If your business is like most, embracing virtualization with the expectation of tremendous cost and agility savings, it’s not alone. In fact, by 2017, the overwhelming majority of businesses will have deployed a virtual firewall somewhere in their network. Organizations worldwide are adopting virtual infrastructure to reduce capex, improve operational elasticity, and make users and IT staff more agile and productive.
If your business is considering the SDN or NFV route, then a virtual firewall is probably the first service you are looking to deploy, whether in the hosted/cloud environment or at the perimeter to replace a physical on-premises firewall. Regardless of which deployment option you choose, the bottom line is you need to secure the virtualized portion of your network, which in enterprises begins in the data center core. And while virtual firewalls abound, most are still not equal to their physical counterparts and fail to deliver the performance, agility and cost savings they promise.
However, if you believe virtual firewall performance and agility are obstacles to expanding your virtualization footprint, we have some great news for you.
Throughout 2015, Juniper dedicated considerable resources to bolstering the underlying architecture of our vSRX virtual firewall, leveraging industry advancements with DPDK and SR-IOV to radically improve performance, scale, and efficiency. As a result, the vSRX is now the industry’s highest performing, most efficient and most flexible virtual firewall. Even more impressive, the vSRX offers these characteristics while delivering the lowest server TCO in the industry, achieving 17Gbps of large packet performance with only two virtual CPUs. Check out this vSRX infographic to see industry comparisons, analyst data, and how the vSRX stacks up against the competition.
The vSRX, widely deployed by both our enterprise and service provider customers, comes with a full set of advanced, next-generation security services and routing capabilities. Using the Junos Space Virtual Director management application, you can quickly and efficiently provision and scale the vSRX to dynamically meet the demands of virtualized and cloud environments in a matter of minutes or even seconds—not hours or days, as in the past. With the vSRX and Virtual Director, you can quickly and painlessly scale up, out, or in, as needs change—which they inevitably will.
In environments where it gets deployed as the firewall VNF, the vSRX also serves a variety of NFV use cases, supporting Juniper’s Contrail solution as well as other third-party SDN solutions. It also fully integrates with OpenStack.
As the pace of change in the data center accelerates, you need to effectively manage the risks associated with delivering a wide array of cloud services requiring both physical and virtualized high-density infrastructures. These mixed environments demand a new breed of virtual security solutions that can scale along with the virtual and cloud-based resources themselves and provide a robust defense against a variety of sophisticated threats—while achieving the desired level of performance, agility, flexibility and cost savings. Juniper’s vSRX delivers all of this, and much more.
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