East-west traffic has recently become increasingly important within data centers, driven by the proliferation of virtualization and cloud computing. This shift introduces security vulnerabilities and operational inefficiencies, necessitating microsegmentation and internal traffic control to ensure data center security.
Since the emergence of server virtualization in the 2000s, networks have been treated separately from general IT infrastructure such as servers and storage. Since then, various approaches have been attempted to address network requirements in virtualized environments, but none have succeeded in comprehensively resolving the problem. Physical networks and the services provided through them always… when deploying applications
