Sonicwall launches em5000 to streamline it infrastructure administration
SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced the SonicWALL Universal Management Appliance (UMA) EM5000, which seeks to simplify IT infrastructure management by providing streamlined policy management with centralized monitoring and reporting capabilities across multiple devices. Capable of managing anywhere from a few to thousands of SonicWALL devices, whether distributed over an internal corporate network or among the customers of an IT service provider, the UMA EM5000 is ideally suited for small-to-mid-enterprises, large enterprises, managed service providers or IT consulting environments.
It is no surprise that the complexity of deploying and maintaining multiple network devices increases exponentially with the number of devices, end users and office locations on a network. In an attempt to gain control over such environments, IT administrators have historically deployed a variety of standalone products to manage, monitor and report on a company’s IT infrastructure. Without central management tools, this administrative burden can quickly overwhelm IT staff, thereby making it very costly.
“We always strive to listen to our customers and take their feedback into consideration as much as possible,” said Jan Sijp, product manager at SonicWALL. “We’ve heard loud-and-clear about the importance of providing a management solution that allows customers to effectively and easily manage their networks. The Universal Management Appliance EM5000 aims to do just that—it gives our customers greater flexibility in how they control their network.”
The EM5000 gives companies a simplified and automated multi-level policy management, monitoring and compliance reporting facility with flexible, powerful and intuitive tools designed to reduce overhead needs and free up resources for new revenue opportunities.
“An all-in-one solution, the EM5000 comes with required elements pre-installed on the appliance, including the operating system, database and applications,” noted Shahnawaz Sheikh, SonicWALL’s Regional Sales Manager for MEA. “By eliminating the need to buy these components separately, installation, deployment and maintenance time is drastically reduced thereby reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for the product.”
