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 excellent at blocking spam."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the content filtering policies because the solution offers huge options for configuration, such as hardware manipulation, et cetera, and the dictionaries make the work easier."
"I like that it's simple and easy to configure, deploy, and manage. The reporting function has all the features we're looking for, and we are fine with that."
"It is a solid and stable product."
"The solution is "set and forget". You pay for it and everything is done for you."
"Symantec is a secure product."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The feature that I like the best is the fingerprinting concept."
"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."
"It will provide Excel reports and PDF reports, but it would be great if they supported the concept of Crystal Reports."
"We've had issues in the past where the user finds spam, and Symantec does not recognize it as spam."
"Symantec Messaging Gateway should include better exclusions and exceptions for better administration."
"They have updated the version of the Messaging Gateway and the new features they are adding the need to be re-evaluated. They have done some changes on the policy."
"The documentation could have more detailed examples of how to use the product in various situations. As more companies shift to the cloud, they could better integrate the on-prem and cloud versions through an on-prem client."
"What's lacking when you compare it with Proofpoint and other threat protection solutions is that it does the basic stuff, but we need more advanced threat handling."
"In a later release, it would be nice if the messaging gateway supported the cluster feature."
"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."
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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