Plans to deliver integrated wide-area data services, email, Web and UTM security in a single appliance
Secure Computing Corporation (Nasdaq: SCUR), a leading enterprise gateway security provider, and Riverbed Technology (Nasdaq: RVBD), the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS), has announced a multi-phased partnership that will provide customers with best-of-breed, comprehensive, and cost-effective technology solutions that enable customers to deliver accelerated data access to enterprise users while protecting critical information and infrastructure from security threats.
The partnership between Secure Computing and Riverbed® takes advantage of the complementary capabilities of the companies' technologies - Secure Computing's preeminent gateway security technology and award-winning Riverbed WDS technology. The partnership will be implemented in two phases.
In phase-one, the two companies will jointly offer their solutions through a select group of channel partners to address both WDS and web security to companies looking to both increase their application performance across the WAN and secure their gateways to the Internet. Riverbed Steelhead® appliances and Steelhead Mobile software enables application acceleration, the optimization of bandwidth, and improved quality of service (QoS) and Secure Computing's Secure Web (previously called Webwasher) will provide web security protection including anti-malware, reputation based URL filtering, and anti-spam.
In phase-two of the partnership, Secure Computing's Secure SnapGear® firewall technology, its SmartFilter reputation-based web filtering and its TrustedSource global reputation based antispam technology will be offered as a software module that can be run on the RiOS™ Services Platform (RSP). Running on the RSP allows Secure Computing and Riverbed to offer Secure's market-leading functionality and the core Riverbed acceleration functionality within a single hardware platform - the Steelhead appliance. Using the RSP, customers can now deliver virtualized edge services for branch offices that are both best-of-breed and cost effective.
Companies that take advantage of the phase-one bundled offering now will be given the opportunity in phase-two to migrate to the equivalent stand-alone, integrated appliance in the future.
"We've been seeing the growing demand for both WDS and gateway security in the market," said James Volpe, President of Corsa Network Technologies, a reseller of both Riverbed and Secure Computing products. "With more and more data being shared within organizations and the ever expanding Web 2.0 threat, companies need to optimize their bandwidth utilization while also ensuring that malicious content isn't being propagated. This combined best-of-breed solution solves these problems without having to settle for second tier products."
Customers will benefit from the solutions' core technologies, which include, Steelhead WDS products: WDS, Secure Web: Reputation-based Web Security and Secure SnapGear: Firewall/UTM Appliance.
"Companies have experienced rapid increases in network traffic as well as increases in file sizes and rich content, and that has negatively impacted the response times of business-critical applications," said Alan Saldich, vice president of product marketing and alliances at Riverbed. "In addition to accelerating access to these applications, it is a logical extension to now enable third-party vendors, such as Secure Computing, to leverage Steelhead appliance deployments to offer best-of-breed solutions and services so our customers can reduce their costs, management headaches, and IT footprint."
"With the emergence of Web 2.0, there's been a dramatic increase in malware, requiring companies to thoroughly secure every connection to the Internet," said Nimer Ghazal, Regional Sales Manager - Middle East, Secure Computing. "Wrapping security into other required functionalities like WAN optimization and simplifying their management is a concept we think customers will quickly embrace, even in markets such as the Middle East which is seeing an increasing adoption of the most advanced security solutions."
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About Secure Computing Corporation
Secure Computing Corporation (Nasdaq:SCUR), a leading provider of enterprise gateway security, delivers a comprehensive set of solutions that help customers protect their critical Web, email and network assets. Over half the Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 are part of our more than 22,000 global customers, supported by a worldwide network of more than 2,000 partners. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices worldwide. For more information, see http://www.securecomputing.com.
About Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the technology and market leader in wide-area data services (WDS) solutions for companies worldwide. By enabling application performance over the wide area network (WAN) that is orders of magnitude faster than what users experience today, Riverbed is changing the way people work, and enabling a distributed workforce that can collaborate as if they were local. Additional information about Riverbed (Nasdaq: RVBD) is available at www.riverbed.com.
For further information, please contact:
Secure Computing
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Fax: 00 971 4 3918668
Email: info@securecomputing.com
Website: www.securecomputing.com
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