KerioControl Scalability

AD
IT Manager at Flare Technologies

If you've got a hardware appliance, then you are generally limited to its own specifications, in terms of throughput and power. That's what you've got. If you start hitting that, then it's time for a new box, or you need to look for something else.

On the NG500 you can increase the RAM slightly and you can also increase the storage space.

But there is no way of changing processing power. So you have to specify the right box. You can increase physical network interfaces if you want to. You attach a switch to it and scale it that way if you need more physical interfaces. We haven't needed to do that. Or if you wanted to have fibre connections; you would have to attach it to something else. 

It would be nice to see SFP slots in new hardware, which I think is coming in one of the models. 

Overall, you'll hit a point with the box where you can't really scale any higher. But if you've got a virtual appliance, if you want to give it more processing power you can. If you want to give it loads of memory or storage, I would find it quite easy to really scale it up in terms of hardware resources.

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AD
EMP Specialist at Global EPM BV

As it has an unlimited number of users that we can use it for, we haven't reached the limits of the product. It's a really fair product.

Our customers use it every day. We will increase usage of these firewalls if we have a customer for it.

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Saham Hendinejad - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Executive Officer at Quby

The solution has been scalable and easy to extend. 

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BC
Information Security Officer - VP at Unified Technology Solutions

I have it in customers that have four users. The largest site that we've had (with a single box) is probably 150 users, including guests, and it scaled right up and I'm sure I could have pushed it much farther. Again the nice part about the product is they have a software-only version where you could put it on your own hardware, where you can slap it in a Xeon server if you really needed to, and I'd have no fears that the product could actually filter a whole school campus.

In our company, it's mainly our techs who work with this solution. The roles are usually customer-facing techs and support techs. We call them technology specialists, but it would be equal to a tech support type person. Everybody in the company dealing with customers knows how to manage the product because it's so simple. There's no reason to have a firewall engineer. We have a senior person for a really complex setup, but every tech can work on the product and set it up for the average company. Every tech can make changes that the customer requests right then and there when they call.

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AK
Research And Development Manager at MFP

I would give KerioControl a five out of ten rating for scalability because we can't use KerioControl for enterprise networks, and we can't scale up a medium network to an enterprise network.

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LB
IT & Installations Manager at Odyssey Gaming

In terms of scalability, we did not see any limitation for the amount of users that we increased to. We had to add some licensing once we evaluated how many end users are going to be in the end but that was very quick as well. I think that came through in a day or two. We just added in the licensing to it and there we went. It was very easy to do. If there was a huge increase in numbers, as in if the appliance itself might need to be increased, but it's actually a virtual appliance anyway so resourcing is not that big a deal. We can increase the resources pretty easily.

Whether or not we increase usage depends on users. I don't think we'll exceed what we've currently grown in the last six months, based on the fact that everyone's currently working remotely. We don't have real plans to expand at this stage but it's nice to know that we can.

I would consider my company to be an SMB. We have 110 staff. Our company is part of a larger group of companies called the Federal Group. Our business unit is 110 employees, and we're fairly self-sufficient in that respect, but the Federal Group of companies is 1,800 employees and we run a number of different businesses around the country, hospitality businesses, casinos, cape transport, trucking companies, that sort of thing. For our size, definitely, it's worked flawlessly for what we needed it to do.

A lot of the IT is within the Federal Group. We've only actually been part of them for just over a year now. They have their own technical services group and a lot of those guys are hardcore Cisco nuts. They're based in Tasmania, which is the other end of the country for us. It's hard to get anything done when we've got to chase someone on the other side of the country. They've desegregated the business unit, so we can manage our own internal business decisions on that infrastructure. But I wouldn't be surprised if they did use Kerio in some form, I know that a lot of those guys are gold plated in what they do.

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JB
IT Support at Rural Computer Consultants, Inc

It's not very scalable when you start to get into the hundreds to thousands of users because the performance of all of the functionality isn't quite there yet. We're hoping that's remedied with some updates coming down the line.

Kerio is pretty much the backbone of everything that we do. Keeping all of our customers connected to us, keeping our staff safe online, and getting our staff into our cloud environment.

