VMware vSphere is the industry´s first cloud operating system, transforming IT infrastructures into a private cloud a collection of internal clouds federated on-demand to external clouds.VMWare’s vCloud vision depends greatly on the upcoming features that expand the scale in which VMWare’s core products can operate; expanding beyond the server to the data center as a whole and beyond. Rumors of features such as over-WAN migration of virtual machines in VI4 are key to the vision of federated VMWare-based clouds becoming a reality. So, create a Google Alert for vSphere, sit back and watch the show.VMware vSphere brings new security features but does it really ...
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Can we finally put the “Angry Insider” Hype to Rest? The security press and blogs are abuzz with the groundbreaking Verizon breach study . Thanks to Rational Survivability for giving us the link to the actual free report. The report does a few body blows to the massive spin around insider threats coming from the category vendors. I’m glad that we finally got that behind us. I don’t know how many times I was asked by press and analysts about how we should all be more worried about angry employees. I didn’t answer those questions directly because I frankly didn’t know what proportion of ...
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While competitors watch and wait VMware has engineered the equivalent of a Normandy beach landing in production data centers. The company once known for heightened devtest flexibility and server utilization has become the leader in virtualization security. VMware CEO Diane Green is talking to the press about the virtsec opportunity while its competitors fiddle. A year ago virtualization security was a whisper at best, thanks to a handful of visionary analysts, pundits and editors who understood the security implications of a new hypervisor layer inside the data center. VMware had their fingers on the pulse of the conversation and launched VMsafe at VMworld in ...
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Here’s an example of the online presence for a small credit union (bank). It’s so advanced it’s featured on thedailywtf.com . My guess is that maintaining a robust, secure online presence is difficult for small credit unions and banks. They might be as small as a single branch office and a few dozen employees. Outsourcing to service providers is pretty much the only option, and it is unlikely that they have the resources to perform a technical evaluation of their service providers. The service provider that this credit union (bank) uses seems to be used by many small credit unions, so there is no ...
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A blog, article and conversation about virtualization and security over the last few days helped me to get my head out of the clouds for at least a few moments. Here is a brief recap of virtsec news and commentary from the last three days: Chris Hoff talks about virtualization visualization and how a host of new virtsec solutions will help virtualization pros learn rudimentary security. Hoff is a Chief Security Architect at Unisys, and he can be incredibly precise and insightful. I’ll summarize his post by saying that ultimately tools shape perceptions, and new virtsec tools will help virtualization teams learn new things ...
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