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Juniper Announces vGW 5.0 Release, Begins Considering UTM Protection for Virtualized Data Centers | Aug 31, 2011 | Enterprise Security | Analyst: Andrew Braunberg Event Summary August 29, 2011 -- Juniper has announced the upcoming release of vGW Virtual Gateway version 5.0. Product enhancements will include increased protection, scalability, and compliance features for virtualized workloads. vGW 5.0 integrates monitoring, firewall, intrusion detection, and compliance capabilities with new layers of defenses, including antivirus protection, hypervisor compliance monitoring, and large-scale virtualization security management capabilities, making it a universal threat management (UTM) solution for cloud computing. | Read Press Release | Quick Take Analytical Summary • Current Perspective: Positive on Juniper’s announced upcoming release of vGW 5.0, because the new version expands the product’s functional footprint while suggesting where Juniper plans to take the product in future releases. Combined with the company’s previously announced integration of vGW with its SRX security gateways, Juniper is working toward a complete data center security solution set. • Vendor Importance: Moderate to Juniper, because security remains a key market segment and data center security in particular plays to the company’s aspirations. The release also shows Juniper is making good progress on leveraging and expanding the technology it acquired from Altor Networks late last year. The price tag on that one ($95 million) raised a few eyebrows, and Juniper is keen to show continued return on that investment. • Market Impact: Moderate on the data center security segment, because the announcement is in response to several important market trends. Most significantly, as customers move more mission-critical applications into virtualized data centers, they are looking for the same types of security protections found in physical environments. The same dynamics/benefits that have driven growth in the unified threat management (UTM) market are transferable to virtualized environments. CLIENTS ONLY Current Perspective Competitive Strengths and Weaknesses Response & Recommendations Buyer Actions Analytical Perspective | Client access - Full report in Enterprise Security | More information Top Top

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Juniper Networks Extends Cloud Computing Defense Platform With Antivirus Protections

Newest Version of Juniper Networks® vGW Protects Virtual Data Centers and Clouds With a Layered Defense Approach

SUNNYVALE, CA--(Aug 29, 2011) - Today at VMworld® 2011, Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) introduced significant additions to the Juniper Networks® Gateway solution for customers looking for a comprehensive virtualization security platform. New functionalities will provide virtualization-specific antivirus (AV) protections and continuous monitoring against malware and hackers, while simultaneously ensuring that security does not impede virtualized workload performance or present a barrier to implementing large-scale virtualized environments.

Added to vGW Virtual Gateway version 5.0 are increased protection, scalability and compliance features for virtualized workloads. vGW 5.0 integrates monitoring, firewall, intrusion detection and compliance capabilities with new layers of defenses including antivirus protection, hypervisor compliance monitoring, and large-scale virtualization security management capabilities, making it a universal threat management (UTM) solution for cloud computing.

"Businesses have a lot to gain from optimizing their data center operations through virtualization, and security concerns should not impede those potentially huge cost savings," said Douglas Murray, senior vice president and general manager, security business unit at Juniper Networks. "The latest version of our vGW Series not only enhances security protections without compromising capacity, but enables scalable management across global virtualized environments with multiple data centers."

"Juniper provides an innovative solution to integrate physical and virtual network security at scale with vGW Virtual Gateway and the SRX series," said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. "With vGW 5.0 Virtual Gateway, Juniper provides a tightly-integrated virtual solution for defense-in-depth protection and centralized security management."

The vGW 5.0 antivirus feature secures VMs against resident malware and other programs designed to hide in files and VMs in order to disrupt business or rob organizations of mission-critical information. The vGW 5.0 AV protections can detect the malware or viruses and quarantine the infected files or infected guest VMs themselves.

The vGW 5.0 antivirus engine provides optional on-demand scanning so that administrators can scan VMs offline at optimal off peak times when network resource use is low. The vGW 5.0 virtualization-specific approach to AV offers numerous scanning options, allowing organizations to cost-effectively optimize their antivirus protections for performance and intelligent scanning. The net effect is optimal VM host performance even when what is traditionally CPU and RAM-intensive AV security is turned on.

Additional vGW Virtual Gateway 5.0 enhancements include:

• VM gold image enforcement provides a sophisticated compliance checking mechanism and continuous monitoring of desired security state with alerting and mitigation options for instances when that state is negatively impacted.

• Multi-center/management support that synthesizes security policies for large-scale deployments into a single manageable whole, across geographies and data center locations.

• Split-center management capabilities that segment information contained in one VMware vCenter™ Server instance into multiple, independently-managed vGW to improve resource isolation for cloud services or multi-tenancy.

• Tree search features along Smart Group expression builder and the ability to easily quarantine VMs that become non-compliant supporting quick and easy search, classification and mitigation across a large number of tenants.

"VMware encourages and supports its security partners to extend upon our virtualization platform in order to enable the secured, continuous operation of the virtualized data center," said Parag Patel, vice president, global strategic alliances at VMware. "Purpose-built virtualization security is a must-have component for any organization whose cloud computing environment includes high-value business enabling workloads."

Availability

The Juniper Networks vGW Virtual Gateway 5.0 will be available in early Q4 2011 and Juniper will be showcasing live demonstrations of the vGW product at VMworld 2011 in the Juniper Networks booth #1207. The leading virtualization and cloud infrastructure event of the year, VMworld is being held August 29-September 1, 2011 in Las Vegas.