VMware Touts NSX Software-Defined Networking As Linchpin For Enterprise Security, Hybrid Clouds

Grazed from CRN. Author: Keving McLaughlin.

VMware spent $1.2 billion to acquire software-defined networking startup Nicira more than three years ago, and now it’s pitching the technology — known as NSX — as a way to solve tough enterprise security and cloud computing challenges. In an interview at VMware’s VMworld conference last week, Dominick Delfino, vice president of worldwide systems engineering at VMware, said NSX provides a level of network security that firewalls and other traditional technologies can’t match.

VMware calls this aspect of NSX "micro-segmentation," and it’s all about preventing an attacker from moving laterally within a network after a breach. In several recent high-profile breaches, soft internal network security has enabled attackers to steal valuable intellectual property and customer data…

Delfino said existing enterprise security technologies are costly and ineffective at stopping these sorts of disasters from happening…

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