Re: Astaro Security Gateway Appliance

[Will Froning <will.froning () GMAIL COM>]

Hello Edward,

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Edward Tracy<tracyeg () yahoo com> wrote:
> We’re evaluating security appliances and had a very
> impressive demo of the Astaro Security Gateway appliance (Gartner-Visionary Quadrant).  A lot is packaged into their 
> solution (mail security, firewall, vpn, antivirus checking, IM control, etc.).  I quickly received a list of higher 
> ed’s running the product
> that wasn’t all that useful.  References were small scale to our proposed use.  While I await a better list, anyone 
> running Astaro’s solution?  How large ofa user base are you working with?  Any reviews (positive or
> negative) you can share would be appreciated.

We looked at it, but it wouldn't scale to our environment of 155mbps
with 5500 students (10000+ end points).  We ended up going with Palo
Alto Networks (PA-4050 cluster) after looking at all the different
UTMs available in this region.  We did a couple of POCs and everything
else puked once we enabled the full UTM options.  It's been online for
all of 3 days. ;)

Thanks,
Will, American University of Sharjah

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