Whale slims down for SMBs

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS
10/27/05
Today's focus: Whale slims down for SMBs

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Today's focus: Whale slims down for SMBs

By Tim Greene

Whale Communications is announcing a new model of its
Intelligent Application Gateway designed for small businesses or
small sites in larger business networks.

The Express Edition SSL VPN and application-security device
offer a slimmed-down version of the features that come with
Whale's Enterprise Edition, but with the intent of meeting most
needs of small and midsize businesses at a lower price.

The Express, for example, cannot create policies for custom
applications. A toolkit for doing so can be purchased with the
Enterprise edition.

Also, Express clears out standard caches when an SSL VPN session
ends in order to wipe traces of the session from the remote
computer. Express can be customized to look for non-standard
caches that custom applications might set up.

There's a long list of other differences, but the bottom line is
that the Express is designed to be easier to set up, do a solid
job and cost less than the more sophisticated Enterprise
Edition. The cost of an Express Edition for 250 concurrent users
is $34,000, while an Enterprise Edition for the same number of
users costs $43,000.

That's a significant savings, but it also allows small
businesses to buy into the technology at a price they might be
able to afford. The Express Edition for 50 concurrent users
costs $15,200.

While the Express Edition doesn't have as many knobs on it as
the higher-end version, it also doesn't require as much know-how
on the part of customers' IT staff. This is also likely to be
attractive to smaller businesses in which staffing and expertise
may be limited.

Potential buyers who ruled out Whale before as too expensive or
sophisticated should give this new bundle a look.

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