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One of our new customers was eager to switch all of their competitor’s firewalls in their network to StoneGate firewalls. I arrived onsite midday the day before the scheduled cutover and was planning to go through the normal routine of interviewing the staff and so I could make sure to avoid any pitfalls and make sure the cutover was as smooth as possible. However, the customer had other plans for me. After two days of rebooting the  firewalls four to five times a day, they asked if I could have the StoneGate firewalls ready by 7:30 pm that night. Keep in mind I didn’t arrive until 1 pm. Well long story short I said “sure no problem” with a muted smile. I got the firewalls configured and was ready to make the swap when the customer suggested taking a quick break for dinner before we made the cut. When we came back we found the  firewalls down again and thought we might as well leave them down. We powered on the new StoneGate cluster, made initial contact, pushed the policies and had life breathing back into the network. The StoneGate solution made us look like champs. Thank you Stonesoft! We would not have been able to do this with any other system as fast and as easy. The StoneGate Management Center interface is like none other and far exceeds ASDM and other similar interfaces. You gave me the power and the training to hit this curveball out of the park!

written by RayMaurer - 955 views \\ tags: Cutover, firewall, Partner, story