The following advantages are provided through virtualization*:

Scalable performance

Your needs and requirements changed? Then benefit now from the Virtual AS Communication Gateway™! Simply updating your license-keys is everything you'll need in order to upgrade your small virtual machine into a high-performance enterprise class SMTP firewall, meeting all requirements of your business. You don't only economize your expenditures on hardware, but also circumvent inconvenient and time-consuming backup- and restore-procedures.

Easy hardware replacement without downtime

Thanks to Live Migration, entire virtual machines can easily be migrated onto other servers without being at risk of system failures and service downtimes: Dramatically reduce downtimes related to hardware maintenance-and increase your preparedness for potential cases of disaster recovery, without interrupting your daily business routines. Existing connections and network identities are autonomously migrated while your critical e-mail infrastructure is continuously on-line.

Ready to run - on your preferred hardware

Whether you choose to utilize the reliable and approved underground_8 hardware or virtually any other server manufacturer of your choice - you won't experience incompatibility troubles, missing hardware drivers or installation problems. With our solution, your virtual machine is pre-installed and pre-configured. Avoid highly expensive, complex and error-prone installation and configuration processes. Your Virtual AS Communication Gateway™ is ready to protect within minutes.

Load balancing and redundancy

Whether you aim to enforce load balancing via multiple distributed physical locations or just through one redundant system, in-house or at your provider: virtualization is the key. Thanks to central management for you virtual infrastructure, you're always prepared and provided for emergency cases.

*depenending on the utilized virtualization environment.

Virtualizing the underground_8 antispam solution

underground_8 launches the Virtual AS Communication Gateway™ and enters the age of virtual security solutions.

Linz, 01.08.2009 - underground_8 finally accomplished to acquire an essential milestone into a new, future-oriented direction. A steadily growing number of companies get used to virtual solutions in order to save time and reduce expenses. The Austrian expert for security solutions sets new benchmarks and introduces virtual solutions to its product portfolio. Like announced in the current issue of the Hakin9 magazine (4/2009), the Virtual AS Communication Gateway™ is now readily available for download and can be freely tested for 30 days.

Take your chance and convince yourself now!

Virtual AS Communication Gateway