Backup Software Which backup software is best In our experience On Windows platform very widely deployed product with continual improvement and enhancement and predictable vendor support email / toll free is offered by Veritas backup Exec. If your requirement is on heterogenous platform, please refer Software compatibility list of vendors like EMC/networker , CA Brightstore ,Veritas Netbackup. These are key players who are industry leaders. Veeras Infotek supports the following backup software Veritas (symantec) backup Exec Veritas Netbackup CA Brigthstore EMC/ Legato networker Citrix What are different flavors of Citrix Citrix presentation server comes in three flavours Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions. While Standard edition can be deployed on single server , Advanced edition offers failover and load balancing features. The enterprise edition includes all the features of advanced edition as well as more granualar application control, multiple operating systems support as well as advanced management and reporting features including Globaly located citrix farm management . For more clarity and coparison chart please contact veeras. When to settle down for TS and when to embrace Citrix If your requirement is interms of giving access to Heterogenous platform application over heterogenous devices (like Windows client / Solaris Client/ MAC client/ PALM top/ Mobile phones etc ,If you need to give access to one or many application based on some criteria /user profiles, If the application that is allowed is very critical , If downtime is not tollerated, if it is required to extend unique front end to every users irrespective of device that connect, if the solution needs to scale up as the users connection increases, if you do not have control over the end device that needs to get connected, however you need to control application access flow, Printing option for all or select users irrespective of different printing device, Other Device sharing (like printers/ Scanners/ fax servers etc) , if you require to roll out application access and delivery to multi location , if you are planning for upgradation of your critical application and avoid cost prohibitive and huge help desk expenditure in travelling to every dekstops and servers, if you want to siphone the yearly hardware and Operating system software upgradation cost (continue to use old PC even for FAT application), Want to get rid of DATA theft and illegal downloads and copyright violation at dekstop level, then consider that you have outgrown TS and it pretty good idea to embrace Citrix. More technical feature by feature comparison on RDP protocol that is used by Microsoft and ICA that is used by Citrix are available. Please make your request at Ask for quote icon in our website. UTM When not to buy UTM ? First it is important to know what are typically offerred in UTM ? Most UTM comes Firewall and basic networking features like (multiple NAT features /PAT/DMZ/StaticRoute ) VPN (ipsec /L2TP/PPTP/SSL/VPN)Gateway A/V (pop3,smtp,http,imap), IDS /IPS, Antispam (RBL/ black list white list ) URL filtering , multiple ISP support etc. However remember there are trade-off in each of the features that are bundled. For . e.g You should look in to your NAT /PAT requirement and compare it with total policy supported in the UTM. The more the policy and routing the more is going to be the load.The antivirus feature you should know that most UTM does not offer protection from all the known virus ,just like your dekstops, there are trade off. it is just not possible to have over 1,50,000 virus defninition on the box and work at wire speed while scanning.If you have specific Security painpoint you must weight-out how much the UTM addresses it. For .E.G if you are thinking about engaging an URL filtering for employee internet usage and deploy UTM URL filtering , it should not be a surprise if your users succeed in the category that is blocked by them as a rule, two reason one because of lower coverage of URL lists (less than a lakh) and the URL may not be localized for India. Now you should be prepared (as a firewall admin) need to add the whitelist and blacklist prediodically based on users behaviour. When not to buy UTM -continued? The VPN support is limited , you should check with the spec on how many client to site and site to site connection can be established and more importantly know the throughput of the VPN when using different encryption standard 3DES is best but be informed about performance issue. IDS/IPS mostly the mother is SNORT plus some additions to it.. Here once again it won't be as exhaustive as SNORT signature. Checkup. If you are looking at full fledged networking features then we would suggest your router or Layer three switch to do the JOB. if you are looking at full fledged IDS/IPS and prevention from Zero day attack , we recommend a dedicated IPS appliance , if you require no-compromise internet usage we recommend Proxy and dedicated URL filtering and malware detection on http and https traffic for the same. Bottom line if your environment is very critical , you are handling sensitive data , you want to adhere to security policy which would be reviewed , audited and controlled then you cannot just deploy an UTM and be assured of security. Remember UTM compliments the existing security deployment , never they are replacements. You can use UTM along side as special purpose vehicle. for .e.g if your policy is to allow only some known file extension and block the rest you can do the same at the gateway level itself than to ask your proxy to do it, which will resduce the load on your proxy. Same way if you do not want to get mails are connection from specific IP addressed you can achieve by engaging at gateway. When not to buy UTM -continued? We have a banker who is using UTM in a bridge mode after their application firewall just engaging Antivirus /Antispam features. We have another manufacturing unit who uses this for VPN requirements only. Being an ASIC platform and offering speed in 100 Mbps they are seing the benifit in instant connectivity and low maintenance cost. A 100 seater call center deployed UTMs Content filtering services alone and has enables HTTP antivirus scanning in wire speed as they do not want to maintain another server for proxy , over that buy antivirus . Now they had restrcited employee internet access to 4 hours a week only and use two broadband connection to use more optimally.