2011 August | Interwork Blog

Plugging Information Leaks with Attachmate

Posted by laurenb @ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:29:56 -0400

Why starting at the application level is important..

Unlike traditional data leak prevention solutions, which work at the network or desktop level, Attachmate Luminet software monitors end-user activity at the application level. This solution brief explains the value of application monitoring and tells how Luminet can meet your needs without impacting system performance.

Select the PDF link to read the full brief.

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Posted in Attachmate

WatchGuard Awarded All-Star Review

Posted by laurenb @ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:08:47 -0400

Latest WatchGuard XCS 770R Email & Web Security Appliance Receives 5-Stars in All Categories

SEATTLE – August 25, 2011. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global leader of business security solutions today announced that the WatchGuard XCS 770R received a perfect, five-star review in all categories from SC Magazine. As the leading IT security authority, SC Magazine rigorously tested the WatchGuard XCS 770R under seven categories: Features, Ease of Use, Performance, Documentation, Support, Value for Money, and Overall Rating. In conclusion, their editors stated, “The XCS appliance provides solid functionality that is easy to use and manage with a vast amount of configuration flexibility.”

“It is an honor to receive an all-star review like this from SC Magazine,” said Roger Klorese, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard. “Email and web-based attacks are the number one threat to businesses today, and for that reason, it is critical that businesses utilize the best solution possible.”

The WatchGuard XCS (Extensible Content Security) 770R appliance offers a vast feature set for managing email content and protecting against email-based threats. Additionally, it supports today’s demanding policy and compliance requirements. Like all WatchGuard XCS appliances, the XCS 770R provides protection from a wide variety of threats, such as spam, viruses, spyware, phishing and other malware, as well as data leakage prevention (DLP).

Read the full release here.

Posted in WatchGuard

WatchGuard Technologies – UTM Champion and Value Award Winner

Posted by laurenb @ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:57:23 -0400

Info-Tech Research Group Vendor Landscape Report Positions WatchGuard as UTM Vendor Champion and Bestows WatchGuard with their “Value Award”

In its analysis, Info-Tech Research Group evaluated ten competitors in the networking perimeter Unified Threat Management (UTM) market, including: Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, Juniper, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, and others. Based on their analysis of product features, affordability, usability, architecture, and vendor viability, strategy, reach and channel, WatchGuard was deemed to be a Champion due to its “balance of strong product and vendor capabilities at a market-leading price point, [WatchGuard] leads with a UTM solution that can deliver benefits to any organization.”

“It is an honor to be recognized as both a UTM Vendor Champion and Value Award winner by Info-Tech Research Group,” said Eric Aarrestad, VP Marketing for WatchGuard Technologies. “WatchGuard’s UTM solutions were compared side-by-side with some of the industry’s most well known networking and security vendors, and without question, the analysis concluded that no other UTM vendor ranked higher than WatchGuard.”

Info-Tech Research Group set a high standard for its UTM Vendor Landscape analysis. At a minimum to qualify UTM Vendors had to pass a “table stake” threshold of firewall, VPN, anti-malware and intrusion prevention requirements. Additional advanced feature analysis included: identity-based control, data leakage protection (DLP), network access control, URL filtering, application control, Wi-Fi network control, WAN routing and optimization and encrypted data control.

Read the Full Release here.

Posted in WatchGuard

The Impact of Storage on Your Virtualization Success

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:58:04 -0400

Posted by Ryan Hulse from Scale Computing

Virtualization can reduce the physical footprint and operational costs of IT by reducing the number of physical servers in the environment.

But beyond server consolidation, virtualization can make IT run more efficiently. Servers and applications can be deployed faster, there is a reduction in management overhead, and server availability can be improved, even to the extent of making disaster recovery a reality for smaller companies that could never afford to invest in a standby physical environment.

A virtualized server environment can achieve all these things, but the role of storage in the virtualized environment is a critical component that can enhance or cripple all the goals of a virtualization project.

Availability

Virtualization provides new ways of keeping workloads running. Because the operating system and applications are abstracted from the hardware, it is possible to move workloads between hardware very quickly if a physical server experiences downtime, planned or otherwise. Virtualization platforms from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware all offer high availability and live migration features. Regardless of which virtualization platform you use, consider how storage impacts the availability of VMs.

