Comdex, Sweden. January 20,
2004 – Leading Norwegian IT security company Norman Data
Defense Systems, today announced the release of NVCNet for
terminal servers, a distributed antivirus solution to
address the increased threat and impact of worms and
viruses to networked businesses.
In a terminal server deployment, enterprise applications
are centrally installed on high-powered terminal servers
and accessed remotely using inexpensive thin-clients.
Today native antivirus applications are installed on the
thin client and terminal server checking for virus, worms
and other malware.
However these servers are a critical resource utilised by
a high volume of users and holding substantial
applications. High loads on the CPU resources can cause
them to slow down. An antivirus application processing
files on the already stressed CPU can compound this
problem. The solution thus far has been to invest in
additional terminal servers to spread the load. This is a
costly and timely process involving both software and
hardware investments.
To avoid these situations, Norman Data Defense Systems has
developed NVCNet for Terminal Servers to support these
environments operating under Citrix and Microsoft. The
solution consists of two parts, a server application and a
client application. The server is a distributed content
checking server installed outside the terminal server
communicating with the native Norman Virus Control
antivirus software installed on the terminal server. When
the CPU load hits a predefined threshold on the terminal
server, it triggers the traffic to be re-directed to the
distributed NVCNet server. Consequently, most of the
servers resources can be used to manage applications,
files and users, and not virus scanning. When the CPU load
is back to normal the “local” antivirus program again
takes control of the virus scanning.
In environments where two or more NVCNet servers are
installed, load sharing and failover functions can be
configured to ensure high uptime and powerful scanning. An
NVCNet server has the ability to scan different
environments, e.g. file and SMTP mail servers, through
simple configuration options.
“We believe this is a cost effective way of solving a
problem many organisations find themselves in. NVCNet is a
new, innovative, flexible, completely scalable and
platform independent client/server network scanning
solution for mid-size and large enterprises.” states Audun
Lødemel, VP Marketing and Business Development. “The
NVCNet concept is a new way of delivering antivirus
protection in a robust and effective way. We envisage this
hassle-free virus scanning solution to be well received
and look forward to implementing this technology at our
customers’ sites.”
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