Highest Pefomnce Lowest Pice PRODUCT COMPARISON GFI MilAchive vs Symntec Entepise Vult GFI Softwe www.gfi.com

GFI MilAchive vs Symntec Entepise Vult GFI MilAchive 6 Symntec Entepise Vult Who we e Genel fetues Suppots Micosoft Exchnge 2000, 2003 & 2007 Suppots distibuted instlltion (Diffeent oles on diffeent mchines fo lod blncing) Diect suppot fo Micosoft Volume Shdow Sevice (Bckup using MS VSS) Suppots chiving fom diffeent souces Achiving fetues Suppots Micosoft Exchnge Jounling Cn chive fom Micosoft Exchnge Public Foldes Achives inbound / outbound emils Achives intenl (Exchnge) emils Achives fom multiple seves t the sme time Potocols suppoted fo chiving emils Pefoms utomtic discovey nd chiving of the PST files Cn chive emils fom locl PST files Cn chive emils fom emote PST files Uses client side PST pocessing engine (Agent) Automticlly chive emils to new dtbse ccoding to pe-defined schedule Achived emils cn be expoted / estoed bck to milbox Emils cn be excluded fom chiving Bckend stoge suppot (chived emils) Fomt of the chived emils Emil chive compession Suppots stoge mnges Emil etention nd ctegoiztion Suppots multiple emil etention policies Suppots multiple emil ctegoiztion policies Suppots use intection uditing Suppots dtbse ctivity uditing Fetues uditing epots fo egultoy complince Indexing nd seching Outlook integtion o equivlent Full text seching (implies full text indexing) Rel-time / Scheduled / Btch indexing Suppots multiple sech citei Uses cn ssign lbels to emils Using expot tool exoledb IMAP Fiebid (defult) MS SQL Seve 2000 MS SQL Seve 2005 MS SQL Seve 2008 NTFS File System MIME.eml Infomtion not vilble Infomtion not vilble Infomtion not vilble MS SQL Seve 2000 MS SQL Seve 2005 NFTS File system HTML TEXT fomt Infomtion not vilble Only the dmin GFI is mket lede in secuity nd messging softwe, offeing high pefomnce solutions t unbetble pices to smll nd medium sized businesses. Poducts like GFI MilEssentils, the leding spm filte poduct on the mket, hs ove 80,000 customes; GFI MilSecuity ws the fist to pply multiple nti-vius engines to combt viuses; while GFI WebMonito is the No. 1 web filte fo Micosoft ISA Seve. GFI FAXmke emins the best fx seve solution ound. GFI leds the wy in the SMB sphee, combining pice, qulity nd innovtive technology in ll poducts. The GFI diffeence A single souce to ddess secuity nd messging needs Stong focus on smll-to-medium sized businesses Awd-winning technology nd unbetble picing Ove 200,000 custome instlltions woldwide Ove 10,000 ptnes thoughout the wold The GFI MilAchive diffeence No. 1 emil chiving solution fo SMBs Ove 10,000 instlltions Lowest pice, best pefomnce Poweful nd use-fiendly All ights eseved. GFI Softwe Ltd.

