HP has announced new high-performance security solutions designed to prevent network breaches in a Converged Infrastructure by delivering comprehensive data protection across both physical and virtual environments.
The new offerings bring enhanced security to HP FlexFabric, the company’s high-performance, flexible and secure data centre networking fabric for a Converged Infrastructure.
As organisations move to more virtualised and converged infrastructures, the importance of security is increased. Virtualised environments and their applications are subject to the same threats that impact traditional data centres. While many virtual machines (VM) are hosted on a single server, one security breach can have a disastrous impact. As a result, when organisations accelerate the migration of production workloads and mission-critical assets to a virtualised environment, security requirements must become a strategic element of these plans.
The HP TippingPoint Secure Virtualisation Framework (SVF) is a suite of products designed to help prevent network threats from impacting virtualised environments. The TippingPoint Virtual Controller (vController), the first product introduced under the SVF, extends TippingPoint security protection from physical to virtual networks by routing it through an HP TippingPoint N-Platform Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliance. The vController prevents security attacks by inspecting all VM traffic as it moves through the network – either between VMs or from VMs to traditional servers. Additional vController benefits include:
- Increased network security by extending HP’s automated threat-prevention capabilities to virtual environments.
- Reduced deployment complexity by enabling customers to extend the same processes, tools and expertise used in securing their physical environments to their virtual infrastructures.
- Simplified management of network security by providing single-pane-of-glass management, visibility and control across both physical and virtual networks.
vController provides an added layer of security by preventing malicious traffic from damaging VMs, which also could cause problems. Combined, vController and HP ProLiant G7 servers provide clients with increased security and availability to help ensure business continuity.
Businesses continue to be bombarded with security attacks that use every possible method for stealing data and compromising a network. To maximise protection and reduce business risk for its clients, HP also is introducing two new HP TippingPoint S-series solutions that further extend network security from local area networks to the core of the data centre for both physical and virtual domains.