I think the difference is where you want to do your filtering. With significantly smaller environments than yours, I opted to move filtering to the cloud with Postini for two organizations and it was great. The threats and junk are removed before they hit your circuit - 90+% of incoming SMTP traffic never makes it to the network edge. Postini uses McAfee for threat management and their spam filters are very good. We operated with them set to max; a few false positives here but users can easily manage their own quarantines and sender lists.
Sunbelt's VIPRE for Exchange also does an outstanding job, is a breeze to manage, very cost effective, and provides multiple scan engines but is filtering inside your network. In addition to spam and threat management, it also protects your info store, something Postini doesn't do. Die dulci fruere! Roger Wright ___ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > We recently replaced our AV (McAfee) with Trend for both clients and > Exchange 2007 (sorry Sunbelt – we came REALLY close to choosing VIPRE). We > did not purchase the spam filtering option with Trend ScanMail, but are now > considering it. We’ve been running GFI MailEssentials for years on a > dedicated box. We’re protecting between 400 and 500 mailboxes. > > > > The price for GFI continues to be attractive, so much so that hosted > solutions don’t seem to be worth the cost differential… The first logical > option to me would be to move toward Trend, but I’m not so sure that adding > spam filtering at the Exchange Server level is a good idea from a resource > perspective. We were there at one point years ago, with GFI and ended up > moving off to a dedicated box, because GFI was eating up too many resources > (we were getting HAMMERED with spam – million a month, easily). > > > > Has anyone on this list moved away from GFI to something else? If so, what > did you move to and what was your reasoning? > > > > I welcome any and all thoughts/suggestions/experiences. > > > > TIA, > > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE > Technology Coordinator > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA > [email protected] > www.eaglemds.com > > > > ________________________________ > Any medical information contained in this electronic message is CONFIDENTIAL > and privileged. It is unlawful for unauthorized persons to view, copy, > disclose, or disseminate CONFIDENTIAL information. This electronic message > may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It > is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as > recipients in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this > message, please notify the sender immediately and delete this material from > your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message, and do not > disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information that > it contains. > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
