SonicWALL Builds Next-Generation Enterprise Customer Base

SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today announced that then and there-generation firewall adoption among its customer base is growing, particularly in retail and academic deployments. The growing threat environment coupled with the necessity of improved security with minimal latency has created increased demand for SonicWALLs high-performance network security solutions with application intelligence, control and visualization features.

Hall County Schools: SuperMassive was our choice over competitors due to its flexible architecture, performance and scalability; its power, said C. J. Daab, innovation support coordinator at Hall County Schools. The fact that it has a 96-core processor and scales to the size of our district gives us confidence that we can grow then into the future.

Hall County Schools, a public school district in Georgia, leverages SonicWALL Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization for bandwidth management and prioritization of application traffic for VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), video conferencing and social media resources. The district employs 4,800 teachers and staff members and supports 26,000 students who attend 21 elementary schools, six middle schools and seven high schools.

Hall County deployed paired NSA E7500 appliances in High Availability mode at both its central office and its offsite data center. The NSA E7500 for large enterprise networks features Content Filtering, Gateway Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Intrusion Prevention, and Application Intelligence, Control and Visualization.

SonicWALL secures our network of 2,000 stores and helps us drive operational efficiencies, said Jason Tate, IT director, Aarons. SonicWALL gives us a great deal of flexibility that we end up needing due to our companys growth. It was a lynchpin move that has helped us keep costs down.

The industry-leading application intelligence

SonicWALL clients benefit from the industry-leading application intelligence, control and visualization solution that puts the power back in the hands of IT administrators with new levels of management and ease-of-use. With the tools available, IT managers are able to block or throttle application usage on a user or group level, and optimize bandwidth consumption, facilitating an increase in employee productivity. SonicWALLs enterprise-class clients benefit in particular from the patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection® innovation that enables increased security without network latency.

SonicWALL offers a massively scalable product line that meets the needs of the largest campus, retail and central site networks in the world. The SonicWALL SuperMassive E10000 Series of At once-Generation Firewalls delivers more than 40 Gbps of firewall throughput and over 30 Gbps of application control and intrusion prevention. SuperMassive has expanded SonicWALLs Straightway-Generation Firewall offerings for the enterprise and is an attractive choice for existing and future clients.