Re: small schools - nextgen firewalls

[Nathaniel Hall <educause-lists () NATHANIELHALL COM>]

DISCLAIMER: I have not been in education for several years and I am
currently a consultant with one of Palo Alto's top vendors.

I worked with/for one of the largest database marketing companies over
the last year. They were in the process of migrating from Check Point to
Palo Alto. I know they had multiple 10g Internet connections and were
having success with the devices. They were very dependent on Amazon Web
Services ($400k+/month) so it would have been obvious if there were issues.

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Nathaniel Hall, GSEC GPPA GCIA GCIH GCFA CNSE

On 1/13/2015 11:25 PM, Steve Camacho wrote:
> Any example from larger institutions?  We are a Fortigate shop, but
> we are due for an upgrade this year.  The PA products look very
> compelling, but wondering if there are any "gotchas" that might hurt
> in larger shops.  We are about 30K FT students and 50K plus PT
> students with about 6000 employees.  Currently two 10G pipes, but
> looking to add at least 1 more 10G internet pipe at our backup DC for
> redundancy.
>
> Steve Camacho