Posts Tagged ‘ Security ’

New Cloud Reference Architecture From NIST

March 30, 2011
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New Cloud Reference Architecture From NIST

So, here is something interesting I discovered today, courtesy of a tweet from Christian Reilly (@ReillyUSA) – the US federal agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), today released Version 1 of their Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (PDF). It is free...
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VM Stall – More Than Four Reasons

July 26, 2010
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VM Stall – More Than Four Reasons

I recently saw a great article in IT World Canada titled “Virtual stall: What it is and why you have it,” written by Jay Litkey, that took up my idea of VM stall, which I first came up with in my blog from May Read more »

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Does Virtualization Security Really Matter?

May 12, 2010
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Does Virtualization Security Really Matter?

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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You Cannot Separate Security and Systems Management

December 1, 2009
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You Cannot Separate Security and Systems Management

A few days ago I was pleased to brief again with Reflex Systems. Apart from the fact that they are doing some very cool things with virtualization management, their approach struck me as,...
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