Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On 22/10/10 06:50, Eugeniu Patrascu wrote: > Regarding appliance performance, I think they do some tests on the > appliances, multiply the numbers by X (where X=4...100) and then stick > them in a datasheet and present it to customers. Not entirely. But every manufacturer optimizes the results of

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread Eugeniu Patrascu
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 04:56, Ray wrote: > > Myself? We're staying with Open Server. I've seen way too many complaints > about the appliances being over-rated on performance. If you need a lot of > NICs, you're going to need a high-end appliance and that is our main reason. > We bring in each

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread Ray
d terminate each one on their own NIC. Ray > Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:34:21 -0400 > From: jason.ebers...@sti-ultrasound.com > Subject: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? > To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM > > I'm at a crossroads. My maintenance renewal is com

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread M. N.
cussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:fw-1-mailingl...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com] On Behalf Of Dan Lynch Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 12:08 PM To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Subject: Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? > IP appliances on the other hand, are a completely different

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Lynch
ist for discussion of Firewall-1 > [mailto:fw-1-mailingl...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com] On Behalf > Of Sergio Alvarez > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 4:22 PM > To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM > Subject: Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? > > I consi

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread Kropiewnicki, Alex
r 20, 2010 6:22 PM To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Subject: Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? I consider all previous comments valid, but it is important to note Check Point customers in general have complained about poor hardware and performance on the UTM-1 appliances, which

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-21 Thread Tom Robers
Hi, we use Open Server hardware with Splat a very long time with success (same hardware for tests and so on). Our favorite platform is Dell. They now use new raid controller (e.g. Perc 6/I H200) which aren't supported by Splat. Therefore we hope that checkpoint upgrades its old hcl as well. T

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-20 Thread Warrington Bruce - bwarri
mailto:fw-1-mailingl...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com] On Behalf Of Ebersole, Jason Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 14:34 To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Subject: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? I'm at a crossroads. My maintenance renewal is coming due and my Checkpoint repre

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-20 Thread Sergio Alvarez
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:34 PM > To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM > Subject: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? > > I'm at a crossroads. My maintenance renewal is coming due and my Checkpoint > representative was reviewing the account (we have on

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-20 Thread Kropiewnicki, Alex
world. -Original Message- From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 [mailto:fw-1-mailingl...@amadeus.us.checkpoint.com] On Behalf Of Ebersole, Jason Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:34 PM To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Subject: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? I'm at a

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-20 Thread Gary Scott
ne. -GS From: "Ebersole, Jason" To: FW-1-MAILINGLIST@AMADEUS.US.CHECKPOINT.COM Sent: Wed, October 20, 2010 3:34:21 PM Subject: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform? I'm at a crossroads. My maintenance renewal is coming due and my Checkpoint representative was reviewing the a

Re: [FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-20 Thread Ken Cameron
My biggest complaint has been how the sizing of the appliances is done. The 'benchmarks' are strictly packet forwarding with very little running on the appliance. So none of the blades (new equal to SmartDefense) being enabled. Also they are under provisioned in the memory by a long shot. Now t

[FW-1] Staying with SecurePlatform?

2010-10-20 Thread Ebersole, Jason
I'm at a crossroads. My maintenance renewal is coming due and my Checkpoint representative was reviewing the account (we have one VPN-1 standalone Enterprise license protecting 250 IPs) and suggested I go with an appliance. I think the IP565. There would be a pretty significant discount to get t