Most obviously, these features all require shared storage to support rapid movement of VMs between hosts, so direct attached storage on a hypervisor won’t help availability. Less obviously, once your virtualization platform is using shared storage, any improvement in availability is now also subject to the uptime of that underlying storage system. The storage must be able to sustain operations when drives, fans, motherboards, power supplies, or network ports fail somewhere in the storage.

Finally, there is available, and then there is available. If a prospective love interest says they are available but takes forever to return messages and is generally unresponsive, one might debate how available they actually are. In the same way, the availability of your VMs is dependent on the performance of the storage. Growth in a virtual environment constantly puts additional I/O load on the storage. Many storage systems were never designed to accommodate this type of workload. They were designed to accommodate additional capacity, but the performance is fixed. Once the demands of your virtual environment tap out the storage controller, adding more VMs will only slow everything. Storage used for virtualization should have the ability to scale performance out, ensuring consistent responsiveness of the VMs for true availability.

Posted in Scale Computing

WatchGuard is the leading UTM Solution!

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:13:20 -0400

Check out the comprehensive UTM market round-up from Info-Tech that shows how WatchGuard is the leading UTM and NGFW solution!

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Vendor Landscape: Unified Threat Management
The perimeter firewall grows up & becomes a Swiss Army Knife of protection capabilities

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Posted in UTM, WatchGuard

Is it time to switch to unified storage?

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:51:23 -0400

Posted by Ryan Hulse at Scale Computing

Chances are you get to think about your storage on a regular basis because the pressure of needing more is always there. If you are thinking about some of the following issues, it may be time to think about unified storage:

Are you looking to implement virtualization, or seeing pressure on your storage from over-exuberant virtualized growth?
Has disaster recovery, backup, or replication become a pain point?
Do you feel like you are wasting some of the unused storage sitting directly attached to some servers, while purchasing more and more disks for other servers.
Have past storage purchases resulted in the need to share data across two or more islands of storage?

If so, it may be time to adopt a unified scale-out storage system that combines SAN and NAS protocols in a single system with the capability to grow with you.

Direct attached storage, or DAS, is the most basic level of storage. DAS is directly connected to a single server and can only be accessed by that one server. This may be fine for environments with no more than a couple servers where storage capacity requirements are fairly static. The benefit of DAS is that it’s simple to deploy and has a lower initial cost than networked storage. However, if your company anticipates rapid data growth and wants to get the most out their spending, consider a networked storage model because DAS is limited in its scalability and features. Since resources are not shared beyond a single server in DAS, systems may use as little as half of their full capacity. One DAS system might be completely full while the available space on other systems can’t be accessed.

Network attached storage, or NAS, shares file level data across servers and clients on a network. NAS is ideal for simple, cost-effective data sharing for multiple clients at the file level. Network shares allow important data to be centrally managed and shared. In contrast to DAS, the utilization rate with NAS can be high since storage is consolidated. Also, IT administrators can centrally manage NAS systems, thus reducing management time and costs. But for application data, not every application can use networked storage. Many applications will only work with storage that is on the server where the application is installed.

Posted in Cloud Storage, Scale Computing

Optimizing your Mobile Workforce with Circadence

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:54:14 -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, your customers 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.

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Posted in Circadence, Route Analytics

Trend Micro Incumbent Partner Advantage Program

Posted by laurenb @ Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:42:26 -0400

Dear Valued Partners,

Today, Trend Micro announced a new program to preserve your profits and future revenue stream.

The Trend Micro Incumbent Partner Advantage Program will serve to build on the value promise of Trend Micro Channel Programs, that is, to bring profitable business to our partners with Trend Micro leading security solutions for your customers’ journey to the cloud.

Here are a few benefits of the Incumbent Partner Advantage Program

Secure future revenue stream - Build loyalty with customers
Preserve Margin - Gain More Profit
Minimize paperwork - Interwork Technologies already has your Pricing

Interwork Technologies is committed to your business and will ensure a smooth transition to this program by offering you training and support. Please contact us today at sales@interwork.com and we will schedule a one on one training or webinar to walk you through this new and lucrative program. Interwork Technologies will ensure you are taking full advantage of all the resources available to you to help manage your renewal list, and to help maximize your profits in renewing your Trend Micro customers.

Posted in Data Security, trend micro

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