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As virtualization expands within the data center, security and management become more important. The Secure Multi-Tenancy architecture from Cisco, NetApp, and VMware, released in January 2010, provides a single shared data center infrastructure with the following benefits:

• High security
• High availability
• Efficiency and flexibility
• Service assurance

The Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy architecture supports enterprise applications from server to the desktop or virtual desktop. The architecture scales up and down as needed. It also meets the performance, availability, automation, and security service-level requirements of individual applications required to deliver IT as a service (ITaaS).

The Enhanced Secure Multi-Tenancy design guide includes information about:

• Enterprise application validation: Each isolated application workload is validated in a shared environment for Microsoft Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint.
• Virtual Cisco Unified Computing System network adapters: A single network adapter may have numerous virtual interfaces with a voice interface card.
• Enhanced security: You can strengthen security by employing virtual appliances such as VMware vShield and Cisco Security Services.
• Enhanced DR/DP: Perform tenant backup and replication with NetApp SnapDrive and SnapManager.
• VMware vCloud provides self-service provisioning for development and test environments.
• Open Management Framework helps enable third-party service management of the Secure Multi-Tenancy architecture, using storage, compute, network, and VMware vCloud APIs.

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