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A recent report from McAfee reveals that a number of European enterprises are literally drowning in security products. While many of the IT managers at those companies say they wished they had a single solution, the reality is that nearly half employ four or more solutions.

Besides being both inefficient and expensive, one of the main problems this poses is trying to keep everything up-to-date, which is essential to a security solution's effectiveness. And while you might think using that many security solutions would at least bring some sense of security, less than a quarter of the respondents reported they were pleased with their solutions.

Most companies sited functionality as the main reason for their purchase of security products, with cost mentioned as the reason for only 13 percent of the purchases. It makes you wonder when ease and efficiency are going to start being considered a necessary feature for already overwhelmed IT Administrators. One of our main focuses at Message Partners was trying to simplify the issues of multiple products for system administrators.

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