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Palo Alto Networks Expands, Enhances and Upgrades Portfolio
| Mar 4, 2011 | Enterprise Security
| Analyst: Andrew Braunberg
Event Summary
March 2, 2011 - Palo Alto Networks has announced the immediate availability of GlobalProtect, the new PA-5000 Series appliances, and its fourth major release of PAN-OS. This new hardware and software extends the enterprise capabilities of Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation firewalls to meet network security demands in new ways.
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Analytical Summary
• Current Perspective: Positive on Palo Alto Networks’ numerous product announcements this week, because the company has introduced a new high end appliance family (the PA-5000 Series), released a significant upgrade to its PAN-OS (v4.0) and perhaps most significantly introduced Global Protect, which extends Palo Alto’s policy framework and protection capabilities to endpoints outside the traditional network perimeter.
• Vendor Importance: Very high to Palo Alto Networks, because these announcements are designed to further the company’s competitive differentiators, while also expanding its ability to protect enterprise endpoints in a much richer set of use cases. The Global Protect architecture is not unique to the market (in fact it’s very similar to Cisco’s AnyConnect strategy), but it extends the traditional strengths of Palo Alto’s gateway products that remain more unique to the market.
• Market Impact: High to the firewall and IPS markets, because Palo Alto has been a disruptive force in the network security markets and competitors have needed to react to Palo Alto’s market positioning to a degree that is surprising given its size and reach. These announcements are sure to generate a good bit of enterprise interest and competitors should be prepared to respond.
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