For organizations that prefer on-premises deployment in a virtualized environment, the Proofpoint Enterprise Protection and/or Enterprise Privacy solution suites can be deployed as a virtual appliance. Offering the many benefits of virtualization—including cost savings, rapid deployment and provisioning, simplified policy management and easy backup and disaster recovery—virtual appliances are ideal for enterprises that use the VMware environment. Proofpoint’s SaaS-enabled virtual appliances can also be deployed in unique hybrid configurations where some features are deployed as SaaS while others remain on-premises.