Advanced Solutions Customer Story Part 1: Why NSX-T?

Customer Overview

Advanced Solutions, a DXC Technology company, was formed in 2004 and employs about 500 staff to support the government of the Canadian province of British Columbia and other public sector customers with IT and business process solutions. For government agencies and services to continue operating efficiently and effectively, it is essential that the IT resources that they require are provided quickly and accurately.

Key Pain Points

All IT organizations are acutely familiar with the wide range of pain points and obstacles that can stand in the way of delivering resources to empower their businesses to move with speed and agility. One of the most common hindrances to IT, and therefore business agility is painfully slow provisioning processes, which can take weeks just to provision an application. The most common bottleneck within these processes is provisioning networking and security services. This is a key pain point for Advanced Solutions, but one that VMware is helping them solve with the VMware NSX Data Center network virtualization platform.

Dan Deane, Solutions Lead at Advanced Solutions says, “The key IT pain points that VMware solutions are helping us solve are around networking and provisioning.”

New Use Cases

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Onward & Upward: Recapping NSX-T in 2018 and Beyond

Overview

2018 was a big year for NSX-T Data Center, VMware’s network virtualization platform designed and optimized for application workloads running on both vSphere and non-vSphere environments, container platforms, and public clouds. In addition to supporting core use cases around security, automation, and multi-cloud networking, NSX-T Data Center has continued to expand the capabilities of the platform to include enabling networking and security for emerging use cases around containers and cloud-native applications. To support these use cases and increasingly deliver value to customers, NSX-T Data Center saw new versions released, improvements made to plug-ins, and integrations across an expanding ecosystem. 2018 also saw NSX-T Data Center gain significant momentum in terms of customer adoption, delivering enhanced and new capabilities across all use cases to a quickly growing number of customer deployments.

Product Releases, Plug-ins, and Integrations

In June, NSX-T Data Center 2.2 was released, bringing with this the ability to manage Microsoft Azure based workloads, referred to as NSX Cloud. The NSX-T Data Center platform was also updated to provide networking and security infrastructure for VMware Cloud on AWS. Other notable capabilities included enhanced data path mode in N-VDS, an improved controller cluster deployment experience, guest Continue reading

Introducing VMware NSX Service Mesh

Introducing VMware NSX Service Mesh

We are excited to introduce VMware NSX® Service Mesh. Built on the foundation of Istio, this VMware offering will extend the capabilities of the Istio service mesh technology to bring visibility, control, and security at the application layer to microservices, the data they access, the users that interact with them, as well as traditional monolithic applications. In short, NSX Service Mesh will enable visibility, control, and security for services, data, and users at the API level. This acts as a natural evolution of cloud-native constructs and will act as an extension of the NSX-T Data Center platform’s replication of networking and security services in software, which is applied directly to containers via the Container Network Interface (CNI).

The Rise of Microservices

With the rise of cloud-native architectures built on distributed microservices, developers are encountering challenges with visibility, management, and control of these new applications. The microservices that these apps are comprised of are developed on cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes or Cloud Foundry, using a variety of programming languages, and often across multiple cloud environments. In addition, these applications consist of many more endpoints to scale, secure, and monitor than in traditional ones. This ultimately Continue reading

Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration

Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits are clear. Developers and the application lifecycle, become faster, more productive, more agile, and more responsive to the needs of the business.

Today we’re announcing NSX-T 2.1, which will enable advanced networking and security across these emerging app architectures, just as it does for traditional 3-tier apps. More specifically, NSX-T 2.1 will serve as the networking and security platform for the recently announced VMware Pivotal Container Service (PKS), a Kubernetes solution jointly developed by VMware and Pivotal in collaboration with Google. NSX-T 2.1 will also introduce integration with the latest 2.0 release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), serving as the networking and security engine behind PCF. In these environments, NSX-T will provide Layer 3 container networking and advanced networking services such as load balancing, micro-segmentation, and more.

