The Promise of Cloud Computing

The Promise of Cloud Computing

CREATE AN EFFICIENT, RELIABLE AND AGILE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

As IT infrastructures have become more complex and more brittle, nearly 70% of a typical IT budget is going just toward maintenance, leaving few resources to support strategic efforts and innovation. What you need is a means to automate routine tasks and provisioning, flexibly deliver computing resources when and where needed without over-provisioning, and grow and change without limiting your future choices of operating systems, hardware or applications.

Cloud computing is the means to that end, empowering you to respond rapidly and with flexibility to business stakeholders while freeing up underused resources for higher utilization. Enabling IT as a service gives your business what it needs while retaining the control IT needs. Applications and virtual machines are provisioned automatically while resources are pooled and delivered on-demand according to business-driven policies, letting you build a self-managing virtual infrastructure for increased efficiency and agility - all while cutting costs, of course.

Get Comprehensive Security for the Cloud

You won't need to sacrifice security, control or compliance on your journey to the cloud. With the VMware vShield family of security solutions, you get virtualization-aware protection that adapts to dynamic cloud environments, making it "better-than-physical." Reduce the complexity of endpoint, application and edge network security by improving visibility and accelerating compliance, all within a single framework. Get unrivalled security solutions for cloud environments based onVMware vSphere, including:

The unique introspection capabilities of the VMware vSphere platform give you access to detailed logs for auditing and compliance without relying on agents in each virtual machine, which are themselves vulnerable to security threats. In addition to leveraging these capabilities in our own products, we're also exposing interfaces to our key security industry partners for integration with broader solutions. The result is better-than-physical security for applications and data in the cloud.

Reduce the Complexity of Endpoint, Application and Edge Network Security

Consolidate your security infrastructure and eliminate the need for software agents, dedicated security appliances and air-gapped solutions. Leverage capabilities like live migration, automated load balancing and virtual machine restarts knowing that the security is always on and stays with each virtual machine. Maintain compliance, trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data while being able to respond rapidly to business needs.

Leverage Existing Security Solutions

Existing antivirus investments can be leveraged while reducing footprint in virtual machines. VMware vShield is extensible and easily integrated with existing security products so you can transpose existing network, application and endpoint security onto the virtual infrastructure while moving toward a 100% cloud-enabled security framework. This adaptive, virtualization-aware approach gives you better-than-physical security for your datacenter.