Introduction
Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx is a virtual appliance providing the same powerful technology, comprehensive features and ease of use found in the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall hardware solution. It is ideally suited for organizations that are standardizing hardware platforms or deploying virtual environments.
Technology
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx provides a powerful, easy-to-use and affordable virtual appliance solution for complete protection of an organizations email infrastructure with features including:
- Anti-spam
- Anti-virus
- Anti-spoofing
- Anti-phishing
- Anti-spyware
- Denial of Service
- Data Leak Prevention
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall protects your email server with twelve defense layers:
- Network Denial of Service Protection
- Rate Control
- IP Reputation Analysis
- Sender Authentication
- Recipient Verification
- Virus Scanning
- Policy (User-specified rules)
- Spam Fingerprint Check
- Intent Analysis
- Image Analysis
- Bayesian Analysis
- Rule-based Scoring
More information on the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall can be found at http://www.barracuda.com/spam
Easy to Use
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx virtual appliance is compatible with all email servers and is supported on most popular virtual hypervisors like VMware ESX and VMware ESXi. The entire virtual appliance, including hardware configuration, operating system and application modules are encapsulated for easy deployment. Once the virtual appliance is installed, configuration and administration is through the same intuitive Web based user interface as that on the appliance.
With Barracuda Networks Energize Updates, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx is continuously updated with the latest spam and virus definitions every hour keeping maintenance to the unit at a minimum and eliminating administrative overhead. Updates are provided by Barracuda Central, an advanced 24/7 security operations center that works to continuously monitor and block the latest Internet threats.
Affordable
With no per-user license fees, the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx provides the same flexibility and affordability as the Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall hardware appliance.
Editions
The Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall Vx is available in 4 editions capable of handling up to 10,000 email users with the included licenses for up to 4 CPU cores. Multiple virtual appliances can be clustered for greater capacity and high availability. Also, the capacity and performance of the BSF 600Vx can be easily expanded by licensing it to run on additional CPU cores on the virtual host cluster.
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We just moved from a Barracuda Spam & Virus Firewall hardware appliance to a virtual appliance, and we love it! Because everything is virtual, we get better redundancy and it’s easy to replicate.
