Twistlock’s 19.03 Demo Shows Reach for VMs Beyond Containers

A main part of Twistlock’s 19.03 launch has been about meeting a gap in the need organizations have had for a single security platform that not only covers new cloud native deployments but is also applicable to on-premise and virtual machines (VMs), regardless of the physical environment.

“We’ve really heard a lot of feedback from our customers over the past year telling us that the traditional tools that they’ve been using to protect the VMs that they were running as part of their cloud-native stack we’re typically single-purpose. They ended up with a lot of different tools that often conflicted with each other and they weren’t really modern cloud-native apps themselves,”  said John Morello, chief technology officer of Twistlock. "They weren’t programmatically accessible; the data wasn’t easily available via an API and they really liked the approach that we did for containers and asked if we could do those same kinds of things for their traditional VMs as well. And that’s basically been the main focus of this 19.03 release.”

During a demo of 19.03 that Morello gave with that Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, Morello showed how 19.03 works and is applicable for a number of different environments, including, as mentioned above, VMs as well as for cloud native deployments.