Hosting.com Uses Juniper's VGW To Power Its Cloud Firewall
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This summer, Hosting.com announced its new Cloud Firewall—a security solution powered by Juniper's vGW Virtual Gateway that includes fully automated provisioning and policy management through a single interface in Hosting.com's Customer Portal.
More recently, Hosting.com Director of Architecture Darrell Hyde added more flavor to the story, presenting on Juniper's behalf at VMworld 2012. In this video, Darrell discusses how, when it came to security, Hosting.com underwent a "Virtual-Mentality Makeover." And how vGW was fundamental to this thought evolution.
With vGW, Hosting.com realized it could group and secure logical clusters of VMs at a click, sacrificing nothing in terms of security and actually extending security services to VMs that weren't even available in the physical server realm. In fact, vGW helped the company see that it could divorce security policy enforcement from network topology (can't do that with physical network firewalls or VLANs). And that meant it could also dramatically simplify its services delivery model. The end result is a service provider's dream trifecta: high capacity, high security, and high levels of tenant self-service.
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