VMware firewall takes aim at defending apps in data center, cloud
Network World
MARCH 8, 2019
VMware has taken the wraps off a firewall it says protects enterprise applications and data inside data centers or clouds.
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VMware adds more security for diverse cloud workloads
Network World
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
VMware has added more security features to its forthcoming on-demand multi-cloud networking and security service called Northstar that it previewed during its August VMware Explore 2022 conference. To read this article in full, please click here
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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty
Network World
MARCH 17, 2025
Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. There is no like-for-like replacement for the VMware hypervisor on the market, Delory points out.
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With Project Cypress, VMware brings generative AI to cyberdefense
Network World
AUGUST 27, 2024
At the VMware Explore conference going on this week in Las Vegas, VMware announced the addition of a generative AI weapon to its own cybersecurity platform, vDefend. For example, attackers can exploit weaknesses in enterprise applications or infrastructure to infiltrate networks, then move laterally as they hunt for high-value assets.
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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
It also delivers security services and solutions – including best-in-class firewalls, endpoint detection and response, and security information and event management – needed to address the most stringent cyber resiliency requirements. These ensure that organizations match the right workloads and applications with the right cloud.
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Are next-generation firewalls legacy technology?
Network World
MAY 5, 2017
A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. These devices combined traditional L3/L4 packet filtering with deep packet inspection, IPS, and other network security services along with knowledge about users and applications. Cryptzone, Google BeyondTrust, Vidder, etc.)
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VergeIO enhances VergeFabric network virtualization offering
Network World
MARCH 13, 2025
But with the challenges surrounding Broadcoms acquisition of VMware and rumors of VMware customer defections , VergeIO has emerged as an alternative option. At the core of VergeIOs offering is its VergeOS platform, which takes a fundamentally different approach compared to traditional virtual infrastructure solutions like VMware.
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Fortinet grabs cloud security player Lacework
Network World
JUNE 10, 2024
We intend to make the platform even more powerful by integrating it with Fortinet’s firewall and WAAP capabilities to further help customers identify, prioritize, and remediate risks and threats in complex cloud-native infrastructure from code to cloud,” Madison stated. Until recently, Wiz had been heavily rumored to be acquiring Lacework.
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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 19, 2024
We recently passed the 100-day mark since VMware joined Broadcom. In the 18-month process of evaluating and acquiring VMware, we looked at everything to identify what’s needed to create more value for our customers. Many major brands and Fortune 500 companies run their mission-critical workloads on VMware software.
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Pure Storage brings storage-as-a-service to files
Network World
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
It includes dynamic file services that “change, adapt and reconfigure in real-time to meet the fast paced demands of modern applications,” the company said. So we’re introducing this concept of a VMware assessment. That embedded team will just take its needs to the cloud.
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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)
Network World
JUNE 6, 2024
Gartner had put its finger on a new set of challenges that enterprise IT faced as employees shifted to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic and applications migrated to the cloud. Broadcom’s VMware unit: VMware SASE was developed in-house and includes SD-WAN, ZTNA, CASB, FWaaS, and SWG. As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN.
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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security
Network World
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025.
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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Career path: Leads to VMware Advanced Professional certifications Best for: Virtualization specialists in data center environments Certified Data Centre Professional (CDCP) The comprehensive CDCP certification from EPI covers all aspects of data center operations and infrastructure management, focusing on both theory and practical applications.
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Broadcom Pinnacle Partners: Guiding enterprises throughout their cloud journeys
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 2, 2024
This fall, Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware brought together two engineering and innovation powerhouses with a long track record of creating innovations that radically advanced physical and software-defined data centers. VMware Cloud Foundation – The Cloud Stack VCF provides enterprises with everything they need to excel in the cloud.
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Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves
Network World
JULY 24, 2024
SSE – secure service edge – is a cloud-based way to deliver secure access to corporate systems, SaaS applications, and the Internet in general. The five elements of SASE are CASB, secure web gateway, ZTNA, firewall as a service, and integrated SD-WAN. SSE is essentially SASE minus SD-WAN, the network access part of the equation.
