HyTrust recently celebrated its 3-year birthday. HyTrust was founded in October 2007 to bring secure access control and policy to virtual infrastructure, enabling wider adoption of virtualization throughout the enterprise — exactly the same focus that we have today.
It’s amazing to see what we have achieved in the last three years: great enterprise customers; solid partnerships with the major players in virtualization (VMware, Cisco, RSA, Intel and Symantec); numerous accolades, including Best of Show at VMworld; and, of course, several significant releases of HyTrust Appliance…
So we’re excited to let you know that HyTrust Appliance 2.1 is now generally available. It is chock-full of exciting new enterprise features, including protection for the control of Cisco Nexus 1000V, application-level high availability, and smart card support. As always, we have also made 2.1 available in the Community Edition form, which can be downloaded for free here:
http://info.hytrust.com/appliance.html
New HyTrust Appliance Capabilities At a Glance
- Support for VMware vSphere 4.1
- Integrated access control, policy and audit logging for Cisco Nexus 1000V CLI management (NX-OS command set)
- Support for complex, multi-domain Active Directory environments
- Single sign-on via Windows pass-through authentication with smart card integration
- New ESX hardening templates including VMware Hardening Guide 4.0 and (Sarbanes Oxley) SOX hardening template
- Application-level high availability (in addition to VMware HA/FT and federation)
If you would like to take a look at the new functionality, we have recorded demos of the new version available for your viewing pleasure.
http://info.hytrust.com/recorded_product_demo.html
For those of you currently evaluating HyTrust Appliance, we’d like to extend an added incentive to make your purchase in Q4: for a limited time, HyTrust is offering a free “jump-start” professional services package to help you get up and running quickly. Contact sales (sales@hytrust.com) for more information.