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FR
Owner at Fr@nkonnections

The scalability is good. The VPN connections may need improvement. Because of all the security features within Kerio Control, e.g., it can do a deep packet inspection, this can slow down the traffic. Sometimes that creates a problem. For example, Kerio Control offers protocol inspection for the services that are available, and sometimes that gives problems because people are complaining that it is slow. The VPN connections from remote are not always very fast, so I think the throughputs of the VPN need improvement.

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David Schneiderlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Owner at Infowa

The solution is scalable. Four people in our company are using the solution. We are planning to increase the number of users to five or six.

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GR
ICT Consultant at D-R Consulting Pty Ltd

It is a very low-end device. I am using their base model appliance, so it's a very small piece of hardware with fairly low-end specs. Given the broadband connectivity that we have in Australia, which is pretty poor to start with, that's not really an impediment to me. Moving data around across the land and subnets seems to work fine. 

I have about three users most of the time and each of those users can have three devices. Then I have various servers and audio visual equipment. I'm probably up to about 20 or so IPs that could be used, but not everyone and everything is running at the same time. It seems to cope with the traffic I'm hitting it with.

Our users are mainly doing email, web browsing, a little bit of streaming, and a little bit of Zoom. There is not anything terribly intensive.

I probably utilize 70 percent of the features. I don't do things like VPN. I don't do anything with quotas, forcing people to log in, or bandwidth management. However, these are good features that would help some people.

I am not looking to increase usage at this stage. I know that if I did, it has those extra features that I could use. If I started pushing the performance, then I would need to upgrade to get some bigger hardware. I probably can't increase my usage too much at the moment because the hardware would max out.

To get one little unit and configure your whole network is good. It's also good too for a bigger business where you have a network and a small office somewhere. You could drop one of these in that office to run everything, as it's set and forget. You also have the remote administration of the appliance, which would be quite handy to a lot of businesses.

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CK
CEO at Professional Project Managers

If you buy their hardware box, it doesn't scale so nicely. I found if I put it on a higher-end computer, it does better. I guess it's okay if you put the right hardware in for it. I can't get through those to their boxes.

I had some customers that were running about 200 to 300 machines, those were my larger ones with Kerio. For the most part, I have them on between five and 20 users.

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David Bloomer - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technician at Computers At Work

The solution is scalable. 

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KC
General Manager at Gays Hops-n-Schnapps

In terms of increasing usage, that's going to end up being discussed in a meeting with our IT guy to see what capabilities it has, how we could expand it, how we could grow with it, and how it could help out day-to-day business.

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HP
Owner at Multi Level Software

It's very hard for me to give a correct estimate of the scalability, since a lot of overhead in my situation is caused by the fact that I run it in a virtual machine. That means the bandwidth which it can process, which would be scalable, is downgraded because it's in a virtual machine. That's not Kerio's fault.

I have no plans to increase the usage in the future. For me, it's adequate because I have a lot of leeway. I have enough bandwidth available to fulfill my needs.

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Mark Spiteri - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at JB Metropolitan Distributors

Scalability is fantastic. I don't see a limit to it.

I am the only admin for this solution.  

We employ a company that contracts stuff out for me, so they're the people that initially installed this for me at the three sites, but I maintain it. If I have other things I don't know how to do, they'll get in, but it's just me and that other team.

Increasing usage depends on whether the business itself acquires other businesses, and that's really why we've got these three locations. We bought a business in Adelaide, so we set up a similar setup to what we had in Sydney. And this year in February we bought another business down in the South Coast of New South Wales and we've set up a similar thing there as well. So if we buy other businesses and I need some other help with the server running, then yes, I'll probably get another license. But only if that happens.

My business is medium-sized and this solution is perfect for it. 

I have one point of access for multiple portions of what I need for routing. We've got an Internal server that's managed by a different company and it was incredibly easy for that other company to put certain rules in place and then for us to create those rules to and communicate to the outside world was incredibly easy to map. There was just no confusion between the two companies that we're talking about what to map. That was in the initial setup, so that all wasn't done by me. They just communicated to each other very easily. This made it very simple. There was no confusion.

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it_user219912 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastucture - Cloud Admin at Primary S.A.

Once again you have to double-check licenses, remembering the licences count the IP that is passing through the firewall to the internet, and site-to-site connections will not count.

