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Reduce Spam and Viruses While You Increase ROI with Virtual Appliances

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Overview As more and more enterprises realize the benefits of server virtualization--including lower costs, increased IT efficiency and improved resource utilization--they are looking to further leverage these savings by moving mission critical applications to virtual environments such as VMware.

In this Web seminar replay, "Reduce Spam and Viruses While You Increase ROI with Virtual Appliances," Proofpoint Vice President of Product Management, Andres Kohn, discusses how Proofpoint's breakthrough virtual appliance for messaging security delivers the industry's most advanced defense against spam, viruses and content security breaches--combined with the many benefits of virtualization. The latest spam and virus trends are also discussed.

View this replay and learn:

What you should expect from your anti-spam and anti-virus solution -- and how to measure the effectiveness of your current solutions.
The latest techniques used by spammers -- and how they are eroding spam filter effectiveness.
How virtual appliances will revolutionize the datacenter and end "appliance bloat."
How Proofpoint's virtual appliance combines the best aspects of hardware appliances and virtual servers to deliver best-in-class email security with maximum ROI.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Proofpoint
Live Date	24th April 2007 00:00 BST
Format	Webcast
Topics	Anti-Virus, Security Management, Security Tools, Resources Mgmt., ROI - TCO, Spam - E-mail Fraud - Phishing

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