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Cloud and Virtualization Security Challenges

So you’re looking to the cloud for greater flexibility and less cost. Welcome. Your journey to the cloud will be unique, depending on your specific business objectives. You may want to deploy virtual machines through a private, public, or hybrid cloud to promote IT agility. Or you might wish to embrace consumerization in your workplace with virtual desktops and cloud-supported mobile devices that provide anytime, anywhere access to corporate data—regardless of device.

But whatever approach you take to the cloud, you’ll need a solid security foundation to get you there. As you step through your journey, you’ll need protection that spans across all of your platforms—physical, virtual, cloud:

  • Minimize platform-specific threats without compromising performance
  • Secure data as it moves between platforms or cloud vendors, regardless of access device
  • Maintain consistent security across platforms with seamless management
  • Further leverage virtualization and the cloud with virtual appliance and cloud-based security deployment options

Secure Your Journey from Virtualization to Cloud

Gartner joins VMware and Trend Micro to discuss strategies for safely evolving your data center. Find out how to maintain security and privacy as you transition your workloads to the cloud in a new webcast.

Evolve Strategically and Safely

Experts recommend that you apply context-aware security as you leverage the cloud to evolve your data center and embrace consumerization. Analyst MacArthur Stroud shares strategies for securing every step of your journey to the cloud in a new white paper.


Know Your Enemy

Learn about specific threats that target virtualization and cloud computing so that you can implement best practices designed to stop them in their tracks. Read our latest threat report and best practices paper.

See How the Cloud Goes Global

Get the 30,000 foot view of global virtualization and cloud deployment. Then zoom in to see the benefits, security risks, and solutions at each stage on the journey to the cloud in this infographic.



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