We are much smaller at 100 users but the ROI on Barracuda is well worth it. I have been very happy with it coming from several other products. The success was so good we ended up getting their web appliance and are also looking at their mail archival.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > We're at about 5,000 users. We looked at several solutions, including > Ironport and Proofpoint. We liked them both. However, money was an object, > and we ended up getting a Barracuda. It was significantly cheaper than > other 2, and works good enough. Can't say it stops 100%, but I know the > guy that's responsible for it rarely has to mess with it, and we get > virtually no complaints. > ________________________________ > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Anti-spam solution > > I am currently tasked to get rid of our ineffective Symantec Mail Security > which is, at the moment, our only anti-spam defense (besides Outlook's junk > mail folder). We have about 500 users running on Exchange 2007 with several > different domains. > > I have trawled the archives of the list getting some suggestions for various > appliances/software/hosted solutions. I was wondering what the community > considered to be the best configuration for an org of our size. Our problems > with Symantec are that if it is turned down, we have too much spam getting > through, and when turned up high, it is still letting enough spam through to > be annoying whilst pulling out some rather important false positives. Cost > is not usually too much of an issue for us (we have ESX, Citrix MPS4, > XenApp, AppSense, SCOM and SCCM amongst our chunkier products), but if there > is something cheaper (especially for non-profits), that could be factored > in. I'd also be interested in anything that did antivirus as well, as I am > not convinced by Symantec's products at all. > > Do most people favour the belt-and-braces solution for smaller orgs - a > hosted solution or appliance at the edge and software running on Exchange? > Or are there any products out there that do the job well enough on their > own? From looking at the archives it seems that IronPort and > the-product-formerly-known-as-Ninja are two of the most highly recommended. > Does anyone have any particular recommendations for hosted solutions - > MessageLabs seems to be quite highly-rated, and I'm tempted by the pricing > of Google's offering. > > Finally, I was wondering if any of MS' products (like ForeFront) are worth a > look? > > Sorry for rambling on, all advice, hints, tips, gratefully received and > compiled. > > > > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
