Palo Alto presents Next-Gen Security to the Cloud

Palo Alto Networks has extended its leadership in security services for private, hybrid and public cloud with the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). 

Enterprises are keen to take advantage of the agility, scalability and cost benefits of cloud-based virtual data centers (VDCs) by building their own private cloud, purchasing public cloud services from providers, or adopting a hybrid cloud approach. Most enterprises are ultimately aiming for the portability of both the application and security policies, regardless of where the application is deployed.

"VMware and Palo Alto Networks are delivering on the vision of hybrid cloud, which is to design applications once, secure once, and deploy anywhere without compromise. Through our partnership, we are combining best-in-class security with the software-defined data center architecture to meet customers’ business requirements for improved security and advanced threat protection," said Scott Collison, Vice- President, Common Platforms, vCloud Air, VMware.

"The latest release of our VM-Series was specifically designed with the cloud in mind.  It provides consistent automated protection for cloud computing environments so organizations can take advantage of the productivity and cost benefits provided by the cloud without compromising security. It delivers the freedom to deploy new applications and virtual machines and remain confident their VDCs are protected by next-generation firewall and threat prevention technology," said Lee Klarich, Senior Vice-President of Product Management, Palo Alto Networks.

The latest Palo Alto Networks VM-Series release gives organizations the ability to realize the full agility and flexibility promises of cloud; to detect and prevent known and unknown cyber-threats before they compromise their VDCs; and to choose the public, private or hybrid deployment architecture without compromising security.

The latest release of the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is expected to become available by the end of October, including support for AWS and KVM.  Palo Alto Networks customers with active maintenance agreements can obtain the software by accessing the support portal. The Palo Alto Networks VM-1000-HV is expected to be made available in vCloud Air in the first half of the calendar year 2015.