Unisys Boosts Cloud Protection with Secure Private Cloud Solution 2.2

📅 August 28, 2012 - Cloud infrastructure services provider Unisys announced on Monday it has released version 2.2 of the Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution, which features automated cloud management capabilities with improved protection to help customers secure critical bu

unisys, a cloud infrastructure services provider's Unisys Secure Private Cloud 2.2 integrates a virtualized version of Unisys Stealth Solution for Network cyber security software to automate and simplify implementation of security while provisioning virtual resources in the cloud. As a result, the platform enables customers to automatically create an integrated security infrastructure for each virtual machine provisioned through the Secure Private Cloud Solution."Clients say they want three things from cloud computing: simplified operations, lower usage costs and uncompromising security," said Rod Sapp, vice president of data center transformation and outsourcing products and technology at Unisys. "With Secure Private Cloud release 2.2, we're providing a solution that delivers those attributes 'out of the box.' Clients can reduce cloud provisioning significantly and realize operational and cost-avoidance savings, with confidence that vital information assets are protected.''Aside from improved security, Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution 2.2 enables organizations to increase the number of communities sharing the same cloud for increased efficiency in infrastructure utilization and improved economies of scale.Unisys Secure Private Cloud is compatible with clients' existing cloud and network infrastructure, which makes for a more seamless transition and helps reduce any associated costs.Clients have the option of deploying the Secure Private Cloud Solution as a special-purpose cloud or integrating it into a hybrid enterprise environment where they can leverage their long-term investments in mission-critical IT resources.In a separate announcement Unisys said it will sell the Secure Private Cloud Solution to channel resellers through its recently announced software channel initiative.The improved security capability of Unisys Secure Private Cloud Solution release 2.2 makes applications and data that have been deployed to user-provisioned virtual machines invisible on the network, as well as protects those assets from being compromised by unauthorized external or internal sources.Groups of related users associated with specific virtual machines can share the same cloud, with one group's information protected from unauthorized use by members of another.Individuals with appropriate roles can be members of more than one community and, with appropriate permissions, can view the information used by multiple communities.Additionally, the Secure Private Cloud Solution has been certified as "Vblock Ready" and is available for VCE Vblock Systems.This means that it can integrate Cisco networking and server, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system.The platform features a dashboard that enables administrators to manage all cloud resources, while the usage monitoring and chargeback capability tracks and reports on use of both physical and virtual cloud resources and allocates the charge back to the relevant business group.Unisys also provides comprehensive advisory services, along with planning, design and implementation services that can help those customers seeking a cloud solution.Unisys Enterprise Systems Management services enable customers to monitor and correlate events across all segments of the managed infrastructure, orchestrating pre-emptive and remedial action against potential IT faults.