Dwayne Melancon, CISA, is VP of Corporate and Business Development for Tripwire. He has worked with the IT Process Institute on its research of best practices as well as with numerous corporations around the world on IT service management improvement. Previously, Melancon was VP of Professional Services and Customer Support and VP of Marketing for Tripwire, and VP of Operations for DirectWeb. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA,) ITIL Foundation Certified and a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the IT Service Management Forum (ITSMF).
The promise of better use of resources, lower cost, and potential reduction
of both power costs and real estate is a compelling reason to move toward
virtualization. But the virtual data center raises some significant new
issues in areas of performance, compliance, and security.
Organizations that fail to protect their virtual infrastructure with the same
diligence traditionally applied to the physical environment will be at risk
of seriously compromising their business.
Yet this is a major challenge: the virtual infrastructure, by its very
nature, is completely hidden. While the physical infrastructure provides a
clear view of individual component performance, virtualization removes that
transparency. Without visibility into the virtualization engine,
organizations can... (more)
Dwayne Melancon, CISA, is VP of Corporate and Business Development for Tripwire. He has worked with the IT Process Institute on its research of best practices as well as with numerous corporations around the world on IT service management improvement. Previously, Melancon was VP of Professional Services and Customer Support and VP of Marketing for Tripwire, and VP of Operations for DirectWeb. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA,) ITIL Foundation Certified and a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and the IT Service Management Forum (ITSMF).
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