I rate the tool’s scalability a six out of ten. The commercial department is lazy. These products only work with the licenses. Technically, the product is sound, but Symantec is not utilizing it fully due to poor management.

Assume I buy the product for 150 users today. If I add five users the next day, enabling licenses for the new users will be a tedious process. Around 150 people are using the solution in our organization.

You pay per user. If you need more users, you pay for the extra licenses. 

We have 800 users on the solution right now. 

The number of users is currently decreasing. We are not increasing usage. 

The tool is very scalable. We can scale it up and make it like a cloud solution if we want to. I rate the scalability a nine out of ten. We have more than 100,000 active mailboxes being scanned by the solution. It's not like an agent deployment that we put on the user's endpoints. It scans for emails.

The cloud-based solution is very scalable. It is not hard to increase the number of users or onboard new companies. Any addition can happen quickly.  

Around 5,000 users are using the solution in our organization.

I rate Symantec Messaging Gateway a nine out of ten for scalability.

I don't have information on how scalable Symantec Messaging Gateway is.

It was pretty easy to scale. You just added more scanners. The one downside was you could only have one control center unless you wanted to manually keep two different control centers at two different data centers, and configure them the same. 

That said, you'll never 100% have them alike. That's the one downside is that you're stuck with, no matter how you scale your scanners, in the DMZ, and you still have that one control center inside. That's how we deployed it. If we lose that data center, we lose that control center. There are some white papers out there now on how to make that change to a different control center, so it is possible, however, it's been a long time since I've looked at that.

We have about 15,000 end-users on the solution currently. 

I give the solution a five out of ten for scalability.

I rate Messaging Gateway eight out of 10 for scalability. 

Messaging Gateway is scalable.

We have three Symantec Messaging Gateway users in our organization. It could be more scalable.

Scaling usage is very easy to do. We have 150 users in the company.

Symantec Messaging Gateway is highly scalable.

We have a couple of nodes extended at the moment, and so far, we haven't had any issues with configuration, replication, or when the firmware is updated. It works fine.

We haven't needed to scale it, so I can't speak to the solution's level of scalability. It's not something we've attempted to do.

We have about 80 people in our organization using the product.

It was easy to scale in both Windows and Linux environments. We did not try Mac devices, but for us, scalability was good.

The scalability depends on how much you are willing to pay. You always have to pay if you have to scale the product or increase the number of machines. We have about 1,000 fixed users for Symantec Messaging Gateway.

It is a scalable product. We have deployed it for organizations with 200-5000 users.