According to VMware, digital transformation efforts introduce networking and security complexity as organisations move from centralised data centres to hyperdistributed applications and centres of data at the edge.
To deliver on its vision, VMware announced the VMware NSX networking and security portfolio, which provides a common operating environment to connect, secure and operate a virtual cloud network. The portfolio will include new and enhanced capabilities for data centre, branch, cloud and telco environments, and will advance support for traditional and modern application frameworks. With the VMware NSX portfolio, customers will be able to manage consistent networking and security across private data centres, AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud.
“The future of networking is software, and the network of the future is the Virtual Cloud Network,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, COO, products and cloud services, VMware. “VMware is helping customers today to build tomorrow’s software-defined virtual cloud networks to connect and secure apps and users. And with the new NSX networking and security portfolio, we are helping customers build a virtual cloud network today through a software-based digital business fabric that is flexible, programmable and inherently more secure network.”
“As enterprises choose to run more applications in public clouds, the parameters of the data centre are being redrawn. In practical terms, the data centre – where applications and data reside – is no longer exclusively an on-premises entity,” said Brad Casemore, IDC's Research VP, Datacenter Networks, IDC.
“It’s now inherently distributed, and that means the networks that support and deliver increasingly critical applications must be similarly transformed. With its vision for the Virtual Cloud Network, VMware is responding to the growing enterprise need for consistent network and security policy that supports applications regardless of where they reside and irrespective of the infrastructure on which they run and the transports that they use.”
The NSX portfolio includes new capabilities that include:
- VMware NSX SD-WAN integration with VMware NSX Data Center and VMware NSX Cloud. SD-WAN stands for software-defined wide area networking.
- NSX Cloud support for applications running in Microsoft Azure
- NSX Data Center support for containerised cloud-native and bare metal applications
- Telco/network functions virtualisation (NFV) and networking performance optimisations for distributed workloads in NSX Data Center
Network virtualisation
VMware NSX Data Center is a network virtualisation platform for the enterprise data centre, adopted by more than 4,500 customers globally. NSX Data Center enables customers to design, build, and operate next-generation policy driven data centres that connect, secure, and automate traditional and modern applications, and help protect applications and data through security that is an intrinsic part of the infrastructure.
With the latest update, NSX Data Center will include new container and bare metal capabilities that will be able to provide consistent networking services to all applications and deployment models.
SD-WAN
With the latest update, NSX Data Center will include new container and bare metal capabilities that will be able to provide consistent networking services to all applications and deployment models.
SD-WAN
VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud combines the economics and flexibility of a real-time network overlay with the deployment speed, scale and automation of cloud-delivered services. With NSX SD-WAN, customers can deliver better cloud and application performance with full visibility, metrics, control, and automation of all device and user endpoints, with lower overall costs.
NSX SD-WAN integrates with NSX Data Center and NSX Cloud, enabling customers to extend consistent networking and security policies from the data centre to the branch and to the cloud, while providing operational visibility and control end-to-end.
NSX SD-WAN is also available as an on-premises deployable solution. More than 2,000 customers have adopted NSX SD-WAN to date.
“As organisations continue to move to a digital mindset, they will need the ability to quickly deploy and modify products and services to drive value. Unfortunately, they are typically hindered by legacy network infrastructures, which are often based on antiquated protocols and hardware-defined designs. A comprehensive network strategy that incorporates virtual cloud networking— including SD-WAN—into a redesigned network solution can substantially increase capacity, security, and performance while reducing costs.
"A software-defined architecture can also extend customers’ existing IT investments by modernising their current network platforms while gaining the software-defined flexibility and agility needed to quickly deploy new services or modify existing ones without full-scale infrastructure changes,” said Bob Black, Principal, Deloitte Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering.
"A software-defined architecture can also extend customers’ existing IT investments by modernising their current network platforms while gaining the software-defined flexibility and agility needed to quickly deploy new services or modify existing ones without full-scale infrastructure changes,” said Bob Black, Principal, Deloitte Cloud Infrastructure and Engineering.
Multicloud networking
VMware NSX Cloud provides consistent networking and security for applications running in both private VMware-based data centres and natively in public clouds. NSX Cloud addresses operational challenges inherent with using multiple public clouds, such as inconsistent policies and constructs across clouds; manual operations requiring policy management for each cloud, region, and virtual private cloud; limited operational visibility into east-west (within the data centre) traffic; and operations tools that are specific to each public cloud.