GFI MilAchive vs Symntec Entepise Vult Keeps emil convestions (theds) intct Schedule seches Sech by emil lbels (o equivlent) Uses cn sve sech esults Expot sech esults to use milbox o on emovble medi Indexes ttchments Coss-milbox seches (sech coss multiple chive stoes) Achive sech intefce suppots locliztion Poduct mngement nd othe fetues Configution intefce type Active Diectoy goup-bsed full ccess Active Diectoy uses / goups-bsed ccess contol Emil let notifictions GFI MilAchive 6 Web-bsed Symntec Entepise Vult To PST o locl compute Infomtion not vilble Softwe-bsed, Web-bsed Emil hs become n indispensble communiction chnnel in the business envionment. Mnging the hevy influx of emils though PST is yet nothe insumountble tsk. Thus, it hs become mndtoy to hve n efficient emil chiving solution to ddess stoge, bck-up, nd complince issues. Potentil customes equie solution, which is efficient, secue, nd esy-to-use. GFI offes simple, cost-effective, nd time-efficient chiving solution GFI MilAchive. The solution elimintes the dependence on PST nd offes unplleled suppot fo chiving, seching, nd uditing equiements. A simple high-level compison between the key fetues of GFI MilAchive nd Symntec Entepise Vult eveled the following diffeences: GFI MilAchive cn be integted with sevel seves nd pltfoms On which seves nd pltfoms cn I use GFI MilAchive? GFI MilAchive cn be esily integted with Micosoft Exchnge Seve 2000/2003/2007. It does not equie dedicted mchine nd cn be instlled on the sme mchine being used s the mil seve. This is pticully beneficil fo smll businesses, s it elimintes the need of puchsing nd mintining ext seves. In ddition, GFI MilAchive lso suppots distibuted instlltion fo lod shing, thus ddessing the equiements of lge ogniztions. It cn lso chive fom multiple Exchnge seves. While Symntec Entepise Vult cn lso be integted with Micosoft Exchnge Seve 2000/2003/2007, it cnnot be instlled on the mchine which is being used s the mil seve. GFI MilAchive is comptible with Windows 2000/2003/2008. All ights eseved. GFI Softwe Ltd.

GFI MilAchive vs Symntec Entepise Vult GFI MilAchive ensues smooth functionlity of the Exchnge Seve Does my chiving solution ffect the functionlity of the Exchnge Seve? GFI MilAchive does not ffect the noml functionlity of the Exchnge Seve in ny wy. MilAchive does not eplce the oiginl emil with link, it simply chives copy. Symntec Entepise Vult, on the othe hnd, eplces the emil with stub messge, which my ffect the functionlity of the Exchnge Seve. GFI MilAchive povides obust bckend stoge Wht kind of bckend stoge is suppoted by GFI MilAchive? Besides MS SQL, GFI MilAchive cn lso be integted with Fiebid. Fiebid is n in-built, defult dtbse fo GFI MilAchive nd does not entil ny dditionl cost. Moeove, it is chepe ltentive to MS SQL dtbse nd is best suited fo smll businesses whee emil tffic is low. On the othe hnd, Symntec Entepise Vult cn only be integted with MS SQL fo bckend stoge. In ddition, GFI MilAchive suppots ll UNC bsed stoge mnges, such s QSt nd IBM Tivoli. GFI MilAchive offes uninteupted chiving duing bck-up Does the bck-up ctivity ffect my chiving pocess? GFI MilAchive suppots unique fetue, Micosoft Volume Shdow Copy Sevice (MS VSS) fo the online bck-up of chives. This fetue enbles GFI MilAchive to bck-up chives without distubing the noml chiving ctivity. On the othe hnd, Symntec Entepise Vult inteupts ctivities, such s chiving, indexing, etievl, nd jounling to pefom bck-up of chives. In ode to hve uninteupted bckup, dd-on modules (such s Bckup Exec ) hve to be implemented t ext cost. GFI MilAchive llows uses to clssify thei emils Cn I clssify my emils by defining my own ctegoies? GFI MilAchive fcilittes efficient mngement of emils by llowing both the dministto nd the use to ssign lbels to emils fo clssifiction. While the dministto cn enfoce ogniztion-level clssifiction, uses cn lso clssify emils in self-defined ctegoies. This fetue povides moe flexibility nd contol to the use. In ddition, lbels lso help in efining sech esults nd meeting complince equiements. Symntec Entepise Vult llows only dministtos to tg emils. Theefoe, uses cn only clssify emils in pe-defined defult ctegoies o in those specified by the dministto. All ights eseved. GFI Softwe Ltd.

