VAD expanded portfolio for security and SSL-VPN Schorndorf, 04 August 2010 virtual solutions is for the business sector becoming increasingly important. Such infrastructure allow cost savings, increasing the flexibility and resilience. The current study IT Trends 2010″of the management consultant Capgemini underlines this: in 33 areas virtualization respondents chose” to the most important issue of the year. The VAD of sysob (www.sysob.com) this trend is currently meet with an extension to its portfolio: the network and storage solutions from Barracuda in virtualized form available are now resellers. High efficiency and savings the top priority according to the Capgemini study for IT managers. Therefore, they rated as the most innovative technology”virtualization, followed by business information management and master data management. Sysob responded to these market requirements with the addition of its offer of Barracuda Hardware appliances, software-as-a-service (SaS) and hybrid solutions to the new virtual appliances. “” Virtual appliances easily implement the virtual appliances include the solutions of Barracuda Spam & virus firewall VX “as well as Barracuda SSL VPN VX”.

Both systems offer the same features as the hardware appliances. So the spam & virus firewall VX protects”the email server from spam, virus, spoofing, phishing and spyware attacks and DoS attacks. SSL VPN VX”encrypted connections via SSL for users who want to access using a Web browser on the network, and thus offers an alternative to existing IPSec solutions. Integrated security and auditing facilities allow it to define user-specific policies and at the same time to control user activities. In addition, the virtual solutions are characterized by the same Plug and play features like the physical appliances and can be implemented on any hardware platform.

Also the integration into existing virtual frameworks is possible. The system is compatible with the VMware ESX/ESXi platform. Support for other platforms is planned. The advantages of virtual appliances Overview: easy to implement and apply – capacity increase with increasing demands requires no exchange of hard – or software – space savings in data centers and server rooms – reduce energy costs for heating and cooling of the physical infrastructure (Green IT) – reduced total-cost-of-ownership (TCO) – no data center costs for implementation and maintenance of hardware short portrait: sysob IT distribution GmbH & co.