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Illumio extends its segmentation to the network and cloud
Network World
JANUARY 31, 2017
In actuality, coarse-grained segmentation has been around for decades in the form of firewalls, VLANs and ACLs, but companies like Illumio and VMware have extended the paradigm to applications, workloads and users. One of the big advancements in data center security has been the rise of segmentation tools.
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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 17, 2013
Paul Speciale is Chief Marketing Officer at Appcara , which is a provider of a model-based cloud application platform. Numerous IT management tools are available today for use with the cloud, but the rubber meets the road at the level of the application because this is what a user will actually “use.” Cloud Application Management.
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203 Microsegmentation – Secure Your Internal Network
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 20, 2016
Microsegmentation like that provided by vendors CISCO and VMware state that traditional perimeter defenses akin to medieval castles walls no longer work. The problem is that threat actors are able to get through the castle gates (firewalls) and once in, are able to evade the castle guards (IPS). It enables Internet at Scale.
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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.
Fountainhead
MAY 12, 2009
Profiling questions nobodys asking re: cloud applications. But so little attention is being paid to identifying & profiling which applications are best-suited to actually run in an external "cloud." of what ideal application properties pre-dispose apps for being well-suited to run in a cloud. Tuesday, May 12, 2009.
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Technology Short Take #32
Scott Lowe
MAY 3, 2013
Ranga Maddipudi ( @vCloudNetSec on Twitter) has put together two blog posts on vCloud Networking and Security’s App Firewall ( part 1 and part 2 ). Some good advice here on scaling/sizing VXLAN in VMware deployments (as well as some useful background information to help explain the advice). Operating Systems/Applications.
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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 15, 2022
Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center. This helps us move our team up the talent chain so they can focus on working with applications teams in the company and produce much better business outcomes.”.
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Network Virtualization as I understand it
Virtualized Greek
APRIL 30, 2013
VMware equates network virtualization to Server Virtualization. With server virtualization you can deploy an application to any physical server in your environment easily because the Server OS that the application resides on is abstracted from the network. Source VMware. Network Virtualization Cisco NSX SDN VMWare'
VMworld 2014 Day 2 Keynote
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 26, 2014
Ben Fathi, CTO of VMware, takes the stage to start the keynote, and goes through a recap of yesterday’s announcements: EVO and EVO:RAIL, vCloud Air rebranding and the availability of new services, VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO), and new product versions (vCloud Suite 5.8, betas of vSphere and VSAN).
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Very Early Thoughts about EMC ViPR
Scott Lowe
MAY 6, 2013
Although I used to work at EMC before I joined VMware earlier this year , I never really had deep access to what was going on with this project, so my thoughts here are strictly based on what’s been publicly disclosed. Courteous comments are always welcome (but do please add vendor affiliations where applicable)!
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127 COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. These challenges can be summarized as: I/O-intensive application virtualization. Intra-VM communication.
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131 Dell’s bare metal switch is a big deal for SDN
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 30, 2014
My typical use case is an application that has virtual servers that work in conjunction with physical hosts. These hosts can be physical servers, firewalls or load balancers. What if you wanted to manage the entire application environment as a single virtual network? The application can become self contained. First, why.
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VMworld 2013 – Keynote Day 2 – NSX, vCAC, vSAN
Virtualized Greek
AUGUST 27, 2013
Kit Colbert (VMware Principal Architect) & Carl Ecshenbach (VMware COO) Joe Baguley (VMware CTO, EMEA). VMware is talking about the business of IT and how they enable their own business to deliver applications. VMware is of course pushing their virtual SAN solution (vSAN) to provision and control storage.
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Technology Short Take #31
Scott Lowe
APRIL 8, 2013
Greg Ferro examines a potential SDN use case (an OpenFlow use case) in the form of enterprise firewall migrations. Operating Systems/Applications. I hadn’t really considered how one might use BOSH for deploying (and managing) multi-VM applications on vSphere, but Brian provides some practical examples. Interesting.
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Technology Short Take #46
Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
I really appreciate Jay’s focus on what’s beneficial to the users of OpenStack: the cloud operators, the end users/consumers, and the developers building applications on top of OpenStack. Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). Operating Systems/Applications. See part 1 and part 2 for the full details.
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87 Fountainhead: Follow IT's Money: A Survey of IT Financial.
