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Trend Micro Deep Security VMware Global Technology Alliance Partner Changing the Game with Agentless Security for the Virtual Data Center A 2012 Trend Micro White Paper CHANGING THE GAME WITH AGENTLESS SECURITY FOR THE VIRTUAL DATA CENTER I. INTRODUCTION From its early experimental applications in the 1960s and 1970s, virtualization was first seriously implemented as a way to control IT capital and operational expenditures through server consolidation. Then in 2005, when Intel and AMD introduced chipsets specifically to support virtual hardware, virtual environments started expanding into line-of-business applications, where they continue to deliver cost efficiency in IT production through resource consolidation. Today, reducing the cost of IT is consistently in the top list of concerns of CIOs. However, the benefits of virtualization go beyond the cost savings. Virtualization simplifies IT infrastructure to create a more dynamic and flexible datacenter and serves as the catalyst for cloud computing. With a self-service portal, IT resources can be delivered as a service with the automatic provisioning of virtual machines (VMs). And virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) delivers desktops as a managed service, providing users access to their desktops, applications, and data anywhere, any time, on any device. Not only do these benefits reduce both capital and operational expenditures, bu