In Pictures: How to protect virtual machines (VMs)
These four products represent different approaches to VM security
11 Mar | View galleries
At the RSA Conference, VMware demonstrates the security features of its NSX network virtualization product.
Brandon Butler | 04 Mar | Read more
One or more salaried ethical hackers will be brought onboard to manage the security exposure of the software output of the government's Digital Transformation Office (DTO), which recently announced the job opening as part of a recruitment campaign to kick-start its work in pushing Australian government agencies online.
David Braue | 09 Sep | Read more
Australian companies' migration away from Microsoft's Windows Server 2003 is gathering steam as security concerns grow and the venerable platform enters its last 100 days before joining the ranks of Microsoft's end-of-life (EOL) platforms.
David Braue | 08 Apr | Read more
Over the last month I've attended four international events that have had a focus on security. And there's one data point that ought to have every CSO, CISO and CIO out there worried. Despite more money than ever being spent on security – and the amount is increasing – the amount of money being lost as a result of security breaches is rising at an even greater rate.
Anthony Caruana | 17 Apr | Read more
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that the company is collaborating with VMware to automate and simplify the provisioning and deployment of network security in private clouds. Check Point will make its security protection solutions interoperable with VMware infrastructure.
Most companies virtualize servers to save money, save space and act faster on IT requests from the business. Human-resources outsourcing service <a href="http://www.simplysullivans.com">The Sullivan Group</a> virtualized its servers partially because company executives were worried about hurricanes.
Kevin Fogarty | 21 Aug | Read more
Australian engineering, project management and operations company Ausenco has undertaken a major virtualisation and disaster recovery (DR) upgrade as a foundation to developing a private cloud for its core enterprise applications.
Tim Lohman | 07 Aug | Read more
In surveys of senior-level IT managers, security is consistently one of the top five concerns, along, specifically, with security related to the hot technology of the moment. Most recently those worries have included social-networking technologies such as Twitter and Facebook and other outlets through which employees could turn loose company confidential data. But the security of virtual servers and virtualized infrastructures also rank near the top of the list-and rightly so, according to analysts.
Kevin Fogarty | 14 May | Read more
CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college's students, administrative employees and teachers. She bought a MacBook Pro and tested new-fangled desktop virtualization software that allows her to run both Windows and OS X on a single machine.
Tom Kaneshige | 20 Apr | Read more
NVM products are seeing renewed customer interest, leading to an increased level of M&A activity and revenue growth across the segment. Datacenter upgrades, virtualization and service provider rollouts of LTE are driving revenue across the NVM vendor landscape.