Security Is A Primary Business Objective: VMware

Altor Networks and Juniper Networks have announced the results of a jointly conducted survey at the VMworld show floor. The survey found over 77% of respondents have security intensive environments with over 90% of workloads requiring protection.

Key findings of the survey include:

• 40% of respondents cite time to deployment and cost as leading considerations in the virtualisation of their critical workloads.

• 86% of companies consolidate mixed workloads (e.g. Web, App, DB) and notice amplified security risks, as a result.

• 63% of respondents state that their virtual infrastructure administrators or network operations staff, not security, is responsible for security.

• 34% rank unified management for physical and virtual network security as the most important security concern in their virtual and cloud infrastructure.

“We’re seeing the majority of enterprises virtualising their mission-critical workloads concurrently with efforts to find the best way to secure them” said Johnnie Konstantas, Vice President -Marketing, Altor Networks. “The survey reveals the real struggle of today’s IT personnel to meet business objectives for increasing operational efficiency while maintaining or fortifying security. The responses are at times surprising in that they reveal workloads at great risk as a result of virtualisation and organisations earnest in mitigating that risk as soon as possible”

“The survey results reflect the reality in today’s IT environments: economic conditions are pushing organisations toward virtualising ahead of risk mitigation considerations as a result of a cost cutting mindset” said Avishai Avivi, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Juniper Networks. “Our technology and integration efforts with Altor address a very imminent need to implement virtual network protections within a familiar and pervasive construct - the physical network security architecture. This is the fastest and safest way for organisations to ameliorate risk and virtualise comprehensively”