Barracuda bites into enterprise security

Barracuda's Spam Firewall 1000 supports up to 100,000 concurrent email users

Security firm Barracuda Networks has unveiled a firewall appliance for large organisations and ISPs.

The Barracuda Spam Firewall 1000 is capable of supporting up to 100,000 concurrent email users and 5,000 domains in a single appliance.

The appliance costs £60,749 with no per-user licensing fees regardless of the volume of email.

The firewall comes in a 2U full size form factor and includes 200GB message log storage and 750GB storage capacity for quarantined messages. The unit also features redundant hot swap power supplies and dual gigabit Ethernet ports.

"The Barracuda Spam Firewall 1000 enables customers to handle the continuing increases in worldwide spam as well as reduce other operational costs in the data centre," said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management at Barracuda.