The document explores the advantages of network virtualization, emphasizing its ability to enhance security, agility, and control for businesses. Organizations using VMware NSX have reported improved app continuity and automated IT processes, allowing for rapid network changes and greater threat isolation. Case studies highlight benefits experienced by various entities, demonstrating that network virtualization is essential for meeting modern business demands.

1. Moving Forward with
Network Virtualization
Learn How Other Businesses Are Preparing for the Future

2. Business is speeding up.
Is your network ready?
• Your business users are making more demands than ever before
• Data center threats are multiplying
• Data center infrastructures must evolve to meet a new set of requirements
Many companies are already realizing greater security, agility, and control from
network virtualization.
So can yours.
INTRODUCTION

3. Network virtualization
is a game-changer
A virtualized network is software-centric
instead of hardware-centric.
It delivers network services from a
software container to connected
workloads, so that the entire network
can be created and run in software. You
can create, change, move, and delete
networks in minutes or even seconds.
Once you make the switch, you’ll
never want to go back.
INTRODUCTION

4. Hundreds of organizations have used VMware to bring new levels of agility,
control, and security to the data center—and you can do the same. Network
virtualization with VMware NSX® provides:
Why virtualize your network?
Improved
app continuity
Enhanced data
center security
Automated
IT processes
BENEFITS
It really works. But don’t take our word for it.
Next up, find out how five organizations benefit from network virtualization.

5. Hardware-centric security isn’t enough
TRADITIONAL MICRO-SEGMENTATION
!
!
ENHANCED DATA CENTER SECURITY
Traditional security strategies protect only the data center perimeter, leaving
it vulnerable to modern threats. Virtualization enables micro-segmentation
to protect the data center from the inside out—stopping unauthorized lateral
movement and isolating workloads to stop threats from spreading.

6. City of Avondale
The City of Avondale’s multi-tenant private cloud
hosts applications and data for both employee
and public use. After it deployed VMware NSX,
the city’s data center became far more secure.
• Users can easily be isolated and segmented
within the cloud
• Threats and unauthorized users are now
prevented from accessing apps or information
• Every VM is equipped with automated
move/add/change
CASE STUDY — ENHANCED SECURITY

7. We can now deliver scalable, logical, secure
networks to all our tenants—whether to other
IT organizations or academic researchers. NSX
provides us with flexibility that we simply didn’t
have before.
Brian Mislavsky
Infrastructure Services Manager, George Washington University
George Washington
University
The university uses micro-segmentation enabled by
NSX to keep public-facing and sensitive workloads
separate and secure.
CASE STUDY — ENHANCED SECURITY

8. Automation empowers IT teams
As the workplace changes, IT faces new pressures and demands every day.
Automation frees up valuable IT hours and eliminates the human error factor.
Deploy apps
faster
Deliver services
on demand
Reduce CapEx
& OpEx
Stay focused on
strategic priorities
AUTOMATED IT PROCESSES

9. DirecTV
During the 2015 match between Manny Pacquiao
and Floyd Mayweather, DirecTV used NSX to deal
with peak demand and boost security.
• NSX eliminated network bottlenecks, enabling
greater agility and fast provisioning
• Network virtualization helped DirecTV move
from manual processes to fluid delivery
• The company can now spin up new servers
without worrying about firewalls—saving time
and frustration
AUTOMATED IT PROCESSES

10. ACTIVE Network
Network virtualization solutions from VMware help
ACTIVE Network develop and deploy apps faster, with
enhanced quality and security.
The largest bottleneck for our developers has
been getting networking created to support new
instances of applications... With [VMware], we’re
taking our deployment times down from as much
as 10 weeks, to as little as a few minutes.
Tommy McNicholas
Manager of Global IT Operations, Active Network
AUTOMATED IT PROCESSES

11. Apps are essential to a
connected future
Today’s fast-moving digital world puts pressure on IT teams to make sure that
apps are available around the clock. Network virtualization ensures always-on
availability, even in case of disaster.
More satisfied
users
Less downtime More reliable
apps
IMPROVED APP CONTINUITY

12. Columbia Sportswear
With NSX, Columbia Sportswear can complete processes
in minutes on the network that formerly took days,
making deployment fast, efficient, and reliable.
In the past, anytime we wanted to change the
network settings, we had to go into the switch
and make manual changes. It was a process that
could take days. Now we can do it in less than
30 minutes, all in software.
John Spiegel
Global IS Communications Manager, Columbia Sportswear
IMPROVED APP CONTINUITY

13. Give your business what it
needs to succeed
VMware NSX prepares your business for what’s next—while
providing you with tangible benefits right now.
CONCLUSION
Works with any app and cloud management platform
Integrates with leading network management tools
Implement at your own pace
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