Harness a Virtual Cloud Network

Power your business with a network defined entirely in software. A Virtual Cloud Network, built on VMware NSX technology, connects and secures your apps and data across private, public, and edge/branch clouds with a scale-out approach that’s independent of underlying physical infrastructure.

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Forget bolted-on, siloed networking and security products. Instead, imagine having a seamless, secure, software-defined networking layer from data center to cloud to edge. That’s what the VMware Virtual Cloud Network provides.

It simplifies your hybrid operations with an all-in-one cloud-model that extends intrinsic security and end-to-end policy consistency across your entire environment.

Connect and protect applications across your data center, multi-cloud, bare metal, and container infrastructure. The Virtual Cloud Network is built on VMware NSX, a complete L2-L7 networking and security virtualization platform that provides consistent, pervasive connectivity for apps and data across your clouds.

Secure your business, and detect and respond to threats, with intrinsic security across endpoints and clouds.

Built into the hypervisor, the VMware Service-defined Firewall secures east-west network traffic by leveraging deep visibility into workload behavior and stateful L2-L7 protection to mitigate risk, ensure compliance, and lower costs — all while vastly simplifying the operational model of firewalling every workload.

Empower network and application security teams to enhance your security posture, simplify compliance, and streamline security operations.

The Virtual Cloud Network includes VMware NSX Intelligence, a distributed analytics engine that’s built into the hypervisor, enabling efficient packet inspection, 1-click deployments, and converged security policy management. Together with vRealize Network Insight, NSX Intelligence helps you build an optimized and secure network infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Leverage the Benefits of a Virtual Cloud Network

Slash CapEx and OpEx

Reap the benefits of a modern network virtualization strategy for data center networking and SD-WAN.

Analysts at Forrester found that the average organization saved millions not only in initial CapEx for a comparable hardware-based system, but also in additional hardware costs in the years to follow. On the OpEx side, a typical enterprise was able to retire 37% of its existing servers — avoiding more than $1M in ongoing maintenance costs.

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Consider SD-WAN a Business Imperative

With business applications increasingly migrating to the cloud, enterprises are facing ever-increasing bandwidth requirements. Fortunately, software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) enables organizations to expand bandwidth across the network — while dramatically slashing connectivity costs and simplifying management.

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Realize a Unified Stack and Consistent Policies

Avoid the complexity and expense that comes with multiple networking and security platforms. Instead, leverage the Virtual Cloud Network for a unified L2-L7 stack that replaces purpose-built appliances. Get integrated management and security, consistent policies across clouds, and end-to-end analytics and troubleshooting.

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Products to Power Your Virtual Cloud Network

Build on a Foundation of NSX

Connect and protect applications across your data centers and clouds with virtualized networking and security via VMware NSX.

Upgrade to Intrinsic Security

Rely on the only purpose-built internal firewall to secure east-west network traffic and protect workloads consistently across clouds.

Enable Consistent Application Delivery

Provide multi-cloud load balancing for consistent application delivery across on-premises data centers and any clouds.

Extend NSX to Cloud Apps

Deliver consistent networking and security for your applications running natively on public clouds— from a single pane of glass.

Advanced Threat Detection with IDS/IPS

Add high-performance, application-aware, threat inspection and detection to your VMware Service-defined Firewall.

Leverage Global Visibility

Get end-to-end operations visibility and troubleshooting spanning virtual, physical, and public cloud network infrastructure and firewalls.

Harness the Power of a SD-WAN

Get high-performance, reliable branch access to cloud services, private data centers, and SaaS-based enterprise applications.

Get Recommended Security Policies

Simplify operationalizing micro-segmentation with rich application topology visualization and automated policy recommendations.

Connect & Protect Cloud-native Workloads

Simplify connectivity, security, and observability of your modern applications across multi-cloud.