SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwire - October 22, 2007) -
St.
Bernard Software, Inc. (
OTCBB:
SBSW), a global provider of security
appliances and on-demand solutions, including secure content management and
archiving, today introduced the Managed Enterprise Reporting Service (MERS)
for
iPrism® Web-filtering appliances.
This marks the first step in the company's new hybrid strategy, designed to
better meet the security needs of businesses. St. Bernard will combine its
managed services and hardware appliances to help IT managers deploy the
most efficient products that best fit their network infrastructure. Today's
initial hybrid security launch enables St. Bernard customers to run
multiple iPrism appliances across a variety of locations, while MERS
aggregates, centralizes and archives all usage reports remotely.
"Today's MERS launch marks the company's initial move toward marrying our
on-premise and in-the-cloud offerings, unveiling St. Bernard's hybrid
approach to meeting our customers' security needs," said Andrew Lochart,
vice president of marketing and product management at St. Bernard. "With
the introduction of our hybrid product strategy, our customers will receive
secure content management functionality in the best location, maximizing
their deployments' effectiveness, scalability and cost efficiency."
Additional benefits of hybrid products include:
-- The control of an appliance with the scalability of services
-- Lower up-front costs
-- Elimination of ongoing 'racking and stacking'
"A hybrid security approach provides the best of both worlds -- the
security and availability of on-premise offerings combined with the
scalability and ease of management of a hosted solution," said Michael
Osterman, president at Osterman Research. "Providing centralized reporting
capabilities for geographically distributed appliances eases IT's
management burden and improves the overall efficiency of the security
infrastructure."
The hardware component of the new hybrid solution ensures immediate,
on-site prevention of inappropriate online employee activity. At the same
time, MERS stores reports in the St. Bernard managed data centers,
providing secure backup of important data. For companies with a single
iPrism, MERS also boosts the appliance's performance, relieving the system
of reporting overhead.
All MERS systems are hosted at St. Bernard's globally-diverse data centers
and managed by the LivePrism Network Operation Center. More information
about iPrism and MERS can be found at:
http://www.stbernard.com/products/iprism/iprism-mers.asp, by calling
1-800-782-3762 or contacting one of St. Bernard's authorized resellers.
A link to St. Bernard's Hybrid Whitepaper can be found at:
http://www.stbernard.com/forms/whitepaper/wp_hybrid.asp.
About St. Bernard
St. Bernard Software, Inc. (
OTCBB:
SBSW) is a global provider of security
appliances and hosted solutions, including secure content management and
archiving. The company's award-winning products deliver innovative security
solutions that offer the best combination of ease-of-use, performance and
value.
Established in 1995 with headquarters in San Diego, CA and international
offices in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, St. Bernard sells and
supports its products directly and through solution partners worldwide. For
more information, please visit
www.stbernard.com.
© 2007 St. Bernard Software Inc. All rights reserved. The St. Bernard
Software logo, LivePrism, iPrism, and iGuard are trademarks of St. Bernard
Software Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are hereby
acknowledged.
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