Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq: CHKP), a worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the launch of its 13500 Appliance, the first in a new line of 13000 Appliances designed specifically to expand the company's data centre network security offerings.
Organisations often face the dilemma of choosing between deploying comprehensive security protections and maximising the performance of the network. The 13500 Appliance provides data centres with Check Point's most advanced security protections, without compromises in network performance. The 13500 Appliance delivers blazing-fast security performance with 23.6Gbps of real-life firewall throughput, 5.7Gbps of real-life intrusion prevention system (IPS) throughput, and 3 200 Security Power Unit (SPU) rating.
In addition to implementing most modern hardware architecture, the 13500 Appliance leverages a wide spectrum of software optimisations and accelerations that in turn maximise hardware utilisation. Check Point's multi-layer security protections, with four predefined security packages - including Next Generation Firewall, Threat Prevention, Data Protection and Secure-Web Gateway - are supported on the 13500 Appliance. These security packages allow for protection consolidation per appliance, delivering better performance to protect organisations against advanced persistent threats and other modern cyber attacks.
"As cyber attacks continue to increase and evolve in sophistication, ensuring data centre security has become a top priority for customers all over the world. However, data centre security should not be compromised by trade-offs in performance," said Doros Hadjizenonos, sales manager at Check Point South Africa. "Our new 13000 Appliance family solves this challenge for our customers."
Key features of the Check Point 13500 Appliance include:
* Boosted performance of up to 3 200 SPU.
* 23.6Gbps firewall and 5.7 IPS throughput in real-life environments.
* Connection capacity of up to 28 million concurrent connections.
* Fully flexible and high-performance hardware configuration.
* An array of optional Network Interface Controllers (NICs), commonly shared with the 4000 and 12000 Appliance families.
* Ease of Data Centre platform operation through advanced management solutions.
For more information on product functionality and specification, please visit: http://www.checkpoint.com/13000-appliances.
Pricing and availability
Starting at $79 000, the 13500 Appliance is available immediately from our worldwide partners: http://partners.us.checkpoint.com/partnerlocator/.
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Check Point Software Technologies (www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to develop new innovations based on the Software Blade Architecture, providing customers with flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customised to meet the exact security needs of any organisation. Check Point is the only vendor to go beyond technology and define security as a business process. Check Point 3D Security uniquely combines policy, people and enforcement for greater protection of information assets and helps organisations implement a blueprint for security that aligns with business needs. Customers include tens of thousands of organisations of all sizes, including all Fortune and Global 100 companies. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft.
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