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The results are in: New SG Series appliances beat the competition

miercom-verifiedWhen it comes to security products performance really matters. At Sophos, we prioritize performance so that our products don’t get in the way of a user getting on with their work. Our products are both effective and fast — with no need to turn off features to maintain speed.

In our recent UTM 9.2 release we accelerated our Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) — to do so we made changes to the underlying engine and worked at making our IPS smarter with new optimized default rule sets. We’ve been getting great reports from customers and partners about the speed boost they’re seeing.

But it’s not just software that can boost performance — it’s pretty obvious the hardware it runs on plays a critical role too. That’s why we’re releasing some new security gateway appliances that we’re calling our SG Series appliances.

These are the fastest appliances we’ve ever built. When we started the refresh project we would have been pleased with a 50% speed increase, and we were hoping we’d be able to double the speed. When our engineering team ran our benchmark tests the results were impressive — the new SG Series is up to four times faster than its predecessors.

Miercom logoNow it’s all very well beating your own personal best but for us the real question was how would they fare in a race – just how do they stack up to the competition?

So we asked Miercom Labs, a respected testing house, to run tests. And the results were proof that we’ve built some appliances that will provide Sophos customers and partners with the best price/performance ratio anywhere in the market.

This first chart shows a comparison on firewall throughput. Now it’s important to note these results aren’t from some special, high end box targeted for thousands of users. These are from the SG 210; a mid-range model which is offered at a great price point that any business can afford.

Miercom Firewall Throughput

And this performance advantage is seen not just on raw Firewall speed. The chart below shows results with Application Control enabled, a key component in next generation firewalls. As you see, our hard work paid off here as well.

Miercom App Control

And as you know Sophos has a great heritage in virus scanning and here our expertise really shows. Just look at the AV scanning numbers in the chart below.

Miercom AV proxy

This test compares AV proxy scanning which is widely known to be the most effective form of scanning because it looks at the entire file rather than taking shortcuts. But not everybody can do it “at speed,” and as you can see some don’t offer it at all.

The complete report from Miercom Labs will be published soon but as we announce the availability of the new SG Series appliances I just wanted to share some of the great results we are seeing. And as we extend the SG Series and continue to optimize our software here’s to even faster, even better protection!

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[…] Incluyen en los nuevos dispositivos procesadores Intel Core de cuarta generación, por lo que son 4 veces más rápidos que los dispositivos UTM de la generación anterior, pero además de poder ejecutar sin esfuerzo múltiples aplicaciones de seguridad, proporcionan un rendimiento por encima de sus competidores. Para demostrarlo, han publicado los resultados de la prueba realizada por los laboratorios Miercom  […]

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[…] Sophos anuncia el lanzamiento de sus nuevos appliances SG Series. Estos dispositivos de hardware de alto rendimiento, basados ​​en los procesadores de 4 ª generación Intel® Core™, ofrecen hasta cuatro veces la velocidad de los dispositivos de la generación anterior UTM y se convierten en los más rápidos del mercado, como se demuestra en recientes pruebas independientes. […]

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[…] Sophos anuncia el lanzamiento de sus nuevos appliances SG Series. Estos dispositivos de hardware de alto rendimiento, basados ​​en los procesadores de 4ª generación Intel Core, ofrecen hasta cuatro veces la velocidad de los dispositivos de la generación anterior UTM y se convierten en los más rápidos del mercado, como se demuestra en recientes pruebas independientes. […]

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