ECM for Virtualization complements VMware’s Virtual Center by allowing IT operations a holistic, “at-a-glance” view of the virtual infrastructure to understand the correlations of the guests, hosts and the associated relationships across the entire virtualized landscape. With support for VMware Infrastructure 3 Hardening Guidelines and VMware Virtual Center Best Practices, users are able to easily ensure continuous compliance with VMware’s recommendations for maintaining security and operational efficiency.

“ECM for Virtualization’s ability to provide a single-pane-of-glass view of the infrastructure has dramatically simplified AmeriCredit’s move to a virtual infrastructure, while maintaining our ongoing security posture and compliance,” said Larry Brandt, Assistant Vice President of Windows Server Operations for AmeriCredit. “Through the compliance toolkits’ user-friendly ‘plug-and-play’ integration features with ECM, we are able to ensure compliance with VMware’s published best practices as well as compliance with a range of regulatory standards.”

Dashboards such as “Virtual Security Posture” and “Top 10 Non-Compliant Virtual Environments” have allowed ECM for Virtualization administrators to pinpoint areas of non-compliance, visualize guest/host relationships, drill through to the supporting detail, and take the required actions to remediate.

“One of the primary challenges IT operations face when managing highly virtualized environments is the ability to understand the dependencies between physical servers, operating systems, application and business functions,” said Dr. Dennis Moreau, CTO of Configuresoft. “With these challenges present, it was important for us to support ESX 3.5 as quickly as possible. ECM for Virtualization’s unique ability to provide a complete picture of the virtual environments – including VMware ESX 3.5 – is enhanced by these critical templates. Users can enjoy a new level of security, compliance and control for their virtualized environments, while still ensuring usability and the tremendous benefits virtualization provides.”

Configuresoft's Center for Policy & Compliance (CP&C) offers its VMware Hardening Compliance Toolkits and virtualization reports to ECM for Virtualization customers. Each toolkit consists of a set of rule-based templates, reports and dashboards which easily plug into ECM to ensure security and operational compliance within VMware’s Hardening Guidelines that provide certified compatibility guides which list System, I/O, Storage/SAN and Backup compatibility with VMware Infrastructure and previous versions of VMware ESX Server.

About Configuresoft
Configuresoft, the world’s leading enterprise server configuration management provider, delivers the Configuration Intelligence® that brings automation and intelligence to IT operations. Hundreds of organizations, including 13 of the world’s 25 largest companies, rely on Configuresoft to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of today’s physical and virtualized IT environments. Configuresoft’s team of security and policy experts ensure continuous compliance with regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley and industry standards such as PCI DSS and Microsoft and VMware Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call +1 719-447-4600 or visit www.configuresoft.com.

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