What is Network Virtualization? Network Virtualization is the abstraction and automation of the Network so that a user or application can make simple requests (ie Ensure premium customers get the highest quality service) and the relevant Network devices are automatically configured and synchronized to meet the request. All the complexity of different vendors, different Operating Systems, compliance, security, best practices, command sequencing, device discovery and config validation all happen under the covers. If any of these components are missing, the solution is incomplete and won’t be able to reliably automate and synchronize the Network. How does Network Virtualization relate to Server Virtualization? Server Virtualization promised cost savings through consolidation, automation and simplification - The realization of these benefits require dynamic resource allocation through flexible capacity scaling and VM migration which in turn requires a dynamic, automated Network. Network Virtualization is the logical next step to complete the Virtual Stack. Today in Enterprises, when VMs are deployed or have to be moved, a highly skilled Network Engineer or team of Engineers has to configure each device manually or by “cut and paste” script. The 5-10 minutes it takes to fire up a new VM , has just taken days to weeks to connect to the user. Network Virtualization takes minutes to get the user securely connected and can do so fully autonomously or through a high-level self-service portal.
Network Virtualization bridges Virtual and physical environments, acting as the glue between different components in a heterogeneous environment. Security: The Network is the first line of defense. Unifying and standardizing the Network through Network Virtualization ensures that Security Best Practice gets implemented automatically. 3. Efficiency: Network Virtualization aligns complex, specialized Network sequences to Application and user level decisions, allowing users without Network Expertise to safely configure network customizations from a self-service portal. 5. Revenue Network Virtualization exposes the Bells and Whistles you’ve already paid for in your Network Devices as allocatable resources and services that can be repackaged and resold as premium services to consumers, B2B partners and vendors.
Solution leverages best-in-breed Network Virtualization technology and products and integrates the solution with existing virtualization and management environments for comprehensive solution with measurable returns across the data center. In the Virtualization Resource paradigm, This solution delivers the Security Resource and the Connect Resource to existing Compute and Storage Resources. The Security Resource layers security throughout the infrastructure and application to enforce the security paradigms and best practices of the Cloud or data center operator, as well as implementing and mitigating conflicts with user-selected Business Rules and Security policies. The Connect Resource simplifies and automates the connections both within the infrastructure (eg between application tiers) and to the outside world. As Connect and Security Resources are so tightly dependent on each other (two-sides of the same coin), a successful Network Virtualization solution must address both and integrate both within the context of the whole management environment.
m2mi Products and Technology because m2mi is the only Network Virtualization Vendor to address both Security and Connect Resource virtualization in a single product offering and is the only vendor to directly configure multiple device vendors equipment.
The number one concern of potential Cloud adopters is SECURITY. There are a number of vendors offering point solutions, from new hardware devices to management schemes. m2mi’s products knit the considerable Security assets already in the data center, along with new Cloud-specific solutions, together and abstract them into a Virtual, easy to manage Resource that is then available to users and applications for robust resilient protection. This slide shows just some of the components of that security.
In addition to realizing the benefits of Server Virtualization and Cloud Computing, Network Virtualization delivers ROI of its own.
