Introducing the New SonicWALL WAN Acceleration Series

SonicWALL is pleased to announce the upcoming availability of the SonicWALL WXA Series of WAN acceleration appliances. Delivered as an add-on solution to SonicWALL’s Next-Generation Firewalls, the WXA Series helps your clients dramatically improve response times for their remote and branch offices workers. 

With the initial ship date at the end of June, now is the time for partners to become more familiar with the solution, its capabilities and the sales opportunities ahead. Learn more:

Webinars

Improving Network Efficiencies with SonicWALL's WXA solution
23rd June 2011, 6:00 pm >>

MSP Expert Series: Build World-Class Support in Your MSP Practice >>>

Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) Strategy for SMB’s >>>

Building a Comprehensive Layered AV Strategy for SMBs >>>

Introducing SonicWALL Next-Gen Backup & Recovery CDP Version 6.0 >>>

 

See SuperMassive in Action with Ixia Testing

E10100_Front_sm

The leader in network testing, Ixia, recently hosted a security conference to demonstrate their latest network performance testing platform, along with the SonicWALL SuperMassive E10800.

A video of the conference is available from Ixia. To see SuperMassive in action, simply click on through to the video. Highlights of the video are:

2:00 Ixia demo of the performance of SuperMassive
2:12 Simulation overview: 4000 clients and 80 servers
2:14 96 cores running
2:15 IPS enabled – throughput at 30 Gbps
2:16 GAV/GAS/IPS all running 10-12 Gbps of throughput
2:20 Description of attack demo
2:28 Demo start of millions of malware attacks and DDoS 
       attacks at once

Learn More:

SonicWALL CDP 6.0 - All the Tools You Need

End of Support Announcement for TZ 150, TZ 170 and PRO Series

Affected Products and Services:

  • Hardware – TZ 150 Series, TZ 170 Series, PRO Series
  • Support – Software/Firmware Updates, Dynamic Support 8x5, Dynamic Support 24x7
  • Services – CGSS, GAV/AS/IPS, CFS

Key Dates to Note:

  • June 30, 2011 – Last day to purchase 2-year and 3-year service and support SKUs
  • June 30, 2013 – Last day to purchase 1-year service and support SKUs
  • July 1, 2014 – End of Support.  Beginning on this date, no new support cases may be created

Learn More:  End Of Support Plan FAQ  & Product Lifecycle Announcements 

Sales Tools That Rock

Merial Case Study
SSL VPN for a Multi-billion Dollar Company

How does a company with 5,600 employees and $2.6 bil in rev provide remote access to its sprawling workforce? SonicWALL Aventail E-Class Secure Remote Access. Download >>>

CFS 3.0

CFS logo - smallIncluded with SonicOS 5.8 is a new version of the SonicWALL Content Filtering Service (CFS) 3.0.  A FAQ has been published in the SonicWALL Knowledge Base that details all the new features of CFS 3.0 and how it can be run in legacy mode (i.e. same as CFS 2.0) via User and Zone definitions or via Application Rules (CFS 3.0).

Praise for the SonicWALL Live Demo Site

"One of the mostly unrealized applications of Web technology is to allow small businesses to kick the tires of products they want to purchase, by putting up live product demos.

Given the proliferation of Web interfaces on many products, you would think this would be a no-brainer; and while lots of companies have put up canned video screen captures showing one or two products, no one has taken the time and effort to let customers test drive their complete product line to the extent that Sonicwall has with its Live Demo site..." Read more >>>