Biodata IT, local distributor of Astaro, confirms that the Astaro technology allows customers to remove up to 10 standalone products, limiting waste and reducing the electricity required to power network security applications by between 50% to 1000%, depending on the number of point products currently used, the size of the solutions, and their respective power draw.
With a unified threat management solution such as the Astaro Security Gateway, a company can dramatically reduce its power draw and computer waste through the consolidation of multiple security applications onto a single, unified, hardened platform.
To ensure uptime and continuous operation in the event of a failure, many security installations deploy dual products in a high-availability or clustered mode. This practice can double or triple the number of devices drawing power. After a period of one to three years, these network appliances, which are usually ASIC-based (purpose-built for the product), must be retired and ultimately discarded since they cannot be re-used.
Since Astaro is also available as a software ISO, users are given the added flexibility to deploy their solution on their existing hardware, and remove the need to field additional physical appliances. Enterprise managers can also virtualise the Astaro Security Gateway using a pre-installed and preconfigured Astaro Security Gateway image that can run with minimal installation, allowing for all security applications to run on a single, VMware platform. This process results in a green network environment that produces zero additional pollution and waste.
Astaro - www.astaro.com
Astaro Corporation is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. and Karlsruhe, Germany. The Astaro Security Gateway, simplifying e-mail, Web and network security, has won numerous industry awards and is protecting over 30 000 networks in 60 countries. Astaro products are distributed by a worldwide network of more than 1 000 solution partners that offer local support and services.
Biodata IT - www.biodata.co.za
Biodata IT South Africa is a distributor of a wide range of best-of-breed IT security solutions. Highly specialised and experienced staff, as well as a network of skilled channel partners, are dedicated to protect and to add value to your IT infrastructure.
The client base of Biodata IT South Africa comprises over 200 leading organisations in the financial, healthcare, government and industrial sector based in countries of the sub-Saharan Africa.
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