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Fast-Growing SaaS Company Protects Two New Data Centers with Illumio
Technology Category
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries
- Software
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Cybersecurity
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
The Challenge
One of the largest and fastest-growing players in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry needed to deploy two new data centers in two countries to support customer and geographic growth plans. They were facing rapid growth and increasing east/west data center traffic. They needed a solution that would protect customer data and scale into the future – a requirement that would be hard to meet with network segmentation and expensive with high-capacity data center firewalls in every rack. They were also looking for a way to more cost effectively segment while maintaining their agile software development culture. From the drawing board to deployment, the company needed to roll out and secure the new data centers in less than six months with live customer data while meeting stringent internal and regional security and compliance requirements.
About The Customer
The customer is one of the largest and fastest-growing players in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry. The SaaS industry is one of the fastest growing areas in the technology industry and by its very nature is an omnivorous consumer of computing capacity and capabilities. The customer needed to deploy two new data centers in two countries in support of customer and geographic growth plans. They were facing rapid growth and increasing east/west data center traffic. They needed a solution that would protect customer data and scale into the future.
The Solution
The Illumio Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) was selected and deployed to protect 9,000 workloads across the two new data centers in two countries to meet deadlines and security requirements. The solution was aggressively tested and rolled out by the customer’s cross-functional team with key stakeholders from the application development, infrastructure, and security teams all working in concert. Unlike other available data center firewall, network segmentation, or micro-segmentation solutions, Illumio adaptive segmentation capabilities provided scalable and flexible segmentation between individual customer environments, a single segmentation solution for bare-metal, virtualized, on-premises, and cloud workloads, application segmentation with fine-grained control between application tiers, segmentation between and within production and development environments, and regionally specific segmentation policy to meet local regulations.
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