Shavlik White Papers

What You Don’t Know, Can Hurt You: Controlling VM Sprawl and Managing the Transition from Physical to Virtual Machines

The adoption rate of Virtual Machines has exploded at most organizations, driven by the improved cost effectiveness of increased server utilization. The savings in rack space, hardware costs, power consumption, and many other factors are driving this steadily increasing trend. However, this boom in logical servers has resulted in a substantial increase in the number of devices connected to the network, and each needs to be individually configured, patched, and secured. This paper describes the importance of virtualization security and how solutions from Shavlik Technologies provide the same secure operating base and patch management for virtual machines as they do for their physical counterparts – for online and offline VMs.

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