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Honeywell Selects Vyatta for Network Virtualization
Vyatta Virtual Router and Firewall Secures Chemical Development Systems
| Source: Vyatta
BELMONT, CA--(Marketwire - May 12, 2009) - Vyatta, the leader in open networking and
network virtualization, today announced that Honeywell has implemented
Vyatta's award winning
routing and security software to simulate production manufacturing systems
for use in training, system development, and testing. Vyatta was the only
solution able to deliver routing and firewalling within a virtual
environment that exactly mirrored Honeywell's physical network
infrastructure.
Honeywell's Specialty Materials Division wanted to build a VMware-based lab
environment that would exactly simulate its production systems for training
and testing purposes. To do so, Honeywell needed a virtualization solution
that could meet specific criteria: it must be able to isolate the simulated
systems from the live network, configure the router and firewall to
simulate applications talking across physical networks, and ensure the
network in the VMware environment had the same parameters as the physical
production network. Vyatta's unique ability to deliver complete network
virtualization made it the only solution that met all of Honeywell's
criteria for the simulated environment.
"Security is always a foremost concern, even for our training and
development systems, and Vyatta's router and firewall gave us the perfect
blend of security and accessibility," said Scott Francy, automation systems
integrity specialist at Honeywell's Specialty Materials Division. "Vyatta
was the only solution we found that allowed us to mirror the architecture
of our virtual training and development systems to that of our production
environment. It's been instrumental in the development of our operator
training systems."
Vyatta runs on standard x86 hardware and can be virtualized with modern
hypervisors, including Citrix Xen and VMware. Vyatta delivers a full set of
networking features that allow customers to connect, protect, virtualize,
and optimize their networks, improving performance, reducing costs, and
increasing manageability and flexibility over proprietary networking
solutions. Vyatta has been deployed by hundreds of customers worldwide in
both virtual and non-virtual environments.
"Organizations are embracing virtualization at unseen levels and Fortune
500 organizations like Honeywell are no exception," said Kelly Herrell, CEO
of Vyatta. "Today Vyatta is the only networking and security solution that
plays equally well in both virtualized and physical environments. As a
result, Vyatta has solved a business-critical challenge for Honeywell and
delivered economic and management benefits that just aren't available from
proprietary networking solutions."
About Vyatta
Vyatta builds commercially supported, open-source networking solutions that
provide an alternative to over-priced, inflexible products from proprietary
vendors. Our customers are smarter, better looking, and drive much nicer
cars than purchasers of big-name products. Vyatta customers know that
Vyatta's Linux-based router, firewall and VPN software gives them a level
of control unavailable from proprietary solutions. Vyatta customers are
thought leaders who recognize the benefits of flexible deployment options
-- x86 hardware, blade servers, virtualization -- of freedom to integrate
applications of their choice, and of the economic and performance
advantages of commodity hardware and components. For more info, visit
http://www.vyatta.com.