Virtual Machine Company's Groundbreaking Virtualization Appliance Embeds Check Point VPN-1 VETM Security

Virtual Machine Company's Groundbreaking Virtualization Appliance Embeds Check Point VPN-1 VETM Security

CAMBRIDGE, England, June 29, 2010--

    - Removes Final Barrier to Virtualization of Enterprise-Wide, Tier-one
Computing

    - This is a new and Unique Offering

    The Virtual Machine Company(1) has begun offering Check Point Software
Technologies' VPN-1 VETM security as an option on its pre-configured
Virtualization Appliances. This is a new and unique development that, the
company believes, overcomes the last remaining barrier to widespread adoption
of virtualization of enterprise-wide, tier-one computing.

    The Virtual Machine Company's high performance virtualization appliances
can now be pre-secured as well as being pre-configured and fully-supported.

    Until now, virtualization security has tended to flounder in muddy waters
between product delivery and security specialisms. Security value added
resellers (VARs) have been healthily skeptical of virtualization, avoiding
mainstream involvement. Virtualization VARs, meanwhile, have been ambivalent
about security, either not fully addressing it or inappropriately patching it
into existing security infrastructure.

    Virtual Machine Company CEO, Steve Barnet, said:

    "In spite of analyst predictions that over half of the millions of
servers sold in the next couple of years will be used for virtualization,
there's been a justifiable skepticism amongst savvy IT managers about
enterprise-wide, tier-one virtualization. By adding Check Point security to
our virtualization appliances we've driven the business case for virtualizing
everyday computing onto no-brainer territory."

    (1) About the Virtual Machine Company

    Based in Cambridge, UK, the Virtual Machine company offers its customers
a unique combination of networking and security expertise, disciplined
virtualization planning and management software, and ready-to-rack-and-roll
virtualization appliances with meaningful 24/7 support and a 50-percent
longer supported lifespan than industry-standard servers. The Virtual Machine
Company was founded by former European managing director of Check Point
Software Technologies, Steve Barnett.

    General information about The Virtual Machine Company
http://www.virtualmachineco.com/

Source: Virtual Machine Company

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