Leading Information Technology Company, HP, has developed a number of new security solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environment and the entire data centre space on the country.
Speaking during an HP Networking forum in Lagos on Friday, experts from the company said the new solutions were part of the FlexNetwork solutions for video and mobile computing.
The new HP FlexManagement solution, the company said, brought together physical and virtual network management in a single pane of glass, and a new virtual and cloud optimised network intrusion prevention system to increase security in data centres.
The Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Networking, HP, Mr. Marius Haas, said the solutions were based on the HP FlexNetwork architecture, the industry’s only unified architecture for data centres, campus and branch-enabling enterprises to fully harness the power of media-rich content, virtualisation, mobility and cloud computing.
“Customers are looking for vendors driving a systemic change in networking to eliminate complexity, improve agility and increase performance. HP’s new modular campus switches outperform Cisco’s in-class products head-to-head in each category, while HP’s single-pane-of-glass management tool alone does what it takes Cisco 30 different tools to do,” he said.
Haas said with the solutions, clients would be able to simplify and speed service delivery across the data centre, campus and branch; driving increased agility and innovation.
Data centre application workloads are increasingly virtualised and many legacy security solutions only protect physical environments supporting single workloads.
As such, Haas said the new HP TippingPoint S6100N IPS appliance provided organisations a single, scalable network security framework that automatically and consistently builds in protection as virtual machines were created or moved across an enterprise.
“The appliance scales the HP Secure Virtual Framework to provide a single solution for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Providing up to 60 per cent higher performance than the previous generation,” he said.
On the impact of the HP solutions on operations, the Vice-President, Information Security, PrimeLending, Mr. Johny Hernandez, said, “Virtual deployments speed up our business processes, but they cannot be implemented if it means sacrifices to either security or application availability.
“Leveraging the real-time inspection capacity of the HP TippingPoint IPS, we are able to automatically secure our virtual environments and get the best performance from them.”