We like a product that actually is a solution. Solution is one of those hype-laden marketing buzzwords that says, "We're not sure why you need this but it's a solution." In the case of Bit-defender GravityZone, though, calling it a solution is completely appropriate. It solves a very big set of problems in securing the virtual environment. If we secure the virtual environment the way we secure the physical environment, we put each of our security tools - or their agents - on every server and endpoint we need to cover. Since each of these is an independent computer we usually don't see any particular impact. However, in a virtual environment all of the virtual machines are sharing a single stack of physical computers. That means that they are sharing memory and CPU. So, placing our security tools - anti-mal-ware, for example - means that we really are putting multiple copies of the same thing on the same resource stack. And that means a performance hit no matter how you look at it. That architectural issue is exactly the problem for which Gravity-Zone is the solution.
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