Top five compliance challenges in a virtualised world

Virtualisation is showing some extremely compelling ROI and transforming the way corporate IT provisions and administers not only the data center, but also the user desktop experience.

News flash! Virtualisation is here to stay. Despite the naysayers, virtualisation is showing some extremely compelling ROI and transforming the way corporate IT provisions and administers not only the data center but also the user desktop experience. Big businesses, analyst firms and the vendor community all point towards virtualisation continuing to enjoy huge growth in adoption as a core IT strategy.

However, recent studies have shown that organisations frequently get enamored by the hot technology of the day (such as VOIP or SOA) and begin to deploy virtualisation before the complexities and impact to security and compliance are well understood.

Significant challenges to IT compliance are introduced when you consider the mappings of policy, guidance and the resulting controls that now have to be considered through the layers of virtualisation.

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