GFI MilAchive vs Symntec Entepise Vult GFI MilAchive dynmiclly updtes sech esults Cn my chiving solution dynmiclly updte sech esults? GFI MilAchive llows use to sve sech esults s Sech Folde in the fom of sech quey. Sech Foldes only stoe the sech quey, llowing the use to delete o modify Sech Folde without ffecting chived emils. When pticul sech folde is ccessed, the sech quey executed, including ll new mils tht meet the conditions of the sech quey. Symntec Entepise Vult lso llows the use to sve sech mnully/utomticlly. Howeve, once sech esult is ccepted nd sved, it cnnot be deleted o modified. A completed sech cnnot be deleted o e-executed; it cn only be used s templte. GFI MilAchive povides n esy wy to expot emils fom sech esults Cn I expot emils fom sech esult? In GFI MilAchive, emils cn be expoted fom sech esults to folde on disk o to specific emil ddess. Expoting to n emil ddess cn be done in two wys, eithe s n ttchment o s n oiginl emil. On the othe hnd, Symntec Entepise Vult cnnot expot emils diectly to n emil ddess. Howeve, uses cn expot esults to PST file. GFI MilAchive does not llow ny tmpeing with chived emils Does my chiving solution sve emils in thei oiginl fom fo udit puposes? GFI MilAchive chives n emil long with its ttchment in its oiginl fom nd does not llow uses o dministtos to mke chnges. On the othe hnd, Symntec Entepise Vult llows fo filteing of ttchments, consequently, the oiginl fom of the emil my be lost. Futhe, GFI MilAchive llows only the dministto to define o modify etention policies. An emil cn only be deleted when its etention policy expies. On the conty, Symntec Entepise Vult cn llow uses to delete emils by giving ccess ights. Thus, GFI MilAchive ensues tht thee is no tmpeing with the chived emils nd fcilittes uditing. GFI MilAchive povides Use Intection nd Dtbse Activity Auditing Which mechnisms e vilble fo uditing puposes? GFI MilAchive povides two types of uditing fetues Use Intection Auditing nd Dtbse Activity Auditing. Use Intection Auditing ecods ll use ctivities in the fom of epot, i.e., Use Audit Til. It ecods ll ctivities of uses when they bowse o sech though emil chives using the Web intefce. All ights eseved. GFI Softwe Ltd.

GFI MilAchive vs Symntec Entepise Vult Dtbse Activity Auditing tcks ll the chnges mde to the dtbse, such s configution mngement, ccess contol, nd etention policies The dministto cn pepe epot of the chnges mde on the dtbse, i.e. who mde the chnge nd who will be ffected. These epots seve s useful esouce duing udits, system pefomnce monitoing nd in cetin cses fo egultoy complince. GFI MilAchive ensues legl complince Does my chiving solution ensue legl complince? GFI MilAchive does not llow uses to modify chived mils. This helps to scetin the oiginl content of the mil fo complince puposes. GFI MilAchive lso helps ogniztions to meet egultoy complince, such s the Sbnes-Oxley Act 2002, E-Comm Act 2000, BS7799-2:2002, the Entepise Act 2002, Deceto del Pesidente del Consiglio dei Ministi (8 Febuy 1999). GFI poducts do not equie dditionl tining Do I need dditionl tining to use this poduct? No dditionl end use tining o dministtion is equied fo using nd mintining GFI MilAchive. It is vey use fiendly yet techniclly obust poduct when comped to othe poducts in the mket. Disclime The dt contined in this document is bsed on esech cied out by GFI. The picing dt fo the competitos poducts hs been compiled fom vious souces nd theefoe is coect to the best of ou knowledge. GFI does not epesent o wnt the ccucy o elibility of this infomtion, nd will not be lible if individuls/compnies use o misuse this infomtion. Redes should contct diectly the compnies mentioned in this document to obtin the ltest picing detils. All ights eseved. GFI Softwe Ltd.