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Palo Alto Networks Positioned in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant

December 20th, 2011 · No Comments · Firewalls, Security

In Gartner, Inc.’s recently released Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, Palo Alto Networks has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant. Palo Alto Networks entered the Magic Quadrant in 2010 in the Visionary Quadrant.

Gartner based its positioning on two major elements: the ability to execute and completeness of vision. In the 2011 report, Gartner positioned Palo [...]

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Palo Alto Networks in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls

December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Firewalls, Security, Uncategorized

Santa Clara, Calif., December 15, 2011 – Palo Alto Networks, a leading provider of Enterprise Network Firewall solutions, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls.
In its analysis, Gartner evaluated the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewall (NGFW), based on its “ability [...]

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Personal IT in the Workplace: Bad for Your Business?

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Managed Services

Consider this:  according to research by technology analyst group Gartner, beyond 2010 end users, not the IT department, will be responsible for 50 percent of business IT procurement decisions—ultimately bringing and running their own systems on company networks. Meanwhile, according to management consultants Accenture, around one-third of today’s new generation of workers (a group they call [...]

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Thinking About Security in the Cloud?

May 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud, Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Microsoft, Security

As we begin to store more and more of our data on the Internet and in the “Cloud,” the threat of that data being accessed and used by someone or something outside of our knowledge or control becomes very real. Data such as credit card information, banking transactions, work history, private addresses and numbers, email [...]

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Release of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Firewalls, Managed Services, Security

Gartner recently released the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls where they placed Palo Alto Networks in the visionary quadrant.  Gartner acknowledged the following key points about Palo Alto Networks:
“Taking a next-generation firewall approach to the market, Palo Alto Networks saw rapid growth in 2009 and meets the inclusion criteria for this edition of [...]

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The Next-Generation Firewall

March 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Firewalls, Managed Services, Security

Gartner RAS Core Research’s note “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall” focuses on how “firewalls need to evolve to be more proactive in blocking new threats, such as botnets and targeted attacks.  Enterprises need to update their network firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect business systems as attacks get more sophisticated.” (Gartner, 2009)
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