This global provider of IT solutions and services, helps clients to secure, protect, and manage their IT environments. Over the last 25 years they have helped thousands of organisations transform their IT. Strategic partnerships ensure that they can offer the very best IT solutions.
The situation
Upgrade from legacy networking and security product to provide enhanced network virtualisation functionality for vCloud Director environment
Align to latest VMware SDDC product set
Enable customer to rapidly provision the networking and security services required by their end customers into multiple data centres
Our approach
VMware NSX for vSphere 6.1 deployed into multiple data centres to provide a network virtualisation platform for:
overlay networking
security functions
L4-L7 services
Full integration with service provider cloud based on VMware vCloud Director 5.5
Leveraged Trust Zones implemented on a per-VM basis via NSX for vSphere’s Distributed Firewall, to help prevent attacks in the event of a data centre perimeter security breach
Outcomes achieved
Ability to run customer applications anywhere within the data centre on a shared platform, while ensuring secure multitenancy
Customer hosting platform optimised with reduced physical network configuration complexity
