Most popular VMWare Virtual Appliances for Security
Updated on September 25, 2009: Please review the updated list of virtual appliances.
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The original post has been retained as a historical reference. The download links for most of the appliances in the following table no longer work since VMware has revamped the Appliance Marketplace.
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I have ranked the virtual appliances for IT Administrators available at the VMWare Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VVAM) as described below. Apart from the serial number in the first column and the computed Rank in the last column, all other data is from the VVAM; the titles are self-explanatory.
Methodology
- I accessed the listings for Security, sorted them by Rating and cut and pasted the first 100 listing into an Excel spreadsheet.
- The Star rating that is visible on the web page shows up as a decimal fraction in Excel, this is what you see in the Customer Rating column below.
- I computed a Rank for each listing by multiplying the Customer Rating x 100 x the number of ratings for that appliance.
- Finally I sorted the result by the rank to prepare the table that appears below. I have selected the top 20 of 174 appliances.
- The virtual appliances are ordered by their rank from the highest to the lowest
- I found it interesting that several appliances that rated a 5 had either one or no user each and the bulk of the ratings are for appliances having 4 and 3 stars.
|
No. |
IT Administration Virtual Appliance |
What is it used for? |
Customer Rating (R) |
# Ratings (N) |
Rank (R*100*N) |
|
1 |
Internet Privacy Appliance. Encrypts your Internet traffic, hides your IP address, and is easy to setup. |
4.7009 |
448 |
210,600 |
|
|
2 |
*Most popular Firewall appliance* All-in-one firewall package upgraded with VMXnet, heartbeat and MUI-control. |
4.5283 |
159 |
72,000 |
|
|
3 |
SpamTitan allows you create a Email Security Appliance for your Gateway |
4.3478 |
23 |
10,000 |
|
|
4 |
Antispam / Antivirus Gateway and Email Archive Server |
4.1739 |
23 |
9,600 |
|
|
5 |
Best-of-breed open source network security applications with supporting scripts and a web-based front-end management interface. |
4.0000 |
18 |
7,200 |
|
|
6 |
Open Source Security Gateway & Firewall that blocks Spam, Spyware, Myspace & more |
4.0667 |
15 |
6,100 |
|
|
7 |
Email anti-spam, anti-virus, anti-phishing appliance |
4.2143 |
14 |
5,900 |
|
|
8 |
Astaro Security Gateway is the world’s most popular Unified Threat Management software appliance. |
3.9333 |
15 |
5,900 |
|
|
9 |
Secure File Transfer Virtual Appliance – secure, economical and easy to use secure file transfer for today’s global enterprises |
4.1429 |
14 |
5,800 |
|
|
10 |
This setup will set on any network and scan either a network or a single server |
3.8000 |
15 |
5,700 |
|
|
11 |
IPCop 1.4.11 (cvs) firewall, selected add-ons and full VMware Tools integration |
3.2941 |
17 |
5,600 |
|
|
12 |
Complete VPN enabled (Cisco 3000 series, OpenVPN) remote desktop client (RDP, XDMCP, VNC) software stack. |
3.0588 |
17 |
5,200 |
|
|
13 |
Linux-based firewall, VPN, and advanced router |
4.0909 |
11 |
4,500 |
|
|
14 |
Network Security Exploit Suite |
4.6667 |
9 |
4,200 |
|
|
15 |
Continuous availability and complete protection of physical and virtual machines |
3.3333 |
12 |
4,000 |
|
|
16 |
Penguin Sleuth Kit Virtual Computer Forensics and Security Platform |
Get started Managing Your IP Space Address today! Freeware! |
3.5455 |
11 |
3,900 |
|
17 |
It analyzes network traffic using netflow data and reports on bandwidth usage by top applications, conversations and hosts. |
4.375 |
8 |
3,500 |
|
|
18 |
MediaWiki plus the LAMP stack in a turn-key VMware form-factor |
3.5000 |
10 |
3,500 |
|
|
19 |
Proven Security for Virtual Environments |
4.000 |
8 |
3,200 |
|
|
20 |
Connectra secure remote access gateway unifies best of breed SSL VPN, IPSec VPN and intrusion prevention |
3.875 |
8 |
3,100 |
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