No matter how far away your satellite offices are, Apani EpiForce will make sure all data and communications are encrypted and secure.

1. SOLUTIONS DATASHEE T
Manage Remote Servers and Desktops with
VMware Infrastructure and Apani
Remote & Branch Office Challenges Benefits of VMware Remote & Branch Office Management
Many critical business applications today reside outside Solutions
the data center in remote locations. These distributed Streamlined Management & Provisioning
sites often rely on centralized IT support, but the ability of
• Provision and manage virtual machines remotely. Enable IT
central IT staff to manage and protect remote sites is often
staff to deploy and maintain remote servers and desktops from a
constrained by the following challenges:
central data center to meet remote office needs without the need
• Lack of on-site IT staff. Because new servers must be for hardware shipments and on-site visits.
provisioned and shipped from headquarters, remote sites
• Standardize your remote office infrastructure. Use virtual
experience lengthy turnaround times for their IT requests.
machine templates and automated patch management to
The need for central IT staff to troubleshoot remote servers
standardize systems at all remote sites without worrying about
in person results in costly support trips and extended
disparate hardware or legacy applications.
service downtime, which directly impacts the business.
Improved Service & Availability
• Ensuring consistency. Lack of a standardized hardware
platform makes it difficult for central IT staff to support • Ensure availability for remote servers. Consolidate remote
legacy applications, perform routine upgrades and office servers onto more reliable hardware while extending virtual
maintenance, and meet rising demand for new infrastructure capabilities such as automated failover and load
applications in remote sites. balancing to remote sites.
• Limited space. Remote sites are rapidly running out of • Centralize remote office backup and disaster recovery. Protect
space to accommodate new workloads, and existing remote office data without the cost and complexity of duplicating
physical servers at these sites are not efficiently utilized. remote office infrastructure, recover from site failures directly from
the data center, and eliminate the need for manual tape backup
• Limited IT budget. Limited space and budget make it
and other taskintensive processes.
prohibitive to invest in specialized business continuity
solutions or redundant hardware for remote sites. Although Reduced Hardware & Operating Costs
tape backups are affordable, they are error-prone, labor • Lower the cost of operating remote office hardware. Extend
intensive to maintain and susceptible to theft or loss. your server and desktop consolidation strategy to remote offices
Virtualization: a Better Way to Manage Remote & to improve hardware utilization while reducing cooling, energy,
Branch Office IT Environments and real estate costs for remote IT environments.
VMware solutions give IT organizations the ability to control • Minimize server and desktop hardware expenditures.
and manage remote servers and desktops from a central Facilitate rapid growth while reducing the amount of new IT
location. VMware provides a standardized deployment hardware you purchase for remote sites by provisioning new
platform that reduces the cost and complexity of remote servers and desktops as virtual machines.
and branch office management while delivering higher Learn More
levels of flexibility, availability, and data protection.
To learn more about VMware solutions and products, visit
By virtualizing either at the remote site or back to the http://www.vmware.com or call 1-877-4VMWARE.
data center, organizations can leverage existing data
center IT and personnel resources, thereby reducing cost,
effort, and downtime.

2. V M WA R E TA P P R O G R A M S O LU T I O N S D ATA S H E E T
Partner Solution Profile
Accelerate Server Virtualization in Remote & Branch Offices
with Apani® EpiForce® VM
Remotely Manage Security Policies When Deploying VMware ESX
Apani
www.apani.com
ISV Overview
Industry Overview EpiForce VM assists companies in securing
remote & branch offices and reduces
Apani provides security software to isolate and Finance, healthcare and retail businesses the attack surface area. This simplifies
protect both virtual and physical machines from a have an ethical and legal responsibility management and reduces the burden of
single management point. to ensure customer privacy. They are compliance audits.
burdened with demonstrating compliance
Key Business Needs with a myriad of laws and regulations (e.g. Solution Benefits
Large organizations rely on a variety of physical, GLBA, SOX, PCI DSS, BCBS, FINRA, SB1386), • Accelerate remote and branch offices’
virtual and legacy servers. Vendors have historically mitigating the risk of an internal data breach server virtualization by deploying
offered a silo approach to protecting them— and controlling access to data. consistent, strong security across VMs and
each with their own management paradigm.
These organizations deploy server physical machines
Organizations need a way to streamline their
virtualization in bank branches, health
data security by protecting virtual environments • Manage all EpiForce VM-protected
clinics and retail stores to achieve lower
and heterogeneous hardware with a single machines through a single management
hardware and operating costs, simplified
management solution. console, regardless of platform or physical
IT management and energy savings. The location and without the need to
challenge is providing robust security to
Key Business Benefits reconfigure the network
protect customer data at remote sites
Only Apani EpiForce VM provides a single solution
without increasing management complexity. • Migrate virtual machines using VMotion
that secures both virtual and physical machines. or VirtualCenter without compromising
Logical security zones isolate machines without Solution Overview security policy
reconfiguring the network, while policy-based
Apani EpiForce VM helps organizations • Protect VMs from vulnerabilities introduced
encryption selectively encrypts data in motion.
protect their customer data while through VM sprawl
EpiForce VM fully supports VMotion (hot) and cold
realizing the benefits of server
virtualization in remote & branch offices. • Cross-platform support secures complex,
migration and offers protection against VM sprawl.
heterogeneous environments
Business Results Firewalls and VLANs are too static
• Granular and customizable failover
By providing robust data center security, Apani for securing a dynamic VMware ESX
procedures minimize remote site
EpiForce VM enables organizations to better realize environment and may expose customer
maintenance
the benefits of server virtualization, including data through configuration errors. Security
support for multiple platforms, automated solutions designed only for virtual machines • Security policy automatically reconfigures
migration, reduced unplanned downtime, lower force businesses to take a silo approach to when a VM is restarted
operating expense tied to security policy changes data security, increasing complexity.
and more flexible management.
VMware and Apani
Regardless of whether a company’s servers
are virtual or physical, centralized in the data Only Apani EpiForce VM enables
VMware and Apani center or remotely distributed, EpiForce organizations to secure both physical
Only Apani EpiForce VM provides a single solution VM cross-platform virtual security enforces machines and VMware ESX environments
that secures both virtual and physical machines software-based access control to critical with a single, centrally managed solution
running VMware ESX. customer data on those servers. To mitigate that supports both VMotion and cold
the risk of an internal breach, EpiForce migration.
VM encrypts customer data in motion
within the corporate network to protect
communications between sites.
Virtual and physical systems, in the
corporate data center or at remote offices,
are conveniently managed from a central
console. Security policy is maintained while
machines are physically moved or during
VMware VMotion or VirtualCenter migration.
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