IBM has announced that SoftLayer will be the first cloud platform to offer customers bare metal service that provides monitoring and security down to the microchip level. Working in combination with Intel's Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), the security platform will help businesses determine if a workload from a known location on SoftLayer infrastructure is running on trusted hardware. It is hoped that the new security capabilities will help organizations develop solutions around areas such as governance, compliance, audit, application security, privacy, identity and access management and incident response. Mark Jones, chief technology officer for SoftLayer, said that perceived security flaws… [Continue Reading]