Case Study: Missouri Valley Petroleum achieves improved uptime and reduced IT costs with SonicWall TZ Series firewalls

Missouri Valley Petroleum - Customer Case Study

Missouri Valley Petroleum, a medium-enterprise retail company, faced the need to protect distributed sites from malware, ransomware and cryptomining while consolidating security and networking features, easing central management, and ensuring reliable vendor support. After evaluating Cisco, Barracuda and Linksys, IT Director Thomas Hallendorff selected SonicWall TZ series firewalls (including a TZ215 at corporate) to enforce a uniform advanced security platform and provide integrated VPN and centralized logging.

SonicWall deployed TZ firewalls at each location with the TZ215 as the primary VPN hub, using features like DPI-SSL, integrated VPN and on-device reporting. The deployment delivered measurable reliability—no appliance failures in nine years and 10 active sites “rarely, if ever” dropping connections—along with reduced IT infrastructure costs, improved uptime and performance, better data protection and a lowered total cost of ownership; Hallendorff also reported the solution beat competitors in security effectiveness and value and was easy to deploy and manage.

Missouri Valley Petroleum

Thomas Hallendorff

IT Director