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.
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. Perimeter firewalls, originally designed to protect north-south traffic, are just not adequate,” Mahajan says.
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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. And throughout all of this, we enable them to draw on the VMware assets they know and trust.“
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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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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. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. Cisco ACI, CloudPassage, Illumio, Unisys, vArmour, VMware NSX, etc.).
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Enterprises opt for different microsegmentation architectures
Network World
APRIL 19, 2020
Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. IT leaders are responding with a variety of different microsegmentation approaches, all designed to isolate workloads from each other and prevent unauthorized lateral movements. Here are their stories.
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469 Advanced Threat Prevention with VMware NSX Distributed Firewall
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 19, 2022
Advanced Threat Prevention with VMware NSX Distributed Firewall Security professionals understand that hackers hide lateral movement inside large volumes of east-west network traffic. The post Advanced Threat Prevention with VMware NSX Distributed Firewall appeared first on TechRepublic.
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Arista embraces segmentation as part of its zero-trust security
Network World
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
The new software, Macro-Segmentation Service (MSS)-Group, expands the company’s MSS security-software family, which currently includes MSS Firewall for setting security policies across customer edge, data-center and campus networks. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies.
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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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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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Network giants unite to fight security risks
Network World
JULY 25, 2023
The Network Resilience Coalition includes AT&T, Broadcom, BT Group, Cisco Systems, Fortinet, Intel, Juniper Networks, Lumen Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Verizon and VMware. Its aim is to deliver open and collaborative techniques to help improve the security of network hardware and software across the industry.
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Cloudflare introduces SD-WAN- and firewall-as-a-service offerings
Tech Republic Data Center
MARCH 22, 2021
In a bid to replace MPLS circuits and SD-WAN appliances, Cloudflare has introduced Magic WAN and Magic Firewall and partnerships with VMware, Aruba, Digital Realty, CoreSite and EdgeConneX.
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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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Pure Storage brings storage-as-a-service to files
Network World
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Customers want the public cloud operating model behind their own firewalls, explained Shawn Hansen, general manager of the core storage business unit at Pure Storage, in an interview, so the company has focused on providing a single, unified infrastructure that is managed as a service, like the public cloud.
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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)
Network World
JUNE 6, 2024
It can also encompass a constantly growing laundry list of additional features such as firewall as a service (FWaaS), browser isolation, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and web application firewall (WAF). Broadcom’s VMware unit: VMware SASE was developed in-house and includes SD-WAN, ZTNA, CASB, FWaaS, and SWG.
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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security
Network World
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. The traditional WAN model requires that remote users connect via VPNs, with firewalls at each location or on individual devices. billion by 2025. What are the core security features of SASE?
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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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IT Vortex: The Effort to Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions is Far More Than a Business Goal
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 28, 2022
VMware Cloud Verified, IT Vortex boasts numerous offerings based on VMware technologies. We bundle virtual firewalls, layered antivirus, Security Operations Center-as-a-Service, 24/7/365 alerts and monitoring, and more to ensure that our clients are protected in the cloud from day one.”. Cloud Management, Green IT
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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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Microsoft Entra Suite is late to the SSE pool but will still make waves
Network World
JULY 24, 2024
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. This is going to happen to SSE as well.”
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5 network automation startups to watch
Network World
DECEMBER 23, 2024
The Highway 9 Mobile Cloud also automatically integrates existing enterprise IT network and security infrastructure including firewalls, NAC, DNS tools, etc. Highway 9s founding team gained leadership experience at VMWare, and the startup has already landed a high-profile named customer in MIT.
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150 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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Trend Micro’s Enterprise Play
Network World
OCTOBER 31, 2016
Trend faces stiff competition here and the company doesn’t offer a network firewall, but its IPS/sandbox story should play well, especially in the small enterprise market. Trend has a history here as it was one of the first vendors to work with VMware VMSafe APIs years ago. Cloud and virtualization support.
