Shoretel Mobility Update

The updated smartphone integration solution for all leading smartphones & tablets with IP PBX systems extending full UC and cost-saving calling capabilities to the mobile workforce. The latest version of ShoreTel Mobility has increased the number of mobile devices it supports leaving workers free to communicate on devices of their choice from any location (office or home) and any network (Wi-Fi, 3G/4G or cellular) securely, simply & cost effectively.

The software intelligently switches between wireless & cellular networks via the cheapest path inside and outside the enterprise, & is one of the only solutions to date to use VoIP over WLAN on leading smartphones and tablets keeping international costs down by up to 70% and increasing user productivity. The existing product is already supported on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod touch).

The new features & devices that are supported in the updated version of ShoreTel Mobility are:

*Native telephony interface integration on Android OS 2.2+ such as Motorola ATRIX 4G, Samsung Galaxy S, Motorola Droid X2, HTC Droid Incredible 2, and Motorola Droid.
*Full-feature suite available for the latest devices on the BlackBerry OS 6 platform, including the Blackberry Torch 9800, Bold 9700, and Bold 9780

NetApp FAS2240 Storage Appliance

The new FAS2240-2 storage model from Netapp is great for consolidating virtual environments with multiple workloads and Windows applications. Purpose-built to be high-performance, easily scalable and easy to use. NetApp promises that this new addition will be 3 times faster than its previous appliances. Outfitted with the latest version of NetApp Data ONTAP, the FS2240 will give IT admins access to a “unified, scalable” storage solution.

With expansion to up to 374 TBs & up to 144 max disk drives in a 2U rack mount enclosure with 8 Gbit Ethernet ports and four 6-Gbps SATA ports. It also supports an additional I/O card which offers either four 8-Gbps Fibre Channel or four 10-Gbps Ethernet ports making it ideal for distributed or midsize sites.

The FAS2240-2 is offered in flexible configure-to-order systems that allow you to decide on drive quantity, type and capacity.

IronKey Enterprise

A high security USB flash drive manufactured by Ironkey Inc. This high security flash drive incorporates hardware level AES CBC-mode encryption which is always on and delivers very high standards of data protection. In addition, the IronKey system incorporates remote administration and policy enforcement, with centralised logging for management of compliance, and remote management of passwords and wiping.

As virtualised environments and cloud based systems proliferate, the demand for secure management and protection of locally held data increases.

Whilst this is not a brand new product, it is one of the best in class players and a potentially attractive product for our clients.

The SonicWALL (WXA) Solution

This WAN Acceleration Appliance (WXA) is particularly relevant in today’s market for businesses with distributed enterprise & applications who are effectively overburdening their bandwidth. WAN accelerations technology can help to resolve these issues with more efficient utilisation of the bandwidth. After initial data transfer, the WXA Series dramatically reduces all subsequent traffic by transmitting only new or changed data across the network. The WXA offers the unique combined benefit of prioritizing application traffic and minimizing it between sites, resulting in optimal network performance.

Sonicwall claim that this can help to save 95% of the bandwidth when integrated with a SonicWALL NGFW Firewall, as the WXA Series remembers data that has been transferred previously, and through data de-duplication, replaces repeated byte sequences with an identifier to reduce application latency and conserve bandwidth.

Cyberoam Layer 8 Technology

This the only layer 8 based UTM in the market at present, it allows you to see the ‘user’ on a network instead of just an IP address, giving IT managers instant visibility & proactive controls over security breaches as they no longer have to decipher which IP address belongs to who. By implementing Layer 8 security in their networks, administrators can gain real – time visibility into the online activity of users while creating security policies based on usernames.

Cyberoam’s Layer 8 Concept was developed out of the need for a more robust network security system capable of considering user’s identity as part of the firewall rule matching criteria. It treats user identity as the 8th Layer or the HUMAN layer in the network protocol stack, thus, attaching user identity to security while authenticating, authorising & auditing the network.

Layer 8 allows the administrator to create a permanent profile for the user which makes all future authentication possible based on identity based decision parameters such as username, IP address, MAC address & session ID. The profile is specific to the user & does not change regardless of what machine they operate from in the organisation.

Cyberoam UTM delivers the complete range of security features such as stateful inspection firewall, VPN, gateway anti-virus, gateway anti-malware, gateway anti-spam, and intrusion prevention system, content filtering in addition to bandwidth management and multiple link management over a single platform