SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and the exclusive southern African distributor for BorderWare Technologies, today announced that the latter had introduced a new high-end model of its award-winning MXtreme Mail Firewall.
The MX-1000 is designed for large enterprises providing carrier-level throughput for 10 000 or more users per system, setting a new benchmark in performance and fault-tolerance for high availability in the mail firewall appliance market. Already, several MX-1000 systems have been delivered to customer sites, some planning to process up to three million messages per day.
MXtreme Mail Firewall appliances protect messaging systems from security threats that could paralyse e-mail communications. The system analyses header information and the content of all SMTP messages, scanning for spam, viruses, malformed messages, restricted attachments, and other content, then writes that information to its internal database and system logs before sending the message along to internal servers such as Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Domino.
BorderWare's new MX-1000 model is capable of processing up to 100 000 messages per hour with all its security protections enabled. This represents a doubling of performance above the MX-800, previously BorderWare's highest end appliance.
To ensure higher levels of hardware availability, the MX-1000 is designed with a number of fault-tolerant features, including redundant disk drives, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, multiple network interfaces that can support redundant network links, and field replaceable parts. The MX-1000 system's four hard drives are configured to stripe and mirror providing RAID 10 redundancy.
Technical specifications:
The 2U format MX-1000 includes:
* Dual 3.06GHz Intel Xeon Processors with 512KB L2 Cache
* 2GB RAM - DDR, ECC, LP, Registered
* 4-72GB hard drives, Ultra-320 SCSI, 80-Pin SCA, LC
* Adaptec 2010S Zero Channel RAID Controller (RAID 10)
* 4-10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet NICs
* Redundant power supplies
* LCD display
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BorderWare Technologies Inc is the security appliances company. The company's MXtreme Mail Firewall appliance installs at the network edge to deliver the most comprehensive perimeter security for an organisation's e-mail infrastructure. MXtreme protects against denial-of-service attacks like MyDoom, buffer overflows, directory harvesting, spam, viruses, and other vulnerabilities that could paralyse e-mail communications. More than 1 500 systems are deployed in 34 countries at various military, intelligence, defence, national security agencies, and corporations.
BorderWare has affiliations and partnerships with some of the industry's most prominent companies in Internet infrastructure and security including Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, RSA Security, Research In Motion (RIM), Brightmail, Kaspersky Labs, BlueCat Networks, Network Engines and SSH Communications Security.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, network security, intrusion detection software and network asset management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for and Trend Micro, SecureData is the southern African distributor for US-based BorderWare, UK-based Centennial and US-based RSA Security. For more information, visit SecureData at www.sd.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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