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SR
IT and Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees

The solution is pretty scalable. I updated it about two years ago and I didn't have trouble scaling. A company shouldn't have any problems expanding it.

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BC
CEO at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

The scalability has been extremely well handled. We can very quickly figure out what size of a machine a customer needs and put it into position.

We have four people that do them, but usually, when we're shipping out, one person sets it up and then they deploy it remotely and have the customer follow their instructions remotely.

We don't have plans to increase usage because of the problems we have encountered with the company and the follow-up. We would have. We had quite a few of them, I don't know an exact count anymore because it's changed over but even now we've still got about 32 of them in use right now. But we've switched over probably triple that away from it.

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MG
VP Engineering & Admin at E Cubed Systems Sl

The way it works now, we can take an NG300 with four ports, and then we can create ports on additional switches. So the only instance that we really use an NG500 is for two reasons. One of them is processing power, and then the other one is if they actually have the requirement for different or more connections than the Kerio has.

Three people in the company, more from a customer interface perspective, and about six people in the company from a technical support perspective use Kerio Control.

We have it deployed somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 to 75 remotes. We will increase usage if we can increase customers. 

I would say that we're a medium-sized business. We're certainly an established entity within the superyacht communications industry. Besides our office here in Florida, we have offices in France as well, and we're headquartered in Majorca, the point being is that we cover all of the Mediterranean, the US, as well as The Bahamas and Caribbean. So it has not been unheard of based upon an issue to helicopter somebody out to a boat kind of thing.

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Gilbert Mwiinga - PeerSpot reviewer
Baobab College logo System Administrator at Baobab College

It is easy to scale. We have about 600 users.

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MM
Senior Systems Tech/Admin at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

The solution is scalable. If you are using virtualized machines you can have as much memory and much storage, but you do not need much storage for this solution. It is powerful and fast, although it can slow down the internet because of the filtering. For example, if you have most of your services running, such as antivirus, content filtering, and intrusion prevention. When all of those are all enabled and there is a lot of configuration and it might slow down your internet service to about 70%, instead of a direct simple router.

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JP
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

I'm a sole proprietor. I don't have any employees, so it's just me.

I deal mostly with small businesses, so it scales well for that.

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TB
Owner at LOTUSCONCEPT

Scalability is more than enough. There are over 50 users. Ten of them are management on the business side and about 20 or 30 are part of the crews.

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CB
Account Manager (Technical) at Redfortress Ltd

For the sorts of things we do, we'd only ever really need one Kerio in any one location. Scalability is beyond the Kerio, for what we do.

We have about 150 users of the solution.

We don't have plans to increase usage. It's been the same for about four years now and I think it will stay the same for at least another one or two. In the place where it's installed it's being used very extensively. It's the endpoint for the whole network so everything in the company ends up going through it.

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JG
Head of IT at Glorious Way Church

It can scale and grow as we grow. It has very impressive features. It is a little bit of overkill for what we use it for. But I think it's worth it. I really do. I don't mean for it to sound like a negative. I chose it on purpose, even though I knew it was a little bit more than we needed. Because of the security features and because of the reputation that it had coming from our IT company, I really saw no other option.

Only I manage the device and I'm head of our IT department.

We have roughly 10 VPN users and 20 or so computers. Then we have at least 75 to 100 devices that connect to it at one time on a Sunday. That connects to the internet and it's able to handle the traffic and the bandwidth management perfectly.

It's more than adequate for our size of business. I know it's made for larger companies than ours, with more employees. But it works very well for us and it's easy to manage. It's robust and very consistent. 

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Timur Assembayev - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Wattum

The scalability of KerioControl is good and it is easy to do.

I have worked at many companies, and the most users that have been using KerioControl has been 500.

If our company grows and the popularity of KerioControl increases we will increase our usage of the solution.

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RA
Owner at L3GNL LLC

I'm not a large enterprise, so I don't know how well it scales. But I imagine if you were to throw bigger hardware at it, it would scale really well.

I'm the owner, so nobody else touches Kerio except for me. Everybody else uses it as part of their job. They don't really know it's there.

