I’ve been working on this white paper for some time now but because we were pulling so much information from so many different companies, it took a while to get the review process wrapped up. However, today it was finally published.
The white paper discusses the security and logistical challenges faced by enterprises and service providers who are faced with application workload migration between data centers. It then provides an overview for a solution that was jointly developed by EMC, RSA, Intel, and HyTrust, which enables trusted workload migration between data centers using technology available from those companies.
The solution demonstrates two virtualized, active/active geographically dispersed data centers, managed and administered by the same service provider. The cloud environments in each data center will both be active with both servers and storage virtualized in them. It meets several key goals of the project as listed below:
- Demonstrate immediate non-disruptive workload migration within and between data centers
- Enable hardware root of trust for cloud hosts to validate that the hosts running the virtual machines have not been compromised by attacks such as BIOS rootkit attacks that run underneath the hypervisor
- Provide an example of active security policy enforcement using hardware security data collected from the cloud hosts
- Implement audit and reporting capabilities so an enterprise or service provider can pull real time reports showing an overall view of their cloud host integrity status
You can find the full paper here.
