Antispam Solution for
Business
Winner: McAfee Total Protection
Service
McAfee
www.mcafee.com
Why it won: McAfee Total Protection
Service offers professional antispam and
antivirus protection for your corporate
email, all without requiring you to install
or manage anything locally. Did we
mention that the McAfee Total Protection
Service eats spam for lunch?
Our modern lives are filled with
annoyances, few of which
are more frustrating and time-
consuming
than email spam.
Although individuals might
become extremely annoyed by
the deluge of spam they receive, the anguish
increases exponentially when you consider
the plight of IT pros. How do you keep
your infrastructure—and especially your
Exchange servers—from collapsing under
the weight of millions of spam messages?
If you’re like many of those who voted in
the Antispam Solution for Business award
category, you might have already selected McAfee Total Protection Service. As a
hosted service—much like Google’s Postini
and Microsoft FrontBridge—McAfee’s solution doesn’t require software to be
installed, nor does it eat up valuable space
and resources running on internal servers.
McAfee Total Protection Service also blocks
spyware and viruses, provides a Web-based
management console, and helps your users
surf the Web with confidence using McAfee
SiteAdvisor. It also happens to kill spam
dead, which is certainly one of the reasons
that Windows IT Pro readers voted it the
best product in our Antispam Solution for
Business category.
—Jeff James
Silver: Perimeter Manager
Enterprise
Edition
Postini
www.postini.com
Bronze: Symantec Mail Security
8200 Series
Symantec
www.symantec.com
Disk Imaging Software
Winner: Symantec Ghost Solution
Suite
Symantec
www.symantec.com
Why it won: Symantec Ghost has been
updated and improved more than a dozen
times, and it shows: Other disk imaging
deployment products find it hard to compete
with the Symantec Ghost Solution
Suite in its price range, and voters agree
that Ghost can’t be beat.
Depending on the size of your
infrastructure, software deployment
can be relatively painless,
or it can be time-consuming.
Although small shops might be
able to rely on free tools such
as Microsoft’s deployment toolkit, larger
organizations with more complex business
IT needs often require something more
robust—and expensive. In “Disk Imaging
Software for SMBs” (February 2007, Instant-
Doc ID 94593), Joel Barker explains that the
right deployment tool for your needs often
depends on the size of the organization.
“Larger organizations can justify the
cost of SMS and similar enterprise-class
management servers, but small IT departments
have generally been priced out of any kind of deployment tool beyond a technician
with a custom image on a DVD,” says
Barker. “Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
is an affordable product that offers a set of
features similar to SMS as well as the ability
to launch and manage desktop backup routines
…. For midsized and large companies,
Symantec offers a panoply of features at an
inviting price.”
—Jeff James
Silver: Acronis True Image Echo Workstation with Acronis Universal
Restore
Acronis
www.acronis.com
Bronze: Image for Windows
TeraByte Unlimited
www.terabyteunlimited.com
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