Gain the virtualisation advantage with Clearswift

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1 Gain the virtualisation advantage with Clearswift

2 The advantage of virtual Clearswift is at the forefront of virtualisation technology, with thousands of organisations around the world benefiting from the virtual editions of Clearswift SECURE Web and Gateways. Why should you care? The simple answer is that Clearswift s virtualisation technology brings immediate benefits that will save your company time and money. Organisations that rely on virtual Clearswift SECURE Web and Gateways enjoy super-fast deployment (a Clearswift virtual gateway can be ready to go in just 45 minutes), easy scalability and tried and trusted resilience. Factor in support for deployment on VMware ESX, ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V (for the Clearswift gateway) and it is clear why so many organisations choose Clearswift s production-ready, unified informationsecurity solutions. Increase server utilisation rates from 5 15% to up to 80% Source VMware Virtualisation maximized efficiencies with minimized costs

3 Experience the Clearswift efficiency edge Virtualised or not, Clearswift Web and gateway automate repetitive administration tasks and work together seamlessly. The common user interface (UI), for example, means that administration skills mastered in one appliance are easily applied in another, reducing training needs and speeding deployment. Clearswift Web and gateway streamline system management by automating many tasks, including scheduled reporting and back-ups and automated software updates. Clearswift s unified information security delivers even more efficiencies. When joined together, Clearswift Gateways offer unified reporting, unified message- and usertracking and unified policy management. What s more, coupling Clearswift Web and Gateways generates a common policy centre that lets administrators manage policy across both products effortlessly.

4 Easier management, great value Companies that deploy Clearswift and Web Gateways in virtualised environments discover that they are able to achieve more with less. In addition to fast set-up and minimal configuration, deploying virtual gateways can save 50% on hardware costs right away. How? Multiple virtual gateways can be deployed on a single hardware device. For example, an organisation could run both Clearswift Web and Gateways on one physical server saving the cost of a second server. This flexibility produces additional benefits in the server room, reducing both storage needs and power consumption. IT managers will also enjoy reduced administration, as Clearswift Web and Appliances share the same policy framework, management console and user interface. So, make one policy decision and it can be deployed across all Clearswift and Web Gateways. Save more than $3,000 for every server workload virtualised Source VMware Virtualisation maximized efficiencies with minimized costs

5 Hot migration, rapid resources Hardware failures on physical servers can cause serious headaches for an organisation s IT department, not to mention its users. But the virtual editions of Clearswift Web and Gateways can be hot migrated from one physical server to another quickly, simply and automatically. This can have a dramatic positive effect on the time taken to restore service, reducing or even eliminating downtime. Moreover, productivity can remain unaffected, as the process is totally transparent to end users. Similarly, the ability to deploy Clearswift Web and Gateways virtually allows for a rapid response to emergent performance and capacity issues. If a spam outbreak hits your organisation or web use is in unexpectedly high demand then additional Clearswift Web and Gateways can be swiftly deployed into the virtual environment. Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70% Source VMware

6 High availability, fast disaster recovery Installing Clearswift Web and Gateways into virtualised environments can play an important part in an organisation s resilience and disaster-recovery plans. For starters, our virtual appliances remove the need to double up every last bit of hardware. Such doubling-up of hardware was traditionally essential for fail-safe (failover) purposes but with virtualisation productivity is maintained by pooling all available hardware. If one server fails, Clearswift Web and Gateways can be moved live to any other available server, with no downtime. And remember, when your company s needs evolve, it is quick and easy to deploy virtual editions of Clearswift SECURE Web and Gateways Hardware footprint reduced to 10:1 or better Source VMware Virtualisation maximized efficiencies with minimized costs

7 Clearswift SECURE Web and Gateway the details The table below highlights the key features of Clearswift Web and Appliances. For more information, help or advice, just get in touch! Feature Clearswift SECURE Gateway Clearswift SECURE Web Gateway AD/LDAP integration Yes Yes Anti-spam/phishing Yes Not applicable Anti-spyware Not applicable Yes Anti-virus Yes Yes Automated report creation & delivery Yes Yes Auto-updating security components Yes Yes Compliance dictionaries Yes Yes Flexible and granular policy construction Yes Yes HTTPS inspection and port control Yes Yes Inbound file policy controls Yes Yes Lexical and regular expression checking Yes Yes MIMEsweeper content filtering Yes Yes Multi-appliance reporting Yes Yes Operating System Hardened Linux Hardened Linux Outbound file policy controls Yes Yes Personal message manager Yes Not applicable Pre-defined customisable reports Yes Yes RSS alerting Yes Yes True binary file-type identification Yes Yes URL filtering Not applicable Yes Virtualisation support VMware & Hyper-V VMware

8 SC MAGAZINE RATING Features Performance Ease of use Documentation Support Value for money OVERALL RATING For Peer grouping provides centralised management, excellent anti-spam and webfiltering performance, good value for money. Against Filtering policies initially look complex, HTTPS scanning costs extra. Verdict A classy web content and security solution, well suited to SMBs. SC EUROPE MAGAZINE = Best Content Security SC AUSTRALIA = Security Product of the Year Get in Touch What the Press say Clearswift Web and offers a powerful web content and messaging solution that delivers excellent filtering performance, easy management and detailed reporting. Each appliance can be managed separately, but its peer - grouping feature allows both to be accessed from a single web console. Both appliances employ three-stage filtering policies that unite content rules and routes to define what they should look for, how to handle web or mail content that triggers a rule and who should be notified. Clearswift delivered excellent results, with the mail appliance catching 98 per cent of all spam. Clearswift Web and appliances in SC Magazine May 2009 What our customers say Both the Web and products are helping us build and maintain the high quality and agile IT infrastructure demanded by our business as it becomes one of Australia s largest and best Local Governments. Rob Grandcourt Sunshine Coast Regional Council We have used Clearswift for many years and I would definitely recommend their products to other banks. Marco Fini, Security and Network Administrator, Banca del Sempione SA It is great that we have found such an easy and painless solution to the challenge Government Connect presents all local authorities, I know some are still struggling. Clearswift have made it, easy and cost effective for us to implement a workable service for City of Lincoln employees to within the GCSX network. Dave Wormall, Principal IT Officer, City of Lincoln Council Our intellectual property is very important and Clearswift ensures that we protect it. The Clearswift solution helps us to ensure that only information we want to share leaves the organisation. Orin Owen, IT Director, The G&T Conveyor Company Inc. Clearswift Ltd 1310 Waterside Arlington Business Park Theale Reading Berkshire RG7 4SA Tel : +44 (0) Fax : +44 (0) Sales: +44 (0) Technical Support: +44 (0) info@clearswift.com Virtualisation maximized efficiencies with minimized costs