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TOP 5 Purchase drivers for VIRTUALIZATION AND Cloud Security
Transcript of TOP 5 Purchase drivers for VIRTUALIZATION AND Cloud Security
IT professionals are concerned about deployingtraditional security products in virtualized data centers.
Beat the Challenges to a Secure Virtual InfrastructureVirtualization and the transition to the cloud is impacting organizations, with challenges and complexities in securing the data center that are unique to these environments.
Virtual Concerns
THE TOP CONCERNS
Going Public
Global Virtualization CapabilitiesThe most important security capabilities in a virtual environment globally are vulnerability shielding and meeting regulatory compliance.
27% 21% 12%Higher operational complexity of managing security products
Difficultyin ensuring compliance with regulations or corporate security policy
Difficultyin auditing security posture
TOP
SECURITY CAPABILITIES
GLOBALLY
82%
Security for AllA new breed of virtualization/cloud security is desired to secure the entire virtual environment.
of IT professionals want their virtualization/cloud security to protect not just their virtual machines but also the hypervisor.69%
Meeting regulatory compliance in virtual
environments
84%Vulnerability
shielding for system and apps
84%Security/monitoring for the hypervisor
83%
IT professionals are concerned
about the inability to enforce corporatesecurity
policies on public/hybrid
cloud workloads.
IT professionals note the lack of adequate data security and privacy in a multi-tenant
cloud environment as
their primary concern
Most proven in real word deployments
Cloud PleasersExperience speaks for itself when ranking the most important factors when making security purchase decisions for virtualization/cloud environments.
TOP 5 VIRTUALIZATION ANDCLOUD SECURITY PURCHASE DRIVERS
71%
Highlyautomated
Highlyscalable
Tightly integrated with virtualization and cloud environment
VM sprawl comes with virtualization, having a single vendor witha virtualization security data center platform can solve complexity issues.
Most resource efficient
90%
84%82%
sponsored by
81%
64%
According to a global survey of 162 respondents, sponsored by Trend Micro and conducted by IDG Research Services. Base: 62 US respondents, 50 EMEA respondents, and 50 APAC respondents who are employed in an IT or IT-security related job function and who have involvement in or influence over purchasing, implementation, or ongoing management of virtualization or cloud security solutions.
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