Virtualization Products and Technologies

Microsoft provides an end-to-end suite of virtualization products and technologies — all tied together by a centralized management system.

Virtualization Security

To realize the benefits of virtualization, customers need to deploy and manage security across their virtual and physical IT environment. This requires striking a balance between managing risk while empowering their business.

Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to security across virtual and physical IT assets. We call this business ready security. This approach encompasses protection, access and management, all built around user identity and integrated with a highly secure platform.

Microsoft brings together unique capabilities – a secure computing platform in Windows Server and Hyper-V together combined with end-to-end security and access solutions through the Forefront line of security products – to enable customers to save time, reduce costs, and protect their virtual and physical IT environments.

Benefits

  • Secure computing platform for virtual and physical IT assets

  • Integrated protection from platform through solutions

  • Simplified management of security

Microsoft Forefront helps deliver end-to-end security and access to information through an integrated line of protection, access, and identity management products. Forefront's comprehensive, end-to-end solutions help protect virtually everywhere and enable secure access virtually anywhere. These solutions integrate with your existing environment to enable easier deployment, centralized reporting across multiple systems, and management of your users and information from a single view. With Microsoft Forefront solutions, you can more efficiently manage your enterprise and maintain compliance.

Benefits

  • Integrate and extend security across the enterprise

  • Help protect everywhere, access anywhere

  • Simplify the security experience and manage compliance