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Rackspace Quickly Meets New Information Security Standard for
Organizations that Handle Major Credit Cards with VMware NSX
PROFILE “We are able to isolate the PCI systems from the rest of the environment
without having to re-IP anything or physically change any networking.”
– Luke Huckaba, Principal Architect, Rackspace
• Objectives
– Enable a fundamentally more secure and fully PCI DSS–compliant
Industry: Managed Service Provider environment, while maintaining flexibility and agility
Headquarters: San Antonio, Texas • VMware Solution
– VMware NSX virtual distributed firewall to microsegment and isolate
environments
VMWARE PRODUCTS & SERVICES • Business Impacts

 VMware NSX – Full PCI DSS 3.1 compliance without requiring network team support, new
 VMware vSphere
physical hardware, or physical network changes, resulting into lower cost
 VMware vCenter – More secure environment with granular security to each individual workload
 VMware vRealize Operations – High performance systems with no added latency

– Quick time to scale from planning to deployment in just 8 weeks
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PhoenixNAP Improves Network Deployment and Security Practices
with VMware NSX
PROFILE “NSX has allowed us to heavily reduce the amount of time required to provision or
expand resources for our clients. It provides PhoenixNAP with a clear and trackable
overall view of our portable security and segmentation polices to make sure we are keeping
ourselves and our clients data partitioned and as secure as possible.”
– Joe Benga, Enterprise Architect, PhoenixNAP
• Objectives
– Decrease the amount of cross-team touch required during provisioning and
Industry: Global IT Services customer on-boarding
Headquarters: Phoenix, AZ – Provide segmented, elastic and portable security for cloud solutions
Website: https://phoenixnap.com – Provide a clear insight and traceability for security audit
– Extend Virtual network segments to physical network for co-lo workloads
VMWARE PRODUCTS & SERVICES • VMware Solution
• VMware NSX – Provide software-defined networking and micro-segmentation with VMware NSX
• VMware vCloud Director for Virtual Private Data Center and Managed Private Cloud Services
• VMware vRealize Log Insight • Business Impacts

• VMware vRealize Operations – Reduce hardware cost and footprint by taking advantage of NSX Edge feature sets
• VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
– Decrease total man hours for provisioning new network segments
– Assure security policies that follow VMs from zone to zone; datacenter to
datacenter 3
Université Laval Provides Shared IT Services and Becomes a
Community Cloud Provider with VMware NSX
PROFILE “Organizations are struggling to keep up with the growth in data, inadequate or obsolete
infrastructure, and rapid changes in technology. With the SDDC infrastructure we’ve built,
and leveraging the security, automation, and multi-tenancy capabilities of VMware NSX, we
have gone to market with a solution that cost-effectively addresses these issues.”
GUILLAUME MOUTIER DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE OFFICE UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL
Industry: Education • Objectives

– Deliver an affordable and secure data center as a service to internal
Headquarters: Quebec City, Canada
departments and external public organizations without increasing costs
• VMware Solution
Programmatically create, provision, snapshot, delete, and restore
VMWARE PRODUCTS & SERVICES
sophisticated software-based networks using NSX on existing hardware
 VMware NSX Business Impacts
– Cost-effective agility helped tenants keep pace with their changing needs
 VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
– Improved IT security with micro-segmentation and distributed firewalling
– Self-service and ease-of-use-enabled community cloud added growing
revenue stream without adding any new staff
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Columbia Sportswear continues to stay ahead of competitors and threats by
combining advanced, automated security inside the data center.
PROFILE “Advanced security inside the data center, plus automation via software that’s completely
independent of the underlying physical infrastructure. With NSX and Palo Alto Networks,
we are going put security back in the data center, the right way.”
-John Spiegel, Network Manager, Columbia Sportswear
• Objectives
Industry: Sportswear
Continue to enable IT to be an accelerant to innovation by reducing
Headquarters: Quebec City, Canada roadblocks, speeding time to market, and finding new ways to outpace
competitors while enhancing security for the company, its customers, and
its technology
• VMware Solution
VMWARE PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Using NSX automated security policy placement and Palo Alto Networks
 VMware NSX next Gen Firewall to put security back in the datacenter
Business Impacts
 VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
$2M in savings!
– Dynamic security policy tied to the application
– Significant application performance improvement
– Palo Alto Networks next-gen firewall insertion
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VMWARE PRODUCTS & SERVICES • Business Impacts

 VMware vRealize Operations – High performance systems with no added latency

• VMware vRealize Log Insight • Business Impacts

GUILLAUME MOUTIER DIRECTOR OF ARCHITECTURE OFFICE UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL

Industry: Education • Objectives

-John Spiegel, Network Manager, Columbia Sportswear

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