For development teams, these integrations mean that they will be able operate quickly and consume infrastructure as code. Meanwhile, their workflows will remain the same — fast and efficient — because NSX-T will integrate tightly with these application platforms, connecting directly into the Continue reading

Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration

Introducing NSX-T 2.1 with Pivotal Integration Application architectures are evolving. That shouldn’t be news to anyone. Today, emerging app architectures that leverage container-based workloads and microservices are becoming mainstream, moving from science projects in development labs to enterprise production deployments at scale. The benefits are clear. Developers and the application lifecycle, become faster, more productive,... Read more →

Top 10 Networking and Security Sessions at VMworld Europe

At VMworld Europe 2016, we showed that network virtualization is mainstream and that NSX will illuminate the path to bring your data center into the future with robust security, speed, and agility.

One year later, NSX is out to show that it’s not just in the data center anymore… it’s everywhere. Beyond helping you master the data center, NSX is setting out to empower you to reign supreme over the cloud, remote and branch offices (ROBO), and even containers. To help you get there, VMworld Europe 2017 has 70+ networking and security sessions and 60+ NSX customers to share expertise and direct experience with NSX. And on top of all of that, VMware will be presenting an exciting new security product to help ensure your applications stay secure!

Check out the list of the top, not-to-be-missed networking and security sessions below. You should also explore the schedule builder on VMworld.com to reserve your spot in the top networking and security sessions as well as to discover the whole range of introductory and deep dive NSX sessions covering the entire use case spectrum.

See you in sunny Barcelona at VMworld Europe 2017!

Top 10 Networking and Security Sessions

At VMworld 2016, we showed network virtualization has gone mainstream and that NSX is the sure-fire way for you to bring your data center into the future with unparalleled security, speed, and agility.

A year on, NSX is taking its show on the road, and its destination is… everywhere. Not satisfied to help you master only the data center, NSX is setting out to help you conquer the cloud, remote and branch offices (ROBO), and even containers. To help you get there, VMworld 2017 has 70+ networking and security sessions and 60+ NSX customers to show you the way forward firsthand. And as an added bonus, VMware will be launching an exciting new security product, to help ensure your applications stay secure!

So take a look at the list of the top, can’t-miss networking and security sessions below. You should also check out the schedule builder on VMworld.com to reserve your spot in the top networking and security sessions as well as to discover the whole range of introductory and deep dive NSX sessions covering the entire use case spectrum.

See you at VMworld US 2017!

VMware NSX Breakout Session Guide – Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced #VMworld 2016

The VMware NSX network virtualization platform is bringing game-changing capabilities and benefits to businesses and organizations across a wide spectrum of industries. We have sessions covering strategic initiatives like security, automation, and application continuity, as well as more tactical use cases like micro-segmentation, IT automating IT, disaster recovery, and more. On top of that, there are sessions covering the NSX platform and operationalizing NSX.  These sessions are offered in a variety of formats and range from introductory sessions perfect for those new to NSX or network virtualization, to intermediate sessions that dive into the deeper technical aspects of NSX, to advanced sessions for NSX veterans and networking experts.

And I know you’ve heard me say this before…but take a look at the list of the breakout sessions below, and then check out the schedule builder on VMworld.com to organize your week.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at VMworld US 2016.

Monday, August 29

VMware NSX Technology Partner Ecosystem Session Guide #VMworld 2016

Looking to learn more about how VMware is collaborating with industry leaders and emerging startups to solve customer problems around a range of strategic initiatives and use cases? We have sessions covering strategic initiatives like security, automation, and application continuity, as well as more tactical use cases like micro-segmentation, IT automating IT, disaster recovery, and more. Our rich partner ecosystem is continuing to grow, and our partners will highlight the benefits of their integrated offerings.

Browse the list of the partner sessions below, and then check out the schedule builder on VMworld.com to organize your week. We’re looking forward to seeing you at VMworld US 2016.

Monday, August 29

VMware NSX Customer Session Guide – #VMworld 2016

Considering rounding out your adoption of the three pillars of the Software-Defined Data Center with network virtualization? Want to see how others have done it? We have more than three dozen unique customers eager to share their experiences about how VMware NSX gave them the power to virtualize their networks and take their operations and businesses to new heights.

We have a range of engaging session formats, from short quick talks to customer discussion panels to customer breakout sessions, to help you see and hear how a wide variety of organizations have put VMware NSX to work for them.

So take a look at the list of the customer sessions below, and then check out the schedule builder on VMworld.com to organize your week. We’re looking forward to seeing you at VMworld US 2016.

Sunday, August 28