According to a recent article over at the Guardian, it sounds like VMware plans to answer those people who have been asking a lot of questions about securing the virtualization platform. The partner list is impressive, but I'll reserve judgement and wait to see just what gets announced in further detail while I am at VMworld Europe.
VMware Inc is working with some of the world's biggest security software makers to better protect computers running on its virtualization software, said people familiar with the plans.
Partners in the effort -- dubbed VMsafe -- include Symantec Corp, McAfee Inc, the Internet Security Systems division of International Business Machines Corp , EMC Corp's RSA security unit and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, they said.
The sources asked not to be identified by name because VMware wants to unveil the initiative next week at the VMworld Europe users conference in Cannes, France.
VMware sells software that allows a single server to perform the work of 10 or more machines by creating multiple virtual computers that run simultaneously on the machine.
Reporting by Jim Finkle, editing by Gerald E. McCormick - read the original,
here.