Posted by Mike Sachoff

HP has introduced new high-performance security solutions aimed at preventing network breaches in a converged infrastructure by offering comprehensive data protection across both physical and virtual environments.

The new offerings bring improved security to HP FlexFabric, the company’s flexible and secure data center networking fabric for converged infrastructure.

HP says as organizations move to a more virtualized and converged infrastructures, the importance of security is increased. Virtualized environments and their applications are subject to the same threats that impact traditional data centers.

The HP TippingPoint Secure Virtualization Framework (SVF) is a suite of products designed to help prevent network threats from impacting virtualized environments. The TippingPoint Virtual Controller (vController), the first product introduced under the SVF, extends TippingPoint security protection from physical to virtual networks by routing it through an HP TippingPoint N-Platform Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) appliance. The vController prevents security attacks by inspecting all VM traffic as it moves through the network — either between VMs or from VMs to traditional servers.

Additional vController features include:

*Increased network security by extending HP’s automated threat-prevention capabilities to virtual environments.

*Reduced deployment complexity by enabling customers to extend the same processes, tools used in securing their physical environments to their virtual infrastructures.

*Simplified management of network security by providing single-pane-of-glass management, visibility and control across both physical and virtual networks.

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