Key Trends: Virtualization Security

In theory, 2009 should be the year that virtualization security (VirtSec) takes off: Server virtualization has been widely deployed. VirtSec products are ready. The VirtSec vendor list has doubled since 2008. There’s just one catch: Enterprises aren’t currently planning to deploy the technology. Only 10% of the organizations that participate in Nemertes’ virtualization research have deployed VirtSec--and fully 70% have no plans to do so. Why not? As Strother Martin said in the Movie Cool Hand Luke, “What we have here is a failure to communicate.”