Geared to the SMB market, WatchGuard Technologies's Firebox X series offers a feature set comparable to more expensive firewalls -- along with some of the accompanying setup and administration complexities of enterprise firewalls.
Remote replication of storage is more popular today than ever, and it promises to become even more important, thanks to government regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley that require data replication. To transport the data, some organizations lease dark fibre and run long-distance FC (Fibre Channel) connections, but this approach can be very expensive due to the equipment and the leased lines. The alternative is to use an IP storage protocol over a TCP/IP WAN, but this method also has a drawback, namely the inherent inefficiency of TCP/IP for transmitting storage protocols.
Mailmarshall is available in an SMTP version or a version that integrates with Microsoft Exchange 2000. I tested the SMTP Version 5.5. Performance was good, but the real story is its ease of installation and management in the Windows environment — the Exchange version should make spam control and e-mail security even simpler.
As sans grow over time, with switches and servers added haphazardly to the array, they can become quite difficult to track and manage. McData’s SANavigator 3.5.1 brings order to complexity and enables the SAN administrator to monitor and manage large numbers of devices.