
VMware NSX Service-defined Firewall alternatives
VMware NSX is the network virtualization and security platform for the software-defined data center. The software provides you with a simple approach to streamlining the security of your entire network infrastructure. With it, networks are software-defined, application requirements are abstracted from the network, and network services are delivered via self-optimizing, self-healing mechanisms. This radically simple approach enables networking, security, availability, automation, and analytics as an integrated system.
SX extracts intelligence from packet headers and application behavior to continuously provide application-aware firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), load balancing, micro-segmentation, and more. The platform offers customers two ways to access security services, from a centralized security policy manager or from an interactive security controller. New capabilities include visibility into application traffic, firewall and DDoS protection, application discovery and load balancing, deep packet inspection (DPI), traffic splitting and control, and augmented threat detection.








































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