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Spam filters are far from perfect – which creates an opportunity to sell layered anti-spam solutions.

Although the credit for the concept goes as far back as Symantec and McAfee, vendors of different stripes are now in the process of turning their client software into platforms for delivering all kinds of IT services.
Besides Symantec and McAfee, we now see Lumension adding anti-virus software to its suite of systems management tools. Sophos [...]

Symantec’s Altiris Workflow Solution v 6.0 is a series of products that were acquired from LogicBase called TLogic. Used together, they can help you automate virtually any IT process or workflow and imbed business logic into the processes too. The product can be useful for something that requires repetitive human interaction, such as designed an [...]

An easy-to-use security application that includes anti-virus and intrusion protection that is very affordable and accessible for small business networks.
We tested RC of v12 on a small network running Windows Server 2003 and XP machines.
Pros: Simple to install and to setup default automatic protection, reports easy to understand, priced competitively with anti-virus only solutions
Cons: Only [...]

PureDisk V6.5.1 offers de-duplication, simple policy management and bandwidth optimization features that should make it an easy choice for solution providers to sell into the data center.

An online backup service that works automatically in the background to make copies of your most critical files and is very easy and economical to use. Online backups have several advantages:
– To aid in recovering files from a lost or stolen laptop
– To provide a simple but effective offsite storage solution for your data
– To [...]

American Hakko Products, Inc. is a manufacturing and distribution of soldering, desoldering and rework systems company that has seen considerable growth in recent years. The increase in users on the network has also called for an increase in available bandwidth. However, the company noticed that excess amounts of corporate bandwidth were being used by staff to browse websites that were unrelated to business needs and the threat of web borne viruses became a concern. To address this growing problem, they decided to install a web monitoring system to have greater control over users’ Internet activities. After successfully deploying other products from GFI Software, they installed GFI WebMonitor.

An enterprise desktop discovery, inventory, remote configuration, deployment, and patch management utility that supports a wide range of client operating systems.
Pricing: $95 per client, quantity discounts available
Desktops: Windows client versions support XP with SP2, 2000 with SP4, Vista with SP1, Server 2003, 2008 and Mac OS with 10.3.9 or later, Red Hat and SUSE Linux [...]

This is the second of two videos on Altiris CMS, an enterprise desktop discovery, inventory, remote configuration, deployment, and patch management utility that supports a wide range of client operating systems. This video goes into more detail on three of its newer features.
Pricing: $95 per client, quantity discounts available
Desktops: Windows client versions support XP with [...]

We looked at several products available from Symantec to help provide insight into how to reduce overall enterprise disk storage requirements and cost. The video touches on several strategies that enterprise IT managers can employ to analyze their storage use.