--- title: Embracing Heterogeneity description: To say that modern-day IT infrastructure is diverse is an understatement. Today’s enterprise datacenter is a hodgepodge of legacy systems, software-defined on-premises infrastructure and a mix of clouds. image: https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/hubfs/Blog_pics/09-2017/server-90389_1920.jpg --- [![](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/hubfs/2021/09/logo-white.svg)](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/?hsLang=en-us) [![CONTACT AN EXPERT](https://hubspot-no-cache-eu1-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/341979/1d8885e9-1179-49b1-a5ec-9c75f5f670dd.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-eu1-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/341979/1d8885e9-1179-49b1-a5ec-9c75f5f670dd) - [For Home](https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/) - [For Business](https://www.bitdefender.com/business/) - [Resources](https://www.bitdefender.com/business/resource-library.html) - [Webinars](https://www.bitdefender.com/business/webinars.html) # [BUSINESS INSIGHTS](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/?hsLang=en-us) By [**Michael Weinstein**](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/author/michael-weinstein) / Mar 04, 2019 # Embracing Heterogeneity Share this [![Share on email](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/hubfs/2021/07/blog/email-color.png)](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/embracing-heterogeneity&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email%20&body=Check%20out%20https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/embracing-heterogeneity&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email) [![Share on twitter](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/hubfs/2021/07/blog/twitter-color.png)](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/embracing-heterogeneity&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&url=https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/embracing-heterogeneity&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&source=tweetbutton&text=) [![Share on linkedin](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/hubfs/2021/07/blog/linkedin-color.png)](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/embracing-heterogeneity&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin) [![Share on facebook](https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/hubfs/2021/07/blog/facebook-color.png)](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/embracing-heterogeneity&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook) To say that modern-day IT infrastructure is diverse is an understatement. Today’s enterprise datacenter is a hodgepodge of legacy systems, software-defined on-premises infrastructure and a mix of clouds. In fact, organizations have an average of 4.8 clouds each, according to the RightScale® 2018 State of the Cloud Report. And according to Forrester¹, 36% of businesses use 6 clouds or more! If not handled properly, this level of heterogeneity can introduce management complexity and security challenges. To help organizations avoid these issues, infrastructure vendors like VMware® evolve their solutions to enable single-pane-of glass management and orchestration across multi-vendor on-premises and cloud infrastructure. With the introduction of [VMware NSX-T Data Center](https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx.html), the company aims to “deliver consistent, pervasive connectivity and intrinsic security for applications and data across any environment.” In its latest release, NSX-T Data Center 2.4, the network virtualization and security platform adds, among others, Guest Introspection capabilities to enable agentless security for server and VDI workloads running in the heterogeneous datacenter. As a leader in cloud-workload security for multi-cloud and multi-hypervisor environments and a long-time VMware collaborator, Bitdefender is honored to be a VMware Design Partner for NSX-T Guest Introspection. We are particularly proud that Bitdefender [GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments](https://www.bitdefender.com/business/enterprise-products/virtualization-security.html) is on track to become the first cloud-workload protection platform to deliver agentless security with NSX-T Data Center. With a security architecture that is hypervisor- and cloud-agnostic by design, we have been helping [customers](https://www.bitdefender.com/business/case-studies.html) across the globe gain the visibility and control they need to protect their diverse datacenter environments consistently and efficiently. Now, we are excited to offer our next-generation workload security to organizations adopting VMware NSX-T Data Center. Our HyperDetect tunable machine learning, an industry-first in agentless security, lets VMware NSX customers protect their software-defined datacenter from a broad spectrum of threats with speed, low administrative overhead and minimal system impact. This powerful pre-execution defense layer features machine-learning models and advanced heuristics trained to spot infections and malware-obfuscation techniques. With Bitdefender HyperDetect, administrators can adjust aggressiveness levels in detecting different threats to suit the context and risk profile of their organization. This lets customers detect high-probability, high-impact attacks while minimizing false positives on lower-risk threats. For example, to prevent ransomware from disrupting datacenter operations, administrators can set the HyperDetect level for ransomware to “Aggressive.” If grayware poses a lower risk, the organization can set HyperDetect to “Permissive” to minimize the number of alerts for grayware. Once a threat is detected, HyperDetect can take policy-driven action, such as denying file execution or deleting a file, or simply alert and report. We will be showcasing GravityZone Security for Virtualized Environments with VMware NSX-T at RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco, CA on March 4-7. So come check out next-generation agentless security with tunable machine learning in the Bitdefender booth #2051 in the South Expo hall. And be sure to ask our experts about an extended free-trial offer for VMware NSX customers. See you at RSA! P.S. 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