Building secure, private clouds

Air Gaps Don’t Scale in the Cloud Organizations at the leading edge of virtualization initiatives are maximizing their return on investment by constructing private clouds. These enable multiple business units to run their IT operations side-by-side without stepping on one another’s toes. Some organizations even allow the business units to manage their own infrastructure as a service (IaaS), lowering IT costs across the board.

Security is of the utmost importance when building a private cloud. Each business unit must feel confident that its own individual portion of compute resources belongs only to itself, and that no other part of the organization will compromise its integrity. Unfortunately, some organizations have resorted to creating “air gaps” to segregate these environments. This tactic, however, creates a significant amount of wasted resources. Every air gap results in a completely new, completely redundant silo of software and hardware, which significantly limits the return on investment.

With HyTrust Appliance, organizations can build true private clouds on VMware-based virtual infrastructure. Through a unique method of labeling virtual objects and placing controls over changes in the environment, HyTrust Appliance allows multiple entities to have complete control over their own slice of the infrastructure without compromising the integrity of their neighbor’s environment.

Learn more about how HyTrust Appliance enables the private cloud.