RAINfinity Rainwall, a Scalable High-Availability Clustering Solution for Check Point FireWall-1, Gains OPSEC Certification
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Rainwall provides full scalability, continuous availability and peak performance to mission-critical Internet network security gateways MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - May 12, 1999 - RAINfinity, a pioneer of high-availability and performance solutions for mission-critical Internet servers, today announced that Rainwall for Check Point FireWall-1, has gained OPSEC Certification from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP). The OPSEC Certification assures customers seamless compatibility between RAINfinity Rainwall and Check Point FireWall-1, providing a fully distributed enterprise security solution that is scalable, non-interruptible, and load-balanced. Rainwall for Check Point FireWall-1 is a clustering solution for Internet firewalls that has no single-point-of-failure and can scale up to any number of FireWall-1 gateways. Unlike conventional fail-over solutions, Rainwall does not require any hot-standby gateways -- all Check Point FireWall-1 gateways can be active at any given time, ensuring no hardware or software is idle or underutilized. By scaling up the size of the Rainwall cluster, customers can now enhance the performance of their firewall solution to OC3 and above, on the fly, without any interruptions to service. Rainwall's dynamic load balancing distributes the load uniformly among all firewall gateways, for best firewall throughput and performance. Rainwall is a software-only solution and requires no additional hardware or dedicated heartbeat network. "We are very proud to be awarded the coveted OPSEC Certification from Check Point," said Gil Margalit, President of RAINfinity. "By meeting the rigorous OPSEC Certification requirements, RAINfinity assures FireWall-1 customers uncompromised security with the peace of mind of fault-tolerant availability, full scalability and peak performance. Rainwall is the first clustering solution to address all three issues most critical to Internet security administrators: continuous availability, scalability, and performance." "We are pleased that RAINfinity, a pioneer in server clustering and high-availability solutions for the Internet, has proven interoperability with the OPSEC Framework", said Asheem Chandna, vice president of marketing and business development of Check Point Technologies, Inc. "Rainwall complements our enterprise security solution to provide our customers with high-availability and clustering. The combination of Rainwall and Check Point FireWall-1 provides our customers with unsurpassed network security, availability and performance."
OPSEC is the industry's leading alliance of companies with products or services that have been certified to meet Check Point Software specifications for interoperability at the policy enforcement and management level. OPSEC embraces existing industry standards for integration, where they exist, and leads the industry with the creation of new interfaces to meet customer requirements for seamless integration. The OPSEC SDK (software development kit), a collection of open application program interfaces (APIs) and detailed interface specifications, represents the most complete, open integration toolkit available in the industry.
RAINfinity designs, develops and markets scalable high-availability and performance solutions for mission-critical Internet servers and gateways. Through its unique distributed server clustering technology, Reliable Array of Independent Nodes (Rain), RAINfinity brings continuous availability and full scalability to mission-critical Internet applications and data center operations, alleviating performance and communications bottlenecks and ensuring non interruptible service. RAINfinity products are software-only and work with commercially available, off-the-shelf hardware and software. The products are available on multiple operating systems, such as NT and Solaris. The Company's corporate headquarters is located at 1901 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA. For more information, please call (888) 686-0040, email sales@rainfinity.com or visit http://www.rainfinity.com
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP) is the worldwide leader in secure enterprise networking solutions. The company's integrated architecture includes network security (FireWall-1, VPN-1, Provider-1 and Open Security Manager), traffic control (FloodGate-1 and ConnectControl) and IP address management (Meta IP). Check Point Software solutions enable customers to implement centralized policy-based management with enterprise-wide distributed deployment. Via the OPSEC Alliance, Check Point Software's products seamlessly integrate with ``best-of-breed'' products from more than 200 leading industry partners. The company has U.S. headquarters in Redwood City, Calif., and international headquarters in Ramat-Gan, Israel. For more information, please call 800/429-4391 or 650/628-2000, or visit http://www.checkpoint.com or http://www.opsec.com. ### (c) 1999 RAINfinity. All rights reserved. RAINfinity, Rainwall, Reliable Array of Independent Nodes and RAIN are trademarks or registered trademarks of RAINfinity. Check Point, FireWall-1, VPN-1, OPSEC, Provider-1, FloodGate-1, ConnectControl, and Meta IP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. |