SonicWALL has launched a new strategic initiative to accelerate its entry into the enterprise market with a broad-based global initiative centered on SonicWALL’s new E-Class solution set.
SonicWALL’s E-Class suite is a line of secure networking, email security and remote network access offerings engineered to bring down the cost and complexity of deploying a secure infrastructure.
SonicWALL’s new offerings, the Network Security Appliance (NSA) E-Series comprising NSA E7500, the NSA E6500 and the NSA E5500, are multi-core processor firewalls that combine enterprise-class protection and performance in a single appliance.
They represent an industry first: multi-core unified threat management (UTM) appliances that deliver deep packet inspection at gigabit speed. Combining a powerful real-time and reassembly-free deep packet inspection firewall with multiple layers of protection technology and a suite of high-availability features, the NSA series appliances are designed for the most demanding deployments including distributed enterprise environments, campus networks, data centers and small-medium businesses where bandwidth considerations require high-performance solutions.
As the cybercrime economy continues to flourish and threats become harder to detect, security is now a mainstream focus for all network administrators. The need for enterprise network traffic inspection continues to grow to protect against more intensive, application layer threats, increasing security processing load and protection requirements. The majority of current network infrastructure options are complex and costly, forcing IT administrators to engage in a constant trade off between network speed and security.
“SonicWALL’s enterprise customers tell us they are tired of overpaying for complex, underperforming, proprietary solutions,” said Chee Heng Loon, Vice President, Asia Pacific, at SonicWALL.
“In contrast to the majority of offerings in this maturing industry, SonicWALL E-Class solutions have been designed to drive enterprise performance and productivity gains by engineering cost and complexity out of the secure infrastructure. We start from the premise that the majority of businesses face a shortage of IT personnel and time. SonicWALL’s focus on practical effectiveness resonates not only with our worldwide channel base and millions of SMB users, but increasingly with the needs of enterprise IT professionals.”
“The new E-Class product offering demonstrates SonicWALL’s continued investment and commitment in making the industry’s easiest to manage, ultra-high speed security appliances,” added Jon Kuhn, SonicWALL’s Director of Product Management.
“SonicWALL is taking its product innovation and expertise from the SMB market and applying it to the enterprise market by delivering a solution that uniquely addresses the needs of large, distributed networks.”
With the foundations of its business in the small to mid-sized business space, SonicWALL designs its technology for sophisticated performance combined with ease of deployment. SonicWALL has also developed a successful services delivery model which supports the outsourcing and managed services needs of IT organizations of all sizes.
SonicWALL’s growth in the enterprise space has been fuelled by four acquisitions over the past two years: SSL VPN niche player EnKoo, data backup and recovery startup Lasso Logic, enterprise email security company MailFrontier and most recently Aventail, a provider of enterprise class secure remote access solutions. An acknowledged leader in the small to mid-sized IT security market, SonicWALL continues to expand its range with more sophisticated solutions for distributed enterprises and large networks.
"We're looking forward to working with SonicWALL on bringing their latest products to market," said Dexter Ong, Sales Director, Red Sentry.
"With the NSA E7500, there's no trade off between functionality and value, and customers don’t have to compromise performance or security to fit into their budget. Based on SonicWALL's proven track record for product innovation and commitment to creating an outstanding experience for its customers, we anticipate high demand from the enterprise marketplace for the new E-Class product offering." |
