Cisco Secure Data Center Solution

Cisco Data Center Security Accelerates Your Business

Cisco Data Center Security Products

• The Cisco Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance (ASAv) operates in two modes: It provides firewall security services that can be stitched into Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) data transactions. Or it can provide security to the virtual tenant edge inside NX-OS environments.
• Cisco ASA 5585-X Adaptive Security Appliances meet the high-performance needs of mission-critical data centers
• Cisco SWT Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software Release 9.0 delivers enterprise-class security capabilities for ASA devices
• Cisco ASA 1000V Cloud Firewall helps provide security to the tenant edge inside the data center, separating the compute from the virtual firewall
• Cisco Virtual Security Gateway for Nexus 1000V Series Switch helps provide granular inter-virtual machine security within a tenant
• Cisco vPath technology steers traffic to the designated Cisco virtual security gateway (find more information on the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches page
• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches provide familiar physical Cisco switch features in the virtual environment
• Cisco IPS 4500 Series Sensors are specifically engineered for small data center spaces
• Cisco Virtual Network Management Center is a centralized console that helps administer security policies

Extensive testing has proven that Cisco data center solutions meet the design reliability and stability requirements for highly secure data centers, virtual data centers, and private clouds.

Cisco Virtual Multi-Service Data Center (VMDC)

Cisco Virtual Multi-Service Data Center (VMDC) helps secure the Cisco Unified Data Center (UDC), which hosts mission-critical applications and sensitive data. Cisco UDC improves the economics of the data center by unifying computing, storage, networking, virtualization, and management into a single, fabric-based platform. This platform is designed to:

• Increase operating efficiencies
• Simplify IT operations
• Provide business agility

Tightly integrated with UDC are security controls provided by:

• Market-leading firewall
• VPN
• Hardware-accelerated intrusion prevention system (IPS)
• Appliances and applications for the virtual and multi-tenant environment

This VMDC environment is intuitive, powerful, and highly secure. It provides superior, real-time protection for critical information assets. A Cisco VMDC for data center design guide can help you get started.

Cisco Secure Data Center for Enterprise Portfolio

The Cisco Secure Data Center for the Enterprise is a portfolio of solutions that provides design and implementation guidance for businesses that need the best protection available to address today's advanced security threats. Enterprises that want to deploy physical and virtualized workloads in their data centers can turn to this portfolio for three solutions:

• Cisco Single Site Clustering with TrustSec
• Cisco Secure Enclaves Architecture
• Cisco Cyber Threat Defense for the Data Center Solution

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Cisco Single Site Clustering with TrustSec Solution

This first-look design connects key technologies, products, and associated architectures to bring application awareness to the data center fabric and network services. It provides:

• Simplified operations
• Increased high availability
• Enhanced security throughout the fabric
• Flexible scalability
• And more

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Design Guides

• Data Center Designs: Data Center Security
  Get an overview of available guides.
• Virtualized Multi-Service Data Center
  Deploy Virtualized Multi-Service Data Center with confidence.
• Secure Data Center for Enterprise: Single Site Clustering with TrustSec
  Respond to the increasing sophisticated attacks targeted at the data center.
• Cisco Cyber Threat Defense for the Data Center Solution
  Detect threats already operating in an internal network or data center.