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On Network Virtualization and SDN
Scott Lowe
APRIL 30, 2013
Last week I had the opportunity to join John Troyer on the VMware Communities podcast. My purpose, as John put it when he invited me, was to “gently introduce” the community to the idea of network virtualization, which is where I now spend most of my time since joining VMware in early February. Or virtualized firewalls?
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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). Need Visio stencils for VMware?
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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. Leased lines and direct connects would remain in the data center as part of this strategy, but Hoag did not want to route users through the data center to access data on the cloud.
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CIO as enabler: Building an ecosystem of innovation partners
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
There’s significant debate about the future of the CIO role , but one thing is clear: Digital leaders who want to be successful must look beyond the firewall and link up with an ecosystem of vendor partners, startups, and other organizations to ensure the enterprise thrives. We are the nerds,” he says. “We
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Network Virtualization as I understand it
Virtualized Greek
APRIL 30, 2013
VMware equates network virtualization to Server Virtualization. I re-read the VMware post announcing the NSX product and it all kind of just clicked for me. Source VMware. These virtual ports can then be assigned to a virtualized Firewall, Switch, Router or IDS ports based on the need. Related Posts.
Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 17, 2013
The latter can be open-source software such as OpenStack, CloudStack or commercial products such as Citrix CloudPlatform or VMware Cloud Director (VCD). The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules.
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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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VMware Certified Professional – Will this thing actually add value to my career?
Virtualized Greek
MARCH 30, 2013
I decided to sit for the VMware Certified Professional (VC) test. I’ve been using VMware since Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 (ESX I have no desire to really go back to a full technical role but the certification does have some cliche to it even when not in a pure technical role or working for a VMware partner.
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45 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. Naturally, given that the product was only announced today, these are very early thoughts. .”
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Scott Lowe
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
Nice use of VMware Fusion in part 2, by the way.). VMware, Vagrant, and Docker together is the subject of this blog post by Fabio Rapposelli. It makes me wonder when VMware will announce support for CoreOS on vCloud Air. you’ll need to be sure to unblock WMI in the Windows Firewall. Want to install ESXi 5.5
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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. Macintosh Networking Security Storage Virtualization Automation iSCSI OpenFlow OpenStack Puppet SDN VMware' Just getting started in the networking field? Interesting. Technology Short Take #25. Technology Short Take #29.
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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.
Fountainhead
MAY 12, 2009
N Apps manipulating government data, e.g., where laws require direct data oversight Many government databases are required to be maintained within government facilities behind government firewalls. When I worked at VMware, one of the questions we often (always?) Ken Oestreich. Labels: Cloud Computing. 3 comments: jgannonwp.
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186 Dell’s bare metal switch is a big deal for SDN
Virtualized Greek
JANUARY 30, 2014
These hosts can be physical servers, firewalls or load balancers. It takes the notion of VMware vApp to another level. My typical use case is an application that has virtual servers that work in conjunction with physical hosts. The hosts could also be logical devices on a physical switch (NFV). First, why.
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83 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. Third, DPDK provides optimized vNIC drivers for Xen, KVM, and VMware.
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131 VMworld 2016 Day 1 Keynote
Scott Lowe
AUGUST 28, 2016
After that talk Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, takes the stage. Following these customer testimonials, Gelsinger announces VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cross-Cloud Services, and talks about the first partner for providing VMware Cloud Foundation as a service: IBM. Disclaimer: he’s also my manager at VMware.)
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60 CLDS006: Exploring New Xeon E5 Optimizations for 10 Gb Ethernet
Scott Lowe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Johnson shows that the E5 processor provides higher throughput at lower CPU usage with VMDq compared to a Xeon 5500 CPU (tests were done using an Intel X520 with VMware ESXi 5.0). as well as Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V–allows VMware customers to use DirectPath I/O to assign VMs directly to a VF, bypassing the hypervisor.
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115 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? 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. Venky explains it in this post. Virtualization.
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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. I am loving the micro-infrastructure series by my VMware vSphere Design co-author, Forbes Guthrie. This looks interesting.
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