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The drive towards out-soured IT/IS solutions gains more momentum every day and is fueled by the drive for higher efficiency and improved service availability.
At the same time as organizations rely more and more on their IT/IS infrastructure in their everyday operations, data centers are gaining an ever increasing level of importance.
The data center is typically a robust facility or environment used to house mission critical systems. The main purpose of the data center, no matter if it is an "in-house" facility or a data center that provide managed services, is to deliver critical IT/IS functions without any interruptions to its users.
Like any business or organizations Data Center's also need to balance costs against business value in order to deliver the most optimal solution.
Challenges for Data Centers
The most common challenges and opportunities for data center providers are:
Realize Consolidation and Service Convergence
Lower TCO
Shorten Time To Market (TTM) for Emerging Technologies
Align Investment Costs With Business/Revenue Growth
Improve Business Continuity/Service Level Agreements
Turn Security Into a Revenue Generating Service
Opportunities for Data Centers
The Clavister Clavister SSP™, Security Services Platform is our proven, feature-rich and service-oriented framework for providing best-in-class security solution.
The unique combination of systems and services in the Clavister SSP™ framework offer high-performance, precise control, fine-granular administration and seamless scalability which makes it the perfect solution for data centers.
The Clavister SSP™ offers a number of key benefits that transforms the typical challanges into opportunities.
Key benefits offered by Clavister SSP™:
Minimal Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Low Capital Expenses (CapEx)
Low Operational Expenses (OpEx)
Rapid Deployment of New Services
Flexible Licensing for Future-Safe Investments
Quick Return on Investments (ROI)
Provision What You Need, When You Need It!
The Clavister products and services deliver a wide range of features and functionality which enables data centers to transform their challanges into opportunities and benefits.
Thanks to close knit integration and the high level of configurability in combination with feature richness you can provision the features you need when you need it.
Here's a few examples of features and functionality you can combine:
Firewalling
Virtual Private Networking
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Web Content Filtering
Antivirus
Antispam
Traffic Management & QoS
User Authentication
IP Routing
Address Translation
High Availability
Advanced Operations and Maintenance
Sophisticated tools for troubleshooting
Forensic Analysis
Compliance Reporting (Sox, HIIPA, PCI etc)
Software when you can - Hardware when you must
The firmware which is used in the Clavister Security Gateways are designed to function just as well if it is being run on a Clavister turn-key appliance or if an off-the-shelf intel x86 based hardware.
For the data centers this means that the same type of hardware platform which is being used for business application servers also can be utilized the network security devices. This transforms into higher service availability and simpler hardware management since you are allowed to leverge from your existing hardware management processes.
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