PhoenixNAP,
a global IT services provider offering cloud, bare-metal dedicated
server, colocation, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions,
today announced the upcoming launch of its Data Security Cloud - a new
cloud security platform architected on the latest VMware technologies.
PhoenixNAP's Data Security Cloud will address growing security concerns
for businesses of all sizes and across industries, including those with
heavy compliance and security demands to protect their workloads in the
cloud.
According to reports, more than 90 percent of
traffic resides within the data center, where perimeter security
protections do not inspect the traffic*, and the average data center
experiences two successful attacks per day**. The problem is growing
quickly as almost two billion data records around the world were lost or
stolen during 918 different cyberattacks in the first half of 2017, an
increase of 164 percent over the same period last year. The toll on
businesses is significant: two-thirds of firms breached had their share
price negatively impacted with a cost to shareholders of over $52.40
billion. Today the question for business and security leaders is not if
there will be a breach but when and how to contain the impact.
"The introduction of phoenixNAP's Data
Security Cloud makes it possible for organizations of all sizes to
confidently tackle the strictest security and compliance-focused
workloads in a multi-tenant, cloud-based environment. Supported by our
flexible solutions team, any organization will be able to make a secure
and easy transition to the cloud," says Ian McClarty, President at
phoenixNAP. "With VMware NSX® at its core, Data Security Cloud offers
highly granular security of virtualized workloads through advanced
capabilities such as micro-segmentation, distributed firewalling, and
VPN. Customers get a Secure-by-Design cloud environment with protection
across not only the perimeter but at the application level as well."
PhoenixNAP's Data Security Cloud is built to
provide fast, secure and reliable services to businesses handling
dynamic loads of sensitive data. Data Security Cloud will provide
all-round protection for sensitive workloads leveraging advanced
security capabilities of the VMware NSX network virtualization. VMware
NSX decouples network and security functions from the underlying
physical infrastructure and embeds them directly into the hypervisor,
distributing them across the data center. This fundamental shift in how
security is delivered can help overcome the shortcomings of legacy
architectures. It allows intelligent and automated security policies to
travel with virtual workloads regardless of their placement in the cloud
and independent of the physical network topology, to help maintain the
highest level of protection.
"By using VMware NSX as the core enabler to
the new Data Security Cloud service, phoenixNAP is providing a
comprehensive offering that makes security both application focused and
intrinsic to the infrastructure," said Jay Workman, senior director,
Cloud Provider marketing at VMware. "This is a powerful example of the
security capabilities of VMware's next-generation solutions, which
enable partners, such as phoenixNAP, to create innovative new offerings
that will help differentiate them in the industry."
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