Windows IT Pro Community Choice Awards

Antispam Solution for Business
Winner: McAfee Total Protection Service
McAfee
www.mcafee.com

Why it won: McAfee Total Protection Service offers professional antispam and antivirus protection for your corporate email, all without requiring you to install or manage anything locally. Did we mention that the McAfee Total Protection Service eats spam for lunch?

Our modern lives are filled with annoyances, few of which are more frustrating and time- consuming than email spam. Although individuals might become extremely annoyed by the deluge of spam they receive, the anguish increases exponentially when you consider the plight of IT pros. How do you keep your infrastructure—and especially your Exchange servers—from collapsing under the weight of millions of spam messages?

If you’re like many of those who voted in the Antispam Solution for Business award category, you might have already selected McAfee Total Protection Service. As a hosted service—much like Google’s Postini and Microsoft FrontBridge—McAfee’s solution doesn’t require software to be installed, nor does it eat up valuable space and resources running on internal servers. McAfee Total Protection Service also blocks spyware and viruses, provides a Web-based management console, and helps your users surf the Web with confidence using McAfee SiteAdvisor. It also happens to kill spam dead, which is certainly one of the reasons that Windows IT Pro readers voted it the best product in our Antispam Solution for Business category.

—Jeff James

Silver: Perimeter Manager
Enterprise Edition
Postini
www.postini.com

Bronze: Symantec Mail Security
8200 Series
Symantec
www.symantec.com

Disk Imaging Software
Winner: Symantec Ghost Solution Suite
Symantec
www.symantec.com

Why it won: Symantec Ghost has been updated and improved more than a dozen times, and it shows: Other disk imaging deployment products find it hard to compete with the Symantec Ghost Solution Suite in its price range, and voters agree that Ghost can’t be beat.

Depending on the size of your infrastructure, software deployment can be relatively painless, or it can be time-consuming. Although small shops might be able to rely on free tools such as Microsoft’s deployment toolkit, larger organizations with more complex business IT needs often require something more robust—and expensive. In “Disk Imaging Software for SMBs” (February 2007, Instant- Doc ID 94593), Joel Barker explains that the right deployment tool for your needs often depends on the size of the organization.

“Larger organizations can justify the cost of SMS and similar enterprise-class management servers, but small IT departments have generally been priced out of any kind of deployment tool beyond a technician with a custom image on a DVD,” says Barker. “Symantec Ghost Solution Suite is an affordable product that offers a set of features similar to SMS as well as the ability to launch and manage desktop backup routines …. For midsized and large companies, Symantec offers a panoply of features at an inviting price.”

—Jeff James

Silver: Acronis True Image Echo Workstation with Acronis Universal Restore
Acronis
www.acronis.com

Bronze: Image for Windows
TeraByte Unlimited
www.terabyteunlimited.com

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