FORT LEE, N.J., Oct. 8, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- Whale Communications(r) today announced that Frost & Sullivan ranked it second in SSL VPN market penetration ahead of Nokia, Nortel, Aventail and Netilla, citing technology developments leading to substantial customer wins.
"With Netscreen now acquiring Neoteris, Whale becomes the market leader among the pure play SSL VPN vendors," says Daniel Steiner, President of Whale. "Whale's leadership position is aligned with continuous major customer wins over the competition. We have done this by establishing ourselves as the best of breed SSL VPN, setting numerous industry standards that were later implemented by other vendors."
The issue of endpoint security and the components comprising it, including attachment or cache wiping, was defined by Whale and is becoming adopted by other vendors. Whale was also the first SSL VPN vendor to introduce specific application support to deliver ease of deployment and heightened security for widely used applications.
"Whale has targeted their efforts to the large enterprise space, and developed many advanced endpoint security technologies. The company continues to ramp up development efforts quickly which has translated into some substantial customer wins," Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Jason Wright wrote in a report titled "World SSL VPN Products Market," for 1H03.
Whale sees the current SSL VPN market as only a fraction of what it will be in the future. As of today, the SSL VPN purchase decision is driven by a tactical need to provide employees access from anywhere. Whale sees SSL VPNs becoming the strategic building block for securing all remote access, be it for partner, customer and eventually web services access.
"We are proud that Leumi Bank, ranked 126th globally by The Banker, selected Whale's SSL VPN as its standard for remote access for their employees, customers and applications. This $1 million deal only illustrates further how mainstream SSL VPNs have become for enterprise remote access," Steiner said. "Our ability to be ahead of the market in terms of technology innovation is a result of our flexible technology. Our SSL VPN solution is built on an open software architecture which allows us to quickly meet changing market needs."
Leumi Bank joins leading companies worldwide that are using Whale's e-Gap(r) Remote Access Appliance to provide anywhere access to key applications. Some of Whale's Fortune 500 customers include: Loews, Mutual of Omaha, Yellow Technologies, Dominion Resources and Affiliated Computer Services (ACS).
About Whale Communications:
Whale Communications, the leading enterprise-class SSL VPN vendor, is enabling companies to provide employees and partners secure access to corporate data and applications from any web browser. Its award-winning solutions have been securing enterprises worldwide since it was founded in 1998. Privately held, Whale is funded by prominent venture firms and industry leaders, including Goldman Sachs, Soros Private Equity Partners and the BRM Group, the founding investor of Check Point Software Technologies. The company is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey and has international offices in Israel, the United Kingdom and Germany.
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