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Dyrand Systems Uses SonicWALL For Managed Security Business
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2005-04-06
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Dyrand Systems is building a growing IT and managed security services business, using SonicWALL solutions to secure and remotely manage its clients' networks.
With a growth rate of 467% over the past two years, Dyrand is ranked as number 21 in Canada's PROFIT HOT 50 list of the country's rising business stars. Dyrand Systems is a member of SonicWALL's Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) program, which allows channel partners to offer customers comprehensive, affordable security services that ease the administrative burden of maintaining a secure network.
Founded in 1991, Dyrand has been offering outsourced services for four years to clients including Retirement Concepts, Cryopak Industries, Circon Systems and Unication Group. The Yaletown, Vancouver-based company acts as a virtual IT department and secure connectivity consultant for more than 30 businesses, providing affordable outsourced support, remote monitoring and ongoing consultancy and maintenance.
"SonicWALL is our preferred security solutions vendor because they provide powerful, easy to manage and highly affordable options for our clients," says Birgit Troy, MBA, chief administrative officer of Dyrand Systems. "The additional beauty of the SonicWALL technology is that their remote management and secure VPN technology mean we can ensure our clients' productivity whether or not we're physically on site with them."
Dyrand Systems secures its clients' networks using SonicWALL's PRO and TZ Series VPN firewalls, enables remote connectivity with the Global VPN Client, manages and monitors network functions using SonicWALL's Global Management System management software, and delivers services including Complete Anti Virus, Premium Content Filtering Service and Intrusion Prevention Service to ensure the integrity of their data.
Douglas Brockett, general manager and vice president at SonicWALL, said, "The success of companies, whatever their size, is dependent on uncompromised networks. This is especially true for smaller, non-technical companies who need the efficiencies that technology delivers, but whose expertise lies in other areas. Companies like Dyrand Systems help boost the potential of SMBs by allowing their clients to concentrate on their core business."
Retirement Concepts, a privately owned Canadian company providing seniors' housing services, was Dyrand Systems' first MSSP client. Dyrand now provides outsourced services for Retirement Concepts' 13 senior care locations in Canada. Today, the company is connected with a secure VPN network, all aspects of which are outsourced to Dyrand Systems. Kathy Howarth, IT director for Retirement Concepts, said, "Dyrand Systems helped to get us connected and immediately improved our technology. We have replaced duplication and manual data entry with safe, connected systems, even for people working from home. We used to have issues with viruses and attempted hacking: now we don't even bother to think about anti-virus because Dyrand takes care of that. IT efficiencies help us cut down on administrative tasks and focus on looking after our residents."
"Principally, what we provide is peace of mind," said Trent Dyrsmid, owner and founder of Dyrand Systems. "I know that's not a technical thing, but in my talks with CEOs they just want to know that they're not going to lose their information, that their computers are going to work when they want them and that their productivity is not going to be impaired by poorly functioning computer systems." To date, Dyrand Systems' recipe for taking care of its clients has proved a highly successful business model.
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