I am looking at moving many Windows home directories and department shares over to the NetApp from Windows file clusters and everything is going smooth except the cost for virus scanning. McAfee wanted to charge us per user account at our company, since they could all technically access the server. Since we have about 70K people and probably >80K accounts, that is quite expensive even with the 2 digit cost per client. They have now agreed to charge us per user account that is actually accessing the NetApp, which is still outrageously expensive even with 10K users. Is this how all virus scanning software is licensed (per user) for the NetApp? It's going to be hard to sell a >100K cost to scan a NetApp when the Windows file servers cost, what, $5/per no matter how many users.
Thanks, Jeff
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We use Trend Micro VS on our filers. They are licensed per server. We have also found this product to be much more stable than the McAfee version for NetApp.
matt
On Mar 9, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Jeff Burton wrote:
I am looking at moving many Windows home directories and department shares over to the NetApp from Windows file clusters and everything is going smooth except the cost for virus scanning. McAfee wanted to charge us per user account at our company, since they could all technically access the server. Since we have about 70K people and probably >80K accounts, that is quite expensive even with the 2 digit cost per client. They have now agreed to charge us per user account that is actually accessing the NetApp, which is still outrageously expensive even with 10K users. Is this how all virus scanning software is licensed (per user) for the NetApp? It's going to be hard to sell a >100K cost to scan a NetApp when the Windows file servers cost, what, $5/per no matter how many users.
Thanks, Jeff
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