Configuresoft announced the delivery of the latest phase of its Configuration Intelligence platform to manage virtualized environments. Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization enables organizations to lower operating costs, improve IT agility and availability while meeting security and compliance regulations. The company's initial pass at Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization will include agent sof Configuresoft announced the delivery of the latest phase of its Configuration Intelligence platform to manage virtualized environments. Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization enables organizations to lower operating costs, improve IT agility and availability while meeting security and compliance regulations. The company’s initial pass at Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization will include agent software for VMware guests as well as an agent free approach for physical host servers. And it addresses many of today’s virtualization concerns by centralizing and automating the monitoring, managing and auditing of physical (host) and virtual (guest) assets across an organization’s infrastructure.“Dependencies between physical servers, operating systems, application and business functions exponentially increase the level of complexity with the introduction of virtualization,” said Dr. Dennis Moreau, CTO of Configuresoft. “This new level of complexity makes visibility into the security of this environment exceptionally hard. Configuration Intelligence provides enterprises with the ability to realize the significant advantages of virtualization without being overwhelmed with security vulnerabilities and compliance concerns.” Configuration Intelligence for Virtualization delivers unparalleled visibility, security and control to virtualized environments with: Secure Collection Architecture – Auto-discovers and collects granular configuration details for VM machines and their hosts. Guest/Host Relationship Correlation – Supports management and security compliance of each guest, host and the associated relationships across the entire virtualized landscape. Visibility Into Dormant VMs – Assesses the security posture of dormant VMs before they can compromise the integrity of the overall infrastructure. Security Hardening and Compliance Toolkits – Provides out-of-the-box templates that address vendor and virtualization best practices, regulatory mandates and security guidelines. Holistic Security View of Virtualized Environment – Views hosts and associated guests environments as a single security entity. Virtualization Visualization – Includes graphical indicators of non-compliance issues and pending actions across entire virtual environment. Patch Assessment, Delivery and Verification – Significantly improves patch rates across the virtualized infrastructure. Separation of Duties – Delegates user access to reports and operational actions based on AD rights, roles and responsibilities. The company expects to support VMware’s ESX Server by the end of the third quarter and then add support for Xen and Microsoft sometime in 2008.You can find out more about this technology, here. Software Development