INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Data Centres
Innovative security solutions
for the modern data centres
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"Such backhauling over private MPLS links is
expensive, results in significant latency and
creates poor user experience at the branch
site,” added Goodall.
“Thus the demand for direct Internet
breakout capabilities has become prevalent.”
The NetScaler SD-WAN device simply
forwards the Internet and cloud application
traffic to the Zscaler Cloud Security Platform.
The combined solution gives IT teams peace
of mind knowing that they are protecting
data, applications, and users in remote and
branch offices. And it gives them the tools
they need to prioritise business-related
Internet traffic over recreational traffic.
T
roye is now offering an innovative
security solution for the modern
datacentre by combining the benefits
of Citrix SD-WAN and ZScaler Cloud Security.
The company has launched an holistic
solution that provide cost effective and
highly available WAN, securing branch
Internet traffic, enabling compliance with
corporate content and access policies.
Complete with Internet user activity
monitoring, the bandwidth control feature
protects key applications and limits
recreational applications by location or time
of day which is managed globally from
a single management console. With the
Zscaler security solution being cloud-based,
one no longer needs to add additional
security appliances to the network.
Troye Technical Director Kurt Goodall says
the ideal solution to enforce security without
adding cost, complexity, or latency is to
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route all branch Internet traffic from the
Citrix NetScaler SD-WAN appliance to the
Zscaler Cloud Security Platform.
The platform acts as a series of security
check posts in more than 100 data centres
around the world.
"Zscaler connects users and the Internet,
inspecting every bite of traffic, even if it is
encrypted or compressed,” said Goodall.
"But customers still grapple with expensive
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) links
to backhaul branch traffic to the corporate
data centre in order to filter traffic through
security appliances, to detect malware and
enforce policies.”
An alternative to backhauling is to add
security appliances at the branch. However,
the cost and complexity increases as one
installs multiple appliances to maintain
consistent policies across the sites.
Citrix’s NetScaler SD-WAN enables a
scalable, reliable, and cloud-ready software
defined WAN with packet-level, real-time
path selection, firewalling, routing and
application analytics whether accessing
SaaS applications, virtualised desktops,
or traditional data centres. It ensures an
always-on, high-quality experience and a
simpler, more agile branch network.
As the need for bandwidth increases in
branch offices, enterprises have had tough
choices, with each option presenti ng trade-
offs in performance, cost, and security.
SD-WAN is simplifying the choice, with
significant cost savings and the kind of
performance users will appreciate.
"Zscaler puts the enterprise security stack
in the cloud, arming each branch with a
secure web gateway, cloud firewall, cloud
sandbox, and other security protections,”
said Goodall.
“Together, Zscaler and SD-WAN provide
branch and remote users with performance
and security that are both first-class.” n
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