WinHEC: 'Palladium' for servers a long way out
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Although Microsoft and its hardware partners see clear value in using Microsoft's Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) in server computers, it could be many years before the hardware-based security technology moves beyond the PC.
"Servers are very important, but server hardware is very complex," said Peter Biddle, product unit manager at Microsoft's security business unit. Features such as hot swappable processors can "really cook your noodle in a trusted computing model," Biddle said at Microsoft's Windows Engineering Hardware Conference (WinHEC). "(NGSCB) will be a server technology, but that is a long way out," said Biddle.