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The AI-powered platform enables unified security and network. AI-powered data and threat protection minimizes human error and increases the speed of detection. AI-powered networks improve user and app experiences, as well as performance and reliability. Reduce your TCO with a converged infrastructure that simplifies your infrastructure and reduces point products sprawl, fragmented operation, and complex management. VersaONE offers seamless connectivity and unified protection for all users, devices and locations, including offices, branches and edge locations. It provides secure access to all of your workloads, cloud applications, and wireless networks from a single platform. This ensures that data and resources can be accessed and secured across any network, whether it is WAN, WLAN, cellular, or satellite. This unified platform approach simplifies network management and reduces complexity while enhancing security. It meets the demands of modern IT environments.

Heimdal® Endpoint Detection and Response is our proprietary multi-solution service providing unique prevention, threat-hunting, and remediation capabilities. It combines the most advanced threat-hunting technologies in existence: Heimdal Next-Gen Antivirus, Heimdal Privileged Access Management, Heimdal Application Control, Heimdal Ransomware Encryption Protection, Heimdal Patch & Asset Management, and Heimdal Threat Prevention. With 6 modules working together seamlessly under one convenient roof, all within one agent and one platform, Heimdal Endpoint Detection and Response grants you access to all the essential cybersecurity layers your business needs to protect itself against both known and unknown online and insider threats. Our state-of-the-art product empowers you to quickly and effortlessly respond to sophisticated malware with stunning accuracy, protecting your digital assets and your reputation in the process as well.

Fortinet, a global leader of cybersecurity solutions, is known for its integrated and comprehensive approach to safeguarding digital devices, networks, and applications. Fortinet was founded in 2000 and offers a variety of products and solutions, including firewalls and endpoint protection systems, intrusion prevention and secure access. Fortinet Security Fabric is at the core of the company's offerings. It is a unified platform which seamlessly integrates security tools in order to deliver visibility, automate, and real-time intelligence about threats across the network. Fortinet is trusted by businesses, governments and service providers around the world. It emphasizes innovation, performance and scalability to ensure robust defense against evolving cyber-threats while supporting digital transformation.

Cloudflare is the foundation of your infrastructure, applications, teams, and software. Cloudflare protects and ensures the reliability and security of your external-facing resources like websites, APIs, applications, and other web services. It protects your internal resources, such as behind-the firewall applications, teams, devices, and devices. It is also your platform to develop globally scalable applications. Your website, APIs, applications, and other channels are key to doing business with customers and suppliers. It is essential that these resources are reliable, secure, and performant as the world shifts online. Cloudflare for Infrastructure provides a complete solution that enables this for everything connected to the Internet. Your internal teams can rely on behind-the-firewall apps and devices to support their work. Remote work is increasing rapidly and is putting a strain on many organizations' VPNs and other hardware solutions.

Our comprehensive suite of cloud services allows you to build your cloud server your way. Kamatera’s infrastructure is specialized in VPS hosting. With 24 data centers around the world, including 8 in the US, as well as in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, you can choose from. Our enterprise-grade cloud server can meet your requirements at any stage. We use cutting edge hardware, including Ice Lake Processors, NVMe SSDs, and other components, to deliver consistent performance and 99.95% uptime. With a robust service such as ours, you'll get a lot of great features like fantastic hardware, flexible cloud setup, Windows server hosting, fully managed hosting and data security. We also offer consultation, server migration and disaster recovery. We have a 24/7 live support team to assist you in all time zones. With our flexible and predictable pricing plans, you only pay for the services you use.

TotalView offers network monitoring as well as root-cause troubleshooting of problems in plain-English. The solution monitors every device as well as every interface on every device. In addition, TotalView goes deep, collecting 19 error counters, performance, configuration, and connectedness so nothing is outside of it’s view. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. Complex problems can now be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster.

enforza is a cloud-managed firewall platform designed to unify multi-cloud perimeter security. It offers robust firewall, egress filtering, and NAT Gateway capabilities, enabling consistent security policies across various cloud environments and regions. By transforming your Linux instances—whether on-premises or in the cloud—into managed security appliances, enforza provides a cost-effective alternative to AWS Network Firewall, Azure Firewall, and native NAT Gateways, all without data processing charges. Key Features: Simplified Deployment: Install the enforza agent on your Linux instance with a single command. Seamless Integration: Register your device through the enforza portal for centralized management. Intuitive Management: Easily create and enforce security policies across multiple environments via a user-friendly interface. With enforza, you can achieve enterprise-grade security without the complexity and costs associated with traditional cloud-native solutions.

Today's top edge cloud platform empowers developers, connects with customers, and grows your business. Our edge cloud platform is designed to enhance your existing technology and teams. Our edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer towards your users -- at a network's edge -- to improve the performance of your websites and apps. Fastly's highly-programmable CDN allows you to personalize delivery right at the edge. Your users will be delighted to have the content they need at their fingertips. Our powerful POPs are powered by solid-state drives (SSDs), and are located in well-connected locations around world. They allow us to keep more content in cache for longer periods of time, resulting in fewer trips back to the source. Instant Purge and batch purging using surrogate keys allow you to cache and invalidate dynamic content in a matter of minutes. You can always serve up current headlines, inventory, and weather forecasts.

You can deploy anywhere with co-managed threat detection/response. ConnectWise SIEM (formerly Perch) is a co-managed threat detection and response platform that is supported by an in-house Security Operations Center. ConnectWise SIEM was designed to be flexible and adaptable to any business size. It can also be tailored to your specific needs. With cloud-based SIEMs, deployment times are reduced from months to minutes. Our SOC monitors ConnectWise SIEM and gives you access to logs. Threat analysts are available to you from the moment your sensor is installed.

Arista Networks, a leading provider in data center networking solutions specializing software-driven cloud networks, is a leader in the field. The company is known for its high-performance switch, router, and software defined networking (SDN), designed for large-scale cloud computing environments and data centers. Arista's Extensible Operating System is a key feature, offering programmability and flexible networking operations. The company provides services to a wide range of industries including financial services, telecommunications and enterprise. It focuses on scalability and reliability, as well as low latency and high reliability. Arista solutions are used in many large data centers including those of major cloud providers. This makes it a key player in the infrastructure for modern cloud computing.