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| SonicWALL Lands Leading Network Security Role With Entertainment Marketing Agency Crew Creative | |
| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 10:44:00 AM | |
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Crew Creative Deploys SonicWALL E-Class Network Security Appliance to Secure Sensitive Marquee Entertainment and Lifestyle Brand Assets SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. , a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced that Los Angeles-based marketing agency Crew Creative, provider of print, online and AV media solutions for marquee entertainment clients and lifestyle brands, has successfully implemented a SonicWALL� E-Class Network Security Appliance (NSA) E6500 solution. Crew Creative produces marketing campaigns for major blockbuster movies that can be up to two years away from release. A major concern is making sure they have the infrastructure and monitoring in place to prevent those assets from being intentionally or unintentionally leaked or posted outside of their network. For Crew Creative, the solution had to scale easily and flexibly. A typical job may start out involving a select group of 10 people, increase to 50 people in a matter of weeks, and then quickly scale back down at the end of production. The SonicWALL NSA E6500 meets Crew Creative's expanding enterprise networks requirements by delivering a high performance, scalable, multifunction threat prevention appliance that takes advantage of specialized multi-core processing technology, and provides parallel traffic processing in conjunction with SonicWALL's re-assembly free deep packet inspection engine. "Between the eight ports and the virtual interface, the E6500 has given us a lot of flexibility," said Ryan Moon, IT Director at Crew Creative. Moon had the E6500 up and running in half a day. "Operationally, that saved me a projected cost of about five days worth of IT staff time." Moon has been happy with the results. "Performance has been great. I was expecting the CPU to get hit much harder," said Moon. "Before, we'd run at over 50 percent, and now I'm only nearing 30 percent. Since we've had it up and running, the E6500 hasn't had a second of downtime." Crew Creative has also extended security for their wireless networking by running wireless traffic from their Apple AirPort base stations through the NSA E6500. "The flexibility and granular security have been fantastic," said Moon. "We're even using it to secure the traffic for our wireless security cameras." Moon was also pleased with SonicWALL's support of Macintosh environments. "Since we use a lot of Apple equipment, Cisco has never been the best fit. There's really no sufficient Mac client. If I didn't use a certain OS or browser, Cisco would always have problems," said Moon. "With SonicWALL, I was able to set things up using Safari with no trouble. That attention to detail made me feel good about the choice I made. And I didn't have to hire someone specially trained on SonicWALL just to get set up." With the NSA E6500, Moon can take advantage of customizable protection tools like Application Firewall, which enables precise control and inspection over network traffic. The NSA E6500 also comes standard with eight gigabit copper Ethernet ports for deployment flexibility, and includes a management LCD screen for ease of deployment. "The NSA E6500 provides Crew Creative with the high performance secure platform it needs to combat the changing threat landscape," said Patrick Sweeney, Vice President, Product Management at SonicWALL. To Purchase SonicWALL Products Visit http://www.sonicguard.com |