Network & Security Implications of Virtualization

Virtualization delivers many benefits including lower hardware maintenance and energy costs, recovered data center floor space, higher availability, reduced disaster recovery costs, faster server deployments, maximized server capacity and increased flexibility for development and testing environments. However, with virtual environments comes diminished network visibility, leading to major challenges for monitoring and securing networks. This greatly complicates problem identification and resolution, potentially erasing the cost savings associated with virtualization.

To maintain a high-performance, secure infrastructure, organizations must manage and protect their virtual environments the same way as their physical networks. StealthWatch by Lancope integrates flow-based security, network and application performance monitoring to provide borderless visibility across physical and virtual networks. By collecting and generating flow data from existing infrastructure, StealthWatch creates the actionable insight required to quickly and effectively troubleshoot network and security issues on all platforms throughout the enterprise.