ACTIVE Network Adopts VMware's Unified Platform to Improve IT Automation and Data Center Security - Seite 2

"The largest bottleneck for our developers has been getting networking created to support new instances of applications, and then getting security applied to permit the right things to talk to each other for the instance to be usable," said Tommy McNicholas, manager of global IT Operations at ACTIVE Network. "We developed our own security model that VMware vRealize Automation could adhere to and then security policy was just automatically applied to any new instance via NSX. With this approach we're taking our deployment times down from as much as 10 weeks to as little as a few minutes (1)."

With VMware NSX deployed in production, ACTIVE Network is also improving data center security. VMware NSX helps to secure ACTIVE's multi-tenant environment using isolation and micro-segmentation, designed to restrict registrants from viewing information from another customer's site. VMware NSX offers ACTIVE Network several advantages over traditional network security approaches, including automated move/add/change for workloads, distributed policy enforcement at every virtual interface and in-kernel, scale-out firewalling distributed to every hypervisor and baked into the platform.

"Our development environment suffered from high infrastructure costs because developers would skip the step of tearing down environments for fear they would not be able to access them again when needed," said Nate Motyl, vice president of global technology operations, ACTIVE Network. "The extra environments causes significant sprawl in their (very expensive) physical infrastructure and a lack of visibility into actual utilization sometimes leading to incremental and redundant purchases. VMware technology is helping us eliminate inefficiencies, better utilize the resources we've purchased and relieve spikes in demand through a cloud approach. Using this new SDI strategy, we decrease our build time by an order of magnitude, enhance our build quality assurance, and do so with a lower resource commit."

Additional Resource

• Learn more about VMware vRealize Automation
• Learn more about VMware vRealize Orchestrator
• Learn more about the VMware NSX network virtualization platform
• Learn how to #VirtualizeYourNetwork

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(1) Based on internal analysis and estimates from ACTIVE Network

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