{"id":8539,"date":"2015-04-18T11:43:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T03:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=8539"},"modified":"2015-04-18T11:43:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T03:43:47","slug":"fortinet-unveils-fortigate-vmx-firewall-for-vmware-virtualization-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/04\/18\/fortinet-unveils-fortigate-vmx-firewall-for-vmware-virtualization-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortinet unveils FortiGate-VMX firewall for VMware virtualization solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fortinet has announced that the company has joined the VMware NSX partner ecosystem. Committed to providing leading security solutions for virtualization, Fortinet also revealed its new FortiGate-VMX firewall appliance, which will enable greater security for customers within agile, elastic software-defined data centers based on VMware vSphere and VMware NSX virtualization platforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fortinet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fortinet.jpg\" alt=\"Fortinet\" width=\"620\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fortinet.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Fortinet-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rapid industry adoption of cloud and virtual infrastructure has created a need for transforming the way security is applied in the data center. With Fortinet\u2019s new VMX solution, VMware vSphere and VMware NSX customers will be able to leverage Fortinet\u2019s leading approach to security, which automates the orchestration of network security with seamless centralized management across physical and virtual domains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SDDC promises a highly automated, easily managed platform that embraces and secures all applications, for fast, safe deployment across data centers, clouds and mobile devices,\u201d said Mary Yang, vice president of business development and Fortinet. \u201cFortinet and VMware are uniquely positioned to deliver on this promise, providing the highest levels of security in virtualized environments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s data center is rapidly changing in response to cloud, big data, software and infrastructure-as-a-service. Software Defined Networking and Software Defined Data Centers are also creating very dynamic environments which challenge the status quo of how network services are delivered.<\/p>\n<p>In many data center environments, hardware security appliances are deployed at the aggregation layer and can only see \u201cnorth-south\u201d traffic passing through the physical network. Conversely, inter-VM traffic (i.e. \u201ceast-west\u201d traffic) does not leave the virtual switch in the virtual host, and network virtualization and software-defined architectures further exacerbate the volume of virtual traffic.<\/p>\n<p>To address these challenges, the FortiGate-VMX solution interoperates with VMware virtualization solutions in the SDDC, providing API integration that gives customers greater visibility and control of virtual network traffic regardless of network topology. In addition, orchestration with VMware\u2019s platform allows for automatic protection of new workloads.<\/p>\n<p>Key FortiGate-VMX features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current interoperability with VMware vSphere and vCloud Suite<\/li>\n<li>Future interoperability with VMware NSX<\/li>\n<li>Centralized management across FortiGate-VMX security appliances<\/li>\n<li>Visibility into all vSphere virtual network traffic<\/li>\n<li>Auto-deployment and provisioning FortiGate-VMX elastically to new ESXi hosts<\/li>\n<li>Instant-on protection of new VM workloads<\/li>\n<li>Ability to retail session-state across vMotion live migration events<\/li>\n<li>Object-based protection rules that follow VM\u2019s across IP or MAC address changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cPurpose-built virtual security appliances will be increasingly used alongside hardware appliances to secure enterprise data centers, which are becoming increasingly dynamic due to rapid adoption of server virtualization and SDN, \u201c said Jeff Wilson, principal analyst, Security for Infonetics. \u201cFortinet is doing well in enterprise data centers, with a string of new customer wins and highly competitive hardware price-to-performance; this success will be bolstered by virtual appliance integration with VMware\u2019s virtualization and SDDC platform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortinet also revealed its new FortiGate-VMX firewall appliance, which will enable greater security for customers within agile, elastic software-defined data centers based on VMware vSphere and VMware NSX virtualization platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1779],"tags":[400,2858,169,2860,670,2859],"class_list":["post-8539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-headlines-2","tag-data-center","tag-fortigate-vmx-firewall-appliance","tag-fortinet","tag-vcloud-suite","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}