I've just not bothered looking. I was hoping for a net decrease when I finally retired the 14-drive SCSI drive array[1], but the additional horsepower of the new servers has seemed o slightly increase the BTU load in my equipment closet. -sc [1]-An Compaq fiber-attached array with 18GB discs in a RAID 5. I've had that unit for 10+ years, in multiple harsh environments, and it endured a cross-country move and subsequent loading in and out of storage while we house shopped here... and I think I only lost one drive. Compaq made themselves some tough hardware back in the day. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 4:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution Only $20-30? LOL My wife occasionally prays for power outages... -ASB - http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 11:12 AM, N Parr <[email protected]> wrote: Bah!, it's required for true geektum. Running Vsphere 4 at home for months now. I had a cobbled together Dell Precision workstation and was running ESX 3.5 on it. When we upgraded our triad at work to get the CPU's to all match I talked my boss in to letting me take home the Poweredge 2900 that didn't match any more. Dual Quad Xeon's with 24 gig of ram and about a TB of internal 15k SAS. Then I put together a storage server and installed Starwinds free ISCSI server on it. So now I can do full blown vmotion on shared storage between the Precision and Poweredge. And my electric bill has only gone up $20-30/month. ;^) -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SPAM Solution You, sir, have just gone to the top of the geek list, for having ESXi and VMs installed at home... >>> tony patton <[email protected]> 9/3/2009 12:21 AM >>> +1 for untangle, i have it running in a vm on esxi at home, really like +it and pretty easy to set up. Regards Tony Patton Desktop Operations Cavan Ext 8078 Direct Dial 049 435 2878 email: [email protected] From: Roger Wright <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 03/09/2009 02:59 Subject: Re: SPAM Solution I think Sunbelt's Ninja/VIPRE is a great choice for an in-house Exchange-based solution and should be in your short list of products for consideration. Another option for an "in the cloud" solution is Postini by Google Message Security. Last fall I switched two networks to it at just $3/user/year for inbound filtering. It's been nearly perfect but I don't know if they still offer that same minimal service at that price. You might want to check out UnTangle (http://www.untangle.com/home). It's not too difficult to install and will probably meet your client's needs for the cost of a spare PC. Roger Wright ___ On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Matt Plahtinsky <[email protected]> wrote: I have a client that is really tight on money. I need to implement a Anti-SPAM solution. In the past I have worked with 3 different products Barracuda, GFI, and xWall. My favorite by far is Barracuda b/c of the ability to easily sort through the logs to tighten the rules. I HATE GFI, it might be a good product but I was never able to get it to work well for me. This client currently has GFI (which is up for renewal) and I don't think I they can afford a Barracuda appliance. I'm going to be looking at VIPRE but didn't know if there were any other reasonably priced solutions I should be evaluating. Exchange 2003 / 60 email accounts / old hardware. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
