Virtualization Security in the Asia Pacific Expands on the Back of Increasing Virtualization, Finds Frost & Sullivan

Virtualization Security in the Asia Pacific Expands on the Back of Increasing Virtualization, Finds Frost & Sullivan PR Newswire SINGAPORE, Sept. 13, 2012 - End users need to be educated on the criticality of security in a virtualized environment SINGAPORE, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In the wake of rising cost pressures, enterprises in the Asia Pacific are rapidly adopting virtualization in their IT infrastructure setup to address dynamic business requirements or as part of a cloud initiative. Consequently, virtualization security has become indispensable to enterprises. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.networksecurity.frost.com), Analysis of the Asia-Pacific Virtualization Security Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $48.4 million in 2011 and estimates this to reach $549.6 million in 2017. As virtualization spawns new and complex security threats, virtualization security solutions will evolve to protect virtual infrastructure and manage inter virtual machine traffic. "End users need to be made aware that virtualizing a business environment without implementing adequate security measures may be counterproductive, as it could increase costs and reduce agility," said Frost & Sullivan Industry Manager Cathy Huang. With virtualization, the virtualization layer (hypervisor) becomes a sensitive security target, as its breach could compromise all hosted workloads.