A flexible, scalable, responsive and secure infrastructure remains a top priority for CIOs. Unless CIOs can stay ahead of time and bring value to the business, they run the risk of relegating their IT organization to managing ‘nuts and bolts’ of the Infrastructure.

SECURITY

A protocol or system designed to protect a network and data against any unauthorized access and to secure the network is the Network Security system. An effective network security system ensures secure access to authorized personnel or systems only. Meanwhile securing both hardware and software and warding threats off and also preventing their access to your network.

A good security team knows how to differentiate between normal and abnormal behavior and hence, can identify and negate any potential threat. It includes installing firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), network segmentation to classify network traffic and assign access rights based on IP addresses, role, location, etc., and also containment of suspicious devices. Security information and event management (SIEM) collect information through physical and virtual appliances and server software to aid your security staff in identifying and responding to threats.

REMOTE NETWORKING

A virtual desktop is your solution to not let go of your favorite app. Ever since the emergence of the IT revolution, the biggest trouble that computers have gone through is a virus. These little bugs get attached to the files and while opening them means disaster for your computer not opening them means losing on precious data. This is where remote networking through virtual desktops could come in handy, a perfect solution to this decades-long problem. With remote networking, one uses the snapshot option which allows taking an image of the virtual desktop before opening a potentially infected file. Just take a snapshot, open the file and retrieve the required data. If the virus affects your virtual system, either chose to close the snapshot or load it without any trouble.

Most enterprises have a notion that remote networking might not do well to their productivity while people work from separate places without being watched whether they are doing remote networking or social networking. This, however, is not correct as there are reports which say otherwise. In fact, the ability to multitask is the essence of remote networking which not only allows the employees to create a comfortable environment for themselves but also more effective than better. Hence, better productivity and more outreach.

VM WARE CLOUD DATA

When it was conceptualized for the first time in the 1970s the idea of creating a virtual; rather than an actual version of something would have been revolutionary, still is. Imagine creating a virtual version of a device or a resource, such as a server, a network, a storage device or an operating system where the resource is divided into one or more execution environments by the framework. Now, imagine this. You could run multiple OS on one physical machine and divide the system resources for separate virtual machines. Making provisions for security isolation and preserving performance with advanced controls. Exciting, isn’t it? Here is more to it. The entire resources of a virtual machine could be saved to files and moved to any physical server as well.