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>>Sam Diaz: Hi, I'm Sam Diaz for ZDNet, here in downtown San Francisco at the Marconi Center for the kickoff of VM World, 2009. There's been a lot of talk about complexity in the data center and trying to reduce that, increase some freedom there. Cloud computing and virtualization are all hot topics, but we're gonna go inside, talk to some vendors, and see what all the hype is about.
Music One of the interesting things about VM World is that VM Ware, the virtualization company, has a lot of partners, companies like IBM, Intel, Dell, HP. And they're all here at the show, showcasing what they're doing in virtualization. It's an interesting change from a lot of shows that are focused around one company and their one product. Here at VM Ware, you've got a lot of big names. I'm here with David Bricker assumed spelling of IBM at the IBM booth at VM World. And we're talking today about storage solutions in a virtual world with IBM products and solutions. David, tell me what it is that we're looking at here.
>> David Bricker: Well, today we're showing our XIV storage subsystem, which is a revolutionary new product that provides very high-density storage, very high performance at a very low cost. It provides self-healing, self-tuning, and it works very well in the VM ware environment, particularly eliminating hot spots and traditional problems that we see in a disc storage environment.
>>Sam Diaz: One of the cool things about the virtual world is that it doesn't have to be just all the big players involved. A lot of smaller companies here, companies that re involved in hardware, software, appliances, security, all sort of things. They're here at the show, too, showcasing what they have to offer in a virtual world. I'm here at the Tripwire booth talking to Michael Resnick assumed spelling, who is going to show us today what this company's products are for audit and control of the physical and virtual world. Michael, tell me a little bit about what we're looking at today.
>> Michael Resnick: Sure. So Tripwire Enterprise really does two things. It assesses the data center, both physical and virtual, against policy. So what you're seeing here is some inaudible industry results that I have up against Linux and Windows servers. If I click on this to get further level of detail, what I'm gonna see are the results against policy. And this is really looking at whether or not my devices are configures in a way that's secure and hardened. I just got a bunch of past tests here, and some fail tests. And I can have Tripwire present just the failures. And one feature of Tripwire is, in addition to just telling you that you're failing some tests, it also will show you what you need to do to take those tests from a non-compliant to a compliant state. And you can see here, I've got the results, and the remediation steps that you would give to an administrator on how to take a non-compliant state and make it compliant.
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>>Sam Diaz: So here at VM World, we've talked a lot about the virtual environment, but you know, the funny thing is that virtual environment doesn't necessarily mean that we're gonna replace physical servers, physical equipment. It's still there. It's just powering in the cloud, and you're using it a lot more efficiently. That's sort of the point here. For ZDNet, I'm Sam Diaz.
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