Check Point introduces high-end appliance series with breakthrough flexibility, performance upgradeability

Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced a new high-end Power-1 series of appliances designed to meet the heavy demands of large enterprises and data centres. The Power-1 11000 series is the first to feature simple and flexible field performance upgradeability, providing customers appliance scalability without a forklift upgrade.

The appliances are also the first security gateways to benefit from the latest Intel Xeon processor 5500 chipset (Nehalem) announced earlier this year. Combined with Check Point's innovative software blade architecture, the Power-1 11000 appliances provide customers the best threat protection at the highest performance in the most extensible way.

The Power-1 11000 series offers businesses world-class firewall performance of up to 25Gbps throughput combined with breakthrough intrusion prevention (IPS) performance of up to 14Gbps, ensuring the availability of vital applications in the most demanding environments. The series includes the Power-1 11065, 11075 and 11085 models, and provides customers the ability to easily boost the performance by up to 66% from the lowest to the highest model, through a simple field upgrade.

“Businesses need flexible, extensible security solutions that perform at high-levels, capable of adapting to today's evolving threats,” said Country Manager at Check Point, Sean Wainer. “With the Power-1 11000, we've developed a series of appliances enabling customers to expand their security needs through our software blade architecture and upgrade their performance without having to replace their entire appliance. This offers enterprise customers unprecedented flexibility.”

High-performance Check Point Power-1 11000 appliances provide flexibility previously unavailable in a security appliance gateway. The extensibility of the Power-1 11000 series maximises a business's investment, allowing customers to augment the performance and protection of the solution through an easy field upgrade. Each of the three Power-1 11000 appliances includes Intel Xeon 5500 processors and comes standard with five software blades, including market-leading Check Point firewall, VPN, IPS, advanced networking, and acceleration and clustering blades.

“By utilising the power of the Intel Xeon 5500 processor family, Check Point is at the technology forefront for network security appliances,” said Steve Price, director of marketing, Embedded Computing Division, Intel. “The Intel Xeon processor 5500 delivers outstanding performance and energy efficiency, and together with Check Point's innovations, provides enterprise customers a new level of firewall performance.”

The Power-1 11000 series includes:

* The Power-1 11065, offering up to 15Gbps of firewall throughput and 10Gbps IPS performance, upgradeable to 25Gbps of firewall throughput
* The Power-1 11075, offering up to 20Gbps of firewall throughput and 12Gbps IPS performance, upgradeable to 25Gbps of firewall throughput
* The Power-1 11085, offering up to 25Gbps of firewall throughput and 15Gbps IPS performance

Features and benefits of the Power-1 11000 series include:

* Market-leading Firewall, VPN and IPS software blades for comprehensive security
* Check Point acceleration and clustering and advanced networking capabilities ensure availability of mission-critical applications
* Simple activation of additional software blades, including full XTM, optimises return on investment. Check Point software blades offer over 20 security functionality choices, such as anti-virus, anti-spam, VOIP security, URL filtering and more
* Multi-tier intrusion prevention engine provides unrivalled pre-emptive threat protection
* Central management simplifies the administration of security policies and updates
* Remote, out-of-band control through lights-out management
* Convenient 2U form factor preserves rack space and conserves power

Additional information on the Power-1 11000 series can be found at: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/power-1/contact-us.html.

“With this new series of security appliances, Check Point continues to bring to market the latest technologies benefiting our customers, providing them with best-in-class threat protection and unparalleled scalability,” concluded Wainer.

Pricing and availability:

Check Point Power-1 11000 models are available immediately and can be purchased through Check Point's worldwide network of value-added resellers. For more information, please visit us at http://www.checkpoint.com/products/power-1/contact-us.html.