modusNews - Virtualization in Email Security (March 2010)

Vol. 1 Issue 3

Vol. 1 No. 3
March 31, 2010

Editor’s choice

Let’s Virtualize Email Security!




By Damien Ramé.
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. So, what’s all the buzz about?
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This Month’s Security How-to

Cool Tool: WinSCP




By Yves Lacombe.
If I were using Linux, I could use a plethora of command-line tools, but I wanted something equivalent for Windows.  Lo and behold, I found WinSCP -  To me, it’s the “robocopy” of file transfers over FTP/SFTP.
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This Week’s Top Articles

Aggressive sales, does it work?
By Mike Petsalis
Some companies take their marketing tools a little too far. Download their software for a trial, or even just visit their website, and you just opened the door to daily email and phone calls from aggressive sales…
Read the full article

Policy Compliance: Keep it Simple, Stupid!
By Margot MacNutt
Are you getting pressured to provide some sort of regulatory compliance rules to your business that will affect your network configuration, your email flow and your end users? Do you have to deal with SOX or HIPAA or GLBA, or ‘Oh Lord, not another Acronym’ regulation (we’ll call it the OLNAA) whose apparent sole purpose is to complicate your life?
Read the full article

(Un)subscribe Spam
By Marc Chouinard
Hundreds of emails get blocked daily by your spam filters, but sometimes one slips through. You look it over and it appears to be very legitimate. You don’t remember clicking ‘Yes’ to subscribe to this newsletter…
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modus™ 30-day Evaluation

modusGate™ no-cost trial is fully functional and includes Vircom’s expert technical support, allowing you to experience the features first hand.

NOTE TO READERS
from Sophie Nagle

Vircom’s modusGate™ goes Virtual

Virtualization - even saying it sounds exciting.  Ok, so apart from being a trend-setter, what can Virtual Machines offer you?
VM solutions allow IT administrators to regroup multiple VM services into a single hardware server, which ultimately means lower costs for the business and less time spent for admins carrying out maintenance. To simplify, take a look at the diagram below which shows a VM set-up with modus™.

It doesn’t stop there, the benefits go on:
» Easy installation, deployment and migration
» Dynamic resource allocation and scaling
» Fast redundancy plans
Read the full benefit list here

For information on how to create an email security virtual environment, read our How-to guide on installing modusGate™ on a Virtual Machine.

What’s New?

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