5 Ways HCI Accelerates Cyber Resilience Over Traditional Infrastructure
By Mike Barmonde, Product Marketing Manager, AI, Networking, and Security
In the wake of current events, the need to enable IT systems for cyber resilience becomes critical. Large-scale outages that are unplanned must be accounted for along with cyber threats and disasters. Even the most tried-and-true solutions can fail and preparation must start at the core of your systems.
Enterprises today require a robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure. Nutanix recognizes the unique challenges that come with managing and securing today’s complex IT environments. Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) provides superior solutions to traditional architecture in five key ways.
1. Unified Security Policies
Nutanix HCI creates a unified operating model and centralized management of security policies, ensuring consistent enforcement across the entire infrastructure. This reduces the risk of misconfigurations and security gaps.
Example: Network security
Traditional architectures: Often require multiple layers of security appliances and software to protect the network, which can introduce latency and management overhead.
- Nutanix HCI: Consolidates and unifies networking and security functions and policies on a single platform. The attack surface is dramatically reduced with built-in microsegmentation and firewall capabilities that are deployed anywhere you run apps and data.
2. Simplified Management
By consolidating infrastructure components into a single platform, Nutanix HCI reduces the complexity of managing multiple security tools and systems, which streamlines operations and minimizes attack surfaces.
Example: Monitoring and analytics
Traditional architectures: Typically use separate tools for monitoring and analytics, which can lead to fragmented visibility and delayed response to threats.
- Nutanix HCI: Simplifies management by creating a single pane of glass for integrated monitoring and analytics of all security capabilities. Real-time insights and a holistic view of your infrastructure help to quickly identify and mitigate security threats.
3. Integrated Security Features
Nutanix HCI has built-in security features like data-at-rest encryption and secure boot. These features are natively integrated, not bolted on, offering robust security without further investment from additional third-party solutions.
Example: Data encryption and access control
Traditional architectures: Typically rely on separate systems and tools for encryption and access management, which can lead to inconsistent security policies and increased complexity and cost.
Nutanix HCI: Integrates encryption and role-based access controls at the platform level to ensure consistent security policies across the entire infrastructure – across public and private clouds and the edge.
4. Automation and Orchestration
Leveraging platform automation, Nutanix HCI handles critical but routine security tasks like patching and compliance checks to reduce the administrative burden on IT teams for just-in-time implementation of security measures, enhancing the overall security posture.
Example: Patch management and updates
Traditional architectures: Managing patches and updates across separate systems can be time-consuming and error-prone.
Nutanix HCI: Centralizes and automates patch management, helping you to ensure that all components are up-to-date to reduce the risk of vulnerabilities.
5. Resiliency and Availability
Nutanix HCI provides strong data protection with built-in backup and disaster recovery key with high-availability features. This provides for data integrity and availability, even in the face of cyber threats, giving enterprises peace of mind and strong cyber resilience.
Example: Data backup and disaster recovery
Traditional architectures: Usually involve separate backup solutions that can be complex to manage and may not provide real-time recovery.
Nutanix HCI: Provides integrated backup and disaster recovery to provide strong data protection and quick recovery with minimal configuration and maintenance.
Conclusion
Data breaches and cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Adopting HCI helps to build cyber resilience to strengthen and secure your infrastructure. Nutanix HCI addresses the key areas of cyber and data integrity to simplify management and enhance the overall security posture with built-in, advanced and automated security features and solutions. Nutanix HCI empowers enterprises to protect their critical data and ensure business continuity.
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