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Cross-vCenter NSX at the Center for Advanced Public Safety

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Jason Foster is an IT Manager at the Center for Advanced Public Safety at the University of Alabama. The Center for Advanced Public Safety (CAPS) originally developed a software that provided crash reporting and data analytics software for the State of Alabama. Today, CAPS specializes in custom software mostly in the realm of law enforcement Read more...

VMware Cloud on AWS with Transit Gateway Demo

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At AWS re:Invent 2018 last November, AWS introduced a regional construct called Transit Gateway (TGW). AWS Transit Gateway allows customers to connect multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) together easily. TGW can be seen as a hub and all the VPCs can be seen as spokes in a hub and spoke-type model; any-to-any communication is made Read more...

NSX-T 2.4 – NSX Cloud eases your Adoption/Operations between on-premises Datacenter, AWS and Azure

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2018 was a great year for NSX with Cloud seeing increased customer traction, strong partnerships established across the board, and a whole host of new features being released throughout the year! While most of our competitors are just starting on their public cloud solution, NSX Cloud is entering its second year of adoption, enabling consistent Read more...

Context-aware Micro-segmentation with NSX-T 2.4

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NSX-T 2.4 introduces Layer 7 Application Identity, FQDN /URL whitelisting and Identity Firewall. With last’s week landmark release of NSX-T 2.4,  and the RSA conference in full swing,  this is the perfect time to talk about to some of the new security functionality we are introducing in NSX-T 2.4. If you prefer seeing NSX-T in Read more...

Meet the VMware Service-defined Firewall: A new approach to firewalling

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VMware has had front row seats to the digital transformation that has touched virtually every organization. We’ve been there (and helped drive!) the journey from monolithic applications hosted on a single server, to distributed apps running in VMs, to further decentralization in the form of cloud-native apps composed of microservices. Now, we’re watching the proliferation Read more...

Introducing IPv6 in NSX-T Data Center 2.4

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With the latest release for VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.4, we announced the support for IPv6. Since the advent of IPv4 address space exhaustion, IPv6 adoption has continued to increase around the world. A quick look at the Google IPv6 adoption statistics proves the fact that IPv6 adoption is ramping up. With the advances in Read more...

Introducing NSX-T 2.4 – A Landmark Release in the History of NSX

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In February 2017, we introduced VMware NSX-T Data Center to the world. For years, VMware NSX for vSphere had been spearheading a network transformation journey with a software-defined, application-first approach. In the meantime, as the application landscape was changing with the arrival of public clouds and containers, NSX-T was being designed to address the evolving Read more...

Re-Introducing VMware AppDefense, Part I – Application Security in Virtualized and Cloud Environments

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This blog will be part of a series where we start off with a basic re-introduction of VMware AppDefense and then progressively get into integrations, best practices, mitigating attacks and anomaly detection with vSphere Platinum, vRealize Log Insight, AppDefense and NSX Data Center. Before we get into the meat of things, let’s level-set on a Read more...

IHS Markit Talks Pioneering Private Cloud, Containers, and VMware Cloud on AWS

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Global information, analytics, and solutions company IHS Markit provides data-driven insight for its government and corporate customers. Using VMware vRealize Automation, the company has already rolled out a private cloud that helped developers cut a 6-month infrastructure provisioning process down to one week. They’ve also been using VMware NSX-T Data Center to secure their workloads Read more...

NSX-T Integration with Openshift

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I am sometimes being approached with questions about NSX-T integration details for Openshift. As you may know NSX-T is packaged and integrated with Pivotal Container Service PKS, and also fully integrates Pivotal Application Service (PAS formerly known as PCF) as well as with vanilla Kubernetes, but what you may not know is how NSX-T integrates Read more...