Introduction Global competition, shrinking IT budgets, ever-changing IT-business landscape and daunting complexity for IT monitoring and management. These are just a few of the problems Managed Service Providers (MSP) are facing today. UK-based Redstone is no different. As a leading network-based end-to-end managed services, infrastructure and technology provider it is responsible for the IT infrastructure of many of the country’s leading organizations, and it is not …
Dave Shackleford As their virtualized infrastructure grows, many organizations feel the need to adapt and extend existing physical network security tools to provide greater visibility and functionality in these environments. Virtual firewalls are one of the leading virtual security products available today, and there are quite a few to choose from; Check Point has a Virtual Edition (VE) of its VPN-1 firewall, and Cisco is about to offer a virtual gateway product that emulates its ASA line of firewalls fairly closely. Juniper has a more purpose…
John Burke, Contributor The size of the virtual hole in enterprise security is daunting. Virtual firewalls may be a solution, but there are many factors to consider first. What are virtual firewalls? Virtual firewalls are virtual appliances that re-create the functions of a physical firewall. They run inside the same virtual environments as the workloads they protect. Because they sit inside the virtual environment, they apply policy to traffic that is invisible to the physical network, securing it without negating the agility that virtualizat…
Q&A Nicira network virtualization architecture: The VMware of networking? Shamus McGillicuddy, News Director Nicira Networks emerged from stealth mode this month, articulating a new network virtualization architecture and software that it claims can do for networks what VMware has done for servers. After four years of operating mostly in secret, the company timed its emergence carefully, not just announcing its Network Virtualization Platform, but also revealing the names of several major companies that have deployed its network virtualiza…
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