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Almaviva TSF S.p.A: Enhancing Perimeter Security with Check Point Solutions
Technology Category
- Networks & Connectivity - Gateways
- Sensors - Temperature Sensors
Applicable Industries
- Cement
- National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
- Vehicle-to-Infrastructure
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Almaviva TSF, Italy’s leading system integrator in the Transport & Logistics industry, aimed to implement a new infrastructure to offer data center as a service. The goal was to streamline the use of IT resources to gain a competitive advantage and reach new target audiences. The challenge was to enhance flexibility, both internally and towards customers. The new infrastructure needed to effectively protect the individual computing 'cells' offered to customers, separate and protect the shared computing resources, support a mixed virtual/physical infrastructure, enable the highest data throughput in a high-performance, 10 Gigabit environment, and allow for a single console, easy centralized management.
About The Customer
Almaviva TSF S.p.A is Italy’s leading system integrator in the Transport & Logistics industry. Founded in 1997 as a spin-off of the ICT Division of the Italian Railways Group, the company provides IT services for transport & logistics. Almaviva TSF aimed to build a brand new data center, offering a variety of IT resources (CPU power, storage, connectivity) to new and existing customers, with the goal of increasing revenues and reaching new markets. Security played a critical role in this project.
The Solution
Check Point provided a solution that met all of Almaviva TSF's needs. A brand new data center was created following the paradigm of virtualization. Resources were shared among customers to maximize their efficiency and could be adapted instantaneously to the specific needs, as soon as they evolved. Check Point solutions monitored and controlled traffic within the data center as well as on the perimeter. The highest level of security was provided through the implementation of VSX-1 appliances, which integrated into a core infrastructure already protected by Check Point appliances. Provider-1 enabled Almaviva TSF to consolidate up to 250 management consoles on a single server, and Eventia Reporter aggregated all security reporting generated by all gateways in a unique, graphical format, to make management easier and more effective.
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