Technology Alley Issue 1, January 2014

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1 Technology Alley Alliance Partner News CyberCore s new Alliance Partners focus on the evolution of the data center (Nutanix), performance management, (Xangati)and security (Unisys Stealth). NUTANIX The Nutanix Solution: Evolution of the Data Center T he Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform is a converged infrastructure solution that consolidates the compute (server) tier and the storage tier into a single, integrated appliance. Nutanix uses the same design principles and technologies that power IT innovators such as Google, Facebook, and Amazon. It tailors these for mainstream enterprises and government agencies. In This Issue Alliance Parner News Never Compromise Your Mission Rapid time to value: deployment in under 30 minutes No disruption to ongoing operations Easily scales Powerful off-the-shelf, non-proprietary hardware Reduces the cost and complexity of storage Works with legacy components, protecting investments you ve already made Delivers advanced, enterprise-class storage capabilities The Nutanix solution is radically simple compared to traditional datacenter infrastructures. The modular building-block design allows your organization to start with small deployments and grow incrementally into very large cluster installations. With one appliance, you can move from a small operation to handling large-scale server virtualization deployments, virtual desktop initiatives, test and development applications, big data (e.g. Splunk, Hadoop) projects, and more. The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform integrates high-performance server resources with enterprise-class storage in a cost-effective 2U appliance. It eliminates the need for network-based storage architecture, such as a storage area network (SAN) or network-attached storage (NAS). The scalability and performance that the world s largest, most efficient datacenters enjoy are now available to all enterprises and government agencies.

2 page 2 Alliance Partner News XANGATI The recognized leader in performance management solutions for cloud/virtualization The recognized leader in cloud infrastructure and VDI performance management solutions. The Xangati management dashboard product suite is a set of solutions to assure mission-critical business applications are being delivered in highly dynamic infrastructures that include virtualization and private and public clouds. Xangati VI Dashboard The Xangati VI Dashboard tracks all the virtual and physical infrastructure components including applications that affect virtual infrastructure performance. It leverages Xangati s unique performance management engine to keep an administrator proactively apprised of the live and continuous health of their infrastructure without requiring software agents. Xangati VDI Dashboard The industry s first solution to comprehensively track all key infrastructure components that affect VDI performance for both VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop environments. The VDI dashboard leverages Xangati s tight integrations with VMware and Citrix to present end-to-end session statistics for PCoIP and HDX (ICA) and to track end-users without requiring guest-level software agents. UNISYS STEALTH SOLUTION SUITE You re Under Attack Protect Your Crown Jewels Unisys Stealth is an innovative software-based security solution that: Conceals communication endpoints, making them undetectable to all unauthorized parties inside and outside the enterprise Implements with no disruption to your existing IT infrastructure; it merely rests on top Tightens access control by basing it on user identity and not physical devices so security moves with the user and is easier to manage Protects sensitive data in motion from potential compromise by encrypting Reduces costs by allowing you to consolidate and virtualize networks, servers, and cloud architectures Supports regulatory compliance such as PCI and other requirements that are drawing resources away from your core business and mission focus Strengthens agility so you can quickly and easily adapt to meet emerging business and mission requirements Helps executives future-proof their security investments by aligning with enterprise transformation trends

3 page 3 Never Compromise Your Mission 5 Ways to Strengthen Data and Network Security AND Decrease Costs Public sector organizations are faced with a significant challenge managing risk in an environment replete with sophisticated cyber threats, cost constraints, and compliance demands. Cost reduction remains top of mind, but there is little tolerance for any compromise involving IT security. Meanwhile, with the adoption of mobile devices, and the increasing velocity of data breach attempts, the challenge to reduce costs while strengthening security can seem daunting. It s only daunting because public sector leaders have come to equate increased security with increased cost. For years, security involved layering perimeter defenses and physical technology infrastructure that drove up operations and IT costs. But advanced, innovative technologies are driving public sector leaders to step outside the conventional Band-Aid approach. A new breed of public sector security opportunities around software-defined networking has emerged one that strengthens security and cuts costs. The key hide all endpoints completely from attackers so there s no vector to target. 5 Ways to Increase Security and Reduce Costs 1. Cloak Your Endpoints and Go Undetectable Hackers attempt to locate devices on a network by broadcasting network messages, where even a negative reply can tell them what they want to know: the IP addresses of systems they can further probe for vulnerabilities. A cloaking strategy is based on the idea that by hiding all endpoints completely from attackers, there s no vector to target. In order to accomplish this, a combination of cryptography, VPN technologies and segmentation tactics are used. 2. Segment Your Data Center by Using Communities of Interest Over the past several years, public sector organizations have reduced infrastructure costs through consolidation and virtualization strategies. Likewise, data center segmentation offers an opportunity to reduce security costs. This new approach allows a simplified, flatter network design, but provides highly segmented access and visibility permissions. Best practices in data segmentation involve establishing communities of interest (COIs), in which the users and devices within each community have finite and predetermined visibility and access to different servers and applications. The COI capability, combined with executing very low in the protocol stack, darkens endpoints on the network, as if they were invisible. Agencies can confidently share mission-critical information with citizens and stakeholders who need to know by creating secure communities of interest, allowing them to apply varying levels of security to specific users. COI access is defined by device or user identity rather than physical topology. Groups can therefore share the same physical or virtual network without fear of another group accessing their data or workstations and servers. 3. Isolate Disparate Networks Configuring and maintaining separate physical networks is prohibitively expensive and difficult to support, and relying upon telecommunications provider networks cannot assure security. Public sector organizations must protect local assets within designated regions while controlling access to assets from users in geographically dispersed regions. To do so, agencies need an

