Stonesoft announces firewall for new GEN of IBM eserver mainframes.Stonesoft Corporation (HEX: SFT SFT Statens Forurensningstilsyn (Norwegian Pollution Control Authority) SFT System Fault Tolerance SFT Shaft SFT Secure File Transfer SFT School Food Trust (UK) SFT Societe Francaise des Traducteurs 1V) has announced that its StoneGate High Availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. Firewall and VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. solution is available for the new IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. zSeries 990 mainframe. StoneGate, an award-winning firewall and VPN solution, employs an easy-to- use centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. management system that allows effortless configuration and monitoring of multiple firewall/VPN gateways throughout the enterprise, whether on zSeries or Intel-based hardware, such as the IBM eServer xSeries. StoneGate for zSeries removes the need for external firewall servers between front and back-end applications, saving costs in investment, labor and maintenance, enabling multiple simultaneous firewalls in a virtual network environment, and utilizing the unmatched scalability of a mainframe. "There's no substitute for a manageable, highly-available, highly secure network infrastructure, which is the hallmark of an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) mainframe-powered computing environment, and the price of entry for IT providers hoping to compete and win in an on demand marketplace," said Rich Lechner, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, IBM Enterprise Servers. "Working with top solution providers like Stonesoft, helps us provide customers the growth and protection they need to win and better serve their customers." StoneGate on zSeries protects virtual servers and virtual networks with firewall and VPN technology to secure data centers, z/OS applications, server farms and other mainframe computing tasks. The new z990 creates new performance thresholds, raising the bar of firewall/VPN throughput to new levels. StoneGate on the z990 is a highly powerful firewall and VPN solution designed to have the ultimate manageability and scalability. "Stonesoft's philosophy is to create real world, simple solutions to complex problems," noted Jorma Turunen, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Stonesoft Corp. "With StoneGate on zSeries we've demonstrated our ability to carry out our product vision in support of that philosophy. The new z990 can be deployed with the confidence that a secure, manageable, available and scalable firewall/VPN solution is available to run inside it." |
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