Improve IT Flexibility with Virtualization
Virtualizing your servers and desktops helps simplify your infrastructure, increasing efficiencies and availability. But virtualization introduces new security risks beyond those on physical servers and desktops. So if you try to use traditional physical security with virtualization, you’ll leave security gaps and end up needlessly sapping resources and reducing consolidation ratios. The good news is that with security that’s designed for virtual environments and security deployed as virtual appliances, you’ll be able to maximize the benefits of server and endpoint virtualization without negatively impacting performance. An even safer bet is choosing the recognized leader in virtualization security.
Learn from Best Practices
Don’t make the same mistakes as your peers. Gartner Research offers perspective on virtualization market trends, unique risks, compliance concerns, and technology security requirements in a webcast.
Strengthen Virtualization Security
Address new security concerns specific to virtual deployments. Learn about the most common security risks in data center virtualization projects in a Gartner Research Note.
Prepare for the Cloud
Create a strong foundation for cloud computing. Enterprise Security Group recommends strategies that ensure your virtualization creates a stepping stone to the cloud in a white paper.
Consider Compliance
Data security compliance also applies to virtual environments, especially with new DSS PCI standards. Learn how you can maintain compliance in your virtual environments in a video or read our PCI white paper.
Get Security Built for VMware
Choose security that’s optimized for the leading virtualization infrastructure. See how the industry’s longest history of tight integration with VMware platforms and APIs can improve your protection in a VMware white paper.
Maximize Your Virtual and Cloud ROI
Increase performance and cost savings with virtualization-aware security. Third-party tests compare traditional security products with virtualization-aware security with dramatic results in this solution brief.
Increase Efficiency in Your Virtual Server Environment
Virtualization can save you up to 60% in capital costs and 30% in operational costs while increasing resource utilization up to 80%, according to virtualization leader VMware.
Unfortunately, in your haste to realize these benefits, you may have been tempted to install your traditional physical security on your virtual servers. Physical server security can’t counter threats specific to virtual environments, such as mixed trust level VMs on the same host or VM-to-VM attacks. And with physical server security, you could be surprised to find that your virtual machine densities are much lower than expected. However, this will most likely not be the case if you choose mature technology from the recognized leader in virtualization security. With integrated security designed for virtual servers, you can remain secure without sacrificing performance or management.
Create Self-defending Virtual Servers
A new generation of threats is targeted at virtualization. Learn about security risks for virtual servers, including mixed trust level virtual machines, blind spots, and inter-VM attacks in a white paper.
Triple Your VM Density
VM-aware security can preserve performance, increasing VM densities. Find out why independent tests show an increase in consolidation rates of up to 3x without AV storms in a Tolly Test Report.
Prepare for the Cloud
With the right virtualization strategy, you’ll be better prepared to move to the cloud. Learn how to secure your virtual environment for the increased efficiencies of cloud computing in a white paper.
Increase Control and Support Consumerization with VDI
Like a growing number of your peers and competitors, you may be looking to apply the same benefits to desktops that you’ve achieved from virtualizing servers. Not only will you simplify provisioning, administration, and management, you’ll extend your endpoint hardware investments. And VDI can help enable consumerization, making it easier to support employee-chosen devices.
But if you’re not careful, trying to improve efficiencies with VDI can backfire. The sheer number of virtual desktop instances may compound issues such as performance degradation, resource contention, and AV storms—all of which can occur if you try to use security designed for physical desktops to protect VDI. This is a good reason to look no further than the recognized leader in virtualization security. Virtualization-aware security that’s been optimized for VDI environments has what it takes to help you preserve protection and performance.
Improve VDI Protection
VDI-aware security can provide better protection while preserving performance. Join ESG analyst, Jon Oltsik, as he reveals how traditional security impacts VDI in an analyst video.
Customize VDI Security
Your security needs for VDI can change based on use cases such as dedicated versus shared desktop access. Learn about use-case-specific security needs in this white paper.
Maximize VDI Performance
Choosing the right security can help you maximize both security and VDI consolidation ratios. Learn how VDI-aware security outperforms traditional security in performance tests from Tolly Group and Indusface.
Save Resources and Costs with Security Virtual Appliances
There’s no doubt you need to protect virtual servers. But you can also virtualize your security for additional benefits. Just as with other virtual servers, security virtual appliances help you make better use of resources and save costs on hardware and software, power and cooling, administration, and more.
Many of your security solutions can be deployed as virtual appliances, such as web or email security in your DMZ, or virtual appliances for data loss prevention or encryption. Certain security solutions can also be deployed as hybrids that combine virtual appliances and Software as a Service (SaaS) components. For example, an email security solution can filter out threats in a hosted solution and allow on-site content filtering and management through a virtual appliance. Regardless of which type of security you implement, deploying the security as a virtual appliance can help to maximize performance while minimizing costs.
Calculate Your Savings with Gateway Virtual Appliances
Analyst firm Osterman Research confirms that switching from gateway appliances or software to virtual security appliances (VSAs) saves 48 – 54%. Estimate your savings with this virtual appliances Cost Savings Calculator.
See What’s Driving the Increase in Security Virtual Appliances
What’s the big deal about security virtual appliances? IDC Research answers why virtual appliances are taking the market by storm in this IDC Analyst Connection.
Lower Your Costs While Improving Protection
Get independent perspectives on the benefits of messaging security virtual appliances. Learn how email virtual appliances give you the flexibility you need without sacrificing security at the gateway in this white paper by VMware and this podcast by IDC.
Combine a Virtual Appliance with SaaS for Hybrid Security
More than half of enterprises have created a do-it-yourself hybrid email security solution. Discover the benefits of an integrated hybrid solution in this Infonetics Research Report.
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