Cloud Security / Virtualized NGFW Hillstone CloudEdge Solution Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Protection for Virtualized Workloads Hillstone CloudEdge is a virtual next-generation firewall (vNGFW) for public cloud and telco cloud platforms. With a rich set of features and wide compatibility with popular cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, CloudEdge can be easily deployed […]
Hillstone CloudEdge is a virtual next-generation firewall (vNGFW) for public cloud and telco cloud platforms. With a rich set of features and wide compatibility with popular cloud platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Alibaba Cloud, CloudEdge can be easily deployed in virtualized environments without sacrificing performance or protection. As a full-featured NGFW, CloudEdge comes with a rich set of edge protection capabilities for North-South traffic in all clouds. To facilitate network functions virtualization (NFV) deployment on telco clouds, CloudEdge supports high-performance networking with SR-IOV, enabling seamless carrier-grade security for mobile, wireline and IoT networks.
Hillstone’s CloudEdge supports a wide range of hypervisors, from VMware ESXi to Linux KVM, and including Xen and Hyper-V, ensuring that enterprises and service providers achieve complete cloud protection across public clouds, private clouds and telco clouds.
CloudEdge supports SR-IOV to reduce the overhead on virtual systems, allowing both cloud platforms and service provider NFV platforms to run with the highest level of performance.
Drop-in support for VMware and OpenStack allows for complete protection framework everywhere regardless of underlying cloud platform, allowing cloud security teams at both enterprises and service providers to create a standardized set of policies and enforcement that spans public and private cloud environments
Hillstone CloudEdge comes with a flexible license server to support dynamic scale-up and scale-down scenarios in cloud and carrier environments. This consumption-based pricing model better aligns with today’s as-a-service market trends and enables a pay-as-you-go for lower total cost of ownership.