4 page 4 Never Compromise Your Mission ability to create a communications tunnel cloaked from those who are not part of a COI, and regional isolation creates the effect of cryptographically isolating each COI member. 4. Move Mission-Critical Workloads to a More Secure Cloud Mission-critical workloads require both high availability and high security, and if either one is in question, a new approach might be required. With today s solutions, private clouds can deliver the same availability attributes as a public cloud except it does so from within your data center, providing just in time resources that can be shared between COIs but remain secure and isolated from each other. IT resources are converted into a flexible, metered, self-provisioned service delivery. By cloaking public cloud provider servers, public sector organizations can get more leverage from the cloud while maintaining complete control of their workloads. Virtual machines should be cloaked from other tenants in the public cloud and from hackers attempting to infiltrate the cloud. This enables agencies to confidently deploy mission-critical workloads in the public cloud and take advantage of the associated cost savings. 5. Convert Existing Computing Devices Into Secure Communications Tools Military-grade capabilities can protect data and information across any network that employees and partners choose - LAN, WAN, wireless, 3G, 4G and satellite networks, public or private. Whether for tactical defense and intelligence purposes, first responder services, or to empower any small team with specific and more privileged access, public sector organizations need a way to quickly and securely establish secure network connectivity which can assure continuity of operations. Similarly, to respond to emergencies, public sector organizations often need to be able to establish ad-hoc networks quickly, efficiently and securely. They can adopt an approach akin to COI in a one that leverages existing COI information to create a secure tunnel. A customized, dedicated and portable device can then enable a remote user to boot up and establish a clean and secure session linking back to the public sector organization s own network. A Path Forward Unsurpassed, Cost-effective Security - Without Network and Application Changes The Unisys Stealth Solution Suite offers a unique opportunity for public sector executives to leverage software-defined networks for cost control and better security. By rejecting the past practice of allowing perimeter solution sprawl and moving on to the best practices described here, public sector executives can offer both new services and new layers of security, all while cutting costs. The Unisys Stealth Solution Suite provides a high level of security and assurance AES-245 encryption, FIPS certified cryptographic engine, EAL-4+, DoD, NSA Common Criteria certifications. The benefits of stronger security are met with equally attractive cost-and time-saving benefits: Deployable on top of existing infrastructure and tools, integration does not require any network or application changes in tiered or flat networks. Integrates with identity management systems like Microsoft Active Directory, speeding the creation of COIs and the ongoing maintenance of their privileges. Eliminates the need for separate physical networks for each COI, leased lines, equipment and associated point solution licenses. About Unisys For more than 130 years, Unisys has led technology innovations that transform the way governments deliver on their missions. Through our robust portfolio of security, data center, end user, and application modernization services, we deliver a safer and more secure connected world. Our approach integrates resource and infrastructure security, creating a highly effective and efficient security environment and freeing our government client to focus on best serving citizens. Unisys security solutions are trusted worldwide, in 100+ airports, 1,500 government agencies, 100+ banks, and countless other organizations that have zero tolerance for breach.

5 page 5 Addressing the Changing Landscape Industry shifts are redefining IT at all levels. On-premise IT consumption models are shifting to cloud-based services. IT as a service (IaaS) is supplanted by applications as a service. Separate development and operations are moving toward integrated development and operations (DevOps). Box-centric management models are migrating to application-centric management. Business agility requires application agility, so IT teams need to provision applications in hours instead of months. Resources need to scale up (or down) in minutes, not hours. Traditional approaches take a siloed operational view, with no common operational model between the application, network, security, and cloud teams. A common operational model delivers application agility, simplified operations, assured performance, and scale. The Solution: An Application-Centric Approach to Managing Your Infrastructure Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a holistic architecture with centralized automation and policy-driven application profiles. ACI delivers software flexibility with the scalability of hardware performance. Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Overview Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is an innovative architecture that radically simplifies, optimizes, and accelerates the entire application deployment lifecycle. uses a holistic systems-based approach, with tight integration between physical and virtual elements, an open ecosystem model, and innovation-spanning application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), hardware, and software. This unique approach uses a common policy-based operating model across ACI-ready network, and security elements (computing, storage in future), overcoming IT silos and drastically reducing costs and complexity. CISCO ACI Coming in Fall 2014 redefines the power of IT, enabling IT to be more responsive to changing business and application needs, enhancing agility, and adding business value. Infrastructure must become application aware and more agile to support dynamic application instantiation and removal The non-virtual nature of new emerging applications means that the infrastructure must support physical, virtual, and cloud integration with full visibility Infrastructure-independent applications treat the data center as a dynamic shared resource pool Scale-out models promote more east-west traffic, with a need for greater network performance and scalability Multi-cloud models require the infrastructure to be secure and multitenant aware Problems Addressed by Cloud, mobility, and big data applications are causing a shift in the data center model. New applications are placing demands on the infrastructure in new ways. Distributed applications (for example, Big Data and Hadoop), database applications (such as those from Oracle and SAP) that run on bare metal, virtualized applications running in multi-hypervisor environments, and cloud-based applications that are available on demand all im-

