{"id":24176,"date":"2017-02-15T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T21:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=24176"},"modified":"2017-02-15T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:35:32","slug":"pan-os-8-0-accelerating-large-scale-multi-cloud-deployments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/pan-os-8-0-accelerating-large-scale-multi-cloud-deployments\/","title":{"rendered":"PAN-OS 8.0: Accelerating Large-Scale, Multi-Cloud Deployments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizations are adopting AWS and Azure for their production workloads at a rapid pace. Simultaneously, private cloud and virtualization initiatives continue to expand and evolve. Regardless of virtualization environment or public cloud vendor, organizations must protect business-critical applications and data from cybercriminals with a consistent security policy.<\/p>\n<p>In our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/announcing-pan-os-8-0-biggest-launch-yet\/\">PAN-OS 8.0<\/a> release, we announced new products and security features designed to accelerate large scale, multi-cloud deployments. Our VM-Series has been optimized and expanded to deliver up to 16 Gbps of firewall throughput with App-ID enabled across five models. Integration features now enable customers to build secure, cloud-centric architectures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Plus, new workflow automation features accelerate and streamline firewall deployments for VMware NSX and KVM.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Enterprise-Class Security for Workloads in the Public Cloud <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Given the agility and scalability advantages, more and more business-critical workloads and data exist in the public cloud. The VM-Series offers seamless integration with native cloud resources in both AWS and Azure to enable customers to build secure, highly available cloud-centric architectures that are scalable and resilient. Key improvements include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Optimized Performance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Our current VM-100 and VM-300 have been optimized to deliver up to 2-4 times their existing performance with 2 Gbps and 4 Gbps of firewall throughput with App-ID enabled for hybrid cloud, segmentation and internet gateway use cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>VM-Series for AWS<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>More robust monitoring, including the ability to export and send a range of existing capability and performance metrics directly from PAN-OS to AWS CloudWatch, enables the VM-Series to participate more fully in AWS deployments.<\/li>\n<li>Azure Application Gateway integration and CloudWatch metrics join the existing Auto Scaling for the VM-Series on AWS integration. These capabilities use AWS services and PAN-OS automation tools to deliver dynamic scalability and cloud-centric availability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>VM-Series for Azure <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Integration with Azure Application Gateway and Load Balancer allows customers to support security scale out and resiliency to address high availability requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Enterprise-Class Security for Private Cloud Deployments<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Organizations are expanding their private cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV) initiatives in different ways, and the breadth of use cases simply cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all product that is manually deployed. PAN-OS 8.0 expands and optimizes the VM-Series to deliver App-ID enabled throughput of up to 16 Gbps to address a variety of use cases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The new VM-50 is optimized for customer scenarios that range from virtual branch office\/customer premise equipment (vCPE) to high-density, multi-tenancy environments, delivering up to 200 Mbps of App-ID enabled firewall performance with minimal resource consumption.<\/li>\n<li>The new VM-500 and VM-700 deliver 8 Gbps to 16 Gbps of App-ID enabled firewall performance and can be deployed as NFV security components in fully virtualized data center and service provider environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The PAN-OS 8.0 release also further automates complex security policy workflows for VMware NSX and KVM deployments.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VMware NSX \u2013 <\/strong>Security policy creation and response to security events within software-defined data center (SDDC) environments is now simplified and automated through Panorama network security management.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OpenStack\/KVM \u2013 <\/strong>Support for config-drive for meta-data sharing simplifies the automation workflows required to deploy and customize the VM-Series for KVM with OpenStack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With PAN-OS 8.0, Palo Alto Networks customers can leverage the expanded VM-Series to reap the benefits of a cloud security feature set that mirrors their physical networks, delivering a consistent security posture across their infrastructure, from the network to the cloud. New cloud-focused customers can protect workloads with next-generation security features that support consistent policy enforcement through superior visibility, control and threat prevention \u2013 all at the application level.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/products\/innovations\/cloud-security\">Securely Enabling Public and Private Clouds<\/a>. You\u2019ll find a host of cloud-focused security materials, ranging from informational videos and in-depth demos to detailed datasheets and user guides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how PAN-OS 8.0 helps to accelerate large-scale, multi-cloud deployments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249,"featured_media":21531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229],"tags":[109,3188],"coauthors":[1838,2745,800],"class_list":["post-24176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-platform","tag-cloud","tag-pan-os-8-0"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/blog-generic-banner-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24182,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24176\/revisions\/24182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24176"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}