Report: Tolly Group Review: Total Protection for Virtualization
- Source:
- McAfee
- Published:
- Nov 13, 2009
- Pages:
- 4
McAfee, Inc. commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the effectiveness of McAfee Total Protection (ToPS) for Virtualization, Tolly engineers built virtual server environments using both VMware ESX server version 3.5 and Microsoft Hyper-V. In these environments they deployed virtual instance of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. Engineers then exercised an extensive set of functions to illustrate that McAfee could provide extensive management and protection of virtual server environments in both online and offline states.
This report highlights the following:
- ToPS delivers operational efficiencies with a single management platform for both physical and virtual environments.
- Increases the server reliability by automatically and transparently scanning , cleaning malware and updating security
- ToPS Delivers cost-effective licensing model "per physical server"
