As the infrastructure cloud market (IaaS and PaaS) continues to grow rapidly, we are seeing quite a few customers who are delivering an application – whether it is a mission-critical or SaaS application – and basing their solution on VMware.
VMware Security Cloud Encryption cloud keyboard Cloud Encryption deployment for VMware based application servicesSome of these are deploying VMware in their private data center, while others are leveraging the cloud model and “renting” capacity from a public VMware-based cloud provider. In a way, both of these scenarios are public: in many of the cases the “private cloud” scenario serves users who belong to different organizations, so from the user point of view the scenario is “public”. As a result, these customers have many of the same security concerns (see here for a deeper discussion of that point).