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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 23, 2009 – Today at RSA Conference 2009, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, announced that the VMware VMsafeTM APIs will ship with VMware vSphereTM 4 when the product becomes generally available later in the second quarter of 2009, with security vendors expected to deliver integrated solutions this year. These solutions combined with the unique new protection features in VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, will help provide customers with integrated, “better than physical” security of their IT infrastructures.

VMware VMsafe enables partners to monitor and protect at the hypervisor layer, providing visibility and introspection into machine activity that can be deeper and more comprehensive than the physical locations where network and endpoint security solutions traditionally enforce policy. Multiple vantage points into virtual hardware such as disk, network and memory enable a diverse range of security technologies delivered as virtual appliances to benefit from better protection and greater performance and efficiency, including firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and anti-virus engines.

“We are excited to see security partners taking advantage of VMware VMsafe technology in VMware vSphere 4 to build solutions that help our mutual customers protect their environments better than they could with an all-physical infrastructure,” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer, VMware. “VMware vSphere 4 equipped with VMware VMsafe™ uniquely offers customers an advanced platform to run applications securely within private clouds and, when combined with added functionality from our partners, a broad choice of security solutions.”

Securing the virtual platform remains just as important as you would the physical environment. That we can have further integration of security tools within this virtual world has to be a good thing, I’ll need to read up more later today. 

When we talk of securing the virtual infrastructure this covers, physical access, management of the ESX servers and the virtual machines including the anti virus, firewall software etc. Managing the need to secure the infrastructure whilst at the same time managing the need to limit any performance overhead will always be a challenge, I wonder if this will assist in any way?

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