March 13, 2019 – Bitdefender, a leading global cybersecurity company protecting over 500 million systems worldwide, today announced interoperability between Bitdefender GravityZone Security for Virtualised Environments (SVE) and VMware NSX-T Data Center. With this support, Bitdefender delivers an agentless security solution for customers that works with VMware NSX-T Data Center.

As organisations embrace new technologies, data center environments become heterogeneous, and the percentage of workloads running in public clouds continues to increase. As such, software-defined networking (SDN) solutions must expand to offer a full range of networking and security services, natively, in these environments. In response, VMware has designed VMware NSX-T Data Center to support multi-cloud (e.g., AWS®, Azure®, and VMware Cloud on AWS), multi-hypervisor (e.g., VMware vSphere and KVM) and container (e.g., Docker® and Kubernetes®) environments.

“As customer’s build out hybrid clouds underpinned by VMware NSX, they need the broadest possible ecosystem of solutions to address their unique security requirements,” said Umesh Mahajan, Senior Vice President of R&D, Networking and Security Business Unit at VMware. “Bitdefender offers customers a proven security solution that can take advantage of the pervasive connectivity provided by VMware NSX to deliver layered security anywhere the application requires it.”

Bitdefender GravityZone SVE, a VMware Ready solution, offers VMware NSX customers the following benefits:

·         Better protection against advanced threats with HyperDetect tunable machine learning

·         Greater operational efficiency and agility via native NSX and VMware vCenter integration

·         Higher infrastructure ROI due to increased consolidation ratios and faster performance

“Bitdefender is honored to be the first provider offering VMware customers the benefits of agentless security with VMware NSX-T Data Center and the only one to protect them against advanced threats with tunable machine learning,” said Gavin Hill, Vice President, Datacenter and Network Security Products, Bitdefender. “We value our ongoing partnership with VMware, and their likeminded commitment to customer service and innovation.”

Bitdefender will showcase GravityZone Security for Virtualised Environments (SVE) for VMware NSX-T at the Bitdefender booth 2051 at the 2019 RSA Conference on March 4-7 in San Francisco, CA. The solution will be generally available March 31, 2019. For more information or to schedule a trial, visit bitdefender.com/sddc.

About Bitdefender 
Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems in more than 150 countries. Since 2001, Bitdefender innovation has consistently delivered award-winning security products and threat intelligence for the smart connected home, mobile users, modern businesses and their networks, devices, data centers and Cloud infrastructure. Today, Bitdefender and its Labs is also the provider vendor of choice, embedded in over 38% of the world’s security solutions. Recognised by industry, respected by vendors and evangelized by customers, Bitdefender is the cybersecurity company you can trust and rely on.  www.bitdefender.com.

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