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With the release of the MailGate Appliance 6500, Tumbleweed — which traditionally sells to midsize businesses — is making
a push into the enterprise market, says Brian Burke, research manager for security products and services at IDC. However,
Tumbleweed’s pitch to enterprises that the functionality and capacity of the 6500 will let companies reduce their total number
of e-mail security appliances should make sense to large companies, he says.
“That’s something we hear every day from IT managers in large enterprises; they don’t want to buy more appliances … they want
to consolidate onto a single appliance, so we’re seeing this convergence of all different types of point solutions into a
comprehensive appliance," Burke says.
Management of the 6500 appliances — including remote ones — can be done through a unified dashboard utility, which offers
real-time information about e-mail traffic, network attacks, spam statistics and policy enforcement.
Tumbleweed competes with e-mail security appliance makers IronPort, CipherTrust, Barracuda, Mirapoint and Proofpoint. In addition
to its line of appliances, the company sells an e-mail security software line called MailGate Email Firewall and MailGate
Secure Messenger for e-mail authentication and encryption. It also sells managed file transfer and identity verification products.
The MailGate 6500 is priced starting at $18,500; the related MailGate software is priced starting at $5,000 for 250 users.
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