This week we have received the good news that Check Point has completed the purchase of Nokia Security Appliances Business Unit.

In practical terms this means no difference to you as you will continue to receive the same levels of support as before. Virtronix will continue to support your security and your company's needs. Check Point is immediately supporting the terms of Nokia's security appliance support agreements until those agreements expire. Customers who choose to renew support after their Nokia contracts expire will be offered virtually identical support programs - Check Point Access and Check Point Essential. The minor changes to these offerings result in similar or better service level agreements and similar or lower prices.

In addition Check Point will honour the Nokia support policy which commits to providing for 5 years support after the model's End of Sale date.

This will make little or no difference to your choice of architecture. You will however see benefit in that IP appliances are available immediately from Check Point and will support both Check Point R70 release, based on the Software Blade Architecture and Check Point NGX R65. The system is somewhat simplified in that Check Point is the end point for answers to any questions and there is a much more closely knit supply chain.

All in all this will make it easier to work with Virtronix and with Check Point.

If you have any other question about the purchase, or Check Point's new R70 version please call us on 0870 0117 455.email us or visit the Virtronix website for more information.

Date: Friday 3rd April 2009

Time: 0745 - 1000

Purpose: This session will enable you to gain a view of how we can work tactically to survive this current economic crisis. From this session you will see how the Army currently conducts extremely complex campaigns where there is the constant need for adapting plans whilst still pursuing the same aim. We will then look at 'translating' some of these lessons for commercial use.

Rationale: The danger is that we will only act tactically and not fight the war as a whole. We must ensure our survival but still need to be positioned to be on the 'start line' when our customers begin spending again. Learn how the 'Intelligent Preparation of the Battlefield' (IPB) and 'Intent Schematics' can help you deal with the challenges that the current market place is posing and still be prepared to capture the opportunity when the market improves.

Biographies
Mark Faulkner FCMI recently left the Army as a full Colonel. He commanded the Royal Dragoon Guards 1994 - 1997 and was then responsible for training and coaching senior commanders and their staffs in military strategic and tactical planning and decision making. The outcome of his work with these teams was the creator of an effects based approach to planning and decision making that is now used in modern military tactical doctrine. He is a visiting professor at the University of Sussex helping their Defence Technology Centre with projects to produce information system based decision support tools.

Mike Briercliffe has had a successful career spanning 45 years in sales, marketing, product development, customer service and general management, first in Automotive and then for the past 30 years IT. He has led large companies to successful trade sale outcomes and been involved with many public companies in that process. Today he advises and mentors more than twelve SME businesses from start-up to maturity. Most importantly, in that 45 year career, Mike has been "here" before, though this is certainly the worst downturn in that time. A key motto for Mike has always been "be alive when the game begins again" and so far he has survived to tell the tale!

Agenda

• 0745 Register
• 0800 Breakfast
• 0815 Session1
• 0840 session 2
• 0930 Panel Session
• 1000 Finish

As usual we will be serving breakfast at the event.

Call us now to book your place on 0870 0117 455, or email us

About Virtronix

We are information security specialists.

We install, manage & monitor IT security systems that protect your vital business data against hacking attacks, accidental loss and malicious insiders. We have experienced security experts on hand 24 x 7 x 365 to respond to all support issues or requests, with our technical team managed by a founder member of the Institute of Information Security Professionals. We provide a full range of security consultancy services, from ad hoc enquiries and health checks, to fully managed services, allowing you to focus on your business, not on managing IT systems.

Virtronix and Sandford Technology are proud to announce the start of
their 2020 Vision Programme.

Colin Beveridge will talk about Fighting the Trillion Dollar Bonfire (effective information systems for the 21st Century)

Our inaugural session will be held
on Thursday 4th December 2008 at Thorpe Park Spa Hotel Leeds.

View more information here

If you are interested in attending this event please contact us

Virtronix provides a range of services including security consultancy, remote management of firewalls, VPNs, vulnerability and network scanning as well as virtualisation. The company boasts well-known companies such as Camelot amongst its clients.

Richard Atkinson, Managing Director, Sandford Technology said: "Virtronix has an excellent team of people who have a 'can do' attitude to customer service which will be of tremendous benefit to our clients."

He continued: "The merger has strong future strategic implications for us and begins to fulfill our aim of being a next-generation IT services provider. As a combined business we now have an extremely powerful set of products and services to offer ".

"We are in a web-centric world and the pace of change is quickening. Broadband, powerful hosted software applications and the rich functionality of web 2.0 are driving change in the business environment. We are seeing increasing demand for powerful, interactive online business applications and this is symptomatic of the new generation of internet technologies. There is a major trend towards 'web 2.0' portals and internet-hosted business applications such as CRM, document management, workflow and collaboration and we are well set to provide all of this within secure and virtualised infrastructures".

"By the year 2020, in fact well before that in many cases, we expect business to be transformed into a predominantly digital landscape, with enterprises small and large transacting through advanced websites, web services and hosted applications. Clients, prospects, suppliers and other contacts will expect to interact with businesses in new, sophisticated ways. This environment will become the hub of the business and we are well-placed to provide the data security, web applications and support services to deliver this future. We call this our 2020 Vision."

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