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“IT organizations of all sizes face similar challenges as they strive to accelerate the pace of innovation, increase automation and increase productivity,” said the VMware CEO. Raghu Raghuram in his keynote at the start of the consumer conference VMware Explore., which, unlike the past two years, was held locally in San Francisco. “Digital transformation is about moving to the cloud and redoing everything in the enterprise,” says Raghuram, though he’s heard from CIOs and CEOs that it’s not happening fast enough.
“The challenges tend to be very similar regardless of industry,” continued Raghuram, citing skills shortages, the sheer scale of existing enterprise applications that need to be modernized, and fragmented development, operational and security models. “All your teams are building applications in different clouds in the data center, following different models. There is no consistent developer experience, which slows them down,” the VMware boss told his audience. Fragmented operating models hindered teams, while risk was increased by security models that were also fragmented. “All these things slow down the platform update.
Of course, Raghuram also had ready-made solutions to the problems he identified: When VMware talked last year about cross-cloud services — proprietary technology services and platforms that would enable companies to become “intelligent clouds” — some of those products are already ready this year. thus succeeding Pat Gelsinger, who took office in 2021. New products announced at VMware Explore include VMware vSphere 8, Aria multi-cloud management tools and with Project Northstar SaaS-NSX network and security software deployment model.
According to VMware, the Northstar project announced in the preview is designed to change the way companies use networking and security solutions in a multi-cloud world. To do this, the company provides users with a family of multi-cloud networking and security services that it provides SaaS– is a model. Services include services such as Network Detection and Response (NDR), NSX Intelligence, Advanced Load Balancing, Web App. Firewall and Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) to move workloads from one on-premises environment to another.
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As noted by VMware, the NSX Intelligence Service is designed to provide a real-time view of each customer’s multi-cloud environment to Northstar. “NSX Intelligence Service [wird] supported by scalable VMware-managed data storage capable of handling large traffic flows and providing network and security policy recommendations for multi-cloud deployments,” said Umesh Mahajan, senior vice president of NSX. Data center Product, in a blog post. Visualization tools allowed for real-time visibility into the flow and security of multiple clouds. Network traffic analysis also provides insights into threats and behavioral anomaly detection, explains the executive.
In addition, the NDR (Network Detection and Response) service enables detection and response to threats that can be modified across private and public clouds, Mahajan said. “The NDR correlation engine analyzed [Intrusion-Detection- und Prevention-Systeme]malware and anomalous events based on threat campaigns, which helps prevent threat overload and streamline security operations monitoring processes,” writes Mahajan.
Experts say Northstar is an important step in the right direction for NSX customers. While many of these services are now available to NSX customers on-premise and through VMware Cloud enabled AWS The hosted project enables Northstar to provide these services in on-premise, hybrid and multi-cloud environments. SaaS– Suggest a deployment model.
“Northstar simplifies NSX operations by providing management software as a service,” said Andrew Lerner, vice president of market research firm Gartner. “For existing VMware customers, it also enables consistent management from a single instance…
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