Fountainhead
MAY 18, 2012
Other more sophisticated IT finance tools then allocate those costs to projects and/or organizations across the enterprise, and some even integrate that data into other finance applications (See this Blog by Paulo Prazeres on the topic). applications to map and measure resource usage independent of computing. chargeback application.
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173 VMworld 2015 Day 2 Keynote Liveblog
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Poonen briefly recaps yesterday’s messaging, and then moves into the focus of today’s keynote—focusing on the “any application and any device” part of the “Ready for Any” messaging. According to Poonen, the core of the solution for “any application on any device” is VMware’s Workspace Suite. What about iOS and Android devices?
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60 Technology Short Take #33
Scott Lowe
JUNE 4, 2013
This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. App Firewall? Operating Systems/Applications. If you aren’t using vSphere Host Profiles, this write-up on the VMware SMB blog might convince you why you should and show you how to get started. Virtualization.
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113 VMworld 2016 Day 1 Keynote
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 28, 2016
After that talk Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, takes the stage. Gelsinger then points out that although IT no longer controls the devices, the applications, or the networks, IT is still held responsible for security breaches. Gelsinger next brings Guido Appenzeller, CTSO of Networking and Security at VMware.
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5 Reasons Why Ansible is the Best CM Tool Out There?
Cloud Musings
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Amidst volatile markets, dynamic technology shifts, and ever-increasing customer demands, it is imperative for IT organizations to develop flexible, scalable and high-quality applications that exceed expectations and enhance productivity. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.
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You can easily virtualize your physical storage
Dataconomy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Server virtualization can do the trick for you if you also struggle to scale your applications to meet growing demands without breaking the bank. With traditional physical servers, adding new applications or services often requires purchasing and installing additional hardware.
Technology Short Take #63
Scott Lowe
MARCH 17, 2016
I recently came across a couple useful troubleshooting guides, one for Open vSwitch (OVS) and OpenStack Neutron and one for VMware NSX. Russell Pope at Kovarus recently wrote about using security groups to manage the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Operating Systems/Applications. VMware recently GA’d version 6.2
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Technology Short Take 145
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Ivan Pepelnjak shares some links and thoughts on configuring the NSX-T firewall with a CI/CD pipeline built on GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud. Better patch your vCenter Server instances, as VMware released a security advisory with a long list of CVEs , including one with a severity score of 9.8/10. Operating Systems/Applications.
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107 Technology Short Take #49
Scott Lowe
MARCH 10, 2015
Anthony Burke (disclaimer: Anthony works for VMware in the NSBU) has a post on how to use Python to automate the bulk creation of firewall rules for use with the VMware NSX distributed firewall. Here’s a post by Grant Orchard on using VMware NSX’s security groups to protect workloads deployed via vCAC (now vRA).
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Technology Short Take #35
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
A discussion of “statefulness” brought me again to Ivan’s post on the spectrum of firewall statefulness. VMware introduced VMware NSX recently at VMworld 2013. Operating Systems/Applications. I am loving the micro-infrastructure series by my VMware vSphere Design co-author, Forbes Guthrie.
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Technology Short Take 139
Scott Lowe
APRIL 2, 2021
In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” This time, they’re exploiting a weakness that VMware can’t patch: people. Operating Systems/Applications.
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Technology Short Take 132
Scott Lowe
OCTOBER 23, 2020
I think a fair number of folks may not be aware that the Nginx ingress controller for Kubernetes—both the community version and the Nginx-maintained open source version—do suffer from timeouts and errors resulting from changes in the back-end application’s list of endpoints (think pods being added or removed). Programming.
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60 Technology Short Take #71
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 8, 2016
Dmitri Kalintsev is back with another article in a series of articles on using hardware VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) with VMware NSX. Here’s a handy post by Dale Coghlan on how to find object IDs for just about anything in a VMware NSX environment. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Then again, what do I know?
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Technology Short Take #84
Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2017
Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.
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Scott Lowe
JUNE 18, 2017
Colin Lynch shares some details on his journey with VMware NSX (so far). I wouldn’t take this information as gospel, but here’s a breakdown of some of the IPv6 support available in VMware NSX. Operating Systems/Applications. Servers/Hardware. Cloud Computing/Cloud Management.
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