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Regulatory Compliance and VM Sprawl Control
Virtualization allows the creation and deployment of new virtual machines (VMs) very quickly, as well as instant movements of those virtual machines (VMs) to manage virtualized desktop workloads. Those actions may inadvertently expose sensitive data to unauthorized users or insecure channels. Additionally, rogue VMs may also put data at risk. Regulations such as Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, PCI and GLBA have strict regulations and increasing penalties related to protecting sensitive data, and requires a solution to establish and maintain compliance in a desktop virtualization environment.
Stratusphere&trade identifies virtual machines (VMs) with sensitive information and automatically ensures compliance related to those VMs. It enables VDI administrators to continuously audit user access and security assessments by using a solution that plugs-in quickly and easily to the virtualized desktop environment and integrates with the AD or LDAP user directory. Stratusphere&trade contains pre-defined packages of compliance reports and dashboards for specific regulations such as PCI, HIPAA and GLBA. Additionally, Stratusphere&trade offers VDI administrators the ability to schedule report deliveries and reminders and also to create and track approval workflow processes—further ensuring the review of compliance information by appointed security auditors.
Liquidware Labs Inc. works with:
- VMware View (VDI)
- Citrix XenDesktop
- Provision Networks
- Desktone
Virtualization platforms make it easy to create new machines as users request them. However, this can lead to VM sprawl with tens or hundreds of machines that are unidentified, unknown or underutilized. Industry research articles indicate that VM sprawl accounts for 20 percent of the VMs created on average in a large virtual environment. The associated costs easily add up in mature virtualization environments. Detailed VM profiling and data collection, with detailed application and user tracking, and specific reports on activity and usage can help VDI administrators reduce costs for their virtual environments.
Stratusphere&trade allows administrators to automatically discover the users and applications on each VM, to spot rogue or unidentified VMs, and to identify VMs that are underutilized or unused. The Stratusphere&trade solution efficiently assesses and profiles the virtual environment, and gives administrators the user and application visibility needed to control VM sprawl.
Liquidware Labs Inc. works with:
- VMware ESX, VMware View (VDI), VMware ThinApp
- Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp (Presentation Server)
- Microsoft Hyper-V, Med-V, App-V
- Virtual Iron, Red Hat, Ubuntu
- Symantec Altiris SVS
- Provision Networks
