We performed a comparison between GWAVA [EOL] and Symantec Messaging Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Google, Veritas, Barracuda Networks and others in Email Archiving."It's a perfect business pump filter. We have much less false positives, and also less spam than other organizations."
"The solution is highly customizable. You can make rules for domains and configure policies for spam or malware. Messaging Gateway is an on-prem solution, so it's useful for companies without a cloud presence."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway is stable and scalable. Installation is easy, and the deployment and maintenance can be done by one administrative person."
"Symantec is a secure product."
"Messaging Gateway is stable."
"It has very good capabilities for managing malware."
"The most valuable features of Symantec Messaging Gateway are advanced content filtering, malware, and antivirus defense."
"The solution is excellent at blocking spam."
"The cloud-based interface is very user-friendly."
"The solution needs to be more user-friendly. I don't want to have to go to my IT guy and have him explain aspects of the solution to me. There should be a way for them to be able to translate aspects of the product to a typical user in a clear concise way."
"What needs to be improved in Symantec Messaging Gateway is its local partner support, as it's not as technical. The support my company gets from the partner isn't good. Vendor support is good, but local partner support isn't. I'm happy with Symantec Messaging Gateway as a solution, but the problem is with its partner support. To me, Symantec Messaging Gateway is a complete solution, but it can be very difficult to search the web for resolutions to issues or problems you experience from it. If this could be improved or resolved in the next release of Symantec Messaging Gateway, then that would be good."
"It could be more scalable."
"The false positive submissions must be improved."
"The solution interface is from 2003 and is outdated. Symantec Messaging Gateway needs to update the interface."
"It is a nice product but is not user friendly in terms of the graphical interface. It is poor and is not rich in terms of the human interface."
"Sometimes the solution picks up false positive for viruses during scans."
"We've had issues in the past where the user finds spam, and Symantec does not recognize it as spam."
"The solution takes up a lot of memory."
Earn 20 points
GWAVA [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Email Archiving while Symantec Messaging Gateway is ranked 6th in Secure Email Gateway (SEG) with 20 reviews. GWAVA [EOL] is rated 9.0, while Symantec Messaging Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GWAVA [EOL] writes "An excellent anti-spam solution for mail systems". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symantec Messaging Gateway writes "A stable and reasonably priced solution that performs well and has a very good malware database". GWAVA [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Symantec Messaging Gateway is most compared with Cisco Secure Email, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection (EOP), Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Fortinet FortiMail and Trend Micro Email Security.
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