Cloud native applications can now easily embed cloud native
networking. The NetFoundry
Developer Platform enables private, secure,
high performance networking to be
embedded in applications.
The NetFoundry Developer Platform offers SDKs, APIs, and Zero
Trust connectors to enable modern applications to embed Zero Trust security and
optimized performance, regardless of where the apps go, including mobile, edge,
IoT, and service meshes.
Anand
R, Director at Microsoft, said:
"The NetFoundry Developer platform with connectivity-as-code and SDK
allows seamless integration with Microsoft Kaizala line of business
applications to securely connect with cloud and backend data center
applications."
Developer Platform Integrates with Global, Zero Trust, Performance
Optimizing Fabric
Applications leverage the NetFoundry Fabric - the world's largest
dynamic, Zero Trust, performance optimizing Internet overlay - to get "day zero
security and performance." This day zero paradigm eliminates dependencies on
after-the-fact security and performance engineering, and enables a new art of
the possible in app development.
Applications leverage the NetFoundry Fabric from any Internet
access, so they benefit from Zero Trust security and optimized performance
anywhere they go - including B2B and connected supply chain - with no reliance
on dedicated networks.
The apps dynamically spin up private overlays which enable private
to private interworking, over the Internet, without requiring the complexity of
VPNs and NATs.
Ecosystem for Zero Trust Security, DevOps Automation and Cloud
Native Networking
Today at KubeCon 2019, NetFoundry, the leader in cloud native,
Zero Trust networking, announced that the NetFoundry Developer Platform is now
generally available (GA), including open source options. The GA follows a beta
which included customer pilots and integrations with Microsoft Kaizala, Micron Authenta,
Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, Codefresh.io, CloudBees, NetApp, Intel, NodeWeaver,
LokBlok, OpenEMR, IMS Evolve, Dell, and leading blockchain, security, cloud,
and IoT solutions.
Key ecosystem integrations enable silicon-to-cloud security.
"Micron Authenta-enabled flash and its
security-as-a-service Key Management System (KMS) adds a trusted and
hardware-based layer in the IoT device, delivering important safeguards for the
NetFoundry platform," said Jeff Shiner, director for IoT Security Solutions for
Micron's Embedded Business Unit. "Integrating Authenta APIs with NetFoundry's
platform allows customers to easily activate devices to secure silicon-to-cloud
connections for edge and IoT workloads."
In
addition, NetFoundry announced it has joined CNCF, in the cloud native
networking category. Dan Kohn, executive director of the CNCF, stated:
"NetFoundry played an important role as a founding member of the Linux
Foundation's EdgeX Foundry for Industrial IoT and Edge, and we look forward to
them bringing a similar commitment to collaboration within CNCF."
Sreelakshmi Sarva, NetFoundry Head of Product, stated:
"We are excited to work with the CNCF community to extend east-west
service mesh security and automation principles to north-south data flows, so
containerized and service mesh environments can extend anywhere based on
business policies, leveraging user identity, root of trust, and application
context. Apps hosted in service-meshes can now seamlessly and securely connect
with users and edges while adhering to Zero Trust principles."
The
NetFoundry Developer Platform Enables ISVs to Eliminate VPNs and Developers to
Control Networking Without Managing it
Galeal Zino, CEO of NetFoundry Inc. stated:
"Traditionally, developers didn't control networking because the proper
abstractions didn't exist. That put apps at the mercy of legacy
networking constructs such as VPNs - constructs which are being broken by edge,
cloud and service mesh applications. Networking has become a barrier to app
innovation and automation. Our Developer Platform enables developers, network
engineers, DevOps, and cloud teams to break through this barrier by
programmatically controlling private, secure, high performance networking."
This means ISVs, cloud native businesses can replace complex,
performance-impairing VPN connections between their app backends and their
business customers. Todd Doane, Solution Architect at OmniSYS, a leading
pharmaceutical ISV, stated:
"NetFoundry enables Zero Trust, secure and reliable communication
between our customers and our software services, no matter where the client or
the host are connected. It has allowed us to further secure our front end
and back end service without putting a giant burden on our network support
team."
NetFoundry
NaaS Provides Enterprises with Simple, Secure, Performant Connectivity for Use
Cases Ranging from Cloud to IoT to SaaS
NetFoundry NaaS provides enterprise with high performance, Zero
Trust, application-specific networking. NetFoundry is available in cloud
marketplaces such as AWS, Azure and Hitachi Enterprise Cloud.
Chris Sullivan, VP and Head of Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, stated:
"Enabling NetFoundry NaaS into HEC means that we can further add value
for our customers and resolve their challenges in connecting distributed
cloud-native Istio applications to embed private network benefits and Zero
Trust security over any internet connect - and therefore remove need for MPLS,
VPNs, jump-servers and bastion hosts."
Earlier this month, Microsoft announced NetFoundry as the only cloud native
networking solution to be selected as a preferred partner for Office 365
optimization, and one of only five O365 preferred networking partners in the
world.
Visit NetFoundry Booth SE3 at Kubecon to see "Apps are the new
Edge," "secure-by-design applications," demos and enter developer contests.
Please visit https://developer.netfoundry.io to learn more.