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Aware of this fact , Gartner has developed a tailor-made discipline to increase the resilience of increasingly complex , heterogeneous and segmented data centres . This is the Cloud Workload Protection Program ( CWPP ) – a cloud load protection platform .

As each data centre is a patchwork quilt with different generations of networks , systems and applications being processed , CWPP seeks to be a response to this situation .

In a multi-cloud , workloads can be distributed across a variety of virtualised environments . Each segment represents a specific workload . Workloads can have data stored in different physical locations , which is very common in data centres and hybrid networks . The workload is essentially the software , processes and resources required to perform the data processing work .

An organisation ' s accounting department has a workload that is likely separate from the workload of the sales department . Production has a separate workload to itself , and all of these workloads need to be secure . According to the organisation ' s business rule , these payloads often need to interact with each other as well .

In the CWPP model , the protection of the workload processed in the data centre spans virtual machines , containers and serverless devices in both public and private clouds .

CWPPs solutions provide 24x7 visibility and control over this entire universe , regardless of the location of the data centre .

Gartner ' s recommended strategy ensures consolidated protection and visualisation of all data centres , wherever they are deployed .

The features of microsegmentation of CWPP platforms , in particular , allow security teams to define specific areas of the data centre and then establish security policies to protect them . You can go from the whole to a single virtual machine , container or specific workload . The goal is to prevent crossclient access by unauthorised users or external intrusion attempts .

The next generation of data centre security solutions are built to support the explosion of data running in heterogeneous environments that exists today .

By 2025 , according to a study by TechTarget , humanity ' s collective data will reach the 175-zettabyte mark . It is

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