VMware updates networking and security portfolio
Summary
The company has touted that the new offering will help organisations -- through modern, software-defined application delivery services -- to overcome a lot of the problems that arise when dealing with legacy tech. NSX Intelligence, a new distributed analytics engine built natively into NSX-T, has been detailed by the company as providing continuous data centre-wide visibility for network and application security teams. "This is really important and really transformative technology because if you think about how were doing network monitoring today ... it creates a lot of challenges … and the fact that Im just doing periodic sampling means that im not actually having full observatibility of all my traffic flows, with NSX intelligence, were actually baking these analytics in a distributed fashion -- some of your analytics are running across every server in your environment.," Wolf explained. Offering some statistics, the company said the VMware virtual cloud networking is now deployed by 13,000 customers, which includes 88 of the Fortune 100, and eight of the top 10 Telcos. VMware said it covers the full range of L2-L7 services for workloads running on all types of infrastructure, including virtual machines, containers, physical servers, and both private and public clouds.