A Secure SD-WAN for Hybrid Cloud Challenges

Digital transformation can drive sweeping benefits for cost-savings, scalability and ease of management while helping organizations achieve unprecedented agility to adapt to rapidly evolving market needs.

But the push to realize these benefits can lead to overly complex wide area network (WAN) architectures that risk security gaps, cause latency that hampers the user experience, and ultimately compromise the very agility promised by the cloud.

Organizations need a smarter approach to network management that can be tailored to the multifaceted requirements of diverse virtualization and branch office applications. This blog explores how Nutanix works with Palo Alto Networks Panorama® Software-Defined WAN (PAN-OS® SD-WAN) to provide a solution.

The existing Nutanix integrations with Palo Alto Networks already help customers secure and enhance virtual networks through Nutanix Flow security microsegmentation and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Firewalls, infusing segments and microsegments with threat prevention and intelligence.

Our latest validated integration for software-defined networking now helps to improve performance for virtualization and branch office applications in today's hybrid multicloud environments.

Simplified Networking with a Software-Defined WAN

A software-defined WAN allows for the integration of multiple public and private cloud services built for today's hybrid multicloud world and improved application usability.

PAN-OS SD-WAN simplifies, automates and enhances some of the most critical network management, optimization and security workflows, including:

• Dynamic routing to optimize network performance.
• Traffic optimization to minimize latency and efficiently prioritize bandwidth.
• Application-aware security that enforces policies based on application type, content and users rather than just IP addresses.

This integrated joint solution offers easy zero-touch provisioning from your Palo Alto Networks VM-Series virtual firewall. Palo Alto Networks Panorama streamlines the management and monitoring of PAN-OS SD-WAN deployments, providing centralized control, visibility and policy enforcement across distributed branch offices. Integration with VM-Series firewalls extends advanced threat intelligence and detection abilities to distributed locations and hybrid multicloud environments.

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS SD-WAN with Nutanix AHV hypervisor delivers a comprehensive solution that combines these advanced networking capabilities with powerful virtualization infrastructure to simplify management and strengthen security.

The Nutanix AHV hypervisor consolidates compute, storage, virtualization, and networking resources to improve system performance and simplify management. This integration enables scalability, cost efficiency and high availability while reducing costs and ensuring continuous service availability.