VMware teams up with Palo Alto Networks for Cloud Deployments

To automate and accelerate deployment of network security with centralized management across physical and virtual domains, Palo Alto Networks and VMware have announced their partnership which is backed by a new jointly-developed solution. The integrated solution will enable customers to use the VMware NSX network virtualization platform to automate provisioning and distribution of Palo Alto Networks next-generation network security in their software-defined data centers.
 
The integrated solution combines the Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtualized next-generation security platform with the VMware NSX network virtualization platform. With this joint solution, customers will be able to unify next-generation network security across their physical and virtual environments with a single point of management.

Our partnership with VMware, which brings together two best-of-breed platforms, represents one giant step toward eliminating security concerns for customers so they can safely enable business applications, securing their networks from cyber threats, and accelerating their cloud deployments, said Lee Klarich, Senior Vice-President of Product Management, Palo Alto Networks.

Hatem Naguib, Vice-President, Networking and Security, VMware, stated, We developed VMware NSX with an understanding that customers will want to continue to leverage previous IT investments with their strategic technology partners. Palo Alto Networks and VMware customers will be able to use the distributed service framework of VMware NSX for fast and easy insertion of Palo Alto Networks security services, and achieve unified protection across their physical and virtual environments.

The combined solution will enable customers to use the network services insertion capabilities of VMware NSX with Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation security technologies to easily deploy, move, scale and protect applications in their software-defined data centers.