Several clients have recently been asking about “Virtual Network Segmentation” products that claim to segment networks to reduce PCI compliance. They may use ARP or VLANs to control access to various ...

Canadian airline company WestJet is one of the earliest customers of VMware’s NSX network virtualization tools, which it initially reached for to address a security issue. Network World Editor in ...

An effective technique to strengthen security, network segmentation is a physical or virtual architectural approach dividing a network into multiple segments, each acting as its own subnetwork ...

Tigera delivers universal microsegmentation capabilities with Calico. Designed to support a diverse range of workloads, including virtual machines (VM), containers, and bare metals, Calico provides a ...

VMWare NSX looks set to be its next growth engine. We assess the potential and the impact along with competitive threats both known and unknown. VMware might soon have to change its name: not by ...

For all the advances of AI that machine learning brings to productivity and decision-making, it has a major downside: cybersecurity risks. Businesses often underestimate the security risks of adopting ...

In a simple use case, this makes it easier to move VMs from data center to data center but VXLAN goes beyond this as it sets up a new model for network segmentation somewhere between L2 VLANs and L3 ...

The age of the external perimeter is gone. The modern firewall is a different creature from the one in place before the rise of digital platforms, public cloud, distributed applications, the internet ...

VMware on Wednesday announced updates to the components of the Virtual Cloud Network, a package of products that bring virtual networking and security capabilities to workloads running anywhere, from ...

NV provides the ability to create logical, virtual networks that are decoupled from the underlying network hardware. NV creates a logical, software-based view of the hardware and software networking ...