Case Studies
Mentor fires up datacenter transformation with next-gen security
Overview
Cybersecurity & Privacy - Endpoint Security Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing | |
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Operational Impact
GravityZone’s simple centralized manageability and security-workflow automation saves Mentor’s IT team significant time. “We have four virtualization people managing Bitdefender across 15,000 VMs,” Alexander explains. “They’re not even the security experts. That’s how easy it is to use Bitdefender.” | |
Before GravityZone, IT received a barrage of customer complaints and support tickets related to performance issues, according to Alexander. “Because GravityZone has lightened the load on our servers so much, performance support tickets have practically disappeared. When they occasionally come in, we no longer trace root cause to security. This makes for a better user and administrator experience.” | |
In addition, the prior solution was unable to support high-frequency VM cloning. Either cloned machines would not appear in the console or their unique identifiers (UID) would not be unique. This meant that thousands of VMs would have redundant UIDs in the security console, complicating management. IT had to add clones to the system or manually reset redundant UIDs to solve this problem. “Mentor’s software engineers spin up and destroy 10,000 VMs each day for development and testing,” Alexander explains. “Because Bitdefender is cloning-aware and deeply integrated with the vCenter Server, new VMs are automatically added to GravityZone. This automation allows us to deliver self-service VM cloning capacity to the engineers.” | |
Quantitative Benefit
Improved infrastructure utilization by up to 30 percent, eliminating the need for additional infrastructure. | |
Bitdefender GravityZone recorded an average performance impact of 3-4 percent, while other solutions showed a 17-27 percent degradation. | |
Increased VM density from 10 to 24 VMs per host on average—or even 100 in high-volume environments—with no issues. | |