The Software-Defined Data Center is a unified data center platform that provides unprecedented automation, flexibility, and efficiency to transform the way you deliver IT. Compute, storage, networking, security, and availability services are pooled, aggregated, and delivered as software, and managed by intelligent, policy-driven software. Self-service, policy-based provisioning, automated infrastructure, and application and business management complete the picture. The result is a data center optimized for the cloud era, providing unmatched business agility, the highest SLAs for all applications, dramatically simpler operations, and lower costs.
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Software-Defined Security
As with networking, physically-based security architectures are rigid and complex. IT security traditionally relies on machine and network identities, which are challenging to work with and difficult to change. Complexity is compounded by dedicated appliances for security, load balancing, and gateway services.
Greater Ease and Superior Protection
Software-Defined Security introduces simplicity and augments protection by shifting to a security model based on the identities of people and applications. Adaptive security is provided by abstracting and pooling security resources across physical boundaries—minimizing the need for specialized physical appliances. All devices are governed by a common security policy language in which the underlying rules are translated by software. Security policies are automatically executed, increasing business flexibility while significantly reducing human error.
Portable, Virtualization-Aware Security
In the Software-Defined Data Center, applications carry their security settings with them as they are moved or scaled. Critical applications are protected and isolated with virtualization-aware firewalling and adaptive trust zones. The edge of the virtual data center is secured with integrated firewall and gateway services.
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