6 page 6 pose different demands on infrastructure. These demands include: These changes are increasing operation complexity and limiting business agility and responsiveness. delivers an agile data center with simplified operations and increased application responsiveness to support a new generation of distributed applications while accommodating existing virtualized and non-virtualized environments. Solution delivers a transformational operating model for next-generation data center and cloud applications. In the framework, applications guide networking behavior, not the other way around. Predefined application requirements and descriptions (policy profiles) automate the provisioning of the network, application services, security policies, tenant subnets, and workload placement. By automating the provisioning of the complete application network, helps lower IT costs, reduce errors, accelerate deployment, and make the business more agile. The new model uses a fabric-based approach that is designed from the foundation to support emerging industry demands while maintaining a migration path for architectures already in place. This focus allows both traditional enterprise applications and internally developed applications to run side by side on a network infrastructure designed to support them in a dynamic and scalable way. Network policies and logical topologies, which traditionally have dictated application design, are instead applied based on the application needs. The fabric is designed to support the move to management automation, programmatically defined policy, and dynamic workloads on any device anywhere. accomplishes this with a combination of hardware and software tightly coupled to provide advantages not possible in other models (Figure 1). Main Components Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller The Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) is the main architectural component of the solution. It is the unified point of automation and management for the fabric, policy enforcement, and health monitoring. The Cisco APIC is a centralized clustered controller that optimizes performance, supports any application anywhere, and unifies operation of physical and virtual environments. The controller manages and operates a scalable multitenant fabric. The Cisco APIC is responsible for tasks ranging from fabric activation, maintenance of switch firmware, network policy configuration and instantiation. Cisco APIC is completely removed from the data path. This means that the fabric can still forward traffic even when communication with the APIC is lost. The APIC itself is delivered as an appliance and will typically be run as three or more appliances for performance and availability. Figure 1: : Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller, Application Network Profile and Fabric That Supports The Cisco APIC is designed from the foundation for programmability and centralized management. The Cisco APIC exposes a northbound API through XML and JSON and provides both a command-line interface (CLI) and GUI that use this API to manage the fabric.

7 page 7 The system also provides an open source southbound API that allows thirdparty network service vendors to implement policy control of supplied devices through the Cisco APIC. Application Network Profiles An Application Network Profile within the fabric is a collection of the endpoint groups (a logical grouping of similar endpoints representing an application tier or set of services that require a similar policy), their connections, and the policies that define those connections. Application Network Profile is the logical representation of all components of the application and its interdependencies on the application fabric. Application Network Profiles are designed to be modeled in a logical way that matches the way that applications are designed and deployed. The configuration and enforcement of policies and connectivity are then handled by the system through the Cisco APIC rather than an administrator. Fabric: Cisco Nexus Portfolio Cisco is expanding the Cisco Nexus switching portfolio with the introduction of the Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches for both traditional and data center deployments. The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series offers modular and fixed 1/10/40 Gigabit Ethernet switch configurations that are designed to operate either in Cisco NXOS mode for compatibility and consistency with the current Cisco Nexus switches or in mode to take full advantage of Cisco ACI application policy based services and infrastructure automation features. This dual-function capability provides customers with investment protection and ease of migration to through a software upgrade. Benefits of helps dissolve IT silos for application deployment, security, network services, and network configuration personnel by enabling all of them to collaborate through a common platform. The main benefits include: Application velocity - any application, anywhere Systems architecture that enables a holistic view of applications, with centralized application-level integrated visibility and real-time application health monitoring across physical and virtual environments Common platform for managing physical, virtual, and cloudbased environments Secure multi-tenancy with detailed control for applications and tenants Scalable performance combining software flexibility and hardware performance Superior application performance, improving application flow completion time by up to 80 percent Operation simplicity, with common policy, management, and operation models across application, network, and security resources (and computing and storage resources in the future) Open APIs, open standards, and open source elements enable software flexibility for development and operations (DevOps) teams and ecosystem partner integration

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