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WatchGuard Extends Business Security with Virtualization
New WatchGuard XTMv Series Denotes New Line of Virtualized Firewalls
SEATTLE
– October 18, 2011. WatchGuard® Technologies, a global
leader in business security solutions, today announced that it is extending its
award-winning line of unified threat management (UTM) appliances to the virtual
world. Designed for a VMware hypervisor environment, the new WatchGuard XTMv
series of virtual firewalls provides unparalleled network security, and
advanced protection of applications and data.
"Businesses
are quickly adopting virtualization as part of their strategy to stretch IT
resources and budgets," said Roger Klorese, Director of Product Management at WatchGuard Technologies. "For this
reason, WatchGuard has developed virtualized versions of its XTM family so that
businesses can consolidate technologies and reduce costs and complexities,
while strengthening their overall security posture."
WatchGuard
XTMv
Four editions of XTMv will be available later this quarter to meet the needs of
small, midsize and large-scale distributed environments. These virtual versions
provide the same type of high security offered by WatchGuard XTM series
hardware appliances, including Application Control, Reputation Enabled Defense,
intrusion prevention, gateway anti-virus, web blocking traffic shaping, and more.
Because
multiple instances of XTMv can run on a single vSphere hypervisor, the
WatchGuard virtual appliance is ideal for managed security services providers
(MSSPs), hosting providers, and larger IT organizations who wish to run
separate logical firewalls on the same host system.
Furthermore,
because the WatchGuard XTMv series can manage traffic passing within the
virtual infrastructure, and even across internal networks between virtual
machines in the same cluster or on the same server, XTMv is well suited to
implement security policies between applications, user communities or tenants.
Even in small offices with a single server running consolidated workloads, an
instance of XTMv can be run on the same server to protect the full server
consolidation environment.
WatchGuard XTMv
will be initially supported on VMware vSphere versions 4.1 and 5.0. Pricing and
availability are not being announced at this time, however a limited beta will
be offered in Q4, 2011. Parties interested in participating in the XTMv beta
should contact WatchGuard directly.
Klorese
concludes, "Because XTMv is deployed as a virtual appliance without
requiring specialized hardware, IT organizations can implement unified
deployment processes in which the virtual machines constituting an application
group and the security solution protecting those virtual machines—XTMv—can be
set up in a single automated process."
About
WatchGuard Technologies, Inc.
Since 1996, WatchGuard® Technologies, Inc. has been the advanced technology
leader of business security solutions, providing mission-critical protection to
hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. The WatchGuard family of wired
and wireless unified threat management appliances, messaging, content security
and SSL VPN remote access solutions provide extensible network, application and
data protection, as well as unparalleled network visibility, management and
control. WatchGuard products are backed by WatchGuard LiveSecurity® Service, an
innovative support, maintenance, and education program. WatchGuard is headquartered in Seattle and has
offices serving North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. To
learn more, visit www.watchguard.com.
WatchGuard
is a registered trademark of WatchGuard Technologies, Inc. All other marks are
property of their respective owners.