Symantec Goes Virtual With Messaging Defense

Symantec Corp. (www.symantec.com) today introduced Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series Virtual Edition, a complete virtual appliance version of the award-winning messaging security appliance. Operating in VMware Server and ESX environments, Virtual Edition helps reduce costs and save time by giving users the ability to instantly adjust spam and virus filtering capacity without having to add or configure the physical infrastructure.

The Virtual Edition's centralized control console allows users to instantly increase or decrease messaging scanning capacity across existing servers and appliances. Users can also automatically synchronize configurations and reporting across systems, allowing them to better and more easily measure system efficacy and meet industry compliance standards and regulatory mandates. The Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series Virtual Edition improves the efficiency of the messaging infrastructure by scanning and removing unsolicited messages from network and mailbox servers. The Symantec Mail Security 8300 engine delivers greater than 97 percent effectiveness, and is the only solution in the industry that combines email and instant messaging scanning and filtering capabilities in a single product.

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