VMware Helps AeroData Take Flight with Enhanced Security and Application Continuity - Seite 2

With VMware NSX as its core network virtualization platform, AeroData migrated many of its critical networking services off of hardware to NSX, including firewalling, load balancing, routing, switching, logging and monitoring. One of the biggest benefits for AeroData is the security provided by micro-segmentation using NSX. By isolating applications within micro-segments, NSX enables east-west firewalling and has reduced AeroData's firewall rules by more 85 percent. Moreover, using NSX, AeroData has been able to create and apply firewall polices from one central management window to NSX applications across all three data centers. This capability has significantly reduced the time it takes to write and manage rules in hardware appliances, achieving optimum uptime while drastically decreasing the number of firewall rules.

AeroData has very specific availability and security needs, including load balancing of web servers and SQL Servers, CIPHER management, Client IP visibility, improved logging, improved health monitoring, and failover management. AeroData uses NSX along with a third-party intelligent DNS service to deliver global load balancing capabilities for its data centers.

AeroData has also adopted VMware vSAN to streamline storage management and improve application performance. VMware vSAN has significantly reduced the effort required to setup and maintain AeroData's storage environment, which is an important benefit for a small company managing three sites and working to minimize costs for its customers. AeroData uses VMware vRealize Log Insight™ for centralized logging of its VMware and non-VMware environments helping it to rapidly pinpoint and troubleshoot IT issues across its sites. AeroData developed a .NET plug-in to forward application logs from .NET applications to Log Insight and to filter them efficiently. VMware vRealize Log Insight also provides content packs for various other third party applications used by AeroData, making it easy for them to transition from decentralized log management to a centralized log management approach.

"With the help of VMware, we have transformed our environment, and moved from being 'hardware dependent' to 'software managed' while dramatically improving the availability of our applications by eliminating single points of failure," said McDonough.

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