Hyperscale tightly integrates the compute, storage, security, and virtualization layers into a single solution. Hyperscale design allows architecture to scale as needed to meet increased demand by provisioning additional resources on demand to existing systems. Hyperscale environments offer full high availability, intelligent load balancing, and support for orchestration.
Hyperscale systems are designed to deliver the highest availability, resiliency, and security with easy scalability. The goal of hyperscale environments is to ensure that resources are always available to meet operational and business needs, and can grow on-demand without forklift upgrades or service disruption.
This is accomplished by networking computers horizontally, making it possible to rapidly spin systems up or down as needed. In front of these servers is a load balancer that directs requests to an available system. If a system is down or overloaded, other systems can help with the load, including the ability to spin up additional compute resources when needed.
A hyperscale system helps eliminate single points of failure or bottlenecks, which requires considering both networking and security functionality. A hyperscale system may integrate a high availability (HA) firewall with a load balancer to inspect all traffic at the firewall before routing it on to a server to fill the request. Resilient, redundant firewalls with integrated load balancing ensure that corporate IT infrastructure can scale and recover from issues without compromising security.
Hyperscale network security solutions are designed to ensure the security of an organization’s traffic and network environment while supporting extremely high availability and performance. Some of the applications where hyperscale network security may be necessary include:
Hyperscale network security is a modern approach to ensuring the scalability and resiliency of the network security architecture protecting an organization’s IT systems. Some of the top benefits of hyperscale architectures include the following:
Organizations of all sizes require very high performance networks with maximum cyber security and resilience. Hyperscale networks and data centers are a logical solution. However, these environments will only achieve hyperscalability if the network firewalls protecting them have the same level of scalability and resilience to keep up with demand. To learn if your organization has properly addressed cyber threats and performance requirements for on-premises and cloud environments, take Check Point’s free 5-minute security assessment.
Check Point offers multiple firewall clustering solutions. For companies looking to quickly implement a high-availability firewall configuration, Check Point firewalls natively support HA clusters with up to five nodes. For these smaller network environments, Check Point offers built-in high-availability and load-sharing tools to set up a simple HA configuration today.
For organizations with more demanding environments and stricter availability and resiliency requirements, Check Point’s Quantum Maestro for hyperscale security provides the most scalable advanced network security in the industry. The Maestro system uses a hyperscale orchestrator to distribute traffic to multiple firewalls to support network throughputs up to 3 Terabits per second in a single system.
Hyperscale network security is the most effective and lowest cost way to secure data centers or very large networks. To learn more about Maestro and what it can do for your organization, request a free demo today.