Whale Communications
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Whale Communications is a leading provider of business driven application access products. A pioneer in secure application layer access and a technology leader since its establishment in 1998, Whale has helped Fortune 500 and Global 1000 companies as well as government and public sector organizations around the world to extend their reach.
To safely extend your business beyond the borders of your network Whale and Microsoft have teamed up to provide Intelligent Application Gateway – ISA Edition, the industry's first to combine IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, endpoint security and application security components into a single intelligent access gateway. Whale's ISA Edition gateway is an out-of-the-box solution combining SSL VPN technologies with application layer filtering from Microsoft providing optimal security for both inbound and outbound traffic.
The Intelligent Application Gateway comes preinstalled with Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 built on top of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 in a single, consolidated appliance for network perimeter defense, remote access over SSL and/or IPSec connections, application-layer protection and endpoint security enforcement. Companies of all sizes can now benefit from a cost-effective solution for providing secure policy-driven remote access to business applications and network resources to employees, partners and customers while ensuring network integrity and protecting internal servers from application-layer threats.
On July 26, 2006 - Bob Kelly, General Manager of Infrastructure Marketing at Microsoft Corporation, announced the acquisition of Whale Communications and provided details of the company’s goals and strategies around the completed acquisition. Read more about Whale Communications and the acquisition.
