Verizon Business rolls out big portfolio of security, performance services

On Wednesday, Verizon Business announced five new converged solutions for large businesses to help with security and performance challenges. Verizon Business says its enterprise customers face staffing constraints and are looking for reduced costs and a quick return on investment - which translates to a larger market for outsourced and managed services.

The new portfolio of "converged" offerings is designed to deliver integrated capabilities that span the entire IT "stack" of different organizational structures including network, data, applications and user layers. Enterprise IT organizations are struggling with how to work with the different groups responsible for their layers of the stack in order to avoid data breeches and poor applications performance.

Available today for U.S.-based enterprises, the Virtual Discovery and Classification (VDC) service combines professional services, security log analysis and advanced tools to monitor an organization's Internet traffic for unusual, malicious or unexpected traffic patterns and connections that can potentially cause harm to a customer's network.  VDC gives large enterprises a capability to manage and protect a complex network environment.

The four other solutions to be rolled out during the first half of the year are: Application Performance and Vulnerability Assessment to offer expert assessment of critical business applications and recommendations to improve performance and security; PCI-ready E-commerce Solution, combines hosting and application management offerings with security services to help an organization become PCI compliant for safeguarding credit card transactions; CoLo Vulnerability Management Service, which integrates vulnerability management services into a data center colocation environment using a self-service model; and Secure Virtualization Design Services, which help enterprises redesign an existing IT infrastructure to achieve the benefits of virtualization while maintaining a secure environment.

Global managed and professional services is a big and strategic market for Verizon Business, and the company expects continued growth in the area throughout 2009, what with all the staffing constraints and cost reductions going around.

For more:
- Verizon Business press release.

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