Many NZ companies have invested in virtualising their server infrastructure, realising considerable savings in management and ongoing operational costs.
This has left many organisations questioning how they can extend the benefits of virtualisation to other areas of their infrastructure, for example their gateway security.
In our experience many parallels exist between server virtualisation and security virtualisation. Numerous 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 and Intrusion Prevention System, which are deployed on the gateways.
Our Experts have worked with various 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 Anti Virus, Web Filtering, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) 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 of an organisations' already established virtual infrastructure.
In New Zealand, government departments and commercial businesses have implemented Sidewinder to meet their assurance needs.
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Steve Macmillans association with MPA began in 1990 and during the past 23 years he has steered the company to achieve various milestones from a business and technical perspective. Identifying market trends and understanding how to apply technology to help address organisational and business challenges are strengths Steve brings to the company. Having a long term involvement in the industry has seen Steve introduce and work with an extensive range of vendors in the New Zealand market including Wyse, Citrix, Secure Computing (now McAfee), Synoptics and SafeNet.
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