Let’s Virtualize Email Security with modusGate !

The need for Spam Filter Virtual Appliance in today's virtualized environments

Virtualization. Virtual Machine. Virtual Appliance. We keep on hearing these words over and over: they’ve been a recurring topic for a few years now. And it’s growing to the point where the Microsoft vs. Google fight now has a new contender: Microsoft vs. VMware⁽¹⁾.

So, what’s all the buzz about? Let’s Virtualize Email Security!

Reducing your IT costs through optimization of resource utilization:

• Regroup various servers and services
• Scale your VMs up and down
• Reduce costs: electricity bills (power, cooling), rack and floor space, maintenance and upgrades (parts, labor)
• Improve the turnaround
• Streamline your software and security update processes
  
• Simplify backup and recovery plans
• Increase security.

How it works

Creating and hardening your modusGate™ Spam Filter Virtual Appliance can be achieved reliably using Vircom’s modusGate™ Email Security VM Howto

Anti spam virtual appliance : modusGate™ VM

Windows-based Email Security & Anti spam Virtual Appliance

modusGate™ VM anti spam gateway for Exchange/SMTP fully supports virtualized environments such as VMware®. Businesses building virtualized IT infrastructures can thus create a full Email Security Virtual Appliance for use in their network and protect physical or virtual mail servers such as Microsoft® Exchange™, Lotus® Domino® or standard SMTP servers against spam, viruses, phishing, malware and other electronic threats.

Related Resources

• modusGate™ Email Security software
• Installing modusGate Anti spam Virtual Appliance (PDF, 439 kB)
• VMware® Best Practices for VMware ESX Server 3 (PDF, 266 kB)
• VMware® Best Practices for Building Virtual Appliances (PDF, 128 kB)
• Wikipedia Virtualization

Six items often overlooked when purchasing an email security solution

As discussed in an earlier post , the battle against spam is an ongoing one and requires you to do your due diligence when selecting an email security solution to protect one of your business’ most important assets: email.

Read complete article on Email Security Matters blog and news:
http://www.emailsecuritymatters.com/site/blog/email-security/six-items-often-overlooked-when-purchasing-an-email-security-solution/