McAfee readies enterprise e-mail, Web appliances

McAfee Inc. plans to deliver more scalable versions of its e-mail and Web security appliances, designed for enterprise users.

The new products will be available by year’s end, according to McAfee Chief Technology Officer Christopher Bolin, who discussed them Tuesday at McAfee’s analyst conference in New York. “We’ve recently just OKed a project to build a very high-end enterprise product, a blade server approach to this problem,” he said during a webcast of the event.

McAfee already sells Web- and e-mail-filtering appliances called Secure Web Gateway and Secure Messaging Gateway, but these new products will be able to serve a much larger number of clients, McAfee said Wednesday, without disclosing specifics.

McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt told analysts that the need for an enterprise-class offering was made clear to him in a recent customer meeting with Citigroup Inc. “We didn’t have the ability to cross-sell our network appliances very easily, at least not at the enterprise level,” he said.

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