CLOUD COMPUTING
PALO ALTO NETWORKS was founded with a stated mission of ‘ protecting the way of life in the digital age ’. The genesis of the company back in 2007 was predicated around doing in software what the industry was previously solving with hardware ; to redefine what it meant to offer next generation firewall security in a changing world where the advent of the smartphone , and the rise of application consumption , meant perimeter security was no longer sufficient .
Virtualisation first took off in 2005 , proving to be the catalyst for the likes of VMWare , while allowing companies such as Citrix to expand . In those early days Palo Alto Networks laid the foundations for what would become the virtual firewall , later utilising that same software stack to create its VM Series ( virtual machine firewalls ).
Gigabit caught up with Dave Allen , VP at Palo Alto Networks , to learn more about how the
64 June 2018