Application Virtualization: An Opportunity for IT to do More with Much Less

whitePaper | September 13, 2022

Over the past years, the global SD-WAN market has experienced rapid growth, reaching a value of around $1B in 2018 according to analysts at Global Markets Insights. Driven by the demand for cost effective WAN management solutions, the increasing adoption of cloud technologies, the need for simplified network architecture, end-to-end network security and visibility, the market is forecast to grow at over 30% CAGR through to 2025

whitePaper | May 3, 2022

Networking and security teams have historically relied on protections at the network perimeter to secure the entire enterprise. The internal network was deemed trusted and secure. While everything outside was considered “dirty,” everything on the internal network was considered “clean,” and application traffic would flow unrestricted. However, recent and developing shifts in enterprise working models are having a far-reaching effect on the traditionally managed network perimeter for security. The following trends are making organizations reassess their approach to security:

whitePaper | October 11, 2022

ESET researchers recently described Wslink, a unique and previously undocumented malicious loader that runs as a server and that features a virtual-machine-based obfuscator. There are no code, functionality or operational similarities that suggest this is likely to be a tool from a known threat actor; the complete analysis of the malware can be found here.

whitePaper | October 4, 2021

Virtualization as a concept is not new; computational environment virtualization has been around since the first mainframe systems. But recently, the term “virtualization” has become ubiquitous, representing any type of process obfuscation where a process is somehow removed from its physical operating environment. Because of this ambiguity, virtualization can almost be applied to any and all parts of an IT infrastructure. For example, mobile device emulators are a form of virtualization because the hardware platform normally required to run the mobile operating system has been emulated, removing the OS binding from the hardware it was written for. But this is just one example of one type of virtualization; there are many defi nitions of the term “virtualization” fl oating around in the current lexicon, and all (or at least most) of them are correct, which can be quite confusing.

whitePaper | November 11, 2022

AI/ML workloads. VMware in partnership with NVIDIA has integrated the latest virtual GPU (vGPU) capabilities enabled by vSphere, into VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware Cloud Foundation customers can now extend their software defined private cloud platform to support a flexible and easily scalable AI-ready infrastructure.

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

Cloud environments change fundamental assumptions in how to perform threat detection and response. The highly dynamic inventory of cloud workloads means systems come and go in seconds. When system configuration errors are introduced during a build, they can be exacerbated and amplified when automation replicates the errors across many workloads. Shared responsibility with the cloud service provider (CSP) creates potential threat detection gaps in the attack lifecycle.