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Embotics Releases White Paper on Virtualization Security

October 8, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Embotics today announced “Understanding VirtSec,” a new study that focuses on virtual server security issues inherent in IT environments. The research addresses threats posed by virtualization deployments and the technology that is available to tackle these emerging issues. Authored by David M. Lynch, vice president of marketing of Embotics, the white paper identifies immediate and potential security threats so organizations can plan accordingly.

Virtualization security is a wide concern for IT executives and Embotics’ “Understanding VirSec” summarizes the new threats and issues associated with server virtualization. The research, containing a wide range of user feedback, helps IT executives differentiate the potential future security issues from those that are present today, and offers recommendations and best practices to minimize these risks.

As virtualization deployments expand and become more complex, organizations are facing increased risk of data center security threats. Embotics’ “Understanding VirtSec” provides an overview of why IT administrators cannot rely on IT policies and processes that existed pre-virtualization, and how the impact of an uncontrolled environment in the data center is detrimental.

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Research and Markets Releases New Report on Virtualization Security

October 7, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Virtualization Security: The Early Stages of a New Battleground” report to their offering. Here’s the run-down they’ve provided via press release:

With the rush to adopt virtual technologies, the security of virtualization has become a primary concern – yet few understand the security implications of this disruptive innovation. In this report, EMA provides guidance for IT practitioners seeking to secure their virtual environments. With a simple, five-phase approach to virtualization security as the centerpiece of this study, EMA takes an initial look at virtualization threats and vulnerabilities, and considers the security benefits of virtualization. Market insight from EMA’s 2008 virtualization survey of over 600 enterprises takes a sampling of the steps organizations are – and are not – taking today to secure virtual environments. Until virtualized security measures mature, this report focuses on what enterprises can do today to secure virtualization and seize the unique opportunity to integrate security early in the adoption of this game-changing technology – before it’s too late.

The rapid adoption of virtualization technology has created multiple benefits for IT organizations. Advantages such as the reduction of cost through more efficient resource utilization are obvious; however, these benefits can quickly be negated if virtualization opens a door to a major security incident.
Many researchers have argued about the security implications of a migration towards IT virtualization. Some say that virtual solutions increase the risks faced by an organization, others argue that there is no impact at all, while still others argue that the implementation of virtualization allows organizations to actually reduce risk. The reality is that virtualization can do all of these, depending on the way it is designed, implemented and used. It is therefore imperative that IT managers have a high-level understanding of the security issues that can affect their virtual environments, and of the approaches that can address those issues. Through this understanding, enterprises can ensure that the delicate balance between functionality and security results in the greatest business benefit with the fewest risks. Moreover, executives can assure that their organizations take advantage of the opportunity that virtualization offers to put security at the forefront and thus avoid future security issues and costs.

In this report, an initial look at the emerging challenge of securing virtualization, as well the security benefits of this disruptive technology. The reader will be presented with an introductory view of threats and vulnerabilities affecting virtual environments, as well as recommendations for pursuing a simple five-phase process that can be tailored to any environment in order to implement virtual solutions in a secure manner. Through infrastructure consolidation strategy and design, administrative process management, network strategy and design in extending the layered security model, configuration management, and risk assessment, this five-phase approach addresses specific virtualization security risks in order to strengthen both the security and operational benefits virtualization offers the business.

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Hostway Research: Virtualization Boosts Adoption of SaaS

October 6, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Three-quarters of organizations believe that server virtualization will drive adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS), according to new research released today by web hosting firm Hostway.

Over 60 per cent of respondents said that they plan to adopt SaaS in some form over the next five years, and 45 per cent believe that the technology had not taken off until recently because of the lack of available virtualization technologies. Prior to server virtualization, SaaS providers found it difficult reliably to offer software on demand, according to Hostway.

“Without virtualization the business model for SaaS would not be viable,” said Hostway director Neil Barton. “The business model for SaaS means you need to get a high level of utilization from the servers that the applications in the cloud sit on. Virtualization enables this. The message to application vendors is that you need to either SaaS-enable your applications yourself, or partner with people who can allow your applications to be offered as a service.”

Source: VNUnet

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University of Toronto Announces Snowflock

September 13, 2008 by Kris Buytaert Leave a Comment

Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote in to announce the news that he and his team have just released Snowflock.

Snowflock lets you clone Xen VMs into dozens of identical replicas running in different hosts. Snowflock can do this in less than a second and with very low runtime overhead. With Snowflock you can, for example,  perform parallel computations on the fly by scaling “instantaneously” your computing footprint in a shared cluster. Snowflock is a research prototype, hence the 0.1 major-minor. A minimum degree of experience with Xen and Linux is necessary to use the system.

Snowflock is the joined work of researchers at both the the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto and at Carnegie Mellon University. Snowflock has been released in a binary and source release, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The release is available at http://compbio.cs.toronto.edu/snowflock

Snowflock was presented earlier this year at the Xen Summit North America 2008. A more complete description of the implementation and functionality of Snowflock is available in this technical report.

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Symantec Sets Up Virtualization Lab in Japan

July 28, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Symantec today announced that Symantec Japan has opened its new “Virtualisation Solutions Lab” for customers and partners, as the company continues to deliver on its virtualization strategy.

The Virtualisation Solutions Lab will enable Symantec Japan to test and optimize Symantec’s products for specific virtual environments quickly, and provide customers and partners with the opportunity to gain hands-on experience and see demonstrations of solution deployments for their environments. With this new facility, Symantec Japan claims it can better support its customers and partners who decide to implement virtualization solutions, as market needs for virtualization continue to grow rapidly.

The Virtualisation Solutions Lab is located within the Japan Engineering Center at Symantec Japan’s headquarters (Minato-ku, Tokyo), which is responsible for all technological verification required for Symantec’s products before their release into the Japanese market. With the launch of this new facility, the Virtualisation Solutions Lab will introduce comprehensive virtualisation solutions for data centres in VMware environments.

The line-up of solutions to be provided by the Virtualisation Solutions Lab is as follows:

  • Comprehensive backup solutions using Veritas NetBackup for VMware environments
  • Failover solutions with high availability of guest OS and VMware applications using Veritas Cluster Server
  • Backup and restore solutions for P2V (physical to virtual) system images using Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery
  • Deployment solutions for virtual servers using the Symantec Altiris platform

Symantec Japan plans to work closely with Citrix Systems and Microsoft to test virtualization solutions for Citrix XenServer and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environments at the Virtualisation Solutions Lab in addition to VMware Infrastructure 3. In addition, Symantec Japan plans to organize regular product familiarization seminars as it continues to expand its range of solutions for its customers and partners.

[Source: ITWeb]

Symantec

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Virtualization Pretty Big Down Under

July 24, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Twice as many Australian businesses are using virtualization than the rest of the world, according to analysts, reports Techworld. Gartner says between 8 and 9 % of medium to enterprise businesses are virtualizing their x86 servers, while global uptake remains at about 4 to 5 %.

Gartner’s servers and storage VP Phil Sargeant added that the figures, derived from research into organizational IT maturity, show Australians are spearheading virtualization uptake.

According to Unisys, the figure is even higher, since the 8 to 9 % adoption includes only virtualized systems in production.

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