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3. Deploy a hardened Access Gateway appliance and occasionally upgrade to newer versions that incorporate the latest security updates. These upgrades have been validated by Citrix, minimizing the work required by the administrator


Essentially an administrator can deploy Secure Gateway on a Windows Server and manage the overhead to assure security posture is maintained, or deploy Access Gateway and reduce the time required for reviews.


Assuming hourly fully-loaded labor cost of $100 per hour, an Access Gateway VPX virtual appliance is less than half the cost of a Secure Gateway deployment over three years.


Costs include:


• Hardware, operating system, and hypervisor • The application software license • Hardware maintenance • Software maintenance and patching


Note that the costs of initial configuration are not included since they tend to vary widely across different organizations. Due to this high variance, these costs are not factored into the core calculations in this document.


Cost analysis


The three-year cost of deploying Secure Gateway is approximately $6,3231 Cost for Secure Gateway implementation


Dell® Poweredge® R200 with Intel® Windows Server 2008


Software cost (Secure Gateway) Yearly hardware maintenance Yearly Subscription Advantage


Monthly review of operating system patches (@ $100 hr.) Annual review of new Secure Gateway releases (4 hours)


Total E 3110 and


Year 1 $1,665 $0


Year 2 $0 . Year 3 $0


Included with server purchase $129


$129 $1,200 $2,865


$1,200 $400


$1,729


$1,200 $400


$1,729


Total $1,665 $0


$258


$3,600 $800


$6,323


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The price of the Dell Poweredge 200 rack server (with and without Windows 2008) was taken from the dell.com web site the week of January 11, 2010.


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