Trusted Compute Pools for Cloud with Hytrust and Intel® TXT

Hemma Prafullchandra of Hytrust demonstrated trusted compute pools with the Hytrust Appliance* and Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT). The demo enforces policy to place virtual workloads in only trusted pools of virtualized servers. The servers are trusted based on hardware root of trust from Intel TXT. This use case is especially relevant for cloud computing, so that a company's data and applications only run on trusted servers in the cloud.