http://www.mspcomparison.com/ http://www.mspcomparison.com/images/stories/web_links.jpg http://www.mspcomparison.com/ 110-174 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/110-exchange-defender.html Exchange Defender (“ED”) delivers not only good mail hygiene but more importantly, good business continuity. If you have a customer still running Exchange on-premise, don’t even think about an on-premise mail filtering solution. Filtering your mail with ED not only effectively removes spam and malicious files but also provides a reliable and sometimes need archiving solution that can also double as a fail-over for users (via web-mail) when their Exchange server is unavailable ensuring that the mail keeps flowing. So here is the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of ED: The Good - I used Exchange Defender for years and have found its overall reliability to be better that that of the average SBS Exchange server. The feature set continues to grow and is only missing the dynamic alias feature that one of its competitors has used to claim fame. The ability to private label everything from the web interface to the message footers is available and management of multiple customers into the hundreds is fairly easy. For the price, it is beyond a value – it’s like printing money with the ability to fairly markup 100% or more. The Bad - Support is, well, you get what you pay for. Bottom line is that the product works as it should and odds are that if you are having an issue, it is probably caused by something you did wrong or something with the user or Exchange server so don’t get your feelings hurt when the unapologetically tell you that it is your problem and close the ticket without any further guidance. In all fairness, if the issue is on their end then you can expect them to work hard and through the night to fix it. What I’m saying is that this solution is not for the wanna-be, earn while you learn Exchange 101 students. If you don’t know how to manage Exchange and/or won’t take to the time to review ED’s help files then don’t be surprised when they offer to send you to their competitors because you ask too many stupid questions of their support team. The Ugly – Well here is my chance to take a cheap shot at Vlad, the owner of ED. ;-) But, I won’t. If you don’t have thick skin then you probably don’t want to read his blog. Either way, the product rock sfor the price and will add $ directly to your bottom line along with thanks from your customers. ]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:41:15 +0100 119-154 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/119-gfi-max-mail-protection.html Easy to setup and deploy, well priced and highly configurable. ]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:05:09 +0100 110-140 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/110-exchange-defender.html Exchange Defender does what it says, cheaply. For $2 a user you get inbound and outbound spam and virus protection and web filtering, web file sharing, LiveArchive, encryption, archiving & compliance, and reporting. LiveArchive is a Microsoft Exchange 2010 Outlook Web Access login that you can use anytime; if your server is down your clients can still send and receive e-mail like nothing had happened! We have been Exchange Defender partners for over a year now and are happy. We love the fact that they only sell to the channel - your client cannot buy direct. There is also easy branding that doesn't quite hide the ExchangeDefender brand in some places Autotask integration makes billing easy. Support could be better and has improved. They are out of the US and do resolve the problem, but we wish they could do it a little faster. Setup is pretty easy. You can type it all in by hand or run their VB script on a DC and upload the CSV file that is created. There is also an Outlook plugin and a Windows tray application that will alert users when something hits their quarantine. Interface: We like the fact that we use 1 console to control all of our clients and we can provision a new client instantly without waiting on someone else. The interface is pretty simple, however the design is confusing in a couple of places and can make you hunt for some options. Overall a good product that does a pretty good job of filtering mail with a lot of features, at the right price. ]]> Wed, 11 May 2011 22:39:29 +0100 79-123 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/79-canit-domain-pro.html We decided to bring our spam filtering inhouse and avoid expensive monthly fees by hosting it with a 3rd party. After months of evaluating products, we decided to go with CanIT. We've been using it for going on 2 years now and have never had a glitch, false positives are at a bare minimum, and support has been wonderful if we have needed assistance. I highly recommend the product and the company. ]]> Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:53:14 +0000 79-122 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/79-canit-domain-pro.html Been using CAN-IT for over two years now for hosting various clients. The team at Roaring Penguin has done great job with this software. Highly configurable and often if it doesn't do exactly what you need out of the box the team at Roaring Penguin can make it do it. We needed a custom solution to login to a legacy mail service and they had no trouble writing the routine to allow each domain on the appliance validate credentials against this legacy box. In terms of SPAM having used Barracuda for years, I have to say that CAN-IT has far better spam control. One of our clients is staffing agency so had lots of spam with words like work, resume coming in. Now clearly we can't block these words, after a little bit of tweaking in the first month we were able to eliminate around 99.99% of spam with less than one or two false positives per quarter. After two years most of our users don't even realize it exists, it's that good. For most people getting 95% of spam removal out of the box willl be sufficient, but if you really want to get rid of the next 5% you can with this product. ]]> Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:07:01 +0000 79-121 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/79-canit-domain-pro.html This product is 5 STARS. We needed to move from a hosted product to an in-house solution alomost two years ago and afterlooking at many solutions we decided to take the CANIT plunge. The experience has been terrific and we use this for both managed service clients as well as for a hosted Exchange environment. The flexibility and scalability are both great and this runs in a virtual environement with no issues. The Vendor also makes referrals based upon your location which has also been a plus for us. ]]> Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:27:01 +0000 79-120 http://www.mspcomparison.com/component/content/article/923-anti-spam/79-canit-domain-pro.html We have been using Can-IT for over a year now and it is one of our easist products. It has great funtionality and takes very little maintenance. We uhave it running in a HA/load blancing cluster mode and we have not had any major issues whatsoever. When we do have small hiccups the support team at RP are great and very efficient. The end-user interface is highly brandable and very intuitive for end-users and they love it. I would not hesitate to recommend this product for anyone looking to cut out their spam. Scott Jackson VP Technology The Utility Company ]]> Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:10:09 +0000