City Government Virtualizes Security at the Gateway

The IT team for the City of Wichita has always faced the budget challenges that come with being a government organization. Their challenges were to protect the municipal government's digital assets and maximize the productivity of city employees that deliver services to the community, conserve network bandwidth and minimize the time required to administer updates and manage security solutions. Deployment of Trend Micro virtual appliances for web and messaging security at the gateway. The results of deploying Trend Micro were threats stopped at the gateway, users are shielded from extremely high volumes of spam, updates to the application and virtual appliance operating system are simplified and Security is highly available, with automatic failover in the event of server failures within the VMware VSphere environment.