The Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Security Journey Begins with Trend Micro

CUPERTINO, Calif., Feb. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro today announced two new product releases that further extend the company's strategy to help enterprises reap the benefits of virtualization and cloud computing without giving up high levels of security along the way.

Trend Micro™ SecureCloud 1.1 provides enterprise-class data protection through encryption in the cloud, while Trend Micro™ Deep Security 7.5 Update 1 offers performance improvements that will enable the Deep Security virtual appliance to provide agentless intrusion detection and prevention using VMware vShield™ Endpoint for higher virtual machine density levels.

These products have achieved both market and industry recognition:

• IDC reported that Trend Micro ranks #1 in worldwide server security market share.
• The Tolly Group's performance report found that Trend Micro Deep Security outperforms traditional AV solutions from Symantec and McAfee in the use of key system resources, enabling organizations to achieve over three times the virtual machine density than with these other AV solutions. This density improvement yields capital and operational expenditure savings from reduced hardware and an increase in ROI of the virtualization investment.
• Trend Micro Deep Security agentless anti-malware has seen a groundswell of interest in the market with approximately 200 new customers acquired in the 3 months that the solution has been in the market.  Roughly half of these customers are new to Trend Micro, clear evidence that typical anti-malware solutions in the market are not meeting customers needs in virtualized environments.
• Trend Micro SecureCloud currently boasts active users of Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus or VMware vCloud®  cloud infrastructures with other cloud-computing variants to be added in the future.

Trend Micro: Securing the Journey to Virtualization and Cloud

Trend Micro maps enterprise security needs across three stages of evolution: The virtualization security journey starts with server consolidation, moves into expanded server and desktop virtualization, and opens a path to public clouds. The enterprise cloud security journey starts with private clouds, adds hybrid clouds, and evolves to public clouds.

"Most customers have completed the first phase of the journey by securing workloads on virtualized servers using traditional network security techniques," said John Maddison, executive general manager of Trend Micro's data center business unit.

"In 2011 customers will look to optimize virtual security performance as they virtualize more traffic-heavy applications. This includes security technologies that integrate with the virtualization platform. As companies take their first steps into hybrid clouds, data protection will be critical. And as sensitive data moves beyond corporate firewalls, companies must maintain control of information," said Maddison.

Virtualization has become a catalyst for cloud computing by accelerating the transformation of data centers into private clouds. As organizations adopt private cloud technologies, it becomes easier to move applications from corporate servers to public clouds. Trend Micro predicts that enterprises will move many of their applications completely to public clouds once public cloud providers address major enterprise concerns that hold back cloud adoption, namely availability and visibility. Larger enterprises though will maintain private cloud environments for some of their applications over longer time periods.

Trend Micro: Multi-layered protection for virtualized and cloud environments

Trend Micro provides security "from the cloud" with the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ infrastructure, and security "for the cloud" with server and encryption technologies. The company offers multi-layered protection to data residing in the private or public cloud, as well as virtualized environments.

Supporting quotes

"The major challenge for enterprises will be how to proceed from where they are today, through a transitional or hybrid period, to where they will be in the future. Cloud security solutions, such as what Trend Micro offers, are sufficiently flexible to accommodate this diversity. As organizations move toward cloud computing, they can rely on Trend Micro to secure their data, no matter where it resides."

Bill Gillis, eHealth Technical Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

"The vision for cloud computing security is clear: appropriate security at every computing endpoint and data security through encryption techniques that ensure that the encryption keys which govern access to the data are held securely as well. Trend Micro's new products address both of those requirements and enable enterprises to address the primary concern most CIOs voice about cloud computing: security."

Bernard Golden, CEO, HyperStratus 

"We are excited about the new version of Trend Micro Deep Security and the opportunity it provides our customers in being able to achieve the economic benefits of virtualization and cloud computing without compromising security. The capabilities of Deep Security in terms of advanced technologies such as anti-malware, intrusion prevention, web application protection and integrity monitoring delivered across physical, virtual and cloud servers in both agent-based and virtual appliance form factors is truly unparalleled."

Chris Reed, INXI, VMware Partner of the Year for 2010

"VMware works closely with Trend Micro to help ensure the compatibility of Trend Micro Deep Security within VMware environments. Deep Security, which leverages VMware vShield™, offers security, manageability and performance for dynamic datacenters and is a crucial component for securing customers' virtualization journey."

Parag Patel, vice president, global strategic alliances, VMware

Supporting assets:

• In a recent Tolly Group report, Trend Micro Deep Security with its agentless anti-malware architecture, was observed to be up to 11 times more efficient in the use of key system resources in virtual environments than competing solutions from Symantec and McAfee. The report also showed that Deep Security can support over three times the virtual machine density of these solutions. Read the full report here.
• In a recent IDC report, Trend Micro was ranked #1 in worldwide server security market share, further validating Trend Micro's leadership in virtualization and cloud security. Read the announcement here.
• For more information on Trend Micro's latest innovations in virtualization security, please visit here.
• Visit the Cloud Security Blog for the latest dialogue on where the cloud is headed and what's at stake.
• To learn about how Trend Micro is utilizing the latest VMware products and APIs to help VMware customers secure their environments, please visit here.
• Finally, Trend Micro recently unveiled its new company tagline – "Securing Your Journey to the Cloud" -- that illustrates the company's clear focus and leadership in securing physical, virtual and cloud environments. For more information on Trend Micro's latest innovations in cloud and virtualization security, please visit our new cloud site here.

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SOURCE Trend Micro