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Vendors release PCI guidance white paper
A group of vendors, including VMware, HyTrust and Savvis, have released a white paper on
virtual data center architecture that is Payment Card Industry (PCI)-compliant,
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according to at
least one firm. A recent update to the PCI
Data Security Standard (DSS) finally acknowledged server virtualization as permissible in PCI
environments, but detailed guidance on compliant configuration and implementation of virtual
networks is still being finalized.
Sources say a supplemental white paper from the PCI Security Standards Council's Virtualization Special Interest Group (VirtSIG) will be released between now and the beginning of 2011, when the new DSS officially goes into effect.
VMware expands Zimbra certification program
VMware expanded its VMware Ready Program to include mail security offerings for its Zimbra
messaging platform. The first certified products include SpamTitan's Virtual Appliance; Halon
Security's Virtual SPAM Prevention; InBoxer's Intelligent Message Archive; Proofpoint's Enterprise
Protection and Enterprise Privacy; Sendmail's Sentrion MPV; Softnext Technologies Corporation's
SPAM SQR; Symantec's Brightmail Gateway Virtual Edition; and Trend Micro's Interscan Messaging
Security Virtual Appliance.
CA closes Hyperformix acquisition, buddies up with Marathon
CA's acquisition of automated capacity planning software maker Hyperformix
became official. While CA does battle with VMware's Integrien
for capacity planning and performance monitoring, the company also has to win back enterprise
customers. Despite sweeping changes that have taken place at the company since 2006, some
enterprise customers say it will take more time before they trust CA for critical IT management
tools.
In a separate announcement, CA and Marathon Technologies jointly released everRun MX Extend. The new product integrates Marathon's everRun MX fault-tolerance software with CA's (NASDAQ: CA) ARCserve replication for disaster recovery over distance.
Pancetera and i365 partner on cloud-based data backup for VMs
Pancetera,
a startup claiming it can optimize I/O in virtual storage environments, has signed a new
partnership agreement with i365, a Seagate company. Under the terms of the agreement, i365's EVault
Cloud-Connected data protection products will embed Pancetera's Unite virtual appliance in a new
jointly marketed virtual appliance that backs up VMs onsite, across the wide area network and into
the cloud.
HyTrust updates appliance
HyTrust Appliance 2.1 offers federated access controls for virtual environments, and it's now
generally available. The update includes support for VMware vSphere 4.1; access control, policy and
audit logging for Cisco Nexus 1000V command-line interface management (NX-OS command set); support
for multi-domain Active Directory environments; single sign-on via Windows pass-through
authentication with smart card integration; new ESX hardening templates including VMware Hardening
Guide 4.0 and (Sarbanes Oxley) SOX hardening templates; and application-level high availability (in
addition to VMware High Availability/Fault Tolerance and federation.
Netuitive supports Tivoli
Netuitive Inc., which offers a self-learning analytics software suite for performance management
and troubleshooting in virtual environments, now says its software can feed data to IBM's Tivoli
data center management framework. Other monitoring tools already integrated with Netuitive include
products from CA, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, and VMware.
Beth Pariseau is a senior news writer for SearchServerVirtualization.com. Write to her at bpariseau@techtarget.com.
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