As a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications, part of the world’s largest telecommunications company, Verio is one of the technology industry’s pioneers that helped shape the Internet. Verio represents global stability, international strength and a growing suite of online services to business customers in over 146 countries. The company also leverages the power of the NTT Communications Global Internet Protocol (IP) network across four continents. Verio has deployed a scalable and distributed mail infrastructure to deliver virus- and spam-free e-mails to its customers. Foundry’s ServerIron Spam DefenseTM is a critical component of this complex architecture.
According to Andrew Prins, senior technology architect for Verio, "In addition to high availability and scalability, unique features such as spam defense are becoming key requirements for advanced data center infrastructures and messaging platforms. Foundry’s ServerIron application and security switches, powered by the latest 10.0 release of the TrafficWorks operating system, provided Verio with a future-ready foundation for e-mail services and have helped us grow our infrastructure in a cost efficient manner.”
According to Dell’Oro Group’s recent Worldwide Layer 4-7 SLB Switch & Appliance Market (Mfg Revenue) report, the Layer 4-7 market is projected to grow by 19 percent in 2008, indicating a pressing need for such capabilities. For most enterprises and service providers, IP-based applications are an integral component of business operations. By leveraging advanced application switching solutions with integrated security features to maintain always-on services and enhanced security, organizations can experience increased productivity and continuity while reducing ongoing operational expenditures.
Available in a variety of chassis configurations to address small to large enterprises and service providers, the ServerIron family now provides features such as an integrated, purpose-built Web firewall to protect Web-enabled applications against increasing application-intelligent attacks that may cause service disruption and compromise sensitive data. This feature provides organizations with superior protection from application threats that can circumvent traditional security measures, and removes the need to deploy costly and cumbersome separate appliances or devices for application protection. Businesses should see an immediate improvement in the security and uptime of their critical applications like BEA, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Live Communication Server, and Oracle.
To effectively fight spam and scale with its growth, enterprises and service providers need new intelligent, cost-effective and scalable network-based solutions that complement traditional approaches to fighting spam. The ServerIron family leverages current spam definitions allowing enterprises to reduce inbound spam.
Additionally, ServerIron includes support for HTTP compression to optimize bandwidth use for Web-based applications. ServerIron uses standards-based compression to transparently compress application content for increased efficiency and faster performance. The system automatically detects a client browser’s compression capabilities and the type of content in individual server responses, and then applies the appropriate compression technique.
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