by dell protection at the speed of business . type private company industry backup and recovery security appliances internet security wan optimization fate acquired by dell software group successor francisco partners and elliott management founded 1991 founder sreekanth ravi sudhakar ravi headquarters san jose california products security appliance filtering spam backup and recovery spyware viruses and other malware revenue us 265 million 2011 1 owner francisco partners and elliott management number of employees 1000 december 2011 1 website www.sonicwall.com sonicwall styled sonicwall originally a private company headquartered in san jose california and dell subsidiary from 2012 to 2016 sells a range of internet appliances primarily directed at content control and network security . these include devices providing services for network firewalls utms unified threat management vpns virtual private network backup and recovery and anti spam for email . the company also markets information subscription services related to their products . 2 the company solutions also serve to solve issues surrounding hipaa and pci compliance issues . 3 on march 13 2012 usa today said that dell announced its intent to acquire sonicwall which then had 130 patents and 950 employees . dell s acquisition of sonicwall became official on may 9 2012 . 4 5 on june 20 2016 dell sold sonicwall part of dell software group to private equity firm francisco partners and elliott management 6 history edit 1991 brothers sreekanth and sudhakar ravi founded the company under the name sonic systems to develop ethernet and fast ethernet cards hubs and bridges . 2 7 1990s in the late 1990s the company released a security product later branded sonicwall a dedicated hardware appliance with firewall and vpn software intended for the small business market . 7 1999 in november 1999 sonicwall went public snwl . 8 2001 sonicwall upgraded its global management system gms software to manage more vpn devices . 9 2003 matthew t. matt medeiros formerly of philips components became ceo in march 2003 . 10 sonicwall acquired a number of companies through the years expanding its product line in the process . 11 2005 sonicwall announced acquisition of enkoo 12 2007 sonicwall announced acquisition of aventail corporation 13 2010 on july 23 2010 sonicwall announced that it had completed its merger with affiliates of an investor group led by thoma bravo llc which includes the ontario teachers pension plan through its private investor department teachers private capital . after the merger sonicwall was delisted from nasdaq . 2012 on march 13 2012 dell announced that they had signed a definitive agreement to acquire sonicwall . 14 2016 on may 20 2016 dell announced the sale of dell software group which includes sonicwall to private equity firm francisco partners and elliott management 6 references edit a b sec.gov a b snwl profile for sonicwall inc. . yahoo . 2010 . retrieved 2010 03 05 . sonicwall pci compliance case study pdf . sonicwall . 2011 . retrieved 2011 06 06 . usa today page b1 published march 14 2008 dell buys security specialist sonicwall dell completes acquisition sonicwall . businesswire.com . may 9 2012 . a b francisco partners and elliott management to acquire the dell software group . www.sonicwall.com . a b corporate information . sonicwall . 1999 . archived from the original on 1999 05 04 . retrieved 2010 03 05 . sonicwall ipo should make noise . ecommerce times . 1999 . retrieved 2010 03 05 . greene tim 2001 07 30 . sonicwall boosts vpn software . network world . 18 31 . idg network world inc. p. 8 . issn 0887 7661 . retrieved 2015 02 03 . global management system gms 2.0 lets users manage up to 10 000 pieces of sonicwall vpn hardware a tenfold increase ... . sonicwall company officers reuters . reuters . 2010 . retrieved 2010 03 05 . news archive search of sonicwall acquisition including frequency chart . google . 2010 . retrieved 2010 03 05 . sonicwall acquires lasso logic inc. and enkoo . sonicwall inc. to acquire aventail corporation . pr newswire . 2007 . retrieved 2014 04 25 . worthen ben ; sherr ian 2012 03 13 . dell to buy it security company sonicwall wsj.com . the wall street journal . retrieved 13 march 2012 . v t e dell technologies computers adamo alienware dimension inspiron inspiron mini latitude optiplex precision studio vostro xps servers poweredge m1000e blade system powervault poweredge vrtx thin clients fx100 wyse smartphones streak venue pro venue acquisitions alienware equallogic emc corporation perot systems dell kace dell boomi ocarina networks dell compellent force10 secureworks dell appassure wyse sonicwall other powerconnect switches axim digital jukebox dj monitors dell support center dell diamond retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title sonicwall & oldid 744483595 categories companies established in 1991software companies based in californiacontent control softwarenetworking companies of the united statescompanies formerly listed on nasdaqtelecommunications equipment vendorscompanies based in san jose californiacompanies acquired by dellannounced technology acquisitionsdellnetworking hardware companiesserver appliancecomputer security companies1991 establishments in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages polskiportugu ssvenska edit links this page was last modified on 15 october 2016 at 14 35 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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