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Blade Fusion Announces IP-X 1000 Security Appliance Server

Blade Fusion Technologies Ltd announced the availability of its multi-gigabit IP-X 1000 Multi-Bladed Security Appliance that has been server proven on IBM's industry leading BladeCenter. Blade Fusion's IP-X 1000 is the most powerful Multi-bladed and Multi-Functional security appliance to run on industry standard blade-servers. It scales up to 8 Gbps of industry leading Check Point FW-1 running in conjunction with other best-of-breed security software. Blade Fusion's IP-X-1000 provides central management and high-availability for all security applications while lowering the total cost of ownership. Blade Fusion's partnership with IBM delivers back-to-back hardware warranty, support and superior cost-performance.

Blade Fusion IP-X software transforms IBM's BladeCenter blade-server into a multi-gigabit, highly available and multi-functional enterprise security gateway. The IP-X system provides transparent high-availability at all system levels and for all elements (hardware, network, operating system and applications). Servicing, maintenance and upgrades for mission critical security gateway solutions is made easier and safer with true hot-swap capabilities. Blade Fusion IP-X delivers better overall quality while reducing the total cost of ownership of enterprise security gateway solutions. Blade Fusion's IP-X-1000 appliance is the first in the market to offer a solution that consolidates best-of-breed security application on best-of-breed blade server platform -- the IBM BladeCenter.

"The driving force behind the ServerProven program is to ensure that the technology integration process our customers go through is painless." Said Sharon Hobbs, IBM eServer Program director of the BladeCenter Alliance Program. "By achieving ServerProven status for the IP X-1000 solution, Blade Fusion has shown that it brings the level of expertise and quality that we look for in qualifying third-party products."

"Blade Fusions' IP-X 1000 running on IBM BladeCenter delivers the best cost-performance enterprise security gateway solution on the market today. In just a few minutes of set up time, our customers receive a highly available and multi-functional security gateway" said Amir Barnea, CEO of Blade Fusion Technologies Ltd. "When you compare other configurations using stand alone load balancers, switches, appliances and servers -- Blade Fusion's IP-X 1000 is by far the most powerful and most cost-effective solution. While running on IBM's industry leading BladeCenter, Blade Fusion's customers enjoy superior performance, scalability, warranties and support."

IP-X-1000 system uniquely enables to control and monitor all the applications from a single console. The system obscures the physical aspects of the topology from the user and exposes him/her to only the logical aspects of the topology. This is especially useful in high-availability and high-performance modes of operation. A large portion of security application manuals discuss issues of network configurations, interface configurations, switch configurations, operating system configurations, high-availability and high-performance configurations and cross application configurations. All these are automated by Blade Fusions' IP-X-1000 system.

Blade Fusion's IP-X-1000 system monitors each and every blade via its unique networking technology and constructs the 'big picture' for the user in a very convenient fashion. Thus by default, IP-X-1000 users enjoy a perfect view and analysis of the system's performance as whole and broken into its components.

Blade Fusion's IP-X-1000 system offers an innovative, low-cost and reliable FailOver mechanism. Instead of dedicating a standby node for every active node and manually replicating configurations, IP-X-1000 sets a pool of one or more standby blades. If IP-X-1000 detects a failure in either hardware or application, it automatically initiates a standby blade with the appropriate O/S kernel and parameters, application and network settings. The entire process is completed in less than 15 seconds. Policies can be set to prioritize use of standby blades.