Today Tolly, the leading global provider of hands-on IT research, published an Anti-virus Performance Evaluation in VMware ESX Virtual Environments of the Trend Micro Deep Security 7.5 vs. McAfee and Symantec.

Tests showed that Trend Micro Deep Security, which provides an agentless virtual appliance-based approach to anti-virus protection optimized for virtualization, consistently consumed less CPU, RAM and disk I/O resources than the non VM-aware implementations where anti-virus agents and processing resided in each and every Windows 7 virtual machine.

The Trend Micro Deep Security Virtual Appliance:

1.     Demonstrated consistently lower demand for system CPU, memory and disk I/O over traditional agent-based solutions even during periods when the workload was designed not to stress AV

2.     Successfully avoided AV storm issues with scheduled scans and pattern updates that prevented other solutions from testing beyond 25 VMs

3.     Demonstrated density improvements of 29% to 275% over McAfee and Symantec running test workloads

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