With the latest release of NSX Cloud, VMware adds new native controls for customers that are using Microsoft Azure as part of their multicloud strategy.
Hybrid cloud connectivity
VMware NSX Hybrid Connect enables customers to solve one of the biggest challenges with hybrid cloud – consistent networking. VMware NSX Hybrid Connect enables customers to create a consistent, highly performant, and more secure software fabric that interconnects data centres and clouds while maintaining the same governance and control. With NSX Hybrid Connect, customers can migrate workloads from any VMware environment to a modern software-defined data centre environment running on-premises, in the public cloud, or operated by a VMware Cloud Provider partner.
“Service providers and enterprises are modernising infrastructure, not only in the data centre, but out to the network edge, including branch offices. We believe the Virtual Cloud Network delivers an ideal framework for connecting all endpoints across the digital business. We are working closely with VMware to help customers build the Virtual Cloud Network with an underlying, open physical networking layer from Dell EMC to support NSX Data Center and NSX SD-WAN for a complete solution,” shared Tom Burns, Senior VP, Networking and Solutions of sister company Dell EMC.
Customers and partners were positive about the development:
“Digital transformation is becoming an imperative for improving operational efficiencies and delivering a world class user experience to customers in our nearly 500 locations worldwide. We have already experienced the simplicity and performance benefits of a software defined architecture with VMware NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, and the Virtual Cloud Network would further advance the goal of a complete digital transformation,” said Manny Stergakis, Technical Architect, of clothier Brooks Brothers.
“VMware has been a longstanding vendor to help Gore create and manage our software-defined data centre (SDDC), and most recently NSX became the game-changer by delivering microsegmentation across our global data centres. We view the concept of Virtual Cloud Network as the next generation of SDDC as it is applicable to how organisations like Gore could securely extend workloads to public cloud and intelligently manage our hundreds of remote locations,” said Chuck Bartenbach, Chief Information Security Officer, WL Gore and Associates. The conglomerate has a number of locations in the Asia Pacific region, and a sales office in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
“VMware has been a longstanding vendor to help Gore create and manage our software-defined data centre (SDDC), and most recently NSX became the game-changer by delivering microsegmentation across our global data centres. We view the concept of Virtual Cloud Network as the next generation of SDDC as it is applicable to how organisations like Gore could securely extend workloads to public cloud and intelligently manage our hundreds of remote locations,” said Chuck Bartenbach, Chief Information Security Officer, WL Gore and Associates. The conglomerate has a number of locations in the Asia Pacific region, and a sales office in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
“In a rapidly evolving hybrid IT environment, our clients are looking to transform and automate their networks to drive digital transformation. VMware has been an innovator in virtualisation, and is now bringing this pedigree to the network by introducing a single network fabric for a multi cloud environment. Our strategy is to continue to work with our clients to deliver automated networking and security that will accelerate their digital ambitions and meet their business objectives,” commented Rob Lopez, Group Executive, Digital Infrastructure at Dimension Data.
“VMware’s tighter policy integration across SD-WAN and data centre networking products puts us one step closer to achieving our vision of seamless, secure, and reliable device-to-cloud networking,” added Larry Socher, MD, Infrastructure Growth & Strategy at Accenture.
“As a premier hybrid/multicloud service integrator, IBM Services recognises the important role that software-defined networking plays in enterprise transformation. We have been investing with our clients to enable seamless enterprise adoption of VMware NSX, HCX, and SD-WAN solutions as part of our standard systems and network services offerings as they leverage IBM Cloud for VMware solutions portfolio,” noted Archana Vemulapalli, GM, Network Services, IBM Global Technology Services
“Microsoft runs one of the largest clouds in the world, which has given us tremendous insight into building and operating global, high performance, highly available, and secure networks to support our customers. We share VMware’s vision of a future enabled by software-defined networks, and are excited to work with them on NSX Cloud to help deliver on that vision. NSX provides a consistent networking and security experience for our mutual customers across applications in their data centers as well as applications running natively in Azure. We look forward to continuing our work with VMware to evolve these capabilities,” said Dr Albert Greenberg, Corporate VP, Azure Networking Development, Microsoft.
VMware also announced that Tom Gillis, currently the CEO and co-founder of Bracket Computing, will be joining the company as Senior VP and GM for the VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, effective May 14. Prior to Bracket, Gillis was VP and GM of Cisco’s Security Technology Group, leading business units responsible for Cisco’s entire Network and Content Security product portfolio.
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