When I swapped out our Pixes a few months ago we also dropped our SmartFilter subscription. The SonicWalls we moved to do UTM and content Filtering. It's not as good as SmartFilter was, and is not as mature. For our sized shop, however, it made a great deal of economic sense to do it the way we did. The cost advantage far outweighed the marginal benefits provided by SmartFilter. Two NSA 240s with failover, UTM, content filtering, and 3 years of support + updates was only a few hundred dollars more than 1 year of the SmartFilter subscription. Over the same 3 years the savings will be over $5,000. (Tack on another $10,000 or so in savings by not replacing the Pixes with equivalent ASAs.)
Even if the above is not helpful because its tied to the SonicWall hardware, I can definitely recommend SmartFilter as a solution that worked well for us. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:19 PM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote: > We are looking to cut costs at the minute and the issue of our web > filtering solution has come up. Currently we use WebSense Enterprise in a > mixed Citrix / Xen / VMWare View environment which makes the WebSense > implementation a little challenging at the best of times. We're not bothered > about whether it is a hardware or software solution, but ease of setup is > probably a primary factor in our needs. Does anyone have any particular > recommendations, or know of any solutions that we should avoid like the > plague? All of our users are on Windows of one sort or another, and we'd > probably like something that had half-decent reporting - but as I said, the > ease of setup is most likely the biggest factor in our equation. > > TIA for any suggestions, > > > > > 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." > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
