Many people have often had the misconception that a virtualized environment must be safe from security problems and vulnerabilities. After all, its virtual, right? Well, no. This just isn't the case, and there have been plenty of discussions around this very subject as of late. Virtualization platforms are not without their security issues. Case in point, Roger Klorese, Citrix XenServer Product Marketing, recent Many people have often had the misconception that a virtualized environment must be safe from security problems and vulnerabilities. After all, its virtual, right? Well, no. This just isn’t the case, and there have been plenty of discussions around this very subject as of late.Virtualization platforms are not without their security issues. Case in point, Roger Klorese, Citrix XenServer Product Marketing, recently talked about a new feature coming out in the next release of Citrix XenServer that is currently in closed beta. The feature is designed with patch management in mind. In his blog, Roger writes: “Pool-wide patch management has been integrated into the product, and, in conjunction with a wizard in XenCenter, will allow you to: Check the Citrix XenServer website for updates Download any pending updates to your XenCenter system Choose which servers in your managed pools you wish to apply the patches to Put each server in maintenance mode (with their VMs kept online on another server via XenMotion) Apply the patches Bring the server back online and move VMs back to it automatically …All in a single guided process.” This is just another example of virtualization platforms trying to make the technology easier and safer for people to implement in large doses. Server virtualization is enterprise ready, and features like this do nothing but help get that message out.Like Citrix, VMware is concerned with security and patch management of its products as well, and introduced VMware Update Manager for its server virtualization platform, VMware ESX Server. Software Development