Daxtor is a company that provides web based applications for the private banking sector.
It offers a software platform for private consultants and fund investment management companies through ASP model using Linux, Solaris, Java and Oracle technologies.
To protect its servers infrastructure, Daxtor is using now SmoothWall UTM appliances : a special designed hardware running SmoothWall Advanced Firewall.
SmoothWall Advanced Firewall is an expandable system with a very powerful and easy-to-use web management interfaces from which is possible to control the configuration in detail and check the firewall status in real time.
SmoothWall UTM appliances offer also the possibility to connect two appliances together to build a failover system : 2 firewalls are privately connected with a cross-over wire, only one appliance is active at time and the other is in stand-by mode. If the first appliance stops working the secondary appliance reconfigures itself and becomes active, substituting the first one.
The configuration between the two appliances is kept in synchronization automatically : the first system acts as master and secondary as slave.
Since 2002 I’ve been the system administrator of this network infrastructure for Daxtor and helped them to design, build and grow their servers farm. I configured for them this new firewall system and integrated it with the existing network infrastructure.
