Press Releases
Tuesday
October 22, 2002
Rolta Launches Nine Linux-based Security and Messaging Products
Markets in-house developed-proven technology solutions
Mumbai, 22 October, 2002: Rolta India Limited, India's premier IT solutions and services provider, today announced the launch of a complete range of Linux-based security and messaging products for Corporate Networks. These products have been developed in-house and hitherto been used, for the past 3 years, across Rolta's LAN/WAN. These open source-based cost-effective and robust tools offer a rich set of user-friendly features that empower businesses with secure and reliable defense and communication systems for their enterprise-wide networks. These solutions have been 'in-production-use' by Rolta supporting over tens of thousands of users across Rolta's Corporate and ISP networks.
Commenting on the launch Dr. Sohrab R. Bhot, Executive Director - Rolta India Ltd, said "There has been a coming of age of the feasibility of Linux as a reliable platform and with large organisations promoting Linux as a "platform of choice" is a substantiation of its robustness & scalability as a platform. Rolta is finally sharing its in-house technology with the world through these products. These products will meet market needs at a time when Linux acceptance is ever increasing due its low of cost of ownership and maintenance as compared to existing 'proprietary' systems".
Rolta provides end-to-end eSecurity products and services including firewalls, intrusion detection, VPNs, PKI, netowk monitoring, dial-in networks, etc. These products can be used across the entire spectrum of computer users - ranging from a single user to enterprise-wide networks supporting thousands of users. The risks of intrusion and hacking multiply in proportion to the number of users connected to the Internet and hence, the low cost of ownership and maintenance can prove very attractive to large organisations.
The key advantage of Rolta's messaging solution, useful for electronic communication, is the low-cost one-time software licence as opposed to the popular method of 'per-user' software license fee.
Company Background: Rolta is an Indian multinational organization well equipped to provide knowledge-based software & IT-enabled services to customers across the world. By judiciously combining resources from worldwide facilities, Rolta is able to meet customer needs cost- effectively. Since 1982, Rolta has been a pioneer in computer graphics, mapping and engineering software and has consistently been ranked as India's #1 CAD/CAM/GIS solution provider. Rolta is amongst the top Geo-Engineering software conversion service vendors worldwide and is a leading end-to-end provider of eBusiness solutions and services. Rolta was recently named, second year in a row, amongst the 200 Best Companies worldwide by Forbes Global (with sales up to US$ 1 Billion).
