An overview of this quarter’s GFI releases

It’s hard to give a behind-the-scenes view of the GFI marketing team’s current projects, since everything we do is all about pushing out the GFI message, with the goal of gaining as much visibility as possible; so the fruit of our work is usually available at front-of-house!

In the works right now are a number of launches. This quarter started with the launch of our revamped GFI Partner Program on April 12 followed by the much-awaited release of GFI Backup 2010 – Business Edition three days later, our new fast and fuss-free backup, restore and synchronization solution for small and medium-size businesses. Both were launched internationally in English, with translation works currently in the mix to roll them out in various languages as soon as possible.

Meanwhile our energies are highly focused on the 10-language launch of GFI MAX MailProtection and GFI MAX MailEdge which kicks off on April 26 and comprises a mix of partner seminars across various EMEA locations, webinars, live press events and more throughout the quarter! Our spreadsheets to coordinate the mailers, web pages, documentation, sales and marketing collateral, travel, accommodation and event plans, and so on are a riot of multi-coloured rows. These are pored over and heartily discussed by marketing team members in Dundee, Staines, Boston and San Gwann (Malta), not to mention various GFI Channel Sales Managers located around Europe.  Coupled with this is our launch of the Spanish and Italian versions of GFI MAX RemoteMangement.

Coming up in May are GFI MailEssentials 2010 and GFI EventsManager 2010 – new versions of our on-premise anti-spam and event log management solutions. GFI MailEssentials will now also offer greylisting, spam quarantine and auto-log rotation while delivering enhanced performance; and GFI EventsManager will now support events auto-archiving in parallel with events processing (so that archived events are stored into files while the database hosts important events only); an improved dashboard with real-time details about what is happening on the network – e.g., failed logons, logons outside normal working hours, Windows service status and critical events – and various new reports, as well as improved usability and performance.

We are also gearing up to ship a couple of point releases before this quarter ends  – in the form of GFI LANguard 9.5 and GFI EndPointSecurity 4.3 – as well as a major new feature for GFI MAX RemoteManagement.