Data Center Security Challenges Require Advanced Networking Functions on Server Blades

Data Center Security Challenges Require Advanced Networking Functions on Server Blades
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND Within both public and private cloud data centers, the number of Virtual Machines per server blade is increasing rapidly, leveraging on-going improvements in the performance of the x86 processors used on those blades. Today, a typical server blade in a service provider data center hosts at least 50 VMs, with that number expected to grow to hundreds within a few years. Because of this growth in the number of VMs running on each server blade, the data Read More »

6WIND Overcomes the Network Security Challenges

By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager IP network security challenges IP Security (IPsec) was developed to integrate security into IP networks which did not provide any native support for security. IPsec provides authentication (session management) and data confidentiality (encryption/decryption) at Layer 3. IPsec is actually a suite of protocols, including IKE (Internet Key Exchange), AH (Authentication Header) and ESP (Encapsulating Security Payload) amongst others and the IPsec Read More »

Observations From InfoSecurity Europe 2012

By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager I spent a day recently at InfoSecurity in London (http://www.infosec.co.uk/) which with over 12,000 visitors is one of Europe’s largest security conferences. I talked with many exhibitors about network security along with their challenges in migrating from proprietary environments to more flexible platforms, based on x86 processors and with virtualized architectures. It seems that the security market is working hard to bring more agility to network Read More »

Wide Range of New Security Products Discussed at RSA Conference

By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND I spent most of my time at RSA Conference last week working our booth, with limited time to walk the show floor and understand the wide range of new products on display. In conversations with attendees and exhibitors, however, I was struck by the wide range of new solutions being discussed at the event as well as the diversity of challenges that are being addressed in the whole category of network security. Among the interesting new products featured on Read More »

Extending virtual routing to IKE

By Yann Rapaport, 6WIND Customer Support and Service Manager. Virtual Routing and Forwarding allows a router to handle multiple independent instances of a routing table. Therefore a single router can handle overlapping IP addresses and routes, provided that they are in different VRF instances. This has an impact on all protocols handling interfaces, IP addresses or routes. In the case of IPsec, Security Policies (SPs) and Security Associations (SAs) are extended with VRF information to take into Read More »