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Red Condor Bests Barracuda and Postini in Tolly Group Anti-Spam Test
Report Finds Red Condor's Appliance Achieved a Higher Spam Block Rate Than Barracuda and Postini, and Delivered Performance On Par With IronPort at a Fraction of the Price
| Source: Red Condor, Inc.
ROHNERT PARK, CA--(Marketwire - April 28, 2009) - Red Condor, a leading provider of
fully managed email security solutions, today announced the results of a
third-party anti-spam effectiveness and feature comparison test that evaluated Red Condor, Barracuda
Networks' Spam Firewall 300, Google Inc.'s Message Security powered by
Postini and Cisco System Inc.'s IronPort C150 Email Security Appliance
(referred to hereafter as Barracuda, Postini and IronPort, respectively).
The test, conducted by The Tolly Group, found that Red Condor's Message
Assurance Gateway 2700 (MAG2700) network
appliance achieved a higher percentage of spam detection than Barracuda
and Postini's offerings and delivered an on par performance with the
IronPort device. While finishing on par with IronPort, Red Condor's
smallest model MAG costs $4.80 per mailbox for a 500-user scenario versus
IronPort's $23.50 per mailbox.
During the week-long test, the MAG2700 generated one false positive in
more than 190,700 inbound messages, compared with one in every 6,720 emails
for the Barracuda's Spam Firewall 300 and one in every 527 emails for
Postini's hosted service. Of the 762,962 emails processed using Red
Condor's MAG appliance, 72 spam messages were misclassified as legitimate
messages for a spam block percentage of 99.991 percent. Barracuda missed
101 spam messages out of 262,088 total emails for a spam detection rate of
99.961 percent, while Postini classified 507 spam messages out of 13,187
total emails as legitimate for a spam detection rate of 95.397 percent.
IronPort misclassified 102 spam messages out of 1,564,526 total emails for
a spam detection rate of 99.993 percent.
"The results of The Tolly Group's test validate what our customers and
channel partners
continually tell us: in terms of performance and value, we outrank the
competition," said Dr. Thomas Steding, president and chief executive
officer of Red Condor. "When we entered this test, we wanted to be
evaluated against the solutions that we frequently compete with, and we did
not want to shy away from the biggest names in the industry. When you
factor in our zero filter tuning and administration, as well as our hybrid
architecture, the reviewers agreed that our appliances deliver a great
value proposition. Red Condor combines powerful anti-spam detection and a
fault-tolerant appliance at a significantly lower cost per mailbox."
"With any of our tests, it is important that we put the solutions
through practical use to show how they would perform under real-world
conditions," stated Kevin Tolly from The Tolly Group. "As we evaluated the
four anti-spam solutions, it was clear to us which solutions were
outperforming the others, particularly in the areas of overall spam
filtering, and false negatives and positives. Of course, cost is a major
factor in today's economic climate, so companies are looking to get
performance for a great price. Red Condor combines low cost and control of
an onsite appliance with the proactive monitoring and reliability of a
hosted service."
According to the test report, "Tolly engineers tested all platforms
with a live E-mail stream of messages in order to test the capabilities and
behavior of each product when they were deployed in a live network."
Testing was conducted in accordance with the Tolly Common RFP #1058
"Anti-Spam Gateway v1.0." See CommonRFP.com for more details. All
the appliances were configured behind the corporate firewall and quarantine
features were enabled. The LDAP query feature in each solution was used to
run recipient verification on The Tolly Group's Active Directory server and
each system was reset to factory settings prior to testing. All inbound
email messages during a seven-day period were scanned for possible spam.
Testing was conducted in succession beginning with Postini, followed by
Barracuda, IronPort and then Red Condor.
To download the complete report, visit
http://www.redcondor.com/resources/downloads/tolly-report.pdf.
About Red Condor
Red Condor is revolutionizing spam fighting with its next generation
technology. Red Condor's highly accurate email filter, hybrid architecture
Vx Technology™, and fully managed
appliances lead to a dramatic reduction in the cost of owning a premium
spam filter.
With solutions for small business, as well as ISPs with millions of email
inboxes, Red Condor has a cost-effective, time-saving solution that is
rapidly gaining market share. The system's design has built-in zero
tolerance for lost email, and a near zero false-positive rate while
achieving long-term spam block rates greater than 99%. This next-generation
technology is backed by a 24x7 customer care center staffed by email
security experts at Red Condor's headquarters. For more information, visit
www.redcondor.com.
About The Tolly Group
The Tolly Group, an independent testing and strategic consulting
organization based in Boca Raton, FL, offers a full range of services
designed to furnish both the vendor and end-user communities with
authoritative and unbiased information. Additionally, The Tolly Group is
recognized worldwide for its expertise in assessing leading-edge
technologies. For more information on The Tolly Group's services, visit its
Web site at: Tolly.com, E-mail
info@tolly.com, call +1 (561) 391-5610, or fax +1 (561) 391-5810.