Whatever happened to virtualization security?
Back in the day, everyone was talking about blue pills and red pills, about sideways attacks and DOM-0 threats, about security profiles and isolation policies, about perimeter defense and security embedded in the hypervisor.
Then, all of a sudden, the buzz seemed to...
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Tags: Blue Lane, Catbird, CIO, CISO, Configuresoft, EMC, Gartner, McAfee, Prism Microsystems, Reflex, RSA, Security, Symantec, Trend Micro, Tripwire, virtualization, VMsafe, VMware, vShield
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For those who have asked, and others who may care to know – the rumours are indeed true. After many happy years leading the fantastic systems and storage management team at one of the very best IT industry analyst and consulting firms, Read more »
Tags: CA, EMA, Enterprise Management Associates, Twitter, virtualization
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There is a growing chatter about the idea that businesses should provide staff with a free choice of PC technology (including Windows, Mac, Linux, or other devices), and indeed that staff should be...
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Tags: application virtualization, BYOC, BYOPC, CIO, Citrix, desktop virtualization, echo boom, endpoint virtualization, generation Y, millennial
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There is a perennial debate in cloud computing about whether a failure of one cloud service provider can be more generalized to a ‘failure of cloud computing’. It is an important question because availability...
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Tags: Amazon, availability, cloud, cloud computing, Google, IaaS, Microsoft, PaaS, PayPal, Rackspace, RIM, SaaS, SLA, Twitter, uptime, Yahoo
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I had an interesting discussion last night on Twitter with Tajeshwar Singh (@tsingh4IT), a thoughtful and experienced IT pro working with a leading IT outsourcing provider, about the...
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Tags: CIO, IT Process Automation, ITPA, lifecycle management, ROI, virtualization
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HP Software & Solutions recently conducted a global CIO survey with CIO Magazine on virtualization trends. Shay Mowlem, Director Virtualization Strategy with HP, and Jim Malone, Editorial Director of CXO...
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Tags: application virtualization, CIO, desktop virtualization, endpoint virtualization, Hewlett Packard, HP, Microsoft, server virtualization, systems management, virtualization
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