| A15000™ | A1000™ | Virtual Appliance – For VMware ESX / vSphere server |
| Appliance | 1-U rack mountable server with a redundant hard drive | VMware ESX / vSphere virtual machine |
| RAM | 4 GB | 2 GB | 4 GB | 3 GB | 2 GB |
| NIC Ports | 4 | 2 | 2-4 |
| Scalability | Supports up to 15,000 concurrent users per appliance | Supports up to 1,000 concurrent users per appliance | Supports up to 15,000 concurrent users per appliance | Supports up to 5,000 concurrent users per appliance | Supports up to 1,000 concurrent users per appliance |
| Administration | Easy, preconfigured, and up and running in 30 minutes with minimal administration (less than 10 minutes per week). Easily manage and administer the system, review system logins, audit product and security updates, and manage trace logs. Control IM user access and activity with user or directory based permissions. |
| Operating System | Designed specifically for real-time messaging environments and system security. Secure and hardened. |
| Database | Run on-box or off-box in order to best fit into existing environments seamlessly without changes to the customer's infrastructure. A-Series appliances come factory configured with a PostgreSQL database. |
| Performance | Passively monitors network traffic with no impact on network performance. |
| Control | Enterprise-class IM gateway used for mediating access to public and enterprise IM, enforcing real-time content-filtering policies on appropriate IM use, protecting the network and end users from IM-based viruses and attack, and monitoring and logging all IM conversations. |
| Security | Uses advanced protocol recognition technology to block even the most elusive IM applications (such as AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, and ICQ including Web-based clients) and P2P (including eDonkey, IRC, BitTorrent, Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, Morpheus, and LimeWire). Block or allow file transfers, games, video conferencing, and other IM features. Recognizes and blocks Skype and other common VoIP applications. Dynamically updates to protect the network and end users from IM spyware, worms, viruses, and poison URL's. |
| Integration | Plugs into directory services, Antivirus engines, and leading email and content archiving systems. |
| Reporting | Detailed real-time performance focus on IM use within the enterprise. Launch a series of reports (with easy-to-read charts and tables) highlighting IM performance metrics. This real-time data shows trend lines, visually comparing current usage to historical norms. Customizable reporting tool provides historical reports on IM usage. |