For organizations looking to virtualize their environment, VPN-1 Power and VPN-1 UTM can be installed in virtual container running on VMWare ESX. Unlike firewalls designed on specialized appliances, the Check Point open architecture enables organizations to leverage new platforms such as VMWare.
Three benefits include:
- Simple deployment of virtual environments
Traffic between virtual machines can be sent through a VPN-1 rather than routing it through a physical firewall, ensuring the security of communications between virtual machines.
- Quick Deployment Without Additional Hardware
Because VPN-1 gateways can be deployed within virtual containers alongside other virtual machines, organizations struggling with rack space can maximize the efficiency while raising the security of their new virtual environments.
- Disaster recovery
As organizations form disaster recovery plans, virtualization will play a key part in getting systems running quickly. By running VPN-1 on VMWare, organizations can include strong security as part of those plan without allocating unnecessary hardware that is better used as part of the standard production network.
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