Astaro Journal

Astaro has announced that users of Apple’s iPhone can now automatically setup a secure, IPsec VPN (virtual private network) tunnel with no technical knowledge required. This new process adds yet another method that iPhone users can use to connect to Astaro Gateway products. Astaro allows iPhone users to choose from any of the three VPN technologies currently available on the iPhone to connect to their home and business networks. In addition to the iPhone’s PPTP and L2TP VPN connectivity options, Astaro users can now use the iPhones IPsec VPN capabilities—widely accepted as the best security choice for VPN tunneling. Even as software services and managed applications like Email and Web filtering in the cloud gain popularity, most businesses are still relying on company internal solutions like CRM or ERP systems. As employees gain access to more powerful smart phone ... (more)

Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 West: Call for Papers Closing

Now held three times a year, in New York, Prague, and Silicon Valley, the organizing principle of each International Virtualization Conference & Expo remains the same: our aim is to ensure, through an intense and carefully chosen program of technical and strategic breakout sessions, that attending delegates leave each Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging Virtualization, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the efficiency and flexibility of their Enterprise IT endeavors. The Call for Papers for ... (more)

Astaro Releases New Astaro Smart Installer

Astaro announced the availability of the Astaro Smart Installer, a new product designed to allow resellers and customers to quickly and easily install Astaro software appliances and re-image Astaro hardware appliances. Available for Astaro Security Gateway and Astaro Web Gateway product lines, the Astaro Smart Installer is a specialized USB flash drive that allows the hardware appliance or server to recognize it as an external CD/ROM drive loaded with a bootable image. This eliminates the need for the user to obtain new hardware or download an ISO image, burn it to a CD and load it... (more)

Novell Energizes Open Source Application Ecosystem

SALT LAKE CITY, BrainShare(R) 2005, March 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Novell today announced Market Start, a new initiative to provide open source software companies access to Novell's worldwide distribution channels and global support infrastructure. The program will open Novell's go-to-market capabilities to Linux and open source application partners, dramatically expanding their market reach. As a result, customers can benefit from a broader selection of innovative, open source solutions, backed by enterprise-class support from Novell. "Software vendors like us can benefit immensely f... (more)

Astaro Security Gateway Firewall in Evaluation for Common Criteria Certification

BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Astaro Corporation today announced that the company's Astaro Security Gateway Firewall has entered the second phase of the Common Criteria certification process. Common Criteria for IT Security Evaluation (CC), also known as ISO standard 15408, was developed by the national security organizations of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and The Netherlands. It provides a broad range of evaluation criteria for many types of IT security products. Other countries around the globe also accept the standard. After rece... (more)