SonicWALL and Postec Deliver Expanded Managed Services Offering for Retailers
Postec Increases Market Share in Hospitality, Retail, and Grocery Point-Of-Service With SonicWALL's Technology and Managed Services Offering
RENO, Nev., July 21 // -- SonicWALL, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNWL) and Postec, Inc., a SonicWALL Gold Partner and leading provider of point-of-sale (POS) technology solutions for restaurants, hotels, independent grocers, shops and stores, today announced that they will showcase their retail solutions this week at the Retail Solutions Providers Association's (RSPA) annual EXPOtech 2006 in Reno, Nevada.
Postec has re-imagined and expanded IT support for this vital, transaction-driven sector with a successful managed services offering for retail. Using SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), a simple and flexible management solution for secure retail networks, coupled with SonicWALL's award-winning Internet security appliances, Postec is redefining retailers' expectations for network security, safety and accountability with its own managed solution suite of services.
"Customers in the hospitality and retail industries generally focus on the hardware aspects of transactional technologies and many traditional POS providers offer only the most basic services for their technology customers," says Postec President David Shaw. "Managed services for network and data security have been treated as an afterthought, if at all. Using technology from SonicWALL, we've changed our business to focus on value-add ongoing services, and our customers are responding. We've increased market share by helping countless retailers to reduce IT management costs and better protect critical business systems."
Postec retail customers include Bell's Food Stores, Callaway Gardens, Georgia Dome, Georgia World Congress Center, Pinehurst Resorts and Paradies Shops.
For more information on RSPA's EXPOtech 2006, please visit: rspassn.org/ .
Today's POS systems provide many important new applications to retailers, but also raise new networking and security challenges. SonicWALL helps retailers meet these challenges, and ensures the security and reliability of their systems, delivering rock-solid network security, flexibility and reliability. SonicWALL's line of high-performance firewalls, Unified Threat Management (UTM) services and management software secures POS transactions, protects the network and guarantees that sensitive customer data is safe at all times. More information is available at: http://sonicwall.com/industries/retail.html
About SonicWALL, Inc.
Founded in 1991, SonicWALL, Inc. is a leading provider of continuous data protection and network, Web and e-mail security solutions. SonicWALL, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol SNWL. For more information, contact SonicWALL at (408) 745-9600 or visit the company Web site at www.sonicwall.com/ .
About Postec, Inc.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Postec, Inc. has provided integrated point-of-service technology solutions for the hospitality, retail, and grocery industries throughout the Southeastern United States since 1987. A leading distributor of Micros Hospitality Information Systems, it is the company's unparalled "Five-Star SafeServ Solution" it is best known for. For more information, contact Postec at (864) 268-3888 or visit the company Web site at www.postec.com/ .
Source: SonicWALL, Inc.
CONTACT: Mary McEvoy of SonicWALL, Inc., +1-408-962-7110, or mmcevoy@sonicwall.com
Web site: www.sonicwall.com/
