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Analyst Report: Business-Class Virtualization under Control: Automated Security and Compliance with HyTrust Taneja Group In this profile we focus on virtualization security and compliance issues, which are critical to resolve in order to establish business user confidence and increase the number of business–critical workloads that can be virtualized, while maintaining operational efficiency. We explore the essential elements of platform security–access control, policy enforcement, configuration control, and activity logging–and how each is affected by virtualization. Finally, we review the HyTrust solution for automated control and compliance and highlight the innovative approach taken by this industry leader.

Analyst Report: Succeeding At the Speed of Virtualization Nemertes Research Organizations are quickly moving to virtualization, which, in turn, offers them the opportunity to move and adapt to change much faster for the first time, even faster than the business can move. We call this "operating at the speed of virtualization." Unfortunately, this speed of virtualization is uncovering weaknesses in the risk and compliance processes and controls currently in place. With virtualization, IT shops are at crossroads to accelerate both compliance and security to match the speed of virtualization or slowdown virtualization to match antiquated processes established in the physical data center. The good news for IT is that the natural course of virtualization adoption provides time to make these changes. As a result, vendors are delivering new technologies to help close the gap between legacy controls and processes and what's required in the virtualized data center.