Gepubliceerd 19 Februari 2008

Stonesoft joins the VMware Technology Alliance Partner program

Stonesoft, an innovative provider of integrated network security and business continuity solutions, has announced on the 14th of February that it has become a member of the Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program of VMware, the world's leading provider of virtualization solutions for x86-based servers and desktops. With its StoneGate Firewall/VPN and IPS technologies, which are unrivalled in their suitability for virtual environments, Stonesoft has unique competence and expertise in securing virtual as well as physical network environments.

The VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program will provide Stonesoft the technical and marketing resources needed to fully test, support and market StoneGate products to companies looking to secure their virtual network environments.

With their software-based design and production-proven technology, StoneGate solutions stand out in their ability to adapt to virtual environments. Stonesoft has already used the platform internally for several years and is now offering it for customer use as well. Stonesoft has also several years of extensive experience in providing security solutions for virtual servers and networks running on IBM System z environment.

"When companies put virtual servers into production, they typically start out using the same methods to secure virtual servers as physical ones," said John Burke, Principal Research Analyst with Nemertes Research. "Amongst participants in our data center security research, segmentation is a major strategy and 67% used VLANs, firewalls, and intrusion prevention devices between servers to segment data center networks. Unfortunately, in virtual environments segmentation becomes increasingly difficult as it directly reduces the agility and flexibility that provides the strongest impetus for virtualization. To avoid having security polices undermine larger data center and business strategies, security architects need to carefully select products that are supportive of virtualized infrastructures."

Key benefits of virtualization

  • Significant reductions in the need for server room space and energy consumption
  • Cost saving
  • Helps to reduce environmental impact
  • Enhanced manageability and flexibility. New machines can be easily created and redundant ones destroyed
  • Instead of having to set up environments with dozens of servers, Managed Service Providers (MSP's) can now manage with just one computer
  • Unlike most virtual-network security products, which are built on the vendors’ own hardware, StoneGate solutions are suitable for consolidation projects as they can be installed at any location in the virtual network
  • In the common scenario where organizations have consolidated servers in virtual environments, the traffic between servers is protected by StoneGate Firewall/VPN and IPS solutions.

For more details, please contact:
Maud Gilson
maud.gilson@ipvista.be
+32 2 663 62 24