2011 July | Interwork Blog

Trend Micro SafeSync for Business

Posted by laurenb @ Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:38:39 -0400

SafeSync for Business is a simple but strong online file storage and management solution that:

Enables you to manage all your business data / files securely online
Replaces existing (costly) file and backup server solutions
Provides all the storage capacity and functionalities to manage your business data
Automatically backs up in a secure online location
Synchronizes your devices (even mobile) automatically when you save or make a change to your data
Grows with your business by offering each employee their own log in
Allows easy access to your business files anytime via a web browser or even mobile phone
Gives you peace of mind knowing in the event of a disaster or theft you have backup copies

Circadence Mobile Solutions

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:08:04 -0400

Ensure that anytime, anywhere connectivity truly boosts productivity
Optimizing your customer’s mobile workforce starts with Circadence®

Field agents, salespersons, and telecommuting workers bring unprecedented productivity and profits to corporations, making connection performance and security increasingly vital to business success. Because mobile computing often requires connections over unsecure or congested cellular or wireless networks, security and performance are essential in keeping mobile workers productive.

Circadence dramatically enhances mobile computing capabilities and supports most of the mobile devices on the market with easy-to-install enterprise optimization agents for laptops, PDAs, and smartphones. Using solutions from Circadence, you can reduce the expense of dropped data transfers and disconnected workers. You can also avoid typically slow cellular networks, which are frustrating for workers and their customers.

Help your customers Implement a faster, smarter, and more secure approach to mobile computing.

Circadence mobility solutions offer agent software for popular mobile platforms, which install quickly and easily with very little required for the mobile user to configure.

The Circadence Android client can improve content delivery to Android-based mobile devices by a factor of 50, depending on data compression and other variables. Watch our tablet and smartphone tests and see the dramatic results. Circadence clients will soon be available for Apple products including the iPhone and iPad.

The Circadence Link Resilience™ technology keeps applications alive and mobile workers connected during intermittent outages or severely congested networks.

Circadence MVR^™ 1400 Route Analytics solutions monitor connections that affect mobile workers for faults and other potential IP-related problems, allowing administrators to act before valuable connections are lost or severely degraded.

Posted in Circadence, Route Analytics

Bill Mottram on Commodity-based Clustered Storage

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:40:23 -0400

Bill Mottram of Veridictus Associates talks about Commodity-based Clustered Storage.

SMBs have less capital to invest. With less to spend they need to get more out of their budget dollar. Faced with the realities of limited staff, expertise and finances, an SMB is challenged with finding a storage solution that is cost effective, easy to implement, manage, maintain and one that will do the job. They are looking for scalability and flexibility to meet future as well as current requirements.

So with that in mind what are SMBs looking for in a storage solution? What would characterize an ideal SMB solution?

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Posted in Scale Computing

WatchGuard Brings Next-Generation Firewalls to Mainstream Businesses

Posted by laurenb @ Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:02:15 -0400

WatchGuard Extends Next-Generation Firewall Capabilities with Application Control to Award-Winning XTM 8 Series Family of Multifunction Security Appliances

Built for speed, the WatchGuard next-generation XTM 8 Series delivers up to 5Gbps firewall throughput, making it ideal for demanding networks of 1,000 to 5,000 users. With Application Control and IPS activated, the XTM 8 Series achieves a faster-than-line-speed 1.2Gbps throughput, which represents a major leap forward for next-generation firewalls in delivering high security without compromising network performance.

Leveraging WatchGuard’s “defense-in-depth” advanced firewall technology, which includes stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection and WatchGuard’s proprietary proxy technology, the XTM 8 Series embodies the most robust and in-depth security technologies available today to protect business networks. With its built in application proxies, the WatchGuard XTM 8 Series natively stops a myriad of blended threats, fragmented and malformed packet attacks, spyware, malware, denial of service and many other types of threats and attacks.

“Until now, next-generation firewalls were available only to enterprise organizations,” said Roger Klorese, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard Technologies. “By extending next-generation firewall capabilities to the WatchGuard XTM 8 Series, businesses of all sizes can now leverage advanced firewalling, Application Control and integrated IPS. This gives businesses the latest tools to keep their data, applications and networks safe while maintaining control over social media and Web 2.0 applications.”

WatchGuard Application Control – Key to Controlling Social Media in the Workplace
With WatchGuard Application Control, businesses now gain in-depth, granular control over Web 2.0 applications, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and hundreds more. Not only does WatchGuard Application Control protect against the next-generation of threats that leverage these popular applications, now businesses can rein in how individual employees use such applications, directly from the corporate firewall.

Read Full Release Here.

Posted in Cloud Storage, WatchGuard

WatchGuard Now Protects Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:04:12 -0400

WatchGuard Next-Generation Firewalls Now Include SCADA Signatures to Protect Operational Technologies; Includes Telecom, Gas, Electric and other Utility Networks

Major market trends are driving the need to extend enterprise network security and protection to operational technologies. Many operational technology (OT) networks are converging with information technology (IT) networks. For example, as infrastructure power grids become “smart,” they also stand exposed to similar vulnerabilities that target IP-based business networks.

