Certified Configurations for “Off-The-Shelf” Data Center Servers Available from HP
Solera Networks brings market-leading pervasive packet capture and playback technology to the masses with certified configurations for the popular HP Proliant DL server platform
Solera Networks, a leading provider of network packet capture and playback appliances, announced today the availability of the Solera Networks DS 1000, 2000, and 3000 Appliance architecture for packet capture and playback, on the off-the-shelf HP Proliant DL 300 server series.
“Solera Networks believes that packet capture and playback technology should not be confined to enterprises who can afford to spend their resources on expensive and proprietary solutions,” said Steve Shillingford, COO for Solera Networks. “Therefore, we’ve leveraged our unique technological advantages for speed and performance to bring this capability to all customers, large and small. HP provides the most common server platform in the world, so making our flagship product available in a certified configuration on HP servers was a logical progression in our technology.”
In another market-first, Solera Networks has now delivered its market-leading and patented technology, based on open-standards, to customers who have standardized on the HP platform. With these certified configurations, Solera Networks and its hardware partners enable customers to deploy network packet capture and playback devices using off-the-shelf HP server hardware, while still achieving the performance and cost-effectiveness associated with current Solera Networks’ appliances.
With this release, Solera Networks has delivered a standard install for the HP Proliant DL 300 server series servers that enable capture, storage and playback of packets at speeds otherwise available only on proprietary, nonstandard and expensive hardware. And because only Solera Networks offers an open capture platform, customers can use literally hundreds of commercial, custom, and open-source networking tools for testing, traffic shaping, intrusion detection, and other packet analysis activities.
With its existing price-performance advantage, customers can now use excess server capacity or competitively-priced HP hardware to implement packet capture and playback within their enterprises.
Solera Networks expects to deliver additional certifications for IBM, Sun, and Dell servers in the near future, further extending the ability of its customers to capture, store and playback packets on industry-standard, easy to manage, and inexpensive and non-proprietary hardware platforms.
Solera Networks is currently beta testing this certified configuration and expects it to be available via download before the end of Q2 2007.
Solera Networks’ high-performance packet capture, record and playback devices are capable of capturing, streaming and archiving all traffic on any network, up to 10 Gb. Captured traffic is written to a scalable, disk-based cache system and presented as a virtual file system which is accessible to any standard security, forensic, compliance, analytics or network management application. Those applications can then perform their analysis on either live or stored data, with the ability to throttle or accelerate traffic speeds and filter playback based on source/destination, protocol, time period and other variables.
Solera DS devices are rack mountable and support off-the-shelf disk storage and SAN solutions, attaching to the network via SPAN connections or network taps. A hardened SELinux platform and proprietary file system ensures security, while web-based administration, preconfigured hardware and an open architecture provides for simple plug-in and play deployment. Detailed information can be found at http://www.soleranetworks.com/