What is VMware’s partnering stance with respect to Security Solutions?
VMware and its partners help meet customer need for adaptive, virtualization-aware and cost-effective security solutions for virtualization and cloud deployments. The VMware focus is on delivering a comprehensive, integrated management and policy framework through vShield Manager, ensuring that vShield and our partner offerings are tightly integrated. VMsafe is a successful program that has enabled the first generation of introspection-based solutions from VMware partners. VMware is fully committed to supporting these solutions for our mutual customers. The VMsafe partners are Altor Networks, Checkpoint, IBM, McAfee, Reflex and Trend Micro. Responding to VMsafe customer and partner feedback, VMware is now introducing its next generation of introspection-based solutions. This technology makes its debut in vShield Endpoint solutions. This next generation introspection platform brings additional benefits to the VMsafe investments, specifically: • Broader integration of management framewor
