Trend Micro Deep Agentless Security Speeds ROI

Trend Micro, Cupertino, Calif., has announced the results of an in-depth, third-party lab test benchmarking the performance of the anti-virus/anti-malware capabilities of Trend Micro Deep Security, McAfee Total Protection for Endpoint and Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 within virtual environments. The tests found that Trend Micro Deep Security performance was up to 11 times more efficient in the use of key system resources than the competing solutions. The savings in resource consumption afforded by Trend Micro Deep Security will allow organizations to increase the number of virtual machines per host, known as virtual-machine densities, leading to capital and operational expenditure savings from reduced hardware and an increase in ROI of the virtualization investment. Conducted by The Tolly Group, a premier third-party IT test lab, the test focused on the impact each solution had on the host system (the physical server) resources specifically as virtual machine densities increased to up to 100 virtual machines (VMs). "Trend Micro Deep Security proved to use significantly less resources than the McAfee and Symantec solutions, even during light workloads that kept the antivirus agents essentially idle. In addition, because it was virtualization-aware, the Trend Micro solution was able to avoid triggering classic antivirus storm conditions - scheduled scans and pattern updates where the other solutions faced significant performance degradation and stability loss," said Kevin Tolly, founder of The Tolly Group. "Of the products tested, Trend Micro Deep Security is best equipped, in our opinion, to support an organization's virtualization efforts."