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Sun iForce Partners Release
Security Appliances
BorderWare, DeepNines, and Sourcefire announced the availability of three
new
security appliances based on the Sun platform. Following the momentum built by
Sun's recent security announcements with premier partners, such as Check Point
Software Technologies Ltd. and Symantec Corp., this community of appliances
will address additional email security and intrusion management concerns while
reducing costs of deploying security within the enterprise.
"These pre-tested and configured appliances demonstrate our commitment to
resolve complex problems for customers while reducing their cost," said Manish
Bhuptani, director, Market Development at Sun Microsystems, Inc. "These out-
of-the-box security solutions meet security needs for ease of deployment,
price-performance and lower total cost of ownership for large and small
enterprises."
Sun and its iForce partners are working together to provide an ecosystem of
standards-based security appliances that will meet the growing demand for
integrated solutions. Sun's vision of a security appliance combines best-in-
class software, a hardened operating system that is pre-installed, pre-tested
and optimized with appropriate drivers and network interface cards for the Sun
platform. The appliance makes it easy for customers to buy a complete
integrated solution.
iForce Mail Firewall Appliance, Powered by Sun and Borderware:
"The Borderware spam filtering technology provides a means for us to still
receive emails from domains formerly blocked by black hole lists, a welcome
step up from traditional Spam blocking methodology!" says Ike Mast, assistant
director of IT for The Navigators, Colorado. "Combining Sun and BorderWare
provides an appropriate level of function and stability for our environment,
reduces Spam and viruses on the network and enables our people to be more
productive."
"BorderWare is pleased to partner with Sun to deliver enterprise-class
email
firewall appliances to protect corporate networks from spam, viruses and the
host of attacks against mail systems," said Chris Blask, vice president,
Marketing at BorderWare. "By addressing email security at the network edge,
the iForce Mail Firewall Appliance, Powered by Sun and BorderWare, becomes a
key component of corporate email security strategy and protects companies from
productivity loss, bandwidth waste and network downtime."
iForce Intrusion Management Appliance, Powered by Sun and DeepNines:
"Sleuth9 gives the enterprise customer the ability to proactively mitigate
attacks and malicious behavior while protecting client and partner web
traffic," said Chip Wagner, EVP of Marconi Wireless. "Integrating Sleuth9 with
the Sun platform gave us a true out-of-the-box, plug and play security
solution."
"By combining a hardened Solaris OS with DeepNines' attack mitigation and
anti-virus functionality into a single appliance that sits in front of the
router, DeepNines can offer enterprise customers an integrated security
platform that runs on SPARC-based servers and provides organizations with
multiple layers of protection," said Dan Jackson, president and COO at
DeepNines. "DeepNines is pleased to partner with Sun and deliver an integrated
solution to protect customers from attacks at all points of the network."
iForce Intrusion Management Appliances, Powered by Sun and
Sourcefire:
"The iForce Intrusion Management Appliances combine best of breed detection
capabilities with integrated data management to proactively defend against
network threats and reduce overall total cost of ownership," said Jennifer
Steffens, Director of Marketing, Sourcefire. "We are thrilled to be working
with Sun to provide defense in depth solutions for network security and
monitoring."
Availability and Support
These security appliances are scheduled to initially be available and
supported in North America in summer of 2003. The iForce Appliances will be
integrated and distributed by channel distribution partners such as, GE
Access, Arrow Electronics' MOCA division and other resellers.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at sun.com/.
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