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Workloads and Applications: Defined

Heather Bates
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Senior Content Marketing Manager
January 9, 2020
23 min. read

Enterprise application environments can consist of thousands to hundreds of thousands of workloads. Naturally, we talk a lot about workloads and applications in the context of security segmentation.

But what's the distinction between these common terms? Join Illumio TME Neil Patel for a quick walk as he explains.

For more

  • Download our Design Guide to learn about managed vs. unmanaged workloads.
  • See how a real-time application dependency map can help you understand connections between workloads and applications.
  • Learn why a leading SaaS company chose a single segmentation solution to protect 9,000 workloads – bare-metal, virtualized, on-premises, and cloud – across two data centers.

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