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Avoid unnecessary risk and overhead by choosing a robust and production-proven hypervisor as the foundation for your virtualized datacenter. Selecting the right hypervisor is the first step towards success in building a virtual infrastructure.

 

Not all hypervisors are equal. Learn more about how VMware vSphere Hypervisor is - and will continue to be - the industry's most robust and production-proven hypervisor and why VMware is the best choice for building a virtual infrastructure.

  • Comparing Hypervisors
  • Hyper-V and Xen Architectures: Too Much Code
  • Achieve Scalable Performance
  • Why File Systems Matter
  • An Ecosystem of Virtualization Security Solutions
  • Industry Recognition

Securing the Virtual Datacenter with vShield 5

VMware’s pioneering security solutions are the vShield family of products. vShield solutions secure the edge of the virtual datacenter, protect virtualized application deployments  from network-based threats, and streamline antivirus protection  for all VMs by offloading AV processing to dedicated security VMs.

vShield 5 delivers a rich set of new features :

  • Sensitive Data Discovery.
    • Discover sensitive data and control access.
    • Built-in templates for most common types of sensitive data (i.e. PII, PCI-DSS, PHI).
  • Role-Based Access Control.
    • Provide a clear separation of workflow for VI and security administrators.
    • Flexible delegation of administration rights across resource pools and security groups.
  • vShield App Enhancements.
    • Ability to quarantine compromised VMs.
    • L2 Firewall.
    • Application-aware firewalling.
    • Flexible IP addressing.

As for the competition, they currently do not offer anything comparable.

Learn more about how vShield enables virtualization-aware security and helps secure your cloud infrastructure.