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Virtualization Security Tops RSA 2010 Innovation Sandbox
Security for virtualized infrastructure topped the category list of security innovation at this year’s RSA 2010 Innovation Sandbox competition. Altor Networks, providing solutions for malware protection, VM segregation, and compliance for VIS took the number 1 award for best innovation, business value delivered, and management team in the “American Idol” – style contest.
The Top 10 playing in the Innovation Sandbox were:
RSA 2010 Security Innovation Sandbox
Audit and the Cloud
The audit profession, including the education, the frameworks used in practice, certifications and tools is further behind than security when it comes to the what’s needed for the safe transition from traditional data center technologies and virtual infrastructure. However, the realization that audit requirements, technologies, and even AaaS, or Audit as a service, are fundamental to sustaining a level of trust in virtual computing is beginning to gather steam, support, and critical thinking.
Two important developments to keep track of:
EMC Acquires Archer, Integration Next
EMC Acquires Archer
The latest acquisition of Archer Technologies fills a gap in EMCs solution ecosystem with a best-in-class GRC software platform. With the Archer acquisition, and the development of an integration layer across EMC products, EMC creates the opportunity to speak more definitively about its capability to provide GRC solutions for core IT assets and operations and across the enterprise. The acquisition also provides a competitive play for EMC against other infrastructure technology providers including Oracle, with its GRC Manager, Microsoft with GRC Solution Accelerators and Sharepoint, CA, with its own GRC Manager, and others interested in their piece of the still-developing GRC marketplace.
Information Management Meets Compliance
Businesses today of all sizes are challenged to keep up with the growth of digital information, data, and content. The growth in digital records, forecast to top 2.5 zetabytes worldwide by 2012, and the increasing percentage of digital records being designated of critical business value places the onus on end-users to rethink information management strategies to create and deploy the most effective policies, processes, and technology solutions for digital content.
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