Imera Virtual Fabric™ Overview

The emerging virtualization and cloud computing technology has fundamentally shifted the landscape of enterprise computing infrastructure from a rigid, statically provisioned, and privately dedicated physical resource model to an agile, dynamically provisioned, and open shared virtual resource model. This paradigm shift brings significant business benefits to enterprises, such as lower compute resource costs and IT management costs. In addition, the attractive pay-as-you-go expense model offered by public cloud services address dynamic and peak computing needs of enterprises.

Companies see the benefits, but are not able to move critical operations to the new infrastructure in an accelerated pace due to the following challenges:

• Security concerns resulting from the sharing of resources and potential unauthorized access of confidential data by other tenants in the virtualization and cloud environment.
  
  
• Increased costs and effort required to manage a mixed physical and virtualized cloud computing environment resulting from both the legacy applications that are not cloud-ready and the virtualization infrastructure, a completely separate paradigm.
  
  
• Enforcing full regulatory compliance and corporate security policies in a virtual environment, especially when adopting public cloud services.

Imera Virtual Fabric builds a virtual network over the existing physical and virtual infrastructures of an enterprise (internal or external), resulting in easier to administer security controls, faster network provisioning, and efficient central management.

Imera Virtual Fabric Solution Suite

• Virtual Security Solution features an elastic security infrastructure that enables enterprises to dynamically protect their business processes in a hybrid cloud computing environment. Imera virtual topology and secure grid products enable enterprises to instantly leverage private and public cloud resources for business agility and growth.
  
  
• Virtual Network Solution enables cross distributed data centers and cross enterprise connectivity. It provides secure access to cloud resources, classified applications, and data without opening corporate firewalls. Enterprises can securely extend and automate their business processes beyond corporate boundaries without disrupting the existing physical network infrastructure.
  
  
• Secure Collaboration Solution provides a unified, secure communication platform for geographically distributed users to dynamically connect, collaborate, and access protected computing resources using secure remote terminals. Without incurring huge travel costs, enterprises can achieve instant productivity through effective communication with distributed partners and teams over the Internet.
  
  
• Virtual Compliance Solution offers enterprises an end-to-end monitoring and management of business processes hosted in private and public clouds to ensure regulatory compliance. Complete user activity logs, instant alerts and a suite of tools, help IT to monitor, analyze, and create reports for regulatory compliance, audit purposes, and behavioral-based forensic analysis.
  
  
• Unified Cloud Security Management Solution offers an on-demand, pay-as-you-go solution for enterprises to implement a virtual security infrastructure in the public cloud environment and instantly protect data and applications. Secure regions can be established by users around leased public cloud resources to shield unauthorized access from other tenants and generate instant alert reacting to cyber threats. Enterprises or Managed Service Providers can lease the protection on an as-needed basis to meet the dynamic business operation requirements for achieving agility and growth.
  
  

Key Benefits

• One Virtual Fabric for Hybrid Cloud Infrastructures - Enterprises need one integrated solution to secure their business processes, collaborate with eco-system partners, and enforce regulatory compliance across the legacy and new cloud computing environments. Imera Virtual Fabric unifies physical, virtual, public or private infrastructures under one integrated platform for ease of implementation and management.
  
  
• Instant Business and IT Agility - Imera solutions enable enterprises to securely leverage private and public cloud computing environments and rapidly adapt to the dynamic changes in business operation requirements, while meeting regulatory compliance.
  
  
• Instant Productivity Through Collaborative Computing - Centralized cloud computing makes collaboration easy.  Imera virtual network solution secures cloud infrastructures such that enterprises can instantly and securely connect with eco-system partners to collaborate and enable cross-boundary business processes without disrupting existing corporate network environments.
  
  
• Minimize IT Management Costs, Time, and Effort - Imera Virtual Fabric makes connections easy and secure. Applying to public cloud infrastructure as well, it insulates under layer physical complexities away from IT without re-engineering legacy infrastructure. Imera Virtual Fabric means lower operation costs, faster deployment time, and minimal management effort, without compromising corporate security policies and regulatory compliance.