As new and existing VMware Cloud Providers™ continue to offer new compute and storage options to their tenants, they can also consider expanding their portfolio to offer software-defined networking, security, and compliance functions within the cloud infrastructures.

Using the VMware NSX® platform to create a software-defined networking and security solution addresses many of the challenges of deploying a virtualized infrastructure in the cloud, and can help service providers realize the vision of the software-defined data center (SDDC) architecture from VMware. Software-defined networking and security provides a way for cloud consumers to build a myriad of logical networking services, such as firewalls and advanced networking, that are independent of the underlying physical network infrastructure.