My company is small-sized and Kerio is good for it. It's good for small and medium businesses. I've never used it on a large or an extra-large enterprise, so I couldn't give my opinion on that. I would imagine it could, I just don't have any experience.

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MV
IT Director CEO at MARVIV SRLS

We have more than 300 users that are distributed in more than 10 different units. There is one production unit that is around 170 people, and the other 130 are distributed in the other nine companies.

Some of the users are administrators, the other users are in the technical department, R&D, sales, and the production department. 

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MZ
Telecommunications Engineer at FARNAIT

I have found Kerio Control to be able to scale horizontally and vertically.

We have approximately 40 users using this solution. Many of them are administrators.

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JA
IT Manager at Bari Mills Limited

Kerio Control can be scaled easily.

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QS
Senior Sales Technician at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability is awesome.

For our big corporate clients, the solution gets used a lot. We have one client with about 200 users and about 10 to 12 servers.

We have five to six support technicians who work with Kerio Control.

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OK
IT Support Professional at Valley IT Support, Inc

With respect to the scalability, I have it running in five-person offices and in fifty-person offices.

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JJ
IT manager at ABITec s.r.o.

I find the solution scalable. 

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Dedi-Husni - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Lead at PT. Alpha Citra Siber Indonesia

The solution is highly scalable; I would rate scalability a nine out of ten. There are around one thousand users of this solution in our organization. 

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RB
Owner at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

It is scalable up to a point that then you might have to use a user faster, bigger one, but on the whole, it is scalable. It's because based most installations I have are over 300. Whereas if they start to get really big, you'll need to increase the model to the next model up.

In my company, it's me that manages and installs them all. We install, manage, and offer basic management and support.

The environments we've installed for can go from three to 50 users.

We've never had any problems with it not being able to manage the traffic.

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RK
Technical Director at EVAK Technologies Limited

The scalability of Kerio Control is limited, but they also market it as such. It's not an enterprise-class product, but they don't claim that it is. 

Kerio Control is for small enterprise businesses with various clients. It can support an organization of up to 300 general users, remote developers, and trained workers.

For deployment and maintenance, Kerio Control requires just one person. I tend to increase my usage of the product as time goes by, as well as the number of support clients.

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DH
General Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In terms of scalability, it's actually more for a small to medium-sized business. It's not very scalable. 

We currently have over 50 users. The users are in different departments. It's a whole network; we have the admin department, accounting department, finance, technical department, and support department. Everyone is using it. It's the main UTM of the network.

It's the main UTM of the network so it's the internet firewall. We use it every day, every minute. 

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JW
IT Director at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

The scalability is fine. 

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MS
Freelance IT Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

I've never tried to scale the solution. In my case, it doesn't make sense to try. My installations are very finite. The yacht doesn't grow, so it's very self-contained.

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AK
ICT Manager at MEDS

Scalability is a bit of a challenge because you need to buy a new product if you want to upgrade to new technology. 

In other firewall products, you have options for scalability, but for this particular product, such an option is not available. For example, FortiGate firewall provides added technology capabilities that allow it to grow a bit. In Kerio Control, if I want to bring new technology like SD WAN, I need to buy a new product, or maybe do away with Kerio Control and use a new technology altogether.

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CC
Chief of Technical Department at Ingenieria e Informática Asociada Ltda.
PC
Co-Founder & COO at Seek Smarter Lda

We have not tried to scale the solution at this time.

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KN
MD at Comsque

It is very scalable. If you are using a Virtual Appliance make sure your hardware specifications are good then you can easily add licenses as your users increase. On hardware Appliances you might have to upgrade to a bigger appliance as your users increase.

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KN
MD at Comsque

It scales easily without a challenge. We have about 400 users, but administrators directly work with it.

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RW
Computer Technician at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My impression is that it is pretty scalable and it can handle a lot of stuff.

I don't use it to the point where I'm linking multiple sites together, so I can't comment on that aspect.

We have the solution installed on approximately twenty boats now, and we're continuing to install them.

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it_user784197 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Coordinator / Pointe-Noire Branch, BUROTOP IRIS SA at BUROTOP IRIS SA

Scalability is okay. 

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CC
Chief of Technical Department at Ingenieria e Informática Asociada Ltda.
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