“Historically, OT networks ran autonomously or were completely disconnected from IT protection and control,” said Tim Helming, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard. “However, as OT and IT networks converge, legacy OT networks become vulnerable to hackers and viruses. Now, WatchGuard is providing the same levels of advanced intrusion prevention, malware protection and granular management used in enterprise environments to secure key industrial and infrastructure networks.”

Infrastructure Attacks – A New Era in Targeted Malware
Publicity around the extremely sophisticated Stuxnet worm over the last year has raised awareness of the need to protect critical infrastructure. Infrastructure malware is nothing new, and by itself, Stuxnet does little harm to typical PCs and business networks. It is a worm that targets industrial software and equipment that falsifies industrial process control sensor signals.

Read Full Release Here.

Posted in WatchGuard

Circadence for Small/Medium Business

Posted by laurenb @ Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:01:55 -0400

Help your customer’s Launch enterprise-grade performance without paying Fortune 100 prices

Benefit from optimization solutions for small to medium businesses.

It’s not just large enterprises that need optimization and centralized management. Customers – both inside the company and out – are increasingly depending on the convenience of the Internet, remote access, and mobile computing. Business owners need fast, secure, and reliable connections outside the office to keep everyone happy. Additionally, nearly every small business can benefit from the efficiencies of virtualization and the cost-effectiveness of a smarter, less expensive approach to tracing and fixing faults within an IP network.

With Circadence® optimization products, you can mix and match components that provide the fastest and most secure data connection without investing in a huge network infrastructure. We supply IT innovations that make small and medium businesses perform at their peak. And thanks to the scalability of our solutions, Circadence optimization products provide a solid foundation for adding more capacity without retooling your network.

Help your customers Expand the possibilities of their business with more robust IT solutions.

With the Circadence MVO™ 1200 WAN Optimization suite, SoHo appliance, laptop, PDA, and smartphone workers can easily and securely connect to the office and desktop PCs with virtually no configuration, costly training, or service.

The Circadence MVS™ 1300 Systems Management suite is the only product you need to manage all your virtual and physical assets from one easy-to-use interface, regardless of the type of virtualization platform you use.

The Circadence MVR™ 1400 Route Analytics suite can help you trace, diagnose, and quickly fix faults in any IP-based network – without costly consulting.

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Posted in Circadence

Storage in the Next Generation Data Center

Posted by laurenb @ Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:31:09 -0400

Does your storage solution reduce your costs, increase your control over growth, and easier to manage than others?

Scale Computing hired Harte-Hanks to survey storage decision makers in companies with 4,000 employees and fewer. The research confirmed economists’ predictions: 2009 was a wash; 2010 would bring back spending. In fact, 68 percent of those surveyed said they planned to increase storage spending in 2010.

While promising, that percentage doesn‘t tell the entire story. The economic collapse had reset not only the economy, but entire storage purchasing strategies. Thinking outside the box was important; doing more with less would be the prevailing mindset well into the future.

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Posted in Scale Computing, Storage

WatchGuard SSL VPN Awarded Champion by Info-Tech Research Group

Posted by laurenb @ Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:10:10 -0400

In SSL VPN Group Test, WatchGuard ranked Highest among Competitors

WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions, today announced that it was named Champion by Info-Tech Research Group, a global leader in providing IT research and advice. WatchGuard SSL VPN offerings were evaluated under eight diverse categories: Features, Affordability, Usability, Architecture, Viability, Strategy, Reach and Channel. Of those, WatchGuard led the pack in Usability, Affordability, Viability, Strategy, and Channel, making it the strongest SSL VPN solution overall.

In addition to praising WatchGuard’s SSL VPN as an exceptional solution, Info-Tech commended on the company’s “strong international partner program, enabling services to small organizations around the world,” as well as, “offering the most affordable solution in the marketplace.” In receiving this high honor, WatchGuard out-performed SonicWALL, Barracuda, Juniper, Citrix, Array, F5 Networks, and Check Point in both product and vendor categories.

“SSL VPN has become a necessity for businesses today with remote offices and mobile workers,” explains Tim Helming, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard. “Because of this, WatchGuard develops SSL solutions that are easy to use, highly secure and flexible to meet any corporate need. The research conducted by Info-Tech Research Group affirms WatchGuard’s vision and commitment to providing unrivaled SSL VPN solutions.”

WatchGuard SSL VPN Solutions – The Right Solution for Any Environment
WatchGuard SSL VPN stand-alone solutions offer unsurpassed security and remote connectivity. The WatchGuard SSL 100 and 560 series of appliances are ideal for companies with remote and mobile users who need access to corporate resources outside the office. Additionally, WatchGuard XTM next-generation firewalls and UTMs are ideal solutions for businesses that want an all-in-one security with integrated SSL VPN functionality. With any of the WatchGuard SSL VPN offerings, businesses gain highly secure, encrypted connectivity for mobile employees, remote offices, and telecommuters who require access to critical corporate network resources including email, network drives and intranet resources.

Read the Full Release Here.