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Review: 3 Ways To Kill Spam Dead
12:00 AM EDT Mon. Apr. 21, 2008
From the April 21, 2008 issue of CRN Tech
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The ES1000 from Sophos had very high accuracy results from the onset and quickly became a reviewer favorite during testing. Despite Sophos' strong partner program, MX Logic's program was more attractive, bumping the Sophos appliance down to second place.
The ES1000 is a 1U appliance weighing 26 pounds with an Intel Celeron D 2.93-GHz processor, 1 Gbyte of memory and a 160-Gbyte SATA hard drive. The ES1000 is capable of processing up to 20,000 messages per hour. It is a high-availability, managed appliance platform, relying on realtime security updates to scan and identify spam.
If a hosted solution ever decided to move onto a box, it would resemble the Sophos ES1000, since the customer doesn't need to worry about administration and monitoring. Sophos support centers proactively monitor every Sophos e-mail appliance using built-in sensors to measure unit temperature, disk space utilization and update status. The ES1000 performs self-maintenance activities automatically and allows administrators to monitor the box remotely.
The ES1000 was designed with ease of use in mind; deployment is no exception. Reviewers received the activation key before the unit arrived, and were able to get the appliance set up with DNS settings, domains, internal mail hosts and basic policy in less than 30 minutes. At the end of the setup wizard, the appliance conducted diagnostics tests.
The key selling point for the ES1000 is its Web-based management interface. The dashboard presents summary statistics, such as the day's total mail volume, blocked mail, detected spam and found viruses. It's easy to tell at a glance what viruses have been blocked.
Sophos has three levels in its partner program: Platinum, Gold and Silver. While there is no cost to join the program, platinum partners commit $750,000 in annual license sales and gold partners to $250,000. All partners have access to lead management programs.
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