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Ixia Leverages Virtualization to Help Enterprises Ensure Security ResilienceIxia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading provider of application performance and security resilience solutions, announced that its BreakingPoint solution, an industry-leading security resilience solution, is now offered as virtualized software. The new BreakingPoint Virtual Edition (VE) solution provides enterprise IT departments with the same high-fidelity, real-world validation that security vendors and leading service providers use to ensure network security resilience- now in an elastic deployment model that makes sense for their business. "The pace of technology adoption in our marketplace requires us to change how we handle traditional security testing," said Jason Cain, Network Analyst Specialist, Fidelity National Information Services (News - Alert). "We need both operational and information security testing of individual elements and cohesive platforms to be available to our whole corporation, as a continuous service, rather than as a gateway or milestone in a project plan." The BreakingPoint solution is a market-proven solution that provides the scale and realism needed by network equipment manufacturers and large enterprise IT departments to validate application performance and security resilience. In today's world of crippling cyber attacks and dynamic applications, it is imperative that all organizations take the necessary steps to create secure, scalable and resilient networks. With the new BreakingPoint VE solution, companies of all sizes can identify performance problems and security gaps in advance of costly security incidents or service disruption. "Investing in new security technology can be a messy and confusing process," said Limor Elbaz, CEO, Peerlyst. "With Ixia's (News - Alert) BreakingPoint VE solution, we can analyze the functionality of network security products and provide our community of IT professionals and experts with vendor-neutral information about those products, helping them make the right technology choices for their organization." Ixia's BreakingPoint VE solution is aligned with the needs of today's nimble IT departments, providing flexible and shared virtualized test capabilities that can be quickly deployed and scaled across geo-diverse networks. Using BreakingPoint VE, IT departments can:
About Ixia Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA) provides application performance and security resilience solutions to validate, secure, and optimize businesses' physical and virtual networks. Enterprises, service providers, network equipment manufacturers, and governments worldwide rely on Ixia's solutions to deploy new technologies and achieve efficient, secure, ongoing operation of their networks. Ixia's powerful and versatile solutions, expert global support, and professional services equip organizations to exceed customer expectations and achieve better business outcomes. Learn more at www.ixiacom.com. Connect with Ixia
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