SonicWall Unit Shipments Pass the Million
Mark
Protecting tens of millions of users, SonicWALL appliances help companies all over the globe to strengthen their network defenses
Dubai – April 8, 2007 –
SonicWALL Middle East and Africa (MEA),
today celebrated the shipment of one million
units of its appliance based solutions in
network security, email security, secure
remote access and data backup and recovery
markets. These solutions are helping tens of
millions of users worldwide protect their
data from Internet-delivered threats.
SonicWALL products, services and software
are distributed through its international
network of approximately 10,000 channel
partners.
“Our company strategy is predicated on the
success of our channel partners, without
whom we would not be celebrating this
achievement,” said Shahnawaz Sheikh,
SonicWALL regional sales manager Middle East
and Africa (MEA). “SonicWALL recognized
early on that, to serve the unmet security
needs of small and mid-tier businesses, a
dedicated channel strategy was required.
This dedication to our channel partners
remains a core company strategy today,
affecting every area of our operation.
Reaching an installed base of one million
units demonstrates the vitality of our
strategy, for the channel and end-users, of
creating purpose-built products that are
simple to install, use and manage.”
“SonicWALL has supported our business by
helping us to solve complex IT problems with
easily managed, effective security and
dynamic network services,” said Vijayan K
Raman Managing Director at Emtech, a
SonicWALL Gold Medallion partner. “Our
customers are not IT specialists, so they
look to us for guidance on their network
needs, and we recommend SonicWALL as their
security solution. To date, Emtech has
installed over 400 SonicWALL units for
customers throughout the UAE.”
SonicWALL’s network security, email security
and content management appliances are all
designed to ‘phone home’ with data on
emerging Internet threats. These devices
form a global sensing network, delivering
unique information to the company’s threat
prevention databases and supporting
SonicWALL’s ongoing improvement of its
defenses against the malware environment.
“The SonicWALL dynamic security environment
enhances our capabilities as our user base
grows,” added Sheikh. “The more we ship, the
more we strengthen the defenses our
solutions deliver, and the more we
demonstrate the real benefit of dynamically
updated network protection in today’s
business environment.”
SonicWALL is a leader in delivering
high-performance, easily managed dynamic
security solutions for businesses of all
sizes, including an innovative set of
wireless offerings such as its Secure
Distributed Wireless solution, winner of the
2007 SC Magazine award. Over the past three
years, SonicWALL has diversified its
solutions beyond its firewall VPN family,
adding SSL-VPN remote access, data backup
and recovery and email security to its
product portfolio. SonicWALL devices can be
managed from a single location using
SonicWALL Global Management System software,
which enables streamlined management of
distributed security networks for IT
administrators and managed services
providers. Today, GMS is used worldwide to
manage networks of thousands of SonicWALL
units.
Charles Kolodgy, senior analyst at IDC who
is credited with the creation of the UTM
category, commented, “SonicWALL took an
early lead in delivering comprehensive
gateway threat prevention technology to
businesses of all sizes, and the company is
now recognized as a global force in UTM. The
potential of SonicWALL’s value innovation
approach - making technologies, previously
restricted to enterprise, available to a
broader market - has been demonstrated over
and over again, not least by the company’s
achievement of an installed base of one
million units.”
About SonicWALL, Inc.:
Founded in 1991, SonicWALL,
Inc. designs, develops and manufactures
comprehensive network security, email
security, secure remote access, and
continuous data protection solutions. For
more information, contact SonicWALL at +971
4 214 9834
or visit the company web site
at
http://www.sonicwall.com/.