LAS VEGAS and SAN JOSE, Calif., May
10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- INTEROP -- SonicWALL, Inc., the
leading provider of intelligent network security and data
protection solutions, today confirmed that next-generation firewall
(NGFW) adoption in its customer base is accelerating, especially in
academia and retail deployments. The company has seen significant
demand for its high-performance, network security solutions running
the new SonicOS 5.8 with application intelligence, control and
visualization features. Large deployment examples include SUNY Old
Westbury and Hall County Schools, Berry College and BGMX Retail
Solutions. The campus education deployments each protect thousands
of students, faculty and administrators from malware and intrusions
while also managing bandwidth for critical applications.
Visualization tools enable IT administrators to monitor traffic in
real-time and respond to changing network needs immediately through
easy to configure application policy rules.
SonicWALL's customers benefit from the industry-leading
application intelligence, control and visualization solution, that
puts the power back in the hands of IT administrators with new
levels of management and ease-of-use. It enables IT managers to
block or throttle application usage on a user or group level,
optimize bandwidth consumption facilitating an increase in employee
productivity. SonicWALL's enterprise-class customers benefit in
particular from the patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet
Inspection™ (RFDPI) technology that enables increased security
without network latency.
"Large campuses and distributed retail locations have one thing
in common. They need to stay secure and ensure that critical
applications get the bandwidth they need, while limiting the
bandwidth that unessential applications consume," said Patrick Sweeney, vice president of product
management and corporate marketing at SonicWALL. "Having the
ability to get granular with application control and scan every
byte of every packet with full content inspection of the entire
stream has become invaluable to our customers looking to improve
security and deploy application intelligence."
SonicWALL security solutions have recently been deployed with
the following customers:
Hall County Schools
Hall County Schools is a public
school district in Hall County,
Georgia. Based in Gainesville, the district employs 4,800
teachers and staff members, supporting 26,000 students attending 21
elementary schools, six middle schools, and seven high schools.
Previously, the district had deployed a competitor's solution for
firewalls and content filtering. Over time, however, the district
became increasingly dissatisfied with these solutions. In addition
to content filtering and ease-of-management, the district sought
robust monitoring and reporting, single sign-on (SSO) and CIPA
compliance. Hall County Schools
evaluated filtering solutions from multiple vendors before
purchasing an integrated SonicWALL® E-Class Network Security
Appliance (NSA) E7500 solution from its Dell reseller.
"We want to be able to allocate more bandwidth for high schools
than elementary schools, for example," said C. J. Daab, technology support coordinator at
Hall County Schools. "Prioritizing
application traffic will help us better manage application traffic
between students and social networking sites like Facebook. This
will be a big benefit for us going forward as we take on more
latency-sensitive traffic, such as VoIP and LifeSize® video
conferencing."
State University of New York
(SUNY) College at Old Westbury
SUNY College at Old Westbury employs
over 250 faculty members and 300 non-faculty staff, and serves over
4,300 students, a quarter of whom reside on campus. The college
required a reliable and transparent security solution to eliminate
external attempts to steal personal and financial information. It
also needed to prevent student and faculty devices being used to
launch malicious attacks. Additionally, the SUNY experienced an increase in demand for network
bandwidth, which stressed existing legacy hardware beyond its
technical capabilities and architecture. With the SonicWALL Network
Security Appliance (NSA) E7500, the college increased traffic
transparency, optimized bandwidth management, and experienced
higher service levels and user satisfaction, plus greater system
reliability.
"With a large diverse group of faculty and students using both
incoming and outgoing information, it can be difficult to regulate
bandwidth," said Marc Seybold, CIO
at SUNY College at Old Westbury. "The
SonicWALL NSA E7500 allows us to be proactive and actually look at
how the available bandwidth is being used over different time
slices during the day, by user, and then optimize it."
Berry College
Founded in 1902 near Rome,
Georgia, Berry College is an
independent, coeducational college with approximately 1,850
students and about 600 faculty and staff members. The College
experienced extreme growth on its network in just three years with
the upsurge in streaming video, game consoles, DVD players,
smartphones and tablets on campus. This rapid growth meant the
college needed to re-evaluate its bandwidth capabilities and
implement an enterprise-class solution to give it more control over
the applications on the network. Berry
College selected the SonicWALL Network Security Appliance
(NSA) E6500 based on its ability to deliver granular insight into
application control to help manage increased network demand.
"SonicWALL lets me see all the way down to whether someone is
watching a show on Hulu, or transferring a lot of files over IM and
that's a huge improvement over the visibility we used to have,"
said Dan Boyd, senior network
architect at Berry College. "The
visualization capabilities into application traffic has really
helped us prioritize bandwidth and take control of our
network."
BGMX Retail Solutions
BGMX Retail Solutions provides a fully integrated services
platform and support network for approximately 70 regional
operators, small chains, and independent retailers in the grocery
and convenience store sectors. BGMX manages VMWare® servers and
networking facilities to host Midax® Point-of-Sales (POS)
solutions, and uses TrustWave® scanning solutions to help its
customers comply with PCI-DSS and SAS-70 requirements. Because
security and reliability are critical for BGMX customers, it
selected the SonicWALL Network Security Appliance (NSA) 3500 for
its easy configuration, PCI compliance options and ability to gain
real-time granular visualization into network application
traffic.
"We looked at a few other options in our search for stronger
security but could not find anything that compared to the ease of
deployment, management and visualization into applications the
SonicWALL NSA 3500 is able provide," said Erin Desko, CTO at BGMX Retail Solutions. "PCI
compliance is crucial to our business and having it come basically
straight out of the box has been invaluable for us."
SonicWALL recently introduced a massively scalable product line
that meets the needs of the largest campus, retail and central site
networks in the world. The SonicWALL SuperMassive E10000 Series of
Next-Generation Firewalls delivers more than 40 Gbps of firewall
throughput and over 30 Gbps of application control and Intrusion
Prevention Service (IPS). SonicWALL SuperMassive further expands
SonicWALL's next-generation firewall offerings for the enterprise
and is an attractive choice for existing and future customers.
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About SonicWALL, Inc.
Guided by its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network,
SonicWALL develops advanced intelligent network security and data
protection solutions that adapt as organizations evolve and as
threats evolve. Trusted by small and large enterprises worldwide,
SonicWALL solutions are designed to detect and control applications
and protect networks from intrusions and malware attacks through
award-winning hardware, software and virtual appliance-based
solutions. For more information,
visit http://www.sonicwall.com/.
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