Hi, uh, apologies for that last mail, don't know what happened there?
I was wondering if many on the group have moved to Check Point's appliances, having previously been on open servers? Have you noticed a performance degradation or any problems since moving to the appliances? Or has your transition been seamless? Yes, I know it's a very general question as everyone's environment is different, but generally everyone will fall into 'happy' or 'not happy' with their situation - well, maybe some are just content?! We have Dell PowerEdge 2950's deployed on our perimeter as gateways, and we are thinking of replacing them with Check Point's 4000 series of appliances - a mixture of 4200's and 4600's. Our current gateways are running Splat, version R75.30. From all the stats we can gather and analyse, our gateways never seem to be stressed nor do they ever seem to suffer from any overload. The throughputs and connections figures are well below threshold levels. We have firewall, VPN and IPS blades but that's it, no DLP, IA or anything else like that; our gateways aren't virtualized nor are they clustered. We would also be moving to the Smart-1 5 appliance for the management server. I checked http://blog.lachmann.org/ and it has me a little concerned that I might be moving from overpowered systems to perhaps underpowered systems, particularly on the 4200's. Honestly, Check Point's licensing costs are a factor in the consideration of our move. Thanks for your time. Regards, eamonn Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message contains information that is privileged or confidential, is the property of QC Data, and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please delete the original message and any copy of it in your possession and notify us by telephone or email immediately. QC Data (Ireland) Limited Registered in Ireland, Number: 158091 VAT Registration No.: IE 6556091K Registered office: 70 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland. IƧ��[�(^rC��{S�֥I�.�+r�^��� ================================================= To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to lists...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email fw-1-ow...@ts.checkpoint.com =================================================
