Requirements for the modern Data Centre have changed. With over 70-80% of the network traffic now going east/west internally within Data Centres, legacy architectures originally built and designed to handle North and South traffic can no longer be adapted to handle the volume of traffic required. With this huge growth of internal traffic two key issues have become even harder to resolve, Data-Centre security and Network Visibility.
Data Centre Security
While traffic volumes were relatively low, we managed to adapt our North/South Security solutions to handle a percentage of the traffic of the Data Centre to secure mission critical workloads and this was deemed acceptable. However, the evolution of decomposed and micro-service based applications and the resulting surge in volume of network traffic, as well as the increased risk from cyber-attacks, ransomware and denial of service, demands a new approach to Network service provision and the securing of workloads. For a true Zero Trust security stance we need to consider full Network Micro-Segmentation & Visibility, and more importantly the journey to get there.
Data Centre Discovery
Why the need for change? The Data Centre has evolved over time, and so have the applications. We have gone from a single boxed application, to the much more flexible micro-services based approach spread over a number of machines, or number of Data Centres. This makes the discovery process for the Data Centre an increasingly complex challenge. Polling various application owners for all the communications that are required takes a lot of time and management. The deployment of probes to do the discovery has a very high cost, and adds further complication to the operation. The use of sampled telemetry data is not accurate enough. So, what do we do?
The answer to both issues is provided in the next evolution of switching architecture, specifically by the emergence of the distributed services switch. The new Aruba CX10000 solution, the first of its kind in the industry, removes the need for reliance on unsampled data, simplifies the management of application communications and removes the need for costly and complex network probes altogether.
Key Benefits of the Aruba CX10000 solution
1. First in the industry ToR Switch delivering L4 stateful firewall across all workloads
2. Only ToR Switch on market to deliver MICRO-segmentation of DC network
3. Only ToR switch to deliver 100% Telemetry data for Advanced Network Observability.
4. Industry leading Scale, Performance and Ease of Management.
With the CX10000 a simple Top of the Rack refresh can now enhance and extend your Zero-Trust stance today, provide unprecedented Network Telemetry today andenable the full capability of AI/ML use tomorrow.
A solution with wide appeal
The CX10k solution is primarily designed with the Data Centre deployment in mind, but we are seeing a number of additional corner use-cases where security in the switch fabric just makes sense. The ability to provide security at wire-rate on up to 800G of traffic flowing over the switch. Instead of putting a half million dollars aside to expand their perimeter firewall to cover growing east-west traffic volumes, Aruba CX10K customers are putting in a distributed services switch at For more information about HPE Aruba networking and how we
If you’d like to learn more about the CX10k solution, we’re excited to announce Ingram Micro’s Aruba specialist team will be hosting an exclusive sales enablement workshop on Wednesday 17th May 2023. Register today to find out more by contacting our Aruba Senior Business Manager on the details below.
In the meantime, if you have any questions or need further information, please contact Senior Business Manager, James Elburn to discover more today: james.elburn@ingrammicro.com