VMware Helps AeroData Take Flight with Enhanced Security and Application Continuity

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - February 06, 2017) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that AeroData, Inc., has implemented a secure, highly available multi-site software-defined data center (SDDC) based on VMware solutions to deliver flight data access for more than 21,000 flights in North America every day. The resulting SDDC environment -- which includes VMware NSX®, VMware vSAN™, VMware vSphere® and VMware vRealize® Log Insight™-provides AeroData more efficient and effective security management, higher levels of application availability and continuity, and according to AeroData, the company's SDDC environment has reduced costs by at least 50 percent.

AeroData's flight deck client-server application is the last application used by pilots before the aircraft entry door is closed. The company knows first-hand that just five minutes of system downtime can result in more than 100 delayed flights, a significant loss of revenue, and damage to its customers' reputations.

To meet those demanding high-availability requirements, AeroData established data centers in three physical locations, and deployed VMware NSX as part of an active-active-active environment to have critical flight information accessible at a moment's notice, and adhere to both customer and federally mandated security requirements. Advanced NSX functions enable AeroData to use all three data centers as a single pooled resource of capacity to service customer applications. NSX cross-data center capabilities allow AeroData to route customer workloads to any of the data centers, with live fail-over rather than a traditional backup/recovery business continuity environment.

"When looking at the architecture we wanted to move to, we started with VMware NSX, because we see it as the most revolutionary development in data center security in more than a decade," said Terry McDonough, President and CEO, AeroData. "Not only do we save a significant amount of money by modernizing our data center environment using our existing networking hardware, but the features available through VMware NSX provide a dramatically more secure and highly available design. We simply could not achieve our desired architecture with a hardware-based approach."