Network virtualization and security have become more important over the past couple years. With this in mind, VMware, Inc. prioritized its NSX network virtualization platform with the release of Version 6.2.

Dom Delfino, senior vice president of worldwide systems engineering for VMware’s Network and Security Business Unit, told Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2015 that VMWare continues to push the envelope in networking.

“Whenever we design and architect networks, we always try to push services as close to the edge as possible,” he said. “The edge is either the user or the application. In the construct of virtualization and the cloud, the edge is no longer the physical access layer of the network infrastructure. It is the optimal place to deploy services. One of the many components of NSX is the distributed services that we provide. There are huge advantages to having that real estate inside the host because you have a view not only out into the network infrastructure, but also up into the host. It allows you to do much more in an automated fashion than you could do historically.”

Moving infrastructures forward

NSX Version 6.2 is important for VMware “in the context of scale, reliability and quality,” said Delfino. “We’ve taken feedback from our customers. Capabilities that were always there, we’re bringing to the network administrator in a manner in which they are consistently using it.”

Delfino says that the biggest “pain points” that lead customers to NSX are security and innovation. Security comes in part from the large-scale breaches over the past year. Regarding innovation, customers often struggle to move their infrastructures forward. “So much time is spent by customers on sustaining the existing environment versus advancing it, that they are not able to meet business needs,” he said.

Delfino concluded his interview with theCUBE by promising more new products in the open-source realm in the near future.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld 2015.

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