Fundamental Building Blocks of the Private, Public & Hybrid Clouds

HNV-Series: Hyper-V Network Virtualization Gateways - A Complete Virtualization Platform

When it comes to building a private cloud, offering cloud services, or connecting more securely to clouds, the message is clear: Your organization wants a consistent, integrated approach that helps you solve fundamental business and IT challenges. You also want assurance that a growing set of devices can take advantage of new applications and services that can be deployed on-premises and in public cloud environments. Using Windows Server 2012 to cloud optimize your IT provides an optimal solution to meet these unique needs.

Microsoft Network Virtualization is an evolutionary step in network technology, providing ease of management and advanced capabilities. The Network Virtualization Gateway plays an integral role in deploying this technology as it is critical entry point between the physical network and virtual network including:

1. Gateway bridging virtual networks and physical networks
2. Multi-site Private Clouds
3. Disaster Recovery site connectivity
4. Hybrid Cloud
5. Public Cloud provider network solution

URA-Series: Unified Remote Access Gateways - Complete Remote Access Infrastructure

Remote access is a complex challenge for IT administrators. Providing system access to remote users involves a broad set of technologies including security, advanced networking challenges and support for a variety of end user devices including home PCs, laptops, tablet computers, PDA computers and smart phones.

Iron Networks packages and pre-integrates a broad set of technologies into a family of appliances. These products remove most of the challenges and complexity of providing a broad set of advanced remote access services and provide a plug-n-play appliance experience.

The Unified Remote Access Appliances are based on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and can run multiple virtual machines. Each virtual machine can run different remote access technologies including:

• Microsoft DirectAccess
• Microsoft Unified Access Gateway
• Microsoft VPN (RRAS) services
• WAN Optimization technologies from Iron Networks
• Microsoft BranchCache for network acceleration