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A major VMware security initiative announced more than six months ago has still not resulted in any new products, but VMware and partners this week are demonstrating several prototypes of technology that will better secure virtual machines.
VMware publicly revealed plans in February for VMsafe, a set of APIs that will give security vendors more direct control over the hypervisor, allowing them to catch viruses, Trojans and keyloggers before they do any real damage.
VMsafe development is far enough along to build some "pretty effective" security products, and the APIs are being built into VMware's hypervisor, says Nand Mulchandani, VMware senior director of security products and marketing. But VMsafe won't be publicly available until the shipment of VMware Infrastructure 4.0, the next version of VMware's virtualization software, and it's not clear when that will occur, Mulchandani said during an interview at VMworld in Las Vegas Tuesday.
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