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NSX lets you:

reduce cycle reduce networktime by provisioning

time by22 days 87%

Configuration and change management of networkinggear remains primarily a labor-intensive, manualprocess. These suboptimal network practices resultin downtime, reduce security, degrade applicationperformance, and waste human and capital resources.

Andrew LernerResearch Director, Gartner

Time savings are just the beginning

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Ready to eliminate all those tedious,error-prone manual tasks?

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These repetitive, manual tasks not only gobble up valuable minutes and hours by skilled IT sta�—they also put the business at risk. That’s because manual configuration is prone to error. Even the most skilled administrator occasionally makes a mistake, and human errors are costly.

Just how costly? The numbers might surprise you.

Schedule change order

Configure security (firewalls)

Define network & security environment

Determine changes required

Request and review network & security resources

Review and approve

Configure the network (VLAN, routing)

Provision the environment

Configure load balancers

SIDE-BY-SIDE:

A COMPARISON OF HARDWARE- — VS. —

SOFTWARE-CENTRIC NETWORKSThe Di�erence in Time and Cost Savings Might Surprise You

If you still use a hardware-centric network, you know that provisioning a network into production is a time-consuming, multi-step process. It doesn’t have to be that way. A virtualized, software-centric network accelerates this process from weeks to merely minutes.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, that time savings can make all the di�erence.

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