The company’s Virtual Datacentre Operating System will include vShield to help define different security policies for different systems. Info-Tech’s John Sloan offers his take on the vCloud initiative

VMware Inc. announced its vShield security technology and other details of its vCloud initiative this week at VMworld Europe in Cannes, France.

The company’s Virtual Datacentre Operating System (VDC-OS) will let companies run IT as an “internal cloud service,” and will also allow IT manager to “carve up the cloud into distinct zones,” said John Gilmartin, senior manager of product marketing at Palo, Alto, Calif.-based VMware.

“It is a supporting technology within VDC-OS, the concept being you can take a compute cloud and logically divide it into security or trust zones,” Gilmartin said of vShield.

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