New Zealand is one of the most virtualised countries in the world according to VMWare. As many NZ companies have invested in virtualising their server infrastructure they have realised the considerable savings in management and on-going operational costs.
This has left them questioning how they can extend the benefits of virtualisation to other areas of their infrastructure, for instance their gateway security.
In MPAs experience, numerous parallels exist between server virtualisation and security virtualisation. Various single point firewall gateway solutions are either on a dedicated appliance or server. This means that the resources on those platforms are never fully utilised. These appliances and servers have annual maintenance costs, in addition to the expense of the annual per-user protection renewals like Anti-Virus (AV) and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), which are deployed on the gateways.
Our Experts have worked with NZ organisations to change the cost paradigm. By deploying the McAfee application level Enterprise Virtual Firewall we could increase the security while offering more flexibility to the business. It comprises of a virtual image, which can be installed on the existing virtual infrastructure and includes unlimited awarding winning McAfee AV, IPS, Web Filtering and reporting as part of the image.
This presents enhanced security at a single predictable cost. The virtual firewall helps reduce the traditionally fixed operational cost associated with protection renewals, whilst leveraging off an organisations' already established virtual infrastructure.
In New Zealand, government departments and commercial businesses have implemented McAfee Firewalls to meet their assurance needs.
Mark Micklefield manages our team of experts and brings 18 years' experience in enterprise IT solution design and sales across UK, Europe and New Zealand. His areas of expertise include networking, security and control systems which he has developed from an initial background in automation and and supercomputer systems design in the UK. Mark has managed technical projects like developing fluid dynamic and GIS modelling systems for European Research institutes through to solving enterprise business problems such as securing the national networks of major utilities. In the UK he managed consortiums of software development and integration partners to deliver complex IT management solutions for Top100 finance and infrastructure companies. In NZ at MPA he has consulted with finance, utility, government and telecommunications enterprises to manage the design and deployment of security and network management solutions for organisations such as TVNZ, Mighty River Power, ASB Bank, Meridian and Contact Energy. Mark has a BSC in Engineering and an MSc in Information Systems.
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