Blue Coat Systems, Inc. introduced its Secure Web Gateway Virtual Appliance for small branch offices.  The new Virtual Appliance extends the same depth of protection and control delivered by the Blue Coat ProxySG appliances to small branch office locations with limited space and IT resources.  The new Virtual Appliance complements Blue Coat’s existing ProxySG appliances and Cloud Service, providing customers with the flexibility to choose the deployment model that best meets their unique security requirements on a location-by-location basis.

Veracomp SA – the largest VAD in Poland – introduced a new visual identification that represents long-term strategy changes introduced over the years in the company. The new logo and all visual materials are accompanied by a new web site.

Fortinet® FortiGate-5140B and FortiGate-1000C Win Network Products Guide Awards for World’s Best Firewall and Integrated Security

Fortinet announced that Telekomunikacja Polska (Polish Telecom) (TPSA.WA), the leading national telecommunications provider in Poland, has chosen Fortinet’s FortiGate multi-threat network security appliances as the cornerstone of its new “Managed UTM” offering, designed for small, medium and large enterprises to help secure their internal networks against external threats.

Blue Coat Systems announced that it has added Cloud-Connector to its Blue Coat MACH5 WAN optimization appliances and virtual appliances. Cloud-Connector allows companies with Blue Coat WAN optimization solutions deployed in branch or remote offices to instantly apply Web security from the Blue Coat Cloud Service. Having secure “branch-to-cloud” direct Internet access, enables companies to stop the common practice of backhauling Internet traffic to and from the corporate data center and offers a chance to re-architect the Wide Area Network (WAN) to meet the new application realities. Branch-to-cloud topology lowers networking costs and speeds access to cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications.

Enterprises and SMBs require many different IT hardware products to operate their datacenters and run their IT applications. However, purchasing products from many different sources can be a time-consuming process, creating demand among enterprises and SMBs for new ways to streamline procurement.

Quantum Corp. announced two new solutions that bring data deduplication and disaster recovery solutions to small businesses at an affordable price. The Quantum NDX-8 NAS appliance delivers 8 TB of NAS storage with built-in backup software and deduplication technology, enabling businesses to reduce storage requirements by up to 90 percent and significantly reduce network traffic.