Gov Picks: Security and Storage Management

When it comes to government agendas, few things in IT are as important now as meeting compliance guidelines, especially when it comes to backup and disaster recovery. Govplace, an Irvine, Calif.-based solution provider, has seen sales consistently grow since focusing on helping government customers with server consolidation and application consolidation. This is key as new government-compliance initiatives and guidelines mandate that many agencies, departments and offices have such protections in place. Co-founder and president Sean Burke singles out three vendor products that are helping Govplace expand deeper into its core market.

ePolicy Orchestrator

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator is a security-management solution that helps VARs deliver a proactive defense against threats and attacks to their enterprise customers. Among other things, ePolicy Orchestrator helps network administrators manage risks associated with rogue code, such as viruses and worms, plus noncompliant systems. The solution is ideal for helping customers keep their protection current, and for configuring and enforcing protection policies while monitoring security status around the clock from a centralized console. The software provides protection for desktops, file servers, groupware servers and gateways, including antivirus, system firewalls, antispam, content filtering, Host IPS-comprehensive and enterprise system security-management solutions. A one-time Gartner Magic Quadrant selection, ePolicy Orchestrator runs on Windows servers.
epolicy orchestrator, mcafee.com

AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite

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AppIQ is a leading provider of SAN management and Storage Resource Management solutions. With the company's award-winning StorageAuthority Suite, customers are able to, according to the company, build a comprehensive storage infrastructure, reduce operational costs and synchronize IT resources with business needs. That translates to a cost-effective solution that government accounts can bring in-house for less than some leading alternatives. AppIQ's StorageAuthority Suite provides a slew of capabilities, including storage-resource visualization, provisioning, monitoring, reporting, policy-based automation, and capacity and performance planning and monitoring. The Web-services architecture chosen by the company helps partners and customers alike install scalable and simple-to-use solutions.
appiq storageauthority suite, appiq.com

Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 6.1

A compliance solution for managing risks by identifying threats and measuring compliance to security practices and regulations, Symantec ESM 6.1 includes new features designed to make compliance reporting easier. Leveraging technology from Cognos, Symantec ESM 6.1 includes an enterprise-class reporting framework to help with security audits. With the tool, users can pinpoint weaknesses and shortcomings in their defense strategies and shortfalls with their compliance obligations. Symantec ESM includes more than 75 predefined reports showing compliance status, highlighting violations and configuration changes on host systems. Symantec ESM simplifies regulatory compliance with new preconfigured policy-assessment templates. The solution also features best-practice security policies ISO17799, SANS Top 20 and Center for Internet Security Benchmarks.
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 6.1, www.symantec.com